Winter Olympics No Video Thread

[elgerber]

These fans at the Women’s Hockey game cracked me up.

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Are those the players three brothers? I haven't seen that outfit yet, but since they always match and wear red white and blue, I would guess it's them.

 

[jrmasm]

I watched the second run of the men’s slalom live. They had about 7 or 8 low seeded athletes from countries that never medal, never even come close to the top 10. It was refreshing to watch them.

Iceland
Haiti
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Israel
Chile
And a few others.

The first run had athletes that didn’t make the cut to the second round:

India
Singapore
Iran
Guinea-Bissau
Etc.

The final athlete, the favorite to win gold from Norway, messed up and had a hissy fit. He threw his ski poles, took off his skis, then climbed under the netting fence and stomped off to the margins.

He was probably considered hiking back to Norway.

His grandfather died on opening day. I’ll give him some grace.

 

[Disneefun]

His grandfather died on opening day. I’ll give him some grace.

Yeah, he said he didn't even know if he would ski at all. And then he barely missed a medal in the GS prior to the slalom. That's a lot. I'd probably head for the woods, too.

 

[irlandaise]

Spoiler for the Pairs Skating:

Spoiler: Pairs medals

Congratulations to the Georgian pairs team for bringing home their country's first-ever Winter Olympics medal!

 

[robinb]

Are those the players three brothers? I haven't seen that outfit yet, but since they always match and wear red white and blue, I would guess it's them.

I'm not sure. I saw them later on and one of them had his head off and it looked youngish ... college aged.

 

[citruscurtis]

Oh ...I thought they were trying to skate by on the rules

No skating in curling lol

 

[robinb]

Are those the players three brothers? I haven't seen that outfit yet, but since they always match and wear red white and blue, I would guess it's them.

Yes! It was!

 

[ronandannette]

I just saw this and I’m laughing so hard…

https://twitter.com/x/status/2022659449849340360

 

[hardcorestitch]

RIP US W Olympic Speed Skating Team… no gold medal in Milan

 

[elgerber]

Yes! It was!

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I was going to come back and confirm this LOL. Our local news station anchor that is over there, posted a photo with them later that day with those outfits and hoods.

 

[Diznygrl]

If you can prove that you pay for the NBC channels through a TV service, you can also use the NBC Sports app to watch all replays and live events the same as Peacock.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I loved watching Japan's free skate so much that I rewinded it and watched it again, loved the emotion they had and the song choices were spot on.

 

[soccerdad72]

If you can prove that you pay for the NBC channels through a TV service, you can also use the NBC Sports app to watch all replays and live events the same as Peacock.

Thanks for the heads up! It worked!

 

[irlandaise]

A question for anyone who understands figure skating scoring:

Spoiler: Amber Glenn short program

Did she end up in eighth place just because she turned a triple/double into a double/single or something like that? I didn't see her fall. Were all the other short programs so clean that simply downgrading a jump could drop someone that low?

 

[jdb in AZ]

A question for anyone who understands figure skating scoring:

Spoiler: Amber Glenn short program

Did she end up in eighth place just because she turned a triple/double into a double/single or something like that? I didn't see her fall. Were all the other short programs so clean that simply downgrading a jump could drop someone that low?

Johnny Weir said the mistake on the double axle cost Amber 7 points, and she's back like 12 points off the lead. So sad. She said she had it -- her triple axle was amazing, but messed up an easier jump. I hope she has a better long program, but 12 points is a lot to make up. The Japanese were phenomenal. Congrats to American Alyssa Liu.

 

[TwoMisfits]

A question for anyone who understands figure skating scoring:

Spoiler: Amber Glenn short program

Did she end up in eighth place just because she turned a triple/double into a double/single or something like that? I didn't see her fall. Were all the other short programs so clean that simply downgrading a jump could drop someone that low?

Johnny Weir said the mistake on the double axle cost Amber 7 points, and she's back like 12 points off the lead. So sad. She said she had it -- her triple axle was amazing, but messed up an easier jump. I hope she has a better long program, but 12 points is a lot to make up. The Japanese were phenomenal. Congrats to American Alyssa Liu.

It was not the mistake on the axel - that was perfect.

Later in the program, she did a double only jump. That jump must be a triple to score. If it's not, she loses all points for the element and scores 0 for that element. When there are only 7 elements, that's huge.

TL/DR - it would have been better to just keep rotating and fall on an attempted triple, b/c she'd have gotten at least 2-3 overall points then, vs doing a clean double. The short program is the program you must do what the judging asks, or lose significant points. The same would happen if someone did a single axel vs a double/triple axel - 0 points - even though normally the element has a point value.

 

[jdb in AZ]

It was not the mistake on the axel - that was perfect.

Later in the program, she did a double only jump. That jump must be a triple to score. If it's not, she loses all points for the element and scores 0 for that element. When there are only 7 elements, that's huge.

TL/DR - it would have been better to just keep rotating and fall on an attempted triple, b/c she'd have gotten at least 2-3 overall points then, vs doing a clean double. The short program is the program you must do what the judging asks, or lose significant points. The same would happen if someone did a single axel vs a double/triple axel - 0 points - even though normally the element has a point value.

Agreed. That's why I said it was amazing.

FWIW, the ice dancing rules will be changed for the next olympics, making them more of a set pattern. I hope they won't be required to all use the same music. Remember years (and years and years) ago they all had to dance to the same polka music? It was horrendous.
https://www.newsweek.com/sports/maj...aem_-mVO4tv8CeqycTXstG3A2w#Echobox=1771274793

 

[Lesverts]

Spoiler for the Pairs Skating:

Spoiler: Pairs medals

Congratulations to the Georgian pairs team for bringing home their country's first-ever Winter Olympics medal!

They are Russian, train in Russia. Have no meaningful connection to Georgia beyond the Georgian Skating Federation getting them the paperwork necessary to compete for Georgia. Russia allowed back in in 2030, all these skaters that are competing for Georgia/Hungary/Armenia/Israel will switch back.

Agreed. That's why I said it was amazing.

FWIW, the ice dancing rules will be changed for the next olympics, making them more of a set pattern. I hope they won't be required to all use the same music. Remember years (and years and years) ago they all had to dance to the same polka music? It was horrendous.
https://www.newsweek.com/sports/maj...aem_-mVO4tv8CeqycTXstG3A2w#Echobox=1771274793

Bit confused by this. Isn't clear if they are going back to the 3 skates or making the short dance more technical.

 

[jdb in AZ]

They are Russian, train in Russia. Have no meaningful connection to Georgia beyond the Georgian Skating Federation getting them the paperwork necessary to compete for Georgia. Russia allowed back in in 2030, all these skaters that are competing for Georgia/Hungary/Armenia/Israel will switch back.



Bit confused by this. Isn't clear if they are going back to the 3 skates or making the short dance more technical.

I don't think everything has been decided yet.

 

[irlandaise]

It was not the mistake on the axel - that was perfect.

Later in the program, she did a double only jump. That jump must be a triple to score. If it's not, she loses all points for the element and scores 0 for that element. When there are only 7 elements, that's huge.

TL/DR - it would have been better to just keep rotating and fall on an attempted triple, b/c she'd have gotten at least 2-3 overall points then, vs doing a clean double. The short program is the program you must do what the judging asks, or lose significant points. The same would happen if someone did a single axel vs a double/triple axel - 0 points - even though normally the element has a point value.

Thank you for the very clear explanation, TwoMisfits. That's interesting that skaters get some credit for a failed attempt but none if they successfully complete an easier jump when they're supposed to do the harder one.