Winter Olympics

Garthy

That’s a much better track than the one in Korea.

Clarky

EricTheWeary said:

blobb said:

Will there be a USA Vs Russia hockey match this time around? That was always the bit I liked to watch. Not having TV anymore I need to find somewhere on-line.

As Russia aren’t technically there I guess not, although as their athletes are there then possibly yes. 
Hope that’s clear. 

the real shame is that NHL players won't be there...
the world championships usually happen around the time of the Stanley Cup..
that means that as the competition progresses you see NHL players from teams knocked out of the cup start trickling into teams that are still in the world championships..

the olympics though usually have NHL players right from the start, so it's international hockey with Canada, USA, Russia, Sweden, Finland and Czech Republic at full strength
you wait 4 years to see this and then find that NHL players won't be there...
it'll really hurt Canada and USA.. the other major nations will lose a handful of star players but overall won't be hit quite as hard..
such a shame..

in footie terms it'd be like England entering the world cup with players from Championship league teams..
hmmmmm this may not actually be a bad thing... lmao

Neill

I live in a winter sports area so I'm interested but I suspect most folk in the uk find most events impossible to relate to in any way, and some of them must appear quite bizarre (double luge, anyone??).  The snowboarding is so spectacular it is entertaining in its own right but even alpine skiing must seem fairly boring unless there's British interest, which there isn't. 

I agree the commentators could do more.  The technical presenters assume too much knowledge on the part of the viewer.  Some interesting facts/figures would help for example I learned this morning that in ice hockey the pucks have to be ice cold otherwise they bounce - so they are routinely replaced throughout a game they keep about 50 odd in a freezer and they could all be used in the course of a game.  

Long track speed skating is easily my favourite, I'd love to see that live.

Teetonetal

We used to have an O'Neil slope style event once a year in Davos. I remember watching some of the current olympians as kids do the most amazing things.

Snowcross and ice hockey are also insanely good sports to watch live.

Winter Olympics are much more fun than the summer ones.

Neill

Teetonetal said:

We used to have an O'Neil slope style event once a year in Davos. I remember watching some of the current olympians as kids do the most amazing things.

Snowcross and ice hockey are also insanely good sports to watch live.

Winter Olympics are much more fun than the summer ones.

Having just watched the Snowboard X it might be my new favourite... 

usedtobe

Wife’s friends niece should have been in the pairs ice dancing for Spain, but some weird shit happened, so...

littlegreenman

Skeleton spoiler

Gold for Yarnold, Bronze for Deas!!!

Skeleton nerd alert - skeleton has only been held at 7 Olympics (1928, 1948 and 2002-2018), and Britain has won medals at all of them! 5 Bronze, 1 Silver and 3 Gold. Not bad for an island where it mainly just rains

Rocker

Fair dues to anyone who would go downhill on a skeleton.

Congrats to Lizzie, brave woman..

Garthy

Ski slope style shits all over the snowboard version, this is fucking epic!

strumjoughlamps

littlegreenman said:

Skeleton spoiler

https://youtu.be/oJzRpgXvM2I

strumjoughlamps

Good to see Russian athletes learning from past mistakes eh........  

Teetonetal

strumjoughlamps said:

Good to see Russian athletes learning from past mistakes eh........  

It won't just be Russians.

stimpsonslostson

Teetonetal said:

strumjoughlamps said:

Good to see Russian athletes learning from past mistakes eh........  

It won't just be Russians.

Curling though... PEDs to help push a stone port way down some ice?! What's next..  steroids for darts players?