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After missing out on a world title in the slopestyle by 0.25 points two years ago, McRibs is finally a world champion :D

Not in big air. By the time the FIS started hosting ski big air events at the world cup / world championship level we were past that point already. I’m referring to the 2014 Olympic women’s ski slopestyle final, where the bronze medalist (Kim Lamare) did a zero spin in the biggest jump, which was basically the size of a big air jump.

Very good ski big air competition from both the men and the women today. Women’s free skiing sure came a long way from the days where you could do a zero spin in the biggest jump and get a bronze.

Were any of the last four women’s all around controversial? Just seems like an... odd complaint.

Well she had already finished first in qualifying by the time you asked :P

Kelly Sildaru is also going through major life events that may complicate her career going forward :/

Very weird seeing this storied half-pipe host a world championships. Just like in the slopestyle this morning the soft snow caused some problems.

Pretty bad competition on the men’s side. They really needed a semi finals to narrow down the men’s field to 12 before the finals (allowing them to do three runs). Lots of athletes seemed to have problems with the snow conditions. Kleveland had a commanding performance, either of his runs would have won by a large margins. The women’s event started rough but it ultimately ended up being pretty okay. Anderson was oh so close to winning her first (and way overdue) world championship title until Sadowski-Synnott finally lived up to her potential on the very last run of the day. The course is pretty good, minus the snow being too soft. It feels like an X Games course from a couple years ago, so from back when all the jumps were just standard kickers. Hopefully the men’s ski slopestyle contest (which is mercifully a three run contest) will show us the true potential of this course.

In what universe is Kleveland winning a fluke? He was one of the favorites. He also really loves this specific hill and frankly he seemed like the only athlete on the men’s side who was comfortable with the snow conditions today.

I’m guessing that, assuming you are correct, this will rank extremely high on your list of best moments as a fan of Brazilian nordic skiing :D

Very cool seeing the slopestyle world championship on the exact same hill that hosts the X Games.

60% of the score is the quality of the turns, 20% speed and 20% the jumps. Some of the elite athletes on the men's side can actually do harder jumps than what you see in competition, but they are restricted in what they can do by the rules (i.e. they cannot do any double flips). That and since jumps are only worth 20% of the score people tend to be a little conservative. The middle section is really where competitions are won or lost.

FIS is preparing a mixed team dual moguls format. It's been held at some pre-season International events in the Southern hemisphere and it looks like the aim is to have it in the 2026 Olympics.

Not sure why they wouldn’t let vaccinated fans attend. I know that Japan is stubbornly not starting the vaccine rollout, but surely a lot of people who would have wanted to travel to Tokyo will have been fully vaccinated by July. As long as they stay masked up the risk of transmission is extremely low.

“Freestyle Skiing” is really three different disciplines that are kept under the same umbrella purely for political and logistics reason. Same as snowboarding, really.

So Canada is going to miss out on a likely gold medal because of a BS doping case that didn’t go anywhere? Very cool.

The one run format continues to be a joke.

Ask me what I think of Bob Menendez or David Ige :P

lol @ the idea that Cuomo has a snowball's chance in hell of ever becoming president at this point. Less of an internal war thing and more that I have a dislike for his mixture of incompetence and corruption. I don't follow NY politics super closely (since I live in Texas) but even all the way down here the latest stories have been hard to miss.

Andrew Cuomo should resign or be removed from office, and I say that as someone who is a fairly partisan Democrat.

https://twitter.com/ShannonMM9/status/1364642291051159553 The IOC has selected Brisbane, Australia as it's preferred bidder for 2032. In other news sure looks like Surfing is in the Summer Olympics long term.

Where was this Greek team all tournament?

I really wish they had forced South Africa to make a decision before this tournament:

Amazing how has qualified all four Olympics in their existence, given how small of a country it is. That in and of itself is a huge achievement.

Lets be honest, this sort of drama is what we all live for here.