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paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Winter Olympics

Danny1312 · Club Coach

paulisi wrote:
miriam abc wrote:
Men's curling team also looking a possibility.
The men are world ranked no.1, but the Swiss who are no.2 in the world, beat them today in an extra end.
Still fancy the men to get a medal - they make so many double and treble takeouts...
The women are poor.
Kirsty Muir is our main other hope, with outside chances in the bobsleigh.

Izzy Atkins in the halfpipe probably has a chance as well! But looks like GB only want golds biggrin

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

indiana wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
Stircrazy wrote:
And just like London buses, you wait days for the next gold & then two come along within hours on the same day: Matt Weston (his second of the Games) & Tabby Stoecker, take a bow in the mixed team skeleton! Up to 12th in the medal table!
P.S. Freya Tarbit, who came fourth in the event alongside Marcus Wyatt (yet another near miss!), was the fastest woman in it!
Missed out by 1/100th of a second!
Tbf they missed out on bronze by 0.11 second. The 0.01 was between the German silver and bronze. But clearly still rather close. Great run by Freya and like Charlotte in the snowboard cross she may think her individual event could have produced more ( and Charlotte still comes away with a gold ) though that needed to be done over 4 runs.

Aagh ok -

i went by the bbc report which says

A second British team, Marcus Wyatt and Freya Tarbit, missed out on a medal by an agonising 0.01secs as the two German teams of Christopher Grotheer and Jacqueline Pfeifer and Axel Jungk and Susanne Kreher took silver and bronze, respectively

indiana · Tennis legend

Ha, yes I can see that still there, still wrong. They might like to check their own results listings which has the correct times.

The BBC skeleton commentators also rather annoyed me by saying live ( and still after the event ) that Matt Weston started his run 0.30 down to the then leaders. No, the 0.30 gap being shown.after Tabby Stocker's run was the gap back to fellow Brit, Freya Tarbitt ( as said above, the fastest woman ). Matt actually started 0.18 seconds behind the eventual silver medallists and subsequently timings were against the silver medalists ( which did help to explain the timings going green quite so quickly ).

It was still another phenomenal run by Matt, 0.35 better than the silver medalists' man for a final win by 0.17 seconds overall.

And my limited annoyance threshold didn't really take away from enjoying a great win.