Winter Olympics

Beezerk said:
Still not feeling "stoked" about the Olympics then LT ;)
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Haven't seen any of it so far. Normally I like the skiing events, a bit of ice hockey and that's it but I've not caught any of the highlights at this stage. Not feeling the love for it so far but there is time yet :D.

Still enjoying teenagers pratting about on snowboards? What would Franz Klammer say? Ha ha, showing my age there.
 
MegaSteve said:
Not sure I am seeing the appeal of the two man luge....
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Haha! We were just talking about that in the office.
"so what do you do?"
"I lie on a stretcher, and another man lies on top of me, and we chuck ourselves down a slide at 100mph"

I think the guy on the top does the steering, so I'm not sure what role the man underneath plays really. Perhaps his job is just to be as soft and comfortable as possible for the man lying on top of him? :rofl:
 
Orikoru said:
It's been on the TVs at work. Some proper weird sports in it. How do you decide that what you want to do in life is lie down on a stretcher and hurl yourself down a tube at 70mph? Or slide some rocks around on the ice while sweeping it with a broom? Crazy stuff.
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Not really that much weirder than just smacking a little white ball around in a big field?
 
A friend of mine competed in the 2-man and 4-man bobsleigh at the 2010 Winter Olympics. It seriously gets you involved when it's someone you know. I'd arranged for him to be on American radio talking about how he had never crashed in competition and this was his last event. Naturally he crashed in both events.

Not watched anything of this Olympics. With none of the NHL players being there, the hockey is crap. I'm sticking to watching the real thing from the States.
 
So, the figure skating is on right now, and this couple are the favourites to win the gold medal for Germany. But the woman is Ukrainian and the bloke is French. How does that work?
 
Orikoru said:
What's the point though? Olympics is meant to be about which country has the best athletes isn't it? How can Germany get a medal for the efforts of a Ukrainian and a Frenchman?
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Have your seen the England rugby team, cricket team, GB tennis players ...................... ? I happen to agree with you, it is a nonsense, but it is happening all over sport now. Sports people are attracted by who has the funding. National sports bodies are attracted by glory, even false glory.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Have your seen the England rugby team, cricket team, GB tennis players ...................... ?
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Honestly, no. :rofl:
I happen to agree with you, it is a nonsense, but it is happening all over sport now. Sports people are attracted by who has the funding. National sports bodies are attracted by glory, even false glory.
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Yeah it seems to render the entire thing pointless to me. Why compete for the best nation if the people competing aren't from that nation? Would be amazing if we could draft in De Gea, Vertonghen & De Bruyne for the England World Cup squad this summer but it wouldn't really mean very much if we won then.
 
Orikoru said:
Honestly, no. :rofl:
Yeah it seems to render the entire thing pointless to me. Why compete for the best nation if the people competing aren't from that nation? Would be amazing if we could draft in De Gea, Vertonghen & De Bruyne for the England World Cup squad this summer but it wouldn't really mean very much if we won then.
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The cricket team have been picking S.African and New Zealand born players for years who meet the qualifying period, usually a residency of x number of years. The rugby team have brought in the big lads from the South Sea Islands, the current captain was born in New Zealand. Kyle Edmund was born in S.Africa, Johanna Konta was born, raised and represented Australia.

All very dispiriting. Not quite the Corinthian spirit.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
The cricket team have been picking S.African and New Zealand born players for years who meet the qualifying period, usually a residency of x number of years. The rugby team have brought in the big lads from the South Sea Islands, the current captain was born in New Zealand. Kyle Edmund was born in S.Africa, Johanna Konta was born, raised and represented Australia.

All very dispiriting. Not quite the Corinthian spirit.
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Ah yes, I did know about those two tennis players now you mention it. I thought the same about Rusedski back in the day, he was Canadian. Say what you like about football but at least they have something right, the rules about which country you play for a quite tight these days. Must have a relative from the country, etc, and you can't switch nations as you fancy. (Unlike back in the 40s & 50s when Di Stefano played for three different countries, haha.)
 
It has too many sports resolved by "votes" from judges for my liking............ a bit like the outcome of golf decided on actual score plus "style points!"

That said, I was in a hotel this week where snow boarding (in the half pipe) was on the TV in the breakfast room..... crikey, that's blooming impressive!!
 
Lord Tyrion said:
The cricket team have been picking S.African and New Zealand born players for years who meet the qualifying period, usually a residency of x number of years. The rugby team have brought in the big lads from the South Sea Islands, the current captain was born in New Zealand. Kyle Edmund was born in S.Africa, Johanna Konta was born, raised and represented Australia.

All very dispiriting. Not quite the Corinthian spirit.
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I agree,

Great comeback from the Scots girls at the curling though. ;)
 
Boardercross was indeed fantastic. I’ve always enjoyed the Winter Olympics most but the “extreme” boarding events that’ve been added in recent games has taken it all up a level.
 
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