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3 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

yes obviously the mini-team of 1 skier is cheating but the good americans never cheat 

 

yeah, we can say the same about Shiffrin´s face when she lost it is pretty known that they don´t like each other.

and btw where did you heard she was accusing anyone, she only said the 2nd run was in fact harder and wasn´t really favorable for her - not a single accusation, such things said every skier at least once, I hope we agree on this ? + she called Mikaela as a real inspiration and a true champion. but also their rivalry is the biggest obstacle of real friendship (btw the same words used Shiffrin a week ago) so I don´t see any bitter loser character here

 

it was Magoni who was directly accusing Mike Day, he is a very successful and experienced coach so I think he knows what he say. And it was mainly a counter attack after the accusations of spying that was actually never confirmed...

 

 

As I said I don´t think anything serious really happened, this is just the medias they inflate a bubble and produce an artificial war

 

 

Shiffrin hardly ever celebrates tbh. Her gold medal at Vail WC was like the most non-celebration I ever saw.

You're obviously biased so for you Team Vlhova is the good guys and Team Shiffrin is evil personified.

Vlhova is #2 so if anyone plays the mind games it's her camp. You always attack the leader not the other way around. Guess after two wins in a row her camp thinks she's ready to be crowned the real leader of the pack. I predict a failure in that effort Flachau is Shiffrin's worst slalom course on tour, even Hansdotter beat her there before when she could never beat her anywhere else

5 minutes ago, RobtheAggie said:

Eckhoff is in amazing form.  It is amazing how well she is shooting this year.  Dunklee and Egan were in the top 30.

Egan was 9/9 and threw away a Top 20 with her last missed shot

4 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

because ?

The look on her face during Shiffrin's wins said a lot already and now she wins two SL in a row and starts running her mouth? Really? The idea that a gate pattern helps the coach's athlete is just a huge fraud.

Guess every slalom that Vlhova doesn't win from now on will be blamed on the guy who set the pattern?

Total bullshit. I see Vlhova's camp tries to play some mind games. Watch out if she wants to play the villain card! Strikes me as a very bitter loser now.

1 hour ago, dcro said:

Today I learned that in Russia it is considered rude to smile at strangers.

 

No wonder their athletes always appear to be dead serious...

I read the same about Japan and that was many years ago.

Tiril Eckhoff destroyed the field once again. She was 15 secs faster than Denise Herrmann on skiing time alone.

Kamila Zuk has firmly established herself as the number one. She finished 15 secs. ahead of Monika Hojnisz despite one penalty loop. She had 5th fastest skiing time only behind Ekchoff, Herrmann, Olsbu & Oeberg.

I thought Hanna Sola's PB was better than 30th before today but she sure pulled the upset result of the day.

Does anyone speak Turkish here? I have a question for a native speaker

13 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

First off, POC and Women do have a major disadvantage, and the Oscars are once again clear recognition of that. 
 

Second, I think Buttigieg is someone who will stick around after this primary. He’ll be back.

Oscars are a mess, nobody wants to host them again? There's just so much hypocrisy one can cover with jokes and even these comedians know it. It used to be a prime hosting gig, now nobody wants to touch it from a mile away.

Ricky Gervais roasted these schmucks at Golden Globes and I loved it. Finally someone who had the nerve to stick it to them. I bet he won't be invited for another hosting job again

Things change fast. Julian Castro stole the show during the Obama convention as the "future Obama" and he's a dead duck right now. Buttigieg will be a similar flame out before he turns 45yo IMO.

7 hours ago, Agger said:

 

It is withough doubt questionable how much difference the debate wille make (Buttigieg gained about 1,6 points nationally after the october debate - haven't seen numbers on the november and december debates).

And yes, California is earlier and will actually mean something this year, but it's still pretty much all focus Iowa for almost all candidates (and pundits). 

I could absolutely see a big focus on California after Iowa (and maybe NH), but right now, not so much!

These entire primary debates take waaaay too long tbh. And there's little substance to them since the media focus on why there are no candidates of color or why women are supposedly at disadvantage. Not to mention the in-house fighting is useless when the enemy is sitting in the WH. This is just a gigantic waste of time. Unless you're a registered voter, most people actually make a decision right at the end of the campaign. There's a lot more emotion attached to these votes, nobody has time to analyze months of rallies or debates. Btw, Buttigieg would have a bigger chance if he run for Indiana governor first but WH is waaay above his league IMO. He kinda shot his load running for WH so early.

2 hours ago, rybak said:

Also world number 1 in doubles  Robert Farah also is suspended by doping 

This is a major upset! Guess one of the best storylines in tennis in the last few years will crash & burn now

59 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

Vlovha won And now is only at 80 points from Shiffrin in the slalom world cup, it's almost impossible... But why not? 

Zagreb & Flachau are like the two flattest slaloms on tour. I don't see Vlhova winning the globe esp. with that one DNF she has.

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

Clearly, as everything, we see this very, very differently.

Your generation supports break dance as Olympic sport. We couldn't view the world anymore different indeed

6 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I think that Artistic Gymnastics has gotten better now...

 

I wouldn’t say that actually. It’s all about the choreography and timing. There were multiple routines over the last few days that I truly enjoyed. I think women’s skating is boring because it’s almost like people want them to be the opposite of physical. They want slow and graceful, and that just ruins skating.

 

It’s hard to judge art though, and that’s where I’m conflicted about artistic sports. On the one hand, I love comparing performances. On the other hand, I hate judging art, because art is subjective to the eyes of the person it’s created, and it can be perceived differently by every single person watching. 

Power gymnastics has killed all the elegance & finesse in gymnastics, now it's like robots performing drills for the highest score. Base value or whatever that's called determines who wins each event barring a major error but Maroney still won a medal despite landing on her ass. That should be impossible.

As for figure skating there is the artistic impression value that prevents this sport going all power skating like in gymnastics. They got rid of the compulsory figures which used to be more important than actual skating programmes. They allowed vocals in background music and hell, it's no longer all classic violin & piano music anymore either. Figure skating has evolved a lot over the past 30 years but grace & elegance don't ruin this sport at all. All of these skaters have background training in gymnastics & ballet in first place.

There's nothing artistic in artistic gymnastics anymore but it's still there in figure skating. After all it's mostly about dance and dance is an art. Gymnastics is only a bunch of moves during a routine that has nothing artistic about it, even the floor exercises are boring as hell these days.

47 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

This is true for the Women I find. There’s too much drama. It pushes negative stereotypes. We have almost no black skaters expect for a few notable exceptions. Plus, the most famous events in the sport are judging/out of competition controversies. 
 

I find men’s skating and pairs skating enjoyable. I can barely watch Ice Dancing, and women’s figure skating is everything I hate about modern society, so...

 

I also say this as someone who loves artistic sports. I do believe there’s a place for them on the program. The problem with figure skating is the method of judgment sucks in multiple ways. We saw a girl with multiple falls win a bronze medal today, that’s inexcusable in my book.

McKayla Maroney won an Olympic silver landing flat on her ass on 50% of her vaults Haven't seen any sport determined more by bad judgement than gymnastics. Figure skating is for insiders, others simply look for cool outfits and music. Not to mention the sport is notoriously boring in first place.

8 minutes ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

Serpentine system is fine.  Just dont rank the host as number 1.  Rank them where they should be ranked.     Rugby sevens uses serpentine system. But the host is ranked at its correct place

Rugby is even more shallow when it comes to teams than volleyball. And the host team will always get a bonus in the Olympic tournament. Japan's women team is actually quite good, obviously the men's team is much worse but FIVB wants to pamper the hosts and this is the way going forward. Poland and Italy will be in Japan's men group together with Canada, Venezuela & Iran if the serpentine holds up. USA, Brazil, Russia, France, Argentina & Tunisia will be in the other group.

3 minutes ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

Such an fivb only bs.   Who seeds the home team first in a 12 team field?? Especially in the mens tournament where Japan never got to anything special.   Does someone remember If same bs happened in London 2012?

London OG was the first time FIVB used the serpentine system. Back then two highest men seeds (Brazil, Russia) were in the same group with #3 (Italy) & #4 (Poland) were in the GBR group. Same in the women's (USA, Brazil together while Japan & Italy in the GBR group). The last non-serpentine global volleyball tournaments were the 2010 World Championships (both men & women).

Classic seeding BS case, everyone wants to be in the host Japan's group. It will look even more ridiculous in the men's tournament.

The biggest problem is indeed with Super G replacing Downhill. Moroever the rise of the so-called "technical" speed events compared to boring old school speed races.

The all-arounders are effectively gone BUT more & more tech speciallists do the Super-G which further ehnaces their chances in AC. Bringing back the old school DH is the only reasonable solution I can think of to limit the tech skiers advantage.

8 minutes ago, rybak said:

His.

 

I hope that maybe in next 10 or 15 years we will back to this level which thanks January was very exciting month for us, not only thanks to ski jumping...

Yeah, obviously his.

I'm sorry but I don't trust things will get better in 10 years. Coaching is broken in Poland and our run of success started with Wenta who spend years in Germany and brought all his coaching prowess from outside of our woeful system.

In 5-10 years time our run of success in ski jumping will end too and we'll drop to Finland levels IMO. Stoch and Zyla are over 30yo already and late bloomer Kubacki is 29. We're gonna field a grandpa team in 2026 WOG? Like really? This thing will collapse after Beijing 2022. No way Zyla and Stoch will be in the 2026 team at age 39.

25 minutes ago, rybak said:

Well, no surprise at all that we lost this match, as we can barely beat such teams like UAE and Kosovo these days... 

 

Against  we will lost minimum -15. Time to throw out those morons from national federation which totally wasted our "golden time" in this sport and didn't make an system to train a youth players.

Yeah, Bogdan Wenta lost his mind over these morons long time ago but even he called it quits and entered politics instead. Let's face it, we're back to being irrelevant in men's handball.

Btw, it's been confirmed Manfred Moelgg suffered a torn ACL. Given his age this could be game over for him.

Poland blows 5 match points, Turkey needs only one! Meryem Boz had 38 pts or something. Totally overshadowed Smarzek-Godek in crucial moments.

Safe to say I have more faith in my handball picks than water polo