Olympics 2022 - Slopestyle

ABM is the announcer in Canada, and when it was Nick Goepper's first run and he presented him he said "Nick loves the Olympics".

When Colby Stevenson came up, he said "THIS GUY SAVED MY LIFE IN AN AVALANCHE" twice during his first run, to which the other announcer responded "Well Alex I'm glad you're here with us today"
 
Only had time to watch the winning runs, but I like that podium. Yeah theres so many skiers there that I wish could all medal but I like the podium. Good to see Hall and Tjader get some medals for their careers especially with how much I've loved their videos. And then this is biased af but I'm a Perfect North rat so love me some goep
 
14398540:*TURBONERD* said:
Andri got underscored, and plenty of people here shitting on him for dealing with it poorly wouldn't do any better with that sort of disappointment in what has to be the biggest single moment of his entire life so far. Cut him some slack.
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The judges made it pretty clear from the beginning they didn't really like his run, his rails are a snooze and he got the huckiest back to back 16s, honestly I'm completely fine with the judges skunking him for doing the same shit year after year after year, andri needs to do something new already. Ahall won because he did hard rail tricks that nobody was doing + creative jump tricks that wasn't just the most spins possible. Its only andris fault for doing the same bullshit and expecting a better score.
 
14398707:eheath said:
The judges made it pretty clear from the beginning they didn't really like his run, his rails are a snooze and he got the huckiest back to back 16s, honestly I'm completely fine with the judges skunking him for doing the same shit year after year after year, andri needs to do something new already. Ahall won because he did hard rail tricks that nobody was doing + creative jump tricks that wasn't just the most spins possible. Its only andris fault for doing the same bullshit and expecting a better score.
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This^.. also the more I go back and watch the runs, I believe that with such a creative looking course, the judges were looking for people who were kinda going "against the norm". Goeppers run might not have been the most good looking or tech but he was the only one hitting the quarter pipe on that second jump, Im pretty sure that Jesper triple flipped it that second one as well and A Hall did that switch 7 to nosebud switch 5 (which was arguably one of the coolest things that was done in slope). Ragettli did put down a very tech run but like Eheath, said, it kind of just fit in with the rest.
 
is there any way to watch the non-podium runs? wasn't able to watch it live so ive only seen the podium runs but i really wanna see matej and moffats, among pretty much everyone elses as well
 
Peacock has the full event, even the qualifiers if you’ve got like 5 hours to kill.

14398783:stinky_cheese said:
is there any way to watch the non-podium runs? wasn't able to watch it live so ive only seen the podium runs but i really wanna see matej and moffats, among pretty much everyone elses as well
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did anyone think the course was pretty boring and not big enough for the athletes

pretty much same jumps as pyeongchang and no one was using the shark fin take off on the second jump

The sochi course had way bigger jumps
 
14398707:eheath said:
The judges made it pretty clear from the beginning they didn't really like his run, his rails are a snooze and he got the huckiest back to back 16s, honestly I'm completely fine with the judges skunking him for doing the same shit year after year after year, andri needs to do something new already. Ahall won because he did hard rail tricks that nobody was doing + creative jump tricks that wasn't just the most spins possible. Its only andris fault for doing the same bullshit and expecting a better score.
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Ahall definitely deserved the win in my opinion. I just don’t see a huge difference between Andri and somebody like Fabian - if anything, Andri’s execution is generally cleaner nowadays. His rails definitely weren’t the most technical, but nobody else was doing that same transfer on the first hit, which looked quite a bit bigger than the other transfer feature, so that should absolutely be considered at least a bit creative. Another relatively small point is that Jesper’s triple was pretty aerials-esque from my perspective, with a super upright axis. On the other hand, he did send it massive.
 
14399020:jps2.0 said:
did anyone think the course was pretty boring and not big enough for the athletes

pretty much same jumps as pyeongchang and no one was using the shark fin take off on the second jump

The sochi course had way bigger jumps
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The Sochi course was too big. How are you meant to be creative and inventive when one wrong move and you are falling 50 feet out of the air to your death?

Real talk tho wasn’t a huge complaint about Sochi that the course was too big or did I make that up?
 
14399085:Farmville420 said:
The Sochi course was too big. How are you meant to be creative and inventive when one wrong move and you are falling 50 feet out of the air to your death?

Real talk tho wasn’t a huge complaint about Sochi that the course was too big or did I make that up?
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from my understanding sochi had like 80ft jumps which isn't that crazy compared to some years x games

but for the girls there was smaller jumps which were like 40ft and way too small but the 'mens' jumps were too big at the time for the girls

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Peacock is what I normally opt for but I’m watching Finnish stream now for pipe because peacock skips so many replays for the “coverage will resume shortly” commercial slots. Gets old esp if you’re paying for peacock

14398965:Goretex_Vidal said:
Peacock has the full event, even the qualifiers if you’ve got like 5 hours to kill.
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14399020:jps2.0 said:
did anyone think the course was pretty boring and not big enough for the athletes

pretty much same jumps as pyeongchang and no one was using the shark fin take off on the second jump

The sochi course had way bigger jumps
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Weird to hear this. Do you not remember everyone complaining about sochi jumps being too big?
 
14399020:jps2.0 said:
did anyone think the course was pretty boring and not big enough for the athletes

pretty much same jumps as pyeongchang and no one was using the shark fin take off on the second jump

The sochi course had way bigger jumps
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I don't know, I thought the the course was pretty interesting and the judges rewarded/incentivized the athletes to use non-standard lines. AHall the only athlete hitting the knuckle, Goepper the only athlete hitting the shark fins, etc. the only real observation I had was that it seemed athletes were not taking the third jump particularly deep for whatever reason (spacing, speed, etc.).
 
14399404:BenWhit said:
I don't know, I thought the the course was pretty interesting and the judges rewarded/incentivized the athletes to use non-standard lines. AHall the only athlete hitting the knuckle, Goepper the only athlete hitting the shark fins, etc. the only real observation I had was that it seemed athletes were not taking the third jump particularly deep for whatever reason (spacing, speed, etc.).
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Can’t sleep on Max Moffat spinning on and knuckle hucking the middle as well.

This park was big, the landings went deep and steep. Camera angles never properly showed this. We wanted to use the ski cross cable cam to give a better scale of the course, but that camera crew wasn’t there on those days, and we missed out.

I think there were speed issues going into the last jump, just a classic kicker. Max took it big, and you could hear him exclaim it in the qualifiers. Nobody else seemed to match that speed. Maybe the corral came up too quickly, there were a few that had to carve in to dump that speed hard.
 
14399085:Farmville420 said:
The Sochi course was too big. How are you meant to be creative and inventive when one wrong move and you are falling 50 feet out of the air to your death?

Real talk tho wasn’t a huge complaint about Sochi that the course was too big or did I make that up?
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Yes. You are correct. I remember athletes showing up for practice and being slackjawed at how dangerous the course was.

The jumps weren’t abnormally long or anything, they were just GIGANTIC step downs. At 80 feet, a stepdown is terrifying.

I remember photos of those jumps where it just looked like riders were throwing themselves off the edge of the Earth.

Jamie-Nicholls-Sochi-2014-kickers.jpg


I mean look at this lol, they were ridiculous.

I’m imagining the athletes being greeted by a bunch of Russian jump builders, vodka in hand, “What is problem? You say big jump. Is big jump!”

**This post was edited on Feb 17th 2022 at 11:12:27am
 
14399479:ButteredToast. said:
Yes. You are correct. I remember athletes showing up for practice and being slackjawed at how dangerous the course was.

The jumps weren’t abnormally long or anything, they were just GIGANTIC step downs. At 80 feet, a stepdown is terrifying.

I remember photos of those jumps where it just looked like riders were throwing themselves off the edge of the Earth.

Jamie-Nicholls-Sochi-2014-kickers.jpg


I mean look at this lol, they were ridiculous.

I’m imagining the athletes being greeted by a bunch of Russian jump builders, vodka in hand, “What is problem? You say big jump. Is big jump!”

**This post was edited on Feb 17th 2022 at 11:12:27am
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Holy shit I remember the jumps being big but that pic just reminded me how terrifying they were. Glad Olympic jump builders decided to calm down the amplitude, that picture is pretty horrifying ngl
 
14399549:Farmville420 said:
Holy shit I remember the jumps being big but that pic just reminded me how terrifying they were. Glad Olympic jump builders decided to calm down the amplitude, that picture is pretty horrifying ngl
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Found the photos I was talking about:

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Talk about hurtling yourself into the void!
 
The Schneestern crew has really dialled in their park building. This is the same crew that builds the Audi Nine Knights course. Not sure who or what happened in Russia, that looks spooky. But then again… Russia.
 
14399479:ButteredToast. said:
Yes. You are correct. I remember athletes showing up for practice and being slackjawed at how dangerous the course was.

The jumps weren’t abnormally long or anything, they were just GIGANTIC step downs. At 80 feet, a stepdown is terrifying.

I remember photos of those jumps where it just looked like riders were throwing themselves off the edge of the Earth.

Jamie-Nicholls-Sochi-2014-kickers.jpg


I mean look at this lol, they were ridiculous.

I’m imagining the athletes being greeted by a bunch of Russian jump builders, vodka in hand, “What is problem? You say big jump. Is big jump!”

**This post was edited on Feb 17th 2022 at 11:12:27am
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and to think jossi wells zero'd all of them lol

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