Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games 2018 News

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5 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

It's 10k OR sprint, actually.

 

Ah damn, the Olympics suck in terms of these kind of rules. 

 

Well, 10k then. 

Edited August 31, 2017 by heywoodu

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7 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Wonderful plan!  

 

If Bruna qualifies, I guess she can only compete in the 10k and sprint, so the rest doesn't matter as much for me. If she doesn't qualify, I'll definitely stay home  

In your experience is XC and biathlon fun to watch in real life? I never have. How does it compare to the TV?

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28 minutes ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

In your experience is XC and biathlon fun to watch in real life? I never have. How does it compare to the TV?

I've never seen XC in real, only biathlon. It's a little hard to say, since the competitions I saw were all IBU Cups (Obertilliach 2015/16, Martell + Arber 2016/17), and I imagine at a World Cup at least there's a bit more information available (like a screen, although in Arber there was a screen with the standings and in Obertilliach and Martell I could understand the German 'stadium announcer'). 

 

You definitely need to have a printed start list with you to sort of follow who's coming up where and following the shooting can be quite difficult. You can sort of distinguish if a shot is coming from lane 1 or lane 30, but if there are several athletes shooting at the same time, you really just need to pay attention to one specific athlete and when you see their finger move the bolt, see if a target has dropped or not. Live timing on the IBU website works well (shooting hits/misses only appear maybe 2-3 seconds after the shot), but in Martell and Arber the temperatures made my phone stop working, so yeah, that's useless  

 

In general I'd say biathlon is fun to watch though, especially because it's nice to see a bit of the 'behind the scenes' kind of thing you don't see on TV

 

Then again, if it weren't for Bruna competing, I would definitely not go to IBU Cups, maybe to a World Cup in Germany or Oslo to soak up the atmosphere.

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21 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I've never seen XC in real, only biathlon. It's a little hard to say, since the competitions I saw were all IBU Cups (Obertilliach 2015/16, Martell + Arber 2016/17), and I imagine at a World Cup at least there's a bit more information available (like a screen, although in Arber there was a screen with the standings and in Obertilliach and Martell I could understand the German 'stadium announcer'). 

 

You definitely need to have a printed start list with you to sort of follow who's coming up where and following the shooting can be quite difficult. You can sort of distinguish if a shot is coming from lane 1 or lane 30, but if there are several athletes shooting at the same time, you really just need to pay attention to one specific athlete and when you see their finger move the bolt, see if a target has dropped or not. Live timing on the IBU website works well (shooting hits/misses only appear maybe 2-3 seconds after the shot), but in Martell and Arber the temperatures made my phone stop working, so yeah, that's useless  

 

In general I'd say biathlon is fun to watch though, especially because it's nice to see a bit of the 'behind the scenes' kind of thing you don't see on TV

 

Then again, if it weren't for Bruna competing, I would definitely not go to IBU Cups, maybe to a World Cup in Germany or Oslo to soak up the atmosphere.

Hmmm okay. Thanks very much. I imagine they'll have shooting graphics on a big screen somewhere  They will be going all out to attract spectators after all. I wonder what the atmosphere will be like.

I'm also hoping mostly to get to ski jumping, alpine, short track and a good ice hockey game.

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11 minutes ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

Hmmm okay. Thanks very much. I imagine they'll have shooting graphics on a big screen somewhere  They will be going all out to attract spectators after all. I wonder what the atmosphere will be like.

I'm also hoping mostly to get to ski jumping, alpine, short track and a good ice hockey game.

For a World Cup or major event that's what I would expect as well

 

In IBU Cups the only shooting results I really care about are of course those of Bruna (well, ok, and Gabi  ) so when they're shooting I make sure I'm basically standing exactly behind them, so it's easier to see which targets to look at. They already know before the race where they'll shoot, so that's not too hard.

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38 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

For a World Cup or major event that's what I would expect as well

 

In IBU Cups the only shooting results I really care about are of course those of Bruna (well, ok, and Gabi  ) so when they're shooting I make sure I'm basically standing exactly behind them, so it's easier to see which targets to look at. They already know before the race where they'll shoot, so that's not too hard.

In cross country it should be interesting. I don't think it'll be that hard to keep track of her.

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20 minutes ago, ahjfcshfghb said:

In cross country it should be interesting. I don't think it'll be that hard to keep track of her.

Much easier, time = time without worrying about shots  

 

Which also makes it more boring, like their now former trainer said: "XC is for kids, biathlon is for adults who like adventure"  

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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Much easier, time = time without worrying about shots  

 

Which also makes it more boring, like their now former trainer said: "XC is for kids, biathlon is for adults who like adventure"  

Yeah I'll  only do the 10/15k,  the 4x10 and the sprints. Maybe 50k too

Why else do you think so many athletes are switching

Edited September 1, 2017 by ahjfcshfghb

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Anyone know why FIS wrote that there will be 9 events in snowboarding ? http://www.fis-ski.com/news-multimedia/news/article=pyeongchang-2018-competition-schedule-published.html

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1 hour ago, hckosice said:

Anyone know why FIS wrote that there will be 9 events in snowboarding ? http://www.fis-ski.com/news-multimedia/news/article=pyeongchang-2018-competition-schedule-published.html

Because this is FIS.

 

Spoiler

 

 

Edited September 20, 2017 by heywoodu