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Olympic freeski team ANOUNCED

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GrahamGould
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http://unofficialnetworks.com/freeskiing-athletes-announced-124169/

check this out
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perryhunter
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This will be going to be a great Olympic freeski! So excited to watch them!
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GrahamGould
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damn, your right. I need to read more haha. Well, lets change it up then. How does everyone feel about these nominations?
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Brule.
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They have a listing of "clubs" that the athletes are representing for the Olympics? So athletes can't represent sponsors? Wow.
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Brule.
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Sorry for the double post but why are there Pro and Rookie teams for slopestyle and halfpipe?
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Brule.
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Sorry for the double post but why are there Pro and Rookie teams for slopestyle and halfpipe?
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t_rob
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http://freeskier.com/stories/what-is-rule-40-and-how-will-it-affect-skiers-in-2014
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t_rob
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The clubs are such a joke. Repping high schools and colleges the skiers never actually skied for or were trained by. What is that supposed to even mean?
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Drail
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The Olympics is, at heart, supposed to be an 'amateur' competition. Some of the 'old ways' from before professionals were allowed to compete in the games are still in place.

Look into the IOC's "Rule 40" for more about athletes, sponsors, and the Olympics if you want to know more.
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Drail
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Here:

http://freeskier.com/stories/what-is-rule-40-and-how-will-it-affect-skiers-in-2014
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auski
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Some big names will be missing from slope as they can only have 4 in total
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PsychedelicMoose
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Good lineup.
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FigNewton
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Did it even change for last season?
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loganimlach
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DUNCAN
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Hammyslapwagon
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Pro Halfpipe Team

Name Hometown Date of Birth Club Click for larger image Wing Tai Barrymore Sun Valley, ID May. 1, 1992 Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation Click for larger image Aaron Blunck Crested Butte, CO Apr. 12, 1996 Ski & Snowboard Club Vail Click for larger image Maddie Bowman South Lake Tahoe, CA Jan. 10, 1994 Sierra-at-Tahoe Education Foundation Click for larger image Duncan Adams Breckenridge, CO Sep. 10, 1992
Click for larger image Simon Dumont Bethel, ME Jul. 9, 1986 Telstar Regional High School Click for larger image Jen Hudak Park City, UT Sep. 7, 1986 University of Utah Click for larger image Gus Kenworthy Telluride, CO Oct. 1, 1991 Telluride High School Click for larger image Devin Logan West Dover, VT Feb. 17, 1993 Mount Snow Academy Click for larger image Tucker Perkins North Hampton, NH Jan. 5, 1991 North Hampton School Click for larger image Brita Sigourney Carmel, CA Jan. 17, 1990
Click for larger image David Wise Reno, NV Jun. 30, 1990
Click for larger image Torin Yater-Wallace Basalt, CO Dec. 2, 1995 Aspen Valley Ski & Snowboard Club
Pro Slopestyle Team


Name Hometown Date of Birth Club Click for larger image
Ashley Battersby Park City, UT Jan. 27, 1988 The Winter Sports School in Park City Click for larger image
Sammy Carlson Hood River, OR Jan. 11, 1989 Hood River Valley High School Click for larger image
Joss Christensen Park City, UT Dec. 20, 1991 Park City Freestyle Ski Team Click for larger image
Nick Goepper Lawrenceburg, IN Mar. 14, 1994 Windells Academy Click for larger image
Keri Herman Bloomington, MN Aug. 16, 1983 University of Denver Click for larger image
Gus Kenworthy Telluride, CO Oct. 1, 1991 Telluride High School Click for larger image
Devin Logan West Dover, VT Feb. 17, 1993 Mount Snow Academy Click for larger image
Meg Olenick Aspen, CO Dec. 30, 1987
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Alex Schlopy Park City, UT Jul. 25, 1992 The Winter Sports School in Park City Click for larger image
Emilia Wint Denver, CO Jun. 21, 1994 Hawks Freeride Click for larger image
Bobby Brown Breckenridge, CO Jun. 5, 1991
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Grete Eliassen Salt Lake City, UT Sep. 19, 1986 University of Utah Click for larger image
Tom Wallisch Pittsburgh, PA Jul. 22, 1987 University of Utah
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hawaiiansteeze
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if him and joffrey pollet villard are competing in pipe in sochi ill be very entertained
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50Kal
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No tanner Hall?  wtf. What was the point of have marijuana allowed in the olympics?
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EARL
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Caleb.E
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t_rob
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Fun facts about Simon Dumont's "ski club:"

As their school mascot is the rebels, they rocked the confederate flag until 1992 and their mascot is yosemite sam.
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Sklar
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This is the US freesking team for 2013-14 NOT the US Olympic team for the 2014 Olympics
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MaryO
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SHARKWEAK
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no T Hall :O
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Brule.
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Meh. I'm not surprised.
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bleevus
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Hell yeah Emilia!
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beauchamp
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team is valuable if ever us doesn't boycott olympics...
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Parches
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Henrik
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stupendous-man
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inb4 gopro becomes an official Olympic partner and Tom Wallisch becomes the new Sean Whyte
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VD.
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Team Jamaica bro
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Pipe_Munky
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not all of those skiers will be going to Sochi. here's the alotment of athletes that will be allowed to compete:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_skiing_at_the_2014_Winter_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Qualification
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RubberSoul
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what i really should have done was do a Ladybugs sorta thing where I started pretending to be a girl a few years ago so I could ski in the olympics
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loganimlach
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haha, japan gets the same amount of entries as canada in men's, and MORE in women's? something seems wrong there.
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t_rob
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It's just a fact of life.

The olympics might get all the glory but in many sports/events the olympic gold medalist didn't get their glory from beating the deepest or toughest field.

It's kind of dumb, the olympics are supposed to represent the best athletes in the world but when countries are limited to a certain number of entrants, it takes that away.

The #3 guy on the Canadian slopestyle team isn't going to the Olympics but he is definitely better than the #1 and #2 chek guys that are going.

And then Japan gets 4 guys in pipe? Lol wut? If you look at the afp world rankings, there are 12 Americans before the first Japanese guy yet both teams get to send 4 guys.
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RubberSoul
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in one sentence, why is this? does each country only have a certain number they can send for anything and everything, or what's the deal
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leonus
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IOC has no idea what hey are doing. sochi is going to be probably the worst Olympics ever.
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leonus
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*FIS,
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Pipe_Munky
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i think what people are failing to realize here is that pipe and slope are under the freestyle banner...they are not their own individual sports.

countries are allowed 14 men and 14 women regardless of where their athletes stand in the world rankings. this has to be spread out among moguls, arials, skicross, slope and pipe. is it ideal? no, but it's necessary to allow for equal representation on the world stage. if not, it would be the Canada v. US games with a couple Aussies and Euros tossed in there.

this is the spirit of the games...you all wanted it so you need to play along.
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Pipe_Munky
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i should also state that Canada and the US already have too many athletes and need to reduce their teams as they stand right now.
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t_rob
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Remember all of those bullshit world cups last year and then the world championships in olso/voss?

The top overall points getters from that (I guess you'd call it a) series create a leaderboard. The skiers on that list don't actually matter, just the home countries of those skiers.

Based on the results, spots are allocated per country, max 4 per country until 24 or 30 spots are allocated.

So if USA went 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 in the overall standings, USA would be given 4 spots.

If Kazakhstan had a skier ranked 999th for the entire series, but there was still to be a spot allocated because every other country had maxed out their 4 spot before the 999th skier, Kazakhstan would get a spot.

On the bright side, the top guys are going to win anyway. The right spots are going to go to the right people. The fifth American might be able to wreck the field but still has nothing on the rest of his team.

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It sucks that teams that don't have a realist shot at the podium get to take away the experience from the guys who could create a better competition...
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the.hoffman
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This isn't exactly true. You have to have a top 30 result at a World Cup event in order to qualify for the games. This is how they prevent countries who are awful at skiing bringing in a full team.

Yes, it sucks that some worthy skiers from strong countries won't get to compete, but unless you have the ability to get top 30 at a world cup, you won't be competing. The level of competition won't be as low as you think.
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loganimlach
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woah woah woah, no need to generalize that heavily there bud.
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t_rob
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oops, forgot about the extra little rules. but yeah, one top 30 spot at one of the qualifying events isn't exactly unobtainable.



There was some quali event in spain last spring and it was super windy and all of the top guys and like half the field said fuck this and didn't ski. Details in the thread below.

https://www.newschoolers.com/ns/forums/readthread/thread_id/740889/
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RubberSoul
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thanks a lot guys, i appreciate the info and don't keep up with it at all

now on to the real important stuff: what do the uniforms look like and who's making them??
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Pipe_Munky
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fair enough... i should have said, "most of you wanted this"

my bad
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the.hoffman
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That's interesting for sure. I guess as the sport progresses on the World Cup level, this won't be as much of an issue. Just going to take time.

I'm a mogul skier, and as a Canadian it sucks to see so many of our incredible skiers not qualifying cause they're top 6 in the world, but not top 4 in Canada, for example. At World Cup mogul events, you never hear of people not competing due to weather. Either the competition gets cancelled, or everyone competes.

I think it will just take time for slope world cups to be taken as seriously. For those guys the X Games and Dew Tour are still probably the bigger events in their heads, so sitting one out isn't a big deal, while for bump skiers, sitting out a world cup will pretty much only happen because of serious injury
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jermhy
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I thought he was skiing for the Jamaican team
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404404
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Fuck only 4 spots? Id be mega bummer when I made it all this way and someone says:

"Thanks for the hard work, tens of thousands of dollars in travel, and risking your life but you wont be skiing in the Olympics.... Have fun watching your team mates. Oh yeah... And sorry about the STD you picked up in the Olympic village, but at least your not in jail for being gay."
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elm.
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isn't gus kenworthy sponsored by nike who is an official partner of olympics. So he can rep?
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loganimlach
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hahahaha
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leonus
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lot of the womens field too. a lot of competitors were pissed at FIS officals and shit for not post-poning the comp.
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PoopDollar
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Sammy lookin like he just ate a bucket of weed popcorn.
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