Alpine Skiing at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[ChandlerMne 1,098]

With shortened downhill track,only slalom specialists are in contention. Good donwnill racers dont stand a chance here. So,Mikaela,Wendy should be sure for medal,3rd place is still open. 

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 2/21/2018 at 10:01 AM, ChandlerMne said:

With shortened downhill track

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This has been confirmed?  

 

[ChandlerMne 1,098]

  On 2/21/2018 at 10:02 AM, heywoodu said:

This has been confirmed?  

 

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Commentator on Serbian ES just said that. So it should be truth.

I still hope they won do that.

[OlympicsFan 860]

  On 2/21/2018 at 8:27 AM, thepharoah said:

And btw she's the oldest alpine skier to win an Olympic medal 

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What do you mean? At this olympics alone Svindal was older by about 2 years ... ?

[thepharoah 2,405]

  On 2/21/2018 at 10:26 AM, OlympicsFan said:

What do you mean? At this olympics alone Svindal was older by about 2 years ... ?

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I meant on women side ,  that's what she wrote on her Twitter account 

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  On 2/21/2018 at 10:32 AM, thepharoah said:

I meant on women side ,  that's what she wrote on her Twitter account 

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Ok, thanks that's probably true.

I was very moved by her tears of joy at the end, you could really feel all the pressure coming off. She promised to win a medal for her grandfather and she did it, now she can retire in peace.

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  On 2/21/2018 at 10:08 AM, ChandlerMne said:

Commentator on Serbian ES just said that. So it should be truth.

I still hope they won do that.

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It will suit Nevena better Let's hope it's true

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  On 2/21/2018 at 10:36 AM, OlympicsFan said:

Ok, thanks that's probably true.

I was very moved by her tears of joy at the end, you could really feel all the pressure coming off. She promised to win a medal for her grandfather and she did it, now she can retire in peace.

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She also needed that medal for her after all these injuries and misses , she really needed this medal and she got what she fought for so I'm also happy for her , even i wanted gold but bronze is better than nothing

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  On 2/21/2018 at 8:46 AM, phelps said:

 

I don't think we're overperforming at all...

our gold medals came from 3 pre-race favourites (Moioli was actually more than favourite, she could only lose gold given her superiority...and not only from this season; Fontana was the co-favourite with Fan, who failed...so, also her gold is more than logical; and the same goes for Goggia...if she doesn't do any mistake -and today she didn't- she's by far the best among nowadays downhill specialists, with Vonn being the only one who can beat her, but only on certain conditions that today weren't there)...

and among the "minor" medals, only Tumulero's and Windisch's bronze medals are really "surprising" (even the short track relay was expected to be in the final..a 4-team final which obviously always gives chances to all the starters, especially in a sport where it's so easy to fall down and/or getting DQed)...

but, as a compensation, we really miss at least another 4/5 medals according to our preview (and 2 of them, Visintin in men's SBX and Goggia's Super-G, were not just "medals" in our expectations)...

so, we're not overperforming at all...and actually we're still under the par, so to say...

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Haha, i knew that you would say that, you are really crazy. Noone predicted Italy to win so many medals and the part about Moioli is almost comical. You won pretty much every medal you were expected to win (except for Visintin) and even a couple more (shorttrack relay, Windisch, biathlon team relay, Tumulero), baffled to see someone not calling that overperforiming. Before the games you had 2-3 gold medal chances and now you have already 3, so no objective observer would say that you didn't have (almost) perfect results so far. If this really isn't overperforming, then there must be some websites out there that predicted this result.

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  On 2/21/2018 at 10:42 AM, OlympicsFan said:

Haha, i knew that you would say that, you are really crazy. Noone predicted Italy to win so many medals and the part about Moioli is almost comical. You won pretty much every medal you were expected to win (except for Visintin) and even a couple more (shorttrack relay, Windisch, biathlon team relay, Tumulero), baffled to see someone not calling that overperforiming. Before the games you had 2-3 gold medal chances and now you have already 3, so no objective observer would say that you didn't have (almost) perfect results so far. If this really isn't overperforming, then there must be some websites out there that predicted this result.

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Here you are...Sports Illustrated predicted 12 medals (4 gold) for Italy.

https://www.si.com/olympics/2018/02/06/2018-olympics-medal-picks-pyeongchang-predictions