Your PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics anticipation thread!

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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 commentary

whats 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

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 20 February 2018 03:23 (six years ago) link

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

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.

A dogmatic deterministic doing sports commentary is a great idea!

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 crying

sorry

but 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

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, 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

The photo finish pics of the pointing at the finish line in ski cross tickle me.

koogs, Wednesday, 21 February 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link

It's tough as a judge to score events for which the factors that make up a strong performance are multiple, complex, and/or impossible to measure. You don't get to go back and lower the score you gave competitor A when competitors B through G do all the same things even better. The first athlete up is always at a disadvantage because judges have to leave room for the possibility of having to award higher scores later.

Brad C., Wednesday, 21 February 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link

Lindsey Vonn going all out. Her run was so aggressive, it was stressing me out.

Moodles, Thursday, 22 February 2018 02:57 (six years ago) link

Hingham represent!

Moodles, Thursday, 22 February 2018 03:12 (six years ago) link

I'm going to be a total stereotype but I hope our Canadians girls wipe the US girls out into oblivion in this gold medal game (and for all the next gold medal games in history).

Van Horn Street, Thursday, 22 February 2018 04:56 (six years ago) link

it's a great game so far!! so much speed on both sides

freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 22 February 2018 04:58 (six years ago) link

dammit, what a sweet tip

freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 22 February 2018 05:02 (six years ago) link

poulin is such a baller

while my dirk gently weeps (symsymsym), Thursday, 22 February 2018 05:09 (six years ago) link


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