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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 Stoecker's run was the gap back to fellow Brit, Freya Tarbit ( as said above, the fastest woman ). Matt actually started 0.18 seconds behind the eventual silver medallists ( the article did get that bit right ) and subsequent timings were against the silver medalists ( which did help to explain the timings going green quite so quickly after the commentators had wailed about him starting so far behind ).

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.

Christine · Strong Club Player

indiana wrote:
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 Stoecker's run was the gap back to fellow Brit, Freya Tarbit ( as said above, the fastest woman ). Matt actually started 0.18 seconds behind the eventual silver medallists ( the article did get that bit right ) and subsequent timings were against the silver medalists ( which did help to explain the timings going green quite so quickly after the commentators had wailed about him starting so far behind ).
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.

That explains a lot - I was confused about how quickly the time difference went green - but pleased!

indiana · Tennis legend

Christine wrote:
indiana wrote:
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 Stoecker's run was the gap back to fellow Brit, Freya Tarbit ( as said above, the fastest woman ). Matt actually started 0.18 seconds behind the eventual silver medallists ( the article did get that bit right ) and subsequent timings were against the silver medalists ( which did help to explain the timings going green quite so quickly after the commentators had wailed about him starting so far behind ).
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.
That explains a lot - I was confused about how quickly the time difference went green - but pleased!

Yes, so was I at the time. But worked it out afterwards with checking replays. You can make up 0.18 seconds rather quicker than 0.30 sec. I was thinking that's a heck of a start after they'd been a bit doom laden about him being supposedly being 0.30 sec down.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

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...

Looking slightly less likely after they lost to the Norwegians just now. bleh Have to beat both the Yanks & the Canucks now to make the semi-final on Thursday...

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stircrazy wrote:
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...
Looking slightly less likely after they lost to the Norwegians just now. Have to beat both the Yanks & the Canucks now to make the semi-final on Thursday...

From the Beeb's live text commentary (Richard Winton):

Well, this is not how things were supposed to go. Not just today, but in Cortina for the Team GB men. World champions, top ranked, expected not only to win a medal, but to upgrade on their silver from last time... but they've now got work to do just to make sure they are in the semis.

Given results elsewhere, five wins might still prove to be enough to reach Thursday's last four. But the British rink will want to win both of their final matches against Canada on Tuesday and the United States the following day (both 18:05 GMT) to make sure.

paulisi · Tennis legend

6-3 will get you into the medal matches.
5-4 could be decided on results against the team level.

The men need to win one and probably both. USA and Canada are normally strong.

The women can really only afford to lose one more game or they are out.

-- Edited by paulisi on Monday 16th of February 2026 04:27:07 PM

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Kirsty Muir is our main other hope, with outside chances in the bobsleigh.

And yet another, heart-breaking, near miss! cry