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Skeleton 2019 - 2020 Discussion Thread


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32 minutes ago, TomJa said:

I would not generalize Geisenberger, for example, she was in a fiancée, because she got married in one of the summer months from what I remember. I do not know how with others, because to be honest I do not follow the private life of athletes and whether anyone is pregnant or became gay is basically indifferent to me.

That comparison :lol:

 

What I meant is for example Meyers Taylor and Maier/Vathje have had their names like that for a while now, it's not a secret and almost impossible to miss their relationships when watching those sports. 

 

Anyway, nothing out of the ordinary. 

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1 godzinę temu, heywoodu napisał:

That comparison :lol:

 

What I meant is for example Meyers Taylor and Maier/Vathje have had their names like that for a while now, it's not a secret and almost impossible to miss their relationships when watching those sports. 

 

Anyway, nothing out of the ordinary. 

Sometimes they make such strange comparisons :p. I am of the opinion that what we have learned the light of day from the Olympic events we already know, but there is probably also a second, darker bottom of the apartment there.

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  • 4 weeks later...

I was checking this week's North American Cup results and.....Nathan Crumpton finished 2nd....for his new country, American Samoa! :ASA :yikes: 

 

https://www.ibsf.org/en/component/events/event/500713

 

Plus there's this guy from (or competing for) Togo.

https://www.ibsf.org/en/athletes/athlete/10538/Nanto

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9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I was checking this week's North American Cup results and.....Nathan Crumpton finished 2nd....for his new country, American Samoa! :ASA :yikes:

 

I wonder if there is a connection, or if it's just taking an easy route. :p

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11 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I was checking this week's North American Cup results and.....Nathan Crumpton finished 2nd....for his new country, American Samoa! :ASA :yikes: 

 

https://www.ibsf.org/en/component/events/event/500713

 

 

 

 

In your face, Tonga!  :TGA

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Just now, dcro said:

 

I wonder if there is a connection, or if it's just taking an easy route. :p

No idea, but apparently he grew up in Nairobi, Geneva and Harara so Kenya and Zimbabwe might have been options too :p 

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Still, it's good to see American Samoa back.

 

Too bad the days of Lillehammer 1994 are long gone. Back when :ARM:BIH:ISV:ASA:TTO:PUR:SMR all had Olympic sliders. :p And back then Jamaica was really competitive...

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  • 5 weeks later...

Bos :NED has an injury and won’t be starting for a while.

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