Winter Youth Olympic Games 2024

[heywoodu 16,136]

14 minutes ago, hckošice said:

 but oh my ... seriously... this schedule is really catastrophic.

 

Everything at same time and all only in the night, nothing, absolutely nothing in the local afternoon/evening - European morning/afternoon

 

and Saturday 27th is completely brutal. Saturday and only 2 Dual Moguls finals  https://olympics.com/gangwon-2024/en/results/all-sports/daily-schedule-date=2024-01-27.htm

There is some ice hockey in the second half of the European morning!  

 

Skeleton isn't really early neither, after 9am European time. Curling is even later than that, the problem with that (for me) is that it's curling  

 

Men's ice hockey final even starts at midday European time. But yeah, in general it is incredibly focused on only half of the day. I remember the Pyeongchang Olympics were not much different, there were several days in which I was just playing a game for one or two hours during the Korean day, simply because nothing was going on.....(followed by like 4 finals at the same time, come on)

[hckošice 15,786]

3 minutes ago, phelps said:

I see no mistake... 

 

 

by the way, I hope women's Alpine Skiing won't be a one-woman show...

even if looking at  finishing high in the medal table would be a nice "novum" 

yep, moms are the biggest heroes without debate. 

 

I´m mainly curious about the time gap between Colturi and the others in Slalom it may be even some historic marge like 3-4 seconds between gold and silver lol

 

so far the record is from 2012 and Vlhová win by negligible one and half second

 

[heywoodu 16,136]

2 minutes ago, hckošice said:

yep, moms are the biggest heroes without debate. 

 

I´m mainly curious about the time gap between Colturi and the others in Slalom it may be even some historic marge like 3-4 seconds between gold and silver lol

 

so far the record is from 2012 and Vlhová win by negligible one and half second

 

Always nice to look back at old junior/youth results  

 

That good old time, when skiing powerhouses like Morocco and the Netherlands won medals  

 

[hckošice 15,786]

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I remember the Pyeongchang Olympics were not much different, there were several days in which I was just playing a game for one or two hours during the Korean day, simply because nothing was going on.....(followed by like 4 finals at the same time, come on)

but at least the main sports (for European viewers point) were all very late in the evening/night in PyeongChang, despite the strong freeze and dark (remember the nearly 5 hours Normal Hill Ski Jumping competition and Simon Ammann completely frozen leaving the bench for like 10 times before his jump ) only for the purpose of European viewers for sports like Luge, SJ, NC, Biathlon, Cross-Country Skiing etc... all were the night of Korea and very pleasant late morning early afternoon in Europe

Edited January 15, 2024 by hckošice

[Olympian1010 8,262]

@heywoodu I can also think of a good number of athletes who’ve gone onto to senior success after YOG success as well. Alpine Skiing does seem to be on the lower end of that though.

[heywoodu 16,136]

1 hour ago, hckošice said:

but at least the main sports (for European viewers point) were all very late in the evening/night in PyeongChang, despite the strong freeze and dark (remember the nearly 5 hours Normal Hill Ski Jumping competition and Simon Ammann completely frozen leaving the bench for like 10 times before his jump ) only for the purpose of European viewers for sports like Luge, SJ, NC, Biathlon, Cross-Country Skiing etc... all were the night of Korea and very pleasant late morning early afternoon in Europe

True, but being entirely honest....it's the Youth Olympics, even if they were in the middle of the European day I honestly doubt there'd be much more than a handful of viewers...

 

We would watch it, obviously, but we on this forum really are nowhere near the 'normal' sports fan  

[heywoodu 16,136]

34 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

@heywoodu I can also think of a good number of athletes who’ve gone onto to senior success after YOG success as well. Alpine Skiing does seem to be on the lower end of that though.

Oh I didn't even mean that  

 

Schwarz and Vlhova obviously became leaders in the World Cup, but several of the other medalists are having nice World Cup careers as well. In 2016 that's a bit less the case, where River Radamus and Alione Danioth were all the hype, but Radamus never really lived up to that (but he's got a decent World Cup career going now) and Danioth just snowballed from bad luck to bad luck with, if I'm not mistaken, 6 (!) serious injuries in as many years..

[OlympicsFan 860]

3 hours ago, hckošice said:

 

https://olympics.com/gangwon-2024/en/results/cross-country-skiing/athlete-profile-n1005572-elisey-kuzmin.htm

 

 

Fantomas?

[hckošice 15,786]

5 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Fantomas?

Louis de Funes. I know, it may looks weird, but people have different taste.

 

[Olympian1010 8,262]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

We would watch it, obviously, but we on this forum really are nowhere near the 'normal' sports fan  

“Normal” people are boring anyway