Team GB Daily: Day 10

[G-ann 118]

Oh man. Justifying a Monday wine to get through another tense potential GB medal watch…! 

Edited 8 hours ago by G-ann

[Grassmarket 4,217]

7 minutes ago, G-ann said:

Oh man. Justifying a Monday wine to get through another tense potential GB medal watch…! 

I just know this is heading for another last minute sucker punch.....

[Grassmarket 4,217]

Knew it......

Edited 8 hours ago by Grassmarket

[G-ann 118]

Just now, Grassmarket said:

Knew it......

Or did you jinx it…??

 

Gutted for Kirsty, bring on France! 

[chargundam 46]

I really feel for her but I was unfortunately scared of that happening

[Jon 59]

Judging by what the commentators said, she was going to try and clean up her higher scored run? But that could’ve only squeezed another 3-4 points out of it which would’ve put her into bronze? I don’t understand why she didn’t go for a bigger jump on her lower scoring run. At least then you go out going for gold.

[Epic Failure 364]

Yeah, I don't understand that decision, if that's what she did.

 

She would have needed a 96.5 from jump B (if my maths is right) to get bronze.

 

Whereas improving jump A to somewhere around an 87-88 would put all three medals in the reckoning. 

 

The only thing I can think is that she just didn't trust that she could as reliably pull that jump A off in any circumstance. Which I imagine happens. All athletes must know what they think they can do repeatedly/reliably. 

 

All speculation of course. 

[Rich 27]

I was praying that it would be done before Kirsty had her third jump but not to be. But she performed brilliantly imo. I might be completely wrong but she looks more nervous than her competitors and that definitely makes it tough. Gu is insanely comfortable in that competition environment. 

 

The target minimum of four is looking a bit precarious, but if it's not met by one I hope the powers that be reflect that what we need to do is build the base in winter sport not keep flipping and flopping when things go wrong.

Edited 7 hours ago by Rich

[Rich 27]

1 minute ago, Epic Failure said:

Yeah, I don't understand that decision, if that's what she did.

 

She would have needed a 96.5 from jump B (if my maths is right) to get bronze.

 

Whereas improving jump A to somewhere around an 87-88 would put all three medals in the reckoning. 

 

The only thing I can think is that she just didn't trust that she could as reliably pull that jump A off in any circumstance. Which I imagine happens. All athletes must know what they think they can do repeatedly/reliably. 

 

All speculation of course. 

I think this must be it.

[Epic Failure 364]

Just now, Rich said:

I was praying that it would be done before Kirsty has her third jump but not to be. But she performed brilliantly imo. I might be completely wrong but she looks more nervous than her competitors and that definitely makes it tough. Gu is insanely comfortable in that competition environment. 

 

The target minimum of four is looking a bit precarious, but if it's not met by one I hope the powers that be reflect that what we need to do is build the base in winter sport not keep flipping and flopping when things go wrong.

If we come away from these games having won 2 more golds than any previous games, with our best ever performance in cross country and with several 4th places (5 at last count I think) AND then UK Sport respond with anything other than a funding boost, I will actually cry. 

 

It's not rocket science, we've shown that despite our natural disadvantage of not really having snow, we can be competitive in a bunch of events. Cutting the funding would not improve that.