Gigs

Don't know if this has been discussed already, but I just really don't like cross events with 6 athletes per run. The start gets way too important when a bad start means you have to overtake 5 people to win a run. It seems like olympic organizers always think bigger=better

I call it paranoid But you must not completely ignore a skier who has as many podiums at olympic super-g's as in all other world cup races. Nobody expected him to be that good 4/8 years ago as well

Austrian TV already celebrating gold. Don't jinx it ffs. There are still guys like weibrecht on the start.

If mayer gets beaten by a German I'll probably quit watching ski races

Why did myer have to f*ck up the last section. I would be a lot more relaxed now otherwise

YEEEEEEEES

This isn't over yet. If giezendanner can be so close to jansrud...

First three alpine gold medals go to hirscher, svindal and shiffrin. Not exactly nonames

Shiffrin

I'm a bit disappointed by Rebensburg. That was a decent run but I expected fireworks. This won't be enough for a medal

That was probably the first good gs by veith since 2015

Impressive run by hrovat

Kosi that was extremely dangerous

It always depends on the downhill. Kitzbühel was great in the last two years because there both guys like svindal and feuz who are superb on flat sections and long turns as well as guys like Innerhofer who are strong on the extremely technical sections can win. Therefore you had favorites spreaded over the first twenty starters. This slope only really suits one kind of skier who all happen to be the first skiers in the world cup starting list. I know Innerhofer had good training runs but it was always hard to believe he could challange someone like svindal when the Norwegian is in race mode

The Austrian commentator is so annoying. The Austrians were a few hundreds behind svindal at the 3rd split time and he's like "oh my god what, a time, svindal is getting nervous now" completely ignoring that at that point svindal was 4 tenths behind jansrud

To be honest the only Austrians with a real chance to get a medal were Mayer and kriechmayr. Franz is out of shape and the slope really doesn't suit reichelt

Or not

Now it's time for my fellow countrymen to kick some Norwegian asses

My three top favorites on the podium right now but they all left room for improvement

Don't think that was a perfect run by feuz. That might not be enough for gold

Unfortunately the wind on the hill completely messed up the result but the XC skiing part was absolutely great. Congrats to frenzl. He might not have had a great season but today he was impressive

The events I watched today (Biathlon m/w, luge, ski jumping) were all not the best I've seen, but what annoys me much more is that I missed lots of events because it seems like everything is taking place at the same time. Why are there hourlong pauses with basically nothing taking place and then numerous medal decisions all taking place in the same hour. The scheduling of this olympic games is so abysmal

Theoretically they could make the Super-G on the women's slope I guess. The big problem are the downhill and the combined, since by the rules you need a downhill training on the slope before a race takes place. Said differently, if they decide to use the women's course for the men's downhill and combined there would have to be at least one more training run which would cost another day. Anyway, I read that, if the weather is bad, the organizers are willing to put the downhill start all the way down to the women's super-g start, because they somehow have to make a downhill run tomorrow. They are also willing to delay the downhill run up to 3 hours and would then make the evening. Important side note, if they really shorten the downhill, the slalom will fortunately be shortened too.

This is getting annoying. If they can't make the combined tomorrow the organizers are in big troubles.

YEEEEEEEEEEES I guess I should stop to complain about overachieving Germans now