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I Love the Winter Olympics

Rosie1

Rosie1

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All the athletes are awesome. I especially enjoyed the watching the skaters, and am watching the US Women's Hockey game right now.

Who else is watching the games with a laptop on your lap? :happy:
 
Rosie1 said:
All the athletes are awesome. I especially enjoyed the watching the skaters, and am watching the US Women's Hockey game right now.

Who else is watching games with a laptop on your lap? :happy:
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Have a television next to me in my home office so I can keep tabs on those events I enjoy most. Been a good Olympics, tonight the Canada couple knocked it out of the rink in the dance comp.
 
Have not watched a lick but I did note that many people have switched to streaming, and that counting them the number of people watching is down 10% from Sochi, which was itself lowly rated.

One has to wonder if NBC paid too much
 
Snowboard X is amazing: fast, intense, and lots of crashes.
 
Man, the US men's curling team went through the Swiss like cheese.

Get it?

Swiss.....cheese?

Because of the holes.....




Man, I crack myself up some timed.
 
Rosie1 said:
All the athletes are awesome. I especially enjoyed the watching the skaters, and am watching the US Women's Hockey game right now.

Who else is watching the games with a laptop on your lap? :happy:
Click to expand...

As a Dutch man I also enjoy the skating because we are the best in the world at it and because of that we score plenty of medals on it. It even gets us high in the total ranking of the Olympic games. With just a few events left we are at 8 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze so we are very satisfied with how it went (not perfectly, we missed one gold due to our male team skaters when one of their skates broke during the race (the spring in their clap skates malfunctioned/broke) and as the time of the 3rd is counted, they clearly lost to a very good Norwegian team.

But still 8 gold, 6 silver and 5 bronze for a country of a mere 17 million ain't too bad IMHO.
 
Its neat seeing countries that rarely factor in the more hyped summer games doing well in their nationals sports. I have been following the olympics closely since I was 9 (68 summer games in Mexico) and made an effort (as a shooter) to be on the team twice, and now coach athletes who aspire to the olympics (one was the alternate on the last team). The closing of the Olympics is always a bit sad because for many of the athletes it is, in many ways, the closing of the best thing in their lives. For many athletes, especially the ones who don't become media stars after these games, it can be all downhill from here. It shows how frail life is for many. And it is those athletes I think of when the games close.
 
Congrats to the USA men’s curling team! I was awake in the middle of the night and watched them win the Gold medal live. I love watching curling. It’s relatable. It’s shuffleboard on ice, and the athletes are regular people who work ****ty jobs like the rest of us. They aren’t Lindsey Vonn who has $50 million because she’s hot.
 
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