Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 News

[Quaker2001 270]

10 minutes ago, Triplecast said:

Hope Porino is the main analyst, and Ligety has a more secondary role.

3 minutes ago, Triplecast said:

Interestingly, Porinio has been doing all his WC announcing from his basement in Sun Valley. 

It says analyst for him instead of reporter, so maybe he will be in the booth with Hicks rather than calling it from Beijing.  Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing though

[opruh 129]

6 hours ago, Vic Liu said:

https://www.tpenoc.net/news/beijing2022-team-tpe-participate-opening-and-closing-ceremony/

 

According to  NOC website, Chinese Taipei decides to participate Beijing Olympics opening and closing ceremony after negotiations with IOC and claiming it will overcome the traffic difficulties and Covid-19 protocols concerns. Different from the enthusiasm to report its withdrawal, I didn’t see any English media report it yet. So you guys would be first batch of English users to know it.

The boycott camp is getting smaller and smaller while the attending camp is only getting bigger. Well done China. 

[rafalgorka 1,809]

AP medal predictions. They say no medal for this time. If N. Maliszewska is out of 500m short track races, they may be right actually :-(

 

https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-sports-france-united-states-canada-7fbfd0ded926376596ba74e5a8a92121

[Jan Linha 613]

51 minutes ago, rafalgorka said:

AP medal predictions. They say no medal for this time. If N. Maliszewska is out of 500m short track races, they may be right actually :-(

 

https://apnews.com/article/winter-olympics-sports-france-united-states-canada-7fbfd0ded926376596ba74e5a8a92121

Ski jumping? I believe Stoch may perform something nice ..... Maryna is also more than descent skier .... You never know :-) 

[dcro 10,210]

I immediately stopped reading after they selected Laura Nolte for monobob gold and two-women silver. Obviously they never followed the bobsleigh season. Nolte is far better in the two-women event.

[hckošice 15,730]

4th group of Athletes departed today to Beijing.

 

 

12 Athletes were expected to fly to China today, however in the end only 10 boarded the plane this evening

 

The Full Biathlon Team (8)

 

Paulína Fialková (3rd Olympics) her younger sistre Ivona Fialková (2nd Olympics) Henrieta Horvátová & Veronika Machyniaková (Both Olympic Debuts) among women

and Michal Šíma & Šimon Bartko (2nd Olympics) Matej Baloga and Tomáš Sklenárik (1st Olympics) among men

 

and 2 of the 4 originally expected Alpine Skiers to fly today

 

Adam Žampa (3rd Olympics) and Rebeka Jančová (Debut)

 

The 2 missing Alpine skiers were Adam´s younger brother Andreas Žampa and another debutant teenager of our female NT Petra Hromcová had both a couple of days ago tests with questionable results, but both from then had negative test(s), but in order not to unnecessarily endanger the other members of the delegation both skiers will stay another couple of days in Slovakia, accumulate hopefully another negative tests and then fly at later date to China. Hromcová first event is the GS on Monday and Andreas first race the M Super-G is on Tuesday.

 

Biathlon squad before the departure

 

Good luck guys, Stay healthy, enjoy the games and try your best !

 

[Topicmaster1010 5,639]

So here's how AP predicted the medals (Gold-Silver-Bronze-Total)

 

1.  Norway: 20-8-11-39

2.  Germany: 10-8-7-25

3.  United States: 8-16-14-38 

4.  China: 8-3-7-18

5.  Sweden: 7-7-4-18

6.  Netherlands: 7-5-7-19

7.  Canada: 6-10-7-23

8.  France: 6-7-8-21

9.  Austria: 6-5-10-21 (note, this includes a medal for Kramer)

10.  Switzerland: 6-4-5-15

11.  Russian Olympic Committee: 5-14-8-27

12.  Japan: 5-7-8-20

13.  South Korea: 4-3-0-7

14.  Italy: 3-0-2-5

15.  Great Britain: 2-1-0-3

16.  Slovakia: 1-2-0-3

16.  New Zealand: 1-2-0-3

18.  Czech Republic: 1-1-2-4

19.  Finland: 1-1-1-3

20.  Latvia: 1-1-0-2

21.  Belgium: 1-0-0-1

22.  Australia: 0-2-1-3

23.  Slovenia: 0-1-0-1

23.  Spain: 0-1-0-1

24.  Belarus: 0-0-4-4

25.  Hungary: 0-0-2-2

26.  Estonia: 0-0-1-1

 

Once again, AP is using the strategy of "predicting every American that's a medal contender to be on the podium" and also using the strategy of "I hate Canada". 

 

[LowerSaxony 205]

On 1/31/2022 at 7:40 PM, Vic Liu said:

https://www.tpenoc.net/news/beijing2022-team-tpe-participate-opening-and-closing-ceremony/

 

According to  NOC website, Chinese Taipei decides to participate Beijing Olympics opening and closing ceremony after negotiations with IOC and claiming it will overcome the traffic difficulties and Covid-19 protocols concerns. Different from the enthusiasm to report its withdrawal, I didn’t see any English media report it yet. So you guys would be first batch of English users to know it.

Sounds a bit different here: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1118650/taiwanese-team-beijing-2022-ceremonies

More pressure than "negotiations".

[JoshMartini007 2,780]

21 minutes ago, Topicmaster1010 said:

Once again, AP is using the strategy of "predicting every American that's a medal contender to be on the podium" and also using the strategy of "I hate Canada". 

 

23 medals for Canada isn't that bad, but yeah, the United States probably needs to shed 10-15 medals for it to be believable.

[Topicmaster1010 5,639]

7 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

 

23 medals for Canada isn't that bad, but yeah, the United States probably needs to shed 10-15 medals for it to be believable.

Yeah 23 seems reasonable, though they predicted Canada to win 4 of the 6 medals in men's snowboard slopestyle/big air . I noticed that there were some other Canadians medal contenders that weren't predicted to win though like Brendan Mackay and Kim Boutin.