Winter Olympics 2022

Didn't we just have the Olympics?

Note, the Olympics are a sh*tty institution, and I would welcome a thread about how sh*tty they are in P&C, But let's keep it sports unless the sh*ttiness directly affects sports.

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Curling!

Curling is live on USA already

Italy Norway

Not as fun as summer Olympics overall, but eh, I'll watch some of it for sure.

I was just reminded today that the only other city to bid for these Olympics is in... Kazakhstan.

Stayed up until 230am watching USA curling

Stele wrote:

Stayed up until 230am watching USA curling

Funny, I would have thought you would have been put to sleep watching curling

I’m reminded how much NBC’s coverage schedule annoys me I don’t have cable and the first round of coverage starts at 3pm today on the broadcast channel. Not even a day in review or fluffy intro to the athletes segment

Yeah it sucks. I was in hotel the other night and flipping around to USA and other channels.

Now at home everything is on peacock but only the paid version. Maybe I'll try the web site and login with dad's cable account hah..

Ego Man wrote:
Stele wrote:

Stayed up until 230am watching USA curling

Funny, I would have thought you would have been put to sleep watching curling

Hey now. Curling is basically the only watchable winter sport.

I wasn't expecting a Jim Ross dub from figure skating, but we got one now.

If Russia was really about thier troll game, they'd have their athletes throw up the Roc whenever they won a medal. (Y'know, since they're listed at the Olympics as "Russian Olympic Committee")

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I mean, they won't, cuz black people, but still!

Ski jumping in front of a nuclear power plant seems on brand for the 2020s.

Cooling towers don't necessarily mean it's nuclear plant. They said what it was on an earlier broadcast. I think it was a steel mill.

The folks who are most upset about Eileen Gu winning a medal for China are the same folks who never accepted her as American in the first place.

It is taking every bit of strength I have to not put the hero image as Mikaela Shiffrin falling on her @$$.

Edit: For later, if I am more ornery or evil...

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A Russian medal winner tests positive for drugs? I'm shocked.

Stele wrote:

A Russian medal winner tests positive for drugs? I'm shocked.

There are two kinds of Russian athletes: cheaters and clever cheaters.

I was watching that live and when Hirano finished his run the commentator was out of his mind about how good it was and then the judges said "nahh."

It was so bad I thought they'd handed the scoring to boxing judges.

Then he had the very final run overall and pulled it off all over again and the Judges were like "Well, f*ck. I guess we actually have to score his run this time."

It helped that Shaun White had already fallen on his final attempt, so the American judge didn't have to try to tip the scales any more.

The cross country skiing commentator really sound like Tony Romo and it's very distracting.

I was today years old when I realized that monobob is to make up for a lack of a four-person bobsled event for women, because apparently some man in the IOC thought four women in a bobsled was wrong.

Can't have four women in one bobsled. Their periods will sync up and it'll attract bears. And, since it's on ice, it would be polar bears and those f*ckers are scary.

But, seriously, I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a numbers issue.

Need to Title IX the damned IOC

Chloe Kim is too adorable for this world

I love watching the US women's hockey!

One thing the Olympics really opens your eyes to is how many goddamn countries have a red, white, and blue color scheme.

iaintgotnopants wrote:

One thing the Olympics really opens your eyes to is how many goddamn countries have a red, white, and blue color scheme.

It is almost like there is an undue influence of The United States, England, France, and (to a lesser extent) the Netherlands on the rest of the world.

USA men's curling looking like they are going to advance to medal round. Up 7-3 in the 9th.

Women's hockey gold medal game's turning into a runaway for Canada. Someone must have told them the USA was funding the trucker protest.

Well at least we made it respectable. 3-2.