Shawn White take the gold- Amazing
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Shawn White...yeah, pretty cool. I don't see the difference between his runs and the others though, I guess I'm not cool enough, other than he getting higher on the "how high can you go without doing anything" requirement.
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I question the score of 48.6 on the second run. I know that it didn't matter, but it seemed high. He really had to force the Big Mac at the end and almost lost it. Had he not already had it sown up, I don't think the score would have been that high. It was not within 1.4 of perfect. Was good to see him repeat, though.
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I question the score of 48.6 on the second run. I know that it didn't matter, but it seemed high. He really had to force the Big Mac at the end and almost lost it. Had he not already had it sown up, I don't think the score would have been that high. It was not within 1.4 of perfect. Was good to see him repeat, though.
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+1 on Shawn White he is definitely the man when it comes to halfpipe snowboarding. Did you see the segment about his private halfpipe practice facility with the huge foam pit? They ran some brief video of him skying out of the pipe and landing experimental tricks in the pit. Awesome. The trick escalation at the competitions is fast, similar to what is happening with freestyle motorcross.
+1 on the women skiing the downhill race, and the men too for that matter. They are going so freaking fast on the edge of control. Plus, if the hill looks steep on video, which it does, it is ridiculously steep when on it in person. You can see it by how far down the mountain the women that crashed kept sliding even when they had slowed down to a fairly steady speed.
I've never snowskiied, just snowboarded, but I'll bet the ride on the downhill is absolutely fantastically intense.
+1 on the women skiing the downhill race, and the men too for that matter. They are going so freaking fast on the edge of control. Plus, if the hill looks steep on video, which it does, it is ridiculously steep when on it in person. You can see it by how far down the mountain the women that crashed kept sliding even when they had slowed down to a fairly steady speed.
I've never snowskiied, just snowboarded, but I'll bet the ride on the downhill is absolutely fantastically intense.
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It's hard to say "considering". Perfect either is or isn't. The landing was definitely poor. Hit it, didn't have full rotation, almost butt planted it, just not clean. It's hard to say that run was 1.4 from PERFECT. That's all. Not taking anything away from him, He did a great job and I'm glad to see the repeat, I just thought it was a very generous throwaway score on a throwaway run. That's all.
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Downhill, Luge = Auto Racing
Halfpipe, Figure Skating = Drifting
I am NOT saying that the participants aren't very skilled or athletic.
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Yeah agreed there is some truth to that. You start here, you finish here, you stay within these lines (gates), and your time is your time. At least in freestyle moguls they are partially scored on their time to complete the course.
If I were somehow magically able to become a winter olympian I would choose downhill over halfpipe. In fact whenever I go snowboarding I skip the terrain park completely and just go for the long, carving, faster downhill runs. I think being able to go fast enough to seriously compete in a downhill would be fantastic.
Speaking of which it seemed several years ago there was some development of a downhill version of snowboarding. Not the board-cross thing or whatever it is called, but more of a go fast sport. The board bindings had both feet rotated much more towards the front and even had suspensions. I wonder what ever happened to that? I wonder if there is any way they could ever go as fast as the ski downhill? If not there would be that stigma to overcome. 'Yeah that was cool, but did you watch the skiing downhill? Now that is fast...'
Speaking of awesome females in timed winter olympic sports, kudos to that female cross-country sprint skiier (Euro, I forget which country) that crashed in practice and was injured, but in obvious pain still went on to qualify, race, and finish with a bronze. They reported today she competed with four broken ribs. Damn... Now that is determination.
EDIT: Conflicting reports now on whether her ribs were actually broken. NBC reported they were, Reuters is reporting that they were not. NBC could clearly prone to bias towards the broken ribs report as it would add to the drama.
If I were somehow magically able to become a winter olympian I would choose downhill over halfpipe. In fact whenever I go snowboarding I skip the terrain park completely and just go for the long, carving, faster downhill runs. I think being able to go fast enough to seriously compete in a downhill would be fantastic.
Speaking of which it seemed several years ago there was some development of a downhill version of snowboarding. Not the board-cross thing or whatever it is called, but more of a go fast sport. The board bindings had both feet rotated much more towards the front and even had suspensions. I wonder what ever happened to that? I wonder if there is any way they could ever go as fast as the ski downhill? If not there would be that stigma to overcome. 'Yeah that was cool, but did you watch the skiing downhill? Now that is fast...'
Speaking of awesome females in timed winter olympic sports, kudos to that female cross-country sprint skiier (Euro, I forget which country) that crashed in practice and was injured, but in obvious pain still went on to qualify, race, and finish with a bronze. They reported today she competed with four broken ribs. Damn... Now that is determination.
EDIT: Conflicting reports now on whether her ribs were actually broken. NBC reported they were, Reuters is reporting that they were not. NBC could clearly prone to bias towards the broken ribs report as it would add to the drama.
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