Bejing 2022: Nose Butter Take Off

Every discipline has its own slang, but free style skiing seems the most foreign and fun to me.  The phrase, "nose butter" refers to a light touch on the tips of the skis as one leaves the jump ramp.  I think the phrase is equating the ski pressure on the snow is the same as spreading butter on toast.  If you press to hard it all crumbles or if you press to lightly you leave nothing behind.  So it was that Colby Stevenson (USA) struck the right balance as he left the ramp for his final jump of the Big Air competition.  The jump was enough to earn him the Silver Medal coming just shy of surpassing Ruud the Norwegian Gold Medalist.

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Bejing 2022: Near Perfection on Ice

I was planning to paint Nathan Chen (USA) during his long program, but since NBC re-aired his amazing short program again I felt I had the right/obligation to paint it as well.  Chen skated beautifully and logged the highest ever score for a short program in Men's Figure Skating.  He has set himself up for a Gold Medal.  It is his to lose, but his long routine can fall short of this program and the win will still be his.  A nice position to be in for any athlete.

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Bejing 2022: Gate by Gate

Paula Moltzon (USA) laid down a great first run in the Women's Slalom coming in just six tenths of a second off of the best time leaving her in sixth place after her first run.  Unfortunately, her second run didn't build on her momentum with her finishing the pair of runs in 20th place. 

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Bejing 2022: Sprinting for Metals

Go with me here, the title might look like a mis-spelling but they are sprinting for medals in the Women's Cross Country Sprint and those medals are made of metal.  Therefore, "metals" in the title really isn't a mistake, but instead a fun play on words.  Jonna Sundling (Sweden) sprinted away from the field to take the Gold Medal.  Her teammate and the American Jessie Diggins (USA) fought it out for the other two steps of the podium with Diggins just missing out and taking the Bronze medal.  It is the first ever cross country individual women's medal for the USA.

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Bejing 2022: Quite a Crowd

The semi-final heats of the the Men's Short Track 1000M race seemed larger than normal with six guys taking to the start line.  Short Track is always a wild race with spills and thrills and this heat was no different (nor was the finale either).  This heat included from left to right, Shaolin Sandor Liu (Hungary), Juneseo Lee (Korea), Shaoang Liu (Hungary) - yes they are brothers, Dajng Wu (China), and Andrew Heo (USA).  Both of the Liu brothers advanced to the finals, along with the Chinese skater Wu. Lee was disqualified for a late race crash.  The elder Liu was disqualified in the finale on a questionable call (as was Wu) allowing Shaolin Sander Liu to take the Bronze medal.

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Bejing 2022: Carving the Edge

Matthias Mayer (Austria) must be unflappable.  He had to wait a few minutes extra before starting his run in the Super G, but even when he was cleared to go, the gate didn't open.  He reset quickly and then carved his way through the turns on the way to winning Gold for Austria (and himself).  He just barely held on as his American rival, Ryan Cochran-Siegle just missed taking over the lead by 4 one hundredths of a second.  Obviously, the American took the Silver medal.

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Bejing 2022: Grapping Japan

 Normally I make all of the images horizontal, but when the event is called Big Air, it seems only right to show just how high up Eileen Gu (China) was as she twisted and flipped her way to a gold medal.  Gu had made the choice to ski for China despite having grown up in California.  She spent every summer visiting her grand parents in China, and felt that she could be a role model for Chinese girls both in and out of skiing competition.  Her performance today certainly inspired us all!  

I should explain the title.  The move she is making in the picture, reaching under one ski to grab the ski of her opposite leg is called a "Japan Grab"  Therefore I enjoyed the Chinese American skiing for China doing a move named after Japan.  It was just to Asian to pass up.

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Bejing 2022: Going One, Two

 With only a single pass in the entire 500 meter Women's Short Track, Arianna Fontana (Italy) held off a fast closing Suzanne Schulting (Netherlands) to claim Gold and had to her ever growing trophy cabinet.  Schulting isn't exactly lacking in Olympic medals either adding a silver medal to her collection.  Both American skaters had fallen in the quarterfinals, thus unable to compete for medals in the 500.  I sure hope we will get to seem them skate in the longer events later in the Games.

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Bejing 2022: Flying

Stefan Kraft of Austria was one of the two women and two men team for his country competing in the Normal Hill Mixed Team Ski Jump.  While his jump was nearly perfect, it wasn't enough to put Austria into a medal winning position.  The medals went to Slovenia, the Russian Olympic Committee, and for the first time ever, Canada.

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