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Most long-time biathlon fans would love to see Makarainen on the podium instead of Domracheva who's had her moment in the sun 4 years ago already.

Slovakian

I hope Wierer hangs on for a medal!

The BBC hype was downright crazy for Christie. You'd think they want to model her as the Winter Games version of Jessica Ennis.

[hide] Women's Tournament Knockout Round February 17th - February 22nd, 2018 Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Semifinals Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 19th 2018, h. 13:10 United States 2 Finland February 19th 2018, h. 21:10 Canada 5 Olympic Athletes from Russia [/hide]

The Evil Empire wins again - even with only three athletes performing. Weng and Oestberg are trying very hard who's the biggest Norwegian flop during these Games.

The 1994 slalom was the best. Tomba sitting in 1st place from 15th after the first run and everyone messing up until Stangassinger held on by 0,08 IIRC. That was pure drama. Ledecka was just 90 seconds of it

At least he was an alpine skier by trade! I believe only before the WWII we've had other event athletes who competed in the alpine skiing.

That is the biggest upset in the history of Olympic alpine skiing

Defending champ strikes back!

Rebensburg throws away the medal...

Goggia throws away the gold in classic Goggia-like fashion....

Brignone blows it on the bottom.... That was strange...

Did Gut look a *little* upset there?

She left some time on the clock though as she trailed Schnarf until the final turn.

Basically, the terrain caught her out as she was carrying too much speed.

Brignone could do well on this course.

Looks like the Super-G is ready to go. I'm slightly surprised Vonn picked #1 here. Guess she counts on the wind picking up for later numbers

Somehow that doesn't surprise me they screwed the Korean by such a small margin

[hide] Women's Tournament Knockout Round February 17th - February 22nd, 2018 Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Quarterfinals Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 17th 2018, h. 12:10 (16:40) Olympic Athletes from Russia 2 Switzerland February 17th 2018, h. 16:40 (12:10) Finland 2 Sweden [/hide]

Nobody bet on Rebensburg in Vancouver, now she underperforms as a major medal favorite. Skiing gods giveth, skiing gods taketh Shiffrin is a generational talent, I don't know how can you feel 'sad' about her performance? Rebensburg wasn't winning the gold with that 1st run anyway It's not Shiffrin's fault Lara Gut has stalled lately and Anna Veith doesn't have the same speed since her injuries. She truly stands heads & shoulders above her peers now. It's gonna be curious though to see what Petra Vlhova does in the slalom tomorrow. Maybe she'll make it competitive.

This was VERY expected. Moelgg has a history of crashing out under pressure, hell, I'm shocked she even finished the 2nd run! Back in 2009 World Champs she led the slalom after 1st run and then still had the lead on the final split... with 10 turns to go she straddled a gate and threw away a certain gold medal. I'm very surprised both Worley and Rebensburg had such a poor showing in the 1st run. Shiffrin will re-write the history books when it's all said and done. She will make Lindsey Vonn's World Cup numbers look second-best. She will probably slay the slalom tomorrow Mowinckel is having the season of her lifetime and gets her reward. The women's alpine skiing team has always struggled compared to the men and their last elite skier was probably Trine Bakke like 15 years ago. Now they have Nina Loseth and Mowinckel. I'm really happy Brignone got a medal. She's had some bad luck following her World Championships silver in 2011. I believe her mother finished 4th in the slalom at Lake Placid OG (just 0,03 behind Erika Hess). I was really cheering for a Brignone medal here

Britcher was my dark pick for bronze. What happened in the first run? She was way off the pace?

This just ain't gonna happen!

But the moguls aren't won on the jumps! They're won on the turns. Laffont gave away 1,2 pts to Dufour-Lapointe on the jumps but made it up on the turns. The difference between the two was the time (0.2 pts). Laffont had the most turns points in the final six and fourth-highest among all three rounds. Btw, Galysheva had the most air points due to her signature front flip. If the moguls would be won on the jumps, she'd be a runaway gold medallist (and we'd see more women doing the front flip in general).