It's never too early to feel the warmth!
https://thelibertarianrepublic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Parallel-Lines-Diverging-Lives-Revisiting-Korea%E2%80%99s-DMZ_main.jpg
But at least PyeongChang is a little farther from the DMZ than Seoul.
Official site
And we got mascots! Please enjoy Soohorang the white tiger and his bud Bandabi the Asiatic black bear. (The latter is the mascot for the Paralympics Games.)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/Soohorang_and_Bandabi.jpg
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 30 October 2017 18:11 (six years ago) link
Anyway, let's just enjoy some drama out of the gate:
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1057211/ioc-reveal-crunch-december-executive-board-meeting-will-make-decision-on-russian-participation-at-pyeongchang-2018
Mixed doubles in curling has started, we are under way!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link
I for one admire your relentless enthusiasm about this foolish charade called Olympics. And I genuinely mean that in the nicest possible way.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 8 February 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
Mixed doubles seems like a pretty sweet mix-up of the format. Shorter, fewer, different team dynamics.
― abcfsk, Thursday, 8 February 2018 06:50 (six years ago) link
Curling <3
― brimstead, Thursday, 8 February 2018 21:09 (six years ago) link
First Olympics I ever remember seeing on TV was 1980 Lake Placid. Some things are just ingrained.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 February 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
Couple of hours until the opening ceremony is GO. Tomorrow though, cross country and biathlon, the real deal.
― abcfsk, Friday, 9 February 2018 08:25 (six years ago) link
<3 the Japanese figure skaters performing to Yuri On Ice.
Looking forward to the ski jumping tomorrow.
― Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Friday, 9 February 2018 08:34 (six years ago) link
Some really neat shit happening in this opening ceremony, but I guess Americans will get it delayed for prime time
― abcfsk, Friday, 9 February 2018 11:16 (six years ago) link
Bermuda will regret their shorts decision. Poor flag bearer looks miserable.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 9 February 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
Having the nations do their walk in Korean alphabet order is a nice touch. That music in the background though...
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 9 February 2018 11:50 (six years ago) link
I take it back, there's 'Likey likey'!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 9 February 2018 11:52 (six years ago) link
Feared we'd just get Gangnam Style at one point
― abcfsk, Friday, 9 February 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link
Jamaica <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 9 February 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link
This is nice, North and South Korea together. Surely no leader of the free world will put them in harms way.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 9 February 2018 12:15 (six years ago) link
Who is the Korean Bill Bailey?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 9 February 2018 12:45 (six years ago) link
Kim Yuna is the greatest... of all time!§
― abcfsk, Friday, 9 February 2018 13:28 (six years ago) link
So a simple question: where the hell can I stream a replay of the opening ceremony as is? (Because NBC did do that, very nice, only I was, quite logically, asleep, and they're not offering it for replay yet, thanks guys.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 February 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
They're airing it tonight, might not want to offer up a replay before that. Just guesswork. I'm in Europe though.
― abcfsk, Friday, 9 February 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
The North Korean athletes/musicians at their Olympic welcoming ceremony. They don’t seem too impressed with a South Korean breakdancing (to “A little less conversation, a little more action” no less) pic.twitter.com/egssLISeJQ— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) February 8, 2018
― papa poutine (∞), Friday, 9 February 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
xpost -- No worries, found a feed. (With Canadian commentary rather than none at all but I'll take that.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 February 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
i am watching the incredibly crappy livestream at: http://stream.nbcolympics.com/2018-winter-olympics-primetime-show-feb-9
is this what people are saying on tv? are people paying to see this shit? this is fucking awful
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 10 February 2018 02:31 (six years ago) link
a third of the screen is dedicated to a series of the least interesting trivia possible
https://i.imgur.com/Bx7V7U2.png
for serbia they literally just listed the three languages spoken there
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 10 February 2018 02:32 (six years ago) link
another 10% is dedicated to letting you know what you're watching
apparently the stadium is packed with people and the light show just makes it appear like no one is there. the seats closest to the floor are reserved for the ~2,000 athletes. but that stadium holds 35,000, and no matter how the light flashes across the seats, it looks like the stadium is mostly empty
this is weird
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 10 February 2018 02:34 (six years ago) link
Yeah it was a little odd.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 February 2018 03:25 (six years ago) link
what is a little odd is this cover of imagine
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 February 2018 03:29 (six years ago) link
Indeed
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Saturday, 10 February 2018 03:30 (six years ago) link
Already looking like a classic Olympics for over-hyped British athletes falling flat on their faces - quite literally in many cases. Few things in life are funnier than Team GB failures.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:26 (six years ago) link
Shame about Katie Ormerod though
― abcfsk, Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:50 (six years ago) link
Feel sorry for the athletes, obviously, but hard to suppress a giggle when listening to some BBC correspondent solemnly reporting another sporting disaster.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 10 February 2018 10:55 (six years ago) link
Speed skating is a bit like greyhound racing, the one who gets to the first bend in the lead usually stays there while the rest take chunks out of each other in behind
― i know kore-eda (or something), Saturday, 10 February 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link
what kind of maniac looks at skeleton/luge and thinks ‘yeah i could do that’
― he facked his death (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 10 February 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link
luge gives me the phear
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 February 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
um
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 February 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
do tombots dream of olympic luge
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 February 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
luge control to major tomtake your clenching skills and put your helmet on
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 10 February 2018 17:53 (six years ago) link
i heart the biathlon - it’s like a james bond event
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 February 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
^ Specifically The Spy Who Loved Me
― abcfsk, Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:33 (six years ago) link
Parachute off a cliff to end the race or nothing.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:36 (six years ago) link
"The bronze medallist couldn't actually be here but..."
Egg on my Bond-fan face, it was of course For Your Eyes Only that featured the undercover biathlete henchman Erich Kriegler
http://www.007museum.com/Eric_Kriegler.jpg
― abcfsk, Saturday, 10 February 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link
i could get with curling more if there wasn’t so much shouting
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:05 (six years ago) link
^^^ I was watching this with the sound muted last night because the amount of shouting from the Canadian mixed doubles team was stressing me out
― soref, Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:10 (six years ago) link
The yelling is what makes it fun!
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
it is very similar to lawn bowls & i am kind of into that aspect
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:38 (six years ago) link
plus all the competitors look like league ten-pin bowlers 😂
I had it on at about 4am because I couldn't sleep and I was kind of groggy and this guy was sweeping so frantically it was like I was having an anxiety dream where I was forced to play a sport with incomprehensible rules while someone bellows at me
― soref, Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
lol
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
the whole sport seems like an snl sketch with the brooms & shit but it is kinda engaging once u lock in
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 February 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
lamoreaux's ankle breaker was too
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Thursday, 22 February 2018 07:20 (six years ago) link
CBC is soothing us with a montage of gold medals past
damn, what a game! i have an adrenaline rush from watching that.
― davey, Thursday, 22 February 2018 07:27 (six years ago) link
What a gameI cried myself to sleep and just woke up and see the medal ceremonyCome on boys it’s on you now
― bald butte (∞), Thursday, 22 February 2018 07:38 (six years ago) link
They should penalise athletes who flaunt the logos on their skis / boards / helmets. We can see them, you don't need to wave them in our faces.
― koogs, Thursday, 22 February 2018 10:39 (six years ago) link
All that and the US men's curling team makes the gold medal round...over Canada.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
Also, I did like this
Gold medal comes with a promotion 👀 pic.twitter.com/3RaifjMVqe— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) February 22, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 22 February 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
okay i know the (men's hockey) rosters are weird without nhlers but how did germany beat sweden *and* canada
― mookieproof, Friday, 23 February 2018 17:52 (six years ago) link
olympic hockey is just training for us
― bald butte (∞), Friday, 23 February 2018 18:21 (six years ago) link
this was a couple days ago but this is easily a US top ten all time sports call
UNBELIEVABLE!@kikkanimal & @jessdiggs earn the first ever cross-country #gold medal for @TeamUSA, with a pass that will go down in American Olympic history! #WinterOlympics #BestOfUS https://t.co/4YMw63E4C3 pic.twitter.com/bfHoGnPCWw— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) February 22, 2018
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Friday, 23 February 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
Call by Chad Salmela btw
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Friday, 23 February 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
They should penalise athletes who flaunt the logos on their skis / boards / helmets. We can see them, you don't need to wave them in our faces.― koogs, Thursday, 22 February 2018 9:39 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― koogs, Thursday, 22 February 2018 9:39 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It’s interesting because equipment logos ar banned at the summer games but not at the winter games. I guess there’s less money in winter sport so harder to have a whole other set of equipment. The athletes are just doing what they do at every other race but it does seem unolympian.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 23 February 2018 19:21 (six years ago) link
I bought four Burton snowboards only this morning!
― imago, Friday, 23 February 2018 19:23 (six years ago) link
I have found it interesting that moguls skiiers almost all have the same brand of boots as mine but almost none of the other skiers in other disciplines seem to use them. No need for logos though, they are a really distinctive shape.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 23 February 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
Logo sizes changed in 2016:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/15/news/companies/olympics-brands-rio-usa/index.html
But some of those boards were 4ft of pure nitro advert
And didn't they get around this in 2012 by having iirc distinctly coloured running shoes, like dayglo pink and yellow? (Same way tobacco companies did with f1 I guess, black and gold for jps etc)
― koogs, Friday, 23 February 2018 19:38 (six years ago) link
Yes, IIRC all the specialized bikes in the London games were a really distinctive orange.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Friday, 23 February 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
ledecka 'enjoys watching British TV – particularly Red Dwarf. “She has seen it 4,000 times,” says Banks, laughing. “She is aways speaking about it during dinner. And she also likes Blackadder and, of course, Top Gear.'
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 24 February 2018 00:37 (six years ago) link
sick as a parrot eh
still, means another medal for gb, and in a proper sport this time
― imago, Saturday, 24 February 2018 02:27 (six years ago) link
(atkins' bronze also proper. but now it's time for sleep as they're showing bobsleigh again. h8 the bob/luge events so much)
― imago, Saturday, 24 February 2018 02:44 (six years ago) link
And hurrah for curling.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 February 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
Fuck that, Scotland lost out to Japan :(
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 24 February 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
Didn't hold out much hope for billy given that he qualified 11th and then fell over on his first jump. Shows what I know...
That one bloke had a board that was solid black on both sides, which looked cool. He finished in bottom 3.
Parallel snowboard slalom got ffwded through.
Kids, don't be greedy. That's what I took away from the curling.
― koogs, Saturday, 24 February 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
my german coworker enthused about the hockey gold game was on point, this is kind of intense
― mh, Sunday, 25 February 2018 04:45 (six years ago) link
Travel advisory: Germans in Canada should exercise a high degree of empathy. Be nice, don’t gloat, give hugs, buy rounds of hot chocolate.Just imagine how you would feel if Canada beat us in soccer 😱🇩🇪 ❤️ 🇨🇦#CANGER @TeamD @CanadaFP @GermanyInCanada @KanadaBotschaft pic.twitter.com/0HlHoxMA7E— GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) February 23, 2018
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 February 2018 06:51 (six years ago) link
Final tally after an exciting women's 30km
https://i.imgur.com/479zUF3.png
― abcfsk, Sunday, 25 February 2018 09:30 (six years ago) link
Was striking how many times I turned on the BBC evening coverage to find a table full of female experts talking about sport. This afternoon, after the closing ceremony, there was the female presenter and 4 others, all Olympians. (Actually not that surprising because we did better in the female sports)
(Woodsy and a couple more blokes had been on earlier)
― koogs, Sunday, 25 February 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
ok that black & white sequence at the closing ceremonies was epic, and I loved Tara's response to it, too.
Only thing that could've made it better is if they'd been able to get the rights to Prisencolinensinainciusol, which was clearly the original intent.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 26 February 2018 02:23 (six years ago) link
The only conceivable downside to the erosion of homophobia is people feeling the need to tolerate Johnny Weir.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 February 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
you're such a grump!
― El Tomboto, Monday, 26 February 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
flamboyant twinks at the Olympics are about as edgy as Bob Hope in 1990
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 February 2018 04:03 (six years ago) link
edginess, it's what we need in our olympics
― El Tomboto, Monday, 26 February 2018 04:50 (six years ago) link
4:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcYd0yP53Rw
― alomar lines, Monday, 26 February 2018 06:28 (six years ago) link
we don't, Tom, but clearly out gays winning stuff and going Full Divine in the booth is the most important thing to happen to our society since Black Panther.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 February 2018 12:26 (six years ago) link
Have you even had coffee yet
― El Tomboto, Monday, 26 February 2018 12:36 (six years ago) link
yep!
actually i do like some edginess at the Olympics [BlackPower1968.jpg]
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 February 2018 13:24 (six years ago) link
I actually watched two mins of the closing ceremony yesterday. It was nice.
That is all.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 26 February 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
russian hockey team sang their banned national anthem, that’s... something
― mh, Monday, 26 February 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
First Olympics I missed all of bcz #life xp
Medal winners on the One Show. Billy looks like he'd rather be anywhere else. Currently sitting through a vt on fly tipping...
― koogs, Monday, 26 February 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
Will US Olympic Committee change before next Olympics? That might require congressional action, so answer is probably no.
As The Post’s Will Hobson has reported, the USOC is supposed to be a nonprofit, yet 129 of its staff make over six figures, and 14 of its execs are paid more than $200,000.
...The Post’s Hobson detailed the USOC’s inaction on sexual abuse complaints across multiple sports, including gymnastics, swimming, speedskating, judo, and taekwondo.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/olympics/the-olympic-flame-has-been-extinguished-the-usoc-should-be-next/2018/02/26/a00648ca-1b05-11e8-9de1-147dd2df3829_story.html?utm_term=.835327a0bd7f
― curmudgeon, Monday, 26 February 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
revive.
i want one of those chairs with skis.
the VI downhill (various flavours) seemed to be a single run, no qualifications, no best of three, just one run. uk did quite well out of favourites falling over, but still, seems a bit brutal that 4 years of training comes down to that.
snowboard cross course looks fun. much more compact than the other olympics.
― koogs, Monday, 12 March 2018 13:42 (six years ago) link
watching blind people ski at like 80mph is giving me crazy anxiety
― I’m 16 and a member of UKIP’s youth wing, young independence (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 12 March 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link
I have no idea how they do the slalom.
Wheelchair curling is kind of dull without the launching and the sweeping.
Robot legged snowboarders look post-human.
― koogs, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 19:44 (six years ago) link
Wow at Iranian snowboarder pretty much climbing down the banked slalom. Currently taken 5 minutes more than the leader's time for a one minute course.
― koogs, Friday, 16 March 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
They all look a bit trepidatious about it despite it being based on the snowboard cross course (I think it's been recut a bit and the flags moved to be a bit tighter)
― koogs, Friday, 16 March 2018 16:02 (six years ago) link
7 paralympic medals for the UK, all down to 2 blind girls
― koogs, Sunday, 18 March 2018 18:08 (six years ago) link
Is there really no olympics thread, or does it just have an unsearchable title?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
prob not, been a weird olympics!
― Spottie, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
there's some chatter in the most generic winter olympics thread. but not much
― koogs, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
this one Winter Olympics: Search and Destroy
― koogs, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link