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
Is there really no olympics thread, or does it just have an unsearchable title?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:39 (two years ago) link
prob not, been a weird olympics!
― Spottie, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:47 (two years ago) link
there's some chatter in the most generic winter olympics thread. but not much
― koogs, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:53 (two years ago) link
this one Winter Olympics: Search and Destroy
― koogs, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 15:56 (two years ago) link