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jason...if the olympic course had your standard 60-80ft step-overs instead 100ft step-downs this wouldn't be an issue.
DrailEven so, they only referred to the snowboarders, who were falling all over the place during the finals and hucking way too hard. They can kick the snowboarders off the slope course, but why bring skiing down with it? They aren't the same, and shouldn't be clumped together as such.
youRsmellADid any guy skiers get hurt? Maybe it's time for girls to voluntarily withdraw themselves from park skiing
theabortionatorSICK POST BRO
shreddinthegnarrInjury is in ever sport. If an athlete wants to risk injury to participate in the sport he/she loves then that's a risk they choose to take and the Olympic committee or officials or whoever shouldn't be able to make that decision for other people.
loganimlach"I can say what I feel: That sport should change, otherwise we shouldn't have it. But the IOC may not follow that," he said.
inb4 trick clearance and rules as to what athletes can and cannot do. should be only a matter of time now.
DrailSince 'we' started throwing doubles in slope competition I haven't really come up with a scenario where we can avoid this. I find it funny though. People who preach style over technicality in completion are arguing against their own ideals. The only way someone isn't going to do what they want is by forcing them. Right now the top dudes are choosing to do triples. Telling them to do anything but what they want to do is bad, irrelevant of what anyone thinks 'should' be done.
Every single legitimate sport is thick with regulation. We would be fools to think it won't eventually happen in slope style. The question I've been asking myself lately though is what's next? Skiing has a beautiful history of reinventing itself when things get regulated and stagnant. It's like fashion and music. Somehow the human creativity finds a way to come up with something that was once though impossible. All it takes is one person to have a thought and it completely changes the game.
loganimlachAll that I can hope for is that slopestyle competitions become so stagnant and boring (a la moguls) that a larger spotlight becomes shone on big mountain and urban skiing, warranting larger budgets for the films and athletes. the beating that they took leading up to the olympics is just disgraceful. how cool will it be if kids can say "hey I want to grow up and my job be a professional big mountain skier" and their teacher won't look at them like their eating mushrooms?
loganimlach"I can say what I feel: That sport should change, otherwise we shouldn't have it. But the IOC may not follow that," he said.
inb4 trick clearance and rules as to what athletes can and cannot do. should be only a matter of time now.
HolteHere's another article. Sounds like it's just one safety official's thought, not indicative of the IOC.
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20140413/NEWS/140419683/10930/SPORTS
- Stop being pussies, 66% of our team was sell outs anyways.[/QUOTENo.
DrailCan't tell if serious it sarcastic. I got nothing but love for snowboarding and thought their slope finals was kind of a let down and embarrassment to the sport. So many unfinished runs, hands down on podium runs, and things looked hucked.
If skeleton Lugers die it doesn't mean that regular luge should face the same safety regulations. They are physically differnt sports. Snowboarders brake their wrists (and from what I've seen personally - their backs) a lot more often, skiers have issues with blowing their knees. Besides pre existing knee injuries that the skiers had, were there any injuries in the practice, qualification or finals at the Olympics on the skiing side?
Alex_Gif the IOC really cared about safety, they would ban bobsled too. they must be forgetting about that guy who died during bobsled qualifiers in whistler.
DrailEvery single legitimate sport is thick with regulation.
-MK-I don't see why everyone cares so much... So what if they pull it out of the Olympics, we made it without it in the Olympics up until this year. It's not like they will shut slope down all together. Stop being pussies, 66% of our team was sell outs anyways.
Frediboy94I don't think too many parallels should be drawn between skiing and "most legitimate sports" regulation-wise. Yes, in sports where several athletes are on a track, field or court at the same time there are rules that prevent them from hurting each other. Still, there aren't that many rules in the "big" legitimate sports that limit the athlete's opportunities to showcase his or her skill, are there?
A hockey player can shoot the puck as hard as he likes, even if it might hurt an opponent who gets in the way of the shot. A downhill racer can go as fast as he can, even if the risk of getting hurt increases with velocity. A ski jumper is free to jump as far as he wishes, the only limit being the size of the hill the contest is held at.
I know aerials has strict regulations, but as a sport it doesn't value the same things as slopestyle. Aerials is all about execution of predetermined tricks, while in a slope comp you'll be rewarded for being creative and coming up with new stuff in addition to execution. You can't do that if there's a limit on the amount of spins you're allowed to do.
The sport is evolving, but I doubt that its fundamental idea will change.
theabortionatorAnd you're going to sports that have gone on for years on one contest? That sounds pretty scientific. I understand that ultimately the Olympic slopestyle is what matters in terms of them judging having the even back, but come on man.
SkiThe603Pretty sure the only person who got seriously hurt during the Olympics was Shawn White. So my question for this IOC official is, "who the fuck are you and when can I stomp on your face with my ski boot?"
Kooky_LukeyI think you are thinking of the luge guy, but the point still stands of some dude dying in an event and it is still around. The guy in the article is a bone head.
