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Now german biathlon already overachieved. I am not sure whether Herrmann winning gold or Vogt finishing 4th is the bigger miracle. Vogt suddenly having superhuman skiing speed (at least in this competition) is extremely suspicious after she has been ultra slow her whole career. I might misremember, but i think it was the same with Hinz in 2018? You still have to give credit to german biathlon for usually peaking at the biggest competitions (was the same in 2018 when noone expected 7 medals) and to Herrmann for saying all-season long that she focused completely on the olympics.

Nice to get a glimpse at the inner workings of your mind. The fact that you have to go back 16 years to find (in your mind) counterexamples doesn't lead to you maybe questioning your own position ... !? To add to that: 1) A lot of rule changes have been made since then (which might be the reason why you had to go back so far) 2) Benkovic was 18 at the time he won a medal, not really surprising he didn't have a ton of world cup podiums 3) Bystoel a) won a world cup right before his olympic gold and b) fucked up his career by being a notorious drunk (so not surprising that he didn't really display great consistency)

If you think this is normal, then please look at past olympics. The guys who did well at the olympics always (at least at the last 3 olympics, i was too lazy to look back even further) had better world cup results. Crazy how polish fans were (rightfully) expecting no medals and now they suddenly act as if this wasn't mostly down to luck/monetarily influenced decisions by the officials.

To sum up the absurdity of this competition: In 2nd place: Manuel Fettner (Best result this season was 5th, only one other top 10 result, 18th in the world cup) In 3rd place: David Kubacki (Best result this season was 13th, only one other top 20 result, 37th in the world cup) In 4th place: Peter Prevc (Best result this season was 6th, only one other top 10 result, 19th in the world cup) In 5th place: Evgenii Klimov (Best result this season was 5th, no other top 10 result, 31st in the world cup) First competition this season without Norway/Germany on the podium. On average Norway/Germany combined for 1.75 podiums per competition, today they combined for top 5 results ... I think the last time none out of Germany/Norway/Slovenia made the podium was on February 1st 2020. Conclusion: The places 2 through 5 combined for ZERO podiums this season & a grand total of 5 top 10 results. For all of them it was their (tied) best result this season. Anyone who defends this farce obviously doesn't care about fairness in sports.

Yes that and taking proper care of his teeth are his biggest weaknesses.

Please look at the world cup results this season and show me when pretty almost all of the top guys (Granerud, Geiger, Eisenbichler, Lindvik and so on) were completely hopeless. It used to be like this a decade or so ago, but then they changed things and results at the top got a lot more consistent.

Complete scandal! I have never seen a competition where it was this obvious that the officials were bribed. Probably the hope was that some russian would steal a medal. If i wouldn't know any better, i would say that everyone involved is trying their best to make this the worst olympics ever. Complete shitshow so far.

Althaus sadly screwed by the conditions. None out of Althaus/Kramer/Takanashi winning gold doesn’t feel right, but in the end ski jumping is always a lottery to some degree.

I guess China doesnt have much experience with hosting Winter Sports Events.

Lucky lead for Althaus. Bogataj and Maybe the other slovenians as well are better than her today, But they Messed up their Landings. If their coach Goes down a Gate During the Final round and allows them to Show a Better Landing, then they should win Gold and Silver/Bronze.

They cant possibly be as Bad as the Ski jumping Camera Angles.

Very disappointing result for Hennig. Only one competitive norwegian + some finish grandmas and Hennig still can't come even close to a medal. I doubt that we have seen such a weak field in a long time.

You already mentioned Johaug and the russian athlete, but what about Stadlober? How convincing that "Operation Aderlass" caught some nobodies like Dürr, but by far the best austrian cross-country skier goes unquestioned ... ?

I would like to see athletes winning a medal who a) Never won an individual olympic medal & b) Have been successful outside of the olympics & c) Probably won't get another chance to win a medal. So for example: Dominik Paris Dave Ryding Tessa Worley Manfred Mölgg Cornelia Hütter Stefan Kraft Tarjei Boe Simon Desthieux Dorothea Wierer Patrick Burgener Queralt Castellet Roland Fischnaller Cai Xuetong Ivanie Blondin Brittany Bowe Jessie Diggins It also would be crazy to see Lindsey Jacobellis winning a medal 16 years after she last won an olympic medal.

Anderson, Gerard and Jackson all winning gold seems very unlikely. I think they could also win golds in men's/women's ice hockey, men's big air/halfpipe/slopestyle freestyle skiing, women's 2-man bob, women's slalom/giant slalom, men's 1500 m speed skating and maybe even women's cross-country skiing.

Doesnt seem very likely. I am not an expert when it comes to american sport, but after some quick research i would say that 12 golds would be the absolute perfect case, so 10+ golds seem very ambitious. I would say 7 or 8 golds would already be a really good result for them. Not sure how many gold medal favorites the US actually has? Nathan Chen, Chloe Kim, Elana Meyers (monobob) and ... ?

1) Isn’t there a rule for minimum number of athletes required? 2) Wouldn’t he/she still have to finish the race?

Doesn’t seem realistic for Germany, especially 2 golds in skeleton and 2 golds in snowboard.

Japan Seems like a no-brainer choice. I could see Japan Winning more Golds than South Korea winning medals in total. Some „interesting“ thoughts i had recently: 1) It is not impossible for one out of Slovenia/Slovakia/New Zealand/Estonia/Hungary/Australia/GB to win More golds than one out of South Korea/Italy/Finland. 2) There is a good chance that at least 2 out of Sweden/Austria/China/Switzerland/France to win more golds than Germany. Doesnt Sound like a Crazy prediction, But the Last time any of those Nations won More Golds than Germany was back in 1968 (when Austria, France and Sweden all did it).

I cant believe that there are people who voted for hockey... What is the Point of this competition without the NHL players?

Ok, wikipedia only has Snowboard Cross results from the 2007/2008 Season onwards. Still remarkable that noone in the past 15 years was able to do it and then Martin Nörl of all People did it ... I thought that ist was rather Common on the womens side, But apparently there is some Kind of curse. I think on the womens side Jacobellis was the Last one to do it back in 2012, Since then Moioli (4 times), Maltais (3 times), Samkova (2 times) and Jacobellis/Bankes (1 time) all won 2 in a row.

I just looked at past World Cup Seasons and i think that this Might be the First time ever that a guy won 3 World Cups in a row within one Season.

Did the Top Chinese/Canadians also Compete?

20 medal is realistic in my opinion: Bob: 4 Luge/Skeleton: 5 Ski jumping: 4 Nordic combined: 3 Snowboard: 2 Ski Freestyle/Cross Country/Biathlon/Alpine skiing: 2