Old Skier
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Blinking boarder, knocked over all the skiers on the mountain :clap::clap:
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Blinking boarder, knocked over all the skiers on the mountain :clap::clap:
Brilliant for both girls, so pleased of the lass who won bronze as I'm sure she was in hope more than expectation of winning a medal.
Have to feel for her and she certainly seems destined never to win. One more chance. What a huge medal for Izzy Atkin and the first British skiing medal ever. Great day for team GB
BubbaP
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Not sure how she stayed up on that last landing...must have been boarder instincts 
Beezerk
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Oh dear, yellow card as well, proper rubbing it in that 🤕
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Yeah, World Champion Elise Christie just isn't fast or good enough, ok
It was a question not a statement.
Why is it not a possibility?
Olympics is a whole level up from WCs. Not having the ability to control emotion/nerves or handle pressure could also constitute not being good enough, couldn't it?
She seems to panic and make bad decisions after getting in bad positions on the track. Can't all be just bad luck, no?
Orikoru
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Yeah, Elise Christie is bloody useless. All that hype and then nothing!
On Sunday I watching the freestyle skiing, I think that was one of the best sports I've seen at these Olympics, it was amazing. Our guy only managed 4th sadly but he was basically just as good as the top 3, just a bit unlucky I think.
On Sunday I watching the freestyle skiing, I think that was one of the best sports I've seen at these Olympics, it was amazing. Our guy only managed 4th sadly but he was basically just as good as the top 3, just a bit unlucky I think.
Reemul
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Well she has just been disqualified from the 1000m as well..
MegaSteve
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On a more positive note the ladies two person bob have just gone sixth in the first round... Not sure if they have it in them to medal but a great showing from a pair who are largely where they are on the back of 'crowd funding'...
Robster59
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There's a lady who really needs to work with a sports psychologist. Her head is all over the place.
Still not feeling "stoked" about the Olympics then LT
I was eating my toast this morning and the sports section was on BBC Breakfast. They showed a clip of something called ski half pipe, could be wrong. The skier is stood bolt upright and ski's sideways / 45° down a giant pipe cut in half. Every so often they get enough momentum to get in the air and do a twirl. Needless to say the British lady fell on both of her runs, BOA money well spent there then. Seriously, that is meant to be a proper sport? A bit of fun on holiday, yes but if that is a sport then team snowball fighting needs to make an application for future Games.
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Anyone watch Elizabeth Swaney in the skiing half pipe, American representing Hungsry, great story, thought it was a wind up when I first saw it.
I had to google it and according to the accounts I read she wants to be there but makes no attempt to win. She does the minimum, gets the tracksuit, goes home. Good old Eddie back in Calgary may have been rubbish at Ski jumping but he tried his best. Can you say this woman did that or did she just want the badge?
What appealed to you about this Paul?
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She noticed that to qualify she had to finish in the top 30 of X amount of qualifiers, she purposely chose qualifiers with small fields, used her own money to travel to the events and finished last in most but enough top 30’s to qualify for the Olympics.
Apparently they are looking to close the loophole, as someone said she used the old saying, “work smarter not harderâ€
She then stays on her feet and finishes 22 out of 24 as a couple of others fell over.
Makes a mockery of the professional athlete, but in the true Olympic spirit, it’s the taking part that counts. :rofl:
Orikoru
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What was the purpose though? Just to get internet fame or something? Since that's what everything seems to boil down to these days.
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She wanted to be an Olympic Athlete, nothing to do with internet fame from what I’ve read.
It's sad though isn't it. She purposely didn't try very hard, played it safe. A bit like a speed skater who would stay at the back and never look to overtake or win. They would let the others race, fall over and come 4th out of 6 or however it works.
Sometimes there are glorious stories in the Olympics of people who pushed themselves to qualify, the runner coming in the 5k 10 minutes after the winner but who's legs give way as they cross the line. I don't see this as one of them, there is no glory here.
Sometimes there are glorious stories in the Olympics of people who pushed themselves to qualify, the runner coming in the 5k 10 minutes after the winner but who's legs give way as they cross the line. I don't see this as one of them, there is no glory here.
Orikoru
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I don't know how I feel about it to be honest. I think if she'd have qualified by those means, and then used the opportunity to go out and give it her all at the Olympics, I'd have thought it was genius. But the fact that she continued doing absolutely nothing even in the final Olympic run made it all a waste of time. Or a waste of opportunity anyway. She went to the Olympics and deliberately came in last, since there was nowhere else she could finish by not attempting any tricks - great?
MegaSteve
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Didn't Vanessa Mae fiddle her way into the Sochi games using dubious qualifying loopholes?
