posted by Ironman92

Maybe I missed it or maybe it’s no longer an event....but what is the speed skating where there are 4 competitors and they are hauling ass just inches from one another for like 5 laps around a short track?

Everything I’ve seen has been on a longer track and they switch from inside to outside lanes and you can’t tell who is going to win until the final two seconds because of the set up

the full short track schedule

https://www.olympic.org/pyeongchang-2018/results/en/short-track-speed-skating/daily-schedule.htm

you know there really just aren't enough events for the Winter Olympics when they have events like "biatholon relay"

Been watxhing some each night.   Russian curler busted for ped....said he musta been slipped something.....

Mildly interesting so far but hockey. .....,man it's not anything close to what it was.  Bring back nhl

Not sure if this is being discussed, and I haven't watched a minute of the Olympics, but it looks like this lady George Costanza'd her way into the Olympics....

https://www.cbssports.com/olympics/news/meet-elizabeth-swaney-the-american-skier-who-scammed-her-way-to-the-olympics/

posted by BR1986FB

Not sure if this is being discussed, and I haven't watched a minute of the Olympics, but it looks like this lady George Costanza'd her way into the Olympics....

https://www.cbssports.com/olympics/news/meet-elizabeth-swaney-the-american-skier-who-scammed-her-way-to-the-olympics/

Gets the gold for creativity 

Still watching hockey but it is missing something without the NHL.

Never heard....did south KoreA women speed skater get dq'd?

posted by Spock

WTF is Lindsay Vonn doing?  The robot?

LOL.  She's visualizing her run.  I saw that, she's got some cool moves.

Also saw a half-pipe skier doing the same thing before her run.

US cross-country history made.....very exciting

In honor of the goal by Hilary Knight (NSFW nudity): https://i.imgur.com/Yw2v3Oj.jpg

Men’s curling pulls off the ginormous upset and beats Canada to advance to the Gold Medal game. Guaranteed silver will be the best ever finish for the US. 

Womens Gold Medal Hockey Game between US and Canada was fantastic.  Glad I stayed up until 230 for it.

posted by wildcats20

Men’s curling pulls off the ginormous upset and beats Canada to advance to the Gold Medal game. Guaranteed silver will be the best ever finish for the US. 

Gold medal match is at 130 AM on Saturday....

The 5000m relay might be the most bizarre event I've seen.

posted by friendfromlowry

The 5000m relay might be the most bizarre event I've seen.

I've always felt like some events are created just so second-tier athletes can get in.  Two-man luge, seriously?

I don't care if it is qualifying individuals competing together as a group or in a relay, but if you're only in the Olympics as the fourth guy in a 4-man bobsled....hell, that guy is practically just a spectator who just happens to have a shot at getting a medal.

posted by friendfromlowry

The 5000m relay might be the most bizarre event I've seen.

 

posted by gut

I've always felt like some events are created just so second-tier athletes can get in.  Two-man luge, seriously?

I don't care if it is qualifying individuals competing together as a group or in a relay, but if you're only in the Olympics as the fourth guy in a 4-man bobsled....hell, that guy is practically just a spectator who just happens to have a shot at getting a medal.

Each person in a bobsled is actually doing something. 🙄

posted by wildcats20

Each person in a bobsled is actually doing something. 🙄

What's your medal for?

"I was the third guy riding in a sled"

posted by gut

What's your medal for?

"I was the third guy riding in a sled"

Hey he earned that medal!

posted by gut

What's your medal for?

"I was the third guy riding in a sled"

....it's for helping your team win a medal. 

Seeing the womens hockey team actually sing the national anthem was a nice thing.  Need more of that then just standing there looking like you dont care

Finally enjoyed some short track speed skating...crazy ass races

So if women's snowboarding is way high on the hottie scale, then ski cross is the opposite.  I literally saw the first brutally ugly chick I've ever seen anywhere from Sweden competing in ski cross.  I'm betting she actually was a man, and not from Sweden.

posted by Spock

Seeing the womens hockey team actually sing the national anthem was a nice thing.  Need more of that then just standing there looking like you dont care

Who were the Gold medalists from the USA, who looked like they didn't care, during the national anthem?  

https://sports.yahoo.com/russian-bobsledder-wore-anti-doping-shirt-just-failed-doping-test-112808964.html

That is really funny. Sounds like Russia might be in line for another "Olympic Ban"