usa!
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 February 2018 07:14 (six years ago) link
totally deserved, outplayed canada the whole 3rd and OT
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Thursday, 22 February 2018 07:14 (six years ago) link
some nifty moves in the shootout; can't believe that canadian's forsberg goal
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 February 2018 07:17 (six years ago) link
that was craazy
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Thursday, 22 February 2018 07:20 (six years ago) link
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.
― 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
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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