Did anybody see the women's super G final?Fuck me, des plus brilliants exploits.
Then this competitor comes along. Riding on borrowed skis. She's a snowboarder who fancies a crack at skiing.
Quote from: Will Hunt on February 20, 2018, 03:57:36 pmDid anybody see the women's super G final?Fuck me, des plus brilliants exploits.It was bloody brilliant seeing her totally risk everything and win but I have to comment on:Quote from: Will Hunt on February 20, 2018, 03:57:36 pmThen this competitor comes along. Riding on borrowed skis. She's a snowboarder who fancies a crack at skiing. Firstly - The riding on borrowed skis smells like bulls**t to me. She's sponsored by Atomic, she's been racing on Atomic in the World cup last season and this season, why would she rock up to the Olympics without her skis?Secondly – She was obviously not expected to get a medal, never mind a gold but she has placed top ten on the world cup circuit and been racing alpine skiing since 2010 so I think you are doing her a disservice in saying she just rocked up.I know this makes me seem like a curmudgeonly old twat but the hyperbole is a bit over the top. Who was the favourite Will, Lara Gut?Anyhoo, awesome to see someone do so well outside of the normal top ten finishers, especially as all the next six places were no surprise.
she's my hero, especially as she beat the oversponsored Lindsey Vonn.As for boardercross, if you are tempted to have a crackhttps://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/scottish-ski-boarder-cross-championships-2018-registration-32271124803?aff=ebdsorderfblightbox
watching the women's big air yesterday, my wife brought to my attention the practice of creating a whisp or curl of hair either side of the goggles (usually blonde hair)we have now started scoring this effort - and cheering the women who do not do this (and pretending to shoot the women who do the bunny ears or lucky cat hand movements whilst bobbing their head from side to side)
I'd noticed the hair thing and pointed it out to my wife. She is going to be sporting that look for St Anton at Easter
Its great to see, but you can be flipping great at two disciplines and she takes both pretty seriously.
Quote from: galpinos on February 21, 2018, 08:50:04 amI'd noticed the hair thing and pointed it out to my wife. She is going to be sporting that look for St Anton at EasterShe'll be styling her way up Spare Rib with that look.
It was a Stanton/ St Anton joke.
Quote from: Footwork on February 20, 2018, 07:02:22 pmIts great to see, but you can be flipping great at two disciplines and she takes both pretty seriously. Exactly, look at Nibs for example. Brilliant on both the fingerboard and the woody.
Still don't quite understand what would make you choose it as your discipline but it is quite the spectacle. It seems to have a not quite as bad but similar lottery style to it as the short track.
The one thing I found disappointing with the women's snowbaord "freestyle" events (not really seen any mens) is that none of them (apart from Yuka Fujimori but she's a snowboard cross rider turned slopestyler) really drive their boards. Watching the slopestyle, the tricks were there but getting between rails or jumps they didn't look very good at actually snowboarding (they obviously are) and certainly didn't do it with any style.This may be just because I'm a skier but when I see snowboarders out and about there are the 90/95% who slide about making it look like the worst sport in the world, then there's the 5/10% who fly past carving their boards, rip though the powder in lovely floaty buttery turns and I question whether my choice of sticking to skis was the right one. I'd have thought the slopestyle Olympians would be in the 5/10% but they looked very "normal" between the gymnastic aerials.