Winter Olympics
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@mariner4life In the same way Sam Hill can crash with the finish line in front of him and yet still be much faster than me.
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Related to that was something I learned about how they judge ice-skating.
They were talking about why some skaters got high scores despite falling over, ahed of others who never fell. They compared the points skaters would earn for somewhat fucking up a 4 spin jump versus nailing a 3 spin (or triple axel) jump, showing that it's in the interests of skaters to attempt the harder jumps - basically, a skater like Yuzuru Hanyu can slightly fuck up one of his jumps (as long as it is a 4 spin) and still be scoring more points than anyone who is nailing 3 spins and triple axels. It helped people understand why Patrick Chan got the highest score in the team free despite having a few mis-timed, mis-landed jumps.
Of course, when those harder jumps come off, the skaters get significantly more points, so after learning about that my interest has actually gone up. I still prefer watching the girls though, despite he guys being able to land much cooler jumps - Hanyu is saying that he wants to work on a quad axel. That would be amazing, and I'm sure that at some point, someone will do it (the young USA kid looks likely too).
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Bloody hell. A Russian has been caught for doping. His sport?
Curling
Wtf did he need peds for?
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@mariner4life said in Winter Olympics:
Conflicted about last night. Aussie coverage spent an hour pumping up the Aussie aerial skier, and how amazing his new trick for the final was going to be, interviewing every one even remotely related to him, to the point where the first jumper was almost on his way down the slope before they even acknowledged he existed.
Aaaaand he didn't make it out of the first round of finals. Which would have had me cheering such is my hatred of Ch7 and what they have reduced this games too, if not for the fact that the dodginess of judged sport was in full effect. A chinese athlete who didn't even land his jump somehow managed to have a higher score than the Aussie who landed his. You fucking dodgy fluffybunnies!
Did you see the Chinese dude's face when he realised he hadn't won gold? Stunned mullet doesn't come close to describing it.
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@antipodean That commentator is a bit too excitable.
Irony for Sam is that he wiped out on about the first bit that most people would be happy to ride on - albeit that he hit it like a scalded cat!
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Winter Olympics:
Bloody hell. A Russian has been caught for doping. His sport?
Curling
Wtf did he need peds for?
Staying awake?
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Been watching loads of curling - love it, keen to give it a crack! The tactics seem very different to most sports.
I assure you M4L ,the commentators here aren't much better, very very pro GB, but hey, thats where I live, so not sure why I would expect anything else ...
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Canadian Marc Kennedy can see how curlers, especially those who specialize in mixed doubles, would benefit greatly from PEDs.
“Actually in mixed doubles, with the amount of sweeping you do, and to be able to have that quick recovery to be able to sweep again and again and again, it could definitely benefit you,” Kennedy said.That sounds to me like a guy trying to make his own hobby seem more like a real sport.
Although I do enjoy watching it, and would quite like to give it a go... seems similar to bowls, croquet, darts, pool - great games for having a few drinks and a bit of banter. -
@kruse said in Winter Olympics:
Canadian Marc Kennedy can see how curlers, especially those who specialize in mixed doubles, would benefit greatly from PEDs.
“Actually in mixed doubles, with the amount of sweeping you do, and to be able to have that quick recovery to be able to sweep again and again and again, it could definitely benefit you,” Kennedy said.That sounds to me like a guy trying to make his own hobby seem more like a real sport.
Although I do enjoy watching it, and would quite like to give it a go... seems similar to bowls, croquet, darts, pool - great games for having a few drinks and a bit of banter.Not sure barefoot curling would take off...
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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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Enjoying the ski- cross
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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.
