Your PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics anticipation thread!

when will the nhl wake up to the fact that the larger ice is a superior product.

US had a hell of a 3rd

Huge pressure from US, but they just can't seem to score.

oh my god

why are these games always so completely fucking insane

Ugggghhbb, 5 more

Woooooooo!!!

usa!

totally deserved, outplayed canada the whole 3rd and OT

some nifty moves in the shootout; can't believe that canadian's forsberg goal

that was craazy

lamoreaux's ankle breaker was too

CBC is soothing us with a montage of gold medals past

damn, what a game! i have an adrenaline rush from watching that.

What a game

I cried myself to sleep and just woke up and see the medal ceremony

Come on boys it’s on you now

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.

All that and the US men's curling team makes the gold medal round...over Canada.

Also, I did like this

Gold medal comes with a promotion 👀 pic.twitter.com/3RaifjMVqe

— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) February 22, 2018

okay i know the (men's hockey) rosters are weird without nhlers but how did germany beat sweden *and* canada

olympic hockey is just training for us

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

Call by Chad Salmela btw

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

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.

I bought four Burton snowboards only this morning!

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.

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)

Yes, IIRC all the specialized bikes in the London games were a really distinctive orange.

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.'

sick as a parrot eh

still, means another medal for gb, and in a proper sport this time

(atkins' bronze also proper. but now it's time for sleep as they're showing bobsleigh again. h8 the bob/luge events so much)

And hurrah for curling.

Fuck that, Scotland lost out to Japan :(

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.

my german coworker enthused about the hockey gold game was on point, this is kind of intense

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

Final tally after an exciting women's 30km

https://i.imgur.com/479zUF3.png

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)

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.

The only conceivable downside to the erosion of homophobia is people feeling the need to tolerate Johnny Weir.

you're such a grump!

flamboyant twinks at the Olympics are about as edgy as Bob Hope in 1990

edginess, it's what we need in our olympics

4:23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcYd0yP53Rw

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.

Have you even had coffee yet

yep!

actually i do like some edginess at the Olympics [BlackPower1968.jpg]

I actually watched two mins of the closing ceremony yesterday. It was nice.

That is all.

russian hockey team sang their banned national anthem, that’s... something

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...