First of all
GFY.
Second you think that's a "good" location that China should be proud of because the athletes are "doing better tricks"?!? In your opinion THAT old industrial site/power plant was the best place in
ALL OF CHINA to build the Olympic ski jump?!?
REALLY ????
Either my sarcasm-meter is out of whack or you must be the "chairman" of the
unfortunate Chinese committee who
picked that "scenic backdrop" to show off the "wonder" of China!
What a fvcking joke.
Keep telling us you don't know what you're talking about, my friend.
Nice straw man, I never ever said it's the best location possible. I said it's a first of its kind venue for Big Air, and the athletes themselves have told us it exceeds their quality standards for an Olympic competition venue. Their opinions are way more pertinent than yours about
aesthetics. It's a standard setter because its the first permanent Big Air venue
anywhere in the world. (Whether that actually makes sense is debatable.)
You're the one mouthing off that China should be ashamed of this venue, which is just a dumb opinion you're entitled to have. You can like the location or not, but claiming they chose a former steel mill to save money is furthermore uninformed. Again, they're redeveloping the site and permanent venues always cost more than temporary ones in up-front and future costs.
Any place that doesn't have natural snow is the wrong place for the winter games....still mind blowing that Beijing was even considered to host this...but then again, since the IOC can be bought for a price, nothing they decide can be surprising...
You must have missed it, but only 1 former Winter Olympic games host is likely to have reliable weather to host again in the future: Sapporo, Japan. Many of the European ski resorts are losing their glaciers fast.
Sochi, Russia is a coastal resort city lol and the 2014 games were infamous for being way too warm.
Increasingly, nobody even wants to bid for the winter games. It's too expensive to host with terrible ROI. The sole runner up to Beijing 2022 was Almaty, Kazakhstan. I'm sure athletes were kicking themselves when Almaty didn't win.
The Russian flag. She also wasn't breathing as hard as you'd expect, but that is a retroactive thought. But not only was she doing stuff no woman had ever done before, she was doing it late in her long program.
Although I agree with enforcing doping penalties, this isn't exactly cool. New records get set all the time. The other Russian women skaters will also be performing quad jumps in the singles comp. Should we just DQ them now because they must be doping?
How about Chloe Kim, who did stuff in 2018 that her competitors still can't do today? I guess she's fine because she flies our flag.
According to Dr. Michael Joyner at the Mayo Clinic, this is far from a slam dunk PED case where it's obvious why an athlete look a banned substance.
Reports that a Russian skater took a drug for angina left experts puzzled.
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