Off Topic Winter Olympics

[sb_73]

Multi tasking watching the game and opening ceremony.

To my surprise so far the following countries have winter sports competitors…

Haiti, the Philippines, Eritrea, Guinea Bissau, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Malta, Nigeria (cross country skier, naturally), Puerto Rico, Singapore, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay. Lots of creative citizenship choices in there.

No longer a surprise to see Jamaica.

Kazakhstan offering £180k for any of their athletes to get a gold.

 

[qprbeth]

I do love a good opening ceremony!

Anyway. Curling looks good...but now to play Canada and USA...probably both better than us.
Today is crunch day in the round robin .
Win one and I feel we will get a medal.
Lose both and we will be in the wrong frame of mind to win a medal.

( could be worse as I believe these two are in all the remaining disciplines and we need them to be mentally excellent too)

 

[Didley Squat]

Young Italian Aussie in the ski jump doing aerials type thingy, was place as 1st reserve, an injury to other competitor mean he got in. Ending up blitzing the run and got a nine point something to make it in the race! Go you good thing!

 

[Didley Squat]

I have my concerns…..

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[sb_73]

Brits appear to be bottling it when it gets to the sharp end.

 

[sb_73]

Mixed team ski jumping on now. WTF.

 

[kiwiqpr]

Mixed team ski jumping on now. WTF.

Got to do something to make the winter Olympics popular with the kids

 

[SW Hoops]

Mixed team ski jumping on now. WTF.

It’s team ‘snow angels’ tomorrow Sb - that’s for the little kids

 

[Stroller]

The BBC correspondent just got quite excited about the fact that it's snowing.

 

[Sooperhoop]

The BBC correspondent just got quite excited about the fact that it's snowing.

As we haven't won a sausage yet it's no surprise...

 

[Kilburn]

As we haven't won a sausage yet it's no surprise...

How about a gold medal in Skeleton?

 

[Sooperhoop]

How about a gold medal in Skeleton?

I'd rather have a sausage...

 

[Sooperhoop]

Another gold for GB in the Mixed Team Snowboard Cross which is like a ski relay, a brilliant performance by both Huw Nightingale and Charlotte Bankes...

 

[Taffvalerowdy]

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[Star of David Bardsley]

Three golds, zero silver, zero bronze. Death or glory.

 

[Didley Squat]

Aussies have won a couple gold, a silver & a bronze.

Make that, 3 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze and a carton of Fourex XXXX Cold Beer!

 

[Wherever]

i know I said not to gloat but how’s the cricket going

 

[Didley Squat]

i know I said not to gloat but how’s the cricket going

We're focusing totally of the Winter Olympics, as per thread title, but thanks for asking.

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

We're focusing totally of the Winter Olympics, as per thread title, but thanks for asking.

Struggling with runs either way. As is Kiwi.

 

[sb_73]

Just watched the Men’s Freestyle Big Air final. It’s blokes skiing down a vertical hill then doing mid air tricks. No idea how it was scored but utterly brilliant and even a complete know nothing like me could see why the blokes who finished at the top were the best. Apparently, according to the BBC commentary team who added nothing to the experience, making no effort to explain the technical terms they use, this was the best Big Air (men’s freestyle) competition ever.

Now on to the curling, where only the result matters there is no action.