Bilodeau FTW

[andyzee]

Why? Because it was Bilodeau's fault? :roll:

No, because he got screwed, I didn't look at it so much as disrespect for Bilodeau as disgust at the judgement. Spur of the moment, not always easy to be rationale.

 

[Greg]

No, because he got screwed, I didn't look at it so much as disrespect for Bilodeau as disgust at the judgement. Spur of the moment, not always easy to be rationale.

Fair enough.

Colas looked like a jerk though. He gave a snide look at the leaders right after his run, kinda like, "yeah, I just owned you."

 

[andyzee]

Fair enough.

Colas looked like a jerk though. He gave a snide look at the leaders right after his run, kinda like, "yeah, I just owned you."

Agreed, but once again, very emotional moment. Hind sight, he's probably sorry for his action but still pissed at the judgement. Just a guess on my part.

 

[deadheadskier]

Colas looked like a jerk though. He gave a snide look at the leaders right after his run, kinda like, "yeah, I just owned you."

maybe he trains at K

 

[MR. evil]

Overall I thought DBS had the best run, great turns, good speed and decent airs. If turns are truley are the most important factor than he should have won.

 

[Greg]

Overall I thought DBS had the best run, great turns, good speed and decent airs. If turns are truley are the most important factor than he should have won.

DBS was off. Still the best turns and he won the turn score, but air and speed combined are equally as important. He definitely didn't have a Turin run:

 

[Greg]

Gold Medal Run

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/as...s#mens+moguls+bilodeau+wins+first+canada+gold

 

[Greg]

I watched the finals again this morning and the bottom air without the grab did look rather ugly to me. Should his blazing speed and relatively tight skiing offset the air score enough to make the podium? Obviously, it's debatable, but the question should be whether his air should have been scored almost a point lower than the others. He did win the speed score and I think the turn scoring was right on in relation to the other guys. Even if his air was scored as high as Wilson's (who definitely had the best air of the night), he would have gotten silver, at best, and only barely. It would have been interesting to see his air score had he made the grab. You guys are also discounting the other Canadians that also had great runs.

Okay, he qualified with a 5.11 in the air:

http://www.vancouver2010.com/olympi...ts/mens-moguls-qualification_frm020901RS.html

So if we replace his finals air score with the 5.11 he would have gotten a 26.34, good for a bronze.

 

[2knees]

all i know is i've watched that about 10 times over and he looked like he had a top 3 run to me but i'm not a judge, obviously.

i still think he got hosed.

 

[Greg]

Podium runs:

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/as...6a3-cd82e1051a7f.html#mens+moguls+podium+runs

Wish we could see Colas's run too.

 

[SkiDork]

BTW, Greg - next winter olympics is 2014

 

[Greg]

BTW, Greg - next winter olympics is 2014

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