02-23-2018, 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by SebC
I thought it was because their mountains are small and boring if you don't do freestyle, like New Zealand.
What's weird is that we don't get more alpine success from Western Canadians.
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Yeah, the same kind of hills like Canyon I Red Deer. But beginner programs anyway, in my experience, are very cheap there. Community programs. $40 there where I would pay $275 in AB. TBH, I do not know for certain it applies to 'all' sports, but it was for anything we put my daughter in there.
It was about the only value I could see in the high tax burden. Well that, and snow removal.
BTW, here in Chicagoland, what was $40 in Quebec is now $500. It's way different though. It's private. It's Exclusive.
It's very American 
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02-23-2018, 10:16 PM
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#82
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what kind of stupidity is this snowboarding parallel gs. how can you compete on 2 different courses then have a winner without switching sides and racing again?
I've watched 11 races and the red lane had won all 11. it's not who is faster its who draws the red lane.
edit 12 for 12
13 for 13
14 for 14
15 for 15,
what a farce lol
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02-23-2018, 10:23 PM
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#83
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Ya, Jasey Jay was right to be pissed
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02-23-2018, 10:25 PM
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#84
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I think it's fair for Springs to be frustrated that you can have a good start, a good drive, and a bad time. It certainly looks to me that either the Canadian team needs to re-evaluate its equipment, or even that the sport as a whole might need standardized gear.
The other sport that looks like it needs to do some soul searching is Parralel Giant Slalom... riders on the red course are winning consistently over riders on the blue course. Single run eliminations was a terrible idea.
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02-23-2018, 10:28 PM
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#85
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Yeah, this snowboard gs is hilarious. I'm only watching now to see if someone can actually win on the blue track.
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02-23-2018, 10:30 PM
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Ya, Jasey Jay was right to be pissed
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Haven't seen his race or his comments, but I think he did his qualification on the red side though, so whatever he was pissed about has to be a different issue, no?
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02-23-2018, 10:31 PM
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Alex Harvey in 5th in the Men's 50km after 10km, the lead group is pretty damn big still. On TSN
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02-23-2018, 10:33 PM
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#88
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So Canada seems to be nowhere in any of the ski races, including this parallel stuff.
Why is that?
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02-23-2018, 10:35 PM
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Haven't seen his race or his comments, but I think he did his qualification on the red side though, so whatever he was pissed about has to be a different issue, no?
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https://olympics.cbc.ca/video/interv...rocious-57617/
I believe he was on the Blue side for both of his qualifying runs
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02-23-2018, 10:36 PM
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tromboner
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Someone missed a gate on red, blue course wins!
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02-23-2018, 10:36 PM
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#91
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Blue wins!
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02-23-2018, 10:39 PM
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hilarious it takes someone crashing on the red course for blue to win.
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02-23-2018, 10:39 PM
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Any idea what the red flag when you click the plus next to his name on the CBC results page means then? That's why I thought he raced on red.
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02-23-2018, 10:40 PM
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Does this announce team not feel conpelled to point out that red wins every single time, other than the one wipeout? Do they not know?
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02-23-2018, 10:40 PM
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So Canada seems to be nowhere in any of the ski races, including this parallel stuff.
Why is that?
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Well we did pretty well in the ski cross races 
But having Erik Guay injured and not available was going to make it really hard for us in any Alpine event.
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02-23-2018, 10:42 PM
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Blue course!
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02-23-2018, 10:43 PM
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Any idea what the red flag when you click the plus next to his name on the CBC results page means then? That's why I thought he raced on red. |
Hmm... I'm not sure. I'm gonna rewatch his races now to see because now I'm really confused
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02-23-2018, 10:44 PM
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Well we did pretty well in the ski cross races
But having Erik Guay injured and not available was going to make it really hard for us in any Alpine event. |
Forgot about ski cross. But we aren’t even in the conversation in the other alpine stuff.
I guess young athletes are attracted to the x games stuff, but the US still has downhill and slalom racers who are in the hunt.
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02-23-2018, 10:44 PM
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Blue course!
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crazy the slomo at the finish line didn't look like he won at all
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02-23-2018, 10:44 PM
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Alex Harvey in 5th in the Men's 50km after 10km, the lead group is pretty damn big still. On TSN
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Thanks. Switched to this
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