PyeongChang 2018

[manic-road]

Well done to Dom Parsons on getting a bronze in men's skeleton.

[cdbearsfan]

How come we are so good at skellington? Anyway, well done Dom Parsons. Ladies' skellington starts later and we have two medal prospects, I believe.

[paul_e]

How come we are so good at skellington? Anyway, well done Dom Parsons. Ladies' skellington starts later and we have two medal prospects, I believe.

It's because of 2 things:

1. 90% of the practice can be done without going on an actual 'run' with a huge amount of the training being focused on the start so you work on short sprints and then the entry phase of getting onto the board. After that you can only really work on balance and technique without being on the actual course you'll be racing on.  As it's so easy to spot flaws 1-2 runs (in Germany for us usually) can give them a month or more of training focus and technical work.  That means we can train in the UK, which is rare for winter olympic sports.  Unsurprisingly the other events where we do ok (curling and speed skating currently) are indoors which again, means we can practice year round from the UK.

2. A lot of the equipment and back office support can be easily adapted from track cycling, the helmets, boards and suits are all manufactured by the same company and they share a lot of resources on top of that.

[paul_e]

Snowboarding X.

Fecking hell !!!
Brilliant.

That’s all I have to say on the matter.

I've spent all week trying to get my kids to watch something from it and that's the first event that they actually enjoyed, the semi-final where the french guy limped over in a distant 3rd (before winning the final) was the best, the kids were going crazy when the 3 of them got taken out on the corner.

As I said to my wife, the best events are where people compete against each other rather than a clock or a scoreboard and in the Winters there just aren't enough sports like that, which is why it has such a small following compared to the Summers.

[UK Redsox]

Ski X is even better because it has more arms and legs all over the place

Watched some of the Women's Slalom this morning. Great effort by Katharina Gallhuber to win bronze

[cdbearsfan]

Half-Brummie Isabel Atkin claims our second bronze, in the slopestyle skiing.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Haven’t seen any Bobsleigh yet and that’s the best event.

[UK Redsox]

Haven’t seen any Bobsleigh yet and that’s the best event.

I think that the bobsleigh comes after the tea-tray stuff is all finished. I think that it's to do with the track getting cut up

[andyh]

Christie out again.
She must have broken an awful lot of mirrors.

[cdbearsfan]

WORLD SKELLINGTON CHAMPIONS!!!

[ADVILLAFAN]

First and Third, pretty good going 

[Tayls_7]

Christie out again.
She must have broken an awful lot of mirrors.

She definitely must have. And she's having bad luck at the Olympics.

[UK Redsox]

WORLD SKELLINGTON CHAMPIONS!!!

Julian Cope has already released the celebratory album




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[UK Redsox]

One sport that should be added for the next WO is downhill ice-skating/cross (currently marketed as 'Crashed Ice' on TV)

Properly mental

[UK Redsox]

Two Man Bob was superb.

Germany and Canadia tie for gold. Latvia only five hundredths behind