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Ski Jumping at the Nordic Skiing FIS World Championships 2019


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32 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

1) Takanashi severely declined already despite being 2 years younger than Lundby

2) Vogt won her last title in 2017, when she was as old as Lundby is now

3) Althaus is 2 years younger than Lundby

Please don't let facts disturbe you ...

 

First you say Takanashi is the greatest female ski jumper of all time and then you say about her severe decline at age 22 :lol: 

 

The facts are Lundby is an Oympic & world champion now. And judges in ski jumping are notoriously biased since like FOREVER. You've reinvented the wheel. Seyfarth got 1,5 less from the Austrian judge today just to make sure Iraschko-Stolz gets a medal :p

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On 27/02/2019 at 20:51, Monzanator said:

 

First you say Takanashi is the greatest female ski jumper of all time and then you say about her severe decline at age 22 :lol: 

 

The facts are Lundby is an Oympic & world champion now. And judges in ski jumping are notoriously biased since like FOREVER. You've reinvented the wheel. Seyfarth got 1,5 less from the Austrian judge today just to make sure Iraschko-Stolz gets a medal :p

1) What does her age have to do with it? Let's say Simone Biles or Ledecky would retire now, would you consider them the best ever in their respective events?

2) If you don't consider Takanashi the greatest ever, then who is it in your opinion?

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1 minute ago, OlympicsFan said:

1) What does her age have to do with it? Let's say Simone Biles or Ledecky would retire now, would you consider them the best ever in their respective events?

2) If you don't consider Takanashi the greatest ever, then who is it in your opinion?

 

Nope. Biles & Ledecky are not the best their sport has ever seen.

 

Women's ski jumping is a global event for a mere decade. Takanashi's peak was the highest so far but the throne is vacated for me because she never won individual gold medal anywhere.

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Just gonna be controversial and agree with our German friend here on Takanashi being the best female ski jumper ever (so far) :d 

 

That's probably gonna change quickly, although it's hard to see someone winning significantly more than her, since the sport is (like Monzanator said) still so young and so one can be sure that the quality is going to increase year by year, meaning it's less and less likely for someone to dominate.

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Takanashi could end up like Daniela Bartova & Emma George, reduced into oblivion by history moving forward. Just wait until women begin to jump on the big & mammoth hills. Takanashi is like the dead-ball era in baseball or pre-Open era in tennis, or pre-shot clock in NBA.

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14 minutes ago, Col_Frost said:

What just happened? blink 182 wtf GIF

What do you mean? Fair conditions always favor the best athletes, no surprise that Geiger and Kobayashi are fighting for gold. :mumble:

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