Winter Youth Olympic Games 2020

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First snow at Les Tuffes Ski Jumping Hill. Honestly, it looks like one of the most run down hills in the world, and it’s brand new (or at least renovated). Organizers clearly cutting a few costs here . It’s all good though, just happy to see ski jumping on the program. It should also be a great training hill for local kids after the games.

 

After that snow melted off, the organizers went ahead and began laying the first real layer of snow on the hill

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Too bad the Nordic events aren't held in Switzerland though.

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1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Too bad the Nordic events aren't held in Switzerland though.

They didn’t cost the organizers a crazy amount of money either though. Les Tuffes also closer to Lausanne then St. Moritz I believe.

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16 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

They didn’t cost the organizers a crazy amount of money either though. Les Tuffes also closer to Lausanne then St. Moritz I believe.

 

At least in St Moritz the Swiss are still the home athletes and not the French  

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7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

At least in St Moritz the Swiss are still the home athletes and not the French  

The Swiss are still home athletes in the French alps 

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50 Days To Go!!! And the Olympia Bobrun is being built 

 

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This venue looks gorgeous 

 

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 will more likely than not have a women’s bobsleder at the games! 

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With one stop of the Omega Youth Series to go, we can pretty much see where the bobsleigh/skeleton quotas will go.

 

Men Monobob:  (KOR, BRA, USA, CAN will need to race at the final tour stop in order to meet the eligibility requirements)

 

Women Monobob:  (KOR, CAN, COL will need to race at the final tour stop in order to meet the eligibility requirements. Should one of the three not attend, GER gets a third quota)

 

Men Skeleton:  (JPN, CAN, BRA, KOR will need to race at the final tour stop in order to meet the eligibility requirements)

 

Women Skeleton: :AUT (CAN, BRA, UKR will need to race at the final tour stop in order to meet the eligibility requirements)

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Brazil and Liechtenstein qualifying in three out of four events, I'm not entirely sure if that says something about Brazil's and Liechtenstein's youth program or the general strength of the Omega Youth Series....I guess both, a little  

Edited November 22, 2019 by heywoodu