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Good first day for Germany, thanks for the thread!
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some good Olympics humour. Seinfeld is the gold medal winner for comedy.
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Excited to see a former friend of mine is in the women’s luge for the USA team - Emily Sweeney. She’s been training for as long as I can remember and would spend most of the school year at the training facility in Lake Placid. Really cool girl, Sergeant in the army too.
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On February 11 2018 06:56 vult wrote:
Excited to see a former friend of mine is in the women’s luge for the USA team - Emily Sweeney. She’s been training for as long as I can remember and would spend most of the school year at the training facility in Lake Placid. Really cool girl, Sergeant in the army too.
Oh nice I hope she does well
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On February 11 2018 06:56 vult wrote:
Excited to see a former friend of mine is in the women’s luge for the USA team - Emily Sweeney. She’s been training for as long as I can remember and would spend most of the school year at the training facility in Lake Placid. Really cool girl, Sergeant in the army too.
a girl a few years ahead of me from my high school who was quite hot became a hurdler. super sexy at 18... she quickly evolved into a female version of Yoel Romero after gobbling up every steroid known to man. i think she won a medal or two though and never tested positive. Priscilla Lopes.
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On February 11 2018 07:21 JimmyJRaynor wrote:Show nested quote +On February 11 2018 06:56 vult wrote:
Excited to see a former friend of mine is in the women’s luge for the USA team - Emily Sweeney. She’s been training for as long as I can remember and would spend most of the school year at the training facility in Lake Placid. Really cool girl, Sergeant in the army too. a girl a few years ahead of me from my high school who was quite hot became a hurdler. super sexy at 18... she quickly evolved into a female version of Yoel Romero after gobbling up every steroid known to man. i think she won a medal or two though. Priscilla Lopes.
Yeah Sweeney is pretty cute too
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yea, she is.
imo, the speed skaters are the hottest. Cindy Klassen is a goddess among women. 
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On February 11 2018 07:40 JimmyJRaynor wrote:yea, she is. imo, the speed skaters are the hottest. Cindy Klassen is a goddess among women.
We cannot be looking at the same woman. Unless you meant female speed skaters are the hottest in general and Cindy Klassen is a goddess of the sport. ... Otherwise I think we have very very different tastes.
So is this thread going to turn into "who is the hottest female competing athlete at the event thread"? lol..
I tried to watch Sweden vs. Japan ice hockey.. I should have been doing uni stuff.. It was pretty pathetic. That can't be Sweden's A team.. They are ranked 4th but if that's the best they have they have no chance against Canada/USA..
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On February 11 2018 10:31 MyTHicaL wrote:
That can't be Sweden's A team.. They are ranked 4th but if that's the best they have they have no chance against Canada/USA..
Sweden is the only team to knock-off either of Canada or US to win a Silver in this event.
Every other gold and silver has been won by Canada and the USA in the history of this event.
Sweden beat the US in 2006 and won the Silver. The crying and moaning and finger-pointing amongst the US women was pretty entertaining stuff. Tony Granato's sister or cousin or whatever.. Cammie.. went after the US Olympic Hockey committee hard after that loss.
I think the female goalie considered to be #1 in the world is Finnish. This basically gives Finland the designation of "goalie team". i'd say Finland has a small shot at beating the far superior Canadians or Americans if their goalie stands on her head.
On February 11 2018 10:31 MyTHicaL wrote:
We cannot be looking at the same woman.
obviously, taste is subjective. When Klassen won all her medals she had an amazing 10/10 body. i don't know if she has gotten fat since then. The problem i have is the women i think have the nicest bodies are also only 6 weeks away from gaining 60 lbs. Most of the figure skaters i thought were super hot 10 years ago are all fat now.
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Our ice dance short duo lived up to the hype it seems.
17 year old American wins gold in men's slopestyle snowboard.
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such a lack of interest in winter sports on TL? :o
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I like ski jumping. Yesterday's competition was a real nail biter. Sick 2nd jump by Wellinger and a well deserved win. He's also a pretty down to earth guy - a typical role model for younger athletes.
Other than that: If you're into pretty women I'd recommend watching women's curling. Especially the scandinavian teams are hot. 
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Fourcade and Bø failed hard at Biathlon... Very surprising that Peiffer won, but good for Germany! 0 misses for the win, just like Dahlmeier.
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Austria won gold in Luge :D
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Loch, one of the if not THE goat not even medalling after 3 perfect runs beforehand (and a nice advantage over everyone else) is definitely one of the most surprising things in the history of the winter olympics. Sadly not in a good way
Edit: With that result Loch has also dropped out of the team event
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I usually don't watch it as I find it boring, but Loch made the only grave mistake that was easy to notice. Grats Austria! Now that Ski-Jumping isn't working out for you anymore, it helps. That said, Marcel Hirscher is gonna grab 2-3 more gold medals.
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apparently, marie philip poulin is the best female hockey player in the world.
the team canada uniforms do nothing for me.
they should really consider male referees for these women's hockey games. the women referees are slow, change directions slowly and are out of position a lot.
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Why in the hell is there couple curling?
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moar medals, i think they aimed for 100+ events this year.
midget curling next olympics.
USA has "Monday Night Football"
Canada has "Monday Night Curling"
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They could add Ski flying if they need one more event. :D Could even make a team event for that for another one! Problem is most countries would need to create a ski flying takeoff ramp for that.
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i know snowboarding wasn't always an event. was quite exciting to watch. i recall the X-games fondly.
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basketball should be in the winter olympics.
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On February 12 2018 00:46 HolydaKing wrote:
They could add Ski flying if they need one more event. :D Could even make a team event for that for another one! Problem is most countries would need to create a ski flying takeoff ramp for that.
I believe there are like 5 ski flying hills in the world in total. At the moment, I would bet my money on there being a mixed normal hill event soon.
Afaik the IOC basically decided that all new events/sports must be open to men and women equally, and as lond as women havent started with ski flying yet, that's a nother reason why it is not going to happen.
On February 11 2018 22:43 TheNewEra wrote:
Loch, one of the if not THE goat not even medalling after 3 perfect runs beforehand (and a nice advantage over everyone else) is definitely one of the most surprising things in the history of the winter olympics. Sadly not in a good way
Edit: With that result Loch has also dropped out of the team event
From what I heard any nation can nominate their luge relay team according to whatever criteria they like to apply. So Loch might not be officially out yet, but it is at the very least a selection headache now.
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On February 12 2018 00:28 Nakajin wrote:
Why in the hell is there couple curling?
because we need more medals
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Mens ice hockey begins soon. Go Finland!
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Japan one silver, two bronze today! W00t!
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I was reading that the womens snowboarding event had some really high winds such that it was probably dangerous conditions, anyone have any idea why this wasnt postponed?
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I could be wrong but I believe it was already postponed then the organizers eventually decided that it was good enough. It was a struggle for most just to complete their run. Some events got postponed multiple days. Dunno why they this one was different.
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I am guessing they didn't want to take the risk of having all of the event postone at the same date and slopestyle is bit less impacted by the wind compare to dowhill where there is a very high risk of serious injuries. But they should prorably have postpone it, it was a shit show, almost no one managed to do all the jumps
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On February 12 2018 23:42 Luolis wrote:
Mens ice hockey begins soon. Go Finland!
Canada versus Finland in 12.5 hours in women's hockey. Finland has the best goalie.
this will be at 2:40 AM E.S.T.
no one is going to watch it in Canada.
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On February 13 2018 04:19 JimmyJRaynor wrote:Show nested quote +On February 12 2018 23:42 Luolis wrote:
Mens ice hockey begins soon. Go Finland! Canada versus Finland in 12.5 hours in women's hockey. Finland has the best goalie. this will be at 2:40 AM E.S.T. no one is going to watch it in Canada.
Well im gonna be sleeping too, i have a bad flu.Finland vs Sweden on sunday for mens hockey is where its at.
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On February 13 2018 03:35 Nakajin wrote:
I am guessing they didn't want to take the risk of having all of the event postone at the same date and slopestyle is bit less impacted by the wind compare to dowhill where there is a very high risk of serious injuries. But they should prorably have postpone it, it was a shit show, almost no one managed to do all the jumps
It was quite an amusing shit show at times though. It came down to whoever managed to change her trick midair after the wind blew her off course. For US viewers, the final drama came when the announcers weren't sure whether one of the Canadians was going to get an extra try while the winner was doing her glory run. I'm guessing they were just mistaken because it would be stupid to give the Canadian an extra try after the winner already blew her second run.
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On February 13 2018 08:08 andrewlt wrote:Show nested quote +On February 13 2018 03:35 Nakajin wrote:
I am guessing they didn't want to take the risk of having all of the event postone at the same date and slopestyle is bit less impacted by the wind compare to dowhill where there is a very high risk of serious injuries. But they should prorably have postpone it, it was a shit show, almost no one managed to do all the jumps It was quite an amusing shit show at times though. It came down to whoever managed to change her trick midair after the wind blew her off course. For US viewers, the final drama came when the announcers weren't sure whether one of the Canadians was going to get an extra try while the winner was doing her glory run. I'm guessing they were just mistaken because it would be stupid to give the Canadian an extra try after the winner already blew her second run.
What? I hope they were just doing some artificial drama because it would be so ilogical to give a second chance to a single person out of the 20+ that were there.
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Chloe Kim couldn't quite get a 100. It was the only suspense there.
On February 13 2018 10:55 Nakajin wrote:Show nested quote +On February 13 2018 08:08 andrewlt wrote:On February 13 2018 03:35 Nakajin wrote:
I am guessing they didn't want to take the risk of having all of the event postone at the same date and slopestyle is bit less impacted by the wind compare to dowhill where there is a very high risk of serious injuries. But they should prorably have postpone it, it was a shit show, almost no one managed to do all the jumps It was quite an amusing shit show at times though. It came down to whoever managed to change her trick midair after the wind blew her off course. For US viewers, the final drama came when the announcers weren't sure whether one of the Canadians was going to get an extra try while the winner was doing her glory run. I'm guessing they were just mistaken because it would be stupid to give the Canadian an extra try after the winner already blew her second run. What? I hope they were just doing some artificial drama because it would be so ilogical to give a second chance to a single person out of the 20+ that were there.
Everybody was timing their runs in between the big gusts of wind. One of the Americans got a second chance because there was a big gust of wind that hit immediately before one of the big jumps. I believe it was the troublesome second jump. She saw it and immediately aborted her run. IIRC, she was awarded a second chance pretty quickly. So the US announcers were talking about overhearing that another competitor could get a second chance after the second to last woman finished her run. They didn't confirm that there would be no second chance until after the winner's glory run.
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These wind issues are annoying, but unless they actually puts the health of atheletes into danger, they have always been part of the deal in most snow sports.
It might be horribly annoying for some atheletes who get their single chance (in four years) at glory ruined because of a unlucky gust of wind, but I dont think it can be fully mitigated. In ski jumping, you get a least a partial compensation to your score if the wind is bad for you, but this is a case where it has been a lottery before at times. Maybe other sports could do something similar.
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In this skiing competition i had to do a double take at the swedish skiers hats to see if its the Fnatic logo or not :D
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Yeah, I saw it live. Luckily she didn't hit the wall with the head, but with the feet.
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Well she slid up to the top and hit her feet, then back down and hit her back on the bottom lip of the curve. Up and walking soon after, which is really good.
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no point in watching any more of this olympics. Canada won the winter olympics most iconic event.
the doubles or mixed or intergender curling thing or whatever its called.
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I think snowboard halfpipe men is going to be good, Shaun White kinda smashed the qualifier but the competiton wasn't bad at all. I intend to watch it tomorrow (I guess it's today for the Americans :D).
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On February 14 2018 00:29 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
no point in watching any more of this olympics. Canada won the winter olympics most iconic event.
the doubles or mixed or intergender curling thing or whatever its called.
The Mix Curling is pretty different then the normal curling.
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i think the Finland women's hockey team has 10% or 20% chance of beating Canada or the US.
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On February 14 2018 01:40 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
i think the Finland women's hockey team has 10% or 20% chance of beating Canada or the US.
Which is as expected or suprisingly high/low?
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On February 14 2018 01:48 Mafe wrote:Show nested quote +On February 14 2018 01:40 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
i think the Finland women's hockey team has 10% or 20% chance of beating Canada or the US. Which is as expected or suprisingly high/low?
that is surprisingly high.
its been Canada//USA winning gold//silver or silver//gold at every world championships and every olympics except 2006.
i'd like to see Finland take the gold but the chance of them knocking off both teams is probably 5% or less.
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Didn't realize she was from the city I'm living in.
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On February 14 2018 02:43 JimmyJRaynor wrote:Show nested quote +On February 14 2018 01:48 Mafe wrote:On February 14 2018 01:40 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
i think the Finland women's hockey team has 10% or 20% chance of beating Canada or the US. Which is as expected or suprisingly high/low? that is surprisingly high. its been Canada//USA winning gold//silver or silver//gold at every world championships and every olympics except 2006. i'd like to see Finland take the gold but the chance of them knocking off both teams is probably 5% or less.
both of them is probably -5%
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need 500 more snowboarding events to pad that USA medal count. we aint winning in anything else
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On February 14 2018 10:58 Shellshock wrote:
need 500 more snowboarding events to pad that USA medal count. we aint winning in anything else
The fact that the WAPO rank country by gold medals on their website just to have the USA in the top three is something very sweet to me.
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On February 14 2018 12:50 Nakajin wrote:Show nested quote +On February 14 2018 10:58 Shellshock wrote:
need 500 more snowboarding events to pad that USA medal count. we aint winning in anything else The fact that the WAPO rank country by gold medals on their website just to have the USA in the top three is something very sweet to me.
Every medal metric ranks Olympic success by gold medals.
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On February 14 2018 14:32 sharkie wrote:Show nested quote +On February 14 2018 12:50 Nakajin wrote:On February 14 2018 10:58 Shellshock wrote:
need 500 more snowboarding events to pad that USA medal count. we aint winning in anything else The fact that the WAPO rank country by gold medals on their website just to have the USA in the top three is something very sweet to me. Every medal metric ranks Olympic success by gold medals.
Actually, afaik in the USA it has been common to rank countries by total medal count. Which I assume is what Nakajin is referring to?
See: https://www.si.com/olympics/medals/country
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On February 14 2018 15:08 Mafe wrote:Show nested quote +On February 14 2018 14:32 sharkie wrote:On February 14 2018 12:50 Nakajin wrote:On February 14 2018 10:58 Shellshock wrote:
need 500 more snowboarding events to pad that USA medal count. we aint winning in anything else The fact that the WAPO rank country by gold medals on their website just to have the USA in the top three is something very sweet to me. Every medal metric ranks Olympic success by gold medals. Actually, afaik in the USA it has been common to rank countries by total medal count. Which I assume is what Nakajin is referring to? See: https://www.si.com/olympics/medals/country
National press usualy rank countries by the system which gave their country the best placement, for exemple I remember a ranking that calculate the number of gold, then the number of silver, then the number of bronze because it was the one giving Canada the best place, but right now canadian medias are doing ranking by number of medals cause it's better for them this way.
USA usually for most medals as far as I know, but it's funny to me that they have to calculate with gold to place ahead of country with less then a quarter of their population.
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On February 14 2018 15:08 Mafe wrote:Show nested quote +On February 14 2018 14:32 sharkie wrote:On February 14 2018 12:50 Nakajin wrote:On February 14 2018 10:58 Shellshock wrote:
need 500 more snowboarding events to pad that USA medal count. we aint winning in anything else The fact that the WAPO rank country by gold medals on their website just to have the USA in the top three is something very sweet to me. Every medal metric ranks Olympic success by gold medals. Actually, afaik in the USA it has been common to rank countries by total medal count. Which I assume is what Nakajin is referring to? See: https://www.si.com/olympics/medals/country
wow that sounds stupid.
BTW two close silver medals for japan! Could have been both gold :x
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gg between USA and Slovenia in men's hockey.
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What is going on in ice hockey? Russia losing, USA drawing (well, going overtime I suppose) atm? Too bad german tv goes "up to four livestreams" and then has one mostly for ceremonies and two showing exactly the same thing. No ice hockey anywhere.
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SLOVENIA ! ! !
Mursak Shoots! Mursak Scores!
are the commentators not allowed to say "Russia"? The hockey commentators keep saying "O. A. R.". If they can't say "Russia" that totally sucks.
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On February 14 2018 23:20 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
SLOVENIA ! ! !
Mursak Shoots! Mursak Scores!
are the commentators not allowed to say "Russia"? The hockey commentators keep saying "O. A. R.". If they can't say "Russia" that totally sucks.
its not allowed to refer to anyone or anything as linked to Russia at these olympics.
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On February 14 2018 18:55 sharkie wrote:Show nested quote +On February 14 2018 15:08 Mafe wrote:On February 14 2018 14:32 sharkie wrote:On February 14 2018 12:50 Nakajin wrote:On February 14 2018 10:58 Shellshock wrote:
need 500 more snowboarding events to pad that USA medal count. we aint winning in anything else The fact that the WAPO rank country by gold medals on their website just to have the USA in the top three is something very sweet to me. Every medal metric ranks Olympic success by gold medals. Actually, afaik in the USA it has been common to rank countries by total medal count. Which I assume is what Nakajin is referring to? See: https://www.si.com/olympics/medals/country wow that sounds stupid. BTW two close silver medals for japan! Could have been both gold :x
it's because the Olympics were a big part of Cold War propaganda
but yeah they flip flop at times just to give the USA higher position. It came up a lot in 08 when China had the most golds but USA did it by total because they had 110 vs China's 101
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On February 15 2018 04:57 Shellshock wrote:Show nested quote +On February 14 2018 18:55 sharkie wrote:On February 14 2018 15:08 Mafe wrote:On February 14 2018 14:32 sharkie wrote:On February 14 2018 12:50 Nakajin wrote:On February 14 2018 10:58 Shellshock wrote:
need 500 more snowboarding events to pad that USA medal count. we aint winning in anything else The fact that the WAPO rank country by gold medals on their website just to have the USA in the top three is something very sweet to me. Every medal metric ranks Olympic success by gold medals. Actually, afaik in the USA it has been common to rank countries by total medal count. Which I assume is what Nakajin is referring to? See: https://www.si.com/olympics/medals/country wow that sounds stupid. BTW two close silver medals for japan! Could have been both gold :x it's because the Olympics were a big part of Cold War propaganda but yeah they flip flop at times just to give the USA higher position. It came up a lot in 08 when China had the most golds but USA did it by total because they had 110 vs China's 101
if i'm an American broadcaster spending billions in broadcast fees and my viewers want to see "USA #1" i'm sure the IOC will see it in their hearts to shuffle around the rankings rules in whatever way pleases the biggest billion dollar benefactor of the games.
the IOC and IIHF used to create rules to fuck Canada in international hockey events all the time. Once Canadian broadcasters started generating big ratings and spending big money on broadcast rights all of a sudden "Canada has a voice at the international table".
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It's not like the IOC has an official ranking that gives a big parade to the top country. Media organizations are free to rank countries as they please on their sports page. If I'm the Australian media, I can rank medal winners in alphabetical order. Afghanistan is going to have to medal to knock me out.
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On February 15 2018 08:16 andrewlt wrote:
It's not like the IOC has an official ranking that gives a big parade to the top country. Media organizations are free to rank countries as they please on their sports page. If I'm the Australian media, I can rank medal winners in alphabetical order. Afghanistan is going to have to medal to knock me out.
renamed Aamerica
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the Canada v. USA women's hockey game was a big event 4 years ago.
This year, no one cares.
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The dududu song in the US-Canada match is giving me twitch chat ptsd
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so i guess this means Team USA gets to face Team Finland in the semis of women's hockey?
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Mikaela Shiffrin is such a beast.
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no Russian National anthem at the olympics either? that sucks.
when i google "Russian National Anthem" this is the #4 result i get... LOL
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On February 16 2018 04:50 JimmyJRaynor wrote:no Russian National anthem at the olympics either? that sucks. when i google "Russian National Anthem" this is the #4 result i get... LOL + Show Spoiler +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TVU-sjy5_4#t=30s i'd love to see a Russian athlete pull out a picture of a hammer and sickle from their pocket during a medal award ceremony.
I would advice against pulling a communist flag in front of a south-korean crowd. Or even in Russia for that matter.
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On February 15 2018 12:38 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
the Canada v. USA women's hockey game was a big event 4 years ago.
This year, no one cares.
Are you comparing the groupstage game of this year with the final from four years ago, or the groupstage games of both olympics? I assume the final will be big this year again.
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On February 16 2018 06:03 Mafe wrote:Show nested quote +On February 15 2018 12:38 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
the Canada v. USA women's hockey game was a big event 4 years ago.
This year, no one cares. Are you comparing the groupstage game of this year with the final from four years ago, or the groupstage games of both olympics? I assume the final will be big this year again.
last year's group stage game didn't generate any where near the excitement amongst the hockey fans i know that last olympic's group stage game generated.
On February 16 2018 05:46 Nakajin wrote:Show nested quote +On February 16 2018 04:50 JimmyJRaynor wrote:no Russian National anthem at the olympics either? that sucks. when i google "Russian National Anthem" this is the #4 result i get... LOL + Show Spoiler +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TVU-sjy5_4#t=30s i'd love to see a Russian athlete pull out a picture of a hammer and sickle from their pocket during a medal award ceremony. I would advice against pulling a communist flag in front of a south-korean crowd. Or even in Russia for that matter.
a hammer & sickle together is a symbol of the worker's alliance for socialism. It is not a flag. it is a symbolic rallying cry of the powerless.
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Damn Norway is so good at skiing.
Damn never mind what an upset!
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Am I the only one who find it kind of lame that on place the anouncer are all english with korean only doing translation once in a while?
I get why, but it feel like when you throw buckets of public money at the olympic you could at least expect to have the event in you own language.
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On February 16 2018 14:06 Nakajin wrote:
Am I the only one who find it kind of lame that on place the anouncer are all english with korean only doing translation once in a while?
I get why, but it feel like when you throw buckets of public money at the olympic you could at least expect to have the event in you own language.
Especially with those HUGE korean crowds.........oh wait
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On February 16 2018 04:50 JimmyJRaynor wrote:no Russian National anthem at the olympics either? that sucks. when i google "Russian National Anthem" this is the #4 result i get... LOL + Show Spoiler +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TVU-sjy5_4#t=30s i'd love to see a Russian athlete pull out a picture of a hammer and sickle from their pocket during a medal award ceremony.
even as a joke thats a pretty retarded one.
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Our football team might have disintegrated, but at least we still have speed skating.  A 22 year old newcomer who only did her first professional race in november last year, rode an amazing race and won gold on ladies 5k speedskating today, giving us 6 out of 7 gold medals in the speedskating so far. The one we missed, was won by a Dutch-Canadian who only got a Canadian passport 4 years ago.
Pretty silly stuff but the 500m is still upcoming and we usually don't win that one at least
Also I'll never get over what an insane sport skeleton is. Summer Olympics need to introduce human cannonballs or something to catch up.
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On February 16 2018 22:01 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:
Also I'll never get over what an insane sport skeleton is. Summer Olympics need to introduce human cannonballs or something to catch up.
Summer olympics have pole vault!
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How does one decide who gets the last stone in the first end in curling? Because that looks like a big advantage to me, and in the mens tournament teams who have this advantage are currently 13-2.
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On February 16 2018 22:38 Mafe wrote:
How does one decide who gets the last stone in the first end in curling? Because that looks like a big advantage to me, and in the mens tournament teams who have this advantage are currently 13-2.
It's decided by who can sweep a pre-determined floor fastest.
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On February 16 2018 18:33 DaCruise wrote:Show nested quote +On February 16 2018 14:06 Nakajin wrote:
Am I the only one who find it kind of lame that on place the anouncer are all english with korean only doing translation once in a while?
I get why, but it feel like when you throw buckets of public money at the olympic you could at least expect to have the event in you own language. Especially with those HUGE korean crowds.........oh wait
The Winter Olympics in general, save a few events, seem to not be resonating outside northern European countries.
Here in California, we have the 2 US stars in the snowboard but people seem unaware that the Olympics are going on. I had some people do a double take and wonder what Olympics it is because it doesn't feel like winter at all.
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On February 17 2018 01:42 andrewlt wrote:Show nested quote +On February 16 2018 18:33 DaCruise wrote:On February 16 2018 14:06 Nakajin wrote:
Am I the only one who find it kind of lame that on place the anouncer are all english with korean only doing translation once in a while?
I get why, but it feel like when you throw buckets of public money at the olympic you could at least expect to have the event in you own language. Especially with those HUGE korean crowds.........oh wait The Winter Olympics in general, save a few events, seem to not be resonating outside northern European countries. Here in California, we have the 2 US stars in the snowboard but people seem unaware that the Olympics are going on. I had some people do a double take and wonder what Olympics it is because it doesn't feel like winter at all.
well one of the main missions of such events is to introduce winter sports to more people and help building infrastructure for sports to develop in new countries. I think its fair that sometimes it feels a little off.
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On February 16 2018 22:38 Mafe wrote:
How does one decide who gets the last stone in the first end in curling? Because that looks like a big advantage to me, and in the mens tournament teams who have this advantage are currently 13-2.
Baseball rules mostly. They just take turns mostly.
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last rock in the 1st end is not that big of an advantage. the 13-2 thing is more of a coincidence than anything else.
for people into the Finland//Sweden rivarly its happening in women's hockey on the 17th. The winner faces team USA. Lots of days off for Canada and the USA in this women's event.
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On February 17 2018 04:33 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
last rock in the 1st end is not that big of an advantage. the 13-2 thing is more of a coincidence than anything else.
for people into the Finland//Sweden rivarly its happening in women's hockey on the 17th. The winner faces team USA. Lots of days off for Canada and the USA in this women's event.
Last rock at the start is a huge advantage... 13-2 is not "just a thing".
You can dictate the flow of the whole set
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On February 17 2018 01:47 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2018 01:42 andrewlt wrote:On February 16 2018 18:33 DaCruise wrote:On February 16 2018 14:06 Nakajin wrote:
Am I the only one who find it kind of lame that on place the anouncer are all english with korean only doing translation once in a while?
I get why, but it feel like when you throw buckets of public money at the olympic you could at least expect to have the event in you own language. Especially with those HUGE korean crowds.........oh wait The Winter Olympics in general, save a few events, seem to not be resonating outside northern European countries. Here in California, we have the 2 US stars in the snowboard but people seem unaware that the Olympics are going on. I had some people do a double take and wonder what Olympics it is because it doesn't feel like winter at all. well one of the main missions of such events is to introduce winter sports to more people and help building infrastructure for sports to develop in new countries. I think its fair that sometimes it feels a little off.
Well, too many of the events require a mountainous snowy area and not too many countries have that. Even the big sporting countries in Asia like China and South Korea don't have much of a history in winter sports, at least compared to the summer ones. Maybe Japan has a little bit more participation in them.
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On February 17 2018 05:37 sharkie wrote:
Last rock at the start is a huge advantage... 13-2 is not "just a thing".
You can dictate the flow of the whole set
nah, its not a huge advantage. how often does a team hold last rock for 3+ ends while keeping the score 0-0?
not often. you can't control the flow of an entire 10 end match.
here is a typical curling event.. .The Brier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Tim_Hortons_Brier
it was rare for even the 1st end to be 0-0.
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Oh No, Raynor talking curling?
if he brings up Al Hackner or Ed Werenich he should be removed from this thread
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On February 17 2018 06:11 JimmyJRaynor wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2018 05:37 sharkie wrote:
Last rock at the start is a huge advantage... 13-2 is not "just a thing".
You can dictate the flow of the whole set nah, its not a huge advantage. how often does a team hold last rock for 3+ ends while keeping the score 0-0? not often. you can't control the flow of an entire 10 end match. here is a typical curling event.. .The Brier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Tim_Hortons_Brierit was rare for even the 1st end to be 0-0.
Turn out the Quebec team come from my home town, never heard of anyone actually playing/ watching/ not making fun of curling growing up. But honestly I can't be surprise the curling team come from the city with the lowest crime stats in Quebec.
I guess it must be fun when you know how it work
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Holy shit that super G final
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On February 17 2018 13:01 Nakajin wrote:
Holy shit that super G final
That was crazy. Must be the biggest sensation ever in Alpine skiing. At least when it comes to the olympics. Glad that Lara Gut missed the bronze by 0,01 sec. Thats what she gets for crying over not winning gold even though she had a dreadful season so far.
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On February 17 2018 06:11 JimmyJRaynor wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2018 05:37 sharkie wrote:
Last rock at the start is a huge advantage... 13-2 is not "just a thing".
You can dictate the flow of the whole set nah, its not a huge advantage. how often does a team hold last rock for 3+ ends while keeping the score 0-0? not often. you can't control the flow of an entire 10 end match. here is a typical curling event.. .The Brier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Tim_Hortons_Brierit was rare for even the 1st end to be 0-0.
I'm not acurling expert, sowhy is a 0-0 first end be important? Because you then the game is essentially 9 ends so you (assuming everyone scores with the last stone), you get 5 ends with the last stone and the other team only 4?
Anway, in the tornament you linked I count a 48-30 score for team with the last stone in the first end, which still seems to be relevant to me.
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On February 17 2018 13:01 Nakajin wrote:
Holy shit that super G final
T_T that must have been nuts to see live. Too bad the time was pretty bad for Europe (like always for Alpine Skiing, but I won't complain since Biathlon and Ski flying is at decent times), so I didn't wanna watch it.
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On February 17 2018 13:01 Nakajin wrote:
Holy shit that super G final
the craziest shit is that her run didnt not look good at all, she had quite some mistakes there. Hence her not believing she won the moment she finished. This was insane!
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On February 14 2018 10:58 Shellshock wrote:
need 500 more snowboarding events to pad that USA medal count. we aint winning in anything else
Then the netherlands demand more speedskating 
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Women Super G is disgrace for most other women skiers imo.
Anna Veith had been injured most of the time the last two years and the gold medalist is a professional snowboarder. What do the rest of the women train for all the time?
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The win was such a bizarre moment. Nobody saw it coming. Not even Czech analysts, they thought she might get like a top 15 finish if she has a good race. Even she herself genuinely couldn't believe it after she finished, she thought the board was wrong that they're gonna fix it or that she must've missed a gate or something. It wasn't even a flawless run, she made a couple small mistakes. And it's not even like this is a niche sport, you could make a case for the women's super G being one of the biggest events in the whole Olympics. Definitely one of the biggest wtf moments in all of Winter Olympics history, alongside the Australian short track winner from 2002.
You can see the winning race and Ledecka's reaction here:
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Yeah, quite crazy. She definitely made a few mistakes.
Meanwhile, Poland got their first medal. Kamil Stoch won just now.
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so i guess Russia is the favourite in the men's hockey event because they have KHL players?
so its Finland versus USA in the women's hockey semi-finals. it might be a close game.
On February 17 2018 15:47 Mafe wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2018 06:11 JimmyJRaynor wrote:On February 17 2018 05:37 sharkie wrote:
Last rock at the start is a huge advantage... 13-2 is not "just a thing".
You can dictate the flow of the whole set nah, its not a huge advantage. how often does a team hold last rock for 3+ ends while keeping the score 0-0? not often. you can't control the flow of an entire 10 end match. here is a typical curling event.. .The Brier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Tim_Hortons_Brierit was rare for even the 1st end to be 0-0. I'm not acurling expert, sowhy is a 0-0 first end be important? Because you then the game is essentially 9 ends so you (assuming everyone scores with the last stone), you get 5 ends with the last stone and the other team only 4? Anway, in the tornament you linked I count a 48-30 score for team with the last stone in the first end, which still seems to be relevant to me.
the other poster is claiming holding the hammer in the first end allows you to "control the whole match". suppose you hold the hammer at the start of the match. Well if you score in the first end you lose the hammer. If your opponent scores you still hold the hammer but you are losing the match. This is why you can not "control" a match with the hammer in end #1.
It is pretty unusual to blank, that is have no one score, 2 ends in a row. Listen to how the commentators reacted to the 2 consecutive blank ends between sweden and canada last night. he was pretty damn surprised.
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On February 18 2018 00:00 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
so i guess Russia is the favourite in the men's hockey event because they have KHL players?
so its Finland versus USA in the women's hockey semi-finals. it might be a close game.
Russia is somewhat of a favorite but other countries have KHL players too. Imo Russia has been overrated a lot before this tournament and i think pretty much any top team could win. Finland vs Sweden would be a nice and a pretty possible final though.
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i'd like to see any one except Canada, Sweden, Russia or USA win the gold.
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Czech Republic18921 Posts
I'd like to see the Czech republic win the gold.
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On February 17 2018 16:50 HolydaKing wrote:T_T that must have been nuts to see live. Too bad the time was pretty bad for Europe (like always for Alpine Skiing, but I won't complain since Biathlon and Ski flying is at decent times), so I didn't wanna watch it.
You might not even have seen it live. From what I heard, the main channels in some countries had already switched to something different when she was running (though nowadays I suppose in every country there are more than one stream, so you might have seen the complete event in a secondary channel, at least online).
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On February 18 2018 07:34 Mafe wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2018 16:50 HolydaKing wrote:On February 17 2018 13:01 Nakajin wrote:
Holy shit that super G final T_T that must have been nuts to see live. Too bad the time was pretty bad for Europe (like always for Alpine Skiing, but I won't complain since Biathlon and Ski flying is at decent times), so I didn't wanna watch it. You might not even have seen it live. From what I heard, the main channels in some countries had already switched to something different when she was running (though nowadays I suppose in every country there are more than one stream, so you might have seen the complete event in a secondary channel, at least online).
I was watching it live on a danish channel and they switched to slope style after bip nr.23, however I wanted to watch the first 30 so I switched to RTL I think and saw Ledecka´s run. The german commentator was also like "nein, nein, nein". Haha.
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On February 17 2018 18:50 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:the craziest shit is that her run didnt not look good at all, she had quite some mistakes there. Hence her not believing she won the moment she finished. This was insane!
Her "mistakes" were because she was rocketing through most of the sections. Gained a lot more time pushing the speed than she lost on unclean turns. Canadian broadcasters mentioned she did the same in training runs and blew off-course, so that's the risk really.
Canadian network is pretty good for actually covering entire events, thankfully. Not like NBC viewer-mongering that I keep hearing about.
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What a fucking shit loss vs Sweden. Noone can shoot at the fucking goal and Koskinen cant save easy shots. Good shit
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if the finland//usa women's hockey game stays close i'll stay up and watch it. it starts in 13 hours.
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On February 18 2018 23:57 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
if the finland//usa women's hockey game stays close i'll stay up and watch it. it starts in 13 hours.
Good night!
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LOL!
Shared gold medal in bobsleigh, mens doubles.
Canada and Germany with exactly the same time (0.01 sec precision) after 4 runs.
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yeah, pretty cool and insane at the same time.
The reaction of the racer was pretty cool
Also, on another note less surprising, Can vs US in Women hockey final ! Both semi-final finishing 5-0 I think.
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Boobie sneak peek at the ice dancing contest :D
(or whatever thats called in english)
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On February 20 2018 04:24 Harris1st wrote:
Boobie sneak peek at the ice dancing contest :D
(or whatever thats called in english)
nip slip? or english for ice dancing?
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Canada8988 Posts
Czech Republic vs USA starting soon, the Czech actually come in as the favorite (well the best reccord) lets see.
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1 hot goalie can take this whole tourney.
On February 21 2018 14:48 Nakajin wrote:
USA out!
Canada celebrates thanksgiving before teh USA does. that means we must've invented it.
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*Insert drunksanta.jpeg here*
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I'm surprised i have the mental strength to not have thrown my computer out of the window yet.
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Wow, Germany beat Sweden in ice hockey... I like it. :D Game was pretty nice, Sweden began very strong and the first 5 minutes Germany was so bad. But they didn't score with the many chances they had. Then Germany found into the game, and was leading most of the game... When it was 3-3 I was like GG grats Sweden, but well played in the over time!
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what was the bigger upset? Belarus beating Sweden in 2002? or Germany beating Sweden in 2018?
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Canada8988 Posts
Olympic hockey round of 4 Canada-Germany-Czech republic-TotalynotRussiaguys
I kind of which Canada had choke against Finland just to have the stupidest brakets. (well I guess the Czechs actually belong there)
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Japanese women beat Dutch women yayyy
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On February 22 2018 00:46 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
what was the bigger upset? Belarus beating Sweden in 2002? or Germany beating Sweden in 2018?
Belarus for sure
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I am most probably gonna be the only one in arm about this.
But apparently the canadien hockey federation ask the hockey announcer in Pyeongchang, himself a French-Canadian which is kind of weird but whatever, to intentionally mispronounce the names of French-Canadians players names to make them sound like english names.
I hope they lose to freaking Germany
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On February 22 2018 03:31 Nakajin wrote:
I am most probably gonna be the only one in arm about this.
But apparently the canadien hockey federation ask the hockey announcer in Pyeongchang, himself a French-Canadian which is kind of weird but whatever, to intentionally mispronounce the names of French-Canadians players names to make them sound like english names.
I hope they lose to freaking Germany
That doesn't make any sense? Of course you should try to pronounce names like they are procounced.
What is their goal in this?
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On February 22 2018 04:36 TheBloodyDwarf wrote:Show nested quote +On February 22 2018 03:31 Nakajin wrote:
I am most probably gonna be the only one in arm about this.
But apparently the canadien hockey federation ask the hockey announcer in Pyeongchang, himself a French-Canadian which is kind of weird but whatever, to intentionally mispronounce the names of French-Canadians players names to make them sound like english names.
I hope they lose to freaking Germany That doesn't make any sense? Of course you should try to pronounce names like they are procounced. What is their goal in this?
Well there's a whole conversation to have about canadian federalism and french-english relation here. But it's probably not the place, so lets just say they tought the guy should say their names the way they would say them.
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man, the hockey quality has been so poor with a bunch of poor prospects and has beens. I expected the US to drop, but losing to Slovenia was real bad.
at least hoping someone can upset Russia and make it interesting.
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Canada8988 Posts
Overtime once more in the womens hockey finals, great game so far.
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Canada was so flatfooded towards the end of the 3rd period, I can't imagine they'll win in overtime.
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1,35 to go with a power play, lets end it here
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Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck
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Told you. This Canadian team completely deserved to lose, their goalie carried them to the gold medal game. Really really bad performance in the later half of this game
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Daoust's penalty was mindblowingly good
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On February 22 2018 16:15 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Told you. This Canadian team completely deserved to lose, their goalie carried them to the gold medal game. Really really bad performance in the later half of this game
They probably deserved the lost, but saying the goalie carried them to the final is a bit much, I mean they won the semi 5-0, with like 15 shot allowed
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On February 22 2018 16:20 Nakajin wrote:Show nested quote +On February 22 2018 16:15 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Told you. This Canadian team completely deserved to lose, their goalie carried them to the gold medal game. Really really bad performance in the later half of this game They probably deserved the lost, but saying the goalie carried them to the final is a bit much, I mean they won the semi 5-0, with like 15 shot allowed
Fine, it's a bit extreme, I'm just really fuckin pissed at how bad they played in the 3rd and overtime.
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Tough silver. We played like trash in OT and *mumbles angrily* shootouts in a gold medal game *anger intensifies*. Ah well, the States deserved this one. Props to Szabados for the effort.
Feb. 22, 1980: U.S. men end the Soviet Union's streak of four straight Olympic hockey gold medals. Feb. 22, 2018: U.S. women end Canada's streak of four straight Olympic hockey gold medals.
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The USSR "gold medal streak" did not end with that "miracle on ice" game on February 22.
Had USA lost on February 24 and USSR won on February 24th the USSR would've taken the gold in 1980.
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On February 22 2018 17:25 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
The USSR "gold medal streak" did not end with that "miracle on ice" game on February 22.
Had USA lost on February 24 and USSR won on February 24th the USSR would've taken the gold in 1980.
My bad. I stole that from the ESPN stats & info twitter and there was some confusion and corrections in the comments there as well. Looking at that final group (America, SU, Finland, Sweden), I see what you're saying, and where I went wrong with the dates.
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no biggie dawg...
the "miracle on ice" story is usually told in a way that leaves the impression USA won the gold over USSR during their game against each other.
details often get in the way of good drama
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ok, so now that canada is finally losing in curling and hockey can that old man on "Pardon The Interruption" finally stop waving that stupid canadian flag?
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yeah, the quality of hockey in this tournament is quite pathetic
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So who had Russia vs Germany as the finals?
I am extremely confused right now.
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its surprising for me Canada is even in the Semis, given these are their tier-3 players. It is indeed surprising to not see Finland passing them.
EDIT: please nobody bring "biggest upset of all times" here.
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Still... it is Germany. We are really, really not good at playing Hockey.
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On February 23 2018 22:26 Malinor wrote:
Still... it is Germany. We are really, really not good at playing Hockey.
that's not true. In World events team Germany is very often in the top-8 teams.
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Norway 1 little medal away for a new all time reccord
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On February 23 2018 22:47 Nakajin wrote:
Norway 1 little medal away for a new all time reccord
given 2 major cross-country skiing events are still ahead, they are going to set it.
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I guess I am not used to winning medals in Hockey.
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Okay start in the second for Canada but it was rough after that. Bad penalties, unnecessary 2 on 1s, lukewarm neutral zone play. Germany is looking very solid and should be able to see this through to the end.
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Germany in the finals, holy fuck! :D
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German Ice Hockey team winning silver or gold. WTF.
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On February 23 2018 23:28 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Fuck Gary Bettman
Yepp. Fuck that greedy sob.
Its a good thing most of these players from Team Canada play outside North America, its safer like that now...
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On February 23 2018 23:28 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
Fuck Gary Bettman
*cough* and the IOC
*cough* and the NHL owners
*cough* and the NHLPA
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Looks like we choked hard today.
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nah, its in the nature of 1 game elimination tourneys. there are many improbable upsets.
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Germany simply were using their chances better and had lots of power play time in the 2nd period. Canada was dominating 1st and 3rd period, but they didn't score much.
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I mean from the nhl perspective it makes sense. They get exposed to a ton of risk for no direct compensation. The promise is that some causal fans might watch te nhl more which has never really been proven.
I just enjoy the fan boy experience of watching the best play for something meaningful. The league sponsored tournament is lame.
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On February 24 2018 00:56 HolydaKing wrote:
Germany simply were using their chances better and had lots of power play time in the 2nd quarter. Canada was dominating 1st and 3rd quarter, but they didn't score much.
Canada not showing up for the 4th quarter was really the nail in the coffin 
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On February 24 2018 01:10 Nakajin wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2018 00:56 HolydaKing wrote:
Germany simply were using their chances better and had lots of power play time in the 2nd quarter. Canada was dominating 1st and 3rd quarter, but they didn't score much. Canada not showing up for the 4th quarter was really the nail in the coffin
prolly due to a lousy halftime speech by teh canadian coach.
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On February 24 2018 01:23 JimmyJRaynor wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2018 01:10 Nakajin wrote:On February 24 2018 00:56 HolydaKing wrote:
Germany simply were using their chances better and had lots of power play time in the 2nd quarter. Canada was dominating 1st and 3rd quarter, but they didn't score much. Canada not showing up for the 4th quarter was really the nail in the coffin prolly due to a lousy halftime speech by teh canadian coach.
lol, guess that's where it shows that I usually dont watch hockey.
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On February 24 2018 01:10 Nakajin wrote:Show nested quote +On February 24 2018 00:56 HolydaKing wrote:
Germany simply were using their chances better and had lots of power play time in the 2nd quarter. Canada was dominating 1st and 3rd quarter, but they didn't score much. Canada not showing up for the 4th quarter was really the nail in the coffin
Germany is 3-0 in games going to the "4th period" in this tournament. It is understandable that Canada was afraid.
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I am so surprised how hockey is popular on TL. Almost the only sport under discussion here
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ya, its been fun to watch.
GO GERMANY GO ! ! !
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The Germany vs Sweden and Germany vs Canada games were pretty exciting to watch. Russia will be extremely hard though. I hope it will be another close match even if Russia wins.
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the women play at a 15 year old boy level.. or midget-AAA i'd say. its also great fun to watch.
the Canadian girl who removed her silver medal in anger had to issue an apology. that is sad. let the woman have her emotions of the moment without constantly micro analyzing every 2 seconds of behaviour. the canadian women can be proud of what they accomplished.
On February 24 2018 03:10 HolydaKing wrote:
The Germany vs Sweden and Germany vs Canada games were pretty exciting to watch. Russia will be extremely hard though. I hope it will be another close match even if Russia wins.
you wanna hear a germany hockey story?
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Sure, if you want to tell me one.
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i have a relative who played in the NHL for 2 contracts. His body was so beat up he went to Germany to play where its not as rough. He re-wrote the record book in the German league... banged dozens of girls every year.... made a tonne of cash... retired from playing hockey and stayed in germany for 1 more year of partying and girls.
after making several million playing hockey for 15 years he returned to Canada with $0 and had to sleep on my dad's couch and live in his place rent free for 8 weeks to get himself a job and a bit of cash. he moved out like 2 months later.
he has some great stories about the female hockey fans in Germany.
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That's a nice story indeed. I didn't even know you can make several millions playing hockey in Germany.
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i think he made ~400K a year. He had a $40,000 watch and a $200,000 car.
its all gone now. it was weird he was always the "cool uncle" and watching him play hockey or playing with him i was always ... "wow i can't even do that in my dreams"... then to see him on my dad's couch. it was an eye opener.
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thing with sluts is they bang anyone :p
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Men's Big Air aka Try A Trick and Fall: The Sport
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38th medals for Norway, new all time mark as far as I know. They could very well broke 40.
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Ester Ledecka did it! Double gold in skiing Super G and snowboarding Giant Slalom! Making history right there.
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I enjoyed watching the 2nd half of the Curling final between USA and Sweden. Congrats USA, the five-ender killed the Swedes.
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a russian curler failed his drug test and the russian team was stripped of its bronze medal.
everyone around here knows the best place to get steroids is at the local curling club.
On February 22 2018 03:31 Nakajin wrote:
I am most probably gonna be the only one in arm about this.
But apparently the canadien hockey federation ask the hockey announcer in Pyeongchang, himself a French-Canadian which is kind of weird but whatever, to intentionally mispronounce the names of French-Canadians players names to make them sound like english names.
uhhh, no.
this is just stirring up shit where there is nothing. its also a bunch of francophones looking to be offended.
Derek Roy wants his last name pronounced the way he says his last name.
He says his last name like "Roy Halladay" or "Roy Thomson"
Derek Roy does not say his name the way we say Patrick Roy's last name.
anyhow,
that's what's going on.
if you are aware of my french last name i'll tell you it has been getting mangled by anglophones since i was 5.
i got over it by the time i was 7. it still gets mangled regularly to this day... whatever man.
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Germany vs Russia ice hockey will be at 5:10 AM / 05:10 in Germany, but I think I want to watch it anyway... hopefully it won't be onesided. :D
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On February 25 2018 03:48 HolydaKing wrote:
Germany vs Russia ice hockey will be at 5:10 AM / 05:10 in Germany, but I think I want to watch it anyway... hopefully it won't be onesided. :D
I cant decide.... I'll probably try to catch the end of the game.
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woohooo, Japan 3 golds in speed skating!
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On February 25 2018 06:41 Mafe wrote:Show nested quote +On February 25 2018 03:48 HolydaKing wrote:
Germany vs Russia ice hockey will be at 5:10 AM / 05:10 in Germany, but I think I want to watch it anyway... hopefully it won't be onesided. :D I cant decide.... I'll probably try to catch the end of the game.
ima watch it. go germany go!
#1 C&C nation on earth.
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Not sure how good Norway or Germany's chances are at breaking the Gold Medal record. Germany's probably got the best shot with Hockey and Bobsled to go. Norway could probably tie it with women's Cross Country Skiing left?
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Germany won Bobsled and is 1-1 at Hockey atm... First goal with 0.5 sec left in the first period was shit for Germany. ^^
Nice, 1-1 with one period left... gogo Germany!
2-1 for Russia and 10 sec later 2-2, LOL. So worth watching. :D
3-2 for Germany, 3 min left. :O
LOL, 55.5 sec left and 3-3... while Russia was one man down from Power Play. Overtime.
4-3 for Russia, great job team Germany though, very exciting game.
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Oh well. It is a fairytale story nevertheless.
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Since 1992 I waited for the first ever olympic hockey gold for team Russia (1992 we were "united team", as USSR collapsed just weeks before Olympics).
I've never missed a single tourney and suffered through Hasek robbing us in 1998, through controversial games in Salt Lake, through passing Canada in Torino only to show up completely depleted to the semis with Suomi, the 3-7 nightmare in Vancouver that i watched at 5am, even though it was a work week and a somewhat expected disappointment in Sochi.
With all that said, ice hockey tourney in Winter Olympics is something you wait 4 years and live through every game.
I couldn't care less for gold medals in 2018. Thanks Gary.
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so sad Germany lost , sigh
On February 25 2018 17:55 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:
I couldn't care less for gold medals in 2018. Thanks Gary.
if you take this perspective then the U.S.S.R. gold medals before 1992 were also pretty meaningless.
I think USSR had the best team in the world from ~1981 to 1988. But, they rarely participated in best-on-best events so its hard to say for certain.
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On February 26 2018 00:47 JimmyJRaynor wrote:so sad Germany lost , sigh Show nested quote +On February 25 2018 17:55 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:
I couldn't care less for gold medals in 2018. Thanks Gary. if you take this perspective then the U.S.S.R. gold medals before 1992 were also pretty meaningless. I think USSR had the best team in the world from ~1981 to 1988. But, they rarely participated in best-on-best events so its hard to say for certain.
I'm not that old to care much about 1988 and before. But I do know that the summit series meant a much greater deal to our fathers than the Olympics.
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"The countdown begins in earnest now for Beijing 2022. The third city that will host both the summer and the winter Games.
If you remember the 2008 Games, the Bird's Nest stadium will be used we're being told and the Water Cube - used for swimming events in the summer Olympics - will be used for the curling."
It kinda feels very close to have 2 Olympic games in the same location in just 14 years. Very nice for Chinese athletes and sports.
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On February 26 2018 02:30 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2018 00:47 JimmyJRaynor wrote:so sad Germany lost , sigh On February 25 2018 17:55 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:
I couldn't care less for gold medals in 2018. Thanks Gary. if you take this perspective then the U.S.S.R. gold medals before 1992 were also pretty meaningless. I think USSR had the best team in the world from ~1981 to 1988. But, they rarely participated in best-on-best events so its hard to say for certain. I'm not that old to care much about 1988 and before. But I do know that the summit series meant a much greater deal to our fathers than the Olympics.
Olympic hockey has rarely been meaningful... maybe 1998 to 2014 and that's about it. that was all during Gary Bettman's tenure as NHL Commissioner. to borrow your quote. Thanks Gary.
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On February 26 2018 02:58 JimmyJRaynor wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2018 02:30 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:On February 26 2018 00:47 JimmyJRaynor wrote:so sad Germany lost , sigh On February 25 2018 17:55 fLyiNgDroNe wrote:
I couldn't care less for gold medals in 2018. Thanks Gary. if you take this perspective then the U.S.S.R. gold medals before 1992 were also pretty meaningless. I think USSR had the best team in the world from ~1981 to 1988. But, they rarely participated in best-on-best events so its hard to say for certain. I'm not that old to care much about 1988 and before. But I do know that the summit series meant a much greater deal to our fathers than the Olympics. Olympic hockey has rarely been meaningful... maybe 1998 to 2014 and that's about it. that was all during Gary Bettman's tenure as NHL Commissioner. to borrow your quote. Thanks Gary.
you cant give a candy to a child only to take it back. evolution is never about going back to how things were.
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I enjoyed watching some events, but in the long run the current way of running the games isn't sustainable. If the IOC keeps pushing the limits, there soon won't be olympic games at all, because no country will be capable and / or willing to host them. Especially winter games are causing huge environmental problems. Lillehammer 1994 was amazing, but I think we're past the point of no return.
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Closing ceremony's been very cool.
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Another olympics come and gone. Really enjoyed it, shame I couldnt watch more!
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On February 26 2018 13:15 Titusmaster6 wrote:
Another olympics come and gone. Really enjoyed it, shame I couldnt watch more!
Now we can go back to not watching 95% of these sports for 4 more years
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On February 26 2018 13:19 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:Show nested quote +On February 26 2018 13:15 Titusmaster6 wrote:
Another olympics come and gone. Really enjoyed it, shame I couldnt watch more! Now we can go back to not watching 95% of these sports for 4 more years
The Brier is this weekend.
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A lot of Olympic facilities are wasted and just become unused after the games. It actually makes sense for Beijing to host another Olympics so they can use some of their facilities again before they go to waste. The only issue now is bringing in snow from other places for the outdoor events.
Harbin would've been a better location for playing the sports but there is some concern about having enough Chinese people making the trek there to watch the games. That and it seems like the Chinese politicians love to show off Beijing.
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On February 27 2018 01:14 andrewlt wrote:
A lot of Olympic facilities are wasted and just become unused after the games. It actually makes sense for Beijing to host another Olympics so they can use some of their facilities again before they go to waste. The only issue now is bringing in snow from other places for the outdoor events.
Harbin would've been a better location for playing the sports but there is some concern about having enough Chinese people making the trek there to watch the games. That and it seems like the Chinese politicians love to show off Beijing.
If that was a good argument then LA would have gotten the games sometime in the past few decades. Clearly the IOC doesn't value that line of logic.
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On February 27 2018 05:13 Sermokala wrote:Show nested quote +On February 27 2018 01:14 andrewlt wrote:
A lot of Olympic facilities are wasted and just become unused after the games. It actually makes sense for Beijing to host another Olympics so they can use some of their facilities again before they go to waste. The only issue now is bringing in snow from other places for the outdoor events.
Harbin would've been a better location for playing the sports but there is some concern about having enough Chinese people making the trek there to watch the games. That and it seems like the Chinese politicians love to show off Beijing. If that was a good argument then LA would have gotten the games sometime in the past few decades. Clearly the IOC doesn't value that line of logic.
The IOC might not but I'm sure that has entered the line of thinking of some of the cities submitting their bids. China is planning on reusing the famous facilities from the last time that have reportedly been gathering dust in the mean time.
I'm a resident of LA county and I really wished we lost out on the 2028 games. That said, LA has actually been pretty good in terms of not having facilities go into disuse after the games. Compared to Rio and Beijing, LA's Olympic facilities are still in use. I'm expecting a massive boondoggle for the 2028 games but it has more to do with the likely outrageous cost overruns of retrofitting current facilities rather than the outrageous cost overruns of making new ones.
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Win if you can. Lose if you must. But always cheat.
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