CrueTrue wrote:
In fact, you could just have named this thread "Sports only Norwegians care about"
Winter sports are huge in Germany, at least when it comes to media coverage
Foreign athletes I support(ed) are (obviously) Ole Einar, the ski jump oldies Malysz (sadly retired) and Kasai (still around??) and the funny Didier Cuche (sadly retired) with his perfected ski flip
Furthermore, my grandparent's neighbors are close relatives to biathlete Michael Greis, so I'm obviously a bit biased there
Your neighbors are relatives to Michi Greis! Awesome
Those three Olympic gold medals are heavy, I tell you!
Biathlon:Tarjei Boe and Tora Berger
Ski JUmp:Noriaki Kasai and Daiki Ito (+Sarah Takanashi)
Nordic Combined:AKito Watabe
Cross Countryetter Northaug and MArit Bjoergen
Alpine Skiing:ANja PAerson (retired this season) and Hermann MAyer (retired some years ago)
It is spelled Hermann Maier.
And anybody reminds his unhuman crash from Nagano back in 1998 (i suppose many of you were too young to watch it live)?
That was almost ski jumping what he did there.
Anybody have been watching Biathlon in recent weeks? Czechs are in very good form so far, Gabriela Soukalova is the revelation of the season and Gerekova and Kuzmina also doing great for Slovakia.
With men, Moravec also great with 2nd in pursuit at Saturday...
So i guess it's time for this thread again, since tha alpine season started off today.
So Lara Gut won the Giant Slalom ahead of Kathrin Zettel and Victoria Rebensburg. Tina Maze didn't look great finished somewhere around 15th. Wonder whats up?
The speed skating has started pretty well with Ida Njåtun setting a new PB on the 1500. Marit Bjørgen and Therese Johaug have prepared better infront of this season than they have before, so... prepare your anus.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
cactus-jack wrote:
Finally the season is (almost) underway!
The speed skating has started pretty well with Ida Njåtun setting a new PB on the 1500. Marit Bjørgen and Therese Johaug have prepared better infront of this season than they have before, so... prepare your anus.
Olympic season, everybody prepared better for this season
I am HUGE fan of winter sports , especially ski jumping. Watching it for about 5 years,knowing each jumper and all of that. Go Robert Kranjec, go Letalnica in Planica , fuck Vikersund and Norwegian Ski Jumpers.
Btw, following absolutely every winter sports except ice skating and figure skating.
) won the second event in Levi, Finland, followed by last years victor Marcel Hirscher (
) and Jens Byggmark (
5 riders in the lead at the last lap (Shipulin, Eder, Lindström, M.Fourcade and Béatrix). Béatrix attacked many times, keeping only Fourcade and Shipulin behind him. In the last hill, one of his ski slipped and blocked Fourcade. The frenchs wanted to be first and second, but finished second and fifth... 
