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Honestbuckeye

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Re: The China Olympics
« Reply #182 on: February 16, 2022, 12:25:33 PM »
Quote from: ELA on February 16, 2022, 12:21:32 PM
Weird that relying on a bunch of players/alums from a school that has won 2 NCAA tournament games in the past decade didn't pan out in a single elimination tournament.

Maybe we should pile as many Purdue players onto USA basketball as possible too? :57:
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Re: The China Olympics
« Reply #183 on: February 16, 2022, 12:35:19 PM »
Quote from: ELA on February 16, 2022, 12:21:32 PM
Weird that relying on a bunch of players/alums from a school that has won 2 NCAA tournament games in the past decade didn't pan out in a single elimination tournament.

Maybe we should pile as many Purdue players onto USA basketball as possible too? :57:
You mean the team that's made the S16 thrice and the E8 once in the last decade... Last 5 years, actually? And hasn't failed to reach the R32 in the last 5 years. 

I think IU are the droids you're looking for... No NCAAT appearances in even the last 5 years...
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« Reply #184 on: February 16, 2022, 12:52:20 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on February 16, 2022, 12:35:19 PM
You mean the team that's made the S16 thrice and the E8 once in the last decade... Last 5 years, actually? And hasn't failed to reach the R32 in the last 5 years.

I think IU are the droids you're looking for... No NCAAT appearances in even the last 5 years...
Well USA reached the Elite 8, that's not the issue
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« Reply #185 on: February 16, 2022, 12:56:56 PM »
B1G on B1G violence up in here.

It's a beautiful thing to watch.

Anyway I'll be rooting for the Swedes, and definitely not the cheater Russians.
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« Reply #186 on: February 16, 2022, 01:04:53 PM »
I was watching the cross country relay, and they were discussing that the US won gold in 2018, but it was freestyle, and this Olympics it's classical style, which no world championships have been since 2019.

That seems odd to me.  Like instead of having different strokes for swimming, you just had "swimming" and then then event organizers were like "eh, let's do backstroke"
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« Reply #187 on: February 16, 2022, 01:06:07 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on February 16, 2022, 12:56:56 PM
B1G on B1G violence up in here.

It's a beautiful thing to watch.

Anyway I'll be rooting for the Swedes, and definitely not the cheater Russians.
I wonder if there would be any more interest if instead of having separate NCAA Championships, they did it Olympics style every year.  You had one location host all of the championships for that season, and make it one big event.
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« Reply #188 on: February 16, 2022, 01:39:47 PM »
They tend to alternate CC techniques bt classical and freestyle.   Definite method to madness, even if it means alternating each olympics
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« Reply #189 on: February 16, 2022, 02:17:57 PM »
Well it clearly mattered, because the US completely fell apart down the stretch, falling from bronze medal position into a distant 5th with the final skier
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« Reply #190 on: February 16, 2022, 02:31:06 PM »
Yep.  Some French dude dominates Classic and is middle of pack on free.  He was a non threat in 2018 in one of the distance runs.   They aren't going to have two 15ks, two 30ks and the 50k in both techniques along w the relays and sprints.   I understand there's often changing programs at world cup CC events as well.

They did run a relay this year of 2 legs classic and 2 free.   US still finished outside 
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« Reply #191 on: February 16, 2022, 02:32:17 PM »
The gold the US won in 2018 was 2x, not 4x.    
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« Reply #192 on: February 16, 2022, 02:41:52 PM »
Quote from: MarqHusker on February 16, 2022, 02:31:06 PM
Yep.  Some French dude dominates Classic and is middle of pack on free.  He was a non threat in 2018 in one of the distance runs.  They aren't going to have two 15ks, two 30ks and the 50k in both techniques along w the relays and sprints.  I understand there's often changing programs at world cup CC events as well.

They did run a relay this year of 2 legs classic and 2 free.  US still finished outside
I'd have a better shot of understanding the engineering talk
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« Reply #193 on: February 16, 2022, 02:46:10 PM »
Yeah I don't know anything at all about CC skiing.  Might be hard to believe, but it's not all that popular down here in Texico.
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« Reply #194 on: February 16, 2022, 02:48:15 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on February 16, 2022, 02:46:10 PM
Yeah I don't know anything at all about CC skiing.  Might be hard to believe, but it's not all that popular down here in Texico.
You get as much snow as greater Beijing does
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Re: The China Olympics
« Reply #195 on: February 16, 2022, 11:16:05 PM »
Ha.  CC is weird and it really came to a head in the mid 80s when freestyle aka skating came onto the scene during late 70s and it proved impossible to regulate races when some were still doing classic style and new equipment and training demonstrated freestyle was clearly faster.  Countries like Norway, USSR were appalled by freestyle 'that's not cc skiing' and there was years of fighting over races and equipment and courses. 

Long story short, they've developed schedules to feature both distinct techniques which feature a good amount of variance and frankly I think makes for an interesting olympic sport.  Freestyle clearly is a bigger challenge of fitness, is more suited for groomed courses and is quite fast relative to classic which is still really cool.  The equipment and wax become a big difference too.  Some of the events combine the techniques too which is fun.

I'd love to see tennis matches w wood rackets or golf played w different equipment .
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