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Grand Prix cancelled today

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Toaster-Tony
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I'm not sure if there's already a discussion on this but I'm interested to see what NS' thoughts are on this.

Should the qualification scores be used as the final results if the event is cancelled?




Here's an article from freeskier that popped up on my newsfeed



Jan 10 2014 8:41PM
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HentaiHero
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Yeah they chose the winners by default already. Not sure about the women's comp but Bobby Brown won the men's.
Jan 10 2014 8:43PM
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GayWolf420
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it's all good i herd dey skied pow
Jan 10 2014 8:49PM
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Toaster-Tony
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They did the same thing for the women's too. Keri Herman took gold.

But from what it sounded like, the women said they weren't going to compete either way while the men wanted too.

Either way, I can't believe that there wasn't any kind of forethought in what to do if there was bad weather, especially for an olympic qualifying event. I personally think it's kind of bogus to go strictly based off of qualifying scores since a lot of times, you can tell that the athletes aren't giving it everything they have and instead, are just are trying to put a solid run down to make the cut.
Jan 10 2014 8:51PM
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TimRiley
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Keri Herman won women's
Jan 10 2014 8:51PM
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YoungJ
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when i saw the link it said brown-- herman, i was like who the fux is herman brown. Then i realized my mistake
Jan 10 2014 9:38PM
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Holte
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Can anyone find the FIS rule regarding qualifiers counting as finals for cancellations due to outside forces? Per Dumont's tweet, I'm curious to see if this is actually a freestyle-only rule. Seems strange.
Jan 10 2014 10:36PM
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