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Olympic Downhill
Has anyone seen anything more ridiculous than the way they assign
starting positions for the downhill? C. |
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CParker wrote:
Has anyone seen anything more ridiculous than the way they assign starting positions for the downhill? If you give me a 50-words-or-less explanation I'll try to answer the question! And don't look at the NBC website unless you want to know who won before you watch it on TV. -- Cheers, Bev ================================================== ============= The people who don't know what they're doing and the people who don't realize it are generally the same people." -- DAbel |
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 20:59:01 GMT, CParker
wrote: Has anyone seen anything more ridiculous than the way they assign starting positions for the downhill? Yes. -- Alex Heney, Global Villager Matrimony isn't a word, it's a sentence. To reply by email, my address is alexATheneyDOTplusDOTcom |
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CParker wrote: Has anyone seen anything more ridiculous than the way they assign starting positions for the downhill? I've seen plenty more ridiculous things than that just this afternoon. But yes, the flip-30 format is ridiculous. What it isn't, is either new, or confined to the Olympics. This is at least the third season it's been around on the World Cup. |
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The Real Bev wrote: CParker wrote: Has anyone seen anything more ridiculous than the way they assign starting positions for the downhill? If you give me a 50-words-or-less explanation I'll try to answer the question! You could pick up the explanation on the FIS website. All the rules are there. It won't be 50 words or less, but sorry, that's how it goes. |
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Mary Malmros wrote:
The Real Bev wrote: CParker wrote: Has anyone seen anything more ridiculous than the way they assign starting positions for the downhill? If you give me a 50-words-or-less explanation I'll try to answer the question! You could pick up the explanation on the FIS website. All the rules are there. It won't be 50 words or less, but sorry, that's how it goes. Foundation for Infinite Survival Fish Information and Services Frankfurt International School .... OK, I found it. If I wanted to read that much I'd learn another language :-( -- Cheers, Bev ============================================ Buckle Up. It makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car. |
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The Real Bev wrote: Mary Malmros wrote: The Real Bev wrote: CParker wrote: Has anyone seen anything more ridiculous than the way they assign starting positions for the downhill? If you give me a 50-words-or-less explanation I'll try to answer the question! You could pick up the explanation on the FIS website. All the rules are there. It won't be 50 words or less, but sorry, that's how it goes. Foundation for Infinite Survival Fish Information and Services Frankfurt International School ... OK, I found it. If I wanted to read that much I'd learn another language :-( Federation Internationale de Ski -- despite the name, has all its rules in English as well as French and German. The flip-30 format takes the top 30 racers in their final practice run, and reverses the order in the actual race (so, 30th in the practice = 1 in the race and vice versa). It was done to keep people in their seats after the top ten came down. |
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Mary Malmros wrote:
Federation Internationale de Ski -- despite the name, has all its rules in English as well as French and German. There's almost nothing I want to know bad enough to search a PDF file to find it. The flip-30 format takes the top 30 racers in their final practice run, and reverses the order in the actual race (so, 30th in the practice = 1 in the race and vice versa). It was done to keep people in their seats after the top ten came down. Thanks. That makes sense. -- Cheers, Bev ================================================== =========== My house isn't a pigsty, it's an Immunity Enhancement Center. |
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The Real Bev wrote: Mary Malmros wrote: Federation Internationale de Ski -- despite the name, has all its rules in English as well as French and German. There's almost nothing I want to know bad enough to search a PDF file to find it. Then why'd you ask, baby bird? ;-) The flip-30 format takes the top 30 racers in their final practice run, and reverses the order in the actual race (so, 30th in the practice = 1 in the race and vice versa). It was done to keep people in their seats after the top ten came down. Thanks. That makes sense. Welcome. |
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On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:07:08 -0800, The Real Bev
wrote: Mary Malmros wrote: snip The flip-30 format takes the top 30 racers in their final practice run, and reverses the order in the actual race (so, 30th in the practice = 1 in the race and vice versa). It was done to keep people in their seats after the top ten came down. Thanks. That makes sense. Welcome. If I were doing it I'd draw names out of a hat. Do they think of it in the same way as handicapping horses? that is what they used to do. Then they tried letting the individual competitors choose their start position (with priority given according to World Cup rankings order). Then they decided to change to the current system, party to keep interest up, partly I suspect as a handicapping system, since the courses are usually best for the early racers. So now you get many of the top racers deliberately slowing down through the last few turns in qualifying, just to get themselves an earlier start - which will backfire if they slow down enough to be outside the top 30. -- Alex Heney, Global Villager STUPIDITY is NOT a HANDICAP! Park elsewhere! To reply by email, my address is alexATheneyDOTplusDOTcom |
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