2026 Winter Olympics Milano-Cortina

[Exeter 77]

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.

[Brazilian Villain]

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.

[Brazilian Villain]

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.

[paul_e]

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.

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

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 😎.

[andyh]

I watched the luge last night.
Whilst it is undeniably dangerous, bloody hell it looks a bleak, soulless pastime.

[manic-road]

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.

[andyh]

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.

[paul_e]

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).

[Louzie0]

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!

[Somniloquism]

Vonn apparently fractured her leg with the crash. It might have happened anyway but I wonder if the knee brace made it a certainty.

[Louzie0]

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!)