Bammer wrote:Can anyone concisely explain for me the differences between Super G, Giant Slalom, Downhill, Super Combined, etc?
They all seem like the same race.
Downhill has the fewest gates, is the most dangerous and is by far the fastest. Super G has the most gates I think, is the slowest, and sort of boring unless you are into it. Giant Slalom is close to downhill but not quite as fast with more gates. I think Super Combined is sort of in between Super G and Slalom. If they have huge guards around their hands and some kind of face protection its usually Super G or Super Combined.
Downhill is awesome.
I believe all are timed against what Carlton Fisk could do in a moguls race.
You got the downhill right.
In order of length, and space between the gates the order goes (from greatest to least):
Downhill
Super G
Giant Slalom
Slalom
The Downhill & Super G are the speed events. The skiers use much longer skis for stability and speed. They only race one time in each of these events. The Downhill is the race skiers can get up to 90 mph.
The Giant Slalom and Slalom are the technical events. The skiers use much shorter skis for quick turning radius. The slalom is the one you see the racers with all the armor bashing through the gates in basically a straight line. These events usually have 2 races per event. These have more gates total than the Downhill or Super G.
The Super Combined is an event where the racer skis both the Super G course (1 time) and the Slalom (1 time). The racer with the lowest combined times for those races is the winner.
Bammer wrote:Can anyone concisely explain for me the differences between Super G, Giant Slalom, Downhill, Super Combined, etc?
They all seem like the same race.
Downhill has the fewest gates, is the most dangerous and is by far the fastest. Super G has the most gates I think, is the slowest, and sort of boring unless you are into it. Giant Slalom is close to downhill but not quite as fast with more gates. I think Super Combined is sort of in between Super G and Slalom. If they have huge guards around their hands and some kind of face protection its usually Super G or Super Combined.
Downhill is awesome.
I believe all are timed against what Carlton Fisk could do in a moguls race.
You got the downhill right.
In order of length, and space between the gates the order goes (from greatest to least):
Downhill
Super G
Giant Slalom
Slalom
The Downhill & Super G are the speed events. The skiers use much longer skis for stability and speed. They only race one time in each of these events. The Downhill is the race skiers can get up to 90 mph.
The Giant Slalom and Slalom are the technical events. The skiers use much shorter skis for quick turning radius. The slalom is the one you see the racers with all the armor bashing through the gates in basically a straight line. These events usually have 2 races per event. These have more gates total than the Downhill or Super G.
The Super Combined is an event where the racer skis both the Super G course (1 time) and the Slalom (1 time). The racer with the lowest combined times for those races is the winner.
NBC could use you two.
Think I’m going to try being kind to everyone a chance.
Monkey_Driven wrote:I think the biggest reason why I can't fully get behind the Winter Olympics is the abundance of judged events. I don't know the difference between a 720 toe grab and a 720 McTwist.
Good point, partially though, the sports that men could watch and like, like, hockey, curling, downhill, luge, skeleton, bobsled, short track speedskating etc are seldom televised in the US so that they can orgasm over 19 hours of fucking figure skating. They give us snowboarding because of ESPN but there's nothing we're seeing there we don't see every 6 months on ESPN.
Forget double corked 1620's.... can you tell the difference between a triple toe loop and a triple lutz? A few events is fine, but it's every freaking night.
Between the time spent on Gymnastics and Figure skating you would think the Olympics is two events in the US.
As a Canadian, that seems so weird to me. We're kind of obsessed with the Winter Olympics here, so we basically get to see every event that involves a Canadian, a lot of events that don't involve a Canadian, and every hockey game, men's and women's, regardless of the teams.
I knew figure skating was a popular event, but I didn't realize it dominated that much.
Monkey_Driven wrote:I think the biggest reason why I can't fully get behind the Winter Olympics is the abundance of judged events. I don't know the difference between a 720 toe grab and a 720 McTwist.
Good point, partially though, the sports that men could watch and like, like, hockey, curling, downhill, luge, skeleton, bobsled, short track speedskating etc are seldom televised in the US so that they can orgasm over 19 hours of fucking figure skating. They give us snowboarding because of ESPN but there's nothing we're seeing there we don't see every 6 months on ESPN.
Forget double corked 1620's.... can you tell the difference between a triple toe loop and a triple lutz? A few events is fine, but it's every freaking night.
Between the time spent on Gymnastics and Figure skating you would think the Olympics is two events in the US.
As a Canadian, that seems so weird to me. We're kind of obsessed with the Winter Olympics here, so we basically get to see every event that involves a Canadian, a lot of events that don't involve a Canadian, and every hockey game, men's and women's, regardless of the teams.
I knew figure skating was a popular event, but I didn't realize it dominated that much.
Maybe I'd be more into them if I grew up near mountains and the like. I played basketball and did speech in the winter.
Coach wrote:This is what comes to mind first when thinking about #77, who used to by #7.....
That's fine. The first thing I think of when I think of Carlton Fisk is him tagging out two Yankees at the plate on the same play in 1985 and seeing that highlight run over and over again on the pre-game intro everytime I watched the White Sox on Sportschannel in the late 80's when I first fell in love with baseball. I'm sure most White Sox fans would say the same thing (or would say him sitting at home plate on the motorcycle the White Sox game him in 1993 when he set the record for most games caught). But just like I know that him waving at his home run in is what nine out of ten average sports fans first picture when they hear his name, you know damn well Borque raising the Cup with Colorado is what nine out of ten average sports fans picture when they hear his name.
