Skeleton at the Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[Orangehair43 297]

1 hour ago, Rafa Maciel said:

Ignore him - he seems to relish every poor performance by Team GB. Either that or he gets off on flooding the boards with toxic drivel about Team GB. Give it time and he'll say he's been told by 'sources' that if we don't get double gold in the skeleton all funding will be cut

The way things are going UK sport might well pull all Winter Olympics funding even if one or two sports have done well. The media is getting more and more hostile. 

[pdr4332 226]

15 minutes ago, avlar said:

So the end of the story.

Sole CAS judge denied the appeal filed by Heraskevych
https://www.tas-cas.org/generated/assets/lists/dceab111-07bc-435f-b5f9-de88eff9db72/CAS Media Release_Milano Cortina_Decision_AHD09.pdf

(it is interesting that the judge took part in the event supported by Belarus Laweyers Union - after the rigged elections of 2020).


The mother of the late guy pictured at the helmet said "You see, Taras, russians are scare of you even when you are dead"

Well, who had the genius idea of assigning an Ukrainian athletes' case to a Belorusian arbitrator? 
What will be next? Armenian arbitrator hearing the case of an Azeri athlete? Or an Iranian of an Israeli? 

[Grassmarket 4,189]

Matt Weston opens with a third TR.  

[Grassmarket 4,189]

So the Germans can add a new & exclusive redesign to all their sleds, but the British cannot have a new helmet?  

[avlar 536]

26 minutes ago, pdr4332 said:

Well, who had the genius idea of assigning an Ukrainian athletes' case to a Belorusian arbitrator? 
What will be next? Armenian arbitrator hearing the case of an Azeri athlete? Or an Iranian of an Israeli? 

Sorry, if I misled with the structure of the text. She is German by nationlity, but took part i in the event supported by Belarus Laweyers Union. So she definitely has contacts there. I just posted this fact as interesting. We do not know whom she supported - lukashenko, opposition of noone.

 

Sorry and thank you for the reaction.

Edited 1 hour ago by avlar

[Orangehair43 297]

5 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Matt Weston opens with a third TR.  

I think everyone watching  in  will be like me holding their breath for the whole of his final run. 

[hoversaBR 735]

Nicole has recovered a bit. 

 

A top 8 finish isn't impossible yet, hopefully she'll make it, she deserves it for everything she's done in recent years.

[Matteo92 230]

Weston with another TR, his lead is up to 0.39.

 

Grotheer increases the gap on Chen for third.

 

Bagnis was slightly faster than Chen and tied with Grotheer in this run, but that bad 2nd run will keep him out of podium contention.

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[JamDH 46]

I don't like the running order they use, why isn't it always in reverse? What's the point showing splits against the leader when each athlete is further behind than the last? Increasingly big red numbers don't give you the best sense of if they're moving up or down the ranking.

Edited 1 hour ago by JamDH

[Federer91 3,232]

2 minutes ago, JamDH said:

I don't like the running order they use, why isn't it always in reverse? What's the point showing splits against the leader when each athlete is further behind than the last? Increasingly big red numbers don't give you the best sense of if they're moving up or down the ranking.

I think it's done to give the top athletes more time to recover before the final run. Which is a bit BS to be honest, since they would be ones who start last either way in run 4.