Freestyle Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[hckošice 15,503]

french eurosport : "Miguel Porteous will return home with an Olympic medal, but his brother´s one"

[ofan 238]

This is such a sham

[NearPup 3,480]

Well it's now official: for the first time since 2002, will not win any gold medals in freestyle skiing. When that last happened there were only four freestyle events. In Sochi and Pyeongchang Canada won four gold medals, when there were only ten events. In Beijing there are thirteen events and Canada won none.

 

This is definitively a low, low point for the sport in Canada.

[NearPup 3,480]

Well they managed to get this ill advised, unfair and dangerous competition through without anyone dying. Congrats.

 

Organizers fucked up, frankly at this point it would have been fairer to use qualifying scores to distribute the medals (even though I would have disliked that outcome in terms of who the medals would have gone to).

[ofan 238]

Mike Tirico reporting that the wind conditions are as bad if not worse tomorrow, so it had to be held today. 

[NearPup 3,480]

Freestyle skiing is now only the second sport where at least two countries from four different continents have won gold medals.

 

Say what you will about the "flippy flippy" sports, they provide a level of diversity unmatched among skiing sports.

[NearPup 3,480]

Just now, ofan said:

Mike Tirico reporting that the wind conditions are as bad if not worse tomorrow, so it had to be held today. 

They could and should have held it yesterday. Or even cancelled the contest and awarded medals based on qualification results (as shitty as that is).

 

The conditions today were neither fair nor safe. Even though, somehow, the best athlete won (congrats to Nico Porteous btw, he fully deserves this).

[hckošice 15,503]

Men's Halfpipe
Final Results

 

Nico PORTEOUS

93.00

 

David WISE

90.75

 

Alex FERREIRA

86.75

Full Final Result HERE

Qualification Result HERE

[Ted 143]

BREAKING NEWS: Fanny Smith (SWI) gets 3rd place and the bronze medal back (in women's ski cross). Daniela Maier (GER) is demoted to 4th.

[heywoodu 15,997]

47 minutes ago, Ted said:

BREAKING NEWS: Fanny Smith (SWI) gets 3rd place and the bronze medal back (in women's ski cross). Daniela Maier (GER) is demoted to 4th.

As both Smith and Maier said would be correct.