Looks like Team USA is sucking at the Olympics this year
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 7:26 pm
And I could not care less. Russia just kicked our ass in hockey, Lindsey (look at me) Vonn just whiped out, and Adam Rippon (the proud gay / Christian-hating) skater lost.
Most of these losers have not done much to help unite the country. Many of them spew SJW nonsense and insult our President. When they start acting like "Team USA" again and not "Team SJW" or "Team Democrat #Resistance" maybe I'll care again. Or maybe not.
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U.S. Falling Flat in Race for Olympic Medals
By Rachel Bachman
Updated Feb. 17, 2018 10:04 a.m. ET
234 COMMENTS
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea—Team USA brought the largest-ever squad to a Winter Olympics: 242 athletes decked out in stars and stripes and suede-fringe gloves, strutting into the Opening Ceremony.
So far that big, bold team is doing a faceplant.
Eight days into these Games the U.S. is fifth in the medal count, with nine over all. Team USA is tied, along with Austria and Japan, with the Olympic Athletes from Russia, a team stripped of its flag and devoid of many of its stars due to doping sanctions.
“I am, of course, sad to see the U.S. lagging behind the other powerhouse countries in the medal count,” said American David Wise, the defending gold medalist in ski halfpipe, which happens Thursday. “We seem to be the 4th- and 5th-place champions this year.”
Snow-sports powerhouse Norway leads with 22 medals, followed by a resurgent Germany with 17, Canada in third with 15 and the Netherlands in fourth with 13.
Snowboard halfpipe favorites Chloe Kim and Shaun White came through for the U.S. with spectacular gold-medal-winning performances. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin won gold in the giant slalom, a strong U.S. figure-skating squad won bronze in the team event and Chris Mazdzer won a surprise silver in luge.
But other athletes have fallen flat. The U.S. speedskating team so far has reprised its disastrous zero-medals performance in Sochi. Heather Bergsma, the world record holder in the 1,500 meters, finished eighth in the race here and failed to medal in the 1,000.
Figure skater Nathan Chen, whose quad jumps made him a favorite for at least a bronze, crashed in his short program and needed a heroic comeback to finish fifth. Gold-medal favorite aerials skier Ashley Caldwell didn’t make the final. Shiffrin, the most dominant slalom skier in the world, vomited before that race and finished fourth.
Team USA now has as many Alpine skiing medals (one) as Liechtenstein, after Tina Weirather’s bronze Saturday in the Super G. American Lindsey Vonn, who’s won more World Cup races than any other woman in history, tied for sixth.
“It’s like David against Goliath, because we have 37,000 people in our country and you have 200 million,” Weirather said, undercounting the U.S. population by roughly 123 million. “So I’m for sure the underdog. I don’t have the pressure that the big nations have.”
Through eight days of the 2014 Sochi Games, the U.S. was tied with the Netherlands for second place with 14 medals. Host nation Russia, which was later implicated in a state-sponsored doping program at those Games, led with 15.
“We’re proud of Team USA’s accomplishments thus far and excited to see what happens in the second week as we continue to give athletes everything they need to be successful,” U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Jones said.
Norway has racked up more medals in Nordic skiing (10) than the U.S. has overall. But the Norwegians aren’t only dominating in cross-country skiing events, as they have for decades. They’ve also scooped up four medals in Alpine skiing and four in ski jumping, and produced a rare six-medal burst on Thursday.
“It seems like there is blowing an Olympic wind of happiness and gratitude over Norway,” said Halvor Lea, spokesman for Olympiatoppen, a sub-organization of the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports.
Norway’s goal entering the Games was 30 medals but, Lea cautioned, “we never evaluate or conclude until the fat lady starts to sing, and that will be on next Sunday.”
Germany leads the Pyeongchang gold-medal count with nine, already surpassing its final total in Sochi of eight. The early results seem to validate Germany’s two-year comprehensive review of its Olympic operations in the wake of a disappointing 19-medal performance in 2014.
“I hoped for one gold medal, and now I have three [medals],” German biathlete Laura Dahlmeier said of her two golds and a bronze. “It is always good to be better than expected.”
The main force keeping U.S. medal hopes afloat is the action sports of snowboard and freestyle skiing. Four of Team USA’s five gold medals have come from snowboarders, including Jamie Anderson’s and Red Gerard’s in women’s and men’s slopestyle.
Looking ahead, two of the three men who gave the U.S. a sweep of the ski slopestyle in 2014, Gus Kenworthy and Nick Goepper, are still medal threats in the event on Sunday. The U.S. has strong contenders in Thursday’s men’s ski halfpipe in defending champion Wise, Alex Ferreira and Torin Yater-Wallace.
Fred Traube, a music promoter in Watertown, Conn., best known for helping make the song “Who Let the Dogs Out” a staple at U.S. ballparks, watched the women’s Super G with a friend Saturday. Traube said the medal count matters because “It’s important to show United States exceptionalism.”
He acknowledged Norway’s winter-sports supremacy, but said it would get its comeuppance at the Summer Games.
“Who do they have to match up against Michael Phelps and Carmelo Anthony?”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-fallin ... 1518875406
Most of these losers have not done much to help unite the country. Many of them spew SJW nonsense and insult our President. When they start acting like "Team USA" again and not "Team SJW" or "Team Democrat #Resistance" maybe I'll care again. Or maybe not.
==============================================
U.S. Falling Flat in Race for Olympic Medals
By Rachel Bachman
Updated Feb. 17, 2018 10:04 a.m. ET
234 COMMENTS
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea—Team USA brought the largest-ever squad to a Winter Olympics: 242 athletes decked out in stars and stripes and suede-fringe gloves, strutting into the Opening Ceremony.
So far that big, bold team is doing a faceplant.
Eight days into these Games the U.S. is fifth in the medal count, with nine over all. Team USA is tied, along with Austria and Japan, with the Olympic Athletes from Russia, a team stripped of its flag and devoid of many of its stars due to doping sanctions.
“I am, of course, sad to see the U.S. lagging behind the other powerhouse countries in the medal count,” said American David Wise, the defending gold medalist in ski halfpipe, which happens Thursday. “We seem to be the 4th- and 5th-place champions this year.”
Snow-sports powerhouse Norway leads with 22 medals, followed by a resurgent Germany with 17, Canada in third with 15 and the Netherlands in fourth with 13.
Snowboard halfpipe favorites Chloe Kim and Shaun White came through for the U.S. with spectacular gold-medal-winning performances. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin won gold in the giant slalom, a strong U.S. figure-skating squad won bronze in the team event and Chris Mazdzer won a surprise silver in luge.
But other athletes have fallen flat. The U.S. speedskating team so far has reprised its disastrous zero-medals performance in Sochi. Heather Bergsma, the world record holder in the 1,500 meters, finished eighth in the race here and failed to medal in the 1,000.
Figure skater Nathan Chen, whose quad jumps made him a favorite for at least a bronze, crashed in his short program and needed a heroic comeback to finish fifth. Gold-medal favorite aerials skier Ashley Caldwell didn’t make the final. Shiffrin, the most dominant slalom skier in the world, vomited before that race and finished fourth.
Team USA now has as many Alpine skiing medals (one) as Liechtenstein, after Tina Weirather’s bronze Saturday in the Super G. American Lindsey Vonn, who’s won more World Cup races than any other woman in history, tied for sixth.
“It’s like David against Goliath, because we have 37,000 people in our country and you have 200 million,” Weirather said, undercounting the U.S. population by roughly 123 million. “So I’m for sure the underdog. I don’t have the pressure that the big nations have.”
Through eight days of the 2014 Sochi Games, the U.S. was tied with the Netherlands for second place with 14 medals. Host nation Russia, which was later implicated in a state-sponsored doping program at those Games, led with 15.
“We’re proud of Team USA’s accomplishments thus far and excited to see what happens in the second week as we continue to give athletes everything they need to be successful,” U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman Mark Jones said.
Norway has racked up more medals in Nordic skiing (10) than the U.S. has overall. But the Norwegians aren’t only dominating in cross-country skiing events, as they have for decades. They’ve also scooped up four medals in Alpine skiing and four in ski jumping, and produced a rare six-medal burst on Thursday.
“It seems like there is blowing an Olympic wind of happiness and gratitude over Norway,” said Halvor Lea, spokesman for Olympiatoppen, a sub-organization of the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports.
Norway’s goal entering the Games was 30 medals but, Lea cautioned, “we never evaluate or conclude until the fat lady starts to sing, and that will be on next Sunday.”
Germany leads the Pyeongchang gold-medal count with nine, already surpassing its final total in Sochi of eight. The early results seem to validate Germany’s two-year comprehensive review of its Olympic operations in the wake of a disappointing 19-medal performance in 2014.
“I hoped for one gold medal, and now I have three [medals],” German biathlete Laura Dahlmeier said of her two golds and a bronze. “It is always good to be better than expected.”
The main force keeping U.S. medal hopes afloat is the action sports of snowboard and freestyle skiing. Four of Team USA’s five gold medals have come from snowboarders, including Jamie Anderson’s and Red Gerard’s in women’s and men’s slopestyle.
Looking ahead, two of the three men who gave the U.S. a sweep of the ski slopestyle in 2014, Gus Kenworthy and Nick Goepper, are still medal threats in the event on Sunday. The U.S. has strong contenders in Thursday’s men’s ski halfpipe in defending champion Wise, Alex Ferreira and Torin Yater-Wallace.
Fred Traube, a music promoter in Watertown, Conn., best known for helping make the song “Who Let the Dogs Out” a staple at U.S. ballparks, watched the women’s Super G with a friend Saturday. Traube said the medal count matters because “It’s important to show United States exceptionalism.”
He acknowledged Norway’s winter-sports supremacy, but said it would get its comeuppance at the Summer Games.
“Who do they have to match up against Michael Phelps and Carmelo Anthony?”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-fallin ... 1518875406