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I wish our ski team still wore yellow, it stood out more, now they just look like everyone else. One of few times I will endorse yellow
Thread Winter Olympics - 2018
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THIS is amazing!
The whole article is cool. first part below:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ester-ledecka-snowboarder-wins-gold-in-skiing-winter-olympics/
"Is this a kind of mistake?": Snowboarder Ester Ledecka wins gold in skiing
JEONGSEON, South Korea -- It made no sense to Ester Ledecka. Which is why the part-time ski racer, part-time snowboarder from the Czech Republic stood so still, absolutely motionless and expressionless, for several moments after crossing the finish line in the Olympic super-G and seeing the numbers on a video board that appeared to show she was fast enough to be the gold medalist.
Not merely any gold medalist, but one of the most unconventional and out-of-nowhere gold medalists in Alpine history.
This, the 22-year-old Ledecka would explain later, was what went through her mind at that moment: "Is this a kind of mistake?"
Then came this: "OK, they're going to change the time. I'm going to wait for a little bit, and you're going to switch and (add) some more seconds."
That never happened. This was no mistake. This was real. Her posted time of 1 minute, 21.11 seconds was, indeed, accurate. It was, indeed, 0.01 seconds -- yes, one one-hundredth of a second -- better than Austria's Anna Veith, the defending Olympic champion and, as the leader until the moment when the relatively unknown and low-ranked Ledecka took her turn as the 26th woman down the slope, the presumed repeat Olympic champion.
Ester Ledecka of Czech Republic wins the gold medal during the Alpine Skiing Women's Super-G at Jeongseon Alpine Centre on February 17, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea.
Instead, it was Ledecka who collected the prized medal. This is someone who has participated in only 19 World Cup skiing races in her entire career -- Mikaela Shiffrin, in contrast, has been in 23 this season alone -- and only once finished as high as seventh. Someone who is a far more accomplished snowboarder, owning a world championship in the parallel giant slalom, an event she plans to enter at the Pyeongchang Games next week, an unprecedented achievement.
CBS Sports writes that Ledecka wasn't even riding her own skis. She borrowed American Mikaela Shiffrin's for the race. Within minutes of Ledecka's win, Shiffrin congratulated her.
Ester Ledecka.
— Mikaela Shiffrin (@MikaelaShiffrin) February 17, 2018
"She's not a medal favorite. She just wanted to come here and be the first person ever to ski and snowboard race," said Justin Reiter, who competed for the U.S. at the Sochi Olympics in snowboarding and now is Ledecka's coach for that sport. "She stayed in her heart and she stayed in her own head and she skied like she can ski and it was beautiful to watch."
The whole article is cool. first part below:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ester-ledecka-snowboarder-wins-gold-in-skiing-winter-olympics/
"Is this a kind of mistake?": Snowboarder Ester Ledecka wins gold in skiing
JEONGSEON, South Korea -- It made no sense to Ester Ledecka. Which is why the part-time ski racer, part-time snowboarder from the Czech Republic stood so still, absolutely motionless and expressionless, for several moments after crossing the finish line in the Olympic super-G and seeing the numbers on a video board that appeared to show she was fast enough to be the gold medalist.
Not merely any gold medalist, but one of the most unconventional and out-of-nowhere gold medalists in Alpine history.
This, the 22-year-old Ledecka would explain later, was what went through her mind at that moment: "Is this a kind of mistake?"
Then came this: "OK, they're going to change the time. I'm going to wait for a little bit, and you're going to switch and (add) some more seconds."
That never happened. This was no mistake. This was real. Her posted time of 1 minute, 21.11 seconds was, indeed, accurate. It was, indeed, 0.01 seconds -- yes, one one-hundredth of a second -- better than Austria's Anna Veith, the defending Olympic champion and, as the leader until the moment when the relatively unknown and low-ranked Ledecka took her turn as the 26th woman down the slope, the presumed repeat Olympic champion.
Ester Ledecka of Czech Republic wins the gold medal during the Alpine Skiing Women's Super-G at Jeongseon Alpine Centre on February 17, 2018 in Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea.
Instead, it was Ledecka who collected the prized medal. This is someone who has participated in only 19 World Cup skiing races in her entire career -- Mikaela Shiffrin, in contrast, has been in 23 this season alone -- and only once finished as high as seventh. Someone who is a far more accomplished snowboarder, owning a world championship in the parallel giant slalom, an event she plans to enter at the Pyeongchang Games next week, an unprecedented achievement.
CBS Sports writes that Ledecka wasn't even riding her own skis. She borrowed American Mikaela Shiffrin's for the race. Within minutes of Ledecka's win, Shiffrin congratulated her.
Ester Ledecka.
— Mikaela Shiffrin (@MikaelaShiffrin) February 17, 2018
"She's not a medal favorite. She just wanted to come here and be the first person ever to ski and snowboard race," said Justin Reiter, who competed for the U.S. at the Sochi Olympics in snowboarding and now is Ledecka's coach for that sport. "She stayed in her heart and she stayed in her own head and she skied like she can ski and it was beautiful to watch."
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Now Im watching curling from last night, Can vs US (dont tell me how it ends) This is one of the best games Ive seen Shuster play hes making everything and we are in trubbs
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You'd still hurry hard for her and you know it.
Better momentum right now than this Calgary fella
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I so wanted Lindsey Vonn to crash and not medal. You don't get to fucking shit talk the president and then be all oh im going to represent the whole country in the Olympics.