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Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games


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No medal for Dukurs :(

 

Hope Latvia gets at least a bronze in Bobsleigh; if not this will be their 2nd Olympic Games (Winter and Summer) without medals,

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Out of all these sports, Iran sport channel picked up Skeleton for live coverage today morning :d I wonder how many people woke up 5 am to watch Skeleton ! maybe zero :p (can't count myself, I was watching Alpine)

 

Korea winning the gold here makes me think if Skeleton is easy to learn and improve ?! Korea probably was nobody in this sport 10 years ago. I'm sure they invested money in all winter sports , not just this one.

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...on the bright side, Martins Dukurs didn't get denied by the home favorite and Thomas Dukurs didn't finish forth for a third time in a row. So yay for Latvia?

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Just now, MHSN said:

Out of all these sports, Iran sport channel picked up Skeleton for live coverage today morning :d I wonder how many people woke up 5 am to watch Skeleton ! maybe zero :p (can't count myself, I was watching Alpine)

 

Korea winning the gold here makes me think if Skeleton is easy to learn and improve ?! Korea probably was nobody in this sport 10 years ago. I'm sure they invested money in all winter sports , not just this one.

 

Koreans had around million runs on this track, and they have custom designed sleds just for this track. Enough said.

 

Kim gets 6th place in his first championships, right...

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1 minute ago, MHSN said:

Out of all these sports, Iran sport channel picked up Skeleton for live coverage today morning :d I wonder how many people woke up 5 am to watch Skeleton ! maybe zero :p (can't count myself, I was watching Alpine)

 

Korea winning the gold here makes me think if Skeleton is easy to learn and improve ?! Korea probably was nobody in this sport 10 years ago. I'm sure they invested money in all winter sports , not just this one.

It's probably the easiest one to learn of the three sliding sports. Though, honestly, Yun has quite the talent for it. He would have won on a neutral track given his form.

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6 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Koreans had around million runs on this track, and they have custom designed sleds just for this track. Enough said.

 

Kim gets 6th place in his first championships, right...

It's not only because they're playing home , other wise they would have at least a top 5 finish in luge , they won't do also something special in Bobsleigh , p.s having this enormous margin on gold medal can't be from playing home only , so it's fair enough to give them credit here 

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