apparently the field was not that deep so she qualified for the olympics without ever actually winning or podiuming any of the leadup events - basically just by not-quite-losingweird
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 February 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
lol
bunch of reasons to do it: to get instagram famous---infamous, if you will---or to party in the olympic village or find a mate there or just to say "lol I was an olympic athlete"
kind of a good idea!
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 19 February 2018 17:03 (six years ago) link
details herehttps://sports.yahoo.com/bad-american-skier-games-system-make-olympics-070235305.html
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 February 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
that woman sounds like an entitled sociopath from hell
― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
the commentator is doing a beautiful job
"dropping in trying to get in to the right wall for a nice just getting up to the top of the wall going for these paths a safety grab you'll see there opting for another just breezing up to the top of the wall showing the judge she can make it down this halfpipe clean"
― marcos, Monday, 19 February 2018 17:09 (six years ago) link
she paid for her trip herself & she isnt technically hurting anyone so idk
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 February 2018 17:13 (six years ago) link
carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre Olympic halfpipe skier
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Monday, 19 February 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
that was hilarious to me.
the new 'big air' competition was so bad, cant believe that got approved to be an olympic sport. the jump isnt even as high as the slopestyle jumps!
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Monday, 19 February 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
VG I was referring to the details further down in the article where she got on the Hungary team via some ancestry.com crap, ran for governor of california, etc.
― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 17:55 (six years ago) link
oh yeah that was pretty O_o
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 February 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
no way this lady sounds awesome
― frogbs, Monday, 19 February 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
Croatia has by far the coolest looking bobsleigh livery
― El Tomboto, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
Commentator does read out at least two other competitions she's been in.
Eddie the eagle still dines out on his ski jumping...
― koogs, Monday, 19 February 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link
Bah, keep missing Scotland the UK in the curling.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link
have we discussed Robert Johansson yet
― imago, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 01:09 (six years ago) link
amazing stuff on the two man bobsled results
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 02:53 (six years ago) link
imo Bode Miller is very bad calling skiing. so dry.
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link
yeah his technical info is good but he’s hard to listen to for a long time, v flat
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 03:14 (six years ago) link
even his technical info is way too 'inside baseball' for me, he's gotta realize 95% of people listening dont know what he's talking about and dumb it down a hair. learn form weir and lipinski.
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 03:21 (six years ago) link
i love weir & lipinski, they are v good color commentarywhats the snowboarding color guy, i like him the best but i always picture them rolling their eyes at each other like mean girls in high school when they talk abt other skaters
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 03:23 (six years ago) link
weir & lipinski i mean
even his technical info is way too 'inside baseball' for me
Miller is flat, but I like the wonkery...there's not nearly enough technical info in TV sports commentary for me. I want less inspiring heroic narratives and more "here is the little technical things that make this person that little bit better than that other person."
― ryan, Tuesday, 20 February 2018 04:00 (six years ago) link
i dont disagree, i liked the inside stuff, just feel like he doesnt get it stuff across in an interesting or enlightening way
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
a little variation in voice would go a long way
― byton frylock (alomar lines), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 06:26 (six years ago) link
the nz skipipe family is fun
― byton frylock (alomar lines), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 06:27 (six years ago) link
Ivett Toth skating to a medley of "Back in Black" and "Thunderstruck" is my idea of absolutely fucking brilliant.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 03:09 (six years ago) link
Yes! And Johnny Weir has the full Hunger Games up-do tonight, LOVE IT.
― davey, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 07:35 (six years ago) link
Toth was rad
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 08:19 (six years ago) link
What about the woman who chose the score from EWS though? And Johnny actually said “Really awkward moments like these are why sometimes I wish everyone just went out there and danced to Swan Lake.” Classic.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 12:06 (six years ago) link
https://deadspin.com/bode-miller-is-the-worst-sports-commentator-who-ever-li-1823188620?utm_source=recirculation&utm_medium=recirculation&utm_campaign=wednesdayAM
― while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 17:04 (six years ago) link
I freely admit I stopped watching skiing coverage because of his dumb ass.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
This part made me laugh and makes listening to him sound more fun than it is:
To hear Miller describe it, the outcome of an event like the women’s downhill—contested last night to his crushing, terminal disdain—has been determined by the time the skiers get out of bed in the morning, and possibly was determined by the time the youngest of them was born. The medal-winning runs happen because of a combination of favorable external conditions and fixed personal attributes over which the skiers have no real control or recourse and into which genuine insight is impossible. The early contestants post good times because they went early and did just enough not to squander advantages that all but guaranteed their spots on the podium, not because they raced brilliantly. The later contestants are wasting everybody’s time, because no matter how well they race the developing course conditions have doomed their efforts. You are watching the rote, bloodless recitation of a script written and published at the dawn of time. It’s like having the games narrated by Anton Chigurh, only without the enlivening possibility that he will murder someone.
― ryan, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
matt chilton for the bbc, bombastic as he is, has been great fun. he had a particularly good moment in the esther ledecka race, after he'd been giving her a full-throated commentary all the way down, and she's stunned, in that famous moment we all know now, and she finally approaches the camera and all she can say, with a weird half smile on her face, is "no. no." and chilton, invisible, on voice-over - only we can hear him - replies directly to her, on our behalf: "yes. yes!"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
didnt read the article but otm. last night one of the contestants was doing well (i think it was whoever got silver) and he was like "her skis must be running great" taking all credit away from the skier. what an asshat. add all this to his sexist joke about Anna Veith racing poorly cos she got married and i cant see a way he is invited back in 4 years
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
Big air snowboard qualifiers. Only half watching it tbh - if I miss a 1440 they'll be another one along in a minute...
(It's very slight as sport goes, but entertaining enough. And the second heat did step it up a bit)
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link
Can I be mean & say it wouldnt be the Winter Olympics without Lindsey Vonn cryingsorrybut she always cries!!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:33 (six years ago) link
heh, I thought the same. I am finding it a bit annoying, but that's the cynic in me. I mean, to cry *all the time*? That can't be right.
She did good though, and it was nice to see she was accepting of winning bronze instead of gold.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 19:46 (six years ago) link
yeah, it can't be easy with all the expectations and pressure you put on yourself as well
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link
― koogs, Wednesday, February 21, 2018 12:28 PM (thirty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
big air is hella lame to me compared to how good it should be. and compared to big air skateboard/bmx
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link
Snowboarding and skiing sports that are about 'tricks' or 'entertainment' instead of speed and have juries to decide the outcome aren't sports and don't deserve to be at the Olympics at all. /controp
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:21 (six years ago) link
boooo
― imago, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:25 (six years ago) link
Whereas I find people doing exactly the same as everybody else at a slightly different speed very dull.
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
This female snowboarder had to start first yesterday. She did an 'element' really well, but the jury didn't give her the maximum score, because, and I paraphrase "maybe someone after her will do it even better". Lmao, fuck that shit man.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
xp It's all dull, but at least it's an objective way of deciding who's better.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
And I rue the day X games started showing big air. It's very much a one trick pony. It's the kind of thing I always assume American TV companies have introduced because it leaves lots of advert time. (Or because American sports fans all have the attention spans of newts)
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
You've Americans posing as Hungarian to make it to the Olympics. Of course it's because of the said newt's attention span of Americans.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:34 (six years ago) link
big air bmx is insane and awesome imo
― they call me melo gelo (Spottie), Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:35 (six years ago) link
The first person does seem to have a disadvantage, yes.
The luge commentator kept talking about how a lot of it was due to having the best equipment. Is that fair?
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:37 (six years ago) link
(didn't bmx / SK8 big air replace best trick? That's mostly why I took against it, I used to like best trick, it was more varied than tricks that were just BIG)
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:41 (six years ago) link
Equipment should be equal imo. How you treat it is a different matter though. I saw a report about the Norwegian squad having their own weather man in their midst, who's an expert on all things snow. He measures the snow on the slopes every day. Not sure what he measures. The snowiness of it idk. But they base how to wax the ski's or the boards according to his info, at any given time of the day. That, I respect.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:45 (six years ago) link