It all comes down to whether or not you believe the Russian girl deserves a higher choreography score and higher Grade of Execution scores. The commentators didn't seem to think so, but that's hardly relevant. Honestly, regardless of shenanigans I probably feel worst for Sotnikova, since she's getting painted with this weird unfairness brush despite skating her ass off.
My god this speed skating relay race is insane, impossible to follow but somehow still possible.
Crazy exciting too.
Although it makes zero sense what the Korean guy is doing on Russia's team, shouldn't he be on Koreans team? Do country changes happen that often?
It's not super uncommon, honestly, although it's usually not the elite athletes who do it - more the ones who probably won't crack their national team so they go somewhere with a shallow talent pool. The fact that Ahn is having so much success just goes to show how dominant Korea is in short-track - he probably could have made any national team other than his own back in Vancouver, and while I don't know his exact reasoning, the possibility that he wasn't sure he'd make team Korea this time either is only further indication of just how strong they are in this sport.
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I enjoy the parallel snowboard slalom event, but the timing system irks me.
So basically (for those who haven't seen it) it's a bracket format of 1v1 races on parallel courses. Each race features two runs, where the riders swap courses for each to balance out any advantage one side may have over the other.
After the first run, the rider who won takes their time advantage into the second run, up to 1.5 seconds. So even if a rider crashes out in the first run, they still start the second with a 1.5 second time gap (their gate being time-delayed). And here's what bugs me: whoever crosses the line first in the secon run wins the overall heat. This seems unfair to me, if someone wins by, say, several seconds or their opponent crashes in the first run, and yet they're 1.500000001 slower in the second run, they lose. And it seems to kind of completely outweigh every attempt at balancing out the two courses by having them swap sides.
The only part that kinda mitigates that last aspect is that each racer qualifies with two combined runs, one on each side, with the higher seed getting to choose which course they take first, so I guess that makes it a bit more fair and makes qualifying more important. But the whole thing just feels off to me, although I realize that so many factors require some compromise.
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It all comes down to whether or not you believe the Russian girl deserves a higher choreography score and higher Grade of Execution scores. The commentators didn't seem to think so, but that's hardly relevant. Honestly, regardless of shenanigans I probably feel worst for Sotnikova, since she's getting painted with this weird unfairness brush despite skating her ass off.
The nbc 8pm commentary completely agreed with the judges
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Mantracker is pretty dope.
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Also about half an hour into the men's 50km cross-country race, the field is still mostly together but some of the stronger skiers are heading to the front. And the USA's Noah Hoffman has been staying in the top 5. It's a loooong race, but at least for now he looks good.
(Spoiler: the Norwegians are going to stop hanging around the middle of the pack and take it over and drop most everyone else.)
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i'm looking forward to a great game as opposed to a victory by either team. on one hand, swedish victory would be a great confidence boost to my team (the canucks)
on the other, if i openly rooted against canada my partner would divorce me.
no marriage counselor, no trial separation. fuckin' divorced
great period for canada - sweden looked increasingly desperate. i think their big chance was striking with speed early - it'll be hard for them to claw back now that canada's grind has started to take its toll...
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A Swedin.
This made me more sad that the actual outcome of the game.
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Crazy exciting too.
Although it makes zero sense what the Korean guy is doing on Russia's team, shouldn't he be on Koreans team? Do country changes happen that often?
Thanks for resolving that moral quandary, Team Canada.
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It all comes down to whether or not you believe the Russian girl deserves a higher choreography score and higher Grade of Execution scores. The commentators didn't seem to think so, but that's hardly relevant. Honestly, regardless of shenanigans I probably feel worst for Sotnikova, since she's getting painted with this weird unfairness brush despite skating her ass off.
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It's not super uncommon, honestly, although it's usually not the elite athletes who do it - more the ones who probably won't crack their national team so they go somewhere with a shallow talent pool. The fact that Ahn is having so much success just goes to show how dominant Korea is in short-track - he probably could have made any national team other than his own back in Vancouver, and while I don't know his exact reasoning, the possibility that he wasn't sure he'd make team Korea this time either is only further indication of just how strong they are in this sport.
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So basically (for those who haven't seen it) it's a bracket format of 1v1 races on parallel courses. Each race features two runs, where the riders swap courses for each to balance out any advantage one side may have over the other.
After the first run, the rider who won takes their time advantage into the second run, up to 1.5 seconds. So even if a rider crashes out in the first run, they still start the second with a 1.5 second time gap (their gate being time-delayed). And here's what bugs me: whoever crosses the line first in the secon run wins the overall heat. This seems unfair to me, if someone wins by, say, several seconds or their opponent crashes in the first run, and yet they're 1.500000001 slower in the second run, they lose. And it seems to kind of completely outweigh every attempt at balancing out the two courses by having them swap sides.
The only part that kinda mitigates that last aspect is that each racer qualifies with two combined runs, one on each side, with the higher seed getting to choose which course they take first, so I guess that makes it a bit more fair and makes qualifying more important. But the whole thing just feels off to me, although I realize that so many factors require some compromise.
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italian bobsledder and german biathlete. The German already had a suspension for a few days in 2006.
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C'mon Norway!
I looked it up and find it funny in 2006 she was given the same stuff I was
The nbc 8pm commentary completely agreed with the judges
As did Tara and Johnny.
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Then Jamaica and USA didn't get bobsled medals and canada almost died.
But none of this matters because I discovered Mantracker on Canadian TV. This show is amazing. This should be an Olympic sport.
And the US team is only .01 out of bronze position and only .17 down from gold!
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(Spoiler: the Norwegians are going to stop hanging around the middle of the pack and take it over and drop most everyone else.)
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i spose i should spoiler notes huh
on the other, if i openly rooted against canada my partner would divorce me.
no marriage counselor, no trial separation. fuckin' divorced
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but we'll see!