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Thread: Winter Olympics 2022
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01-17-2022, 11:05 PM #101
Sochi, squaw valley, both places with highly irregular snowfalls. Not no snowfall. The ioc just got exposed for the dumb money grubbers they’ve always been.
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01-17-2022, 11:29 PM #102
And with so much weed in the state every athlete will test positive and invoke the Ross Rabigliati Defense.
I will be watching the Paralympics for Central Oregon’s own Ravi Drugan in Super G and slalom. My good buddy Ben was his first coach/instructor. Will be having watch parties, and maybe sleepovers, at Hoodoo.
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01-18-2022, 09:23 AM #103
Of all the things to be disgusted by in regards to behavior of the money grubbing IOC executives and China, man made snow is waaaay down on the list.
The Paris Olympics in 2024 might be the last nail in the coffin so enjoy it if you want while you can.
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01-18-2022, 10:11 AM #104
Oregon actually has one of the more reliable snowpacks. Maybe not blower powder, but the PNW is one of the snowiest places on earth and consistently gets a deep snowpack most winters. They have snow making at Crystal (base elevation 4,400 ft, and that is where most of the snowmaking is done). Climate there is not significantly different than Oregon resorts so I think snowmaking in Oregon could work, although it may not financially pencil out.
One big problem with winter Olympics in the PNW is that the only ski area in Oregon and Washington with the necessary vertical drop and terrain to host a world cup DH is Mt Bachelor, and then only if they run it off the summit down Pine Martin side like they used to do for Nor Ams there. FIS DH courses must be at least 800 m (2,625 ft). Even though you can get that vertical at Mt. Hood Meadows, the DH there is considered a boring, beginner DH course that lacks the varied terrain of real world cup DH courses.
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01-18-2022, 10:47 AM #105
Of course the sensible solution is to have both Olympics in a permanent spot, but then the IOC big guys wont be able to enrich themselves with massive bribes every two years from the lottery process. But, ok, even if it does travel around, let the places that have kept the facilities they built in good repair share the event every few decades, like Lake Placid here in America. But, no, over and over cities and regions go into deep debt for the "pleasure" of hosting, promising riches. At least Snowbasin got a new road paid for by taxpayers.
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01-18-2022, 11:10 AM #106
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01-18-2022, 11:29 AM #107
Way to share the truth. All our overcrowding problems are forever now your fault.
I am sure we could get creative and make a downhill course. Ski Bowl has one that is FIS approved, it is shorter than the 800m. A new course could get carved out of TLine and as you stated Bachelor could easily get it done.
Oregon will never host a Winter Olympics, but the barrier won’t be a single course for a single event. It will be everything else. Mostly political will and desire."Let's be careful out there."
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01-18-2022, 11:29 AM #108
I am preparing to crush the Olympic competition and become a legend.
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01-18-2022, 11:30 AM #109
And SLC got a nice expanded twelve lane highway through town paid for by every US taxpayer because, fuck, don't want any traffic jams for the two weeks the Olympics are in town.
https://vault.si.com/vault/2001/12/1...hy-businessmen
The Mormons have always been smart around money.
This is the problem I have with the world cup at Killington. The mountain spends a million bucks every time they host it, and gets nothing back except stupid PR. At least figure out a way to grift and profit from it, like the SLC bigwigs.
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01-18-2022, 01:26 PM #110
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01-18-2022, 01:34 PM #111
Mandatory athlete app has backdoor, list of censored terms, truly shocking!
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/poli...ns-in-beijing/
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01-18-2022, 01:43 PM #112?
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01-18-2022, 01:57 PM #113
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01-18-2022, 02:02 PM #114
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01-18-2022, 02:12 PM #115
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01-18-2022, 02:17 PM #116
Texas?
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01-18-2022, 03:41 PM #117
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01-18-2022, 03:46 PM #118
After all we’ve been through, after all China has covered up, I can’t believe this going on.
They should be putting Lebron on skis.
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01-18-2022, 04:00 PM #119
You guys realize that only Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan bid on this Olympics, right?
A friends brother (who helped save the Vancouver games for almost certain disaster) explained that most of cities that bid these days tend to be under authoritarian regimes that are trying to make a name in the global political sphere.
The summer games don’t require as much esoteric infrastructure so more cities tend to bid for them.
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01-18-2022, 04:05 PM #120
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01-18-2022, 04:06 PM #121
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01-18-2022, 04:15 PM #122
Who won their right mind would submit a bid knowing that China is going to throw shipping containers full of cash at the IOC to get it?
As an aside, Kyrgyzstan produces some ripping mogul skiers.I still call it The Jake.
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01-18-2022, 04:16 PM #123
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01-18-2022, 04:31 PM #124
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01-18-2022, 04:51 PM #125
Why do people care if the skiing is on 100% man made snow? When Beaver Creek hosts the DH in early December each year, it is normally on mostly man made snow. And that's the best DH course in North America, one of the best anywhere. Beaver Creek/Vail in early December looks no shittier for skiing than Yanqing in February.
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