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Skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games


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1 hour ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

Damn! i didnt even know israel competes in skeleton, where would they even train?? it's not like there is a track anywhere around.....

I mean almost all of Israel's winter athletes come from either the US or Ukraine, so...

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13 minutes ago, Nate River said:

I mean almost all of Israel's winter athletes come from either the US or Ukraine, so...

 

What is not surprising considering that Israel is not a winter nation... It's the same for almost all exotic nations.

 

Very similar to Ireland, whose home born athletes were a minority in 2014 and will be again in 2018. However, I don't see them getting bashed for this reasons...

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#banbestmen

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9 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

What is not surprising considering that Israel is not a winter nation... It's the same for almost all exotic nations.

 

Very similar to Ireland, whose home born athletes were a minority in 2014 and will be again in 2018. However, I don't see them getting bashed for this reasons...

I don't mean to bash either, it's not like Ireland and Israel make buy athletes, they just have very permissive citizenship laws. I have no issues with their citizens living abroad taking advantage of that.

 

It's just that when you see a winter athlete from Israel (or Ireland) and you wonder how they practice X sport in Israel / Ireland, the obvious answer is "they don't".

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:CAN Olympic team

  • Kevin Boyer
  • Dave Greszczyszyn
  • Barrett Martineau
  • Jane Channel
  • Mirela Rahneva
  • Elisabeth Vathje

The whole team is made up of Olympic rookies, even 38 year old Greszczyszyn (who narrowly missed out on Sochi).

 

The best part of this team? Hearing commentators have to pronounce Greszczyszyn.

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4 hours ago, Nate River said:

:CAN Olympic team

  • Kevin Boyer
  • Dave Greszczyszyn
  • Barrett Martineau
  • Jane Channel
  • Mirela Rahneva
  • Elisabeth Vathje

The whole team is made up of Olympic rookies, even 38 year old Greszczyszyn (who narrowly missed out on Sochi).

 

The best part of this team? Hearing commentators have to pronounce Greszczyszyn.

Too bad IBSF won't be allowed to use their usual YouTube live streams, since Martin Haven never has any troubles with that name :p (which he basically simply says in two syllables)

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В 25.01.2018 в 06:18, Nate River сказал:

:CAN Olympic team

  • Kevin Boyer
  • Dave Greszczyszyn
  • Barrett Martineau
  • Jane Channel
  • Mirela Rahneva
  • Elisabeth Vathje

The whole team is made up of Olympic rookies, even 38 year old Greszczyszyn (who narrowly missed out on Sochi).

 

The best part of this team? Hearing commentators have to pronounce Greszczyszyn.

 

In Russian it's a very simple surname. Personally I still can't imagine how to pronounce Vathje

Bring back the 1991 borders

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