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OLYMPIC SKI SLOPESTYLE

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ski0
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T-Minus 13 hours

Qualification: 1:15 am EST Feb 13
Finals: 4:30 am EST Feb 13

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Qualification Rider List

11 years ago
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howlongcanausern
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texts from my mom:
I am watching a slope style.
that swede with the dreadlocks
Did you watch this, amazing!
the tricks were amazing , so much better than the boarders were

lol
11 years ago
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YT.SKEEZE
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No one seems to be mentioning the insane difficulty of doing a lead mute with a double as well..cazy
11 years ago
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d-rok
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if you want my opinion that handdrag wasn't that bad, i know slopestyle isn't about a single trick, but usally that single tricks make you win or not. That nosebutter triple was the most what the fuck trick i've ever seen, landed at the bottom of the landing so stomped, imo that handdrag, brings his score down to the level of the guys doing some standard triple. plus can't count out the swithc butter dub
like in snowboarding, the winner handdraged on his second jump, maybe a bit less worse than henrik but still, because he was stylie they gave him the win.
Also joss probably won because his switch triple was unnatural, what the fuck does that mean? can he switch triple the other way? I prefer that trick over a triple cork 14 mute, but imo the fact that goepper double grabbed it makes it better, but anyway all in all, judging wasn't that bad.
11 years ago
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deleted5
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hand touches the ground - 20 points, yeah ok. On a side note that trick gave him nothing but problems i don't know why he kept doing it.
11 years ago
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*TURBONERD*
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Finally watching the quali stream, gonna post all my thoughts because fuck you I can.
"Three full rotations is the switch 9". You've got to be kidding me. Can you do addition?
Kai's wallride and opp carved dub 9 tho
Must've re-dubbed the announcing, no 230s here, but it's still rough.
"Really strong on the back of the ski, with the right-hand grab" Really, you can't call it a tailgrab?
Andreas' whole run was fire, especially the rail section, and his reaction was fantastic. I wanna take a run with him someday.
Gus gives his mom so many shoutouts. She must be a nice lady.
Where the fuck has Bene Mayer been?
Pavel Korpachev. There are no words.
Fuck it, on to finals.
Really, you can't use the real spelling of Håtveit's last name? Come on, NBC, don't dumb that shit down.
Holy fuck Bobby went huge. Also, the fact that he's skiing in a t-shirt is awesome.
Aaaand Henrik went bigger. Wow.
Stop calling misty 4s out 'lincoln loops', you moron.
That cuban dub 12 tho
"Russel Kenworthy" really must have a nice mom. Also, that run was fire.
Goepper's run was filthy.
"Wow, thank you!" I love Andreas.
"Throwing in a one-footer before he drops off a 180" Seriously?
Joss' run was unquestionably the best slope run I've ever seen by a wide margin.
Damn, Bobby went huge again
GUS BUS
Andreas going out with style. He'll be missed.
11 years ago
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SEABURN
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this.

and even if his rail section was sick as fuck, and he's doing cool jump tricks, he looks wild and on the edge while he's skiing... even if he's doing insane tricks it doesn't matter, because Gus and Joss were SMOOTH w/ their runs. & I'm going to keep saying it, you lose points for no poles.
11 years ago
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Peter.
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if you think goepper looks 'wild and on the edge,' you need to get something checked out. He looks like he could do every trick in that run in his fucking sleep, and looked constantly in control
11 years ago
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t_rob
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Goepper said Tay Swift and Gus said miley.
11 years ago
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Chunter
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Ahahaha holy fuck I love him.

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11 years ago
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Mr.Bishop
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It wasn't -20 points, he was just around 9 points under first place. The two places I would have docked him a bit were the bonk, which seemed just a slight bit less smooth than anticipated and then the hands dragging.

Both hands touched the ground clearly and he wedged his skis. He landed it for sure, and a 9 point dock for that is harsh... but both hands touching the ground is bad. I would have been pretty harsh on that personally - especially considering the top 3 guys runs were so clean.

11 years ago
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Mr.Bishop
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The snowboarding contest was kind of bullshit if you ask me. The guy that won fully touched his hands down and I think its crazy that he got so many points for it. I actually didn't feel right about his style run winning over the other guys techie... as style should be flawless to win.

The single trick should never be what its about. Its fucked when it is... as that is a big air contest not slopestyle. That triple was basically the most insane thing I've ever seen on skis though, and the fact that he entered beast mode and stomped the piss out of it in the gucci plateau like that is incredible.

I'm not sure what the judges score unnaty with. I used to not care in a big air contest, but in slope if they spun both ways that got extra points - and I think it should.

I personally think Goepper's first run was better than Joss' winning run, but its close. I must say I've really come around on Goepper. He's still got robot steeze but god dammit can that fucker land a trick.
11 years ago
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RubberSoul
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god damn that was awesome


it's a shame to hear the live cast commentating was bad, i was pretty impressed with LVV during the prime time broadcast!


i wanted to see henrik win as much as the next NSer but he had a couple of messy landings and i liked that the judging was harsh on bad landings. that nose butter trip 16 was amazing though and so deep

very impressed

PS am i the only one who thought that if andreas had made his last hit a clean triple he would've been seriously in the running??
11 years ago
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Tacocat
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Recap of qualis and finals anyone?
11 years ago
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skier_boy26
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My initial impression in the middle of the night watching that run was this. After watching the runs a good few times since, it is even more this. Bloody hell that was a run and just a jaw-dropping hit.




At least we're fortunate to have enough insane runs to debate about placement.
11 years ago
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*DUMBCAN*
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I just think that if the olympics wants to be the 'best' slopestyle comp, it has to have three runs in finals. X games does, why not olympics?

But meh, even the olympics hasn't saved slopestyle for me. It was very good, but I still don't really enjoy watching it as much as I used to.
11 years ago
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Black-Bandanna
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I nearly shit my pants when I saw how deep he's was going to land. Absolutely massive.
11 years ago
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Schmaelzle
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Can we talk about ABMs switch cork 3 to gypsy magic tap? I don't even know how the second flip is physically possible, it looks like a rodeo and a flair made sweet, sweet love, but he's facing the wrong way for that to make sense.
11 years ago
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roddy116
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is their a video of crappy russian skier.
11 years ago
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roddy116
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is their a video of crappy russian skier.
11 years ago
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auski
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Are there any YouTube links similar to the one for henriks run that was posted above? Even if it's a crappy iphone filming a tv? I have no way of watching it here in Aus (I was in Japan when it was on and missed it)
11 years ago
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Pitolairas
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Funny fact is that, if I'm not mistaken, Chris Turpin is Russian Slope Coach and he could have done way better than that sketchy russian if he competed!
11 years ago
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TACO-DOG.exe
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how the fuck?
11 years ago
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Emma_Watson
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YES JOSS!
11 years ago
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