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Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc
Women's ski combine US team 1 Mikaela Shiffrin had a poor run and they ended up 4th . Her teammate was Breezy Johnson .Team US # 2 grabbed a bronze . Mikaela now has individual medals to chase . Go USA !
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Now there's an event that I don't understand. TEAM combined?
I thought that the point of the combined event was to see who was best when forced to compete two very different disciplines. Slalom and DH is almost as far apart as figure skating and speed skating. Now _that's_ a challenge.
Putting your best slalom (Mikaela) with your best DH (Breezy) skiers together as a pooled result seems silly. If they want a "team" medal as they do in skating and gymnastics, put up all of the speed disciplines. Heck, throw in skier-cross or whatever that new thing is. Then you'd have your "world-dominating-country of the mountain."