Hi all! This thread is the thread for covering Skiing at the Winter Olympics this year. This includes the following: Alpine Skiing, Cross-country skiing, Freestyle skiing, Nordic combined, Ski jumping. Feel free to discuss all the ins and outs of the disciplines, any predictions you may have, support for the competitors and other remarks you may have as we kick off today!

Caught the Men's Moguls earlier today - a fantastic run for Walter Wallberg to get him the gold, and a lot of chopping and changing between the qualification runs! A shame for Ben Cavet just missing out on the medals in 4th - he skis for France but was born in Kent and spent the first 10 years of his life in the UK so I'll claim him :kink:

Men's Downhill will be run (hopefully) tomorrow at 04:00, in between runs of the women's Giant Slalom, although on a different hill.

Very brave performance from Mikayla Gerken-Schofield - will finish 8th in the Olympics, by a big way our best ever in Moguls.

Just been watching the Men's Downhill - that really is a nasty course! Pretty much every skiier going way outside the line. Shiffrin falling after just a few gates in the Super G was quite the shock as well, although fantastic to see Sweden's Sara Hector managing to get gold in her absence (I picked my Country Manager country well ;))

Kirsty Muir finishing fifth in the Women's Big Air - a fantastic result for her! A shame she couldn't hand her final run, that could have propelled her into the medals. Eileen Gu won with a spectacle of a run though!

Alpine slalom course is pretty flat at the beginning - which is always said to favour Dave Ryding.

 

Lordy Shiffrin out early again in the first run of the slalom.

You have to feel for Shiffrin, this really isn't her Games. Vlova did fantastically to climb from 8th to 1st during the second run though, only the second ever gold for Slovakia as well!

 

Edit: Just catching up on the Alpine Combined race as well - amazing to see Strolz win the gold, his Slalom win from Bib 38 in January was the moment of the year for me so to see him top that was spectacular. And good to see two downhill skiiers on the podium as well, most of the time the contest seems to be massively skewed towards the Slalom so it seems that not skiing in reverse order might have made it all more even.

British skier James Woods pulled out of freeski slopestyle qualification hours after saying he was "full of painkillers and strapped up in bed" because of a back injury.

 

Woods finished fourth at Pyeongchang 2018, improving on fifth at Sochi 2014 when he struggled with a hip injury.

 

On Monday night, the 30-year-old said his back had "completely seized up" and he was unable to move.

 

He added he would "give everything I can to shred my hardest".

 

Woods' efforts were in vain though as he was registered as a DNS (did not start) when the slopestyle qualifiers got under way on Tuesday.

Switzerland's Corinne Suter takes home gold in the women's downhill skiing at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Dave Ryding could he finish in the Top 10 in the men's slalom?

Watched thelast run of the Slalom in full - some great skiing, Dave Ryding did well to build on his position even if he didn't make the Top 10. Well done to Clement Noel as well!

Michelle Gisin has won the Combined.

Mikaela Shiffrin’s nightmarish Olympics spilled into Thursday when she was unable to complete the slalom leg of the women’s combined, the latest disappointment in a Beijing Games that alpine skiing’s biggest winner would sooner forget.

 

The 26-year-old American star appeared on course for a redemptive medal on the last day of individual competition in Yanqing after clocking the fifth-best time in the morning’s downhill portion, only 0.56sec behind halfway leader Christine Scheyer of Austria and ahead of a gaggle of contenders including the Swiss pair of Michelle Gisin (by 0.13sec) and Wendy Holdener (0.43) along with Italy’s Federica Brignone (0.44).

Eileen Gu of China wrote a new chapter of Olympic history by soaring to a third medal at these Games. The 18-year-old won gold in the freeski halfpipe final, adding to her big air gold and slopestyle silver to complete an unprecedented hat-trick

Another bad race for Shiffrin, the mental toll must've been too much. Glad she doesn't seem to down about it - after all, what can you do?

 

Just finished watching the Women's Ski Cross - seemed to go completely to the book with the exception of Smith being demoted - not sure what I think of that one, after all ski cross is known for its tactics and upsets!

Switzerland took gold and silver in the men's ski cross final, with Ryan Regez beating reigning world champion Alex Fiva into second, as Sergey Ridzik, of the Russian Olympic Committee, took bronze.

The wind looks so nasty for the men’s freeski halfpipe final! Snow and ice blowing everywhere. It’s mind blowing what these athletes are able to achieve in such challenging conditions

Gus Kenworthy tenth after his first run.

A nasty crash for Gus on his second run! Fantastic to see Nico Porteous clinch that gold medal though, great to see him progress after his bronze in Pyeongchang.