The Winter Olympics thread

What country does Wolverine’s brother play for?

Ireland by the looks of things

The Skier Cross and Snowboard Cross should be a good watch, Some of the booters are bloody huuuuge, my favourite are the hip jumps on the apex of a corner, so much chance of carnage!
Pity that Palmer didn’t make the cut for the USA, my money is on Jacobs to take the win by a country mile, that kid is super talented and super fast.

Half pipe

Have the Russians perfected cloning technology? Only I’m watching the opening ceremony and I’ll swear it’s the same white-booted lady leading out all the teams.

Oh, and loving the American outfits…

Righto, that’s TWO British guys in the final of the snowboard slopestyle, Jamie Nicholls went straight into the finals from the qualifiers, and Billy Morgan only bloody just finished TOP of the semi finals.

08.45 today if you want to show support.

Play it cool rodders, play it cool…

How huge iss that terrain park, and how big do they go!

It’s like looking down the hahnekham downhill. This slopestyle stuff makes me scared just to watch. When you think how big a tiddly little jumps feels to us mortals, those jumps are immense. Mega cocones!

Up before 8am on a Saturday when I’m not at work to watch the slope style! Should be great.
Men’s DH is always the highlight for me but loads of other stuff will have me glued to the tele.

And why the hell would anyone have a problem with Ed Leigh’s commentay? Knows his stuff, not a prat, enthusiastic…certainly could be worse.. if it was 99% of other commentators.

Ed and Graham are both bloody good IMO – why knock guys who know what they are talking about and love the sport ?

Are stupid clothes compulsory for snowboarding?

Not at all, I wear my best tweed suit, deerstalker and a sturdy brogue when I stomping those double cabs

Are stupid clothes compulsory for snowboarding?

You are asking a load of cyclists about silly looking sports clothing??? Nah, it’s a golf forum you should be on.

🙂

As this is a thread for loving, not fighting, all I will say is that Ed Leigh needs to bill himself as a TV presenter, not a ‘snowboarder’.

Not a good start for Morgan.

You see, if he’d tucked his shirt in he wouldn’t have fallen off. 🙂

BOOM!

… sorry, getting a bit excited about the slopestyle

This is gooooooood!

Bulgarian cocktail menu! Brilliant.

Poor Billy. Now stalled from Jamie as well.

Damn.

Oh well.

Margins for error are insane.

Two GB riders in top 10. I’m havin’ that!

Sage and Torstein were two of my favourite riders to watch so pleased Sage managed to get the gold, and possibly marks a change the direction of judging to style and creativity over triple corks with mute grabs.

Should be interesting in super pipe as shaun is hoping to land the first triple, but if its fugly it won’t mean shit.

Awesommmz!

Bode blows it. Damn.

🙂

Jenny Jones finals coming up in 15mins!

Also, if ice bowls curling is in the winter Olympics, why isn’t bowls in the summer version?

Love the slopestyle camera drone 😉

Jenny Jones second run ! Fantastic

That’s going to hurt! Helmet smashed!

look at her lid. jings.

Super tough, smash helmet, get up and ride on

There you go anyone who doesn’t think helmets don’t save lives – she would be in hospital right now without one.

Loving the commentary. Hoping everyone else crashes!

The state of that helmet….bet she seeing stars!!!
Fair play for her for getting back up and boarding back down.

… how tense is this…

Squeaky bum time now! One more to come

Crash, crash, crash, crash, crash

Yes!

Awesome!!