Skeleton at the Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022

[dcro 10,210]

12 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

Good attempt at jinxing them.

Worked well this morning.

[hckošice 14,836]

at the WOG live in my TV

[Grassmarket 3,412]

2 hours ago, OlympicsFan said:

Pretty smart of Australia to focus on technical sports (snowboard, freestyle skiing, bob, skeleton), seems like they "stole" GB's strategy. I think at some point Germany will have to adapt the same strategy. Interestingly neither GB nor Australia were/are remotely competitive in luge.

Luge is different, countries with a track cannot be beaten.  Luge is the default sliding sport, everyone starts as children so we can never beat that.   With skeleton, everyone, even Latvians, starts much later so there’s more chance for the non-track nations.

[Monzanator 4,505]

So, aka the American who wasn't good enough to compete for them actually beat both & here in Beijing?

[Illya 513]

Vlad , you are perfect

[Monzanator 4,505]

Tretiakov misses out! Medal for Yan!

[Quaker2001 251]

 will be on the podium.

[Vic Liu 1,682]

A huge breakthrough for China on skeleton despite on the home track. 

[Monzanator 4,505]

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

Luge is different, countries with a track cannot be beaten.  Luge is the default sliding sport, everyone starts as children so we can never beat that.   With skeleton, everyone, even Latvians, starts much later so there’s more chance for the non-track nations.

 

Yeah, former ski jumpers finished 1-2 in WOG. Skeleton is really a low-hanging fruit compared to some of the other winter sports.

[Quaker2001 251]

2 medals for 

 

Now they own another discipline at the sliding center.  Leave some medals for the rest of the world!