MS second last to run. Quite the suspense thriller on tap.
Showed her on the chair with the bar down again. I wonder if she keeps it up when mom isn't with her? NTTAWWT.
And it is a reset course for run 2.
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MS second last to run. Quite the suspense thriller on tap.
Showed her on the chair with the bar down again. I wonder if she keeps it up when mom isn't with her? NTTAWWT.
And it is a reset course for run 2.
Women's 1st run slalom scheduled for 6 am MST tomorrow.
Amazing recovery by the French girl. Damn.
MS musta done her pull-ups. 0.39 lead. Freakina.
Shiffrin!!!!
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That's it. Epic gold!!! Man I miss watching racing.
FKNA!
Nice!
Boss af on that final run. USA USA USA!!!!
Bad Ass!
WOW!
As usual, She was so much smoother on that run than everyone else.
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Amazing what a single laser focus from age 4 will do. Damn fantastic.
What a crusher. She's really is the best damn skier on the mountain.
Yes....[emoji6]Quote:
Originally Posted by gimpy
What a spectacular creature of snow. I'm not worthy, my Lord.:yourock::angel:
Cha-ching
So sik
Amazing Shiffrin! Attacked that upper section, rather that skidding around those turns as she did in her first run. What a second run. And, the focus to correct her mistakes. She looked the smoothest up there, and prolly would've won by more except for her little hiccup at the bottom. Probably saw the finish line and forgot everything else.
Began sobbing when she realized she'd won gold. What relief from the pressure.
Congrats and best to her. The payoff for her hard work. Slalom tomorrow!
Her ability to correct her mistakes is amazing.
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Originally Posted by From_the_NEK
Yes, Bode is very good, in a sort of understated way. Very insightful. Great to have him still in the game.
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Originally Posted by telefreewasatch
She's spent a whole lot of time skiing in Vermont, where it is required by the state that safety bars be used (and I've seen both lift operators and patrol enforce it). It may just be habit.Quote:
Originally Posted by goldengatestinx
Just stirring the pot here where bar dropping is ridiculed time and again. NY where I grew up skiing has the same rules as VT with bar police. CO doesn't.Quote:
Originally Posted by anotherVTskibum
Bode has great insights, awesome having his commentary. But his voice is monotone and the bosses must have been pissed at him for making the comment about Veith's marriage. Kinda funny that bad boy don't give a fuck has to apologize on air for expressing his (probably correct) opinion.
Mikaela is a boss, best fucking skier. She also has a little lisp in her interviews. Her instagram and fb (not that I'm a stalker or anything...) is totally sold out though, kinda bugs me. I guess she should sell out now while she's all the rage, but I feel like it takes away from the girl next door appeal. I also feel like her finish line collapse and tears was rehearsed. Like she knew the 2nd best GS skier in the world at the biggest event of the past 4 years would still finish .4 seconds behind her or whatever it was. Couple little bobbles at the end of the run, but she's so much smoother, faster, stronger, better than everyone else. She can't honestly be surprised when she wins? I mean, that's why they play the game, but we all knew she would crush!
(except for my post a couple weeks ago where I questioned if she was falling apart)
That may seem negative, so the take home message is she's a bad ass motherfucker. And hot.
Let me edit out the misguided statements in the above post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tips^Up
Bode has great insights, awesome having his commentary. The bosses must have been pissed at him for making the comment about Veith's marriage. Kinda funny that bad boy don't give a fuck has to apologize on air for expressing his (probably correct) opinion.
Mikaela is a boss, best fucking skier. She also has a little lisp in her interviews. Couple little bobbles at the end of the run, but she's so much smoother, faster, stronger, better than everyone else. We all knew she would crush! She's a bad ass motherfucker. And hot.
And her Mom shoves a mirror in her face at the end of the run to make sure she stays looking that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by racesla
42 and counting, Looking forward to the Slalom tonight.
yep, Bode is bluntQuote:
Originally Posted by racesla
https://www.si.com/olympics/2018/02/...kiing-marriage
sick run
Bode is capable of delivering a joke in perfect deadpan. Some of his audience is not capable of hearing one. Their loss, as his commentary has been so good that I can't think of anyone else in skiing to compare it to.
MS's emotional release after was the price she pays for staying that sharply focused for so long. Hope she can keep the focus without exhaustion now that this one's out of the way. But she's a bad, bad power-napper and knows how to duck media. I believe.
Her crying was authentic to me. The pressure to win is HUGE and to win was such a huge relief.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tips^Up
Do Olympic races count towards world cup wins?
Bar down: when 1% in fitness and health make the difference in your sport, you save your legs anyway you can.
Why stand when you can sit. why sit when you can lay down. if you can lay down, sleep. I'd be taking naps in the gondola.
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such a jong thread this is
putting the bar down? It's so cool to keep it up brah. If you put it down you must suck at skiing? Yeah, and too bad she skidded her turns...:nonono2: Here's and idea...go back to alpine zone and post over there or just stfu
You ^ forgot mom and the mirror :rolleyes2 , 2nd stfu, it's almost like ET.
So she won something?
THX for sharinQuote:
Originally Posted by willywhit
SI actually has a headline with the 'word' "skiier" in it. WTF is journalism coming to?Quote:
Originally Posted by willywhit
GGS probably doesn't wear a helmet so I'll make sure to conk his head with the bar...every time.
Beautiful skiing. Like fine art.
Amazing how Bode can watch a ski run, and basically predict time gain or loss. He can pick apart each turn, and tell you if they are generating speed or scrubbing it. He pretty much is dialed in on what's happening each nanosecond of a skier's run.
Regarding the naps. I wonder if is she has someone keeping a clock on her. If you get too far into REM it’s hard to wake up during the day. She said 30 minutes which is prescribed length of proper nap.
“The total time the participants slept during the 90-minute window didn't matter much in their later performance, Walker found. But the greater the amount of stage 2 non-REM sleep, a lighter form of non-dreaming sleep, the better their performance, he found.”
Figured out why she has the bar down, South Korean ski code bylaw 1978657483.6857364968847stfu state's that "any skier incapable of doing a pull up must ride the chair lift with the safety bar down."
He is way better at that than the guy NBC used to use for ski race commentary. That guy was constantly wrong when it came to "predict time gain or loss".Quote:
Originally Posted by Toadman