Alpine Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[OlympicsFan 860]

  On 2/16/2018 at 5:09 AM, Shiffrin said:

Heartbreaking, especially since she was so close to a medal, which would at least kinda save the situation. But honestly, she looked like a shadow of herself today, not attacking the course in either run (except maybe the bottom part of the 2nd), so I presume she has not much energy. Hopefully she doesn’t start in Super-G tomorrow and rests for the DH

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It's already safe that she won't start ...

http://www.espn.com/olympics/winter18/story/_/id/22450731/mikaela-shiffrin-skip-super-g-compressed-schedule

Note the first line: Michael Shiffrin's bid for 5 gold medals ...

Edited February 16, 2018 by OlympicsFan

[Gigs 68]

  On 2/16/2018 at 5:05 AM, OlympicsFan said:

You are really good at seeing the negativ in everything. Absolutely noone expected two medals for Austria today.

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I guess my mindset is often too negative. You are absolutely right though and believe me, I know the Austrians are really overachieving in this olympics so far and I am super happy about this result. 

[juddy96 171]

Mielzynski with a beautiful result! Moved up from 22nd to 11th in the second run

[OlympicsFan 860]

  On 2/16/2018 at 5:16 AM, Gigs said:

I guess my mindset is often too negative. You are absolutely right though and believe me, I know the Austrians are really overachieving in this olympics so far and I am super happy about this result. 

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Now that you say it ...

The gold in men's luge was surprising, as well as the bronze in men's biathlon, the bronze in nordic combined and the two medals today (although of course Mayer winning a medal would have been no surprise). Negative results so far: Snowboard women's slopestyle, that's probably it? Medals in ski jumping or speed skating weren't really expected. Let's hope that Flock won't continue the trend ...

[heywoodu 15,335]

  On 2/16/2018 at 5:09 AM, Shiffrin said:

Heartbreaking, especially since she was so close to a medal, which would at least kinda save the situation. But honestly, she looked like a shadow of herself today, not attacking the course in either run (except maybe the bottom part of the 2nd), so I presume she has not much energy. Hopefully she doesn’t start in Super-G tomorrow and rests for the DH

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Oh well, much less heartbreaking considering she's got Olympic slalom gold and giant slalom gold already. In terms of my heart being broken, Shiffrin missing out on a medal does not even come close to Mölgg for example, not by a long stretch  

[hckošice 15,101]

Men´s Super-G

 

1. Matthias Mayer 1:24.44, 2. Beat Feuz 1:24.57, 3. Kjetil Jansrud 1:24.62

 

Full Results HERE

 

[hckošice 15,101]

Women´s Slalom

 

1. Frida Hansdotter 1:38.63, 2. Wendy Holdener 1:38.68, 3. Katharina Gallhuber 1:38.95

 

Full Results HERE

 

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Super skiing day. It was very exciting, lots of changes during racing, and great to see surprising winners and other medalists.

 

Impressed with Austrian girls in second run, I think Schild even missed out on gold in that last secion.

[Belle 985]

Congrats Frida! I'm so happy for her.

[dareza 911]

Wow what a results! I'm very happy for Austria and Switzerland

 

But Shiffrin