PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics

[Colly]

11 hours ago, Pooker said:

Other countries coverage doesn't follow their athletes for the most part? I feel like American coverage does a pretty good job of covering as much as possible, with a heavy focus on American athletes. But, I have nothing to compare our coverage on.

We get pretty much everything, to the extent that for the Summers we get an extra 8-10 BBC channels so we can watch Kazakhstan v East Timor in the field hockey. 

[Gazz]

9 hours ago, million$$man said:

I think I have found something more confusing than determining what a catch is in the NFL.... What the red, yellow, and red boxes constitute in this team figure skating competition 

Required elements (jumps, spins etc.) that must be incorporated into the routine. Green means it was performed correctly, yellow means it could have been done better, red means it was failed or missed.

[Pooker]

10 hours ago, Gazz said:

Required elements (jumps, spins etc.) that must be incorporated into the routine. Green means it was performed correctly, yellow means it could have been done better, red means it was failed or missed.

I think yellow means its under review, so it can be either green or red.

10 hours ago, Colly said:

We get pretty much everything, to the extent that for the Summers we get an extra 8-10 BBC channels so we can watch Kazakhstan v East Timor in the field hockey. 

That's awesome. I'm moving to England in two years.

[Gazz]

The hell you are, we're full.

[Lineker]

He wants a blue passport!

[GhostMachine]

If more athletes from Russia run their mouths about the Russian ban, like the one who got the bronze in speedskating, then I'm all for stripping medals and banning Russian athletes from the Olympics for at least 20 years. And this asshole isn't clean. He tested positive for a banned substance in 2016, but was cleared because he might have taken it before it was banned.

(Why 20 years? Because by then most or all of the current Russian athletes will be too old to compete.)

[The Buscher]

Love watching the snowboading slopestyle contests.  They do some crazy shit.

[jmac7164]

4 hours ago, GhostMachine said:

If more athletes from Russia run their mouths about the Russian ban, like the one who got the bronze in speedskating, then I'm all for stripping medals and banning Russian athletes from the Olympics for at least 20 years. And this asshole isn't clean. He tested positive for a banned substance in 2016, but was cleared because he might have taken it before it was banned.

(Why 20 years? Because by then most or all of the current Russian athletes will be too old to compete.)

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By that Logic companies could make PED's and add some not medical ingredient and its a new substance andbam unbabnned substance

[Mx. Canadian Destroyer]

Canada gets its first gold in Team Figure Skating. It was pretty awesome. 

[Gazz]

10 hours ago, jmac7164 said:

By that Logic companies could make PED's and add some not medical ingredient and its a new substance andbam unbabnned substance

No, they couldn't. It would still contain the banned substance.

[Lineker]

One of the female Australian snowboarders managed to really fuck up her face after wiping out on the halfpipe.

[Bobfoc]

Elise Christie is the Pastor Maldonado of speed skating.

[Adam]

I saw she was about to run in the final, went away for a few minutes, loaded up BBC Sport to see the outcome when I came back and literally thought "I bet the main headline says 'Christie crashes out'" half joking with myself.

Lo and behold.

[Bobfoc]

I feel gutted for her. I hope she gets a medal in one of the other two distances.

[Lineker]

5 hours ago, Bobfoc said:

Elise Christie is the Pastor Maldonado of speed skating.

She says that she was pushed but I dunno. Steven Gerrard would have been proud of that slip.

[Liam]

2 minutes ago, Lineker said:

She says that she was pushed but I dunno. Steven Gerrard would have been proud of that slip.

I haven't seen it again, but I read the suggestion that she was caught but was already going down anyway?

[Lineker]

8 minutes ago, Liam said:

I haven't seen it again, but I read the suggestion that she was caught but was already going down anyway?

Basically, yes.

[Adam]

One of the other competitors was full on pushed, leading to a demotion for the offending Korean. That was a push, not what happened to Christie.

[Lineker]

TEEN OLYMPIAN OVERSLEPT, LOST COAT, SAID FUCK ON TV, AND WON U.S.'S FIRST GOLD OF 2018

Can't be bothered to change the capital letters tbh.

[Pooker]

Pretty happy for Shaun White, nice little redemption this year for him. And an amazing run to win the gold.