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The XXII Sochi Winter Olympic Games / Ski And Skate Against Hate
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djplaeskool
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Ban this sick filth
Ban this sick filth
Much domination such medals.
Maze sucks this year at slalom, she gained too much muscle mass during summer, so she can be fast as hell in downhill and super-G, but not so much in slalom - just check how badly supercomination slalom ended for her.
agreed!
Angry Puppy
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What a blatant robbery in women's figure skating. Ugh.
Tragicomedy
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I'm not into the sport much, but it seems like there's a pretty clear vendetta against Wagner. Consistently great performance, consistently low scores.
I think she already knew that;
http://nesn.com/2014/02/ashley-wagner-skating-insiders-question-russian-figure-skating-scores/
While the russian skater fell, they didn't get as low score as Asada did.
Well, nothing's going to change that....up to media to make fuss about changing how judging works.
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I just saw this thing passed around twitter lol
https://www.change.org/en-CA/petiti...-and-demand-rejudgement-at-the-sochi-olympics
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can't actually load it, the site is getting bombed according to this
https://twitter.com/tony_robbo
100k per 15 min?
I know I did. I was even joking to my gf that if you fall or fuck up as a Russian you automatically score higher. Guess I was not far off.
Onion_Relish
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RedAssedApe
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damn...yuna got jobbed haha
still the queen though.
still the queen though.
bonesmccoy
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Wagner stinks.
Yu-na, Kostner and Asada. All of them, " even the Russians", have been great, but the Russians got way too many points, while everyone else was horribly undervalued.
BigJonsson
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What events did the Germans medal in?
Luge?
4 gold, 1 bronze in luge
2 gold ski jump
1 gold, silver, bronze in alpine
1 gold, silver, bronze in nordic combined
1 silver in biathlon
1 bronze in figure skating
1 bronze in cross country
Probably one of the cross country events........
Luge?
4 gold, 1 bronze in luge
2 gold ski jump
1 gold, silver, bronze in alpine
1 gold, silver, bronze in nordic combined
1 silver in biathlon
1 bronze in figure skating
1 bronze in cross country
Probably one of the cross country events........
Kadayi
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All the score breakdowns are here: -
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...omens-figure-skating-jumps.html?smid=fb-share
Mouse over and you can see the scoring at each stage
Also interesting article explaining the scoring system and how it works: -
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Olym...ging-How-did-Adelina-Sotnikova-beat-Kim-Yu-na
Also the scoring system eliminates the highest and lowest scores out of the 9 judges before the average is calculated.
criesofthepast
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The French girl is super salty with the contact by the Russian in ski cross.
I think canada may have a chance at a medal maybe? 3 girls going into the quarters at least.
I think canada may have a chance at a medal maybe? 3 girls going into the quarters at least.
It was someone from Ski Jump.
criesofthepast
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Holy crap what bitching by this French chick. Stop moping lol just standing there not moving digging her skis into the snow.
Elvin Atombender
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Lots of nasty falls in these quarter-finals.
Was gonna say it, Sachenbacher-Stehle would be my guess, too.
dpa basically confirmed it.
Arjen
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So awesome, dude is from my hometown.
His counterargument to the economy point that was raised was brilliant. Though to be fair, I would've shot back "so basically what you're saying is we are dirt poor and still handed your ass to you in this sport"
But his was great too.
Of course it's all in good fun, the guys seemed to be enjoying themselves.
criesofthepast
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Canada gets gold and silver in ski cross!
Move into 2nd in medal standings. 8 gold 22 medals overall
Move into 2nd in medal standings. 8 gold 22 medals overall
That was great! Thompson was the best all day. Serwa barely makes the final but they both cruise through 1 and 2 fairly easily. Great event.
Ski cross is quite a bit different from board cross. Skiers are in much better control so it's a much more technical race. Boarders are just roller derby so it's chaos theory. A lot more luck involved with board cross.
So according to BILD it was really Sachenbacher. She became 4th in her olympic race.
Their source is dpa. Its legit.
Went through all that trouble and didn't even walk away with a medal, that must've sucked.
For Armstrong it paid off at least.
She was at the 48th place in qualifications for the World Cup 2013. In Sprint she made quite a jump towards the 6th place. One day later she won.
criesofthepast
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Where did Canada figure they'd beat Vancouver in gold and medal count?
These are the only ones I can think of that could have been gold:
- Patrick Chan
- Virtue & Moir
- Hamelin (x2?)
That's maybe 4 gold missed out on so far.
These are the only ones I can think of that could have been gold:
- Patrick Chan
- Virtue & Moir
- Hamelin (x2?)
That's maybe 4 gold missed out on so far.
Yeah that ain't happening now. Disappointing short track and maybe aerials/snowboarding perhaps?
Gold totals were going to be tough to match. Improving on medal totals from Vancouver was a possibility. Some predicted 30+, but that was best case scenario. Not going to happen now.
Today could be Canada's biggest medal total day. Already 2 medals, another guaranteed in curling, and decent possibilities in short track events. TSN said the previous best was 4 total medals in one day, both summer and winter games.
Today could be Canada's biggest medal total day. Already 2 medals, another guaranteed in curling, and decent possibilities in short track events. TSN said the previous best was 4 total medals in one day, both summer and winter games.
Beating the total of gold medals was never going to happen and the COC knew it, but still had to create hype. The total of 26 medals was easily beatable though.
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