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 matt_himself  Matataland 19 Feb 18 6.14am |
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Is anyone else following and enjoying the Winter Olympics? It’s great to see sports that are not common in the U.K. especially livening people throwing themselves down sheets in ice on what looks like a tea tray and the curling.
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| topcat Holmesdale / Surbiton 19 Feb 18 10.06am |
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I love the event that has 6 snowboarders going off at the same time down a hill with jumps. Great fun to watch. One hour of highlights each evening (BBC2) is about the right amount of coverage for me.
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| Stuk Top half 19 Feb 18 3.40pm |
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Yeah, I've been seeing a fair bit. I was watching slope style until about 3am on the first weekend of it but have been more of a post-sleep viewer since. There was a nice finish in the ice dancing today, where the French couple finish with a long held pose with one of her tits proudly on display, which the IOC deemed worthy of a slow motion replay on the world feed, while the skaters sat awaiting the scores from the judges.
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| PALACE FOR EVER London 19 Feb 18 7.08pm |
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Originally posted by topcat
I love the event that has 6 snowboarders going off at the same time down a hill with jumps. Great fun to watch. One hour of highlights each evening (BBC2) is about the right amount of coverage for me. I agree the 6 (some 4) snowboarders racing at the same time was great. Some very tight finishes and spectacular clashes between them. The commentators got quite excited as well.
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palace_in_frogland  In a broken dream 20 Feb 18 12.06pm |
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Just watched Elise “Crash” Christie fail miserably yet again. She should tie the skates on to her arse as she spends more time on it than standing. Well done you.
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mr. apollo  Somewhere in Switzerland 20 Feb 18 12.23pm |
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I have lived here in Switzerland for over 30 years and still don't give it the time of day, no do not get excited by it at all.
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| Stuk Top half 20 Feb 18 1.11pm |
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Originally posted by palace_in_frogland
Just watched Elise “Crash” Christie fail miserably yet again. She should tie the skates on to her arse as she spends more time on it than standing. Well done you.
Hugely over-hyped by the BBC for consecutive winter Olympics and has a now perfect record of 6 failures, in 6 events. She should take up crashed ice instead.
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 becky over the moon 20 Feb 18 2.51pm |
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I'm still trying to work out how anyone thought a 2-man luge would be a good idea.......
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| palace_in_frogland In a broken dream 20 Feb 18 9.58pm |
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Originally posted by becky
I'm still trying to work out how anyone thought a 2-man luge would be a good idea....... It’s like the Brokeback Mountain of Olympic events...
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| Mr_Gristle In the land of Whelk Eaters 21 Feb 18 5.55pm |
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Loved the snowboard racing, perfect for TV. Also found the cross country skiing relay oddly compelling, as it looks so bloody exhausting. It's all about the ice hockey for me, but for some reason all we get to see is bloody bowls on ice and a procession of very brave people going down a tunnel of ice in almost exactly the same way as each other.
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Henry of Peckham  Eton Mess 21 Feb 18 7.15pm |
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I've found the whole winter sports spectacle absolutely riveting and wonder how they manage to avoid terrible injuries. Unfortunately, I'm now too old for most of it but the "bowls on ice" is genteel by comparison and I'd love to give it a go. Edited by Henry of Peckham (21 Feb 2018 7.15pm)
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| Direwolf Lincoln 21 Feb 18 7.22pm |
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I quite liked the woman freestyle skier who managed to get into the Olympics without ever doing a jump. She seems to have managed it by entering competitions with less than 30 competitors so that she had competed in qualifying events and came in the top 30. Of course in some of them she did not come last because others crashed doing their jumps whilst she just serenely skied down the course.
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