The girl who won the Super G, by .01 of a second, on borrowed skis, is also competing in the snowboard parallel giant slalom event. She’s the first person to compete in both skiing and snowboard events at the same Olympics. How good is she?
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I’ve heard the expression “bottom air” so many times on the snowboard and ski cross course. Clearly it doesn’t mean what I though it meant.
The look on the face of the woman she beat out for gold was pretty funny - embarrassment disbelief and furry all rolled into one.
Yes, downhill alpine is relatively easy in comparison to snowboarding. That’s just the proof right there.
Skiing is just a hobby for her
Slooe style looks ridiculously difficult. Double Misty’s and triple corks? Whatever they’re doing, it’s very entertaining!
Highlight of the Olympics for mine.
There is way way way too much of Hamish McCocklan on this telecast
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I really can’t stand Hamish McCockring and I detest the blokey banter and referring to each other as AJ, Hammer, CJ, etc. It’s absolute amateur hour.
The coverage is roughly akin to what man landing on the moon would’ve sounded like if it was covered by the Footy Show or Sunrise.
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Man can even make reading a felt printer
My wife (who knows very little of sport, asada, afl etc etc) has taken a particular dislike to him. This makes me happy
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Breed some basil hate into her.
All he can do is tell the background story of competitors. Offers nothing
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Wow someone’s dad quit their high paying job to ride a bike from Switzerland to korea… Winter sport is all about privilege.
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Well Dave Morris got the full Ch 7 treatment and then got bundled out in the first round of the finals. Don’t know enough about the sport to say he got dudded, but no one can tell me he stuffed his landing worse than the Chinese guy even if the judges decided he completed the jump before falling over
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Having heard Dave Morris interview after he was eliminated, I think James Magnussen might actually have a point, one that he articulated very poorly, but a point none the less.
I think as Australians we don’t have the weight of expectations for our Winter Olympians that we do for Summer Olympians.
But the fact is that at the Olympics unless you are able to produce your absolute best, when you absolutely need to, you won’t win gold, in fact you might not even make a final.
Contrast Dave Morris’ interview then with Cate Campbell’s after the 100m freestyle at the Rio Olympics, the weight of expectation are completely different despite Dave Morris being the reigning Olympic Silver Medalist.
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Its because the summer olympics are relatable to so much more people. ‘oh i can run, oh i can swim, oh i can ride a bike, oh i can throw something, etc etc,’ winter olympics are truly for the rich so no one ■■■■■■■ cares.
also in what logical world do australians have any capacity to compete with other nations? if we’re lucky we get 2-3 months of snow a year, asians europeans and north americans can get 6 months and cos most of them are rich its easy to just jump between continents keeping up with the seasons.
what % of australians have skid, showboarded, ice skated? let alone figure skated, aerial jumped, super g, slalomed, etc etc? bobsledding?
the general australian public doesn’t give a ■■■■ about it.
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Good effort there Channel 7, can only assume you were trying to get the silver medalist to admit he ■■■■■■ his landing, Dave Morris was robbed by dodgy ■■■■■■■ judges and thus he was not deserving of the silver medal.
Classy you epic ■■■■ sticks.
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I get the reason why it is the case, doesn’t mean Magnussen didn’t have a point. Although in his case his inability to bring his best at the London Olympics seems to have been self inflicted.
I reckon swimming is an abomination of a sport. It’s a component of a sport nothing more. Like running.
I just think a doped up controlled environment specialist should stfu.
On the whole, there is more element of chance in competing in Winter sports and many of the Winter sports are vastly different from swimming in lanes in a controlled environment . That seems to have struck Magnussen who mainly competes as an individual in an indoor chlorine filled environment and who has had no exposure to the natural environment in his sport.
I noticed the cameraderie between athletes and their families in competing nations in the sailing events at the Rio Olympics ( where chance is a big factor) which was absent in track and field and swimming. It is much more apparent between competitors at these games, give or take a few personal antagonisms.
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Indeed
It’s a bit hard to stomach the Ch7 promos in trying to care about the struggles of some Eastern Suburbs rich kid from Sydney/Melbourne to make the Olympics funded off the back of daddy’s money
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