(ah, there was only 1 American qualifier from yesterday)
― koogs, Sunday, 11 February 2018 12:49 (six years ago) link
Question. I don't have cable or any subscription service that will show the olympics. Should I pay $25 for Sling TV or etc so I can binge? Are there any promos that I can later cancel?
I really get into Olympics but haven't had cable for 20 years and therefore nada.
― Conic section rebellion 44 (in orbit), Sunday, 11 February 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
Not sure about promos, but Sling has been working well so far.
― byton frylock (alomar lines), Sunday, 11 February 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
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― abcfsk, Sunday, 11 February 2018 15:11 (six years ago) link
OK NBC announcer guy, if an athlete has suffered a catastrophic injury, then they should not be competing in the Olympics again less than a year later. If in fact the injury or injuries could be accurately described as catastrophic, then said athlete would be in the Paralympics, where he or she could compete with other victims of actually catastrophic injuries.
"Multiple severe injuries" would be a better use of language that suits what you are attempting to describe. Also, fire the infobox text writer who keeps making pronoun errors.
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 February 2018 15:16 (six years ago) link
I was just wastching women’s hockey, and the Russian team is being referred to as “Olympic Competitors fromRussia” (or something to that effect). No flag either - just Olympic Rings.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
NYT as always with the most quidditious angleshttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/fashion/winter-olympic-uniform-russians.html
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:52 (six years ago) link
So strange. I knew about the doping, but had no idea about the “independent particants” thing.
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Sunday, 11 February 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
who is the announcer on the men's 5000m speed skating replay?
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 11 February 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
YouTube TV is free for a week. Been using that since yesterday. It’s good you can record unlimited amount of content.
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Sunday, 11 February 2018 18:10 (six years ago) link
i can’t watch much speed skating, the sounds their skates make on the ice makes my skin crawlmen’s biathlon was bananas - the heavy favorites ended up finishing 8th and 31st. The czech silver medallist had only podiumed once ~5 years~ ago. Bonkers.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 February 2018 19:45 (six years ago) link
Skiathlon was NUTS, like the best Tour De France stage you can imagine Krueger, 7th seed, crashed at the beginning and went to the very back — makes up all his lost time & goes on to win by 11 seconds. Norway with gold silver bronze - the favorite finished in 10th.I need a lie down!!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 February 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
That was awesome
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Sunday, 11 February 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
the wind has really shaken up the playing field for these events, def makes for good tv!!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 11 February 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
The luge is decided on hatefully narrow margins. Rare bullshit Winter Olympic event imo
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:08 (six years ago) link
I mean it's visually exciting and there's a non-zero chance of death* I guess
*this probably makes it worse rather than better?
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:16 (six years ago) link
i dont get luge & i don’t like it
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 February 2018 00:18 (six years ago) link
its basically a track event
― fgti spinner (Spottie), Monday, 12 February 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
a track event where they need a photo finish to split the first 6 competitors
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:20 (six years ago) link
track events are good thoughluge is full of such micro-exertions that it’s impossible to tell who is skilled without being told
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 February 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
"Oh a fatal error there!" *loses by 0.02 seconds*
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:24 (six years ago) link
*loses by 0.02 seconds and finishes fifth*
― imago, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:26 (six years ago) link
And now, VG busts out her altered Fear cover: “I Don’t Care About Luge (Fuck Luge).”
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:28 (six years ago) link
Anyway while we waithttps://www.sadanduseless.com/2018/02/funny-olympic-figure-skating/
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
as I understand it, luge skill is about twitching in the exactly correct way in order to regain control of the sled while it and the track are conspiring to break all of your bones
the Austrian men's winner (David Gleirscher) had great comments afterwards. Apparently after yesterday he and his coach went and drank schnapps. after he won he told the press "now I go to Austria house and have to drink more schnapps."
― El Tomboto, Monday, 12 February 2018 00:58 (six years ago) link
figure skating long program is frequently like a job interview where by the answer to the 2nd question you know the person has no chance in hell of making the grade but you all still have to go through the motions for the remaining time.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 12 February 2018 01:15 (six years ago) link
man i've watched my share of adam rippon and that's as good as he's ever been.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 February 2018 01:31 (six years ago) link
And Mirai, holy shit. Man what an evening.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 February 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
yeah she was awesome
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 February 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link
I've realized that I want a skater to do an Olympic routine to Kiss’s “Cold Gin,” *with* a bootleg Paul Stanley live intro. Imagine:
*skater holds opening pose*
“AWRITE NOW LISSEN!”
*skater begins routine*
“I HEAR SOME OF YOU PEOPLE OUT THERE LIKE TO DRINK—“
*triple Axel*
“—*TE-QUI-LAAAAA!”
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 February 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
lolMirai’s triple axel was life affirming god that was radBut seriously, Zagitova was next levelFIFTEEN with those moves & that poisefuuuuuuuhuuuuuck
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 February 2018 04:33 (six years ago) link
if i hear “shibsibs” and “vlog” in the same sentence one more time i’m gonna flip my tv UGH SHUT UP
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 February 2018 04:36 (six years ago) link
Skating Twitter -- English language at least -- does not like Zagitova due to her backloading her jumps for points. But Tara and Johnny seemed good with it.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 February 2018 04:37 (six years ago) link
figure skating scoring is so wacky idk how you could blame anyone for gaming it. the main problem for ladies imo is that there are no real risk jumps other than the esoteric triple axel. everyone lands their triple-triple combos.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 12 February 2018 04:43 (six years ago) link
Do you have a television and can you watch live in the evening? Buy an HD tuner. NBC is showing the core primetime coverage (3+ hours per night) at 5 PM and an encore at 8/8:30 PM every night (if you are in the US...). I was cord cut for many years and the basic over the air channels you get with a tuner (in full HD) were more useful for major events than I imagined.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, 12 February 2018 06:15 (six years ago) link
Women’s snowstyle was intense & brutal. Holy shit, give all those women medals. you could watch that event & never be afraid of doing anything again.
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 12 February 2018 06:26 (six years ago) link
I like that the standard issue Canadian team kit includes a lumberjack flanno.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 12 February 2018 09:45 (six years ago) link
The weather did seem to adversely affect the slopestyle. maybe they should hold the winter olympics in the summer when the weather's better...
(everybody gushes about the snowboarding at the olympics but there are other competitions on pretty much all through the year and these are never shown on tv. seems like a missed opportunity)
((ok, ski sunday has some coverage. and channel 5 used to do x games and winter x coverage at 2am, but they stopped))
― koogs, Monday, 12 February 2018 10:31 (six years ago) link
You just can't make this up.NBC opening ceremony coverage. Katie Couric talks about why The Netherlands is so good at speed skating as The Netherlands enters the stadium.And this folks is why Americans are less bright about the rest of the world as they spread fake news! pic.twitter.com/7YC5deTl2w— Jos Duijvestein 🇳🇱 (@JosDuijvestein) February 10, 2018
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 12 February 2018 10:33 (six years ago) link
First French medal! In women’s biathlon. We are all about biathlon chez nous.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 12 February 2018 11:07 (six years ago) link
France got gold in the women's moguls (as they often do)
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 12 February 2018 11:08 (six years ago) link
Oh I missed a gold in women’s moguls! But still. Yay Anaïs Bescond!
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 12 February 2018 11:10 (six years ago) link
Another French biathlon medal, a gold this time, though it’s no surprise, it’s Martin Fourcade, our flag-bearer at the opening ceremonies.
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 12 February 2018 12:52 (six years ago) link
on boss les bosses
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 February 2018 13:25 (six years ago) link
korean womens hockey team in two games:outscored 16-0outshot 102-27
― johnny crunch, Monday, 12 February 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
did they at least rack up some penalty minutes?
― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 12 February 2018 18:51 (six years ago) link
some notes
1. The streaming replays are great. You get the whole event, PLUS, they are all apparently presented by antipodeans, and all sports are better with an Australian or Kiwi doing the talking. Our Roku has paid for itself so many times over, but especially during these Olympics (and we're barely into it). Oh and the replays don't permanently fill 1/3 of the screen real estate with static overlays typed up by an intern.
2. Luge coaches are some dour motherfuckers. If you go slower than the current 2nd best time, your luge coach will make a face like you just ran over his flower bed.
3. Women's Luge is the exact opposite of professional League of Legends. How do I know this? Because the South Koreans recruited a German to play for them.
4. My Olympic sport in the "why would anybody ever fucking want to do that" category is anything involving cross-country skiing. Fuck an endurance sport that also happens to be in the cold. And the biathlon, where you have to stop and control your breathing while you try to load and shoot tiny bullets one by one, and then go back to endurance racing? All these people are nuts.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 01:40 (six years ago) link
also these kids on the snowboards at the Olympics have grown up in a world that has always had snowboarding at the Olympics.
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 13 February 2018 01:42 (six years ago) link
biathlon is amazing, those athletes are uber-humans
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 01:42 (six years ago) link
let us have a moment of silence for the destroyed knees of all mogul skiiers
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 13 February 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link