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Post by Psalms on Feb 7, 2022 11:00:24 GMT
Gold Silver Bronze Total Medal count . . (Total Medals 2/6/2022, Right Column) 1Sweden 3 0 0 3 2ROC 2 2 2 6 3Netherlands 2 1 1 4 4Germany 2 1 0 3 5Norway 2 0 2 4 6Canada 1 1 2 4 6Japan 1 1 2 4 8China 1 1 0 2 9Australia 1 0 1 2 9Slovenia 1 0 1 2 9Switzerland 1 0 1 2 12New Zealand 1 0 0 1 13Italy 0 3 1 4 14France 0 3 0 3 14United States 0 3 0 3
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Post by Psalms on Feb 7, 2022 11:13:24 GMT
www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/sports/olympics/russia-figure-skating.htmlWearing a purple, flowing dress that made her look like Disney princess, Valieva, 15, easily won the short program on Sunday, landing each of her jumps softly, as if trying not to wake a sleeping baby, and floating through her program without showing even a hint of effort. She received seven perfect scores for artistry (and not one of those came from a Russian judge).
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Post by mids on Feb 7, 2022 12:50:52 GMT
I have yet to sample these games.
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Post by happyhammerhead on Feb 7, 2022 13:00:10 GMT
Did the teenage girl awake your interest?
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Post by flatandy on Feb 7, 2022 13:09:17 GMT
I've watched little fractions of it so far. US TV loves to focus on figure skating - which is rubbish to watch - so I tend to give it a miss. They don't do a nice wide sweep of lots of events like the BBC (used to, at least). But I did manage to catch some badly edited highlights of the mens luge, which was kind of fun. And some moguls skiing which is absolutely daft and looks like it'll just trash your knees. And a handful of runs of slopestyle snowboard, where most of the women fell over. None of these are really great sports to watch. Too much artistic merit stuff, and the actual racing is time trialling so you don't get the drama of people actually chasing each other. I sadly missed the cross-country skiing thing that the British athlete whined was too crazy and hard.
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Post by mids on Feb 7, 2022 13:27:10 GMT
Did the teenage girl awake your interest? Is there a teenage girl? To what end?
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Post by ootlg on Feb 7, 2022 13:44:02 GMT
Don't watch it. Not interested in it. Don't like China. Don't like fake snow. It's all sh*t. Bah.
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Post by Psalms on Feb 7, 2022 14:01:33 GMT
I did notice that she's Russian . . does that bother you, too?
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Post by Psalms on Feb 7, 2022 15:59:42 GMT
i imagine mogul skiing training over the years would destroy the knees later on in life. probably lots of knee surgeries. BIG womens hockey match tonight. #1 vs #2 When I see joggers, 30 yrs to maybe 50, all I see are knee replacement surgeries in their future, especially when they jog on pavement. And then the ones who jog in a city - breathing in all that pollution deep into their lungs, cancer might be next for them, too.
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Post by flatandy on Feb 7, 2022 18:05:02 GMT
I tried curling once. I kept falling over. I have no idea how Canadians do it drunk.
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Post by voice on Feb 7, 2022 18:19:45 GMT
Being drunk is the only way you could do it, the Scottish invented it remember
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Post by Marshall on Feb 7, 2022 18:27:17 GMT
Curling is the whitest sport ever.
In fact, if you see someone curling who isn't white it's called "sweeping the floor."
(Bill Maher)
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Post by Psalms on Feb 7, 2022 18:41:21 GMT
Curling is the whitest sport ever. In fact, if you see someone curling who isn't white it's called "sweeping the floor." (Bill Maher) Spewed coffee through my nose on that one !
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Post by Psalms on Feb 7, 2022 18:43:02 GMT
Are there any black hockey players ?
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Post by Marshall on Feb 7, 2022 18:57:57 GMT
Don't watch it much but I know there is one at least.
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Post by Psalms on Feb 8, 2022 11:10:27 GMT
I'm surprised there were so many - never noticed any on the occasional games I've seen
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Post by Marshall on Feb 9, 2022 1:53:31 GMT
Haven't been able to watch any of it so far, but I did like the picture of the ski jump beside the nuclear reactor silos. Nice planning there.
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Feb 10, 2022 10:09:50 GMT
Russians are at it again.
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Post by mids on Feb 10, 2022 10:46:04 GMT
Are they threatening to invade the curling pitch?
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Post by flatandy on Feb 10, 2022 12:08:59 GMT
Russians are at it again. I am shocked, shocked to find gambling is going on in here.
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