02-21-2018, 07:58 PM
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I need picture in picture in picture ... tv tonight. So many things to watch.
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02-21-2018, 07:59 PM
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#42
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Alright that run from Porteous was completely insane. I have no doubt he'll be underscored for being 16 and effectively a nobody but that is easily, easily worthy of 90+
EDIT: WHOA! I was totally wrong! They scored him! That's awesome, totally deserved. That is going to be tough to beat. Wise has a run that can do it, but everyone has to step up their games now. Holy crap!
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02-21-2018, 08:01 PM
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#43
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Looooooooooooooch
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Omg that 16 year old!!
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02-21-2018, 08:01 PM
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#44
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Calgary, AB
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Loved the 16 year old kids reaction - those are the best olympic moments when somebody does something that surprises even themselves.
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02-21-2018, 08:03 PM
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#45
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Wise down first hit... now only one chance to make it happen. We might have a 16 year old gold medalist! Not a lot of guys in this comp have a 95 in them.
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02-21-2018, 08:11 PM
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#46
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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New Zealand had a 16-year old girl get bronze in snowboard Big Air and now this boy leading in half-pipe... whatever their youth program is doing, we should copy it.
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02-21-2018, 08:11 PM
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#47
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^Their entire ski program is called "the Wells brothers". They basically created a generation of skiers there.
Torin definitely had a medal there but ran out of pipe. Unreal run up to that point, just boosting.
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02-21-2018, 08:16 PM
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Okay, that didn't deserve a 96. :/
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02-21-2018, 08:16 PM
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#49
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Canterbury, NZ
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Since our mountains aren't very tall and the snows not consistent enough to do any kind of high level racing, all the kids get into freestyle here.
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02-21-2018, 08:26 PM
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#50
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weird to not even try to go for gold
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02-21-2018, 08:26 PM
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#51
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Last call for Noah. Let's see if he's got something bigger.... nope, goes down. Probably won't medal, has to rely on a couple of guys falling. Still, an 89.4 is about what I thought he had in him so it's not a terrible comp for him.
First bullet, David Wise.
Game. Over. Too bad for Noah but seriously that run is pretty much unbeatable. If they don't give him gold that's a travesty.
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Last edited by CorsiHockeyLeague; 02-21-2018 at 08:28 PM.
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02-21-2018, 08:30 PM
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#52
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And there it is. It was really just a matter of time. No one else has anything at that level.
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02-21-2018, 08:31 PM
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#53
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Canterbury, NZ
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Quote:
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weird to not even try to go for gold
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Yeah that was lame. Sitting in second with one run to go and you don't even try?
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02-21-2018, 08:34 PM
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#54
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Party Elephant
Yeah that was lame. Sitting in second with one run to go and you don't even try?
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The run he put down - which should really have had him in first until Wise did what he did - was beyond what I thought he was even capable of doing. He has probably never done anything like that and going for anything more would be risking serious injury so I can sort of understand it, even though I do agree with TJ - just add a rotation to that first trick, if you stick it you've done something no one else has ever landed in a competition, and then who knows what the judges do with it.
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02-21-2018, 08:35 PM
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Party Elephant
Yeah that was lame. Sitting in second with one run to go and you don't even try?
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Probably thought he couldn't beat his run, but it seems to me like there's score inflation as the event goes on so maybe he gets back into first with a repeat?
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02-21-2018, 08:40 PM
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#57
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That was a brutal fall. Looks fine though. Tough dude.
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02-21-2018, 08:41 PM
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#58
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First Line Centre
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These crashes remind me why I stay out of the terrain park.
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02-21-2018, 08:46 PM
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Olympic Guru
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: PL1
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These last runs have been pretty entertaining, everybody going all out
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02-21-2018, 08:47 PM
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#60
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First Line Centre
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Hope the kiwi hangs in for bronze
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