Your PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics anticipation thread!

yeah, it can't be easy with all the expectations and pressure you put on yourself as well

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

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

boooo

Whereas I find people doing exactly the same as everybody else at a slightly different speed very dull.

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.

xp It's all dull, but at least it's an objective way of deciding who's better.

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)

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.

big air bmx is insane and awesome imo

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?

(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)

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.

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

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.

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

Hingham represent!

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).

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

dammit, what a sweet tip

poulin is such a baller

really exciting game

is Kessel the sister of Phil?

yes! i think she scored a ton in college

dope siblings.

i didn't know america had identical twins on the women's team, great they can have their own sedins

the joys of the larger ice i swear to god.

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.