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Hofmeister living really dangerously... probably the Destiny has already chosen today's winner...

no, it was in Sochi, but then they took it away from the program...

wow! Dancha from Ukraine in the top 4! that's a surprise...

and Joerg won't make the double... that's what it takes to lose on the blue course...you gotta break your (snow)board!

Ok, I just misread your previous post...you know, after dinner (and some glasses of wine) it's not so easy to understand everything at a first look...

2 gates...people need 2 gates advantage before the last 5 gates of the track to have any chance on the red course...

infact, Hofmeister was on the blue course...

Fischnaller can only say "thanks!" to the blue course... it's really an enormous advantage today...totally unfair competition... in the meantime, the snow is thicker and thicker...

meh...I don't really know how Ochner could win a race and be the world cup leader at some point in the season... it looks that she can't even stay on her feet on the table...

by the way, today the difference between the blue and the red course is even bigger than yesterday... it would take something outstanding for someone to win on the red slope...

and Germany loses their first weapon in the women's competition... so, it won't be a clean sweep for them (as it was in the qualifiers)...

not that different from yesterday... and today we have many events in the schedule that have already been postponed and/or heavily conditioned by this bad weather...

nice story... tbh, this was not among my favourite commercial, but at least it has something behind it... better than all those boring cars and/or telecom companies' ads...

women's PSL, athletes qualified to the final brackets 1 Selina JOERG 2 Cheyenne LOCH 3 Ramona Theresia HOFMEISTER 4 Julie ZOGG 5 Patrizia KUMMER 6 Sabine SCHOEFFMANN 7 Aleksandra KROL 8 Maria VALOVA 9 Daniela ULBING 10 Milena BYKOVA 11 Nadya OCHNER 12 Ladina JENNY 13 Natalia SOBOLEVA 14 Nicole BAUMGARTNER 15 Annamari DANCHA 16 ZHANG Ruxin men's PSL, athletes qualified to the final brackets 1 Roland FISCHNALLER 2 Dario CAVIEZEL 3 Dmitry LOGINOV 4 Stefan BAUMEISTER 5 Aaron MARCH 6 Andreas PROMMEGGER 7 Dmitry SARSEMBAEV 8 Zan KOSIR 9 Radoslav YANKOV 10 Benjamin KARL 11 Daniele BAGOZZA 12 Christian HUPFAUER 13 Shinnosuke KAMINO 14 Robert BURNS 15 Arvid AUNER 16 Lukas MATHIES

just to be precise...writing Joerg instead of Jörg is NOT mispelling a name... all the people in the world outside GER/AUT and SUI normally don't have the typical German characters ä, ö, ü and so on...therefore, it's quite normal for all of us using the "international" form for those German letters...and the international form for " ö"is "oe" (for instance, in Italy not even the newspapers nor the TV networks writes "Zöggeler", but he's always "Zoeggeler")...

IOC rules are a lot stricter than National federations'... normally, athletes can change Nationality already after 6 months/1 year (if not even earlier, think about the new Wrestling rules) with the new team... meanwhile the IOC requires 3 years from the last appearance with the former team, unless there is the explicit permission of the old federation directly given to the new one... and usually this comes down to money (with only a few Nations that regularly deny any permission until the 3 years have gone by...nowadays not even Cuba is as tough as they once were)...

very tight race, which is always good for the audience, but...but, even if the best 2 in the game ended up 1st and 2nd, this is not a track good enough to ski a world championship event...no way... by the way, today the girls who should have the most regrets is Marsaglia... she was by far the fastest at the start and among all those who finished the race within half a second from Shiffrin, she's the one who made the most punishing mistake (in the same place where also Shiifrin took a big risk)... if only she could deliver for once a mistake-free race, probably she'd be partying right now...

I understand, but Snowboard is a lot more aleatory than Fencing... there are a lot more factors you can't control properly...especially on a course like yesterday's... so, still coming home with the Gold Medal can't be considered "pretty disappointing"... OK, it could have gone even better (it was really possible), but in the end it wasn't that bad (or did you prefer silver & bronze rather than just gold? )... p.s. and yes, the first name of the Swiss rider is Ladina, meanwhile Jenny (for the English speaking guys, it's pronounced "Yenni") is the Family name...no mistake...

Germany won Gold and you say that's "pretty disappointing"? what did you expect, a clean sweep?

Global Event = World Champs/Olympic Games I know he's been on the podium a few times in the World Cup...but it's not the same thing...

very anti-climatic final among the men... Tim Mastak fell down after 2 gates and Dmitry Loginov just had to come down on his feet to win his first ever medal at a global event...and it's a world championships Gold! Bronze goes to Stefan Baumeister, making the German day even brighter... no comment on Italy's epic fail...

there are a lot of things to be appreciated...the athletic performance, the tactical battle between the 2 sides, the metaphores you can read through the development of play... (American) Football is a "summa" of features needed to succeed in many other sports... and you don't need to watch a full game live (with all its stoppages and commercials)...you can always opt for delayed games (with all the dead moments cut off) or summaries...

Gold for Germany...Selina Joerg beats Natalia Soboleva and wins the world title... Bronze goes to Ladina Jenny of Switzerland...

meanwhile it's SLO to face RUS in the men's Gold Medal run...

but now it's impossible, as they have a 5-sec delay just to cover possible upsets like Janet Jackson's... as I said, Katy Perry is not close to my top, too...but her HT show was memorable... and in a kind of show like that, I think coreography and special effects are even more important than the music itself... by the way, as a R&B and Hip-Hop fan, I think last night's appearance by Big Boi and Travis Scott was almost insulting...