Russia banned.Quite like the Winter Olympics, hopefully some of the better events will be at the weekend as the timezone isn't great for us.Intend to watch the skellington and curling in the hope of seeing some British medallists and the bobsleigh, ski cross and snowboard cross and speedskating for general interest (not sure if we are likely to win medals in any of this). Won't be watching the ice skating as it is shite.
Quote from: cdbullyweefan on December 05, 2017, 07:03:18 PMRussia banned.Quite like the Winter Olympics, hopefully some of the better events will be at the weekend as the timezone isn't great for us.Intend to watch the skellington and curling in the hope of seeing some British medallists and the bobsleigh, ski cross and snowboard cross and speedskating for general interest (not sure if we are likely to win medals in any of this). Won't be watching the ice skating as it is shite.Speedskating (women) is one of our better medal chances with Elise Christie, she'll be very disappointed if she's not in the mix for a medal I'd think.
Quote from: cdbullyweefan on December 05, 2017, 07:03:18 PMWon't be watching the ice skating as it is shite.but will avoid the ice skating (non-speed variety). As I've covered before, I don't think that such events should be in the main Olympics. There should be a separate Competitive Arts Olympics for that kind on thing.
Won't be watching the ice skating as it is shite.
Quote from: UK Redsox on December 06, 2017, 05:31:13 PMQuote from: cdbullyweefan on December 05, 2017, 07:03:18 PMWon't be watching the ice skating as it is shite.but will avoid the ice skating (non-speed variety). As I've covered before, I don't think that such events should be in the main Olympics. There should be a separate Competitive Arts Olympics for that kind on thing.Absolutely. Any "sport" that requires judges casting scores to determine the winner can fuck off. I think I read something once where someone said that the Olympic motto should be "Faster, Further, More"
Transparent judging? Bullshit.
Quote from: Comrade Blitz on December 07, 2017, 12:26:50 PMTransparent judging? Bullshit. I said moving towards, which is undeniably true if you compare the 2016 olympics to, for example, Barcelona. You also didn't answer me on whether you included Boxing, what about the various wrestling and martial arts competitions, they're all judged (with criteria to look for) so do they go as well?
Quote from: paul_e on December 07, 2017, 02:16:27 PMQuote from: Comrade Blitz on December 07, 2017, 12:26:50 PMTransparent judging? Bullshit. I said moving towards, which is undeniably true if you compare the 2016 olympics to, for example, Barcelona. You also didn't answer me on whether you included Boxing, what about the various wrestling and martial arts competitions, they're all judged (with criteria to look for) so do they go as well?They are all summer sports. We'll have to discuss this in the Tokyo 2020 thread when it comes on board. This is a Winter Olympics thread for Winter Olympics people.
Quote from: paul_e on December 05, 2017, 07:52:59 PMQuote from: cdbullyweefan on December 05, 2017, 07:03:18 PMRussia banned.Quite like the Winter Olympics, hopefully some of the better events will be at the weekend as the timezone isn't great for us.Intend to watch the skellington and curling in the hope of seeing some British medallists and the bobsleigh, ski cross and snowboard cross and speedskating for general interest (not sure if we are likely to win medals in any of this). Won't be watching the ice skating as it is shite.Speedskating (women) is one of our better medal chances with Elise Christie, she'll be very disappointed if she's not in the mix for a medal I'd think.Ah, I'd forgotten about her. I don't know much about the sport but she seemed to be very harshly treated last time, was getting disqualified for nothing in every event she entered.