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Tafkam Hokie

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The one that usually gets me is the downhill at the winter games


You've typically got maybe 0.10 seconds separating gold from missing the podium in that event.

I'm a fairly decent skier and I've topped 60mph on skis before. If you've never done that, it's borderline terrifying things are going so fast.

Olympians are well over 80mph.

I'm not sure I'd complete an Olympic downhill run within 30 seconds of an Olympian. I'd probably be closer to a minute behind them in an event that is measured in thousandths of a second.

(In response to this post by bourbonstreet)

Posted: 07/26/2021 at 4:23PM



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