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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 14, 2018 - 08:18pm PT
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But no Egyptians? A pity.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Feb 14, 2018 - 08:43pm PT
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They're missing the boat by not having a mass start format for the downhill event.... Egyptians be damned...
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Feb 14, 2018 - 08:45pm PT
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Gold medal final preview game tonite, in Canada/U.S. women's hockey. Will the U.S. finally win their first ever gold?
The American women won the first ever gold medal in womens ice hockey at the 1998 Nagano Olympics.
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Feb 14, 2018 - 08:48pm PT
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They're missing the boat by not having a mass start format for the downhill event.... Egyptians be damned...
That's called the Chinese Downhill. The rules? There are no rules in the Chinese Downhill!
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John M
climber
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Feb 14, 2018 - 09:03pm PT
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I like that the women aren't allowed to body check. More stick skills are required.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Feb 14, 2018 - 09:12pm PT
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ZBrown...I just won a free stay at the Westin in Mar Lago with Stormy Daniels...you shoulda answered the Ring...
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Feb 14, 2018 - 09:15pm PT
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Dang
They call it stormy Monday
But Tuesday's just as bad
They call it stormy Monday
But Tuesday's just as bad
Lord, and Wednesday's worse
And Thursday's all so bad
The eagle flies on Friday
Saturday I go out to play
The eagle flies on Friday
Saturday I go out to play
Sunday I go to church, yeah
Gonna kneel down and pray
Lord have mercy
Lord have mercy on me
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John M
climber
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Feb 14, 2018 - 09:30pm PT
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Canada wins 2-1 against the US women in Hockey. what a game! Very fun to watch. Hard fought through out the game. They should meet in the gold medal game. That will be intense. It was hard to choose between the women's giant slalom and this game.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Feb 14, 2018 - 09:32pm PT
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FEAR NOT DINGUS...There's always the Stormy Go pro crotch shots...
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BruceHildenbrand
Social climber
Mountain View/Boulder
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Feb 14, 2018 - 09:46pm PT
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Shiffrin is golden!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Feb 14, 2018 - 09:55pm PT
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Well there are transponders on the half pipe riders. How about some boot cams on the skiers.
Lose the music and just go live (with of course some cowbells and yodeling in the background
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmw1hgPw2_s
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nah000
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now/here
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Feb 14, 2018 - 10:36pm PT
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i don't see how that pairs figure skating final [that happened tonight] doesn't end up being a candidate for one of the most poetic events that is going to come out of these olympics.
a 34 yr old, five time olympian [with "only" two bronze olympic medals - despite her five world championships] decides to keep on keepin on after her former partner of eleven years decides to retire.
and then she and her new french partner [who had to pay 30k euros to be released by the french figure skating mafia/association so he could skate with savchenko for germany... hahaha] manages to set a new world record in the free skate, and due to some bobbles with the two leading pairs, succeeds in jumping from fourth after the short program to gold...
figure skating has to be some of the pinnacle of human athletic potential... :)
and the commentary has to be one of the nadirs of olympic coverage... it's like could you insufferable drop out arts school snob commentators just shut the fUck up until the programs are finished and let us watch this beautiful combination of human emotion/art/culture and athletic potential, that these folks have trained a lifetime to attempt to pull off?
apparently not...
hahahaha.
oh well: haven't seen a figure skating final as filled with that much naturally generated drams in a long, long time.
congrats to aliona savchenko [and her partner]... that was a thing of human beauty.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
Wilds of New Mexico
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Feb 15, 2018 - 07:55am PT
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I'm mostly a ski racing (alpine and nordic) and hockey type of olympic fan and have always sort of ignored figure skating. I sat down with my daughter last night cause she likes it and was blown away by the finals! It's unbelievable what they pull off. I'm suddenly a big fan!
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Feb 16, 2018 - 09:28pm PT
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The ice prancing would be more interesting if it were done to snowboard music, instead of opera and classical.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 16, 2018 - 09:40pm PT
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Medal count:
Norway (pop - 5 million) 19
USA (pop - 325 million) 8
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John M
climber
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Feb 16, 2018 - 09:56pm PT
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A SNOWBOARDER WON THE WOMEN'S SUPER G !
Ester Ledecka from the Czech Republic raced 26th. She was not expected to medal. She is a champion in snowboarding. NBC had already declared another skier the gold medal winner (Austria's Anna Veith ended up getting silver ) and cut away from the race. They had to come back to show it after it happened. Thats one of the things thats been bothering me about the coverage. They only showed something like 12 of the men's downhill races. So this young woman won gold and she did it on American skier Mikaela Shiffrin’s skis who decided not to do the GS race because the races got pushed together because of weather.
Lindsey Vonn finished 5th.. She raced first and had a great run, but made one mistake right near the end.
Love it.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 16, 2018 - 10:07pm PT
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Yeah, they want it, badly. I remember last time I was there it was October. It was like 8C
and raining. I was in the middle of nowhere (between Åndalsnes and Ålesund) and there
was this kid on his roller skis hammering up this hill miles from nowhere. Whoa!
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WBraun
climber
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Feb 16, 2018 - 10:18pm PT
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So this young woman won gold and she did it on American skier Mikaela Shiffrin’s skis
That IS sooo fuking cool.
Maybe Mikaela's awesome aura was carried on those skis ........
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Feb 17, 2018 - 06:01am PT
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Ester Ledecka was absolutely clueless that she had won the gold. She wasn't even remotely in the running. For a few minutes she was totally unable to comprehend what they were telling her. The look on her face was priceless.
Those Euros who have been training specifically for this event for 4 years may beat her sensless if they catch her in a dark alley. ;)
@ Hocking: Well, arguably... it does take a wee bit of physical skill beyond the "art" to pull off 5 quadruple jumps while standing on one leg...(and they have made the scoring system a bit less subjective than past decades IMO) ...but we'll agree figure skating isn't a "sport" in the proper sense.
and don't get me started on Synchronized Swimming. ;)
I for one am grateful they got rid of that dreadful ski ballet.
Dumbest "sport" ever.
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