Alpine Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[OlympicsFan 859]

7 minutes ago, NearPup said:

No, it's fastest men's and women's.

 

This event is more or less a two person show when courses are this uneven.

Yes, this is why FIS should change the rules. Only have one man and one woman per nation and have all athletes race on both courses. Would also help nations like Slovenia or Sweden who don't quite have the depth.

[Joshi 123]

What a stupid event. You can DNF and the team that has all clean runs and wins 2 of them can still get knocked out. Get rid of it.

[Monzanator 4,526]

1 minute ago, MHSN said:

I highly doubt that. she was the only one on the red course getting very close to win a race

 

let me show you guys some statstics  , if we don't count CHN vs SUI . we had only and only one win from the red course (beside DNF wins) and that solitary win belongs to Shiffrin against Slovakia. I somehow think she was the best skier today

 

Yesh, Shiffrin on red lost to Bassino by 0,02! Most red losses for women were by at least 0,4 if not 0,7! Shiffrin would have smoked everyone on blue course most likely. USA will look back at this and realize how badly they blew this. DNF didn't mean jack shit here. Blue course winning times were the key. Radamus on blue course was fast enough to carry them but they put Moltzan on blue instead of Shiffrin.

[Ros 239]

1 minute ago, OlympicsFan said:

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Yee... 2 golden and 1 silver of course 

[hckošice 14,910]

Complete failure of the american team staff here, seriously how to mentally send your best athlete down even more and at the same time threw away your medal chance

[OlympicsFan 859]

Happy that Dürr and Straßer won a medal after all, but sad that Aicher will also get a medal. A bit tragic that Dürr again missed gold by 0.19 seconds as she already did in the slalom. Perfect end to the olympics for Austria, they simply couldn't do no wrong here. One of their best ever olympics with such a mediocre team (especially on the women's side) shows how incredibly lucky they were here. They easily won 6 or 7 more medals than they deserved.

[vinipereira 3,250]

5 minutes ago, NearPup said:

No, it's fastest men's and women's.

 

This event is more or less a two person show when courses are this uneven.

Obviously I'm not familiar with the sport, but that seems so stupid. So theoretically a team can have 2 DNF and still win?

[Monzanator 4,526]

Just now, vinipereira said:

Obviously I'm not familiar with the sport, but that seems so stupid. So theoretically a team can have 2 DNF and still win?

Yes, obviously.

[Ros 239]

1 minute ago, hckošice said:

Complete failure of the american team staff here, seriously how to mentally send your best athlete down even more and at the same time threw away your medal chance

Probably the idea here is that Miki is so good to win on red and give a team big advantage but... 🤔

[OlympicsFan 859]

A bit of a mess up by IOC to first tell everyone that only athletes who actually raced will get medals, just to go back on that shortly before the race (according to german TV). Germany didn't want to take any chances, so they used their replacement (Rauchfuss) instead of Strasser in the final.