Stoch wins gold in ski jump

[Jaga]

in Last olympic games in Sochi we got 6 medals, 4 of them gold. This time we have one sofar, but quite deserving. Kamil Stoch, ski jump champion did it again.

www.chicagotribune.com/sports/international/ct-spt-winter-olympics-mens-ski-jumping-20180217-story.html

After missing the podium a week ago, defending Olympic champion Kamil Stoch came up big on the large hill.



The 30-year-old Polish ski jumper had leaps of 135 and 136.5 meters for 285.7 points to win the gold medal on the large hill at the Pyeongchang Games.

Normal hill gold medalist Andreas Wellinger of Germany took the silver at Alpensia Ski Jumping Center while Robert Johansson of Norway won the bronze.

Stoch, who won both the normal and large hill golds in Sochi, had to settle for fourth behind Wellinger, Johann Andre Forfang and Johansson on the normal hill.

"During the normal hill final, I was feeling OK but couldn't find my best jumps," Stoch said. "Today, I did truly my best ski jumping and these were the best jumps I could do."

First overall in the World Cup standings, Stoch was the favorite coming into the games so failing to medal would have been a huge disappointment.

He won his second straight Four Hills tournament in Bischofshofen, Austria, on Jan. 6 to become only the second ski jumper in the long history of the sport to win all four stages of the prestigious event.

The final was so close, Stoch wasn't sure if he had won after completing his second jump. Wellinger had a longer jump of 142 meters on his second attempt but finished with 282.3 points.

With a gold and a silver, the 22-year-old Wellinger is putting on quite a performance in his second Olympics.

"I thought my second jump was really nice," Wellinger said. "I had a chance with the headwind but after Kamil made his jump I knew he had won. I will now fight for a medal in the team event."

Johansson, with his trademark handlebar mustache, was thrilled to get his second medal.

"I'm getting more and more confidence with each jump,' Johansson said. "The whole team is doing well and I'm really enjoying this Olympics."

Japanese veteran Noriaki Kasai, the 2014 large hill silver medalist, failed to qualify for the final round.

[pieter]

[Jaga]

Pieter, thanks for posting. I am glad stoch made it agaim, but only one this time.
Dutch have more medals than Americans. Which ones are you the proudest of?

[pieter]

Jaga I am proud of our speedskaters Carlijn Achtereekte Speed skaters Esmee Visser, Sven Kramer, Ireen Wüst, Kjeld Nuis and Jorien ter Mors who all won gold medals.
Often it was a tough competition between compatriots, especially between the Dutch women.
For some it must have been hard after having trained hard and fanatic for the gold medal to be set aside by a better compatriot.
I wonder if it is worse to lose from a compatriot than from a person of a different nationality.

But I am most of all proud of the healthy sport culture of the Dutch who love to skate, swim, langlauf, ski, rune marathons, go to the gym, row, sail, surf, play field hocky,
golf, Volleyball, soccer, ice hockey, basketball, and many other sports.

All the sporters did a tremendous job, so I am proud of all the Dutch sporters.



The Holland Heineken House is a temporary meeting place for supporters, athletes and other followers at the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics. There has been a Holland Heineken House at all the Olympic Games since 1992 in Barcelona, organized by Heineken and NOC*NSF.

The name Holland Heineken House was chosen due to the alliteration and for the international appearance, despite the incorrect naming of the country involved. Created with the purpose of having a place for Dutch athletes to meet fans, it was later expanded into a meeting place for supporters as well as a base of operations for NOC*NSF, companies and the media.



Esmee Visser (Dutch pronunciation: [ɛsˈmeː ˈvɪsər]; born 26 January 1996) is a Dutch speed skater from Beinsdorp (North-Holland) who specialises in long distances. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she won a gold medal on the women's 5000 metres.

Born in Leiden (South-Holland), she qualified for the 5000 metres at the 2018 Winter Olympics in December 2017. At the 2018 European Single Distance Championships, she won the 3000 metres in her second-ever international race. On 16 February 2018 she won the gold medal for the 5000 metres at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Dutch girls and women have energy, power and a sport spirit.

[Jaga]

Dutch have distinct national personality and you they are so good. You right, I don't know whether it is better to lose against compatriots or foreigners. I rather go to olympic games and lose there, than work so hard and then lose.
You are right, that the most important is a spirit of the country.

Here is more about Norwegian and Dutch dominance. Even Canada is ahead of the US in ranking:

www.washingtonpost.com/news/fancy-stats/wp/2018/02/20/2018-winter-olympics-power-rankings-norway-netherlands-dominating/?utm_term=.edac63ec28f7

The 2018 Winter Olympics have issued 193 medals and, going by the overall medal standings, Norway — 11 gold, nine silver and eight bronze — is No. 1 at the 2018 Winter Games.

It’s an impressive mark, but medals tell only part of the story when it comes to comparing have the different nations are faring at the Olympics. We’ve developed a metric to provide a more complete picture of the true success stories at the Winter Games, one that accounts for every athlete in PyeongChang.

Our Olympic power rankings, calculated on a scale of 1 to 100, reward countries for strong finishes off the podium in addition to winning medals. It is also adjusted for the number of athletes sent to compete. For example, Norway has 109 athletes — the 10th most by a country — representing their nation in these Olympics, so we should expect them to get a larger share of the medals than most of the national teams in PyeongChang. To account for smaller nations, such as Liechtenstein (three athletes), the ratio of medals to athletes will be regressed to the mean, giving us an adjusted rate for power ranking purposes only. Using the number of athletes instead of number of events in which a country participates gives extra credit to multiple-medal winners from the same nation, and it also evens out in team events since countries entered in those sports will have the same roster size.

Another example to show how the formula works: The United States has sent 241 competitors to PyeongChang and 10 have won medals (four percent, which is adjusted to five percent to account for the sample size relative to other, smaller, nations). Their non-medalists finish in the 44th percentile of all concluded events, on average. To derive the U.S.’s power ranking, multiply those two percentages together, then take the square root of that number (so as to emphasize performing well in the Games overall rather than going boom or bust on the podium) and multiply by 100. That gives Team USA a power rating of 17.6, ranking them just 24th among all countries competing in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

[Jaga]

Netherlands wins is the effectiveness of medals compared to number of representatives:

[JustJohn or JJ]

My wife and I watched Kamil Stoch. His performance was impressive.

[Jaga]

John, glad you saw it.