Winter Paralympic Games 2022

[Grassmarket 4,249]

Alpine Combined so much more exciting when you do it properly - ie the slalom leg is run from the slowest to the fastest.

[heywoodu 16,434]

1 hour ago, Grassmarket said:

Alpine Combined so much more exciting when you do it properly - ie the slalom leg is run from the slowest to the fastest.

Kind of hard to compare paraskiing with non-paraskiing though. One can imagine the strength of the field is a bigger difference than the order in which the heats are run.

[Finnator123 341]

Already 1 gold from Snowboarding(SB-LL2) & 1 silver(1st MEDAL EVER!!) from Alpine skiing! 

[orangeman 2,851]

10 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Crazy to see skiers shedding layers or going without sleeves today after Olympians couldn’t have enough layers just two/three weeks ago.

I live in Beijing, and the weather has taken quite a sudden turn.  It is quite beautiful and warm during the day now.  Spring is here.  Still cold at night, though.  

[vinipereira 3,511]

On 3/6/2022 at 6:59 AM, heywoodu said:

It might also be a bit of a painful showing of the overall strength of the Paralympics, if a country can go from being nearly invisible to being the super power in not even four years...

Very sad, but I would say this is easier to happen at the Winter Games. In Tokyo, Japan improved a lot compared to Rio, but still didn't crack the top 10.

 

At the Winter Paralympics, Russia (2014) and now China completely dominated their home games, although South Korea didn't care enough about this event in 2018.

 

I'm already dreading the fact that Brazil probably will not surpass their best ever result (5th) thanks to the "out of nowhere" athletes from China 

[heywoodu 16,434]

4 minutes ago, vinipereira said:

Very sad, but I would say this is easier to happen at the Winter Games. In Tokyo, Japan improved a lot compared to Rio, but still didn't crack the top 10.

 

At the Winter Paralympics, Russia (2014) and now China completely dominated their home games, although South Korea didn't care enough about this event in 2018.

 

I'm already dreading the fact that Brazil probably will not surpass their best ever result (5th) thanks to the "out of nowhere" athletes from China 

Oh absolutely. Winter sports in general are less competitive, let alone their para-versions.

 

I'm still having 'hope' for Cristian for the sprint, which is his strongest event. Especially considering the amout of enormously intense training they've thrown in the past months, it's no surprise their endurance went way down, hopefully in favour of their explosive power, so to say. Especially Cristian got like 6 times bigger compared to barely a year ago, surely there must be some more power there  

[hckošice 16,572]

Event 21/78

 

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING

 

Men's Long Distance Classical Standing
Final Results

 

Taiki KAWAYOKE

52:52.8

 

CAI Jiayun

54:27.7

 

QIU Mingyang

54:29.7

Full Final Result HERE

[hckošice 16,572]

Event 22/78

 

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING

 

Men's Long Distance Classical Vision Impaired
Final Results

 

Brian McKEEVER

Guide: Russell Kennedy, Graham Nishikawa

55:36.7

 

Jake ADICOFF

Guide: Sam Wood

58:54.4

 

Zebastian MODIN

Guide: Emil Joensson Haag

1:00:05.4

Full Final Result HERE

[hckošice 16,572]

Event 23/78

 

SNOWBOARDING

 

Women's Snowboard Cross SB-LL2
Final Results

 

Cecile HERNANDEZ

 

Lisa DEJONG

 

Brenna HUCKABY

Full Final Result HERE

[hckošice 16,572]

Event 24/78

 

SNOWBOARDING

 

Men's Snowboard Cross SB-UL
Final Results

 

JI Lijia

 

WANG Pengyao

 

ZHU Yonggang

Full Final Result HERE