Shit, that downhill slope is hard.
Is it ironic that the snowboard halfpipe âheight meterâ is expressed in âfeet & inchesâ?
Normally donât watch a lot of the figure skating, but Nathan Chen is a poet on ice.
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Impressive
They wonât let us watch it in the US. Might have to sneak over the border.
Sorry, I would have posted the CNN story but it focused more on the politics rather than her performance.
Anyone watching the menâs freestyle skiing big air event? Scary stuff.
ABCâs of Russian olympics: Always Be Cheatinâ.
Speculation is that the positive test was a 15 year old testing positive for diuretics, which are not performance enhancing but banned b/c they can be used as masking agents. But given her coachâs history of being abusive to her students, especially regarding their weight, it seems to be more likely a case of an abusive coach forcing a child to lose weight rather than cheating.
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Yeah, that was rough for Mikayla Shiffrin (sp?). I so badly wanted the interviewer to offer some kind of âHey, weâre all really proud of all youâve done for so many years, this is just one bad day, you got thisâ encouragement. Especially since we finally got a conversation around mental health during the Tokyo games last summer. I think that since he essentially let her see herself as a failure for one bad run, itâs going to negatively affect her performance in the future.
I actually didnât see that interview. I watched some of the menâs downhill. The second guy wiped out, and was obviously injured. The fourth (or maybe 5th) guy badly missed one of the gates. A little later a guy had a good run, but at the bottom of the hill his face was covered in blood. They thought maybe a glancing blow of a gate bounced his pole into his nose. A lot more guys couldnât stick to the track. It was brutal.
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Snowboardcross one of the best events of the games imo. Womenâs was fun to watch last night, menâs upcoming tonight
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She is just a kid.
I picture her mother saying ânow dear, you donât need to go off that jump, there is a perfectly good route down the sideâ
Maybe this has been mentioned, but I havnât read through the whole threadâŚ
But itâs funny that the ski-jump tricks competition is basically set up in the parking lot of a nuclear power plant.
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Itâs still a remarkably non-scenic backdrop. The area around the biathlon course is ugly, too. (probably the same stuff from a different angle)
Weaselette has the same reaction. We thought it was a nuclear plant too. At least itâs not actively belching smoke into the air while the competition is happening.
They should have painted it to make it look like trees or mountains or something. That would have at least been some good satire.
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Ehhhxcellent!! We have everyone fooled that this is a nuclear power plant!
Smithers, break out the expensive champagne!
Iâve heard of âcommunitiesâ doing that with silos or something.
I think this is what I was thinking of.
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