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Germany probably missing the "medals in 10 different sports" record by one sport. A medal in alpine skiing, cross-country, freestlyle skiing or speed skating would have helped ... Surprisingly two of the top 3 in medal table didnt win a single medal in alpine skiing or cross-country. If Norway doesnt win gold in speed skating today, it will come down to one event on the last day whether Norway will win the medal table or not. They would need to win gold in cross-country tomorrow.

I also didnt expect a medal in mens slalom for Switzerland (of course the "absence" of Hirscher, Kristoffersen and Neureuther helped), but its not that surprising in the other events. Gut and Feuz in the downhill could have done better. I expected Shiffrin to win gold in the combined, but after seeing the so-called slalom, i wasnt surprised to see Gisin winning it. Medals in freestlye skiing were pretty surprising for Switzerland though ...

What would be the alternative concerning alternates? Lets say one country uses both alternates and the other country uses no alternate, then one country would get 6 medals and the other would get 4, would be a bit inconsistent for me. This leaves only one option left, handing out medals to everyone. In my opinion the rule should be that you can only use alternates if someone gets injured.

Overall very disappointing results in alpine skiing, of course the absence of Luitz and Neureuther didnt help. On the mens side i am quite optimistic. Dreßen, Schmid, Luitz and Strasser should form a good team in 4 years, but on the womens side ... it looks really bad.

Congrats, another sensational day for Switzerland. Switzerland doing much better than expected here, especially in alpine skiing?

So why dont you answer to what i wrote about Serwa, ice dancing or Bloemen? I dont think that the top two favorites in big air were canadian. Before the start of the final? Yes. Before the start of the games? No, not to me, my favorite was Kleveland. Kripps won the 2-man world cup, wouldnt say he was the best pilot just because of that. In my personal opinion he wasnt the best pilot, i always thought that Friedrich would (easily) win gold here, which would have been the case, if he wouldnt have messed up the first 2 heats. Kripps won the world cup, so objectively he was probably the favorite, thats true.

Kosir is in the back? If yes, very hard to explain. I know what most people will think, but i dont think that the korean hosts could just manipulate official timing.

1) Do canadians really care about womens ice hockey or is it more like in Germany with womens football? Millions watch it, because its football after all, but noone really cares about the results in the end? 2) Did canadians really care about the results of mens ice hockey here? I always wondered: Does an average canadian even know those players who played here or are those guys completely unknow in Canada? 3) Not surprised about the canadian enthusiasm about curling, considering that (according to german commentator) there are more active curlers in canada than in the rest of the world combined, probably a bit like luge in germany, although almost noone in germany really likes luge, most people only watch it because germany is good in it.

Good result for everyone who predicted that Czech Republic would win at least 1 gold in snowboarding. I would have preferred a different outcome, but Ledecka is just too far ahead. Only logical result, although she already had a gold and could have let someone else have this one ... From a german perspective and a "it would only be in favor of the excitment in this event, because her dominance is just too big" viewpoint i would like to see her fully concentrating on some other sport in 2022.

Really? Not like Naeslund was the huge favorite here. The french girl in ice dance almost losing her dress certainly wasnt the reason for canada winning the gold there? Toutant winning gold today also wasnt surprising, as well as Ted-Jan Bloemen winning 10 000 m gold? Bloeman of course was a top 3 favorite, but given his results at major championships i dont think that it was expected that he would keep his cool this time. For me Kripps winning gold was also surprising. I know that he won the world cup, so i get that most people will say that this gold was expected ... but i dont agree.

Looks like easy gold for Germany. Walther did much better in the second run and should take silver, just sad that it wont be a sweep, Lochner is having horrible olympics.

Crazy olympics for Canada indeed. Same result in mens curling, mens cross-country skiing, speed skating womens team pursuit, short track mens 500 m, short track mens 1500 m and mens ice hockey

This race showed that the fight against doping is clearly working. 4 years ago Russia swept the medals in this event, now they only won silver and bronze.

Yes, if Canada would have won all events here, they probably would have won the medal table. In the end canadians will be very happy with their results here, i doubt that anyone in Canada will be sad about this 3rd place. If Germany and/or Norway would have won some of their expected golds, this never would have gotten that close. Canada won enough surprising golds to make it almost close though and that should be really appreciated.

I cant blame any member of the german team. In theory they should have been much stronger with Neureuther/Luitz, but that didnt work out in the past. Germany might very well be the nation that got closest to eliminating Switzerland.

I dont think that womens 4-man should become olympic. I would prefer if they would get rid of mens 4-man and introduce men and womens monobob, really enjoyed watching that event at the youth olympics.

4 golds for Sweden in biathlon and alpine skiing ... one of the biggest overperformances in olympic history for sure. The fact that they train under very windy conditions in Östersund surely helped today, in the end they won it at the shooting range. Sad that both races were heavily influenced by the conditions, thats not what you would hope for athletes who trained very hard for 4 years. Anyway ... Pichler seems to be doing a lot of good things over there, considering where swedish biathlon was only a couple of years ago. I think with the retirement of Gerald Hönig, it would be the perfect time to bring Pichler home, Germany really needs him.

I think womens biathlon relay was one of the top 5 worst scandals in olympic history. 3 strange decision this season after the foggy mens relay earlier and the missed disaqualification for the italian mixed relay, would be interesting who was resposible for this ...

I just saw that i bet 1 point on NO for this particular question, i actually wanted to bet 10 points on it but forgot the 0, i also wanted to bet 1 instead of 10 points on Canada not finishing ahead of USA in the medal table, could we maybe change those predictions? Edit: About 3) So you could just randomly reveal predictions of some users? I think that is not ok at all, you are abusing your power. About 1) Thanks for the bible quotes!

In Sochi you couldnt expect much more, Germany was shit in biathlon, skeleton, ski jumping and so on. Now you had to expect Germany to win the medal table, but then almost everything went wrong (no gold for Rebensburg, Loch, Lölling, womens biathlon relay, mixed biathlon relay + injuries of Zimmermann, Luitz, Neureuther, Zacher). I mean, could you show me any other nation that lost 4 huge medal contenders before the start of the games?

Yeah, but thats not how it works. Norway will still win of course, incredible that Germany will finish second despite having the worst winter olympics ever, so many missed golds + so many injured athletes ...

What a horrible result, this is insanity. The two best athletes in the world without a medal ... what a fitting result to those olympics. Edit: 10 easy points for the bet contest though ... thanks to whoever came up with the question!

1) It doesnt matter what was written in a different thread, you should have clarified it for everyone to see. You cant expect everyone to read through a different thread. 2) I came up with this question, so i should know best how it was meant and i say that it included relays, otherwise i wouldnt have bet 10 points on it ... 3) Why is it ok for you to reveal my predictions?

Congratulations, not good for my predictions, but glad to see Hungary finally winning gold after the disappointing loss by Swaney.

Its your opinion that this was one of the best events, of course easy to say when your country isnt involved, for me noone who likes fair sport could have really liked it. It wasnt a mistake to not put Dahlmeier first, but it was to not put Hinz first like in basically all the world cups that Germany won. I think the best athletes/teams should get rewarded at the olympics, it clearly didnt happen today so i could never be happy about this result. I said the same about many other events where it wasnt about Germany, but i guess people will still say that i am only saying that because Germany didnt win ... Of course people will say that this had nothing to do with the conditions, but for me a nation that won 7 of the last 8 world cups, not even coming close to a medal here, in an event that isnt very competitive leaves only one possible conclusion. Most people here are always happy about results like that because their own nation isnt involved, so its not surprising that most people dont agree, they only care about entertainment and want to see surprising results instead of deserved winners.