Winter Olympics
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One of the best stories so far has to be Ester Ledecka. She is a Czech snowboarder who shocked everyone to win the Super G. The original story was that she competed on borrowed skies but that might not be entirely accurate. And then she rocks on up to the press conference wearing her googles as she wasn't expecting to win (no shit!) so didn't have any makeup on.
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@bovidae said in Winter Olympics:
One of the best stories so far has to be Ester Ledecka. She is a Czech snowboarder who shocked everyone to win the Super G. The original story was that she competed on borrowed skies but that might not be entirely accurate. And then she rocks on up to the press conference wearing her googles as she wasn't expecting to win (no shit!) so didn't have any makeup on.
I saw that run. She couldn't believe it and the oft-injured defending champ took the gut punch about as well as you could. Side note, how many of those super G women were hawt? That was a pretty tasty podium there
Wouldn't be amazing if she won her specialist even too?
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@rocky-rockbottom best sport at the games, if only for the carnage value, and the possibility of another Bradbury.
See the Korean bloke who fell and then tried to trip the guy next to him? filthy fucker.
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@rocky-rockbottom if I was the one in red getting the big elbow to the chest, I'd take her down too.
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Women 3000m relay skating. Dutch win the B final in world record time, and because 2 teams get disqualified in the A final, they get bronze.
How weird that the team that sets a world record time get third place?
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@rocky-rockbottom said in Winter Olympics:
may as well make it no holds barred. go the roller derby route, you'd soon see them giving each other a wide berth then...
or have it on brutally angled downhill track and the gold goes to whoever finishes in last place. bring in a bit of that cagey pursuit cycling style. on ice. downhill. they'll be bluntening their skates for this fucker. and biff in a few judder bars here and there.
Roller derby on ice. Now there's a future Olympic sport!
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@rocky-rockbottom said in Winter Olympics:
this pom ice racer chick, 3 time world champ. who's now crashed and burned in 6 straight Olympic races spanning 2 olympics can fuck right off. Bad luck my arse. She has shit starts then just tries to barge her fucken way to the front right THROUGH whatever slag is in her road, sending the poor foreigners arse over kite in the process, no fucks given,
"oops, dont mind me, just going to elbow and/or barge you right the fuck out of the way here, in a bit of a hurry you see, to get to the front to collect the Olympic gold I'm owed GAHHHHH NOT AGAIN WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING TO MEEEEEEEE."
go fuck yourself, you're the Hillary Clinton of ice skating. 4 more years!
The whole saga has been hilarious to watch in the U.K. from the perspective of watching the TV presenters crash and burn as well.
They hyped her up big time, set her up as the likely golden girl of the games. Whenever disaster came the story changed a little. First crash out wasn't her fault (even though she was penalised), second one also wasn't her fault until they went quiet on the replay then talked about her potential injury instead. Third time she was the hero, fighting pain to secure a spot in the final, yet she was double penalised, yellow carded and disqualified.Agree that her style is way too aggressive and she places her fate in the hands of the refs and fellow competitors.
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Stitch up!
Somehow...
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@crucial Yeah - I stayed up to watch the semis and thought they did the right thing - probably had a better chance of winning the silver (by beating the Koreans) than winning the bronze (by beating either of the Dutch or Norwegians).
A good effort and they gave it everything - just not quite good enough.
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@chris-b said in Winter Olympics:
@crucial Yeah - I stayed up to watch the semis and thought they did the right thing - probably had a better chance of winning the silver (by beating the Koreans) than winning the bronze (by beating either of the Dutch or Norwegians).
A good effort and they gave it everything - just not quite good enough.
One of them has held his hand up for making a slip in the last lap. That loss of time could have been the difference but even it it wasn't it would have been incredibly close.
Yeah, best to give everything for a guaranteed medal than save yourself for a possible one. -
Fucking FIS have wrecked another snow sport.
Ski and board cross used to be on tracks about half the width with more competitors. It was awesome rollerball type stuff to watch and a fun event.
It is now dominated by failed downhillers rather than freeskiers. The track is wide and fast and whoever gets in front leads the procession. A bit like why F1 motor racing is such a yawn to watch.
It was always feared that putting freeski events like slope style and pipe in the Olympics would change the feel around them too. Making them more a prescribed technical event rather than one where style was rewarded alongside execution.
Apparently the aerials used to be quite freeform and once the FIS starting prescribing hard rules for the Olympics they became the colourless exhibition of twisting and flipping we see now.
