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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.

3 minuty temu, Nate River napisał:

Is this the best Olympic alpine skiing race in history in terms of drama?

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

2 minuty temu, dcro napisał:

 

Maybe, but probably not bigger than Francisco Fernandez Ochoa.

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

6 godzin temu, OlympicsFan napisał:

Happy for the vampire and the italian girl, very sad about Shiffrin winning a medal. Hirscher on the men's side and Shiffrin on the women's side, very boring, but not their fault.

The two best athletes of the season not winning a medal is very sad, but they have only themselves to blame. I almost had the feeling as if Rebensburg didn't know that this was the olympics, she had absolutely no aggression. I hoped that Hrovat would win a medal, but she isn't ready for now. Bassino also seems to be stuck, not much of a progression recently.

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.

10 godzin temu, heywoodu napisał:

Mölgg, who expected that! 

 

 

That is heartbreaking  

 

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!

5 godzin temu, Nate River napisał:

Because she didn’t want a medal, she wanted gold. I think it’s better to go for it and lose than it is to play it safe and lose.

2 godziny temu, Pavlo napisał:

you see, the answer from above (from Canadian) shows us the difference between our mentality and mentality of true winners in some way. I thought a bit "safely" as you, his answer has shown me sth...i think we`re wrong...

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).

1 minutę temu, Gianlu33 napisał:

Cesana track is closed since years, we haven't a track in Italy

Yeah, I thought so. I've heard it like 5-6 years ago but our TV experts claim that Italians still train at both Cortina/Cesena. I mean Cortina was still natural or more like concrete? I can't believe it's still out there?

I mean I've heard the Pragelato ski jumping hill complex is also done?

1 minutę temu, OlympicsFan napisał:

Tactical loss from Loch to shut up the people who want to eliminate luge from the olympics?

For me this sport, as well as bob and skeleton and probably ski jumping/nordic combined should still be eliminated, way too expensive.

Luge/Bobsleigh is by far most expensive. I mean they hardly use those ex-Olympic venues. Is the Cesena track even operational these days?

I've read that some people push for the natural luge tracks to be introduced to the Olympics but that would mean kicking out bobsleigh. So I don't see that happening.

7 minut temu, dcro napisał:

 

It is. Duncan Kennedy came closest, crashed in Lillehammer after being in medal position. Now his protege brought the redemption.

Among those who were ranked, Tony Benshoof finished 4th in Torino 2006 and Wendell Suckow 5th in Lillehammer 1994.

4 minuty temu, OlympicsFan napisał:

Agree, but what is the bigger surprise among the following two?

1) Loch losing gold

2) Neither Fourcade nor Boe winning a medal

Loch losing gold, still. It's not like he was nowhere after three runs. We've seen favorites' meltdown in biathlon before. Luge is like the most predictable winter sports event these days.

1 minutę temu, OlympicsFan napisał:

Loch choked, the german who designed this course will probably be getting a lot of hate now ...

This is sport, what would you consider a bigger surprise, Loch losing gold or Peiffer winning gold?

Loch losing gold is a much bigger surprise. Luge is more predictable than biathlon.