2022 Beijing Winter Olympics thread

[Judge Fudge]

Keep going and see then Downhill like this..........

 

[forty_three]

Why do they grow carrots on landing slope of the ski jump hill?

 

[dash]

Why do they grow carrots on landing slope of the ski jump hill?

I don't know, it's pretty hare-y already.

 

[dash]

A Norwegian woman winning gold in cross-country?!?

 

[Center Ice]

Yup fuck this.

I guess there's somebody from China competing in skeleton.

 

[puckhead]

medal hopes up in smoke
(honestly hope there is no backlash from dear leader)

 

[dash]

medal hopes up in smoke
(honestly hope there is no backlash from dear leader)

Are you saying they Paeked it in?

/yes, I realize this is North, not South Korea

 

[forty_three]

Finnish article.

Jukka Jalonen täysin raivona Kiinan viranomaisille – antoi palaa oikein kunnolla Marko Anttilan kohtelusta

Jukka Jalonen toivoo, että hänen viestinsä kantautuisi Kiinan viranomaisten korviin.

www.is.fi

Key points:
Marko Anttila, captain of Team Finland tested negative for COVID in Finland, but in China his test was deemed as an positive due to different requlations. He has been in full isolation for 18 days now, and China still hasn't given him permission to join Team Finland because by their standards, his tests are still positive.

Doctor of Team Finland and Jukka Jalonen, coach of Team Finland are both giving very strong critique for the Chinese rules and for their decision to keep Anttila still in isolation.

Jalonen said that you can't say Anttila is depressed, but he is in very low spirits. He is getting same food every day, and most of the time it's not even warmed up.

Jalonen finished his speech by saying "If I don't show up here anymore, then they (China) have taken me somewhere. But we have guys to replace me also if needed."

I still wish the Jackets had hired this guy instead of Larsen. There is speculation he (Jalonen) wanted the Olympics once more and is in play to replace Larsen next year.

 

[forty_three]

NBC: 2 hours of soft focus, fuzzy stories of adversity and non-stop reporting on one athlete in an event later
That Athlete in the event: *crash*

Seems like it happens every time. I would start to refuse the coverage if it was me.

 

[Edonidd]

NBC: 2 hours of soft focus, fuzzy stories of adversity and non-stop reporting on one athlete in an event later
That Athlete in the event: *crash*

Seems like it happens every time. I would start to refuse the coverage if it was me.

I dont know why they can't just make it about the sport. I like sports. I like competition. That's why I watch competitive sports. That's why I watch the Olympics.

They instead focus on the outsid3 family life or background or whatever else they can find. If I wanted to watch drama or feel good stories or whatever I'd put on the lifetime network or the real housewives if wherever. Those people aren't watching the Olympics, so why do they tailor the coverage to them?

 

[forty_three]

The Big Air freestyle skiing event is being held at a nuclear power plant?

 

[naslundfan19]

The Big Air freestyle skiing event is being held at a nuclear power plant?

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And the commentator just said they’ll be bragging about the venue for a long time.

 

[dash]

And the commentator just said they’ll be bragging about the venue for a long time.

Half-pipe and half life

 

[esls79]

The Big Air freestyle skiing event is being held at a nuclear power plant?

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I thought they only had coal power plants in China?

 

[thedddd]

The Big Air freestyle skiing event is being held at a nuclear power plant?

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It is so very China that the one tower has the Olympic logo on it.

39°54'38.1"N 116°08'42.8"E · China, Beijing, Mentougou District, 河堤路石景山路 邮政编码: 100043

China, Beijing, Mentougou District, 河堤路石景山路 邮政编码: 100043

goo.gl

 

[esls79]

 

[Edonidd]

Why do they grow carrots on landing slope of the ski jump hill?

Snow is all white. On a bright sunny day, or even worse under bright lights from multiple sources and multiple directions it just looks flat white. There is zero visual clues to let you ha e any depth perception. It's hard during normal skiing, if you jump 2 feet in the air you know the ground is 2 feet below you. These jumps launch them off a cliff basically, not only are they thrown in the air, but the hill under them is cut away. Plus in the big air kind of ski jumps you're twisting and flipping your body, so you don't even have your eyes on the horizon to give you clues.

Long story short, if they didn't put down pine boughs people would be getting injured left and right, plus their tricks would be more boring.

 

[dash]

That fact that it's the Russian pair that falls is just "chef's kiss".

 

[naslundfan19]

 

[wings-pens2166]

I dont know why they can't just make it about the sport. I like sports. I like competition. That's why I watch competitive sports. That's why I watch the Olympics.

They instead focus on the outsid3 family life or background or whatever else they can find. If I wanted to watch drama or feel good stories or whatever I'd put on the lifetime network or the real housewives if wherever. Those people aren't watching the Olympics, so why do they tailor the coverage to them?

This post pretty much says all that needs to be said.