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2 minutes ago, Quaker2001 said:

Diggins!!!!!!!    Love to see it

While US TV viewers didn’t see it (except maybe West Coast).

9 minutes ago, Swewi said:

Nah the bronze fight still interesting and maybe also silver. Andersson round some energy from

nowhere 

Can she make up a minute?  But can’t rest yet.

Can't believe the only way to see this in USA is on streaming.

11 minutes ago, MHSN said:

out of 16 QF races. 14 of them had won by the skier on the blue course and those other 2 races finished by DNF.

 

teams should put their best skiers for the blue course. Switzerland made a big mistake here by not using Holdner first.

USA announcers say Shiffrin on red course is a strategic move.  And that she will have to go all out to win on red course.

10 minutes ago, OlympicsFan said:

I am happy that Germany made the semifinal, but if Switzerland would have competed with their best team they probably would have won.

On paper it should be gold for Austria, silver for USA and bronze for Germany. Too bad that Dürr will race against Shiffrin, would have been better for her to face Moltzan.

It was USA's choice, as the higher seeded team.  Germany put up Duerr first, USA countered with Shiffrin.

25 minutes ago, NearPup said:

The USA commentator keeps insisting that won the Ro16 matchup and I find it really annoying.

 

(To clarify for the non-Americans, USA is a cable network)

They finally got it right without acknowledging their error.  Porino should be better than this. (And he can't keep Slovenia and Slovakia straight.)

Also, a nit that I've had throughout the Games - Yes, Wendy Holdener has never won a slalom, and they talk about what she is missing, but that can't seem to say it or don't know that Holdener has an Olympic gold medal from this event.  

 first Olympic Winter Ganes gold medal since 1948.

Micheline Lannoy, 97 years young, now lives in Canada, the oldest living Olympic Winter Ganes gold medalist, I think.

26 minutes ago, Pifta said:

Why do skiiers leave Beijing on saturday evening/sunday morning? The closing ceremony is on sunday evening, they should be there

In an ideal Olympic World, I would agree.  But these guys have WC races in a week in Finland, and with Covid, and with all the restrictions they face in the closed-bubble, they just want to get out of China ASAP.   

11 minutes ago, dcro said:

I meant in general, the scheduling.

 

Team event getting scheduled as the final event both here and in Pyeongchang is too anticlimactic.

Interesting argument.  Some think the team figure skating team event should also be done last.  But it's surely done first becaus USA/NBC TV needs some figure skating to fill up the first two nights of broadcasts before the Opening Ceremony.

4 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Can't wait for the women's 30km to be shortened to 15km tomorrow.

Jessie Diggins might even have an outside shot.

31 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Women’s snowboard slopestyle in 2018 didn’t have qualifying. What would have been qualifying was used as a (farcical) final instead.

That event was about like the halfpipe tonight. Not a lot of clean runs.

News Flash  Team Event will be held tomorrow at 9:00 local

More trivia, sorry, in 1968 and 1998, the 4-man bobsled was shortened due to weather.  Two runs wre cancelled in 1968, one run in 1998.

23 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Not to my knowledge, but I have a better grasp of Winter Olympic history than of Summer Olympic history.  

1932 Equestrian Team Jumping was cancelled but not because of weather.  To explain, it was held simultaneously with Individual, but no team completed the event with the required number of riders so no medals were awarded.

Someone just cited to Olympic Charter Bylaw 32 which basically says you can't hold an Olympic event outside the 16 day duration of ther Games.  Its being speculated they could hold the Team Event at the World Cup Finals in March.

5 minutes ago, NearPup said:

This would be the first cancelled winter Olympic event since 1928(!).

I'd been thinking the same thing for the last hour or so,  Although, in 1928 it was too warm.  

News Flash:  Team Event won't happen today.  May not happen at all.  

20 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Huh, "Competition delayed due to weather - Competition will not start before 04.00 CET"

 

Yeah ok, but 04.00 was already the scheduled time so...so what

They had moved it up to 10 local time, but then they delayed 1 hour off the revised start time, so we are back to the original start time.  And it's pretty blustery out there.

4 hours ago, FancyFenchel said:

I think that IOC used bribes to secure that China will stage the Games. :D After disaster as all other/ european cities withdraw, IOC was happy to have someone, who is willing to do it and have money... and don't have to ask its people.

Don't forget, the IOC used "bribes" to get LA to wait until 2028.  

Wise and Ferreira now 1-2, but now 2-3  But Porteous now the deserved leader. 

7 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

Welcome. 
 

because of a scandal in Norway (the logical candidate) related to the excessive demands of the IOC for luxury hotels, private jets, limos etc.

 

 

2 hours ago, Molly30 said:

I'm not sure I follow you about Norway, what happened?? @Grassmarket

Welcome Molly.  Oslo was the preferred candidate city of the IOC for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games until the Norwegian government withdrew financial support, causing Oslo to withdraw its bid in 2014.  Earlier in 2014, Krakow and Stockholm had also withdrawn their bids.  The full story of the Oslo 2022 bid can be read in Wikipedia.     After Oslo withdrew, the only candidate were Beijing and Almaty.  Had Oslo not withdrawn, it is with near certainty that we would now be watching and talking about the Games coming from Norway.

13 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

vs for 26th place. There just isn't much hope for Polish women once Hojnisz retires anymore. I have no idea why Fialkova struggles so badly in the last two seasons either.

And   gets in for 23rd, ahead of two of  Relay gold medalists.  Wind did have a major effect today.

33 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

 

Good news is that got absolutely smoked out of the water so they don't profit from this whatsoever

There still is the matter of the Team Event medal.

Ok, We have a     1st through 7th in Men’s Halfpipe Qualifying.

Update.  moves into 2nd.

6 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Gotta give the United States their best chance

This feels like slow torture (typed this seconds before the goal).

8 minutes ago, NearPup said:

Well that medal chance was nice while it lasted.

What’s this with NBC showing Canadian wipeouts?

Ok  1-2