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wow, what a finish in the biathlon. nearly ended in disaster for the Norwegian, Svendsen. Nearly got caught on the finish by celebrating too early.
wow, what a finish in the biathlon. nearly ended in disaster for the Norwegian, Svendsen. Nearly got caught on the finish by celebrating too early.
end to the biathlon was unbelievable! Shades of black caviar and luke nolen easing her up on the line to only just win.
The computer had the french guy level on time must have been thousands of a second
The missile was 0.1 second from winning gold
The chump didn't even get to the semis
What a fizzler.. and the amount of build up for chumpy night was embarrassing.
Still a choke from the missile imo.
Definite fizzer though. This could be our worst winter Olympic performance in a while.
wasn't it built as our strongest team ever? Where did it all go wrong apart from chumpy
wasn't it built as our strongest team ever? Where did it all go wrong apart from chumpy
What a crapshoot of a sport
Agree- world rankings mean nothing in that sport. The number of riders who just get clipped and it is called ‘racing’ is quite harsh. At least most competitors who crash go out that way, rather than the rider making a mistake.
But Chokey is a valid nickname – no one else caused his crash but himself. The fact is he won one race – that was it. Didn’t even get to the semis or the final. If he got to the final and stuffed up like that we would be more accepting of it. So for all that money we got what exactly?
I have to agree the Samsung ads are overplayed to start and are now just cringeworthy………..”Its not about winning………..” of course it isn’t Chumpy.
Agree. The other 2 Aussies Hughes and Bolton at least got clipped and couldn't have done anything about it.Agree- world rankings mean nothing in that sport. The number of riders who just get clipped and it is called ‘racing’ is quite harsh. At least most competitors who crash go out that way, rather than the rider making a mistake.
But Chokey is a valid nickname – no one else caused his crash but himself. The fact is he won one race – that was it. Didn’t even get to the semis or the final. If he got to the final and stuffed up like that we would be more accepting of it. So for all that money we got what exactly?
I have to agree the Samsung ads are overplayed to start and are now just cringeworthy………..”Its not about winning………..” of course it isn’t Chumpy.
Agree. The other 2 Aussies Hughes and Bolton at least got clipped and couldn't have done anything about it.
Plus they didn't get paid a million bucks to do so! Chumpy 'Chokey' has to be the most overpaid sportsperson on the planet!
Umm, you might find that Bolton is funded to the same level as Pullin is on a yearly basis as they are training partners and therefore are covered for the same level of funding as each other. So with $10 million worth of funding to the entire Winter program, 2 athletes aren't taking up a 5th of that funding. But that wouldn't fit the story now would it
As for the others, Torah Bright and Scotty James have both been offered and declined OWIA scholarships, but have State Institute Scholarships. The rest of the Snowboard team have a mix of State Institutes Scholarships and results based funding which is the same for other events that we fund - both Summer and Winter.
Basically want more funding - perform in the years before to get it. The AOC is in the results based business
Don't get why winter olympic athlete's get so much funding
No one cares about them outside of 1 day every 4 years and even then its normally lukewarm interest.
Surely Chumpy getting 1 million is about 800k too much.
The Winter Olympics might not get as much love here in Australia. But man, I love watching the skiing. Jelly of those guys, I am.