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Full list of quotas and nominated athletes was posted by the FIL today: https://www.fil-luge.org/cdn/uploads/fil-luge-qualification-list.pdf    declines their quota in women’s singles, which

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Surely that consideration has nothing to do with that same athlete having a sub-par season to say the very least...

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Men's Singles Quotas:   3 quotas:    Austria  Germany  Italy  Latvia  ROC  United States   2 quotas:    Ukraine   1 quota:

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5 minutes ago, intoronto said:

Short track has one bad one as well. The hockey venues are horrible as well.

I guess China doesnt have much experience with hosting Winter Sports Events.

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39 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Watching :BIH does not fill me with confidence…

I found his 5th training run to be a stressful experience as well.

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Few thoughts...

 

Well... I am loving this track! It's long. Camera angles are amazing. Gaps are huge, meaning a lot can be gained/lost, and that there will be huge deficits on the final leaderboard (like reading results from some vintage Olympics).

 

Pretty convinced the Ukrainian luge federation is just a front for a money-laundering operation. In Pyeongchang they finished last in every event (both singles, doubles, relay). Today both their men crashed in run 1. Come on?

 

Should be an exciting battle Ludwig vs Kindl for gold. I am tipping Kindl actually. :yes

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I agree with @dcro

I'm also pretty sure that the track got slower after the first 4 or 5 runs in both runs, but then managed to be at least fair for every guy (on the contrary of many races we've seen on the "historical" tracks in these years)...

the only thing I don't like about it, it's the excessive importance that the start has, I'd have liked a couple more tricky passages in the late turns and to avoid that uphill section...

Obviously, I hope that D-Fish can save his ass and get the bronze medal he missed by 2/1000 of a second 4 years ago...

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29 minutes ago, pdr4332 said:

Is it possible to watch training runs somewhere?

I think the 5th and 6th training runs of the sliding sports are broadcast on the international feed. NBC has picked a few of them up.

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