Skeleton 2021 - 2022 Discussion Thread

[Totallympics 80]

[phelps 8,384]

Olympic Test Events in Yanqing

 

Results

 

Men's Skeleton

https://www.ibsf.org/en/component/events/event/501914

 

Women's Skeleton

https://www.ibsf.org/en/component/events/event/501913

[intoronto 6,599]

Gold in 2010 to finishing below American Samoa... lol we are so doomed

[Monzanator 4,824]

& in Top 10? In skeleton? I must have missed something since 2018

[NearPup 3,614]

7 hours ago, Monzanator said:

& in Top 10? In skeleton? I must have missed something since 2018

The athlete is a product of the German system.

[LuizGuilherme 335]

The brazilian one is probably just lucky 

[SalamAkhi 347]

57 minutes ago, LuizGuilherme said:

The brazilian one is probably just lucky 

Nope, one cannot just rely on luck in this sport.

[phelps 8,384]

1 hour ago, LuizGuilherme said:

The brazilian one is probably just lucky 

she was a former Bobsleigh specialist and she came through the North American circuit (I think she did even start her activity only once travelling to the US)...

 

in any case, she has already had some decent results at world level (she was 17th at the last world champs, for instance), so it's not a totally unknown athlete...

[hckošice 15,799]

7 hours ago, NearPup said:

The athlete is a product of the German system.

Well, may be true but you must also look at this case from different perspective as a classic dual citizen. Czech mom German father. ok, living in GER since her childhood, learnt the sport there competed for Germany until PC 2018, but she never denied her czech origins. In opposite she was always proud of it.

[NearPup 3,614]

1 hour ago, hckošice said:

Well, may be true but you must also look at this case from different perspective as a classic dual citizen. Czech mom German father. ok, living in GER since her childhood, learnt the sport there competed for Germany until PC 2018, but she never denied her czech origins. In opposite she was always proud of it.

Oh there's absolutely nothing wrong with her representing the Czech Republic, frankly it's also good for the sport.

 

The point is just that the Czech Republic didn't suddenly develop a strong skeleton program.