Sir Rols Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 So that's Vonn's bid for the full gold set at these games over. Sorry for her (she was a class above in the downhill), but glad to see Germany get gold and Sweden's Anja Parson hold on for bronze! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotosy Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 Sorry for Lindsay Von, congrats for Riesch and Germany! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arwebb Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 Absolutely fantastic that Anja Paerson held on for the bronze, especially after that dreadful crash in the most ridiculous downhill race I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillan Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 OMG, I must say as a Swede I'm more proud of Anja Pärson's bronze than the two gold we have!!! This was a absolutely impressive and fantastic performance by Anja. She didn't believe she should participate in the super combined. Even after the downhill she had so much pain that she wasn't sure to make the slalom. Anja was very VERY happy after the bronze. For her this bronze feel as a gold, I think. Go Anja! You are my superhero! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 18, 2010 Report Share Posted February 18, 2010 OMG, I must say as a Swede I'm more proud of Anja Pärson's bronze than the two gold we have!!! This was a absolutely impressive and fantastic performance by Anja. She didn't believe she should participate in the super combined. Even after the downhill she had so much pain that she wasn't sure to make the slalom. Anja was very VERY happy after the bronze. For her this bronze feel as a gold, I think. Go Anja! You are my superhero! Indeed, I think its fair to say that it was Parson's most impressive medal to date. Not so much the result, but how she got it. In any case, its good to see that the two best Alpine Skiers right now (Vonn and Raich) will both get out of Vancouver with at least one gold each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuigiVercotti Posted February 19, 2010 Report Share Posted February 19, 2010 (edited) In some ways its a shame that Vonn won't have a chance to get 5 now...it would have really defined these games and definitely taken much of the heat out of some of the negative press. After all, do you remember the supposed mismanagement of Lake Placid in 1980 or Eric Heiden's 5 gold? I know what the answer is to that one... But congrats to all who won medals...los gehts Deutschland! Edited February 19, 2010 by eusebius65 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 19, 2010 Report Share Posted February 19, 2010 Man, I feel so bad for Erik Guay right now. In Turin, he was fourth in the Super-G, 0.1 seconds from a medal. In the Vancouver Downhill, he was less that 0.2 seconds from a medal. And now, he just finished fifth in the Super-G, 0.06 seconds from silver, and he probably would have challenged for the win was it not for a mistake up on the top of the course. Seriously, tough, that's 5 top-5 in Turin and Vancouver for the Canadian team, all without an Alpine medal. How unlucky can you get? By the way, final results from the Super-G: Gold: Aksel Lund Svindal, Norway (Really happy to finally see him win a gold medal) Silver: Bode Miller, United States (Slightly bumed that he still hasn't won a gold, looks good for the Super-Combined, tough) Bronze: Andrew Weibrecht, United States (What's up whit the US winning all those unexpected medals, anyway?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckfan Posted February 19, 2010 Report Share Posted February 19, 2010 Man, I feel so bad for Erik Guay right now. In Turin, he was fourth in the Super-G, 0.1 seconds from a medal. In the Vancouver Downhill, he was less that 0.2 seconds from a medal. And now, he just finished fifth in the Super-G, 0.06 seconds from silver, and he probably would have challenged for the win was it not for a mistake up on the top of the course. Seriously, tough, that's 5 top-5 in Turin and Vancouver for the Canadian team, all without an Alpine medal. How unlucky can you get? By the way, final results from the Super-G: Gold: Aksel Lund Svindal, Norway (Really happy to finally see him win a gold medal) Silver: Bode Miller, United States (Slightly bumed that he still hasn't won a gold, looks good for the Super-Combined, tough) Bronze: Andrew Weibrecht, United States (What's up whit the US winning all those unexpected medals, anyway?) Weibrecht's best career Super-G result until now: 11th Mancuso sucked the last two years and now she has two medals! I don't know what the americans are doing but it's working. Anyway, it was probably the last medal chance for Canada. The alpine team, unfortunatly, peaked 2 years too soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fineshot2000 Posted February 19, 2010 Report Share Posted February 19, 2010 Man, did Bode Miller show up for these games on a mission or what? This was not the Bode I knew from Torino! 6 Alpine medals for the U.S. ski team in only 4 events, unbelievable. Everyone is peaking at the right time, Vonn, Miller, Mancuso, and Weibrecht?? Who is he?? Best Olympic U.S. team ever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 19, 2010 Report Share Posted February 19, 2010 Weibrecht's best career Super-G result until now: 11th Mancuso sucked the last two years and now she has two medals! I don't know what the americans are doing but it's working. Anyway, it was probably the last medal chance for Canada. The alpine team, unfortunatly, peaked 2 years too soon. Janyk could still save the honor. But not winning a medal in the men's Downhill or Super-G is pretty terrible. At least, virtually all of the team will be back in Sochi (barring those pesky injuries ). But the good folks at Alpine Canada better hope somebody ends up with a medal, otherwise I'd expect a couple of people to get the axe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westfale Posted February 19, 2010 Report Share Posted February 19, 2010 I am very glad about this gold for Svindal. He deserve it. But I am not happy with only four(!) decisions today. Now I have to wait three more hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 19, 2010 Report Share Posted February 19, 2010 Man, did Bode Miller show up for these games on a mission or what? This was not the Bode I knew from Torino! 6 Alpine medals for the U.S. ski team in only 4 events, unbelievable. Everyone is peaking at the right time, Vonn, Miller, Mancuso, and Weibrecht?? Who is he?? Best Olympic U.S. team ever? Hard to say, but Mancuso and Weibrecht are both total surprised. The US have been very over-represented on the Alpine podiums in the games, which means that somebody on the team did a darn good job at making sure everybody peaked at the right time. I wouldn't be surprised if the US team was (one of) the only one really focused on peaking for Vancouver, most other team go for consistency over winning at the Olympics. Other teams will have to study what the US did before Vancouver, for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faster Posted February 20, 2010 Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 I think it was delusional to expect a inconsistent Canadian team to medal. We get lucky at major competitions our athletes don't peak. Vonn was never going to win 5 medals. She sucks at slalom and giant slalom. There are much better technical skiers than her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fineshot2000 Posted February 20, 2010 Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 Hard to say, but Mancuso and Weibrecht are both total surprised. The US have been very over-represented on the Alpine podiums in the games, which means that somebody on the team did a darn good job at making sure everybody peaked at the right time. I wouldn't be surprised if the US team was (one of) the only one really focused on peaking for Vancouver, most other team go for consistency over winning at the Olympics. Other teams will have to study what the US did before Vancouver, for sure. Agreed, I'm American and I think Vonn was way overhyped. Great speed skiier, but sucks at the technicals. Her wipe out yesterday didn't surprise me at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 20, 2010 Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 I think it was delusional to expect a inconsistent Canadian team to medal. We get lucky at major competitions our athletes don't peak. Vonn was never going to win 5 medals. She sucks at slalom and giant slalom. There are much better technical skiers than her. Well, I certainly expected Canada to get more Alpine medals that Mancuso or that guy that medaled in the Super-G (ceriously, who the hell is he?). Insane how many unexpected medals the US got. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotosy Posted February 20, 2010 Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 Glad know Svindal won! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 20, 2010 Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 The women's Super-G is the worst course set I've ever seen... 5 DNF out of 11 starters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 20, 2010 Report Share Posted February 20, 2010 After more that 30 Skiers, results from the women's Super-G: Gold: Andrea Fishbacher, Austria Silver: Tina Maze, Slovenia Bronze: Lindsay Vonn, United States Silver is the best ever winter Olympic result from Slovenia (they had four previous bronze, three in Alpine back in 1994 and Majdic's magic bronze). Great to see Maze with a medal. 8 DNF among the top 30 seeds... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citius Altius Fortius Posted February 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 oh my god - a disaster for Austria again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian2004 Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 And the same "I rather go partying than winning a medal" Bode Miller from Torino 2006 has won his first title as Olympic Champion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nykfan845 Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 I'm absolutely ecstatic for Bode. He definitely came into these Games more mature and focused and it obviously paid off. The US media can finally get off his back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apple Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 (edited) wrong thread. Edited February 21, 2010 by Apple Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox334 Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 Oh no! Chris is down. Wrong tread man ^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fineshot2000 Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 Miller Time! Gold is his at last! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Rols Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 Miller Time! LOL - how long have the US sub-editors ben waiting to write that headline? Glad to see he walks away with a full set of medals now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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