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ANNA GASSER, ONE of the favourites in snowboarding slopestyle at the Sochi Olympics, got off to an awful and hilarious start in her first run today.
Gasser left the start house too early, resulting in a false start. When she tried to climb back up the steep hill so she could restart, comedy ensued.
Not going to happen:
Her coach took a tumble too:
Eventually she made it back to the top by walking around to the stairs. Success:
How do they get the figs into those fig rolls? :)
Regardless of all the permutations, one thing remains unchanged – UEFA should reinstate goal difference as the primary way to separate sides the with the same points.
Nice work, but a little confusing where you write: “Should Russia gain a draw [against Slovakia], then Ireland can only qualify in the highly unlikely scenario that they fail to beat Andorra in their final game.” What you mean is that Ireland then could only win the group in that highly unlikely etc. Elsewhere you’ve been using ‘qualify’ to mean ‘come first or second’, which is fair enough. Especially since coming second could still mean automatic qualification as best second-place team: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2012_qualifying#Ranking_of_second-placed_teams
Thanks Harry. I’ve altered the sentence slightly to make it clearer.
What about the best second place team , they qualify automatically. Can we do that?
It’s still mathematically possible, though it would require a number of results in other groups to go our way.