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Miss for Shevchenko, that'll be gold for Öberg. It does look like either Öberg shot very slow or Shevchenko very fast...the Russian arrived at shooting 4 with 15 seconds behind, missed one shot more, but only lost 15 seconds.

Elvira Öberg (Hanna's younger sister indeed) vs Anastasia Shevchenko for the youth women's individual gold in Otepää. Öberg with 1 miss after all shootings, Shevchenko has 1 too but still has the 4th shooting to go.

I saw a lot more good and exciting competitions than bad and boring competitions, so together with some big surprises, I'd say excellent. As for my country (even though that's not what this poll is about judging by the thread name): they were fantastic, which I'm personally not completely thrilled with, because speed skating should be more international, but alright, good news is Norway is back so hopefully Dutch domination will slowly be brought down. Eurosport getting all of the rights made for an awesome viewing experience here in the Netherlands. I already had a subscription to the Player (but it only costed 99 cents, so I would have bought one anyway), and they literally showed absolutely everything there, all live, all available on demand right after the end of the event, with different languages as commentary and not a single problem with streams.

Negative stuff: - Scheduling sucked balls, no need to go into details because I think we all know it - Men's normal hill ski jumping, not due to whatever result, but just because of the wind and near-eternal delays - Women's slopestyle snowboarding, no way that should have been allowed to get started, this was nothing but a lottery, at the very least with a decent winner - The seconds after the last pair of the women's 5k, everything orange in Gangneung was cheering for Visser's gold, but Annouk van der Weijden and her friends/family were in tears for missing out on a medal by 0,19 seconds. - Shared gold medal in the bobsleigh - Men's snowboard halfpipe final, kinda bled to death in the end and the expectations were much higher after that qualifying - Women's snowboard big air, a tiny bit better than expected with at least someone else than Gasser also doing something nice, but mostly I found those tiny jumps and turns an absolute snoozefest Positive stuff: - Ester Ledecka's gold in the super-G, definitely one of the highlights of any Games I've seen. - Hanna Öberg's gold, such a nice and always smiling athlete surprising with Olympic gold, wonderful - Swedish biathlon men's relay team taking away the gold, awesome - Absolutely crazy women's biathlon relay - Nice fights for bobsleigh gold in the two-man and women's competitions - Simen Hegstad Krüger surprising his countrymen with skiathlon gold - Johannes Klaebo being crowned as absolute great, at age 21. Not surprising, but given the huge pressure it's rather big. - Randall/Diggins taking the teamsprint gold. Randall because it's a fantastic way to cap off a big career, Diggins because Diggins. - Finally Olympic gold for Aljona Savchenko - Men's ski halfpipe with some awesome tricks - Men's snowboard halfpipe qualfiying, that was just amazing - Men's ice hockey final, total craziness - Germany men's ice hockey team - The daughter of Marie Martinod (silver) high-fiving Cassie Sharpe (gold) after the women's ski halfpipe final - Slovak ice hockey team beating Russia in the very first match - Women's ice hockey final, even the shootouts were good - David Gleirscher's sensational gold + Felix Loch giving it away in the last turns - Exciting luge doubles, too bad Penz/Fischler missed out on gold, but it was close and that's always good - Hungary's shorttrack relay team (some negative points for collecting a billion penalties individually though) - Yara van Kerkhof's very surprising and lucky silver - Suzanne Schulting all of a sudden taking gold - Regino Hernandez giving Spain their first winter medal sinds 1992 - Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, only 16 years old, giving New Zealand their first winter medal since 1992, with same aged Nico Porteous following only hours later - Spain and New Zealand both having won their last winter medal at the exact same event, 1992 women's slalom, and both finally winning their next one on a snowboard. Fun little coincidence - Men's 500m speed skating, Lorentzen delivering gold to Norway - Nuis winning the 1500m and once and for all saying goodbye to his title of King of Chokes - Bloemen vs Bergsma in the 10k, some negative points for Kramer's race being the last one, that was anticlimactic as shit - Norwegian men's team pursuit taking gold, Norway is back and that is fucking awesome, the sport really needed that - Japan's women's team pursuit taking gold and their Dutch coach in tears after all the effort being put in specifically for that gold - Nao Kodaira winning the 500m gold - Esmee Visser's 5k gold, when in November she was basically completely unknown and only then had her first TV interview after a good race in the World Cup's B division (where she was asking basic questions like "Should I look at you, or to the camera?")

Dimitrov has no chance, he'll face the mighty Robin Haase in round two.

Wait, secret weapon?

Congratulations to the winners and a big thanks for organizing the contest

Thanks But I know that if I pay for it, I'll end up regretting it because I won't watch it eventually I'll start with checking out more games on the Dutch paid sports channel (probably 3-4 a week)

As soon as the women's 30k in Pyeongchang finished I started F5'ing biathlonresults for the start lists

I find it interesting that, when looking at my own final predictions, it's the country with the highest number of medals that I had closest: 15 golds, 39 medals predicted for Norway, which ended up with 14-39, so close I had three golds for China, which won one, three or four for the Russians, who won two, and Finland, France and Japan all won one less than I predicted. Biggest winners were Ukraine with one gold instead of none, Belarus with two instead of one, Switzerland (five instead of three or four), Germany with 14 instead of 11, Canada (11 instead of 9) and especially Sweden, with seven instead of four or possibly five. In terms of total medals, these are the biggest 'underperformers' (again, compared to my own prediction only): - USA: 23 instead of 29-30 - France: 15 instead of 17-18 - Italy: 10 instead of 13 - Finland: 6 instead of 8 - Latvia: 1 instead of 2-3 And the biggest overperformers (in terms of total medals): - Czech Republic: 7 instead of 4-5 - The Netherlands: 20 instead of 16-17 - South Korea: 17 instead of 13-14 - Russia: 17 instead of 13-14 - Switzerland: 15 instead of 13 - Great Britain: 5 instead of 3 (note to self: GBR will have amazing equipment in skeleton next time, don't underestimate them ever again) - New Zealand and Spain: both 2 instead of 1

Yep

Martin Garrix, we've got Dutch participation in the ceremony

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Ah, here we see the traditional South Korean child labour to connect all this with the next Winter Olympics.

We got the poooooooooower! Pooooooower!

South Korean freakiness YunjonghadjisayunjongEXOlalalala

I've never watched so much ice hockey in my life as I watched in these Olympics alone, so it's easy to say that they were the best matches I ever saw But yeah, I enjoyed it a lot and it made me want to watch ice hockey a lot more

Wait, he is what?

North Korean girl giving Bach a pat on the back, like, 'nicely done'

That explains why they ended up with 6-7 medals less than I expected, the biggest underperformers in terms of number of medals won vs number of medals I had predicted.

Instead of extinguishing the flame, how about we extinguish Bach?

The speed skating on Medeo, in the snow, was epicness at it's best

Are you saying Belgium and the Netherlands are similar?