2022 Olympic coverage

[singsing]

Perhaps curling is a simple game like shuffleboard and lawn darts. But your scrub pick-up team would lose 64-0 to the Olympic team without them breaking a sweat.

Only a fool would think they can go from drinking beer on the couch in their living room to gold medaling in the Olympics - regardless of how "simple" the event may be.

Lol..I don't drink beer or sit on the couch and if you can't tell a joke when you see one you need to get off the couch more often. I wouldn't waste my time even trying to master the art of curling.. It's stupid!

 

[simply1]

Curling is pretty fun to play, but my knees are shot from basketball so hard to enjoy.

 

[enisthemenace]

I like downhill, but I think I like Super G even more.

 

[BCClone]

I like downhill, but I think I like Super G even more.

What is the main difference? It looks like the same course.

 

[enisthemenace]

What is the main difference? It looks like the same course.

Shorter hill (downhill starts at the very top of the mountain), but more turns in super G. It’s still a speed race, but they don’t get as fast as the downhill because there are more gates to hit. Downhill guys were getting close to 90 mph. Mid 70’s in super g. The edges are steeper in SG and I feel like these guys have to react faster too.

 

[enisthemenace]

These guys know that finishing on the podium is going to take a perfect run. Lines are way too aggressive and missing gates now. Just hope someone doesn’t get hurt here trying to do too much.

 

[isucyfan]

Yikes, did anyone catch this?

 

[enisthemenace]

Yikes, did anyone catch this?

See. This guy either didn’t reacted quickly enough or chose the wrong line.

Guy in the downhill the other day got hit in the face with a gate. Was a bloody mess at the end of his run.

 

[RonBurgundy]

Other than Nathan Chen, the entire USA team seems to be on the struggle bus. Tough loss v Canada in WHockey in prelims.

 

[WooBadger18]

Yikes, did anyone catch this?

I don’t think it is from this Olympics (or even from the Olympics) I want to say it’s from the mid 2000s

 

[enisthemenace]

I don’t think it is from this Olympics (or even from the Olympics) I want to say it’s from the mid 2000s

Yeah…it’s old. Still “ouch”.

 

[isufbcurt]

Eileen Gu hitting the 1620 with a perfect landing in big air was one of the most badass things I've ever seen!!!

 

[cyclonespiker33]

Eileen Gu hitting the 1620 with a perfect landing in big air was one of the most badass things I've ever seen!!!

Pretty incredible

 

[AuH2O]

They sure have big snow making machines in China.

No wonder we can't get any snow in Iowa this winter! All the moisture is sucked out of the atmosphere by those contraptions. But it is for a good cause. Guess NBC just discovered China's top secret Climate Change whatchamacallits. I foresee the storyline for the next James or Jane Bond movie.

It's probably a bunch of ground up old mattresses and asbestos filled pipe insulation.

 

[CycloneDaddy]

Eileen Gu hitting the 1620 with a perfect landing in big air was one of the most badass things I've ever seen!!!

Sucks she decided to rep China instead of Merica. She is a very talented individual.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Pretty incredible

That was probably a mid air decision to keep going based on her launch. Amazing.

 

[isucyfan]

I don’t think it is from this Olympics (or even from the Olympics) I want to say it’s from the mid 2000s

Ah, my bad. Saw it in my Twitter feed and thought it was current. But, still it managed to give me the phantom aches.

 

[isufbcurt]

Sucks she decided to rep China instead of Merica. She is a very talented individual.

I don't fault her. This happens a lot in other sports, so imo the outrage is dumb.

 

[cyfanatic]

Pretty incredible

I thought it was interesting that they were jumping near a "nuclear facility"...but like many others...I was wrong about what those smokestacks were: https://www.9news.com/article/sport...ourse/73-a7f10cdc-6071-466b-9104-d77299a401f8

 

[NorthCyd]

I thought it was interesting that they were jumping near a "nuclear facility"...but like many others...I was wrong about what those smokestacks were: https://www.9news.com/article/sport...ourse/73-a7f10cdc-6071-466b-9104-d77299a401f8

While there is a smokestack in that image (the tall skinny one) I'm pretty sure those large structures everyone associates with nuclear power plants are actually just cooling towers. They are used in other power plants and industrial facilities and let off steam.