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Right, only 14 realistic (gold) medal winners to come!

Right, no Smeekens.

This starter really isn't in his right mind

Meh

Come on Koskela, please, just once

By the way, Nogal trains in Norway with Jeremy Wotherspoon....I think Wotherspoon has been teaching him kinda the wrong things...

Nogal..

Not a perfect race and still basically his best result ever, those turns are just Causil for gold in 2022

Vamos Pedro

Greig, who is completely out of shape nowadays, with a 35.2, Hasegawa with 35.08 after having been sick....this is gonna be fast today.

True

So, what do we think? Did Won skipping most of the season and ending up with 30th in the starting order in run one cost them a medal?

This is gonna be one hell of a last run for gold

Yeah, during week 1 the Netherlands have definitely taken over the role as main favourites that Japan had before the Olympics started..

This kind of says it all, there's really a ton of athletes with at least a somewhat realistic medal chance.

Kinda cool that, apart from their combiner, they have the same team as in Salt Lake

I honestly don't know what added value that would have, besides yet another 'forced' mixed event like the Olympics are getting so much....

Mathieu Faivre has been sent home by the French, after some 'egoistic' remarks. According to Dutch media he said stuff like "7th feels like a blow to the face, I'm here for myself" and "if only you knew how I think about the group..". Now, that's Dutch media and obviously he's French, so @Bohemia, surely in French media there's some more about what he said instead of only the things Dutch media mention? Because sending someone home for that...dear lord.

Well, this qualification was not worth getting out of bed for, luckily I watched it now I think there were 3-4 women who did something that, to the untrained eye, seemed a tiny bit interesting, mostly Anna Gasser. The most annoying though is the hate Cheryl Maas keeps getting in the Netherlands, for not making the final and 'always failing/choking'. Sure, her faceplant in the Sochi final was not very impressive, and she had two falls in the slopestyle final here, but that wind actually was a solid 'excuse'...besides, she broke her neck in the summer FFS, just being here is a performance in itself.

Well there are only three medal events during the entire day, and they still managed to make it hard to follow all of them live.

I mean, that's how I do it. I can't speak for our Slovak friend of course, we're not living together

From around 20.00 to around 01.30 so far in week 1 of the Olympics, with sometimes 1-2 hours in those empty hours in the European morning

Daytona 500 Which is a bit tough because otherwise I would have been sleeping for 3 hours already by now, it's annoying this race came right in the middle of an Olympics with 8 hours time difference

This is absolutely hilarious.

Yep. Actually, Norway winning the team event (which would be the most expected result at the moment) would be a perfect way to end the men's ski jumping, with all three major nations at the moment winning a gold medal, as one might have hoped.