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57 minutes ago, legaleagle53 said:

Maybe it's because I'm almost 61 (and am therefore very mindful of the value of keeping my hips, knees, and ankles intact for as long as possible), but half the time I was watching, I kept thinking about what a number those jumps must be doing on the athletes' joints.

This and the skiing/moguls/jumping event has my knees, hips, and ankles crying out in sympathy. I don't know how they do it.

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No idea how these announcers can tell in real time if it's a 1440 or 1080.  It just happens so fast.  I'd need slow motion to decipher.

No medal for Red.  But it was hilarious when they showed his family and there was one looked to be maybe 4 year old completely passed out face down on the woman's lap, oblivious to all of the screaming in the room.

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28 minutes ago, greyhorse said:

No idea how these announcers can tell in real time if it's a 1440 or 1080.  It just happens so fast.  I'd need slow motion to decipher.

Yep, I can't tell either.  Same issue with figure skating, they rotate so fast I have no idea how many times they spin, unless it's a single jump I can't tell at all.

The finals were amazing, I have no idea how these people do this.  To me it seems crazy to take off a huge ramp like that.  I'd be worried about landing safely, never mind the tricks and the spins.

Huge congrats to Max Parrot, what a great story for him.  Overcame Hodgkin's lymphoma since the last Olympics, and now this time he upgraded from silver to gold.  Congrats to Mark McMorris as well, bronze in this event three Olympics in a row. 

The Chinese snowboarder was amazing too... did he do a 1800?  Five full rotations, incredible.  

I don't know who was doing the commentary on USA Network, but he was commenting about how in his day, a 900 was considered an amazing feat.  And now these competitors are doing 1800s.

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Phew, close call for Shaun White and Chase Josey who both had to lay it down on their second runs.  Was holding my breath for Shaun.  

But this is the Ayumu Hirano show.  He looks like he's about 5 feet tall, but he gets so far out of the pipe and so effortlessly.  

Shaun talked about letting it all hang out in the final, saying you don't want to give away too much too early.  But don't these guys all watch each other in practice?  So you basically know what everyone is going to throw down?

As always with halfpipe and anything trick related, I have no idea how these announcers can recognize all the tricks..."That's a frontside double cork 1440!  A Fakie 1080!  Backside rodeo!  And now his signature Double McTwist 1280!"  Or something like that.  No idea what any of those are.

Noticed that Eileen Gu was waiting at the bottom to say hi to Shaun.  Had her helmet and mirrored goggles on so I had no idea who she was until the announcers identified her, and then I noticed her stylish ski jacket appears to be her own design line as it had her name on it.  I thought at first it was his girlfriend Nina Dobrev.  

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So happy for Lindsey Jacobellis! It's got to suck to be 36 years old, having numerous world championships and considered GOAT in your sport and all anyone ever wants to talk about is that time when you were 20 and lost the gold medal because you were showboating off the jump. Now she can finally put it all behind her and go out as Olympic Champion. 

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29 minutes ago, kittykat said:

Snowboard cross is amazing.  I'm a little annoyed I'm not seeing much press for Jacobellis.  NBC loves their redemption arcs but all I've seen is Chloe Kim.  Still what a great day for snowboarding.

I haven't been paying too much attention to the puff pieces.  (As an aside, I don't think Mary Carillo is covering these games?). The only one I saw a bit of was Shaun White sitting pensively staring at a large tv showing his Japanese rival.  Or maybe it was just a teaser.

I think the reason why Jacobellis hasn't gotten any hype is because this was now her fourth shot at redemption.  Ho hum.  But the bigger reason is that nobody cares about snowboard cross.  Which I always find interesting.  The halfpipe is always the glamour event, yet it's something that very few people when they strap on the board can do or relate to.  The majority of us riding the lift to the top of the mountain just want to get down, and it's a thrill to go fast.  So we should more relate to snowboard cross.  Yet nobody cares.  Collectively everybody is just enthralled with all these twists and tricks that we don't know how to do, don't understand the difference between all of them, and can only really know that something was good if the rider lands on his/her feet.

I don't know when the snowboard slalom event is supposed to happen.  I remember the event only because last Olympics there was the American that was competing for Russia because he got more support there.  Why isn't there a Snowboard downhill?  I'd love to watch something like that.

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25 minutes ago, emmawoodhouse said:

They already had snowboard slalom. I couldn't tell you who won, but I did see it. 

For the women, it was Ester Ledecká, who defended her gold from 2018. She's the one who also won a gold in alpine skiing that same year, which was an unprecedented feat. Don't remember who won the men's.

ETA: It was Benjamin Karl of Austria.

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