Luge FIL World Championships 2020

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 2/14/2020 at 12:29 PM, dcro said:

 

Sebastian Bley's hometown.

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Same city as Langenhan, but still, how is 'Zool' (in English) so wrong?  

 

Unless he'd pronounce the Z as 'Ts' or something.

Edited February 14, 2020 by heywoodu

[dcro 10,210]

Austrian men's singles team is like WTA. Nobody can keep up the form for a full month or something.

[heywoodu 15,333]

Great run for Pavlichenko and Aparjods just not doing anything weird and I'll be cheering  

 

[heywoodu 15,333]

That's pretty terrible Semen.

[dcro 10,210]

Zemen Pavlichenko.

 

I guess all Russians must be from Königsberg.

[Gianlu33 4,725]

Men´s Sprint

 

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 2/14/2020 at 12:43 PM, dcro said:

Zemen Pavlichenko.

 

I guess all Russians must be from Königsberg.

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Seriously though, Tim Singer might be messing up a little with names, at least whether he says Semen or Zemen Pavlichenko, you know who he means. The Dutch Eurosport commentator has pronounced his name like (among others) Pavlovich, Pavlich, Pavjonko, Seje Pavko and whatnot. I can honestly tell you we have nothing to complain about LugeAnnouncer once you've heard the Dutch commentator abuse literally every name in luge, from the slightly harder ones to the likes of Tucker West.

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 2/14/2020 at 12:45 PM, Gianlu33 said:

Men´s Sprint

 

 

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I nearly predicted this!

[dcro 10,210]

I guess this means Russia will sweep all golds. Sprints were the only chance of a surprise.

[heywoodu 15,333]

Yeah a Russian sweep is more than likely. If there's a chance for something else anywhere (besides a Russian missing the relay paddle) I guess it's in the men's competition, where Aravin and Gorbatcevich just aren't really good enough even on home ice, Repilov probably is (but, you know, that's only one person) and god knows what Janine Pavlichenkova does.