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  1. Nig

    Nig Well-Known Member

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    4th February.
    Anyone looking forward to this?

    Like to watch the sled events, jumps and a bit skiing mesel.
     
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  2. Chunksafc

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    Thanks for the head up, I love watching the speed skating.

    Is it in BBC or have I got to trawl iptv?
     
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    Definitely! I love the Winter Olympics. I like most of the events but I'm a bit of an ice hockey fan. The only disappointing thing is that players from the NHL won't be taking part.
     
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    Love the biathlon (ski - shooting).
    Ski like the clappers without being so knackered to shooting a small target in a standing and a prone position.
    The ski-jumpers all should be sectioned.
    l’ve been up to the top of the incline at Holmenkollen, Oslo. It is, l think, terrifying. <yikes><yikes>
     
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    C19RK73 Red & White army!

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    Aye I’ll show an interest, we have a few superstars known and no doubt a new few
     
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    The Jamaican bobsled team are back. First time since '98.
    Feel the rhythm
    Feel the rhyme
     
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  7. Chunksafc

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    It's bobsled time :afro::1980_boogie_down:
     
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    When you see them on the tv it looks bad enough , even though all the snow takes away some perspective. I went to top of one in Austria once in the summer . Realised just how the ramp is basically up on a steep slope , and on takeoff they go up as the ground is continuing to go down . Respect - Eddie the Eagle !
     
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  9. Nig

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    BBC and Eurosports.
    Like a bit speed skating too.
    Mostly the wimmins bendin ower with tight pants <laugh>
     
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    They always show crap camera angles that don't give a good perspective of it imo.
     
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    Makemstine Roger Well-Known Member

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    love the winter sports and look forward to some thrilling entertainment
     
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    i’ve seen a couple of the Finnish ones up close in Lahti and Rukka. Just plain nuts.
     
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    The best winter sporting events for me are the snowboarding slopestyle and the snowboarding races which are about as exciting as it gets. You never know what's going to happen in them but it's rarely a clean race. Carnage a lot of the time but when they do get going it's a fun and unpredictable watch.
     
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    Best speedskating moment ever :emoticon-0102-bigsm

     
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    that sport where the use the brush and sweep the disk thing on the ice, cannot think what the call it i am on special brew like at the minute. tobogganning is good, and the eddie the eagle ski jump.
     
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    Curling
     
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    The ski jumping was invented by a Norwegian, nobody else would be daft enough to tie a couple of planks of wood to their feet and throw themselves off a mountain!
     
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  18. Nig

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    Scotch shìte <laugh>
     
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    I'm pretty good at that tbh ...

    ... dropped a beauty out on Sunday morning <laugh>
     
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    Ice rink ;) <laugh>
     
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