Snowboard at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

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Just now, hmc16 said:

I think the COVID pandemic has hit British athletes, especially in the snow sports, a lot more than other countries - travel restrictions have severely limited their ability to train over the last few years, compared to athletes from countries with natural snow & mountains.

 

Nonetheless, Britain's current performances are very disappointing considering their strong World Cup results in the last 4-year cycle. I think the Summer Olympic approach of channeling funding to a smaller number of sports that deliver only during the Olympics isn't as effective for the Winter Games, when there are far more external factors at play that can affect performance. If Britain wants to consistently win 5+ medals at the Winter Olympics, it needs to develop a large base of talent across multiple sports.

 

For example, what's happened to our figure skating & short track programmes - two sports where we actually have the facilities to practice in the UK? Why were the bobsleigh teams stripped of funding after PyeongChang, when now they're probably our best shot at a medal for these games?

 

I'm hoping UK Sport won't be too strict about the medal targets for these games and won't cut funding too much heading into 2026. We have plenty of good talents - Kirsty Muir in freestyle, Mia Brookes in snowboard, a really good and developing alpine team - and would hate for them to lose out.

I think Kirsty Muir will keep funding as she made fifth and still has another event to go. I think Alpine might lose out through depending on how close Dave Riding gets to the podium. But I suspect they will be major cuts overall particularly if zero medals are achieved. 

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M Halfpipe Finalists

 

Ayumu Hirano

Scotty James

Ruka Hirano

Shaun White

Valentino Guseli

Yuto Totsuka

Taylor Gold

Jan Scherrer

Kaishu Hirano

Andre Hoeflich

Patrick Burgener

Chase Josey

[hckošice 15,608]

What a second run this was from Shaun White also huge effort of the Aussie Guseli.

 

and Ayumu Hirano dear lord !

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lol Ruki Tomita, First time I saw such fall

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Just give Chloe the gold medal already. 

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Just now, Joshi said:

Just give Chloe the gold medal already. 

I concur, shut the contest down, nobody is touching that run.

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Women's half-pipe might be even less competitive than women's SBX. This is really a low-hanging fruit event.

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Liu Jiayu won a silver medal in Pyeongchang? Can't land anything today. Guess home pressure but yeah, this is bad.

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Queralt Castellet moves into 2nd place.

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Castellet!  Really hope Spain can get a medal here