OlympicsFan

Hopefully it will change. Looking at the examples you gave (never heard of most of them) it seems quite rare to be trash in one and very good in the other.

Congrats. Unlike the girl in the youth competition, she actually had a good skiing time. On the other hand she was 1 or 2 years older than many of her competitors, so it is difficult to judge where she ranks talentwise.

I think that you have some problems with live timing ... Do you have an official document that states the time this competition ended? On topic: Passler (Italy, 2001), Owren (Norway, 2001) and Bened (France, 2000) are all young enough to come back next year, really nice group of talent. Trabucchi also can come back next year, but she doesn’t seem like a special talent.

Did. you time Travel? According to live timing only 79 out of 90 athletes finished the race. Current ranking: 1) Bened (France) 2) Horvatova (Slovakia) 3) Trabucchi (Italy) Owren from Norway and Goreeva from Russia with superior skiing times. Skiing times: 1) Goreeva 2) Jakiela (Poland) 7.4 seconds behind 3) Owren 17.7 seconds behind

I really wonder how Weidle can be so great in downhill while being that bad in super G. Is it normal for athletes to be that good in one discipline, while being extremely weak in the other?

Slovakia might win another medal ...

Unless something crazy happens, France will win another medal (possibly gold) in the women’s race. Bened with a good skiing time and clean shooting. Owren from Norway with tremendous skiing speed, but already two misses. Sadly Norway „found“ another athlete with superior skiing speed ... Edit: Gold for Bened seems inevitable at this point. Another gold for France ... very exciting ...

Based on the individual events, the result in the mixed team should be: 1) Slovenia 2) Norway 3) Austria 4) Japan 5) Germany I think anything but the first 3 winning the medals would be a surprise at this point. I think World class female athletes are clearly more „valuable“ in the mixed team, since there are far less of them, which is pretty obvious when looking at the gaps in the individual competitions. In the men’s competition the gap between first and 5th was 11.7 points, between first and 10th it was 17.6 points and between first and 15th it was 22.8 points. On the women’s side it was 22.1 points between first and 5th, 37.8 points between first and 10th and 50.3 points between first and 15th. Nations with two world class men and two average women are clearly at an disadvantage compared to nations with two world class women and two average men, not sure if this is fair ...

Interesting that Germany currently has exactly the same medal statistic (1 silver) in the Olympic events as they had 2 years ago.

Thanks. There are just too many medal contenders, you could probably name all Norwegian/Russian athletes too. I think there are just more competitive athletes at this level compared to youth level.

What happened to you? Did a German beat you up when you tried to steal his bike?

Completely random result. Another fluke medal for Slovenia. After this season the 3 medals should have gone to Norway, Poland and Germany. After the trainings I thought that Norway might even sweep this ... Surprising to see that Norway hasn’t won a medal at the last FIVE individual competitions at worlds (since 2015).

Maybe you should talk to a therapist ... ?

Nope. Zyla is an even bigger fluke world champion than Kubacki.

What a random result after the first round ... Would be funny if Slovenia would fluke another medal, somehow I hope that Zyla will win gold. Has he ever won anything individually?

Norway will compete in the junior events tomorrow. Some names to look for: Women: Bened (France), Botet (France), Passler (Italy), Trabucchi (Italy), Gandler (Austria), Baserga (Switzerland) and Shevchenko (Russia, the big favorite) Sadly Skrede from Norway, who would have been the biggest rival for Shevchenko, won’t compete. Men: Claude (France), Mahon (France), Vidmar (Slovenia), Cisar (Slovenia), Hartweg (Switzerland), Zingerle (Italy) and hopefully (from a German perspective) Riethmüller. Sadly Bionaz from Italy (who would have been one of the. Ingest favorites) won’t compete.

So now we already have 5 nations with medals, France with a great start. Belarus narrowly missing a medal again. Impressive skiing time for Wright. Also impressive times for Geny and Betemps, considering that they are both 1 year younger.

It always amazes me how big federations can’t even care enough about their own sport to hire someone who can create a snowcat decent live timing.

Sadly another disgusting gold medal. Would have been best if he would have been banned for the rest of the season after he attacked the finish guy.

GB winning a medal would be funny after they already fluked a medal in freestyle skiing. GB has some serious diversity in winter sports. They could medal in alpine skiing, snowboard, freestyle skiing, shorttrack, skeleton, curling and cross-country at the Olympics.

Yes, let’s keep spamming to make it even longer.

I really hope that Bolshunov won’t medal. Him attacking the finish guy really annoyed me. I don’t really care about the doping, but I always hate it when skinny guys try to act tough.

Then you are obviously overestimating your English language/logical reasoning skills.

I understood what you said, but obviously you didn’t understand what I said. I don’t care about The situation of Slovenian sport, so there was no reason to bring it up. Also please don’t act like a complete fool. You were trolling first, so don’t act as if you were trying to lead a normal discussion that I derailed. It is ok to troll, but at least be honest about it. Maybe Slovenia will finish ahead of Germany in the medal table, but contrary to what you hope this doesn’t bother me. Germany only has to look at its own results and if Germany wins less than 1 gold, it certainly will be a bad result. In the end Germany did amazing at the last two worlds and will do amazing again in the future. A country can have fluke results in both directions. The alpine skiing worlds were a positive fluke for Germany and the Nordic worlds will probably be a negative fluke for Germany.

What are you trying to say?