Shiffrin watch (Women’s combined spoilers)

When do they start the slalom?

Women’s slalom section of the combined starting now on USA

Man I could see that coming. That interview a few minutes ago she wasn't in the right frame of mind

That’s unbelievable.

Amazing to develop the yips during the prime Olympics of your career

It’s crazy because she was skiing well in the speed disciplines and continued to do well in those.

5/10 women have failed to complete the course. We should know the medalists in 5-10 minutes.

I think the Shiffrin coverage has been fair. She gives candid interviews and doesn’t talk in cliches. The coverage is neutral to favorable with sympathy for the best skier having a very bad two weeks.

The Biles coverage was pathetic. If she had the twisties and couldn’t control her movement in the air, then it isn’t a mental health issue.

It’s a cognitive issue and is very unfortunate as well.

But Biles, her team, and NBC tried to play it both ways

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he doesn't sound confident.

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You misspelled "she is high af".... Seriously, she is either seriously high or has altitude sickness.

I think NBC does a solid job (the entire production, not necessarily Primetime).

The coverage on USA and the NBC Olympics site does pretty much what you’re saying. The Primetime show, not so much.

I used my paid time off for one week of Tokyo because I had a lot of PTO carried over from 2020. Only took one day this time and have generally just not been a great employee this past week and half but have gotten a ton of Olympics coverage.

It requires planning it out a little in advance but part of it is the jam-packed schedules (almost double the number of winter sports in the past two decades) and part of it is the time zone difference. So the degree of difficulty for NBC is certainly there.

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crappy Chinese snow and crappy Chinese runs.

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Bingo! They did great with the X-games sports but those Alpine courses were terrible. During the Day -1 training sessions I thing they even commented on how the snow was more like fiberglass. They ran their races last week then this week there's been natural snow that hid grooves in the hard pack. (She even commented that she thought a groove she didn't see could be why so wiped out.) Her coach won their lottery to set the course and a she was about to run they commented that he made it simple for her.

Her bf is a skier so hopefully she can just go take some time off and he can be there for her to work through this. Take the rest of the year off and come back with a clear head. I'm sure her dad dying during the lockdowns and not being able to escape to the slopes had an impact as well. Maybe her mom stepping back from traveling with her would be beneficial too. Unlike NBC's Tokyo darling, she is so likable, raw, and an open book. I don't think there's been a US winter athlete who has deserved empathy like this since Dan Jansen fell his after his sister died.