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winter Lympics
« on: 09 February, 2018, 01:46:44 pm »
Let's start with an overdose of cute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pJU3jm0zkI

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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #1 on: 09 February, 2018, 01:54:39 pm »
Loose helmet alert for the Jamaicans!
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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #2 on: 09 February, 2018, 03:24:33 pm »
"Imagine"

Is there a form of ear-bleach I can use to erase the memory of hearing this cover version?
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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #3 on: 10 February, 2018, 11:15:29 am »
Olympic Athletes of Russia
Local sports enthusiasts who have spontaneously banded together to defend the true spirit of the Olympic Games.  O:-)

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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #4 on: 11 February, 2018, 12:06:19 pm »
Anyone watch the ski jump yesterday?  The Norwegian who got the bronze definitely won the moustache prize for the day.

See here: https://www.sbnation.com/2018/2/10/16999086/ski-jumping-robert-johansson-mustache-medal-olympics

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winter Lympics
« Reply #5 on: 11 February, 2018, 10:26:59 pm »
I don’t know much about ‘slopestyle’ snowboarding (or indeed any kind of snowboarding) but you don’t have to be an expert to see that Red Gerard is flipping amazing...
https://youtu.be/4iDksubJc3I

And he’s 17 FFS!
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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #6 on: 11 February, 2018, 10:27:58 pm »
Anyone watch the ski jump yesterday?  The Norwegian who got the bronze definitely won the moustache prize for the day.

See here: https://www.sbnation.com/2018/2/10/16999086/ski-jumping-robert-johansson-mustache-medal-olympics

Superb!
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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #7 on: 12 February, 2018, 09:12:16 am »
Master Gerard is clearly not old enough to be scared of the possibility of being dropped on his head from a great height.
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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #8 on: 12 February, 2018, 01:43:00 pm »
Not the same without the likes of Eddie The Eagle

Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #9 on: 13 February, 2018, 12:21:50 pm »
(500m short-track) That Kim Boutin is a lucky, lucky lady.  I'd have been having her disqualified from both the semis and the final, but she's ended up with a bronze!

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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #10 on: 13 February, 2018, 11:53:35 pm »
Anyone watch the ski jump yesterday?  The Norwegian who got the bronze definitely won the moustache prize for the day.

See here: https://www.sbnation.com/2018/2/10/16999086/ski-jumping-robert-johansson-mustache-medal-olympics

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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #11 on: 16 February, 2018, 02:57:36 am »
A Bronze medal  :)
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #12 on: 16 February, 2018, 08:52:31 am »
Did anyone else see the luge relay? I'd assumed that it was more like "people do individual runs and then the times are added up" but no, it was an actual relay - there was a thing at the finish gate that the person had to punch so that the next person could go.
Quite comical.

Mr fimm and I have been enjoying Eurosport's coverage of the crosscountry skiing and biathlon events. The BBC don't seem to think anyone in Britain is interested in such things.

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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #13 on: 17 February, 2018, 01:28:57 pm »
Thatwasquitefun...
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #14 on: 21 February, 2018, 09:36:00 am »
The Women's Curling team have done well. Helped by one outstanding shot by Eve Muirhead.
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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #15 on: 21 February, 2018, 09:45:34 am »
The women's super-giant slalom is worth catching up with just to see the expression on the face of the winner...

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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #16 on: 21 February, 2018, 10:11:00 pm »
Ice Hockey, at this level, is about as amazing as any sport ever invented*

Ludicrously skillful.  I am truly jealous of their ability to skate like that.

* It's everything that Field Hockey isn't.
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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #17 on: 21 February, 2018, 10:28:28 pm »
As an ex-field hockey player (both as winger and goalkeeper), I don't have any difficulty appreciating both games for their skills.  Having been hit in the (unhelmeted) face twice from unstopped short corners I think field hockey is on balance more dangerous (or was then, when we were men!).  I grew up watching the unbeatable Pakistani internationals and their skills were amazing.  They are both great games to watch, though ice hockey, like American football,l is sillier and more closely related to science fiction.

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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #18 on: 22 February, 2018, 02:35:11 am »
GB men’s curling team out to a 5 on the 9th end. Heartbreak, but a good run.
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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #19 on: 22 February, 2018, 06:12:23 pm »
I so don't understand this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/43152299

Did it help him sweep faster? Maybe he was just using it for housework.

Of all the winter Olympic sports  I can't think of one where doping would be less use (they haven't somehow included ice darts, have they?

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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #20 on: 22 February, 2018, 09:12:06 pm »
As I wrote elsewhere when this first came up:
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How can you tell if a Russian athlete is doping? If they're competing, they're probably doping.
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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #21 on: 23 February, 2018, 09:21:02 am »
I so don't understand this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/43152299

Did it help him sweep faster? Maybe he was just using it for housework.

Of all the winter Olympic sports  I can't think of one where doping would be less use (they haven't somehow included ice darts, have they?

I heard one of the top officials of curling being interviewed, he was as mystified as everyone else as to why a curler would dope.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #22 on: 23 February, 2018, 09:42:34 am »
Another sport praps?
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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #23 on: 23 February, 2018, 10:36:42 am »
I so don't understand this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/43152299

Did it help him sweep faster? Maybe he was just using it for housework.

Of all the winter Olympic sports  I can't think of one where doping would be less use (they haven't somehow included ice darts, have they?

I heard one of the top officials of curling being interviewed, he was as mystified as everyone else as to why a curler would dope.

Maybe it didn't make the headlines at the time (they mainly went to the positive samples from the 1998 TdF and the names of the riders), but one of the instances of doping mentioned in the report produced for/by the French senate in 2013 (probably in the 'doping's everywhere' section) was of steroid abuse in Canadian over-65s wheelchair curling.
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Re: winter Lympics
« Reply #24 on: 23 February, 2018, 03:17:40 pm »
I so don't understand this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/43152299

Did it help him sweep faster? Maybe he was just using it for housework.

Of all the winter Olympic sports  I can't think of one where doping would be less use (they haven't somehow included ice darts, have they?

I heard one of the top officials of curling being interviewed, he was as mystified as everyone else as to why a curler would dope.

Will the IOC try and sweep this under the carpet?
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