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changes that go absolutely against the Italians (notoriously the top swimmers and not the best shooters in MP) 😭😭😭 now it's really time to axe MP from the Games 😈🥳

perché non è esattamente una gara sprint, ci vogliono doti più spiccate di endurance De Silvestro va benissimo...non è lei il problema 🙄

fammi conoscere il loro pusher...deve avere roba davvero buona

più che altro, visti i risultati di oggi, qualcuno mi può spiegare la scelta di Boscacci nell'alpinismo? 🙄

te l'ho già detto...non faccio pronostici spero che vincano, ma, anche se finissero tutti ultimi, l'importante è che siano gare memorabili a prescindere realisticamente, 3/4 medaglie sono un bottino auspicabile (Ghiotto sui 10km, Giovannini e, forse, Lollobrigida nelle Mass Start + il Team Pursuit maschile), di più, sarebbe sorprendente

8/10% è una follia clickbait impensabile vorrebbe dire togliere 36 secondi sui 5km, fare 5.30 facciamo che si possa guadagnare lo 0.8/1% (ovvero 3/4 secondi) e già sarebbe un vantaggio al limite dell'antisportivo

che è meglio la farmacia norvegese della casa di moda olandese!

tu e la Francia... quelli non li devi guardare, sono fuori portata per noi tra biathlon, snowboardcross e discipline freeski sarebbe una sorpresa vederli sotto i 10 ori

cmq la storia dice che 4 ori è il terzo miglior bottino di sempre per noi... quindi è difficile definirlo un flop, anche se nei fatti e nelle attese lo sarebbe proprio io vorrei scoppiare di ottimismo, ma il rischio di finire davvero con 4 o 5 ori c'è

if nothing strange happens, the women's doubles in Luge is ITA vs AUT for gold, with GER safe in 3rd (but they're always at risk of putting their sleds on top of their heads, like the Italians) then, there's an Ocean between those 3 and the rest of the world, it would take really a crash of the top 3 for the others to have a small chance for bronze

va bene che scrivono spesso cazzate, ma ci vai giù pesante, però

yes, that's what I mean once the predicted competition is over, you can make it visible to everybody once again, but before the event is completed, it's better to let people make their predictions without any influence 😉

and after we got the scalp of in a World Cup warm-up match played in Dubai once again, it was a late surge with the bats, finishing with a 6 by Zain Ali at the very last ball (when we needed a 4 to tie and a 5 to win the match) final score: 165/7 (20 overs), 167/7 (20 overs); win by 3 wickets

@clemsonbeav and all the participants here you should hide people's predictions to the other guys having to make their choice to avoid too many "unintentional advices" (there's a specific tag to put just before and after the table with the predictions, something like "hide" and \ between square parenthesis, if I remember correctly)

still, I'm more interested in what Jutta's going to wear under the suit

we're in Italy! calm down and relax... everything necessary will appear when it will appear, possibly at least a few hours before the action starts (but don't get mad if it's a few days after the Games are underway) pure Italian style

so, it's back to the old format

actually, 3-position rifle finals feature all 3 positions since the 2020 Olympics cycle however, I agree that they should broadcast the qualifying rounds too it's not impossible, the national tv of Malta did it once a few years ago in a world cup stage

Luge trainings are a premiere also in Europe, DH trainings instead are very common (sometimes are shown also for world cup races, like Kitz)

no, we don't, because we lack the most important thing of them all: the interest our people living in the mountain territories are only interested in making money with tourism and our politicians and 90% of the Country don't give a damn to Winter Sports because they all come from places where they don't even have a true Winter Winter Sports here are marginals, especially the competitive side until you realize that, you will never be able to understand why Italy has the history they have and why we will never put those sports under the spotlight

sure! for me, all the medals we won in "artistic activities" (Summer and Winter, it doesn't matter) are up for grabs to me, it's like we never won them

Franco Menichelli (Artistic Gymnastics, 5 Olympic medals between 1960 and 1964, when he won above all the gold medal in the Floor exercise) dies at the age of 84

grave in termini di risultati d'eccellenza, non in termini di salute, evidentemente (altrimenti si sarebbe fermata, ovviamente) se non sai cosa sta succedendo, fermarsi non ha senso (anche perchè uno stop completo distrugge del tutto la preparazione fatta, mentre continuare l'attività, sebbene in cattive condizioni, almeno ti permette di salvare il lavoro di base)

I think you start from the wrong viewpoint: look at the history of the Winter Games; we never won more than 19 medals/7golds (and it happened once in 1994, when we all know that we were in the "Conconi & Ferrari age") we just can't pretend to become a powerhouse in something we always kept aside as a marginal interest (being at home or not, it doesn't make any difference, given that nobody spent money nor energy to promote the Winter Sports in this Country -and nobody will never do it)

I'm pretty sure USA would eventually win the medal table, even if Klaebo could win even more gold medals than Stolz (actually, the 6-gold campaign is not completely out of order for him, given what he showed last weekend) it will depend mostly on biathlon and the freeski disciplines, I think those will make the difference (given that Stolz + women's alpine skiing for USA = Klaebo + speedskating for NOR)