Snowboarding FIS World Cup 2019 - 2020

[heywoodu 15,147]

11 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Results were based on the Friday qualifiers only: bad weather meant the Saturday Finals never took place.

The women, that is. The men did compete in the final.

[hckošice 14,836]

 

https://www.fis-ski.com/en/snowboard/park-and-pipe/pipe-and-slope/news-multimedia/news/big-air-world-cup-atlanta-announced-for-december-20-21

[Olympian1010 7,977]

Just now, hckosice said:

 

https://www.fis-ski.com/en/snowboard/park-and-pipe/pipe-and-slope/news-multimedia/news/big-air-world-cup-atlanta-announced-for-december-20-21

Well @dezbee2008 might be your best chance to see a Winter Olympic sport live. I’ve heard they don’t do much skiing in Florida (though that’s where most of our speed skaters come from oddly enough)

[Grassmarket 3,412]

Just now, hckosice said:

 

https://www.fis-ski.com/en/snowboard/park-and-pipe/pipe-and-slope/news-multimedia/news/big-air-world-cup-atlanta-announced-for-december-20-21

 

 

There was a parallel slalom World Cup in Rotterdam a few years back. 

[NearPup 3,052]

Just now, hckosice said:

 

https://www.fis-ski.com/en/snowboard/park-and-pipe/pipe-and-slope/news-multimedia/news/big-air-world-cup-atlanta-announced-for-december-20-21

Still not as weird as the *outdoor* NHL game in Las Vegas.

[dezbee2008 819]

15 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Well @dezbee2008 might be your best chance to see a Winter Olympic sport live. I’ve heard they don’t do much skiing in Florida (though that’s where most of our speed skaters come from oddly enough)

 

As a Floridian, I find our abundance of speed skaters odd too. Some of Florida's best speed skaters are based in Ocala

[heywoodu 15,147]

16 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Well @dezbee2008 might be your best chance to see a Winter Olympic sport live. I’ve heard they don’t do much skiing in Florida (though that’s where most of our speed skaters come from oddly enough)

That made me google most of the top speed skaters through the past 20 years or so and I came up with Washington, Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Illinois, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, Illinois, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin and only one when I got to Joey Mantia I found one from Florida  

Edited September 7, 2019 by heywoodu

[phelps 7,680]

Just now, heywoodu said:

That made me google most of the top speed skaters through the past 20 years or so and I came up with Washington, Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Illinois, Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, Illinois, New York, Illinois, Wisconsin and only one when I got to Joey Mantia I found one from Florida  

 

I'm pretty sure that Jennifer Rodriguez is from Florida, too...

 

and Erin Jackson...

 

but I agree, there are a lot of great present and past US speedskaters who are definitely not from Florida (Chad Hedrick and Derek Parra above all)...

 

however, the fact that many of them come from places not famous for snow and ice is because they all start skating with roller skates and only when they discover to be good enough to compete at Olympic level they switch to ice speedskating (otherwise they have no reason to go away from their family and and start  a different sport -because skating on the ice and with roller skates are 2 different sports, with very few athletes in the world capable of getting world/olympic medals in both)...

[heywoodu 15,147]

Just now, phelps said:

 

I'm pretty sure that Jennifer Rodriguez is from Florida, too...

 

and Erin Jackson...

 

but I agree, there are a lot of great present and past US speedskaters who are definitely not from Florida (Chad Hedrick and Derek Parra above all)...

 

however, the fact that many of them come from places not famous for snow and ice is because they all start skating with roller skates and only when they discover to be good enough to compete at Olympic level they switch to ice speedskating (otherwise they have no reason to go away from their family and and start  a different sport -because skating on the ice and with roller skates are 2 different sports, with very few athletes in the world capable of getting world/olympic medals in both)...

 

How dare you put them above one of the friendliest dudes ever in speed skating, Shani Davis  

 

But fine, I guess we're going off-topic in a snowboarding thread  Apologies

[phelps 7,680]

Just now, heywoodu said:

 

How dare you put them above one of the friendliest dudes ever in speed skating, Shani Davis  

 

But fine, I guess we're going off-topic in a snowboarding thread  Apologies

 

only because I fogot to name also Shani...

 

and yes, we're going a bit off-topic..but I love off-topics  (sorry mods & admins )