2018 Winter Olympics

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Actually fair play to the Tongan guy in the link above. You have no idea how physically hard cross country skiing is or how competitive. To start racing and in 2 years make the Olympic Games is a real feat. Ive worked cycling, ironman, triathlon and marathons and I've never seen another sport where so many athletes cross the line and cannot stand up or who are breathing so hard their hearts look ready to burst. Tough buggers.
 
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Aldi winter Olympics advert, filmed in Arundel. The Eagle is about a 2 minute walk from my house.
 
Ouch! That’s on top of the wrist fracture she had yesterday, as posted above.


She's tough !




Ormerod has suffered a series of injuries in her career, snapping her anterior cruciate knee ligament, damaging the meniscus in both knees and fracturing her shoulder, both arms and back.

"The injuries don't bother me - I just keep coming back stronger," she told the BBC before the Games.
 
Actually fair play to the Tongan guy in the link above. You have no idea how physically hard cross country skiing is or how competitive. To start racing and in 2 years make the Olympic Games is a real feat. Ive worked cycling, ironman, triathlon and marathons and I've never seen another sport where so many athletes cross the line and cannot stand up or who are breathing so hard their hearts look ready to burst. Tough buggers.

I've only done casual cross-country skiing, but man...in terms of effort, I'd rather ride a bike up an extreme incline than cross-country ski up a modest slope. Then again, I'd rather do neither, so I generally do neither.

That said, what the Winter Olympics desperately needs is an event that parallels the racewalking silliness in the summer games. I demand snowshoe races.
 
Feel sorry for Elise Christie and all that, but is anyone going to tell us why Choi was disqualified!?
I don’t think anyone knows apart from the ref, and he’s not saying. It’s a strange sport where you can be knocked out of a race illegally and nobody gets sanctioned, and no appeal allowed. The Canadian who knocked Christie out ended up getting promoted to silver!
 
I don’t think anyone knows apart from the ref, and he’s not saying. It’s a strange sport where you can be knocked out of a race illegally and nobody gets sanctioned, and no appeal allowed. The Canadian who knocked Christie out ended up getting promoted to silver!

I mean I've watched the race about four times now, and I still have no idea what the Korean athlete was meant to have done wrong!
 
SB Half pipe finals. Wow! I don't care much for Shaun white and The little Japanese dude is incredible. Sorry he didn't get gold but great drama.