Winter Olympics
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Stitch up!
Somehow...
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@crucial Yeah - I stayed up to watch the semis and thought they did the right thing - probably had a better chance of winning the silver (by beating the Koreans) than winning the bronze (by beating either of the Dutch or Norwegians).
A good effort and they gave it everything - just not quite good enough.
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@chris-b said in Winter Olympics:
@crucial Yeah - I stayed up to watch the semis and thought they did the right thing - probably had a better chance of winning the silver (by beating the Koreans) than winning the bronze (by beating either of the Dutch or Norwegians).
A good effort and they gave it everything - just not quite good enough.
One of them has held his hand up for making a slip in the last lap. That loss of time could have been the difference but even it it wasn't it would have been incredibly close.
Yeah, best to give everything for a guaranteed medal than save yourself for a possible one. -
Fucking FIS have wrecked another snow sport.
Ski and board cross used to be on tracks about half the width with more competitors. It was awesome rollerball type stuff to watch and a fun event.
It is now dominated by failed downhillers rather than freeskiers. The track is wide and fast and whoever gets in front leads the procession. A bit like why F1 motor racing is such a yawn to watch.
It was always feared that putting freeski events like slope style and pipe in the Olympics would change the feel around them too. Making them more a prescribed technical event rather than one where style was rewarded alongside execution.
Apparently the aerials used to be quite freeform and once the FIS starting prescribing hard rules for the Olympics they became the colourless exhibition of twisting and flipping we see now. -
Took 26 years but we get another Winter Olympic medal
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Another bronze!
2 medals in an hour -
wait, what? two medals? in one games? jesus
Actually, someone can probably tell me. I know why the Aussies aren't that great, they have snow-covered hills here. But we have actual, real mountains, and facilities and shit. Why aren't we better at the winter olympics?
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@mariner4life Cash money.
That young kiwi Nico bloke was awesome - 16 years old - talking smack to the camera "suns out guns out" and then slays it on his runs.
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@canefan said in Winter Olympics:
What's happening with our aerial snowboarder? Is he yet to have his final?
On Saturday ? Could be wrong but I thought I heard it was a couple days away
