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Originally Posted by cartman

Holy crap! What a competitive men's downhill!

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Bode Miller wins Bronze in the Men's downhill. He was only .09 seconds behind the gold medal winner, .02 behind the silver medal. Unbelievable how close the top level competitors are.

kinda unspectacular course though, well relatively speaking of course.
And only until you saw slow-motion, holy shit I mean, the power you need in your legs to stay low on those curves and how freaking un-smooth the course looks from up close, what seems like smooth sailing from away is just one bump after the other.

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German expert totally called Defago as the winner btw and even predicted why and when he´d gain the time compared to the others.
Still, huge surprise definitely. Glad for Miller, good way to go out.

Up until when do you guys need spoilers btw ?

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

I have two problems with the downhill skiing:

- the course warmed up/degraded after the first 20 or so skiers, which meant that the guys after that could have the run of their lives and still have no shot. Kind of dumb.

- because of the above, the whole thing was super boring for the second half. Just dude after dude skiing down the hill that everyone knew had no chance. Why even continue? You may has well have thrown skiis on some bystanders and let them have at the hill for an hour and give us something interesting to watch.

allways like that in the olympics. In other disciplines you start with the worst athletes built it up until the best come along, but for the reason you named (course wearing down) you can´t do that in the downhill and super G because you can´t fix the track in between.

That reason is also why the slalom and Giant Slalom are so fun though, first round the best athletes get early numbers but in the 2nd leg the best placed (mostly the ones that started early in the first leg) start last and have to deal with a seriously fucked up track.