Winter Olympics

Anyone see the video during the opening ceremony of NBC throwing out completely false facts about the Netherlands? Pretty funny reading Dutch people’s reactions lol 

posted by Ironman92

Watching Tyson/Douglas on ESPN 2

Not sure if it is live or not since it’s in Tokyo 

Sorry but it was really really good. I never watched it in it’s entirety. Great!

as you were, sorry 

I'm sure they have a reason for this but I hate when you get interested in an event and they just randomly cut away to something completely different. For some reason I was watching the mens 5000m speed skating finals and the entire time the commentators kept talking up this guy who apparently had won gold in the event twice already and was the GOAT about to crush everyone. Just as you think he's getting ready to skate, they cut away to women's snowboarding and figure skating. 

Figure skating is to the winter olympics as gymnastics is to the summer. There's a fuckload of it and you have no idea if they're doing well or not. 

Will watch a little bit here and there, if it's luge, bobsled, ski jumping, downhill, and hockey toward the finals. 

^^^lol.....that doesn't even look possible to fall like that on the ice

Also, a woman luger had a spectacular wipe out.  Don't think she was hurt.

posted by Automatik

Is there a penalty for that infraction?

wait a second.....how can it be possilbe that THIS OLYMPICS is the first time we've had an openly gay male figure skater competing?

Who give a fuck.

Mens halfpipe final at live 8:30 tonight, should be great. We'll see several brand new tricks from the top guys.

posted by gut

wait a second.....how can it be possilbe that THIS OLYMPICS is the first time we've had an openly gay male figure skater competing?

Yeah, it's hard to imagine Johnny Qu, I mean Weir, ever being in the closet

https://www.foxsports.com.au/olympics/winter-olympics/katie-couric-mocked-mercilessly-by-dutch-for-winter-olympics-speed-skating-gaffe/news-story/28a5a99ed45dc40a73bfa56b1d527ba2

the tweets/comments are pretty damn funny

posted by QuakerOats

https://www.foxsports.com.au/olympics/winter-olympics/katie-couric-mocked-mercilessly-by-dutch-for-winter-olympics-speed-skating-gaffe/news-story/28a5a99ed45dc40a73bfa56b1d527ba2

 

the tweets/comments are pretty damn funny

What she said is not untrue.  She did not say it was how the Dutch commute to work.  She said they have historically skated on their canals to "get from place to place, race each other and have fun."  I lived in Holland for almost a year and this is very true.  They love ice skating and there is a big history of it there.  These jokers that tweeted about it sound like they have a collectivce Napolean complex about their country.  Go pick som tulips in your wooden clogs.  

She said an important mode of transportation. How long are they even frozen in the winter?

Women's hockey.  USA vs the canuks Thursday will be really fun.  

Thursday, Feb. 15 2:40 a.m.USA-Canada

posted by Laley23

She said an important mode of transportation. How long are they even frozen in the winter?

It's spotty as to when it freezes. 

I think she was trying to make a point about how important ice skating is to the Dutch culture.  That's where the sport of speed skating came from.  But of course in our present day, the easily offended cannot wait to pounce on any perceived slight.  I'm ambivilant toward Katie Couric.  But these stupid jackasses trying to turn it into an indictment of Americans in general are reaching.  

It'd be like a comentator saying that BBQ is an important food to the American South and then a bunch of people going apeshit about how we actually eat other foods, that we aren't all rednecks, etc.  

The Twitter wizards and and warriors are something else.  

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

It's spotty as to when it freezes. 

I think she was trying to make a point about how important ice skating is to the Dutch culture.  That's where the sport of speed skating came from.  But of course in our present day, the easily offended cannot wait to pounce on any perceived slight.  I'm ambivilant toward Katie Couric.  But these stupid jackasses trying to turn it into an indictment of Americans in general are reaching.  

 

It'd be like a comentator saying that BBQ is an important food to the American South and then a bunch of people going apeshit about how we actually eat other foods, that we aren't all rednecks, etc.  

 

The Twitter wizards and and warriors are something else.  

Those two comparisons are nothing alike. 

I don’t care about what she said. She just sounded very dumb  and unsure while saying it. I’m sure that didn’t help.

US speed skaters......not good.

US snowboarders...fricking awesome!