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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 17, 2018 - 09:27am PT
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Womens’ 4 x 5K relay won by Norskis over Sverige by 2 seconds!
All is right in the world. 🤪
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nah000
climber
now/here
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Feb 17, 2018 - 10:12am PT
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MH wrote: If you remove the non-sports, such as curling, things which although athletic can't be objectively measured (figure skating), or where there's a major random element (short track skating), and the professional team sports such as ice hockey, Norway dominates even more emphatically.
which leaves only cross country and alpine skiing, long track speed skating, ski jumping and biathalon, and the tobogonning sports.
cause that’s kind of the thing about the winter olympics: as an international spectacle it’s very contrived...
i mean really, how many of the sports have enough international amateur participation to consider them to even some degree actual international sports?
curling and hockey are basically canadian sports.
cross country is a norwegian sport.
the tobogonning sports are basically only german.
long track speed skating is dutch.
ski jumping and biathalon are basically norwegian and german.
and short track speed skating is really just a made up sport that doesn’t have a significant base anywhere... :)
which means, off the cuff i’ll argue there’s basically only figure skating, alpine skiing and snowboarding that are actual internationally [or at least northern nation] contested endeavours...
point being the winter olympics are just a handful of northern nations getting together to put on exhibitions of their national sports while taking on a few outliers from other nations... :)
still fun though!
and that 15s or so look of confusion from that snowboard racer come alpine gold winner trying to figure out, as she said in an interview after, whether she had missed a gate or if there had been a timing error? freaking high-larious! especially as i don’t think anyone without a stop watch would have seen that coming either, given the what appeared to be at least a couple significant speed sluffing errrors in her run...
i can’t recall ever seeing such a complete and total surprise win before: she said her coaches were aiming for a top 15 finish and she thought that was overly ambitious... hahahahaha.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 17, 2018 - 10:17am PT
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cross country is a norwegian sport.
Uh, a few million Swedes and Finns would whoop yer ass for that! 😉
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nah000
climber
now/here
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Feb 17, 2018 - 10:18am PT
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^^^^
hahaha... i figured that one might rile a few people here or there...
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Feb 17, 2018 - 01:07pm PT
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With figure skating gaining in popularity it's only a matter of time before ice fishing becomes an olympic sport...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 18, 2018 - 08:32am PT
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Norge 26
USA 10
THIS JUST IN:
Alexander Krushelnitsky, a bronze-medalist along with his wife in mixed-doubles curling, is suspected of having tested positive for meldonium, the source said. Meldonium increases blood flow which improves exercise capacity in athletes.
What kinda dope dopes for curling?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 18, 2018 - 09:05am PT
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BJ, I should dig out a pic of the FOUR of us on one pair of XC skis! We were testing for K2,
when they still were in the XC game. There was a fun 4 x something relay so we got them
to agree we only had to do one lap. It took a while to hit our ‘stride’ but we won, going away!
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Feb 18, 2018 - 10:02am PT
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^^ Thanks, Marlow! The video I posted earlier was a race from 2017!
Unfortunately, your video is not viewable in the US. I'd like to see it.
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Feb 18, 2018 - 12:09pm PT
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The Norwegians are winning so many medals because they heard Trump.
They figure if they're norwegians AND have hardware= no wall.
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Feb 18, 2018 - 12:10pm PT
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Norwegians are Trump's kind of people, you know... We're Trump's kind of people... good guys...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 18, 2018 - 03:35pm PT
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I’m sorry but Fourcade and Schempp shoulda each gotten a gold today.
Not fair or in the spirit of the games.
Great finish by Svendsen. If only he could shoot.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Feb 18, 2018 - 03:41pm PT
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Norge men win 4x10 relay....woo..!!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Feb 18, 2018 - 04:56pm PT
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^^^^^ And wazzup with France? Izzit the Evian or are they watchin’ Vegard Ulvang vids
in school? Third in the relay ahead of Finland and Sverige? What’s this world coming to?
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Feb 18, 2018 - 05:16pm PT
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Reilly.. I agree...The French can't win the Tour but they kick booty on x-country skis..go figure..
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sween345
climber
back east
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Feb 18, 2018 - 07:00pm PT
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T Hocking
My son and I rode the Lake Placid bobsled a few years back. It's open to the public and cost $40 when we did it. I think it's $75 now.
You watch a safety film, saddle up between the driver and the brakeman(locals) and bob on down half a mile of the one mile track. You're in there pretty snug as you wrap your legs around the guy in front of you. You can move your head to the left or right to get a limited view of what's coming. Your shoulders take a lot of the banging from the short quick turns shaking you around. It was over in about 34 seconds.
They had some type of cage arrangement on the luge if you wanted to ride that but I didn't get a good look at it.
Then, if you're feelin frisky you can hit the ski jump.
There's two options.
Snowless
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Or soft and wet
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Risk
Mountain climber
Formerly TMJesse
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Feb 18, 2018 - 09:38pm PT
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Blackout for those that decline cable. Are the olympics still going on? NBC is sure successful in their blocking content in the US.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Feb 18, 2018 - 09:42pm PT
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That men's 15k biathlon had a great finish.
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F
climber
away from the ground
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Feb 18, 2018 - 10:33pm PT
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Abramenko had a great jump, but Jia was better IMHO. Men’s aerial was sick.
How can the fairy dance on skates be in the same games? Wtf?
Will the women’s aerials be as impressive?
Only Warbler knows...
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