The Winter Olympics thread

Gutted 🙁

Agree entirely. I’m blaming the terrible pipe.

Yup, that pipe is shocking. If you’re putting your body on the line you’d expect it to be world class. I’ve seen better conditions in the ‘domes.

When is Shaun White on?

When is Shaun White on?

Heat 2 – starts at noon.
RM.

Thank you RM.

DB

We are getting spanked in the curling aren’t we?

We’re sitting on about 2.5 million pieces of scaffolding put together by the lowest bidder 😆

We are getting spanked in the curling aren’t we?

I would rather watch that

The Guardian live feed is pretty good.

We are getting spanked in the curling aren’t we?

New world record in the womens, just trounced the yanks 12:3

We are getting spanked in the curling aren’t we?

Good result in the end, not sure how they pulled that off.

Women on much better form today, lets hope it continues through the rest of the games.

Top 4 finish needed in the group but a higher finish should mean an easier semi.

No medal for Shaun White.

Bit of a shocker, but it wasn’t deserved either really. His 2nd run wasn’t clean enough by far.

Nothing for chemmy either. Not sure why she was whooping and cheering after coming over the line in 19th ❓

I’d be happy to get to the bottom after multiple leg breaks, its her last Olympics, TBH I doubt she’ll do the world cup next year. Fair play to her.

Not sure why she was whooping and cheering after coming over the line in 19th

Article in the paper today about here saying that she was just happy to be seen (and I paraphrase) as a girl who never stopped trying and never gave up. Good on her!

Chemmy did bloody well getting to Sochi and starting 42nd to finish 19th with a leg that is very much less than healed.

Incredible to see a tie for first, I have never seen that before in DH. Does the other girl get silver or bronze ?

She gets bronze they said on the commentary. I fully appreciate she’s (chemmy) done very well to actually get there.

I went home early to watch Shaun do the Pipe and I’m rather glad I did. Despite a rather tatty course I thought the riders performed exceptionally in those conditions and I doff my cap to Shaun for going Big in his 2nd run having hurt more than his pride in the 1st I suspect. 😯
I too can’t beleive he’s cut his hair.. 😆

Something I noticed recently, was that all of the snowboarderists now appear to be wearing mittens. I’d always thought that mittens weren’t kool enough for teh kidz the best of choice, what with bindings to faff around with. Something change in the fashion stakes?

Yeah, I noticed that. They wouldn’t interfere with binding faffage, but they do look a bit

for that reason, I’m out.

Something I noticed recently, was that all of the snowboarderists now appear to be wearing mittens. I’d always thought that mittens weren’t kool enough for teh kidz the best of choice, what with bindings to faff around with. Something change in the fashion stakes?

I’ve always worn mittens due to injury and never had a problem with bindings. But agree that they used to be avoided by the cool kids based on fashion. Presumably it’s just the cool thing at the moment? I can’t keep up 🙂

Never seen the need for mittens myself. Not fashion thing (I happily use the Idiot Strings on my gloves), but they just look like a faff. Bindings might be okay but I imagine zips, buckles, buttons, cameras etc would be a pain.

Suppose they are a bit warmer than gloves, but my gloves are pretty toasty already.

Big mitts are easier for wrist guards and I bought a pair when I broke my wrist as gloves didn’t fit

now back in burton ak gloves which are very nice

Czech and Sweden in mens ice hockey at 17.00 go Svenska

Has Putin seen the Luge doubles?

I have a feeling he wouldn’t approve..

On the mitts versus gloves thing, I’ve always worn mitts, mostly due to an old injury (snapped tendon between middle and ring finger, and broken knuckle). They are deff warmer than gloves, and I use a mitts with under gloves for faff negation purposes. Bindings are easy to do up/undo with mitts.

Easier to fake a grab with mitts 😛

mitts are warmer.
especially when you spend a lot of time dragging your hands through the snow to keep yourself upright.

I’ve always worn mitts – never got the memo about them not being cool… 😉

Woodsy – 0930 Slopestyle finals!

No wussing out!

Go big, Woodsy! Go big!

Good show in the skeleton currently 🙂

Loved the dreadlocked Swedish skier who ultra baggy pants fell down on the second to last kicker – “Claire Balding will have a field day”
I know I’m a boarder but a lot of the ski slopestyle runs seemed very similar, very few had a definite “style”, too much spinning for my old head, was good to see the wall ride used though.
Go Woodsy!

Mitts/Gloves – I normally wear mits when skiing, warmer and its easy to do/undo boot clips etc. If zips are small then you have to take one off but that’s easier to do than gloves. Plus my mits are Mammut Extreme so that means I must be a decent skier and cool right ?

Chemmy – she was physched to even make it to the games. I think her best prior result was 13th so 19th with all the injuries is a result.

How about those Japanese ‘kids” an Olympic snow medal at 15 ! White is an old man at 27 🙂

If only we had live streaming here in the office, sooo looking forward to watching Woodsys run 😡

@bikebouy – watch it on your phone then !

STOMPING!

Come on woodsy!