Time to see how our picks turned out…It was tough, as most people only watch these sports once every 4 years, but we still finished at .500 for our gold medal picks. On a personal note, the Newsletter was up $400 going into the women’s free skate. We put it all on Medvedeva and got screwed…more on that later though.
Most Gold Medals, Most Total Medals
PICKS: Most Gold Medals: Norway OVERALL TOTAL: USA
What Actually Happened: Holy Shit Norway. They killed everyone, in everything. They won the most medals, most golds, most silvers and most bronze medals. Total domination. As for the USA – this was an awful, embarrassing showing. If we didn’t dominate snowboarding I think we would have had to retire from the winter Olympics forever. So bad.
Figure Skating MEN Friday, February 16th
PICK: Yuru Hanyu, Japan
What Actually Happened: Nathan Chen choked in the short program (duh) and Hanyu put on one of the most beautiful performances in figure skating history. You have to feel bad for Chen but the nerves clearly got to him. I can’t imagine he will be back in 4 years, but it is the USA and we stink at figure skating so nvm.
Figure Skating WOMEN, Thursday, February 22nd
PICK: Evgeniia Medvedeva, Olympic Athletes of Russia (Not actual Russia though?)
What Actually Happened: Medvedeva got SCREWED. She lost to that little 15-year-old Russian twerp who only gets high scores because she backloads her routines. What Medvedeva did in the free skate was breathtaking. She told a story, sucked you in. She is the best in the world and deserved to win. Very sad.
Ski Slopestyle MEN Saturday, February 16th
PICKS: GOLD: Henrick Harlout, Sweden SILVER: Gus Kenworthy, USA Bronze:Nick Goepper, USA
What Actually Happened: Harlout was forced to not smoke before the Olympics and failed miserably. Kenworthy had a broken hand…but hey, Nick Goepper took home silver!
Ski Halfpipe MEN, Wednesday, February 21st
PICKS: GOLD: David Wise, USA SILVER: Noah Bowman, USA BRONZE: Alex Ferreira, USA
What Actually Happened: David Wise won gold on his third and final run. Alex Ferreira finished second with a run that I think should have beaten Wise. It was a great contest with everyone going huge.
Snowboard Slopestyle MEN Saturday, February 10th
PICKS: GOLD: Max Parrot, CAN SILVER: Marc McMorris, CAN BRONZE: Sebastion Toutant, CAN
What Actually Happened: A 17-year-old American showed up and ruined the sweep for Canada. It was incredible. Red Gerrard, American Hero. Parrot and McMorris finished 2nd and 3rd, so we were close.
Snowboard Halfpipe MEN, Tuesday, February 13th
PICKS: GOLD: Shaun White, USA SILVER: Yuto Totsuka, JPN BRONZE: Ayumu Hirano JPN
What Actually Happened: Shaun White needed a perfect run to win the gold medal and guess what…He did it. The man is amazing and the scream he let out at the bottom of the halfpipe told you everything you needed to know about how much this meant to hi
Snowboard Halfpipe WOMEN Monday, February 12th
PICKS: GOLD: Chloe Kim, USA SILVER: Maddie Mastro, USA BRONZE: Kelly Clark, USA
What Actually Happened: Chloe Kim won because she is still Sick AF Braj.
Giant Slalom and Regular? Slalom WOMEN. (Basically all of next week)
PICK: Mikaela Shiffrin, USA (Specifically Vail, Colorado. My second home, no big deal)
What Actually Happened: Shiffrin took home a Gold and Silver but didn’t even medal in her best event. Weird. Let’s blame it on the messed up schedules because that’s the only reason I can think of for why she lost.
Super G WOMEN
PICK: Sotia Goggia, Italy
What Actually Happened: Goggia won! Vonn did terrible! Sad day for the USA, great day for the Newsletter!
4-Men Bobsled Friday, February 23rd
PICK: GERMANY 2 – Nico Walther
What Actually Happened: Walther lost to his fellow countryman and took the silver. This sucks, but we knew Germany would dominate the bobsled and they did, we just picked the wrong driver.
Swing Hard In Case You Hit It 