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Ok, thanks that's probably true. I was very moved by her tears of joy at the end, you could really feel all the pressure coming off. She promised to win a medal for her grandfather and she did it, now she can retire in peace.

Sadly i was right, Canada or France had to win the gold, unbelievable ...

What do you mean? At this olympics alone Svindal was older by about 2 years ... ?

Very sad that USA won, it is no coincidence that they are only competitive on the women's side. I hoped that Sweden would win gold, Norway was clearly missing Weng or Oestberg in top shape.

Now i have to assume that you are doing it on purpose ... right? So his run was bound to end, because of Ridzik, Chapuis and Place, but then 2 of them don't even make the next round? Interesting ... Also: "Duncan had a surprisingly amazing run", so Duncan who had to be considered a bigger outsider than Eckert, makes the semifinal, but Eckert's run was bound to end in the quartefinal? Interesting ... again.

Next sweep incoming? Very likely, just sad that Kim and Asada are gone, the top skaters don't seem very charismatic for me. Also a bit sad to see the state of american female figure skating.

Good, always nice to lead a civilized discussion. It's just sad when people clearly refer to one of your comments without quoting you, it shows that they are clearly not interested in a discussion, so you have to ask yourself why they are even here. Probably my comment wasn't clear enough, so i am sorry for that. Hopefully we can lead some good discussions in the future, given that you seem to be a true expert about alpine skiing (probably other sports as well, but i think you are not as active in other parts of this forum, so hard to tell for now).

Who is him? You seem confused ...

Very hard to find someone to root for, hopefully no canadian or french victory here (although very unlikely). I think the slovakian guy winning gold would be the best thing, would be funny to see slovakia ahead of russia and china in the medal table at the end, but for that they need a gold and then they have to hope that russia and china won't win a gold medal in the next couple of days. Given the italian luck here, i wouldn't be surprised to see Kostner winning gold here as well, would be almost as funny as the whole story about Alex Schwazer ...

Just for clarification: Are you talking about this: "Norway probably has won half a dozen surprising medals by now, while Germany didn't win any so far" This was Norway's 6th medal (= half a dozen) in alpine skiing, so what you are trying to say is that you think that i wanted to say that all of Norway's medals in alpine skiing were surprises? That would be the only logical explanation for your comment, but i think noone seriously would think that anyone would call Kristoffersen's medal or the medals for Jansrud/Svindal surprising (i predicted most of them actually), so i am really irritated how anyone could possibly think that i was talking about alpine skiing only, but ok ...

Paul Eckert won the last world cup before the olympics, now he didn't even make it to the round of last 16. This perfectly sums up the olympics for Germany. Worst possible outcome in almost every event, surprised that some german athletes even managed to get to Pyeongchang, wouldn't have been surprised to hear that some forgot where the olympics take place and accidentally flew to Thailand or something like that ...

Good, so now that we know that you are able to quote, why didn't you quote the person who said it, if you were interested in a discussion? Did i say they overperformed in alpine skiing? No. \end discussion

What a ridiculous sport, after every second run someone has to be flown to the hospital ...

Who said that they are overperforming?

Thanks, now i know what to bet on.

Another gold for Italy and another surprising medal for Norway, those 2 must be among the 3 most overperforming countries here, together with Czech Republic probably. The only logical explanation is that Italy traded football world cup for all those insane results here, no other explanation for why they are completely overperforming here. Norway probably has won half a dozen surprising medals by now, while Germany didn't win any so far, so not surprising that they lead the medal table. Surprises are what makes the olympics special, but so far there hasn't been any event where Germany surprisingly won a medal, so it's impossible to get very excited about the olympics as a german fan ...

German commentator said that Canada has more active curlers than the rest of the world together. Can't be true right? Otherwise this would be one of the most embarrassing performances in the history of sport. Didn't anyone say before the start of the olympics that the canadian championships are more difficult to win than the olympics ... ? Thanks to the candian women, they destroyed my prediction ... no i wouldn't mind if their men would also fail to win gold.

I thought i'd post some of the definite answers of the bet contest, probably you already have most of it, but maybe it helps: 21- Johannes Thingnes Boe (NOR) will win more medals than Martin Fourcade (FRA) during the whole 2018 Winter Olympics. [NO] 25- The Ukrainian team will win more total medals than Italy. [NO] 29- Overall, medals will not go to more than 6 nations. [NO] 30- Swiss athletes will win more total medals than Olympic Athletes from Russia. [NO] 35- The italian men's team will win at least 2 games. [YES] 40- Dominique Ohaco (CHI) will achieve Chile's best ever Winter Olympic result - bettering 11th place in Men's Alpine Combined from 1998. [NO] 42- No athlete who was victorious at the 2018 Winter X Games will win a Gold Medal in Pyeongchang. [NO] 43- South Korea will win at least 1 medal, while Australia will win at least 3. [NO] 52- Germany will sweep (win Gold, Silver and Bronze) at least one of the individual events. [YES] 51- In both Individual events, the first-placed Athlete(s) after Ski Jumping will not win a Medal. [YES] 56- At least two athletes will win medals in both men's individual events. [YES] 55- Poland will win at least one gold medal. [YES]

That's actually what i thought first ... they probably thought: She is from the US, americans are always good in sports like that, so she must be good as well. Let's just hope that they didn't really "buy" her, it probably would have been more hopeful to take one of those Shaolin guys in shorttrack and turn him into a freestyle skier.

Ah ok, so you think she could have done better? Then it would be a different thing, but why exactly should she be so shitty on purpose? I think she embarrassed herself, so what did she gain by giving a performance like that?

I am surprised that Canada didn't medal ... How did someone from B final win a medal? I think it's insane that you can win a medal from B final, in the end those in B final lost against those in A final, so in which universe does it make sense that they get a better result?

I didn't watch the group match, but i heard that Germany was unlucky to lose that match, so is there a chance for a german victory tonight? I think Germany winning in ice hockey against Sweden would be a perfect fit for these olympics. When people in 20 years look back at the results here, they will probably be like "what the hell?" ...

If you would apply the same tough criteria in every event, there probably wouldn't even be enough entrants to hold certain events. It's a fact that winter sports in general are much less competitive than summer sports, apart from a few exceptions. To be honest i also don't quiet get all the anger ... a) If she would have spent her whole life in Hungary, would people still be "mad"? No b) If she would have been from Tonga, would people still be "mad"? No We have those kind of competitors all the time at the summer olympics, but also in alpine skiing or cross-country, so what is the big problem? Did she take a spot away from someone? I think it's weird to blame her. Say you would have the chance to compete at the olympics tomorrow, would anyone here really turn that opportunity down? I don't think so ...

I think it also says a lot about Hungary ... why did they allow her to do this? She never had any chance to medal, so how exactly does this "help" Hungary? I always thought that hungarian people are very "proud", so it's kind of weird to just hand the citizenship out like it's nothing (unless i missed something and she always had the citizenship, but that would still leave the question why Hungary nominated her).

No way on earth that Jamanka won't crumble under the pressure, i still think Germany is safe to take a medal, not sure if it will be Jamanka though ...