Olympian1010 7,470 Posted October 26, 2020 #191 Share Posted October 26, 2020 3 minutes ago, Vic Liu said: Good to know the update. The track seems still not fully finished yet. At least the decoration part hasn't finished I guess and it looks quite "ugly and dirty". I will go there watch testing events once it opens for public. But it's unlikely to happen this year due to the pandemic. Typical of any venue. Generally venue decoration/branding doesn’t go up until only a few months before the Games. I think there’s still some minor construction to be done, but I haven’t found Bobsleigh tracks to be works of beauty. Yeah, I’d imagine there won’t be any public events this season. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcro 10,179 Posted October 26, 2020 #192 Share Posted October 26, 2020 One wonders if even the homologation is complete. Probably not. #banbestmen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NearPup 2,156 Posted October 26, 2020 #193 Share Posted October 26, 2020 48 minutes ago, Vic Liu said: Good to know the update. The track seems still not fully finished yet. At least the decoration part hasn't finished I guess and it looks quite "ugly and dirty". I will go there watch testing events once it opens for public. But it's unlikely to happen this year due to the pandemic. Sliding venues (other than exactly St Moritz) aren’t exactly known for looking nice tbh. They all have an industrial look to them. Olympian1010 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,470 Posted October 26, 2020 #194 Share Posted October 26, 2020 2 hours ago, dcro said: One wonders if even the homologation is complete. Probably not. Well being that pre-homologation starts tomorrow, I’d imagine not. I don’t think they’re terribly behind schedule though. The FIL/IBSF and the sliders themselves haven’t seemed worried. I think the process was supposed to start this spring, but obviously Covid made that impossible. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,470 Posted October 26, 2020 #195 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Hopeful we’ll be able to see some video from the first runs tomorrow, so we can really start to analyze the track. There’s a couple of sections I’m very interested in after seeing the photos posted by the FIL today. “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,470 Posted October 27, 2020 #196 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Short clip from one of two sections that really stood out to me from the pictures shared yesterday. https://www.instagram.com/p/CG24onBIIfE/?igshid=f5odb830k979 “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,470 Posted October 27, 2020 #197 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Someone traveling with the Latvian delegation posted a bunch of photos yesterday. Besides that section I shared, this is the other section that really caught my eye: It looks almost like some type of prolonged corner or modified “bend away” in this photo. The original sketches and renders of this track made seem really simple, but I like what I’ve been able to see so far. It’s so hard to judge from photos though. Just let me see a full damn run already! “Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
intoronto 4,201 Posted October 30, 2020 #198 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Some scheduling news: -Short track will go up to 6 competition days from 5 -There will be a day -2 (day -1 was the earliest in 2018), this day will just have mixed doubles round robin in curling EupenM, NearPup, Vic Liu and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassmarket 2,748 Posted October 31, 2020 #199 Share Posted October 31, 2020 10 hours ago, intoronto said: Some scheduling news: -Short track will go up to 6 competition days from 5 -There will be a day -2 (day -1 was the earliest in 2018), this day will just have mixed doubles round robin in curling More days the better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NearPup 2,156 Posted November 1, 2020 #200 Share Posted November 1, 2020 On 30/10/2020 at 17:45, intoronto said: Some scheduling news: -Short track will go up to 6 competition days from 5 -There will be a day -2 (day -1 was the earliest in 2018), this day will just have mixed doubles round robin in curling I like both those changes. Short track was always too crowded for the athletes, adding the mixed relay was going to make that even worse. And two more days of curling without anything else going on? Fun way to start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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