Snowboard FIS World Championships 2023

[Grassmarket 3,470]

1 hour ago, phelps said:

well, the Polish guys have done well all season long.

 

the really surprising result is Tsubaki's gold.

 

anything else is just among the range of the predictable achievements.

 

unnecessary events? why? are there many other events in Winter Sports showing depth at the top level?

 

if alpine and cross events in snowboard and freestyle have to go, then what about the actual freestyle disciplines (5 Nations at the start for the Aerials this morning) or Nordic Combined/Ski Jumping (4/5 Nations competing for the top 20 places in each event when we're lucky, not more than 10/12 in total at the start) or Luge or (for what concerns the top tier nations) the same Cross-Country Skiing?

This was the funny thing about the FISU Games last month - very little competitor interest in the cool, happening youth events the IOC wants to promote. But huge interest in the boring old white guy events like alpine & biathlon.

Edited February 19, 2023 by Grassmarket

[Monzanator 4,531]

36 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

This was the funny thing about the FISU Games last month - very little competitor interest in the cool, happening youth events the IOC wants to promote. But huge interest in the boring old white guy events like alpine & biathlon.

Classic marketing problem for IOC and other organizations pretending they are chasing those mythical 'new fans' . They want to sell something that people simply don't want to buy (not enough people to make it a profit anyway). The Segway of global sports

[Olympian1010 8,002]

40 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

This was the funny thing about the FISU Games last month - very little competitor interest in the cool, happening youth events the IOC wants to promote. But huge interest in the boring old white guy events like alpine & biathlon.

You could also chalk that up to the University Games being a well established, and somewhat notable, competition for biathlon and alpine events, as where that’s not really the case for freestyle events. They already have the X Games, Dew Tour, US Open, etc.

[NearPup 3,083]

46 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

This was the funny thing about the FISU Games last month - very little competitor interest in the cool, happening youth events the IOC wants to promote. But huge interest in the boring old white guy events like alpine & biathlon.

If you don’t understand why there is no interest in the FISU Games’ Park and Pipe events then you don’t understand Park and Pipe. It’s just not a relevant competition for those sports.

[heywoodu 15,178]

3 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

You could also chalk that up to the University Games being a well established, and somewhat notable, competition for biathlon and alpine events, as where that’s not really the case for freestyle events. They already have the X Games, Dew Tour, US Open, etc.

In other words, the freestyle events might just as well be taken off the programme, because even the freestyle events don't want it  

[heywoodu 15,178]

Today was a great example of why the one-run thing is absolute bullshit btw. The red course was visibly way worse than the blue course, Caviezel was the best in the final and only lost because he was on the wrong course...

 

Anyhow, not like they're going to change it to a more logical format  

 

Edit: not to take anything away from Kwiatkowski btw, he was impressive today of course  

Edited February 19, 2023 by heywoodu

[justony 454]

Any news on what is happening in Georgia? 

 

According to FIS live app, 2nd qualification run is still on hold for quite a while, will there even be a race today?

[Monzanator 4,531]

 

[phelps 7,711]

1 hour ago, justony said:

Any news on what is happening in Georgia? 

 

According to FIS live app, 2nd qualification run is still on hold for quite a while, will there even be a race today?

races have started again.

 

final block should be scheduled not before Noon CET, maybe even later.

[intoronto 5,678]

Surprise medal for Canada!