website statistics
Jump to content
  • Register/Login on Totallympics!

    Sign up to Totallympics to get full access to our website.

     

    Registration is free and allows you to participate in our community. You will then be able to reply to threads and access all pages.

     

    If you encounter any issues in the registration process, please send us a message in the Contact Us page.

     

    We are excited to see you on Totallympics, the home of Olympic Sports!

     

Luge at the Winter Olympic Games 2018


George_D

Recommended Posts

Yeah nothing interesting in that German team, logically. I've been F5'ing the Südtiroler news sites for the selection of Italy's team all morning, way too curious :p 

.

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/750-luge-at-the-winter-olympic-games-2018/page/4/#findComment-110548
Share on other sites

2 minutes ago, dcro said:

Yeah, Italy can't enter 3 women even if they wanted to. Qualified only two spots.

I'd still select Hofer over Robatscher :p 

.

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/750-luge-at-the-winter-olympic-games-2018/page/4/#findComment-110554
Share on other sites

21 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I'd still select Hofer over Robatscher :p 

 

no way it's gonna happen...

had Armin taken this option into consideration, he would have started Hofer in 2/3 world cup stages, at least...

instead, she only competed in Igls (which is basically the home track for our youngsters) at the beginning of the season and then she's gone back to the youth world cup...

 

by the way, on our NOC website the Olympic Team already include Oberstolz/Gruber and Rieder/Rastner (+ the Fischnallers & Emanuel Rieder and Andrea Voetter & Sandra Robatscher) among the Luge starters in Pyeongchang...so, I guess there won't be a (although well deserved) chance for the teenagers Nagler/Malleier...now we can only hope in a last-minute change of mind by the Luge Directors (meaning mainly Armin Zoeggeler, who has the last word on anything about the technical decisions in the Team)...

http://www.pyeongchang2018.coni.it/it/home/azzurri.html

Edited by phelps
Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/750-luge-at-the-winter-olympic-games-2018/page/4/#findComment-110689
Share on other sites

5 minutes ago, phelps said:

 

no way it's gonna happen...

had Armin taken this option into consideration, he would have started Hofer in 2/3 world cup stages, at least...

instead, she only competed in Igls (which is basically the home track for our youngsters) at the beginning of the season and then she's gone back to the youth world cup...

 

by the way, on our NOC website the Olympic Team already include Oberstolz/Gruber and Rieder/Rastner (+ the Fischnallers & Emanuel Rieder and Andrea Voetter & Sandra Robatscher) among the Luge starters in Pyeongchang...so, I guess there won't be a (although well deserved) chance for the teenagers Nagler/Malleier...now we can only hope in a last-minute change of mind by the Luge Directors (meaning mainly Armin Zoeggeler, who has the last word on anything about the technical decisions in the Team)...

http://www.pyeongchang2018.coni.it/it/home/azzurri.html

 

Ugh, that'd be so sad and undeserved for Nagler/Malleier. A year ago, ok, but now? They deserve a place even if there's only two available (heck, even if there'd be one available I'd consider them).

 

I know they're not gonna choose Hofer instead of Robatscher, but it's what I would do personally :p 

Hofer is a good bet for the future and this experience would be very valuable, whereas Robatscher is someone you might bring if you're going to be fine with a 'certain' 10th-20th place without really hoping for more.

.

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/750-luge-at-the-winter-olympic-games-2018/page/4/#findComment-110690
Share on other sites

2 minutes ago, Andry84 said:

Nagler/Mallaier fying to South Korea, Oberstolz/Gruber will stay at home.

It's a great news for our team. Great choice, thanks Armin :d

 

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/750-luge-at-the-winter-olympic-games-2018/page/4/#findComment-111351
Share on other sites

18 minutes ago, Andry84 said:

Nagler/Mallaier fying to South Korea, Oberstolz/Gruber will stay at home.

I was browsing La Gazzetta and saw this, came to this thread to cheer for this decision :d  (although personally I'd prefer to see Oberstolz/Gruber than Rieder/Rastner, but as long as Nagler/Malleier are there, I'm happy)

.

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/750-luge-at-the-winter-olympic-games-2018/page/4/#findComment-111357
Share on other sites

and finally the unexpected happened...

our teenagers flying to Korea...

what can we say? at least we can say that Armin Zoeggeler is not afraid to take not so popular decisions, also as a technical director of our team...

but, to be honest, I don't like the fact that they left Oberstolz/Gruber out of the team from now on...considering their career, they deserved at least to end their season with the team...

Link to comment
https://totallympics.com/forums/topic/750-luge-at-the-winter-olympic-games-2018/page/4/#findComment-111374
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Latest Posts around Totallympics

    • Obviously impossible to know in advance but in 2022 all ten skaters Canada qualfiied skated individually, and 9/10 competed in a relay as well.
    • 4-3  over  at the break, Norway with hammer.
    • whatever you heard is just speculation. no one knows at the moment, probably even the orange himself.   and Iranian athletes failed to get visa so many times before. even female athletes. there is no pattern, it's just too random.    and yes Iran has a system of compulsory military service for men, and there is 50% chance for anybody to be randomly drafted by IRGC affiliated organizations. that's the case for Taremi and few others in the current team.  
    • Would you believe the NCAA Indoor season has already started?      
    • Some changes that I've noticed:   3x3 Basketball: With the expanded 12 team field, one extra team per gender qualifies through world rankings, one extra team qualifies through the universality driven tournament and there's now an Olympic Qualifier series to award the final quotas.   Beach Volleyball: Continental qualifiers have have priority over the World championship and World Rankings quotas and there's now Olympic Qualifier Series quotas.   Canoe Sprint: World ranking system now in place and will be used instead of awarding world championship quotas. Road Cycling: 2 nations ranking quotas per gender moved to universality.   Track Cycling: Sprint and Keirin ranking list is now combined and will award 14 quotas per gender. Previously it was 7+7. Team pursuit down to 8 quotas from 10. 2 of the quotas have been moved to madison (one additional team) and 6 to the omnium.   Fencing: Can get a Continental quota of you finished in the top 24 of the rankings. It was previously top 16.    Hockey: 2 pro league quotas replace two qualification tournament quotas.   Judo: 5 less universality places and 4 more Continental places. For men, there's two more spots for Asia, one less for Oceania and 1 more for the Americas. For the women, there's one more spot for Europe, one less for Oceania and two more for Asia.   Modern Pentathlon: Less quotas awarded through world rankings as a result of quota cuts.   Open Water Swimming: Introduction of world ranking qualifier.   Sailing: In general, seems to be more quotas awarded at the last chance regatta and less quotas at the World Championships   Shooting: One less quota handed out at each World Championship and the return on World Cup qualifiers.   Swimming: Olympic qualification and consideration times renamed to A and B standard. B standard is now 1% slower than the A standard compared to 0.5% in 2024. Stroke 50s have their own direct qualification events and have minimum time standards instead of A and B standards. Qualification times have been nuked again. B standard selection process has also changed.   Volleyball: New revised format. Continental championships first, then world championships followed by world rankings. In 2024, it was 3 qualification tournaments and then world rankings. Only 3 countries per gender will qualify by world rankings now compared to 5 in 2024
    • For Italy, the match against Japan and likely the final match against Estonia will be a safe/relegation game, but I'm think that whether the match against Estonia will be decisive on anything, if we have 0 points after 4 matches. We're currently the worst team here – we have 0 points and are taking significantly fewer shots than our opponents in each match. Japan and Estonia are looking better for now and unfortunately, without significant improvement play starting tomorrow, we'll likely be relegated to the fourth division. With the absence of Russia and Belarus, this will be a shame, even for the weaker 2006/2007 age generation. Especially, since we are playing this tournament at home. For anyone could have competed with a good shape, except perhaps Hungary, who are currently the best team in the tournament.
    • They shouldn't promise additional spots to countries that qualify 3 athletes in each distance, because then taking those spots away isn't fair. For example, in Italy, Previtali won the 500m QO for country but he would likely have to stay at home because the staff probably would have chosen Casinelli for the relay (Casinelli won't be competing individually at all). I don't know what the situation is in Canada with the fifth-place skater? Will this person only compete in the relay, or will he also be a reserve there? 
    • That's too bad. Athletes who finish in the top 32 (or 36 for the 1590m) should be the priority over the 5th athlete from a relay country.   So Croatia loses their 2nd women's quota, Hong Kong loses their only women's quota and Poland loses their 3rd women's quota.   This means that Great Britain, Slovakia and Ukraine should fill up the rest of the 1500m field since they are the highest placed reserves that doesn't require an additional quota.    
×
×
  • Create New...