Luge at the Winter Olympic Games 2018

[Monzanator 4,525]

1 minutę temu, OlympicsFan napisał:

Loch choked, the german who designed this course will probably be getting a lot of hate now ...

This is sport, what would you consider a bigger surprise, Loch losing gold or Peiffer winning gold?

 

Loch losing gold is a much bigger surprise. Luge is more predictable than biathlon.

[OlympicsFan 859]

Loch already has 3 olympics golds + will probably win another one here, so it is good that someone else got the chance to win a gold medal. We also have to keep in mind that it was completely his own fault, which makes it impossible to be angry about this result even from a german perspective.

[OlympicsFan 859]

vor 3 Minuten schrieb Monzanator:

 

Loch losing gold is a much bigger surprise. Luge is more predictable than biathlon.

Agree, but what is the bigger surprise among the following two?

1) Loch losing gold

2) Neither Fourcade nor Boe winning a medal

[dcro 10,210]

I still can't believe this.

 

If Gleirscher had been 0.02 slower in Lillehammer WC then he wouldn't have even got selected for the Austrian team!

Edited February 11, 2018 by dcro

[ChandlerMne 1,041]

I was certain that Loch will win 3rd gold in a row but after i saw that he had 11th time after 1st checkpoint i knew that something will go wrong. Major upset,he had big advantage over Mazdzer. Pitty.

[vinipereira 3,247]

Is this the first medal for a non-european (Mazdzer) in this event (Men's singles) at the Olympics?

[Gianlu33 4,606]

1 minute ago, OlympicsFan said:

Agree, but what is the bigger surprise among the following two?

1) Loch losing gold

2) Neither Fourcade nor Boe winning a medal

Loch for sure... 

[Gianlu33 4,606]

1 minute ago, vinipereira said:

Is this the first medal for a non-european (Mazdzer) in this event (Men's singles) at the Olympics?

Yes, frist medal ever

[heywoodu 15,174]

4 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Loch losing gold is a much bigger surprise. Luge is more predictable than biathlon.

Although this season Loch has been doing exactly this time and time again. But yeah, didn't expect him to throw that away. 

Edited February 11, 2018 by heywoodu

[OlympicsFan 859]

vor 10 Minuten schrieb Gigs:

YEEEEEEEEEEES

I guess I should stop to complain about overachieving Germans now 

Yes, we should complain about overachieving austrians by now. Who would have thought that austria would have a gold by now with men's downhill being cancelled?