EPTCongratulations Zhang and China! Great Race! Another two medals for the Netherlands.
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Ysellian
Netherlands9029 Posts
Congratulations Zhang and China! Great Race! Another two medals for the Netherlands. | ||
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HolydaKing
21254 Posts
On February 14 2014 00:17 Otolia wrote: Lesser isn't a monster on skis but I fear the preparation wasn't good for the german team. I heard they broke the machine to shape skis  I'm just hoping Norway is getting a medal at relay because I think Bjoerndalen deserves to be the most succesful athlete. But I fear they may not, their showings are pretty bad so far aside from Bjoerndalen (except from today). What happened to Svendsen these days, he was a monster not too long ago. | ||
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AlternativeEgo
Sweden17309 Posts
On February 14 2014 00:17 Otolia wrote: Lesser isn't a monster on skis but I fear the preparation wasn't good for the german team. I heard they broke the machine to shape skis Russia gave them one of theirs | ||
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Sn0_Man
Tebellong44238 Posts
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Ysellian
Netherlands9029 Posts
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AlternativeEgo
Sweden17309 Posts
Russian figure skater Evgeny Plushenko has withdrawn from the Sochi Olympics with an apparent back injury. The 31-year-old was due to perform in the short program on Thursday but appeared to hurt himself in the warm-up, landing awkwardly after a jump. He informed the judges he would not be able to perform and left the ice http://en.rsport.ru/olympics/20140213/724424051.html | ||
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nikj
Canada669 Posts
On February 14 2014 01:19 AlternativeEgo wrote: For you figure skating maniacs (do you exist?): Russian figure skater Evgeny Plushenko has withdrawn from the Sochi Olympics with an apparent back injury. The 31-year-old was due to perform in the short program on Thursday but appeared to hurt himself in the warm-up, landing awkwardly after a jump. He informed the judges he would not be able to perform and left the ice http://en.rsport.ru/olympics/20140213/724424051.html Help Canada'a chances, he was looking strong. | ||
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mahrgell
Germany3943 Posts
Germany wins the luge! | ||
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Sn0_Man
Tebellong44238 Posts
On February 14 2014 02:00 mahrgell wrote: Germany wins the luge! Isn't this just always the case? | ||
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virpi
Germany3599 Posts
Almost always. Sometimes ze Germans lose to Russians, Austrians or Italians. | ||
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sharkie
Austria18524 Posts
On February 14 2014 02:03 virpi wrote: Almost always. Sometimes ze Germans lose to Russians, Austrians or Italians. 2006 and 2010 Lingers said hello :D | ||
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AlternativeEgo
Sweden17309 Posts
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Crushinator
Netherlands2138 Posts
On February 14 2014 00:21 Ysellian wrote: The Americans have been desperately disappointing at speed skating these olympics. What happened? Congratulations Zhang and China! Great Race! Another two medals for the Netherlands. It is possible those lockheed martin skating suits are slow. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/winter-olympics-2014-team-usa-speed-skaters-will-race-in-worlds-fastest-suit/ Or the coaches are doing something horribly wrong. Davis, Heatherson and Bowe failing to get even a single medal between them so far is very disappointing. | ||
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GwSC
United States1997 Posts
On February 14 2014 03:06 Crushinator wrote: It is possible those lockheed martin skating suits are slow. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/winter-olympics-2014-team-usa-speed-skaters-will-race-in-worlds-fastest-suit/ Or the coaches are doing something horribly wrong. Davis, Heatherson and Bowe failing to get even a single medal between them so far is very disappointing. Were the US speed skaters expected to be contenders for gold going into this? I haven't really been paying attention to the speed skating side of things. Also, wow, Germans are killing it on the golds so far. | ||
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Crushinator
Netherlands2138 Posts
On February 14 2014 03:18 GwSC wrote: Were the US speed skaters expected to be contenders for gold going into this? I haven't really been paying attention to the speed skating side of things. Also, wow, Germans are killing it on the golds so far. Shani Davis was the biggest favorite on the men's 1000m and Heather Richardson (forgive my typo in the other post) for the women's 1000m, fellow American Bowe was the second biggest contender. They all fell way short of the podium, in those fancy new suits that were totally untested in official races. At the very least we know that two time gold medalist Davis is not known to be a choker. Netherlands had a similar experiment with plastic strips on the suits a while back, but that was abandoned because they did not help and were possibly harmful. | ||
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GwSC
United States1997 Posts
On February 14 2014 03:26 Crushinator wrote: Shani Davis was the biggest favorite on the men's 1000m and Heather Richardson (forgive my typo in the other post) for the women's 1000m, fellow American Bowe was the second biggest contender. They all fell way short of the podium, in those fancy new suits that were totally untested in official races. At the very least we know that two time gold medalist Davis is not known to be a choker. Netherlands had a similar experiment with plastic strips on the suits a while back, but that was abandoned because they did not help and were possibly harmful. Oh I see. Hm. Now I'm curious just how much time the skaters got to try out the new suits beforehand, and just how much testing was done outside official events. Seems really silly to just pull out new suits for such a big event, but hey what do I know. | ||
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GettingIt
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GwSC
United States1997 Posts
On February 14 2014 03:34 GettingIt wrote: You guys sound so knowledgeable! Do you all follow these various sports season long or do you read up on them as the olympics get closer? If that was directed partly at me, no, I know close to nothing about the sport, hence "but hey what do I know". | ||
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GGTeMpLaR
United States7226 Posts
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Otolia
France5805 Posts
On February 14 2014 02:00 mahrgell wrote: This will be another gold! YES Germany wins the luge! There is no competition in luge outside of Germany. It's easy to dominate a discipline when you have the only few professionals amongst a sea of semi-pros. Just look at Rowing in the last Olympics, UK and NZ were the only 2 country to subvention their athletes so that they could be pros and they got almost everything :| | ||
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