2022 Olympics (for the other events) Thread.

Gus’s portrait is deep fried lmao

Ladies ski cross Happening right now. Let’s go Brit!!

CANADA

What an awful decision by the judges for the women's ski cross final. When you have both athletes arguing it's a shit decision, you know you fucked up.

I'm not sure what else Fanny Smith was able to do in that situation. If she doesn't spread out her skis, Thompson likely lands on them, potentially taking out all 3.

wtf is in the water in Norway? 5 million people are they're always kicking everyone's ass at the winter Olympics and winning overall, they're doing something right to be so consistently dominant, impressive stuff.

They sure are! It's a reflection of the overall total stability and subjective high quality of life. Life in Norway is wonderful, run a few google searches.

The total stability of the country allows them to focus on stuff like the Olympics with significant resources. A culture of immense national pride via their alpine sports makes it so just about everyone in the country is pulling in the same direction for the program.

Same is true for other small countries like Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland too. All of them have outsized world and sport accomplishments vs. the size of the population. There's more people living within 10mi of my little suburb than are in the entire country of Iceland.

Monsieur_Patatewtf is in the water in Norway? 5 million people are they're always kicking everyone's ass at the winter Olympics and winning overall, they're doing something right to be so consistently dominant, impressive stuff.

NotEnoughSkiingThey sure are! It's a reflection of the overall total stability and subjective high quality of life. Life in Norway is wonderful, run a few google searches.

The total stability of the country allows them to focus on stuff like the Olympics with significant resources. A culture of immense national pride via their alpine sports makes it so just about everyone in the country is pulling in the same direction for the program.

Same is true for other small countries like Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland too. All of them have outsized world and sport accomplishments vs. the size of the population. There's more people living within 10mi of my little suburb than are in the entire country of Iceland.

Its kind of like the Dutch and speed skating. The sport is so ingrained in the culture that naturally they will develop a greater quantity and qaulity of talent.

NotEnoughSkiingThey sure are! It's a reflection of the overall total stability and subjective high quality of life. Life in Norway is wonderful, run a few google searches.

The total stability of the country allows them to focus on stuff like the Olympics with significant resources. A culture of immense national pride via their alpine sports makes it so just about everyone in the country is pulling in the same direction for the program.

Same is true for other small countries like Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland too. All of them have outsized world and sport accomplishments vs. the size of the population. There's more people living within 10mi of my little suburb than are in the entire country of Iceland.

Stability and quality of life has little to do with it. It's entirely a cultural phenomenon that allows it to be possible. The sports of the winter Olympics are much more ingrained in culture, combined with a much different approach to teaching youth sports (I read about never ranking competitions until a certain age) and the resources available to compete in sports that would be considered niche even in countries like Canada.

Compare Norway to countries with comparable quality of life like New Zealand and Iceland. Both countries have winters with snow sports being possible, but New Zealand only just won it's first ever gold and Iceland has never even won a medal.

Also compare to a country like Russia, which has a comparatively shit quality of life, but look at the sports like figure skating which is much more culturally ingrained and they have had near total dominance. Additionally, look at the sports which are not super popular in Norway (like bobsleigh and related events, figure skating, hockey, etc) and there has been very little success.

Also, maybe even more important:

The events that are most important in Norwegian culture and what they excel at have a ton of medals available (26 podiums in cross country skiing events alone with 3 possible medals per event). Compare to a country like Canada where hockey is the sport of choice and the sport in which Canada is dominant and there are 2 podiums available with only 1 medal possible per podium.

Culture! that's the word I was trying to get out, thanks!

Russia is a huge economic behemoth with large population. That's the brute force method. I was specifically trying to contrast that.

coronaStability and quality of life has little to do with it. It's entirely a cultural phenomenon that allows it to be possible. The sports of the winter Olympics are much more ingrained in culture, combined with a much different approach to teaching youth sports (I read about never ranking competitions until a certain age) and the resources available to compete in sports that would be considered niche even in countries like Canada.

Compare Norway to countries with comparable quality of life like New Zealand and Iceland. Both countries have winters with snow sports being possible, but New Zealand only just won it's first ever gold and Iceland has never even won a medal.

Also compare to a country like Russia, which has a comparatively shit quality of life, but look at the sports like figure skating which is much more culturally ingrained and they have had near total dominance. Additionally, look at the sports which are not super popular in Norway (like bobsleigh and related events, figure skating, hockey, etc) and there has been very little success.

Finally watching Nordic Combined Team event after avoiding spoilers and it's the sleeper best event of every Olympics.

It's sick how Japan has never produced a cross country medalist but has such a strong ski jumping program that they're always medal contenders.

Watching the NTOs fix this finish pole on ski cross is painful. Pull it out, and stay away from timing.
this is cutting into out lunch period

These ski cross dudes make me want a pair of Lasers

Jamaican bobsled team going rn

The wind is so bad they had to shorten the cross country skiing. Seems like bad strategy to have anything there.

When you have to build hige wallss for wind you clearly know it's an issue.

That pipe was hard to watch.