United States National Thread

[pjwasz 16]

Early Morning recap:

Curling: Lost to Canada 6-4

Ski Jumping: All 4 Qualified(Top 50 of 57), Bickner highest at 25th.

 

To answer some of your questions posed,

Our ski jumping team is not going to medal. A top 20 would be fantastic. 

The Swiss are the only 2-0 team, while the Finns are the only 0-2 team in curling. Should be a good fight

Nathan Chen will be in the Men's Short Program for the Team Event

Moguls: Schild, Kauf, and McCargo have all had podiums in either of the last two World Cup seasons. The women's will be a good fight.

Bradley Wilson will have a decent chance of medaling, but you can just hand the gold to Mikael Kingsbury of Canada now. He deserves it, to be honest.

Qualifying for Moguls is Top 16.*

 

Also, this is a neat thing that I found:

https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/en/general/noc-schedule-united-states.htm

 

It's not updated for every event yet, but I imagine it will be accurate within a day.

 

* Edit: This is wrong. It's 30 in Q1, top 10 qual for F1. 20 in Q2, top 10 qual for F1. 20 in F1, top 12 to F2, top 6 in F2 to F3. F3 is the Super Final.

Edited February 8, 2018 by pjwasz

[pjwasz 16]

So 3 of our Ski Jumpers are from the Chicago area, very close to where I grew up. In other words, we picked 3 guys from the 2nd flattest state for ski jumping. 

[Federer91 2,796]

Good to see new users from the USofA joining the forum.  Rooting for Shiffrin and the lugers for you guys. 

[Rdbc 48]

  Team USA 2018 - Winter Olympics 

 

Day -1 Recap

 

Curling

Mixed Doubles

 United States of America vs Canada 

 

Result: Loss

 

Thoughts

I was not able to watch the game live as it was 3am my time but I can see Team USA held the match close until the 5th round. 4-6 is not a bad score especially against the team expected to win gold!

 

 United States of America vs Switzerland 

 

Result: Loss

 

Thoughts

The game was very close until the 8th round, there were 3 mistakes that I think lost us the game. Very fun game to watch though!

 

 United States of America vs South Korea 

 

Result: Win - Loss

will add after the game

 

Thoughts

will add after the game

Ski Jumping

Mens: Normal Hill Individual Qualification

 

Results:

 

Thoughts

All four men were able to get into the top 50 which means they all qualified for the finals. 

 

 

 

 

Free Style Skiing

Women's Mongul Qualification 1

 

Results:

 

Thoughts

Three of the four women were able to qualify for the finals, Tess needs to do better than she did today if she wants a spot in the finals alongside her teammates. Great 3rd place by Morgan today aswell!

 

Men's Mongul Qualification 1

 

Results:

Will update the rest when the information gets inserted into Wikipedia 

 

 

Thoughts

Will update when rest of information gets into Wikipedia

 

 

 

 

Figure Skating

Team Event

 

Men Short Program

 

Result:

 

 

Pair Short Program

 

Result:

I will be re updating the photos when all the rest of the information is put in, the place and points are correct though!

 

 

 

As more stuff get's updated I will be updating the photos as well, expect the tomorrow schedule soon!

 

Edited February 9, 2018 by Rdbc

[AmericanHero40 213]

10 hours ago, Federer91 said:

Good to see new users from the USofA joining the forum.  Rooting for Shiffrin and the lugers for you guys. 

 

You got little sick of just me ?

[AmericanHero40 213]

Actually this is a big olympics for me. This is my 7th olympic games living in California.  However its my very first one as a naturalized us citizen!

[pjwasz 16]

6 minutes ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

Actually this is a big olympics for me. This is my 7th olympic games living in California.  However its my very first one as a naturalized us citizen!

Congratulations!

[Rdbc 48]

  Team USA 2018 - Winter Olympics Schedule 

All times in PST

Day 0 (February 9th)

 

 

 

 

Cross Country Skiing

Women's 2 x 7.5km Skiathlon - 11:15pm PST

 

Team USA

Jessie Diggings

Sadie Bjornsen

Kikkan Randall

Rosie Brennan

 

 

Curling

Mixed Doubles

 

 

 United States of America vs China  - 4:05pm PST

 

Team USA

Matt Hamilton

Rebecca Hamilton

 

Team China

Ba Dexin

Wang Rui

 

 

 

 

Snowboard

Men's Slopestyle Qualification - 5:00pm

 

Team USA

Red Gerard

Chris Corning

Ryan Stassel

might be more athletes but there are like 10+ on team USA app that are not on website

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 10, 2018 by Rdbc

[pjwasz 16]

Gotchu, fam. I just finished a couple of assignments and exams so I'm free to pick up where you left off in a little bit.

[wpwells 3]

Curling:

 

We are certainly behind the eight-ball due to the Korea loss; however, with OAR and SUI still having matches today against CAN as well as a match against each other tomorrow, if we win our last three matches against NOR, CHN, and FIN, there’s a very good chance we could sneak into the semis.

 

Biathlon:

 

Susan Dunklee has an outside shot at a medal

 

Cross-Country:

 

Our women’s cross country team is actually fairly strong this year, particularly Jessie Diggins. I’ll be very surprised if she doesn’t come away with at least one medal, so she’s a medal threat in every cross-country event

 

Short-track:

 

JR Celski has a shot at a medal, though anything can happen in short track.

 

Long-track:

 

Schoutens is a medal favorite

 

it could be a fun day for the USA with medal chances in 4/5 events plus a lot of intrigue in the curling tournament!