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Old 02-21-2018, 06:16 PM   #21
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Theyre adding up the scores? That's stupid.
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Old 02-21-2018, 06:17 PM   #22
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Blouin out of contention too now.
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Old 02-21-2018, 06:18 PM   #23
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OK thats a little better.
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Old 02-21-2018, 06:22 PM   #24
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OK thats a little better.
I like it. Because you can't score the same trick twice, it adds a bit of complexity to the event. You have to have some breadth to go with the depth.
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Old 02-21-2018, 06:28 PM   #25
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Marielle Thompson just laid down an unreal qualification/seeding run for women's ski cross. Sitting 1st place and .45 ahead of teammate Britt Phelan (2nd) and .047 ahead of World Cup #1 Sandra Naeslund (SWE). Even more impressive that she blew her knee 4 months ago and wasn't expected to compete at all.

Also very important because the seeding runs were moved up a day because of the bad weather rolling in. If the race gets cancelled medals will be handed out based on these qualification rankings.

*Kelsey Serwa just came down as I was typing. Canadians are now 1-2-3, Thompson, Serwa, Phelan.
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Podium cut-off is over 150 already, so I really don't get O'Brien's first round at all, unless she couldn't try something bigger safely. But that run was basically thrown away.
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Old 02-21-2018, 06:29 PM   #27
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Marielle Thompson just laid down an unreal qualification/seeding run for women's ski cross. Sitting 1st place and .45 ahead of teammate Britt Phelan (2nd) and .047 ahead of World Cup #1 Sandra Naeslund (SWE). Even more impressive that she blew her knee 4 months ago and wasn't expected to compete at all.

Also very important because the seeding runs were moved up a day because of the bad weather rolling in. If the race gets cancelled medals will be handed out based on these qualification rankings.

*Kelsey Serwa just came down as I was typing. Canadians are now 1-2-3, Thompson, Serwa, Phelan.
do we cheer for a snowstorm now?
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Old 02-21-2018, 06:51 PM   #28
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Gasser wins Gold in the Ladies Big Air. Great final run.
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Old 02-21-2018, 06:53 PM   #29
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Holy big air moment, the Austrian girl laid it down massively to take gold
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Holy big air moment, the Austrian girl laid it down massively to take gold
Seemed like she was ripped off a bit on her second-run score too, so it's nice that it worked out this way.
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Old 02-21-2018, 06:57 PM   #31
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And the New Zealand girl with only the second Winter Olympics medal for her country...ever!
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Cool finish, but the whole comp is seriously undercut by the general smallness of the jump. Like, that's not a big air comp, really. That's just... a jump.
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Old 02-21-2018, 07:19 PM   #33
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Wow, slalom is DNF after DNF.
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Old 02-21-2018, 07:21 PM   #34
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I missed it earlier but here's an interesting piece from a few days ago about Kevin Koe's Father and how his experience in a residential shool shaped the way he used curling to keep his family together.

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Standing in the middle of the ice at the Yellowknife Curling Club on a frigid December night, Fred Koe starts reminiscing about how he got his start in the sport.

"I was in Aklavik, Northwest Territories, growing up with dog teams, hunting, trapping and fishing. It was my life," he begins. "We had a two-sheet rink with natural ice, lamps hanging off the ceiling and a small club room with a potbelly stove."

They would use that stove to melt snow from outside to pebble the curling ice. Fred was eight years old when he stepped on that ice for the first time.

"Two feet in the hack and I shoved it as hard as I could. And that's how Kevin started in Inuvik at six years old," he says about his son.

It's been an arduous journey for Fred Koe, who now finds himself in the stands in South Korea watching his son skip the Canadian men's team at the Olympics. It's a moment he couldn't have imagined for much of his life.

Standing on that curling ice in Yellowknife, Fred reveals something he says he has never spoken publicly about before. Not long after he started curling, he was ripped away from his family and placed in a residential school for 10 months.
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"Now we have a Gwich'in boy, my son, showing the world his talents. And it shows all children, no matter who they are or where they come from, they can be the best."
https://olympics.cbc.ca/news/article...xperience.html
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Holy crap. What a shot by the Swiss skip to score 5 in the 9th end of the Men's Curling tiebreaker. They go to the 10th end with a huge 4 point lead.
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Noah's up... boom. Awesome. Sticks his run on his first try and can now work to build on it. That should be mid to high 80's.

Hey, better yet - almost 90. That's a very good score for him. Suggests that his stock run could be on the verge of podiuming, but probably bronze is going to take 92.

Wise is ####ing ridiculous. Next level... but falls. If he can stick his run he wins.
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Calgary’s Noah Bowman with a score of 89.40 in his first run, top spot!
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Now Riddle. Puts a run down as well. His first hit double 1260 is as good as any trick in this comp for me. He has more, though, and now he can give'r.
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Mike Riddle posts a score of 85.40, only behind Bowman. Good start for Canada!
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Wells into second, that seems about right.

Really have to give props to the camera work in this. Amazing shot of Wells's last hit.

Not a good run for Torin, landed low on third hit. I love Torin's first hit but his second just carries him so far down the pipe it bugs me a bit.

Ferreira should be in first place. That's a podium run... yep, clears the 92 barrier.
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