2022 Beijing Winter Olympics thread

[dash]

big shoes to fill

50 years in broadcasting - He's had an incredible career. Best known for the Olympics, but was a big CFL guy when CBC was broadcasting the games.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/678716483655

 

[Debbie Does]

We had a guy who showed up occasionally for our Tuesday Night Hockey group. Great group of guys, great fun and exercise, good times with beer and chips afterward,, too. I made it to 70 years old with these guys. Let's say we weren't all that good.

Anyway, we'll call our friend Scott, because, well, that's his name. He's s Asian American, maybe Japanese. Before one international hockey competition some years back, he was recruited by his heritage country to play for them. He looked at them with a laugh in wide-eyed astonishment. He was at least 40, and the huge scar on his chest isn't from a fight in the NHL but rather from serious open-heart surgery.

Sometimes countries go too far. But shit, I'd do it, just to say I got on the ice with guys like Ovechkin or Crosby.

 

[puckhead]

 

[naslundfan19]

Should’ve done this from the start. This way you don’t have to alter the schedule.

 

[dash]

 

[Comeds]

How about no?

 

[dash]

How about no?

 

[Comeds]

Maybe it's just me but I would not understand canceling/postponing games now but then allowing the players to travel to China in a month.

 

[dash]

Maybe it's just me but I would not understand canceling/postponing games now but then allowing the players to travel to China in a month.

Especially if a player tests positive for COVID and he has to remain in China for 3 weeks or more.

 

[puckhead]

Maybe it's just me but I would not understand canceling/postponing games now but then allowing the players to travel to China in a month.

plus now they need the time to make up some of these games
(assuming the omicron flattens, and the season isn't just toast)

 

[naslundfan19]

 

[dash]

Or you know we could just cancel the 2022 Winter Olympics entirely and leave China footing the bill...

 

[Comeds]

As of right now I am still slated to go to Beijing to represent my country in online posting*, but we have been told to await further instructions in regards to a cancellation or postponement. I'm excited even though the opening ceremonies uniform is a little tight 'down there' and the venue is supposed to be very cold.



*apparently it was my series of posts about Calista the Barista that garnered the attention of the National Olympic Committee

 

[dash]

Officially official...

 

[forty_three]

 

[dash]

Last true best-on-best tournament was 2014 in Sochi.

 

[mattola]

yep

 

[Cyder]

They made the right decision but not having the tournament sucks.

 

[sbb122]

 

[forty_three]

Obligatory original fuckface brother: