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Tag: olympics

Watch NutJob Downhillers Almost Completely Out of Control

Posted on February 8, 2014 by David Dobbs · Leave a comment

The clip above comes via a wonderful Nick Paumgarten post at The New Yorker. As Paumgarten notes, it’s rare that film or TV captures the horrifying speeds — 70 to 90 mph at the Olympic level — at which downhill skiers actually race. Seventy to ninety, going down ridiculous slopes, with nothing controlling your speed […]

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To Win at Olympics, Go Commie or Stay Home

Posted on September 19, 2012 by David Dobbs · 1 Comment

Now this is fun: Over at Pascal’s Pensées, Lascap talies medal totals since 1988 among five big medal-winning countries and finds some interesting trends. Most interesting to my eyes: Communism pays; home-field advantage counts for a lot. The communism/central funding advantage shows not just in China’s rise, but in the most startling negative result: the […]

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