vinipereira

Can I have Skateboarding (or Surfing) and Table Tennis?

I changed the date a little to Wednesday to give people a couple more of days to recover from the post Olympic depression

Virtue and Moir, the most lovely pair of these Games

Marchei and Hotarek

Disaster for Korea

Brazil also say goodbye to the Games after a 23rd place finish from our team. The goal was top 20, but this still was our best result ever in Bobsleigh (in 4 participations).

Not a great start for South Korea

I only could remember Chloe Kim.

For the second consecutive Games, Isadora will be our flag bearer at the closing ceremony.

Also Japan won just a silver in 2016. Pretty unlikely podium all around, but very nice to see the asian teams.

Also pretty amazing that the gold and silver medals will go to teams that didn't win a single medal in world championships during this entire cycle. This gotta be a first?

What a disastrous end for Great Britain Congrats Japan

Such variety of colours at the podium

Didn't really follow this tournament, but nice to see Matt Hamilton getting a (gold) medal!

Korea And Belgium

The results website

[hide] Men's Tournament Knockout Round February 20th - February 25th, 2018 Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Medal Match and Gold Medal Match Bronze Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 24th 2018, h. 21:10 Canada 1 Czech Republic Gold Medal Match Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 25th 2018, h. 13:10 Germany 1 Olympic Athletes from Russia [/hide]

Exactly. Just goes to show that the "artistic" part is not valued enough (same problem with Gymnastics).

Meh.

Compared to other figure skating events, this competition is rather boring so far.

Ok, maybe it was a mistake not selecting Ashley Wagner...

Yes, that's true. I don't know about other athletes, but even this past 6 months, Isadora needed about US$ 8 thousand monthly for training, but received US$ 5 thousand from the federation and other resources - hence the crowdfunding, which she was trying to reach US$ 5 thousand to get her through the last months. Then Olympics goes by, and there's a huge drop in funding. For snow sports, the federation has a budget of half a million a year, and for ice sports, a little less than that. So 1. they can't really support a huge number of athletes (and by "support" I mean pay some of the expenses); 2. if you're gonna be a winter athlete, just know that eventually you'll have to put your own money if you want to go to some competitions.

It's actually not that random that she (and some other brazilian athletes) only appear in Olympic season. Concentration of efforts (i.e. money) goes only for Olympic qualification, while in other years the support is pretty low, meaning they can't really participate in most competitions. She even had to launch a crowdfunding in order to buy better outfits (later some company gave them to her). This goes the same way for most of the non-traditional winter nations, which olympic qualification seems to be the main goal. For good results, though, this has to change, obviously. You can't create a decent enough athlete with such restrictions.

Gold for Gasser

28 nations in the medal table