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Off Topic => Sports Arena => Topic started by: cdbearsfan on February 02, 2026, 12:43:19 PM
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Opening ceremony is on Friday but seems to start on Wednesday evening with Britain among the nations competing in curling mixed doubles.
Will look forward to ski and snowboard cross events.
Not sure if there are any new events I should be watching?
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Right, I need to break my silence here. I see these threads that I don't read and I say nothing, because I'm at least as weird as the people who are seemingly interested.
I don't really watch TV, and that's on me, because I recognise I'm the odd one there. I obviously never, ever read 'the standard of refereeing' because life really is too short. Watches, American Sport, tennis...whatever. Not for me, but fine.
But this cannot stand. NOBODY LIKES THE WINTER OLYMPICS. It's impossible. I will not believe it if you say you do. The Winter Olympics is shit. The human brain can not like the Winter Olympics, so stop it right now.
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You don't read the standard of refereeing thread, yet the Small Heath thread is a good use of time? What's the criterion here?
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An obsession with the Small Heath thread, and the SHA website, is what makes us human.
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No new sports but we're looking very strong in the mens skeleton and the womens freestyle skiing and snowboarding so they're probably the ones worth watching. Decent shot for medals in the mens curling and the figureskating as well though.
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FFS.
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No new sports but we're looking very strong in the mens skeleton and the womens freestyle skiing and snowboarding so they're probably the ones worth watching. Decent shot for medals in the mens curling and the figureskating as well though.
Thanks but, for future reference, it's "skellington". Can't stand figure skating but might just be able to force myself to watch Britain's ones if they have a medal chance.
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Right, I need to break my silence here. I see these threads that I don't read and I say nothing, because I'm at least as weird as the people who are seemingly interested.
I don't really watch TV, and that's on me, because I recognise I'm the odd one there. I obviously never, ever read 'the standard of refereeing' because life really is too short. Watches, American Sport, tennis...whatever. Not for me, but fine.
But this cannot stand. NOBODY LIKES THE WINTER OLYMPICS. It's impossible. I will not believe it if you say you do. The Winter Olympics is shit. The human brain can not like the Winter Olympics, so stop it right now.
I'll keep you updated in the other threads too, just to make sure you don't miss out.
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I love it!
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Yeah, it's great. Except for figure skating, the second worst "sport" ever after the karate dancing they had at the Tokyo Olympics. Will still force myself to watch any British medal hopes.
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An obsession with the Small Heath thread, and the SHA website, is what makes us human.
I just think you're missing out on some wonderful stuff on the referees' thread.
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I'm definitely not. I'd rather talk about tending someone's haemorrhoids than referees/refereeing. I'd rather tend someone's haemorrhoids than talk about referees/refereeing.
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Bobsleigh and sitting on tray down the ice are ace.
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I'm definitely not. I'd rather talk about tending someone's haemorrhoids than referees/refereeing. I'd rather tend someone's haemorrhoids than talk about referees/refereeing.
How do you feel about the standard of officiating in the giant slalom?
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Bobsleigh and sitting on tray down the ice are ace.
Correct. We tend to be decent at them all except for the one the Germans always win, too.
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Yeah, it's great. Except for figure skating, the second worst "sport" ever after the karate dancing they had at the Tokyo Olympics. Will still force myself to watch any British medal hopes.
I think a bit less of all the sports that have some subjectivity involved, they're rarely as fun to watch.
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Pretty much anything artistic is cack mind. That goes for the summer games as well.
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No new sports but we're looking very strong in the mens skeleton and the womens freestyle skiing and snowboarding so they're probably the ones worth watching. Decent shot for medals in the mens curling and the figureskating as well though.
Thanks but, for future reference, it's "skellington". Can't stand figure skating but might just be able to force myself to watch Britain's ones if they have a medal chance.
Same, as for the joyless bastard above I quite enjoy watching almost anything where someone can show off a supreme level of skill, so I generally enjoy things like the halfpipe and slopestyle and my wife absolutely loves watching the figureskating so we'll definitely have it on for those. Aside from that there's something appealing about the bob, skeleton and luge so I usually watch a fair bit of it, even if it can get a bit tedious if they're all really good.
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I'd love to havd a go on the Bobsleigh (I'd be in the middle) and maybe the head first on a tea tray event.
No way I'd do the feet first tea tray event though.
Assume I'm naturally gifted at Curling, with my ancestry, but haven't given it a go. How hard can it be?
Enjoy the events where they race against each other with lots of crashing.
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Matt Weston and Marcus Wyatt have a great chance of medals in the skeleton, I had a bash at trying to make the GB team many years ago but couldn't sprint fast enough for the first 4-5 seconds before loading onto the sled.
Enjoy watching the bobsleigh,luge, snowboard boardercross, cross country skiing and the downhill.
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Assume I'm naturally gifted at Curling, with my ancestry, but haven't given it a go. How hard can it be?
You'd also have won the 400m in the Summer Olympics, but you weren't religious enough.
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The Winter Olympics is great. When I was growing up, I used to look forward to it more than the Summer version.
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Pretty much anything artistic is cack mind. That goes for the summer games as well.
I need to find that post I did about a ‘Competitive Arts Olympics’, with the plan to separate the subjective events from the proper sports.
I’ll watch some of the Winter Olympics (Ice Hockey, Skiing, tea tray). Haven’t watched any of the Summer version since 2008.
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The Summer Olympics is my favourite sporting event to watch. Fuck the world cup!
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I enjoy watching the Winter Olympics. When i went to Oslo a few years ago I watched the biathlon which was great fun and a test of skill, nerve and athleticism.
I do find it frustrating though that UK Sport funds Skeleton and Skiing/Snowboard much more than accessible sports like Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Basketball and Volleyball.
Fosusing on a few individuals to get medals at Skeleton or acrobatic skiing and snowboarding hardly generates a legacy with people heading off to take part.
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I like the skiing and shooting one.
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I enjoy watching the Winter Olympics. When i went to Oslo a few years ago I watched the biathlon which was great fun and a test of skill, nerve and athleticism.
I do find it frustrating though that UK Sport funds Skeleton and Skiing/Snowboard much more than accessible sports like Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Basketball and Volleyball.
Fosusing on a few individuals to get medals at Skeleton or acrobatic skiing and snowboarding hardly generates a legacy with people heading off to take part.
Skeleton has sort of created a legacy though hasn't it, given we got medals in it for 5 events in a row and then, despite missing out last time, we're looking strong to add at least 1 more this time. To do that as a country with no course is ridiculous. It's never going to be a high participation sport but that doesn't mean we shouldn't fund it when we've clearly found a way to churn out competitive athletes regularly.
Snowboarding/freestyle skiing isn't there yet with the medal legacy but again our funding does seem to be showing real results with 4 genuine medal contenders this time following 3 medals in 2018. In this case though there is definitely a massive growth in interest. The sports you mention we're never going to earn those medals that would generate interest because other nations are so far ahead of us and, in the case of the latter 2, the sort of people we'd need to be attracted to those sports would have a negative impact on our 'core' sports of football, cricket and rugby (and those 3 are so much more popular, and have so much higher earning potential, that it would be a very difficult task to turn them around).
We aren't a big enough population for us to put proper funding into everything so it is right to focus on things where we can turn that money into tangible success.
2022 was a shit year for us mostly because local weather conditions and covid travel restrictions completely fucked our preparation for it.
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I enjoy watching the Winter Olympics. When i went to Oslo a few years ago I watched the biathlon which was great fun and a test of skill, nerve and athleticism.
I do find it frustrating though that UK Sport funds Skeleton and Skiing/Snowboard much more than accessible sports like Badminton, Squash, Table Tennis, Basketball and Volleyball.
Fosusing on a few individuals to get medals at Skeleton or acrobatic skiing and snowboarding hardly generates a legacy with people heading off to take part.
Skeleton has sort of created a legacy though hasn't it, given we got medals in it for 5 events in a row and then, despite missing out last time, we're looking strong to add at least 1 more this time. To do that as a country with no course is ridiculous. It's never going to be a high participation sport but that doesn't mean we shouldn't fund it when we've clearly found a way to churn out competitive athletes regularly.
Snowboarding/freestyle skiing isn't there yet with the medal legacy but again our funding does seem to be showing real results with 4 genuine medal contenders this time following 3 medals in 2018. In this case though there is definitely a massive growth in interest. The sports you mention we're never going to earn those medals that would generate interest because other nations are so far ahead of us and, in the case of the latter 2, the sort of people we'd need to be attracted to those sports would have a negative impact on our 'core' sports of football, cricket and rugby (and those 3 are so much more popular, and have so much higher earning potential, that it would be a very difficult task to turn them around).
We aren't a big enough population for us to put proper funding into everything so it is right to focus on things where we can turn that money into tangible success.
2022 was a shit year for us mostly because local weather conditions and covid travel restrictions completely fucked our preparation for it.
I get it that UK Sport want to get medals, but it is still only creating a legacy of a few elite sportspeople in minority sports. Skeleton is a niche sport even within winter sports.
We have a very large population, so there is plenty of room for other higher participation sports. I agree that getting the depth may take time, but France and Italy for example have good performance levels at several team sports which UK Sport will not really support.
We are very good at spending on technology and equipment (take rowing and cycling) and it pays off. Skeleton and bobsleigh also fall into that category. They need raw strength, speed but also need very good equipment (admittedly with a good dose of bravery).
If the medal table is the be all and end all, then UK Sport are right, but they certainly don't prioritise accessible sport.
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I'll watch as much curling as it's possible to watch. Sliding sports and alpine skiing will also get a viewing. I don't mind the x-games type stuff as the competitors always seem genuinely happy for the person who wins.
Cross-country skiing, ice hockey, figure skating can all do one.
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In other Olympic related news it seems that Kristy Coventry would almost certainly have played Sun City.
IOC president gives clearest signal so far that Russia could be at 2028 Olympics (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/03/ioc-president-kirsty-coventry-russia-2028-olympics-ukraine-sports-minister-fifa-gianni-infantino)
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This is a disaster if upheld.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/04/team-gb-helmets-ban-winter-olympics-skeleton
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In other Olympic related news it seems that Kristy Coventry would almost certainly have played Sun City.
IOC president gives clearest signal so far that Russia could be at 2028 Olympics (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/03/ioc-president-kirsty-coventry-russia-2028-olympics-ukraine-sports-minister-fifa-gianni-infantino)
FFS.
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In other Olympic related news it seems that Kristy Coventry would almost certainly have played Sun City.
IOC president gives clearest signal so far that Russia could be at 2028 Olympics (https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/03/ioc-president-kirsty-coventry-russia-2028-olympics-ukraine-sports-minister-fifa-gianni-infantino)
FFS.
Gravy train scumbags, each and every one
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Britain open up the curling with a win.
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I'll watch as much curling as it's possible to watch. Sliding sports and alpine skiing will also get a viewing. I don't mind the x-games type stuff as the competitors always seem genuinely happy for the person who wins.
Cross-country skiing, ice hockey, figure skating can all do one.
I like all the traditional stuff, even figure skating. Less keen on the X Games events but that may be down to the over-excitable commentators.
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I'm the opposite really, I think the newer events gave increased my interest. I especially like the snowboard-cross and ski-cross.
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Britain open up the curling with a win.
Played two, won two.
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Britain open up the curling with a win.
Played two, won two.
They're inching towards a gold medal. If Team GB win the men's, women's and mixed doubles events, it would be a clean sweep.
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No puns are allowed in threads that I start.
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That made my toes curl.
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American skier Lindsay Vonn aged 41, will still be competing despite rupturing an ACL in her left knee last week, well done her.
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American skier Lindsay Vonn aged 41, will still be competing despite rupturing an ACL in her left knee last week, well done her.
Yet crybaby Kamara is out for the season. Time for him to man up.
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I'm the opposite really, I think the newer events gave increased my interest. I especially like the snowboard-cross and ski-cross.
I like the Snowboard/Ski- Cross events.
However, the Olympics need to add the downhill ice skate racing as well
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Yeah that looks good.
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Played 3, won 3.
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As I said at the start, we've got a very strong teams in the mens competition this year so we''ll have gone there thinking we should get a medal, the early results seem to be backing that up.
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Started the tournamemt evens favourites in the men's, second favourites in the mixed and 80/1 rank outsiders in the women's.
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Played four, won four.
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Played five, won five.
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Played four, won four.
Snoop Dogg even asked for a selfie with them afterwards. https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/cg4e4yw0z20o
Let's face it, if you don't like curling and the Winter Olympics, you're not cool.
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For once, we are in complete agreement.
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This opening ceremony isn't exactly London 2012 so far.
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Jeez, these speeches!
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Played 6, won 6.
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Jeez, these speeches!
The simultaneous entrances worked quite well, and it's always handy when you can roll out Andrea Bocelli to sing Nessun Dorma. Disappointed that we didn't get Prisencolinensinainciusol though.
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Played 7, won 7.
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Vonn crashes and seems in some pain
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It looks bloody awful…🙏🏻
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Bloody bad crash, hope she is ok.
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Awful crash, but worse commentary from the on piste reporter.
Unbelievably over the top
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The snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom is good fun.
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Yeah, great stuff.
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And they want to axe it from the next Olympics. Boooo!
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Ffs. Axe the shitty ice dancing.
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In women's ice hockey, one of the groups has five teams. The top five qualify for the quarter-finals.
Ermm...
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Ffs. Axe the shitty ice dancing.
Is the correct answer…makes dressage look interesting
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Yay, the speed skating has started. Probably the only Olympic discipline I'd have a shot at (if I could ice-skate).
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How can you even ski with a ruptured ACL? Sounds mad!
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How can you even ski with a ruptured ACL?
Not very well, by the sound of it.
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Lindsey Vonn is a bit of a warrior, come back from a complete knee rebuild to win world cups and chased the last Olymoic dream. Watched and met her in Val D'Isere just before Christmas and was engaging with time for everyone. Such a shame, but a very real risk that might happen today. There is also the cynical view that she was on a $200k Olympic appearance bonus win or lose, but I'm sticking with warrior....
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Lindsey Vonn is a bit of a warrior, come back from a complete knee rebuild to win world cups and chased the last Olympic dream. Watched and met her in Val D'Isere just before Christmas and was engaging with time for everyone.
Always nice to hear that about legendary sportspeople. Hulk Hogan was the same at Miami Airport.
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Lindsey Vonn is a bit of a warrior, come back from a complete knee rebuild to win world cups and chased the last Olymoic dream. Watched and met her in Val D'Isere just before Christmas and was engaging with time for everyone. Such a shame, but a very real risk that might happen today. There is also the cynical view that she was on a $200k Olympic appearance bonus win or lose, but I'm sticking with warrior....
She's a greedy fool then
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Won 8, lost 1 and top of group.
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British medal hope Mia Brookes into tomorrow's Big Air snowboard final.
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There is also the cynical view that she was on a $200k Olympic appearance bonus win or lose
My cynical view is that she could see the $$$ for the inevitable Netflix film.
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Ffs. Axe the shitty ice dancing.
Is the correct answer…makes dressage look interesting
It's entertainment but it's not sport. Far too subjective. That said the judging is easier to understand now than the last time I remember watching it around 40 gears ago.
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It's entertainment but it's not sport. Far too subjective. That said the judging is easier to understand now than the last time I remember watching it around 40 gears ago.
I've watched it a fair bit over the years, but still can't distinguish between an axel, a lutz and a salchow.
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The Winter games look like they'd be great fun to attend. The outdoor crowds always look like they've been out for a winter stroll, and decided to stand and watch some of this Olympics lark for a while.
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Ffs. Axe the shitty ice dancing.
Is the correct answer…makes dressage look interesting
It's entertainment but it's not sport. Far too subjective. That said the judging is easier to understand now than the last time I remember watching it around 40 gears ago.
but if you get rid of the subjective events in the winter olympics there's not enough left for it to be the same event. Downhill, cross country, speed skating, curling, sliding events and ice hockey (6 sports) are all that's left and that'd be boring as fuck. It's be like cutting down the summer olympics to be just the track and field and velodrome events, still decent but not the international celebration of summer sports it has been more a generation.
I'm more willing the accept a split for the summer olympics because you'd be taking away enough to have a whole new event whilst leaving behind more than enough to still have plenty of things for people to watch and work towards.
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I don't think they should be canned at all, but I struggle to be enthused by them. I still watch things like the snowboarders spinning around loads because that is cool 😎.
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I watched the luge last night.
Whilst it is undeniably dangerous, bloody hell it looks a bleak, soulless pastime.
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I watched the luge last night.
Whilst it is undeniably dangerous, bloody hell it looks a bleak, soulless pastime.
Have a go, it might change your mind.
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I’m sure it’s exciting and an absolute buzz for the riders (are they riders).
I meant the whole look of the environment they perform in, the grey, drab concrete pipes.
It’s a stark contrast to every other winter Olympic event.
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I think they get called sliders in Skeleton and Luge and Sledders in the bob.
I get what you mean about how a lot of the tracks look but that's just about making them as safe as possible. Virtually all of the natural ice ones are gone sadly.
It's still the best thing in the winter olympics though (although the snowboarding is catching up, the mens big air final on Saturday was great).
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I was in Livigno with a school ski trip back in the 90s, and it was such a lovely place to ski and visit. The town was welcoming and the ski runs were varied enough for everyone to enjoy. It’s great seeing the more ‘edgy’ events being based there as it’s so remote and quite laid back, which suits the ethos, I think!
I can’t imagine why they’d want to ditch the snowboarding parallel slalom, either.
Love that event, as well as the ski-cross, which is nuts!
Really like ice dance.
The dreary procession of very long Speed Skating rounds are the most boring events ever, sorry!
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Vonn apparently fractured her leg with the crash. It might have happened anyway but I wonder if the knee brace made it a certainty.
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The commentator on the new downhill/ slalom team event today said that a major cause of her injury was that the ski binding didn’t snap the ski off in the way they’re supposed to do when a skier falls.
( When one of the downhill racers had just lost his balance on a turn, crashed off the piste and his ski had flown off in the opposite direction!)
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Ffs. Axe the shitty ice dancing.
Saw a bit of the GB couple dancing to the Sp ice Girls, would have been far more entertaining if it was Todd Carty doing his special moves
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Kirsty Muir just misses a medal in snowboarding.
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Shame.
It is a brilliant event.
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Kirsty Muir just misses a medal in snowboarding.
Slopestyle skiing rather than snowboard. Less than half a point from bronze.
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Shame.
It is a brilliant event.
I harbour a pathalogical contempt of snowboarders from my own experiences on the slopes, showy twats that in 80% of cases can't even use them, the slopes littered with Jamiroquai wannabees.
Twats.
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She was unlucky I think, nothing much to separate her and the Canadian who got 3rd but fair play to the latter getting up after a horrible crash on her 2nd round and delivering a medal winning final run.
It's definitely one of the better events though, I know people don't like the judge scored events in a lot of ways but stuff like this adds a lot to the games.
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Kirsty Muir just misses a medal in snowboarding.
Slopestyle skiing rather than snowboard. Less than half a point from bronze.
Oophs. I watched it, too.
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Dear BBC, stop changing channel you twats.
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I don't have any strong views on skiers v snowboarders as I've never been on a skiing holiday. I guess I'm not middle-class enough.
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I don't have any strong views on skiers v snowboarders as I've never been on a skiing holiday. I guess I'm not middle-class enough.
Snowboarders are in the way - that's all you need to know.
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I don't have any strong views on skiers v snowboarders as I've never been on a skiing holiday. I guess I'm not middle-class enough.
Snowboarders are in the way - that's all you need to know.
Cool clothes and bandannas, though. And a snowboard just looks chic.
Sadly, I’ve fallen over every time I’ve tried to ride one!
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It’s not looking great for the curling mixed doubles GB team.
Sweden leading 8 - 3 and it’s the 7th end.
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Sweden win to reach the final. Fellow Scot CD jinxed Team GB.
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Very disappointing in the curling. They'd been so good in the Round Robin, but didn't go for them against Sweden
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Curlers bottled it
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Mia Brookes in bronze medal position with one round of Big Air Snowboarding left.
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Mia Brookes in bronze medal position with one round of Big Air Snowboarding left.
The Kiwi, Zoi Sadowski-Synnott, could still spoil her medal chances.
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Yeah, she's already down to fourth.
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Listening to the commentary, Our Mia needs to take another couple of turns or do the whole thing backwards, channeling Ginger Rogers.
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Fourth, again. Three chances to secure a medal have all gone begging today.
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She gave it ( 1620)a really good shot; next time!
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Arteta and Slot could learn a thing or two about sportsmanship from these ladies.
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Arteta and Slot could learn a thing or two about sportsmanship from these ladies.
It reminds me of the way decathletes and heptathletes relate to each other in athletics.
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So what are we finishing 4th in next?
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So what are we finishing 4th in next?
The Premier League.
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So what are we finishing 4th in next?
The Premier League.
😎
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How are the next Torvill and Dean doing?
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It has been a fairly disastrous couple of days.
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Team GB manage to complete the collapse in the mixed doubles curling.
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We seem to be the nearly men (and women) in most events.
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If it's any consolation, it's Day 4 and still no medal for Team Ireland.
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So what are we finishing 4th in next?
Well we got the answer to that. Currently 4th in some figure skating as well, ay we?
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Watching the 500m speed skating, how do they decide who is on the inside in the heats? Close to every woman there dominated from the start and qualified. Is it based on world rank? Or pulled out of a hat? At least show us the rock, paper, scissors.
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I hope whoever is working on drone technology sorts out the annoying whizzing noise that has punctuated many events
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Watching the curling final, it just seems wrong that Sweden have the red stones and the USA have the yellow ones.
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Great finish to that match.
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Yeah, great final shot. Glad Sweden won though.
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Bit of a boring day, not a lot grabbing the interest today. Might watch the Spice Girl dancers in a while.
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Thrilling end to the Ice Dance in the figure skating with France pipping the USA to gold.
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The end of the men's double luge earlier was quite exciting. Italy won gold from third place before the final run. USA dropped from first to sixth.
The big question of course, would you rather be on top or down below?
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The end of the men's double luge earlier was quite exciting. Italy won gold from third place before the final run. USA dropped from first to sixth.
The big question of course, would you rather be on top or down below?
The main thing is that they make the competitors wear full body condoms so it's all quite safe.
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Sadly no medals for Lilah Fear and Lewis Gibson.
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I felt sorry for them but I liked the Canadian routine to ‘Vincent’, and I don’t know that the Scottish extravaganza ( whilst clearly brilliant) was better than ‘Starry Starry Night’. Still, hopefully they’ll be back. The other GB pair who did a Romeo and Juliet routine look very promising!
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The one time I watch the figure skating 😡. I blame The Proclaimers. At least we weren't 4th.
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The one time I watch the figure skating 😡. I blame The Proclaimers. At least we weren't 4th.
Come on now, we all watched Ravel's Boléro. Even the Irish were cheering on Torvill & Dean.
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The one time I watch the figure skating 😡. I blame The Proclaimers. At least we weren't 4th.
Come on now, we all watched Ravel's Boléro. Even the Irish were cheering on Torvill & Dean.
Before my time. I was probably watching the twists and turns of some mutant turtles.
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Two great slides from Matt Weston in the Skeleton.
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We always seem to do well at Skellington.
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Two great slides from Matt Weston in the Skeleton.
We did well in Skeleton in 2002 when Irishman, Clifton Hugh Lancelot de Verdon Wrottesley, 14th Baronet, 6th Baron Wrottesley, finished 4th in Salt Lake City. Sadly, we've no skin in the game these days.
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Enjoyable carnage in the Snowboard Cross as usual.
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The American seems a twat so will win to annoy me.
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The American seems a twat so will win to annoy me.
Knocked out on a photo finish in the semis 🙂
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VP Saturday...North Italy, Sunday...winter olympic events, Monday and Tuesday! Looking forward to it.
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What are you seeing?
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VP Saturday...North Italy, Sunday...winter olympic events, Monday and Tuesday! Looking forward to it.
Lovely stuff, hope you enjoy it all.
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That's the second time I've heard the commentator say, "he has the patience of a Monterssori school teacher". Grrr!
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I don't get it. Anyway, great final in the Snowboard Cross. Apparently there's a team event this time, too. Lovely stuff.
Enjoy your events, Abbeyfealeavfc!
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Cheers guys! We'll be in Cortina on Monday, taking in the Curling.
On Tuesday we'll be in Predazzo/Tesero for the Nordic Combined.
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IOC ban the Ukrainian but happily selling merch branded with the 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany. ******.
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That's the second time I've heard the commentator say, "he has the patience of a Monterssori school teacher". Grrr!
He's a Villa fan so can be forgiven.
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That's the second time I've heard the commentator say, "he has the patience of a Monterssori school teacher". Grrr!
He's a Villa fan so can be forgiven.
I'm afraid not, I don't have the patience of a Monterssori school teacher.
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What an athlete Klaebo is. He's a machine.
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Two great slides from Matt Weston in the Skeleton.
We did well in Skeleton in 2002 when Irishman, Clifton Hugh Lancelot de Verdon Wrottesley, 14th Baronet, 6th Baron Wrottesley, finished 4th in Salt Lake City. Sadly, we've no skin in the game these days.
Educated at the school of hard knocks?
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Another medal hope goes begging in Snowboard Cross.
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Watching the tea tray from the drone camera following the slider is great for seeing how bonkers the sport is
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If we don't win a medal tonight I'm giving up.
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If you don't, it'll be a Weston-super-Mare.
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Right, here we go. Don't be shit.
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GOLD.
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Absolutely brilliant from him, his final run he was miles ahead of anyone else.
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Track record on the last one. His third track record in four goes.
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Matt took the piss a bit, there.
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They tried to stop us with the helmets as well. Didn't want Matt breaking the sound barrier.
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Well done Matt a class above the rest.
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Matt took the piss a bit, there.
As did the BBC commentator stealing my material. Must be another Villa fan lurking on here. >:(
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The Men's Free Skate final was mad. Falls all over the shop, a Kazakhstani wins gold, and the raging hot favourite from the US finished 8th.
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Heskeyesque on the ice tonight
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Bambi would have won bronze.
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First, brilliant work from Matt Weston.
Second, I can’t be the only one to wish the BBC would play the Darth Vader theme when the phalanx of snowboarding support clears the half pipe in a V formation 👍
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One of my favourite comments from the snowboarding team so far:
‘He’s got to take that run, rip it up and spread it over the kitchen table.’
Closely followed by (I may not have got the right tricks, here):
‘Oooh! Switch rodeo! Cab 12 60 handlebars! Frontside 12 Nosegrab! Oooh! Drunk Driver, switch 14, triple cork, backside 12!
OooOoh! Oh. It was all immaculate until then.’
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Can I just say how much I appreciate an alley oop and the fact that a run has to be clean.
‘They’re germophobes in the judges’ box.’
These guys (Tim Warwood and Ed Leigh, reading across the screen) are the best thing to hit commentating since the last Winter Olympics and I think they also did the skateboarding in the summer Os.
I hope they carry on for a long time, yet.
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Brummie Niall Tracey makes it through to one of the speed skating finals this evening.
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Brummie Niall Tracey makes it through to one of the speed skating finals this evening.
Slipped over in the final and DNF, he was penalised for something via VAR.
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I don't think I could do a sport like speed skating. 4 years build up to have some twat just take you out, there are too many variables. The yanks have barely stayed on their feet at all, they should try skating standing up.
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Britain through to Snowboard Cross doubles final. Another 4th place incoming?
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GOLD. Magic stuff.
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Think that's the first time we have ever won two golds in same winter olympics, and chance in skellington doubles later.
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GOLD. Magic stuff.
That was superb. The bloke just kept us in it and the lady was superb, it was just get over the fiddly stuff at the start then let her superior board speed reel the French lady in. Absolutely crushed it.
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GOLD. Magic stuff.
That was superb. The bloke just kept us in it and the lady was superb, it was just get over the fiddly stuff at the start then let her superior board speed reel the French lady in. Absolutely crushed it.
You’re right, she was quite a distance behind at one point, brilliant win.
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Another medal guaranteed.
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Need a bit of a miracle to get gold or silver.
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Never in doubt.
GOLD!
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Fantastic from Matt Weston
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Pulled that out of the bag
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Weston's run was almost unbelievably fast.
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ANOTHER ONE!!
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I'm really pleased for Banks in the snowboarding, she should been in the mix for the medals in the individual event but just had an awful time of it so to come back and win that today was great for her.
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We don't do silver or bronze!!
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Matt took the piss a bit, there.
Weird just how much better Bankes was at the exact same point in the course than everyone else, she always gained in the same place.
Would be a bit gutting if you were Freya Tarbit and managed the fastest woman's time and not get a medal.
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Enjoyed both gold medal performances yesterday, what a lift!
Shame about the curling today, they were all so confident going into the competition, this year and they have missed out by such narrow margins. The curse of fourth place strikes again.
Our young figure skating pair look promising, they’re up for their long programme this evening.
Another pair (forgot the country) skated to an arrangement of Bolero, yesterday evening. Even with the throws, jumps, twirls and lifts in this discipline, it was nowhere near as good as the original ice dance interpretation by Torvill and Dean. If someone’s getting marks for ‘musicality’ for that, show me the evidence!
The fact that it was their ‘short’ programme says it all, really.
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Kirsty Muir in silver medal position with one freeski big air run left each.
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Down to fourth.
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Fourth again. ☹️
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Fuck
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A return to the Dark Ages with Canadian fans invading the piste.
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Pish day in the curling, too. Should've just ended these Olympics after yesterday.
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The Big Air final was high quality and exciting for the neutral. I though that Lara Wolf was a bit hard done by.
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Rob Walker is doing my fucking head in.
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Looking forward to the 2-man bob. It looks like a German 1-2-3 but will be cheering for Romania, hoping that they continue to overperform.
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Loena, Hendricks Bel ( Belgium?)
What a lovely skater.
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Fuck off, Paralympics.
Six athletes to compete under Russian flag at Paralympics - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/cpv84xy9ydro
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Disgraceful decision by the IOC.
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*IPC.
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*IPC.
I stand corrected. Disgraceful decision by the IPC.
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Ice hockey quarter final. Canada v Czech Republic has been a great game so far.
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Come on Czechia, 3-2 up with 6 mins left.
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Thanks for heads up, could be a massive shock
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Jinxed it of course
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Thanks a bunch, MV. I'd give Prague a miss for the foreseeable future, if I were you.
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If you only learn one word in Czech, I'd go for Promiňte :) Still in this though.
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Boooooo!
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Bollocks
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Playing extra time with fewer players should be adopted in football
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Looks like GBR women won't get the luck of GBR men in the curling.
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Or maybe not. Swiss take 3 in the last top force an extra end, although USA have the final stone in the last one.
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They've still got a (slim) chance.
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USA by an inch.
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Team U-S-A beat Canada in overtime to win the women's ice hockey gold.
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Britain into curling final.
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The women's curling team decided to copy the Villa and not turn up at the start. Gutting. It was an exciting watch though.
Go on the lads!
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Respectable 8th for Ireland's Ben Lynch in the Freeski halfpipe.
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Just the six golds for Klæbo at this Olympics.
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Probably one of the most depressing silver medals I have ever seen given at an Olympics for the curling lads.
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Guaranteed a medal here, and five medals equals our highest ever.
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Bronze.
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If Canada beat Britain in the curling and lose both ice hockey finals to The Great Satan, the useless traitors should be kicked out of the Commonwealth.
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Brilliant save by Team U-S-A's goaltender.
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Fuck off Canada.
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Well done Team U-S-A, great to see the underdog win in the hockey.