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  1. NearPup
    Ya, I felt the same thing. I am guessing broadcasting is a big challenge due to COVID. As mentioned earlier in the thread Tokyo had big problems too, and I don't remember any of that being an issue in Rio or Pyeongchang.
  2. NearPup
    I really lived the Beijing track at the test event, too. It’s a shame it won’t be a regular on the world cup circuit due to it’s location.
  3. NearPup
    My main complain is actually OBS. They had some really odd camera angles in moguls, luge and cross country and some notable TV graphic mistakes all over the place.
  4. NearPup
    Dukurs has some of the worst luck I’ve ever seen an Olympian have tbh. Prime example of why you can’t judge an athlete’s resume based primarily on the Olympics.
  5. NearPup
    The side view is rarely ever shows at the world cup. A lot of venues don’t seem to have the camera set up for it. At the Olympics they’ve had that view available since at least 2006 IIRC, and they always love to use it (because it looks spectacular), though usually they use it a lot less.
  6. NearPup
    Unrelated: I hate, *hate* the side view OBS kept insisting on showing. It’s basically impossible to see wtf is going on when they show that view.
  7. NearPup
    I'd say on paper had the second best team (after ) so their win isn't that surprising, I'm mostly just surprised that got this close (that last leg by Sighel was incredible). Really happy for Fan Kexin and Ren Ziwei in particular, and of course it's nice that Wu Dajing will get (at least) one gold medal from his home games.
  8. NearPup
    I bet wishes there was a women's team event right about now xD Anyway, congrats, nice to see Slovenia finally get a ski jumping gold.
  9. NearPup
    Ya, Blondin at her best isn't a medal threat at the 3000m. This really felt like a training run.
  10. NearPup
    Does it show I haven't slept in about 26 hours? xD
  11. NearPup
    I really hope Kingsbury isn’t haunted by losing gold because he decided to play it too safe. This is basically exactly how he lost to Horishima in the last pre-Olympic world cup. Edit: fixed an unfortunate auto-correct.
  12. NearPup
    The boy from Budapest, John-Henry Krueger, finally has a medal for his homeland :D (I’m actually pretty happy Hungary won a medal in this event)
  13. NearPup
    Unfortunately the penalty against Canada is both correct and super blatant. This is salvaged from being an unmitigated disaster because Weidemann got her expected bronze medal and the mixed doubles team didn’t implode. Kingsbury losing gold because of a strategy error is going to haunt me for years.
  14. NearPup
    Yup. No controversy here.
  15. NearPup
    Well f***.
  16. NearPup
    I feel like there should be a penalty there.
  17. NearPup
    Ya, I don't get why people think this is a scandal. ...esp because got DQed for similar reason in the women's 3000m finals back in 2018 :P
  18. NearPup
    60%, not 40. They do grade on a curve when it comes to how aggressive you are - the turn judges want to see aggressive and clean turns, not just clean turns. The old Jean-Luc Brassard ski the slowest time of the finals and win gold strategy doesn't work anymore.
  19. NearPup
    I get the impression he went one notch too conservative. It sure seems like Olympics moguls judges love to punish the favourites if they don't push the envelope, and Kingsbury basically did the same kind of run he did in the last world cup before the Olympics (where he finished second, too).
  20. NearPup
    Technically didn't get advanced, they finished top two in their heat :P
  21. NearPup
    I don't think there's anything wrong with the penalties against and tbh.
  22. NearPup
    in the finals because (and ) got penalized. will contest the medals in the very first mixed short track relay.
  23. NearPup
    Lets calm down a bit, Wallberg has a grand total of zero world cup wins, he has a long ways to go :P That being said, in moguls it's pretty common for an Olympic gold to be the start of a quad of dominance rather than the culmination of such.
  24. NearPup
    I had and go 1-2 in some order in this mixed relay. This is wild.
  25. NearPup
    Actually if we're going to talk about the judging, my question is how the heck did Ikuma Horishima finish third?
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