They basically ended the footage and said "There's no one left that has a chance". They said Anna Veith won the gold.
They go to figure skating. Ester Ledecka wins the gold! I don't think they showed it live.
They basically ended the footage and said "There's no one left that has a chance". They said Anna Veith won the gold.
They go to figure skating. Ester Ledecka wins the gold! I don't think they showed it live.
USA media at work.
For clarification, not my tweet above. We have a chance to see the marquee events live, and they royally screw for some boring figure skating routines. "Dewey Defeats Truman".
Playing their favorites wrote:
USA media at work.
they announced Veith as winner even on Austrian TV. nobody expected Ledecka to win, was a huge upset. probably the wind helped her a little bit, but nevertheless well deserved. the amazing thing about Ledecka is that she is also competing in snowboarding, that's actually her main event. fascinating stuff, have never heard of an athlete competing in two different disciplines. kudos to her!
above_average_joe wrote:
USA media at work.
have never heard of an athlete competing in two different disciplines. kudos to her![/quote]
Ever heard of Lolo Jones?
What happened to that anti-Trump lady Lindsay Vonn, who wanted to compete against males?
Not from Liechtenstein wrote:
What happened to that anti-Trump lady Lindsay Vonn, who wanted to compete against males?
She didn’t medal. I think she decided to ski first, so she couldn’t get info from her teammates about the course conditions. She hadn’t done any practice runs on it either.
Wtfbbq wrote:
above_average_joe wrote:
USA media at work.
have never heard of an athlete competing in two different disciplines. kudos to her!
Ever heard of Lolo Jones?[/quote]
Mr BBQ is saying 2 different disciplines at the same Olympic Games. .
LoneStarXC wrote:
Not from Liechtenstein wrote:
What happened to that anti-Trump lady Lindsay Vonn, who wanted to compete against males?
She didn’t medal. I think she decided to ski first, so she couldn’t get info from her teammates about the course conditions. She hadn’t done any practice runs on it either.
You don´t do practice runs in super G.
This was NBC doing the "Heidi Game" all over again, but with Alpine skiing instead of NFL football; they blew a chance to show something historic and shocking happening live.
I've never understood the practice of broadcasters and even the athletes themselves acting as if a ski race's results are set in stone after only the first 15 skiers come down the mountain; as Ester Ledecka showed tonight, that can be hubristic. Victories from the lower seeds might be rare, but they're not impossible,
Not from Liechtenstein wrote:
What happened to that anti-Trump lady Lindsay Vonn, who wanted to compete against males?
Lindsey Vonn’s first Olympic race in eight years included one obvious, late mistake that she was sure cost her a medal — maybe even the gold.
Truth is, the American generally considered the greatest female ski racer in history botched things in the upper half of the super-G course Saturday, too. She wound up tied for sixth place.
Vonn’s take on her run? “Really good. Really good. Really good. Baaaad.”
The four-time overall World Cup champion focused after Saturday’s race on a particular miscue when she allowed one of her skis to lift off the snow too much and swept several feet wide of the proper path.
Vonn also lost quite a bit of time earlier: She reached the halfway point of the race with only the 16th-best time.
Lindsey Vonn’s first Olympic race in eight years included one obvious, late mistake that she was sure cost her a medal — maybe even the gold.
Truth is, the American generally considered the greatest female ski racer in history botched things in the upper half of the super-G course Saturday, too, and so she wound up in a tie for sixth place, 0.38 seconds behind surprise champion Ester Ledecka of the Czech Republic and 0.27 away from third place.
Vonn’s take on her run? “Really good. Really good. Really good. Baaaaad.”
At Vancouver in 2010, she took the bronze in the super-G and the gold in the downhill. She was forced to sit out the Sochi Games four years ago after tearing ligaments in her right knee.
So it was a thrill to be back on the Olympic stage this time for what she has said will be the final go-round.
But the four-time overall World Cup champion — and owner of the most race wins on that circuit by a woman, second-most by anyone — focused afterward on a particular miscue. It arrived in what she called “the last critical section,” about 6 seconds from the end of a race that took the winner 1 minute, 21.11 seconds to complete, just 0.01 seconds ahead of silver medalist Anna Veith of Austria, the 2014 champion.
Entering a jump-turn combination, Vonn allowed one of her skis to lift off the snow too much and swept several feet wide of the proper path, barely clearing a gate.
“I misjudged how I came in there,” Vonn acknowledged.
That gave away more than a quarter of a second to Ledecka in the final quarter of the piste.
If Vonn hadn’t done that, she said, “I think I would be on the podium, at bare minimum. I mean, that mistake was really big, and I’m only a couple tenths out of first. So I would estimate yes.”
Before that portion, “I mean, I felt really good. I was like, ‘Yes! I got this. I got this.’ And I knew I had to focus all the way to the finish because of that turn.”
Just as consequential, perhaps, was that she also lost quite a bit of time earlier: Vonn reached the halfway point of the race with only the 16th-best time, more than a half-second slower in that section than bronze medalist Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein, for example.
Vonn did make up for some of that by being fastest of everyone over the next quarter of the course, before the final error effectively eliminated any realistic chance at a medal.
Weirather noticed the early problems, saying that Vonn’s later flub “was actually not as costly as it looked, because she didn’t lose that much time there. She lost a whole bunch at the top.”
Everyone was watching Vonn at the beginning because she was the first racer out of the gate on a sunny day with nary a cloud. The start was delayed an hour because of strong winds, and those gusts of air appeared to come and go, helping some skiers and hurting others.
Vonn won one of the five super-G World Cup races she entered so far this season, putting her 10th in the standings, which meant she got the last choice among the top 10 for a place in the skiing order Saturday. That left her with bib No. 1, which is not necessarily ideal, because she didn’t get to watch anyone else navigate the route before she had to go.
Plus, as Italy’s Sofia Goggia, a pal of Vonn’s who finished 11th, put it, “If you get the info, you are more calm.”
Now Vonn will get a few days to gather herself and begin preparing for her best event, the downhill, which is scheduled for Wednesday.
She won three World Cup downhills in a row before heading to South Korea.
“In general, this season, I feel like I’ve been much better in downhill than super-G. And this hill suits me really well for downhill, also,” Vonn said. “I’m confident for the downhill.”
There was wasn't much likelihood that someone in the high 20s would break in. If they hadn't switched away to the figure skating so we could watch the best skate we would have had to watch some much slower people. NBC must be given credit because they moved right back and showed us the race. Then they interviewed the racer. It wasn't like they stopped the coverage.
So you didn't find out the correct results? What is the problem?
At some point they have to cut it off. Mexico and Kenya aren't going to win gold.
People are entitled whiny little bitches.
FIrst they cry on twitter that NBC showed some skiing instead of some figure skating thing, and now they are crying because they showed some figure skating thing instead of skiing.
NBC gets no credit. They declared Vieth the winner.
How did Vonn do? Vonn goes home devastated, but at least she wasn't fourth.
Luck of the seeding wrote:
NBC gets no credit. They declared Vieth the winner.
How did Vonn do? Vonn goes home devastated, but at least she wasn't fourth.
She actually said so in the interview: "At least I was fifth! I'm glad I didn't come fourth!"
wineturtle wrote:
Wtfbbq wrote:
have never heard of an athlete competing in two different disciplines. kudos to her!
Ever heard of Lolo Jones?
Mr BBQ is saying 2 different disciplines at the same Olympic Games. .[/quote]
Huh? Short memories on here:-
https://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/20/sport/mo-farah-olympics-rio-5000-meters-double-double/index.htmlLoneStarXC wrote:
Not from Liechtenstein wrote:
What happened to that anti-Trump lady Lindsay Vonn, who wanted to compete against males?
She didn’t medal. I think she decided to ski first, so she couldn’t get info from her teammates about the course conditions. She hadn’t done any practice runs on it either.
She didn't "decide" to go first. Nobody does in super-G. It was the bad luck of the draw.
If she had drawn a later slot, she would have had a line to follow and very probably would not have made that mistake at the end of her run when she drifted off course.
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