The Olympic Winter Games In Sochi

[pickemgenius]

nbcs olympic website is actually a fucking joke.

its either spoilers galore or you cant actually find what the fuck it is you want to watch.

[zoraster]

I’ve watched a lot of slopestyle

[Cheery Dog]

The woman's slopestyle got postponed yesterday

[shaft.ed]

i watched it last night and it was kinda boring tbh

[Majiffy]

What this is the coolest Slopestyle course I've seen so far. Two sets for rails, and the first major jump has two curved options to pull early doublecorks!

[shaft.ed]

everyone kept wiping out
the top three were just the people that didn't fall on their asses and or faceplant

[Majiffy]

That sucks. Given that the women's slopestyle got postponed it was probably in part to poor conditions.

Usually it's a good show.

[zoraster]

the slopestyle course is clearly very difficult this year.

I'm in Vail during the US Open for snowboarding (slopestyle), about two weeks after the olympics and I may wander over to watch it in person. The halfpipe bores me though.

[shaft.ed]

That sucks. Given that the women's slopestyle got postponed it was probably in part to poor conditions.

Usually it's a good show.

windy

[Majiffy]

the slopestyle course is clearly very difficult this year.

I'm in Vail during the US Open for snowboarding (slopestyle), about two weeks after the olympics and I may wander over to watch it in person. The halfpipe bores me though.

Yeah halfpipe is my least favorite boarding event.

[PJ.]

Well, women's snowboarding just sucks in general. It's so far behind the men it's a joke. Chloe Kim threw a bunch of moves from 1995 and was hailed as the greatest female snowboarder of all time.

[Harambey180]

Why are we posting about the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang 2018 in the thread of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi 2014? Like, how much work does it take to make a separate thread for it...

[shaft.ed]

too much obv

[PJ.]

Why is your name a meme from 2 years ago? Is it too much work to name yourself after a new meme?

[Majiffy]

Well, women's snowboarding just sucks in general. It's so far behind the men it's a joke. Chloe Kim threw a bunch of moves from 1995 and was hailed as the greatest female snowboarder of all time.

This is true. I don't think I've seen a triplecork or a 1440 rotation in women's slope yet. Maybe on halfpipe?

But I think gold at Sochi was a 1260 doublecork on the last hill?

[PJ.]

No. Absolutely not. The only girls throwing doublecorks are doing so in the back country. She won gold with 2 720s in 2014. This year it was a 900 and a 720.

Chloe Kim won halfpipe with back to back 1080s. I think she did a rodeo toward the end.

Korean dude that finished in 14th place in qualifying landed a double cork 1440.

[zoraster]

the men are doing bigger tricks than the women. but i mean, the question is so what? I'd imagine most people would expect that to be the case.

[PJ.]

it's the amount of the gap. It's not that there is a gap.

Chloe Kim's "almost perfect run" wouldn't even get a guy TO the olympics, let alone a gold medal.

Like, compare it to figure skating. It would be like if the best woman in the world was doing double as her best trick.

[zoraster]

Men routinely do quad jumps in men's figure skating, but there have only been three women who have landed a triple axle.

[PJ.]

I think that stat was for american women, cause both these russian girls have all sorts of triples. And again. there's other jumps. They do triple loops, triple toe loops. it's not just all the axel. It's essentially a 1 rotation difference.

in snowboarding it's 2 flips and 2 full spins of distance.

[PJ.]

And guys didn't start having quads until like 2014. And the 4 quads is basically brand new.

Chloe Kim won a gold medal with a move set from 1995.

[zoraster]

There ARE other jumps, but they're not as hard as the triple axle. It was the first woman to land it from the US. It was the third overall. (In the olympics)

I don't think you can easily compare rotations between launching yourself off the ice to do it and having a pipe or angled jump.

[PJ.]

The distance is a matter of years though. The Quads JUST started. 1080s have been a thing for 22 years. The 1080 is OLDER than Chloe Kim.

[zoraster]

The first olympic quad (clean) was in 1994.

[PJ.]

Right, and a girl did a straight back flip in 94 too but they then made it illegal cause it was too intense. And it's 1 quad. People were still winning gold medals without quads as recently as 2010.

A dude hasn't won a with just a 1080 in 22 years.