Prospective olympic teams for ski pipe

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salo720skier

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think about if skiing pipe was in the olympics. what would the teams be like? i dont think there would be total domination by 1 or two countries like there is in snowboard pipe. post some of your thoughts
 
it would be more spread out i think, but you hafta realize that its gonna be at least 8 more years before this would happen, so the field would be completely different. even like sammy and derek spong would be past there competition prime
 
well it might be dominated by three countires.sweden, canada and the u.s. maybe france. but they'll be to busy drinking wine and eating cheese. and the rest will be filled by scandinavian countries.
 
canada= belanger, larose, vanular

usa= hall, dumont, olenick

france= favre, thovex

sweden= wester, olsson

i know there are more, but just to give you an idea...
 
almost one of those guys would be competing in 8 years. there are kids who are 8 years old right now who will be taking gold in 2014 if it goes down.
 
france would be sick: candide, laurent, and loic collomb-patton also sweden would kill: jon, henrick, jacob wester.
 
and canada too: larose, belanger, charles, vanular, justin dorey, bibby, TJ, and turpin (remember he has an entire switch pipe run if healthy)
 
yea but in 2014 they are probley going to be doing 1440 in the pipe (by the rate we are going) and it people like tanner will be at home ready to retire
 
because everything has already been orginized and decided, and if they added another two events (men+women) then they would need to add housing for atleast 50 more athleats and find time to put it in(qualifiers+heats+finals). Every thing has been decided for the 2010 olympics already.
 
yeah, pipe skiing will take forever until its at the olympics, by the way, did anyone see Jennifer Heil win gold in womens moguls, that was an intense few minutes of t.v.
 
is it not possible to get the skier half pipe for 2010 in vancouver? anyone know what te process is of getting a new event into the olympics?
 
2010 team

CANADA: Mike Henitiuk (will be 19)

USA: Derek Spong (will be 19)

NEW ZEALAND: Jossi Wells (will be 19)

and i dunno any other coutnrys...and there are mroe for USA but ya...those are my pics a lot fo people will be way too fuckin old by then though
 
I thought I heard somewhere that they were going to "test" it at 2010? Like just to see how it goes, and have a prep year?
 
thats a good point, how many olympic athletes in pipe would pass? i think it would take mroe than 4 years for tanner to get clean
 
well if ti happens in 2014...then we have no idea who willb e in it...all the people now will be 8 years older...meaning tanner will be like 30 it will be kids that we have never even ehard of

and if it happens in 2010, itll be the young up and comers right now like Jossi wells and mike henitiuk, not jon or them, cuz they will be getting old and shit
 
ian i think your wrong, im calling that tanner and all the people that are 22 right now, they will be near the top in 2010. look at snowboarding, how old is montoya and ross powers???? halfpipe is a thing you can be good at when your old. i think that we think people get to old at 25, 27 because the people in our sport who are that age got distracted and believed everyone around them telling them they are too old. plus it doesn't make sense, how is your body going to be that much different when your 30, if your taking the right steps to stay in shape..... you should be still able to kill it. plus skiing takes not much pysical strength, it's all in the mind. i believe that if they had it in 2010, candide, t hall and some others will still be there if their body's are not damaged.
 
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