Winter Beijing 2022 4th Feb to 22nd preview and general discussion thread

[LukeParkerno1]

2nd Semi final of the snowboard cross was a great race with lots of swapping of places all theway to the end.

But Canadian Grondin still looks like the winner to me.

Agree should win by lengths

 

[LukeParkerno1]

What a race

 

[Chism]

Great run by the Austrian.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Experience beats youth.

 

[myblueroan]

Wonder if Jake is related to Eddie Vedder.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Wonder if Jake is related to Eddie Vedder.

If he is, NBC will be playing it over and over on their coverage.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Watched the 10km women's cross country ski event on 7+. Its basically a time trial where skiers set off every minute.

Just happened to catch the last minute or so of Norwegian skier Therese Johaug and she crossed the line in front of German skier who had been in the lead for over half an hour. Johaug had already won the 15km skiathlon.

Then about 10 minutes later a Finnish skier crosses the line in 2nd place behind Johaug by 31 seconds and collapsed about 5m past the finish line. Her teammate Kerttu Niskanen came storming home and was on track to take first place, but fell 0.4 sec short of Johaug and almost took out her collapsed teammate and went down on the snow herself. 20 minutes later Russian skier who is leading the 2021-22 world cup pts total, finished 0.1 second behind the 2nd Finnish skier and finished 4th.

Time trials are heartbreak in any sport, especially when you lose them by a fraction of a second and you have been at it for 20 minutes or more. You will rack your brain for days, months even years, trying to find where you could have found 0.1 sec here 0.2 sec there etc.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Worst Olympic coverage of all time

Stop playing events during the day

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Lol so replay the half pipe we already know the results

 

[danielnajdek]

So they have 6 teams of which 4 make the final. Find it a bit dumb to have an event with 6 teams.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

So they have 6 teams of which 4 make the final. Find it a bit dumb to have an event with 6 teams.

It’s an x games sport. It’s awesome

 

[danielnajdek]

It’s an x games sport. It’s awesome

Not saying it isn't. Just think it's dumb handing out medals in an event with 6 teams.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Just dawned on me that the last 3 Olympics have basically been in Oz's time zone.

2018 Pyeongchang, 2020 (21) Tokyo and now 2022 Beijing.

No wonder USA and Canadian ratings are down. NBC can only shift so many events for east coast USA prime time between 7pm and 10pm or maybe as late as midnight. 7pm NY time = 8am Beijing time = 11 am Syd/Melb time at the moment.

Get ready in 2032 to have morning swimming finals again and plenty of other afternoon rather than evening finals.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Not saying it isn't. Just think it's dumb handing out medals in an event with 6 teams.

No worse than some sports

 

[Royces Hart]

So they have 6 teams of which 4 make the final. Find it a bit dumb to have an event with 6 teams.

Two had to pull out due to covid

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Anyone else can’t wait till the mens snowboard is over? Talk about saturating the coverage

 

[hawkman]

Anyone else can’t wait till the mens snowboard is over? Talk about saturating the coverage

Imagine if he wins. It will just be a replay on continuous loop for the rest of the Games

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Tonight the Women's Monobob had the first 2 of 6 training runs with the official comp starting on Sunday lunchtime with the first 2 runs and Monday lunchtime the 3rd and 4th runs,

Bree Walker is a chance to medal, she has won a World Cup event in Germany in early January and has made 5 podiums in the 2021/22 WC season.

There isn't much between the top 8 or so competitors, couple yanks including 2021/22 WC overall champion Elana Meyers Taylor who won four events this season and fellow countrywoman Kaillie Humphries, Canadians Cynthia Appiah and Christine de Bruine and like all sliding events the German always have contender, this event its Laura Nolte and Mariama Jamanka.

But in her 2 training runs tonight she was fastest in both. I was hoping to watch them on 7+ but they and/or the world feed don't show the training runs for any of the sliding events. There are 20 competitors. Here is the top 10 results of both runs.

1st training run




2nd training run

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Imagine if he wins. It will just be a replay on continuous loop for the rest of the Games

Will be worse than when Belle lost

 

[danielnajdek]

Imagine if he wins. It will just be a replay on continuous loop for the rest of the Games

He wont. The Yank will win again.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Watching the speed skating on the OBS' english world feed, hear an English female commentator and then on comes ex SBS soccer commentator David Basheer. The OBS seems to love employing Aussies call sports.

 

[Royces Hart]

Watching the speed skating on the OBS' english world feed, hear an English female commentator and then on comes ex SBS soccer commentator David Basheer. The OBS seems to love employing Aussies call sports.

Then why won’t they take Hamish and Basil off our hands?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Then why won’t they take Hamish and Basil off our hands?

They aren't that stupid. . Hamish wouldn't get a gig, he doesn't call any Olympic sports. They've heard Basil's swimming calls.

 

[hawkman]

Watching the speed skating on the OBS' english world feed, hear an English female commentator and then on comes ex SBS soccer commentator David Basheer. The OBS seems to love employing Aussies call sports.

Usually the ones that 7 rejected. So better ones

Although in these 2 Olympics Alistair Nicholson and Matt Hill are solid and an improvement on previous Olympics