"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
02/10/2014 at 11:19 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
02/10/2014 at 11:19 • Filed to: None | 5
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I'll be in my bunk, waxing my board.
BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> ttyymmnn
02/10/2014 at 11:26 |
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What I don't get is why the women's snowboarding consists only of relatively small spins, while the men's involves flips and a ludicrous number of spins.
All it would take to get gold is for one woman to go out there and pull a flip. The commentators would go insane, and it'd actually start a progression that brings the women's up to the par of the men's.
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ttyymmnn
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
02/10/2014 at 11:29 |
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I'm old enough that I'm not crazy about snowboarding being in the Olympics at all. I'm not crazy about any event that involves subjective scoring. I was watching last night, and I said to my wife, "There's no way in hell I could do that, but there's nothing being done that makes me say, 'Wow! This is world class!'"
EL_ULY
> ttyymmnn
02/10/2014 at 11:32 |
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buen biscocho :]
offroadkarter
> ttyymmnn
02/10/2014 at 11:33 |
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My hovercraft is full of eels
> ttyymmnn
02/10/2014 at 11:34 |
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Anna Sidorova, Russian curler.
I'll be yanking my broom like crazy.
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ttyymmnn
> My hovercraft is full of eels
02/10/2014 at 11:35 |
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Hurry!! Hard!! My DVR is churning away on curling. I'll be watching for a while. Great sport, and lots of beautiful women.
crowmolly
> ttyymmnn
02/10/2014 at 11:35 |
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TV ratings I guess.
I always thought it was ridiculous that they got rid of wrestling at the summer games.
Wrestling.
Probably one of the events at the original Olympics, at the same time as Track and Field.
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ttyymmnn
> crowmolly
02/10/2014 at 11:39 |
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Ratings, yes, and also getting younger people interested in the Olympics. Wrestling was reinstated for 2020 . Wrestling was not a sport at the original Olympics. It was added later—in 708 BC.
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> ttyymmnn
02/10/2014 at 11:41 |
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Watch Men With Brooms . Thank me later. Not for the curling women, just for the funny. There are some hotties in the movie, but not doing the curling.
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crowmolly
> ttyymmnn
02/10/2014 at 11:46 |
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Yeah, I was glad to see it back in.
And thanks for the correction, that's 200 years or so off (I think) but still one of the ancient events.
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ttyymmnn
> crowmolly
02/10/2014 at 11:51 |
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Not necessarily a correction. I assumed it was original myself, but then went to check it out. I was surprised that it wasn't there at the start. But hell, any sport that's been a part of the Olympics for over 2700 years needs to stay. Ditch beach volleyball to make room for it. Oh wait, we need a sport with sweaty women in bikinis. For the ratings.
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crowmolly
> ttyymmnn
02/10/2014 at 11:53 |
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The Danica Effect. I got ya.
HammerheadFistpunch
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
02/10/2014 at 11:58 |
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There is definitely a performance gap between women and men in slope style, I think part of that is where women in snowboarding are, and part of it is being smart with the routine to make sure you pull it off. a successful run with an inverted trick would score well, a run with an inverted trick that you don't land puts you out of the race. risk and reward and all that, because I think these gals are up to it, but you have to put together the best run you KNOW you can nail.
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BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/10/2014 at 12:10 |
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That helps explain it a little, but in an olympic environment you'd think there would be a little more ambition. Sure you don't want to cock up, but if you don't get gold, silver or bronze you're a nobody and all your effort is wasted.
It just strikes me as odd that no-one even tries. I've definitely seen women doing flips on the slopes. Why not 'the best of the best'?
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HammerheadFistpunch
> BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
02/10/2014 at 12:18 |
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its competition, you rarely see the best in competition...oddly. every now and again you do, but its mostly a routine with a high degree of confidence. Partly because you practice like you perform and you don't want to be mixing things up at the last minute and partly because they are keenly aware that the pressure will make it harder to really perform. In the mountains with you friends its easy to be relaxed and take risk...we all know you wanted to make it, lets get a drink...but in the oylmpics, well, no one wants to crash out in the Olympics.
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BiTurbo228 - Dr Frankenstein of Spitfires
> HammerheadFistpunch
02/10/2014 at 13:06 |
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Good points again :)
Still. It's really not that hard to do a flip. Not if you're at the standard of olympic snowboarders. Just practice a routine that includes one. The men do, and I seriously doubt that there's a significant enough performance disparity between men and women to preclude that.
The fact that the commentators get so excited when the women do something that would be considered completely uninspiring in a men's competition just seems patronising to me.