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[Gianlu33 4,728]

Christmas update, with only 13 events in 3 sports (freestyle , snowboard and alpine skiing) this week and no new NOCs on the podium. Germany goes in the lead after 318 events.

 

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[Gianlu33 4,728]

New Year Update We had 10 events this week, all in the FIS sports. Finland won their first event and the US jump on the lead.

 

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[Olympian1010 8,070]

Cortina might be getting their new track after all…

 

 

[Grassmarket 3,611]

  On 1/31/2024 at 5:49 PM, Olympian1010 said:

Cortina might be getting their new track after all…

 

 

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Well….Santa Maurizio better hold itself in readiness, given that not since the Emperor Hadrian has such a project been completed on time in Italy.  

[intoronto 5,860]

Very risky, but when you bid to host the Olympics, you do not do so to host events in other countries imo

[phelps 7,801]

to me, Skt.Moritz should have been the Olympic choice from the beginning (it's a track where we always perform very well, after all)

 

the Cortina track should have been a project not related to the Olympic Games, their hype and media exposure (we definitely need a sliding sports track, but we should have built it "under the radar", keeping all the opposing idiots on local basis only as much as we could instead of giving them such a big stage and such a chance to make enormous damage to the sport in this fuckin' Country)

 

I don't really see any advantage now in having a home track where we didn't have the time to train a lot more than any other Nation

[Josh 11,049]

2 years to go! 

[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 1/31/2024 at 7:30 PM, Grassmarket said:

Well….Santa Maurizio better hold itself in readiness, given that not since the Emperor Hadrian has such a project been completed on time in Italy.  

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It's fine, just cut money on safety stuff and it'll be done in time  

 

Still sad for the Italian athletes though. They could easily have had several years of extra training, which would have resulted in men's skeleton, women's skeleton, two-man and four-man bobs and basically all luge disciplines having very significant medal chances and even gold medal chances, but now....it's basically as much their home track as it is Ferlazzo's or  Rocha's home track. Two years and it has to be done, up and running and having held test competitions.

[De_Gambassi 1,225]

I still find a bit off that IOC is pushing THAT hard against building a new sliding venue. Because if we don't build any new venue for the Olympics, then nobody is ever going to build any new venue for the sport. Period. And without new venues, the same set of countries is going to win olympic medals for ever and ever (and one in particular who happens to have 3 times more venues than anybody else).

 

I understand Agenda 2020, the general economical/political context around the olympic games and that you can't ask for the same degree of universality of summer olympic sports. But still, if you basically give up on you only chance to grow the sport by building new venues in new countries, what's the point of the sliding events at the olympics ?

[Gianlu33 4,728]

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