Snowboard at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[Monzanator 5,095]

Haemmerle pips Grondin for the win by 0,02! Visintin gets bronze after Lueftner made a mistake on one of the last banks.

[intoronto 6,887]

Fuck this.... THIS country is cursed.

[ofan 239]

Damnit, if Grondin kept his board on the snow there I think he would've won it

[hckošice 16,605]

wow this was super close but gold for Austria, silver Canada and bronze for Italia.

 

Congrats

[intoronto 6,887]

Canada literally has one gold medal, that has an asterisk beside it. JFC

[MHSN 3,813]

5 minutes ago, Griff88 said:

What is the purpose of small final other than for placement?

probably giving more rest time to snowboarders in 2nd semifinal. just filling the time with a race instead of doing nothing for 10 minutes

[intoronto 6,887]

1 minute ago, MHSN said:

probably giving more rest time to snowboarders in 2nd semifinal. just filling the time with a race instead of doing nothing for 10 minutes

Its also if two people crash out and do not finish in the A final... sort of like short track speed skating.

[Griff88 2,021]

Grondin fell, and I just went "Aaaaahhh noooo!" in the office. My co-worker now know I am not working  

[OlympicsFan 860]

3 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Fuck this.... THIS country is cursed.

Lol ... imagine having a medal conversion rate of 500 % and to still complain. Germany on the other hand had two world cup leaders (Nörl and Baumeister) and won a grand total of 0 medals. If Canada would have the luck of Germany you would still be at zero medals. Austria is having completely absurd olympics as well. You could probably put an austrian jersey on me and i could win any competition. Even nobodies like Greiderer, Stadlhuber or Strolz win medals for them.

[MHSN 3,813]

5 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Its also if two people crash out and do not finish in the A final... sort of like short track speed skating.

did it ever happened ? I mean it sounds a very unlikely scenario . only if 2 snowboarders are very very injured that they can't even stand on the board. because just finishing the race is enough. Short Track is a different thing. lots of guys get disqualified

 

I remember we had the small final in 2018 even when we had 6 snowboarders in the final