First Look at Sochi Slope Course

man. I didn't know snowboarders were such pussies.

who the fuck complains about a jump being "too big"?

they should have let the mens skiers compete first, then make the jumps smaller for the others. plus why the hell can't they just hit the small jumps?

seriously, bitching about big jumps is lame as fuck.
 
really sloppy reporting, implying that torstein's injury was because of the course itself

maybe it was but i dont think anyone has heard any indication that it's true. he fell doing a hardway 2 right? maybe they should mention to the laymen readers that that trick is an awesome way to get hurt
 
Russian mail order bride?!?!?! Someone needs to bring this home with them, and try to get citizenship for her.
 
I see it as a "shit happens" scenario. i really don't see any need to fix the course cuz someone got hurt trying a technical trick onto a feature. These are the risks involved in both sports, ya know?
 
Dude, right? It's almost like they couldn't figure out how to design the course in only four years so they just googled it last week and PC grand prix was the first thing came up, copy pasted that shit into Russia. Fucking copyright infringement abomination
 
Pretty much, made me laugh.

I was really looking forward to watching Torstein compete, bummed he's out... hopefully other competitors don't get injured training. Can you imagine going through all the qualifying and making it to Sochi only to injure days prior to your event, on your first day training?

PS- the Olympic course design was completed over a year ago. Prior to Olympics you have to run a WC with the similar set up/course design a year beforehand on the same venue. It was cancelled due to rain.

If they had been able to run the WC they would have received a ton of rider feedback and been able to make modifications for this year. Because they were not able to run the WC on this venue, all the feedback/design issues/speed etc is now coming to light for the first time. Luckily they're doing lots of training days prior.

I raced SX and the World Cup at Cypress was almost 100% indentical to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic course a year later. Knowing what the features will be, a lot of the WC's between then and the Olympics mimic that course design.

Sochi wasn't "copying" anything. That course design/set up was agreed on over a year ago and had the World Cup happened last year in Sochi and not been cancelled you would have seen it and then been all "OMGZ Grand prix is ripping off Sochi!"

Doesn't anyone read anymore?

 
Soshi time. 12 hours off pst.

6th

Snowboard slope quali

10amMen

2pm woman

8th

Snowboard slope semi

9:30am men

Snowboard slope final

12:45pm men

9th

Snowboard slope semi

10:30am woman

Snowboard slope final

1:15pm woman

11th

Ski slope woman

10am quali

1pm final

Snowboard pipe men

2pm quali

7pm semi

9:30pm final

12th

Snowboard pipe woman

2pm quali

7pm semi

9:30pm final

13th

Ski slope men

10:15am quali

1:30pm final

18th

Ski pipe men

5:45pm quali

9:30pm final

20th

Ski pipe woman

6:30pm quali

9:30pm final
 
There has been a lot of complaints about the landings being too flat, not matching the take offs, hence making it more dangerous for the atheletes. Someone compared landing from those jumps to jumping off an appartment building. I wouldnt relly enjoy hitting a jump like that. + theres no way anyone will try anything too hard when the consecuenses are that high.
 
Sucks. The shitty xgames course broke mark mcmorris too. I feel like this is what we were expecting though. why the fuck would we think it was a good idea to host the olympics in russia? They want they're athletes on the podium so they're trying to hurt athletes from other countries. It's fucked.

BOYCOTT SUSHI!
 
here, i'll settle this for you guys. any kid who's been through engineering school or with common sense should agree.

- granite is hard

- hard materials are almost always brittle, granite in this case is brittle

- brittle materials chip and crack under impact and flexing

- every walked by a granite ledge that skateboarders have hit?

- this is why granite is great as a flat, stationary material

- steel is softer

- steel is more ductile

- steel is much less likely to crack under impact.

so, if that ledge is granite, it should be just fine for a while, but eventually, it will crack and chip. it will be much harder to maintain. will it hold up to riding through the olympics? i'm really not sure
 
I think most people grasp the concept of granite vs steel. Well maybe not the people that were posting before. I would be surprised if it was actually real granite though.

Then again you never know.
 
I don't agree. I think it'll hold up just fine for a long time so long as it's set properly in place and they used granite that didn't already have fractures in it.
 
No, the course was released last year. The Grand Prix in PC was modeled after the first feature at the Olympics. I remember the announcer saying it as well.
 
Realized he was being sarcastic when I read the next page. Disregard that post. Anyways, course is looking pretty sick.
 
I hear snowboarders and pussies and the women are complaining. Where are people reading this? One snowboarder whining doesn't deem them al to be pussies.
 
I know you're sarcastic, but I think other people are blaming russia for making a shitty course that will hurt athletes, when in reality it's just a really big course that people are going to get hurt on because it's big. The jumps are built well, its the same guys who made JOI, so we know they can do work. It just comes down to the fact that snowboarding and skiing are dangerous as fuck, and the bigger you go, the more dangerous they become.
 
I really hope they don't size down the jumps. Plus if I was a female in slope, I'd never want to be caught complaining about jump size.
 
It wasn't the X Games fault. Mark fell because he speedchecked. As for Torstein not competing, that makes me really sad :(
 
I like how it is only the women snowboarders complaining. The skiers seem beyond stoked on it, and Henrik is like a child who got a free box of puppys.
 
So... I stumbled on this on NBC's website - Slopestyle Training Day photos.

First photo made me want to cry. Whomever their photographer is has clearly NEVER shot park skiing or snowboarding before.

I really hope some real ski/snowboard photographers are shooting the Olympics (slopestyle ski and snowboard events) to do this sport justice, because as of now based on those photos it looks like it's one jump taken from one crappy angle by a photographer in a lawn chair. The athletes do a better job with their iphones on instagram than this Getty Photographer did with probably $30,000 in equipment, and god only knows how much he made on selling these images.

Brutal. Especially that first title image - rolling down the windows much? Yikes.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/photos/training-day-freeski-slopestyle?ctx=team-usa
 
I do like the one of dollo though.

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