When an ageing CC journeyman like Bellingham makes it to the semifinals, then probably every single athlete who qualified for the CC sprint heats would have managed to win at least a medal.
Of course we know why IOC money grubbers and media try to turn any sport into something to sell. But some sports just aren’t about racing. I don’t know about in Europe, but in the mountain ranges here—like the Cascades and Sierras—ski mountaineering means anssessing weather conditions, avalanche beacons, shovels, probes, and other emergency gear. You could call it a competition (although better to think of it as a collaboration) against nature. And as we learned yesterday in California, sometimes nature wins.
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Based on the 1000 times I had thought Stolz would be way faster on the 1500
I wonder if there's something about the large amount of days between events that made this more difficult for him.
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maybe, but the American speed skaters didn't really look great in general so far. And neither did Stolz, despite winning two golds.
But he obviously still shouldn't finish a second behind
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I would personally have deducted 1.88 points from Alysa Liu for using the Donna Summer version of MacArthur Park, but I'll admit I still don't know anything about figure skating.
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100%. Richard Harris or bust.
Or a deduction for using a song whose lyrics are absurd!
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You mean these lyrics don't grab ya?
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left my cake out in the rain
And I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no, oh
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Jimmy Webb also wrote Wichita Lineman, so his songwriting sins are automatically absolved.
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By the time Jimmy Webb got to Phoenix he was definitely stoned.
You are dancing from stereotyping and insulting a few 'groups' to insulting a few others...eek!
Liu looked like she was spinning faster, and flowing better than the other skaters yesterday.
*My disclaimers: I (almost) always have a homer hat on, and even though I've been watching Olympic skating since '76, I judge by the eye test with minimal knowledge of the scoring system.
*My disclaimers: I (almost) always have a homer hat on, and even though I've been watching Olympic skating since '76, I judge by the eye test with minimal knowledge of the scoring system.
Well, we also have a record number of medal events this year.
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She looked more surprised that she’d won than anyone else in the skate hall. She adds to the legacy of the name De Jong in Dutch and Olympic speed skating. I don’t know if there’s any relation since it’s probably a common name in the Netherlands?
Also interesting to watch because the 1500 is a curious distance in skating: neither the gold medal sprinter Kok or the gold medal distance skater Lollobridgita got on the podium. I wonder if it’s similar to the 800 in athletics— too long for most 200-400 sprinters but too fast (with some exceptions” for distance runners.
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So it seems that we are going to have the blockbuster final between the USA and Canada in hockey.
I dare to say that the Americans have been looking better but that counts for little in a final.
I dare to say that the Americans have been looking better but that counts for little in a final.
True, but I believe (will have to go back and count) that most of Norway's medals--including golds--came in long-time, established winter Olympic sports: Nordic events, biathlon, speed skating. So if this Olympics included only those events that took place in. let's say, 1992, Norway would be even a bigger winner percentage wise than in this Olympics.
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For the Ski Mountaineering Mixed today they will use a longer track, about double the length of the sprint (which took place on the left part of the course on the map). Each athlete does two laps (FMFM). So it should be a bit more about endurance today.
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Seeing as I worship at the church of Canadian hockey I'll be cheering for the Canucks, but I think they may have just a tiny bit more pressure on them because Canada = hockey, and the players better not return home to Canada unless they win the gold! I'm almost expecting a rather chippy game...
Finland is playing Slovakia for the bronze later today, I think it should be a good game and for reasons I had mentioned upthread I'll be cheering for the Slovaks. (I have nothing against the Finns though, so won't be crushed if they win.)
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Those ski mountaineering penalties are more ridiculous than the courses. The individual races should also have featured both loops.
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The name is so common wikipedia literally has seperate categories for De Jong by different subjects. Over 80,000 of them.
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I'm watching the replay and while I'm very, very confused I like this longer format a lot more than the sprint. I also think the baby Giant Slalom that is part of the course is super cute.
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