PyeongChang 2018

[cdbearsfan]

Great performance from Janet Jackson in the ice skating.

[Risso]

Is the British lass going for gold in the falling over and crying today?

[UK Redsox]

Is the British lass going for gold in the falling over and crying today?

One radio interview and I took an instant dislike to her

[cdbearsfan]

Is the British lass going for gold in the falling over and crying today?

She's due on shortly. Only the heats today. If she stays on her feet, avoids getting penalised and finishes in the top two, she'll be back for the Semis and potentially the Final on Thursday.

[UK Redsox]

Not sure if this is despicable or genius


http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/winter-olympics/winter-olympics-2018-pyeongchang-elizabeth-swaney-ski-halfpipe-video-average-a8218991.html

I thought that after the Mike the Plasterer debacle of the 1980s, the IOC had clamped down on qualifying.

This skier and those two in the Cross Country skiing, show that they have not.

[cdbearsfan]

Elise 😢

[Risso]

Not sure if this is despicable or genius


http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/olympics/winter-olympics/winter-olympics-2018-pyeongchang-elizabeth-swaney-ski-halfpipe-video-average-a8218991.html

I thought that after the Mike the Plasterer debacle of the 1980s, the IOC had clamped down on qualifying.

This skier and those two in the Cross Country skiing, show that they have not.

Have just seen a video and it's hilarious.  She doesn't even make it to the top of the half pipe, let alone try a trick of any sort.  I can confidently say I was more adventurous than that on the nursery slopes on my first ever skiing trip last month.

[UK Redsox]

Elise 😢

well put by someone tweeting to the Beeb

I'm hoping now we can focus on the other amazing athletes in the Olympics. All this focus on Elise Christie who has essentially fallen at every hurdle . Understand that the country wants her to do well, but enough is enough.

[cdbearsfan]

I feel sorry for her. Don't think she did much wrong then. Anyway, who else are we supposed to focus on? They've shown just about every second featuring a British competitor with a chance of a medal.

[Eckybloke]

I think the skating relay just demonstrated the lunacy that is short track though:

Bronze medal goes to a country who weren't even racing in the final who went faster than the country that did win the gold!



Don't get this sort of stuff in the summer olympics!

[Ad@m]

Is Elise Christie genuinely so unlucky as to fail at six consecutive Olympic events or is she just a bit crap?

I know nothing about speed skating but six in a row seems like almost lottery-winning levels of unlikeliness.

[Exeter 77]

Is Elise Christie genuinely so unlucky as to fail at six consecutive Olympic events or is she just a bit crap?

I know nothing about speed skating but six in a row seems like almost lottery-winning levels of unlikeliness.

She must be some good as she is world champion in at least one distance it's just that there is only widescale TV coverage every four years so we only see the failures.

[paul_e]

Is Elise Christie genuinely so unlucky as to fail at six consecutive Olympic events or is she just a bit crap?

I know nothing about speed skating but six in a row seems like almost lottery-winning levels of unlikeliness.

She must be some good as she is world champion in at least one distance it's just that there is only widescale TV coverage every four years so we only see the failures.

Check her wikipedia page, 2017 world champion overall and in 1000 and 1500, 10x euro gold medalist. She went into this as a medal favourite in all 3 distances.

Could be bad luck but i suspect that the pressure of being all over the press as our big hope gets to her.

[Tayls_7]

Short track speed skating. What a sack of shit. Training for years in a sport that is so precarious with a trip or fall ever imminent.

[Comrade Blitz]

German biathlon fans trolling the IG pages of the Italian team members after the mixed relay. Vaffanculo.