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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2022 18:27:46 GMT
Whatever were the Germans applying to the runners of their sleds in the Luge? Whatever it was it worked. .......and now to the skeleton...and the bobsleigh....perhaps this Is GBs chance of a medal..don't hold your breath... Do we have any Medal hopes? |
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Post by beverley61 on Feb 11, 2022 20:51:33 GMT
Probably not.
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Post by Rufus Firefly on Feb 12, 2022 2:00:10 GMT
Australia lead in the Womens Skeleton would you believe. The Brits are struggling sadly.
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Post by beverley61 on Feb 12, 2022 11:25:50 GMT
Torvill and Dean said on the radio this morning that they want to see the British dance couple to be in around 7/8th place. They said several top couples have indicated this will be their last Olympics which would see our couple go up the rankings for the next Olympics.
They also said that skating has been watching Valieva's coach for a few years, because they regularly turn out young skaters who suddenly arrive on the scene for the Europeans and other competitions just before an Olympics. These skaters then tend to disappear from the scene equally as quickly or never replicate their success again.
The inference was that these young skaters are more or less dropped once they begin to take charge of their lives. Certainly a serious accusation that a coach is drugging 14 and 15 year olds. T&D seemed to link it to puberty. Worrying.
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Post by Miranda on Feb 12, 2022 12:48:33 GMT
Very. And it wouldn't surprise me at all. Russia has always doped their athletes. And they won't stop just cos there's a change of name of the federation. It's still the same set-up and coaches.
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Post by Miranda on Feb 13, 2022 18:43:51 GMT
Finally got around to watching the Men's Free Skate. And it's a little bit heart-breaking to watch Hanyu.
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Post by Miranda on Feb 13, 2022 19:29:10 GMT
Hmm... I'm not at all sure there isn't something dodgy going on with the Japanese team. Uno did not look happy about beating Hanyu. Let's have a look at this other fella.
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Post by marion on Feb 14, 2022 10:05:41 GMT
Finally got around to watching the Men's Free Skate. And it's a little bit heart-breaking to watch Hanyu. It was. But if he hadn’t decided to go big or go home, maybe he could have won bronze. I didn’t do the maths to check if that was possible but I think it was madness to try the axel. Fair enough if you had landed it in practice and it was 50:50, but he has never landed it so….. He seemed cheerful enough afterwards though so maybe his expectations weren’t all that great. Now we know Valieva has been cleared to skate. I don’t quite know what message this sends. It’s OK to be a drugs cheat so long as you are a young drugs cheat? Or it is unfair to ban you without giving you the time to prepare an appeal? This is the same drug as used by that Chinese swimmer Sun, and he was banned after all. She may be an innocent child who was duped by adults, or she may in fact be pretty canny. I guess we will never know. But I would be pissed off if I were skating in the women’s final I think. I wonder what would have happened if it were Nathan Chen, or indeed any other medal shoo-in. |
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Post by marion on Feb 14, 2022 12:52:37 GMT
Just heard on Sky News that if Valieva is placed in the competition there will be no medal ceremony unless or until this situation is resolved. So that is no doubt something else which will piss off the other skaters! Well unless silver and bronze were likely to be Russian I suppose.
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Post by Miranda on Feb 14, 2022 19:42:01 GMT
Was really pleased with GB ice dancers! They did well to get in the top 10.
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Post by marion on Feb 15, 2022 10:49:50 GMT
I thought they did very well indeed. Loved the French, preferred the Bronze Americans to the Silver Russians though.
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Post by beverley61 on Feb 16, 2022 22:25:13 GMT
This is going well, fingers crossed for the curling.
Apparently it could br our worst games for 20 years.
Considering we probably average two bronzes and a silver over the last 20 years, that must be going some.
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Post by Miranda on Feb 16, 2022 23:13:50 GMT
We had a gold winning athlete in the women's skeleton for the last two Games, remember. So that upped the average.
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Post by beverley61 on Feb 17, 2022 19:32:17 GMT
Guaranteed silver in the mens curling.
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Post by sleepyp on Feb 17, 2022 19:41:37 GMT
Well-deserved  I wish them all the best in the Final, which might be on Saturday I think? And the women’s team in their semi tomorrow |
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I wish them all the best in the Final, which might be on Saturday I think?
Anymore to come?
