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[Choop]

what i don't get about the sports split between summer and winter is why so many indoor sports are for the summer when the reason they're indoor sports is because winter

table tennis
fencing
wrestling
etc.

those are good games that should be at the winter olympics, not the summer ones

(i'm also a dude who thinks all the olympics should happen the same year the way they did when i was a kid)

[pmcd9]

I was enjoying the bobsled competition tonight until NBC turned the event into a commercial for BMW causing me to actively root against the Americans. Thanks for that NBC.

Also, tonight during the ice dancing competition the announcer referred to the skaters synchronicity. I don't think that word means what he thinks it means.

[jaydub]

Ice dancing is one of those things that make me wonder why its an Olympic event.  Like synchronized swimming in the summer games.  There's nothing faster, higher, or stronger about it.  It's like pairs skating to the oldies with wimpier lifts and no jumps.  It is certainly remarkable to watch when its done well, though.

[greenkoolayd]

my wife and i were watching the mens skeleton event the other evening:

me- look at that dude's amazing thighs!
wife-look at that dude's olympic bulge.  no wonder its on this late at night.
[[laughter]]

[Choop]

until tonight i'd managed to avoid all the figure skating events. i've been enjoying the speed skating, skiing, and sledding events. i just saw the last bit of the ice dancing long dance whatever and i will always and forever hate it because of the terms "twizzles" and "knee steps" i mean stop it, you're making up words for things that have them already ugh you

[Ben-San]

So the other night after some ski stuff the NBC interviewer asked Bode Miller if he was doing it for his dead brother, and he was kind of noncommittal, and they pressed the question and he just kind of collapsed into his forearm. And then they just left the camera on him for way too long, just everyone being silent while a grown-ass man weeps and wants them to go away.

God the fuck*ng damn NBC what the fuck are you even doing.

[wombat]

Not that I would call that journalism but it's no wonder people hate journalists. Fuck that shit, seriously.

[pmcd9]

Ice dancing is one of those things that make me wonder why its an Olympic event.  Like synchronized swimming in the summer games.  There's nothing faster, higher, or stronger about it.  It's like pairs skating to the oldies with wimpier lifts and no jumps.  It is certainly remarkable to watch when its done well, though.

I'm certain they only gave this event so much prominence because the American's were favorites.

[wombat]

Maybe I'm losing my mind, but the dance used to be the only thing I didn't like in figure skating, but it seemed a little more interesting this time.  I only watched a few, though, so it didn't have that much time to start grating on me.

[Carlos del Vaca]

My plan to stay off of social media yesterday afternoon so I could watch the US-Canada women's hockey game didn't go very well. Around 3 PM, without thinking about it, I went to Facebook, and immediately knew from posts by Canadian friends how the game turned out. Thinking it will be impossible to do it today for the US-Canada semi-final.

[CortJstr]

Several people in my section weren't even pretending to work from noon-3ish yesterday. Or today.