heywoodu 14,456 Posted April 6, 2021 #71 Share Posted April 6, 2021 Wow, did not see that coming less than a year before the Olympics If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 4,218 Posted April 6, 2021 #72 Share Posted April 6, 2021 Look, Petra started out with a bang and then tailed right off to the point she underperformed at the Worlds and had to rely on favorable Lenzerheide to fend off Lara Gut's challenge for the overall. It's obvious she can't handle running all the races physically and she can't risk another poor showing at the Olympics which are the main focus. If Magoni is responsible for pushing her to do the speed races and all that it's no wonder she had enough of him. I suppose she goes back to doing tech races only from next season. She looks so upset with those silver medals in Cortina I think she targets golds & golds only in Beijing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triplecast 149 Posted April 6, 2021 #73 Share Posted April 6, 2021 4 minutes ago, Monzanator said: Look, Petra started out with a bang and then tailed right off to the point she underperformed at the Worlds and had to rely on favorable Lenzerheide to fend off Lara Gut's challenge for the overall. It's obvious she can't handle running all the races physically and she can't risk another poor showing at the Olympics which are the main focus. If Magoni is responsible for pushing her to do the speed races and all that it's no wonder she had enough of him. I suppose she goes back to doing tech races only from next season. She looks so upset with those silver medals in Cortina I think she targets golds & golds only in Beijing. The US State Department today gave its strongest hint yet that they are going to make Petra's path to gold a heck of a lot easier, and she will only have to worry about beating Liensberger. 2022 Beijing Olympics: U.S. considering joining boycott, state department says (cnbc.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monzanator 4,218 Posted April 6, 2021 #74 Share Posted April 6, 2021 NBC pays a ton of money for the Olympic TV rights. Everyone takes a financial hit during the COVID pandemic and now you want to blow up the TV revenue on purpose? Good luck in depriving Shiffrin, Chloe Kim and whomever else from taking part in these Olympics. Someone tell Joe Biden the Cold War is over. It's laughable that Trump was considered the biggest Chinese enemy and Biden would go ahead with the boycott? He'd get crushed by the sporting community. No way he can be that stupid? The fact this stuff comes out indicates it's a controlled leak therefore they want to know what the public thinks. It's such a stupid decision it's beyond reasonable imagination. The Yalta conference reaps heavy fruit 78 years after it took place indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 14,368 Posted May 3, 2021 #75 Share Posted May 3, 2021 and it is Mauro Pini former Lara Gut-Behrami, Tina Maze and Maria-Jose Contreras coach. Deal for 1 year with option if succeed at the Olympics in Beijing he contract will be prolonged for another Olympic cycle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 7,543 Posted May 3, 2021 #76 Share Posted May 3, 2021 this is not good news at all for me...I'm going to lose the best tech tv commentator in the world of alpine skiing (Pini used to work for the Italian speaking channel of the Swiss public TV in the last few years)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 14,368 Posted May 3, 2021 #77 Share Posted May 3, 2021 btw..fun fact... Pini became Tina Maze coach in 2013/14 Olympic season replacing Magoni. Tina won in Sochi 2 Gold medals.. now 2021/22 Olympic season he replaced Magoni again, now as Petra Vlhová coach, just changed to Not sure if the history can repeat, but for some reason in this case, I would not be angry However winning even 2 medals of any color would be absolutely huge and amazing, I mean for Slovakia, not sure if Petra would be satisfied by only "of any color" though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,210 Posted May 27, 2021 #78 Share Posted May 27, 2021 What an opportunity for some skiing aficionado with a Saudi great-great-grandfather... #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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