Monzanator

1 minute ago, OlympicsFan said:

LOL ... Slovenia might have the biggest fluke performance in the history of sport. Even Steven Bradbury sweeping the gold medals at the 2002 Olympics would have been a smaller fluke. I would bet that they won’t win more than 1 medal at the Olympics in Ski jumping/cross-country.

Nope. Nobody beats Rok Benkovic as the biggest Slovenian fluke in WCh history

comes from 5th to steal bronze

and break away... Nepryaeva is toast.

Parmakoski down...

Very early reports that KV Lie has a broken tibia & fibula. Potential knee injury as well.

Schneeberger suffered a broken leg which you could see during live broadcast already.

14 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Hopefully it will change. Looking at the examples you gave (never heard of most of them) it seems quite rare to be trash in one and very good in the other.

Pace & Lindh are DH World Champions after all. They never had a World Cup podium in Super G but had multiple in DH. Lindh from Alaska of all places was always in Picabo Street's shadow but she won Olympic silver in 1992 and two medals at WCh including gold in 1997 when Street was out with injury. She retired prematurely due to a back injury after that season aged 28.

Nick Fellows was already there to provide ES commentary:

Kate Pace won at the infamous Morioka 1993 WCh. Those people who complain about Lake Louise being a boring course need to check back how the Morioka course looked like

Schneeberger with another heavy crash and this also looks bad.

10 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

I really wonder how Weidle can be so great in downhill while being that bad in super G. Is it normal for athletes to be that good in one discipline, while being extremely weak in the other?

Of course, several skiers have done much better in Downhill than Super G over the years. Siebenhofer and B.Johnson from the current ones, Merighetti, Rolland & Kamer from the recently retired and off the top of my head the likes of Kate Pace and Hilary Lindh dating back to the 90s.

Nasty crash for KV Lie. This looks bad.

Gut's Super G winning streak is over. Brignone of all people decided to become relevant again

@Olympian1010 I'm pretty sure USA wants to stay out of East Africa forever after the epic Somalia 1993 disaster Not to mention the civil war in Somalia is still going on some 28 years after the failed UN raid

Doesn't like the entire cross country team consist of two Italian-born siblings?

Btw, Baiba Bendika will start in the 10km race? No publicity stunt for FIS points only?

The logo clearly says it's Rogla

@hckošice

5 minutes ago, Agger said:

 

I know that you're obsessed with Biden and I guess we'll be looking forward to you looking for every single reason to call him senile or corrupt, but forgetting a mask doesn't make you senile. You could see plenty of people, young and old, forgetting. In Denmark the director general of the Danish Health Authority was photographed in a train without a mask because he had forgotten to put it on again after drinking some water. Is he senile at an age of 55?

 

Forget it. Biden occupies the most powerful political position in the world and he looks like a guy who'd have trouble ordering a pizza on the phone. After four years or constant Trump blasting the Democrats can't possibly expect to get a free pass on Biden's age and his ramblings that show how old he really looks.

It's different when you could hide him behind Obama's youthness, as the President the focus is on him and him alone. No more excuses (unless Kamala Harris or his wife will have to bail him out of PR trouble time and time again ).

5 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

Completely random result. Another fluke medal for Slovenia. After this season the 3 medals should have gone to Norway, Poland and Germany. After the trainings I thought that Norway might even sweep this  ...

Surprising to see that Norway hasn’t won a medal at the last FIVE individual competitions at worlds (since 2015).

Everything evens out. The fluke gold medals Norway won with Rune Velta or Lars Bystoel at the Olympics shouldn't be forgotten. I mean Velta never won a single World Cup event and Bystoel only one

1 minute ago, OlympicsFan said:

Maybe you should talk to a therapist ... ?

Why? Poland has more gold medals than Germany. That's the perfect therapy

Just now, OlympicsFan said:

Nope. Zyla is an even bigger fluke world champion than Kubacki. 

Obviously not. Everyone had wind in the back in the second round today.

Nobody takes Zyla seriously because of his Abbott & Costello antics off the hill but he just delivered a perfect kick in the teeth right there

4 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Geiger with a gold medal jump here

Not quite. Zyla takes gold!

Poland beats Germany... in Germany

3 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

What a random result after the first round ...

Would be funny if Slovenia would fluke another medal, somehow I hope that Zyla will win gold. Has he ever won anything individually?

Whatever happens here, it's nothing compared to the Seefeld shitshow two years ago

Wind died for the last four and all of them outside Top 10. Another gold for Norway looks unlikely. Sadreev 30th.

Sadreev 99.5 meters. Yeah, gate will come down pretty soon.

Svenja Wuerth down in 17th. I was a little off. She's doing worse than early Goessner in biathlon considering the zero competition level and the fact Geraghty-Moats actually gained 13 places in the cross country.

Marte Lund fell from 2nd! Finally some drama   Still gets third.

Worst & least competitive event of the Championships is done and dusted.

The lowest of all low-hanging fruits. Tara Geraghty-Moats is a World Cup overall winner after ONE frickin' race

I see she completely blew the ski jumping here though? 18th? The biggest chance for gold medal looks toast.

How low will Svenja Wuerth tumble? I'd say she finishes 14th

6 hours ago, hckošice said:

Tired but not physically. Petra is physically perfectly prepared for this season,

 

I think it's mainly about the head.

 

I personally don't believe that anyone (especially from a "major sport" country) can even imagine the pressure she is facing.

 

That pressure is unbearable for one person. Today, being clearly THE sporting figure of the whole country is a double-edged sword, Slovakia has no one else in sports today (yeah there Sagan, but the guy and his mind is a chapter alone),

 

the whole country is turning its eyes to Petra. sport fans of the whole country follow basically almost every her step. The fact that she managed to basically push out even our hockey primadonnas to the second and third pages of our sports magazines is already an impressive success and achievement of enormous proportions in itself. Her popularity in Slovakia start to border with madness.

 

And she has to face it all alone by herself.

Unlike the Swiss team (and basically all other not only powerhouses teams), where there are a like million of competitors in rhe team, a million members of the service team, a million coaches for each discipline separately and full of skiers - friends - with whom Lara can talk and relieve whenever she wants ! Petra is completely alone, she only has her mini team led by a maniac like Magoni, but without a real person whom she can speak about normal things (thats why she has at least her brother in the team being as the last person with her at the starts) in addition, this mini team has to share on daily basis also works that Lara probably doesn't even know exists, equip accommodation, equip tests, solve skis, solve trainings, solve a travel plan, etc ...

 

and then go, finish 9th in a freaking world cup downhill you race for the first time on that slope in your life and still suddenly everyone will write it was bad, you lost and bla bla bla

 

I know what you're talking about, It's the same when Justyna Kowalczyk battled the Norwegian power house in cross-country skiing. Norway had a special lab bus worth 5 million Euro with gazillion skis, waxes & engineers while Kowalczyk only had coach Veretelny and two Estonian waxmen who covered both classic & freestyle skis. And she didn't have a private jet like Vlhova does now She had a Mercedes minivan to travel around Europe.