Snowboard at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[ofan 238]

What a stupid event this is

[intoronto 5,635]

How did all 3 teams finish 3.96 seconds back, when it was clear they all finished at diff times? Wth?

[hckošice 14,820]

the dogshit the french used to wax their boards with today ...

[intoronto 5,635]

1 minute ago, intoronto said:

How did all 3 teams finish 3.96 seconds back, when it was clear they all finished at diff times? Wth?

Apparently 3.96 seconds is the maximum, wtf? What is the point of this event!??! 

[orangeman 1,989]

2 minutes ago, intoronto said:

How did all 3 teams finish 3.96 seconds back, when it was clear they all finished at diff times? Wth?

I was wondering the same thing. 

[hckošice 14,820]

3 minutes ago, intoronto said:

How did all 3 teams finish 3.96 seconds back, when it was clear they all finished at diff times? Wth?

this is the rule. Once your gap is bigger than 4 seconds behind after the men part your time will be +3.96 at the start of the women par no matter what

[Grassmarket 3,396]

1 minute ago, intoronto said:

Apparently 3.96 seconds is the maximum, wtf? What is the point of this event!??! 

Same crap maximum gap rules as parallel slalom.

[NearPup 3,044]

3 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Apparently 3.96 seconds is the maximum, wtf? What is the point of this event!??! 

There is some variation of this rule in every event of this kind in skiing and snowboarding. See also, individual and team parallel events.

 

That being said, even with this rule in this event you usually want your best snowboarded first (that was the usual pattern when they had single gendered team events with a free choice of run order).

[ofan 238]

So this whole competition is basically just a regular women's snowboard cross race? All 4 riders are caught up to each other within the first ~20 seconds of the course on every run. 

[Gianlu33 4,546]

Wow, the Austrian are eliminated. Nice upset