heywoodu 13,504 Posted January 8, 2018 #31 Share Posted January 8, 2018 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 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,172 Posted January 8, 2018 #32 Share Posted January 8, 2018 (edited) Yeah, Italy can't enter 3 women even if they wanted to. Qualified only two spots. Edited January 8, 2018 by dcro #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,504 Posted January 8, 2018 #33 Share Posted January 8, 2018 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 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,536 Posted January 9, 2018 #34 Share Posted January 9, 2018 (edited) 21 hours ago, heywoodu said: I'd still select Hofer over Robatscher 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 January 9, 2018 by phelps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,504 Posted January 9, 2018 #35 Share Posted January 9, 2018 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 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. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andry84 70 Posted January 13, 2018 #36 Share Posted January 13, 2018 Nagler/Mallaier fying to South Korea, Oberstolz/Gruber will stay at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianlu33 3,546 Posted January 13, 2018 #37 Share Posted January 13, 2018 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,504 Posted January 13, 2018 #38 Share Posted January 13, 2018 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 (although personally I'd prefer to see Oberstolz/Gruber than Rieder/Rastner, but as long as Nagler/Malleier are there, I'm happy) If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,536 Posted January 13, 2018 #39 Share Posted January 13, 2018 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 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon 1,676 Posted January 15, 2018 #40 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Great Britain will take up the quota in men's luge. Official announcement Thursday uk12points 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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