Aside from the horrible judging and other talked about problems, one thing stood out to me
- the guys didnt have a day off in between qualis and finals.
at first i didnt think much of it and just thought oh well, it's different. But i think it made a pretty big difference in terms of fatigue. I watched the whole comp and took notes of each run for fun to compare the judging to my thoughts and was amazed by the level in the qualis, basically every one were stomping their runs (lets say 90%). it was really impressive. Flash forward to finals, around 2/3rd of the runs werent completed due to a fall or messing a rail. It was really an opposite of the qualis.
After the comp i thought about what it meant : you wake up early (abm posted on insta he was on his way around 6 am0, you then get a couple hours of practice, you then have the whole quali process which lasted around 3h and is draining mentally, you then have a 1hour break where the whole olympic process takes you out of your zone (evan posted he had to take a peepee test in between qualis and finals (he then had problems landing his first rail in finals)), and finally you have to go out out for another 2 hours and put down 3 other runs.
This format seems totally screwed for the sake of the quality of the show, the safety of the athletes, etc.
+ this never happens in any other slopestyle comps so they're not used to it
+ other olympic events like big air and halfpipe DO have the traditional day off in between finals and qualis
TLDR: qualis and finals in the same day sucks and clearly drains the athletes
Do you agress? did you guys also notice the diffrence between quali and finals?
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