Skip to content
  • Categories
Collapse

The Silver Fern

  • Tipping
  • Team Sheets
  • Highlights
  • Results
    • All Blacks

      Search every All Blacks Test. Filter results by year, opposition, location, venue, city and RWC stage

    • Super Rugby

      Search every Super Rugby since match 1996

    • NPC

      Search NPC results. Only first division matches from 1976-2005. All results from the 14 team competition (2006-present) are included

Winter Olympics

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Sports Talk
65 Posts 15 Posters 742 Views 1 Watching
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • canefanC Offline
    canefanC Offline
    canefan
    wrote last edited by
    #45

    Lindsay Vonn was interviewed post-accident. She reckons the ACL had no bearing on her accident. I don't know enough about skiing to know if that can be true. I guess the knee doesn't move as much as running. But it still has to support the body and take all that force as you cover the uneven terrain

    antipodeanA 1 Reply Last reply
    1
    • mariner4lifeM Offline
      mariner4lifeM Offline
      mariner4life
      wrote last edited by
      #46

      it's worth noting that this wasn't her first ski at the games, they had practice runs, and Vonn was 3rd fastest.

      canefanC 1 Reply Last reply
      4
      • mariner4lifeM mariner4life

        it's worth noting that this wasn't her first ski at the games, they had practice runs, and Vonn was 3rd fastest.

        canefanC Offline
        canefanC Offline
        canefan
        wrote last edited by canefan
        #47

        @mariner4life said in Winter Olympics:

        it's worth noting that this wasn't her first ski at the games, they had practice runs, and Vonn was 3rd fastest.

        Was that after sustaining the ACL injury?

        1 Reply Last reply
        1
        • mariner4lifeM Offline
          mariner4lifeM Offline
          mariner4life
          wrote last edited by
          #48

          yeah she entered the games with that injury

          1 Reply Last reply
          3
          • V Offline
            V Offline
            Virgil
            wrote last edited by
            #49

            She posted online earlier today stating it was her error and not the ACL injury that caused the crashed
            She wrote she was 5 inches too tight in her line, clipping the gate.

            that left leg of hers must just be a throbbing mess of pain and will be for some time

            V 1 Reply Last reply
            2
            • V Virgil

              She posted online earlier today stating it was her error and not the ACL injury that caused the crashed
              She wrote she was 5 inches too tight in her line, clipping the gate.

              that left leg of hers must just be a throbbing mess of pain and will be for some time

              V Offline
              V Offline
              Virgil
              wrote last edited by Virgil
              #50

              @Virgil said in Winter Olympics:

              she was 5 inches too tight in her..

                          must       be   throbbing
              

              You know back in the day on the Fern if you posted something like this you’d be asking for trouble
              I guess we are all grown up now

              Anyway nice to see NZ on the medal table and the Aussies not

              1 Reply Last reply
              1
              • canefanC canefan

                Lindsay Vonn was interviewed post-accident. She reckons the ACL had no bearing on her accident. I don't know enough about skiing to know if that can be true. I guess the knee doesn't move as much as running. But it still has to support the body and take all that force as you cover the uneven terrain

                antipodeanA Offline
                antipodeanA Offline
                antipodean
                wrote last edited by
                #51

                @canefan said in Winter Olympics:

                Lindsay Vonn was interviewed post-accident. She reckons the ACL had no bearing on her accident. I don't know enough about skiing to know if that can be true. I guess the knee doesn't move as much as running. But it still has to support the body and take all that force as you cover the uneven terrain

                I was convinced by this explanation

                But since she said she just fucked up...

                1 Reply Last reply
                1
                • MiketheSnowM Offline
                  MiketheSnowM Offline
                  MiketheSnow
                  wrote last edited by
                  #52

                  Shiffrin is human

                  4th in the Women's combined after Breezy Johnson finished first in the downhill section

                  1 Reply Last reply
                  0
                  • mariner4lifeM Offline
                    mariner4lifeM Offline
                    mariner4life
                    wrote last edited by
                    #53

                    watched the cross country sprint which looks a hard as fuck day unless your name is Klaebo. Or you are a Swedish woman.

                    Then the mens Biathlon 20km which is cool and in a beautiful spot. How was old mate getting bronze, and then in his words committing social suicide in the post race interview by admitting he told his missus a week ago he cheated on her, and they broke up? bro
                    Of course a Norwegian won that as well

                    V 1 Reply Last reply
                    2
                    • mariner4lifeM mariner4life

                      watched the cross country sprint which looks a hard as fuck day unless your name is Klaebo. Or you are a Swedish woman.

                      Then the mens Biathlon 20km which is cool and in a beautiful spot. How was old mate getting bronze, and then in his words committing social suicide in the post race interview by admitting he told his missus a week ago he cheated on her, and they broke up? bro
                      Of course a Norwegian won that as well

                      V Offline
                      V Offline
                      Virgil
                      wrote last edited by
                      #54

                      @mariner4life said in Winter Olympics:

                      watched the cross country sprint which looks a hard as fuck day unless your name is Klaebo. Or you are a Swedish woman.

                      Then the mens Biathlon 20km which is cool and in a beautiful spot. How was old mate getting bronze, and then in his words committing social suicide in the post race interview by admitting he told his missus a week ago he cheated on her, and they broke up? bro
                      Of course a Norwegian won that as well

                      That was pretty shit, it comes across to me as hey i fucked up but look how amazing i am at winning this medal so please go easy on me.
                      Have to feel sorry for his partner

                      1 Reply Last reply
                      0
                      • sparkyS Offline
                        sparkyS Offline
                        sparky
                        wrote last edited by
                        #55

                        A special treat for all you fans of luge doubles:

                        1 Reply Last reply
                        0
                        • mariner4lifeM Offline
                          mariner4lifeM Offline
                          mariner4life
                          wrote last edited by
                          #56

                          the Biathlon is probably my favourite event of the games but whoever the female commentator is, she is the probably the most annoying commentator of any sport. Absolutely doing my head in.

                          1 Reply Last reply
                          1
                          • MiketheSnowM Offline
                            MiketheSnowM Offline
                            MiketheSnow
                            wrote last edited by
                            #57

                            Franjo Van Allman of Switzerland takes the Men's Super G Gold medal, his third gold of the Games.

                            Only the third man to achieve this

                            Toni Sailor 1956 (Cortina)
                            Jean Claude Killy 1968 (Grenoble)

                            Only Croatia's Janica Kostelic has achieved the feat in women's skiing, at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games

                            1 Reply Last reply
                            2
                            • MiketheSnowM Offline
                              MiketheSnowM Offline
                              MiketheSnow
                              wrote last edited by
                              #58

                              Matt Weston gets GB’s first medal of the Games

                              And it’s Gold

                              Men’s Skeleton

                              Dominant

                              1 Reply Last reply
                              1
                              • mariner4lifeM Offline
                                mariner4lifeM Offline
                                mariner4life
                                wrote last edited by
                                #59

                                Klaebo equals the record for most winter golds at 8. He still has 3 more events apparently.

                                MiketheSnowM sparkyS 2 Replies Last reply
                                2
                                • mariner4lifeM Offline
                                  mariner4lifeM Offline
                                  mariner4life
                                  wrote last edited by
                                  #60

                                  Australia continues their decent record in the x-games type events. Two golds now.

                                  1 Reply Last reply
                                  1
                                  • mariner4lifeM mariner4life

                                    Klaebo equals the record for most winter golds at 8. He still has 3 more events apparently.

                                    MiketheSnowM Offline
                                    MiketheSnowM Offline
                                    MiketheSnow
                                    wrote last edited by
                                    #61

                                    @mariner4life said in Winter Olympics:

                                    Klaebo equals the record for most winter golds at 8. He still has 3 more events apparently.

                                    1 Reply Last reply
                                    0
                                    • canefanC Offline
                                      canefanC Offline
                                      canefan
                                      wrote last edited by canefan
                                      #62

                                      https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/47920493/2026-winter-olympics-ice-dance-french-team-controversy-laurence-fournier-beaudry-guillaume-cizeron

                                      I don't really like ice dancing anyway, this is another reason to dislike it

                                      antipodeanA 1 Reply Last reply
                                      0
                                      • mariner4lifeM mariner4life

                                        Klaebo equals the record for most winter golds at 8. He still has 3 more events apparently.

                                        sparkyS Offline
                                        sparkyS Offline
                                        sparky
                                        wrote last edited by
                                        #63

                                        @mariner4life said in Winter Olympics:

                                        Klaebo equals the record for most winter golds at 8. He still has 3 more events apparently.

                                        And Klaebo now has 9 Gold Medals. What a champion!

                                        1 Reply Last reply
                                        1
                                        • canefanC canefan

                                          https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/47920493/2026-winter-olympics-ice-dance-french-team-controversy-laurence-fournier-beaudry-guillaume-cizeron

                                          I don't really like ice dancing anyway, this is another reason to dislike it

                                          antipodeanA Offline
                                          antipodeanA Offline
                                          antipodean
                                          wrote last edited by
                                          #64

                                          @canefan said in Winter Olympics:

                                          https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/47920493/2026-winter-olympics-ice-dance-french-team-controversy-laurence-fournier-beaudry-guillaume-cizeron

                                          I don't really like ice dancing anyway, this is another reason to dislike it

                                          It's a joke of a sport.

                                          1 Reply Last reply
                                          0
                                          Reply
                                          • Reply as topic
                                          Log in to reply
                                          • Oldest to Newest
                                          • Newest to Oldest
                                          • Most Votes


                                          • Login

                                          • Don't have an account? Register

                                          • Search
                                          • First post
                                            Last post
                                          0
                                          • Categories
                                          • Search