Winter Olympics
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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.
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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. -
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wait, what? two medals? in one games? jesus
Actually, someone can probably tell me. I know why the Aussies aren't that great, they have snow-covered hills here. But we have actual, real mountains, and facilities and shit. Why aren't we better at the winter olympics?
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@mariner4life Cash money.
That young kiwi Nico bloke was awesome - 16 years old - talking smack to the camera "suns out guns out" and then slays it on his runs.
