Winter Olympics 2022

[sir roger]

Call yourself a sports fan , easy , when you aren't transfixed by an oversized casserole pot being chased down a patch of ice by a hyperactive hospital cleaner in their slippers.

[YorkshireRed]

Just been watching the luge. The mens doubles is an interesting spectacle if you like your homo erotica to include lycra, ice, crash helmets, ice and breakneck speed. 

[Remmie]

The standard of the Great Britain team is summed up when I switched on the coverage the other day and the pundits were genuinely enthusiastic about the fact a British racer...had finished the race. 

[dockers_strike]

Have we won anything yet? Asking for a friend!

[Creator Supreme]

7 minutes ago, dockers_strike said:

Have we won anything yet? Asking for a friend!

Nope, curling is probably best hope now that there's no Amy Williams or Lizzy Yarnold in the Skeleton. Probably end up with 1 medal at the most.

[dockers_strike]

14 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Nope, curling is probably best hope now that there's no Amy Williams or Lizzy Yarnold in the Skeleton. Probably end up with 1 medal at the most.

Oh for the days of Torvill and Dean, Robin Cousins and erm, anyone else?!

[Bobby Hundreds]

They need to introduce the event of sliding down a medium sized hill on a stolen for sale sign and jumping ship before you hit the road. Then I could look at an event and think I could of been a contender.

[cochyn]

Pity there's no medals for seeing how many perfectly capable 4x4s can be abandoned in a slightly snowy ditch. We'd absolutely smash that.

[Code]

Norway’s latest gold medal.

 

 

[TheHowieLama]

2 hours ago, Remmie said:

The standard of the Great Britain team is summed up when I switched on the coverage the other day and the pundits were genuinely enthusiastic about the fact a British racer...had finished the race. 

It's the taking part that counts. You don't have to be a winner... well you know.

 

Nil Snowtis Nisi Optimum

[VladimirIlyich]

Our weather isnt that cold,its rain we excel in. Look at how well we do in Swimming and boaty things at the olympics. And if you didnt have to dodge bad driving on a bike we wouldnt be much use in cycling either.

[YorkshireRed]

2 minutes ago, VladimirIlyich said:

Our weather isnt that cold,its rain we excel in. Look at how well we do in Swimming and boaty things at the olympics. And if you didnt have to dodge bad driving on a bike we wouldnt be much use in cycling either.

We’d be good at the Rain Olympics. We’d particularly excel at:

 

Moaning about the weather.

Predicting when it will “turn out nice”.

Bringing the washing in.

Barbecuing in the rain.

 

We’d still be shit at the blue ribbon event;

 

Driving in the rain. 

[VladimirIlyich]

19 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

We’d be good at the Rain Olympics. We’d particularly excel at:

 

Moaning about the weather.

Predicting when it will “turn out nice”.

Bringing the washing in.

Barbecuing in the rain.

 

We’d still be shit at the blue ribbon event;

 

Driving in the rain. 

Spot on.

Now if we had 'skiing on slush' we'd be half decent.

[Creator Supreme]

The 15 year old Russian skating protege Kamila Valieva has been rumoured to have failed a drugs test! 15 for fucks sake!

[TheHowieLama]

5 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

The 15 year old Russian skating protege Kamila Valieva has been rumoured to have failed a drugs test! 15 for fucks sake!

Dopes.

[sir roger]

Supposed to be ' non-enhancing ' isn't it , I'm guessing whacky-baccy.

[easytoslip]

On 09/02/2022 at 12:01, sir roger said:

Call yourself a sports fan , easy , when you aren't transfixed by an oversized casserole pot being chased down a patch of ice by a hyperactive hospital cleaner in their slippers.

Haha it just looks silly, saying that, my brother has been watching it and said there was this girl who can do four mid air spins which no one else can do, she even fell over but was so far ahead on points because of her feat that she still won whatever discipline it was, he likes it but not for me unless its on the telly in an empty pub

[easytoslip]

On 09/02/2022 at 19:29, Bobby Hundreds said:

They need to introduce the event of sliding down a medium sized hill on a stolen for sale sign and jumping ship before you hit the road. Then I could look at an event and think I could of been a contender.

Or on an old sheet of old metal sliding down the rocky ralla embankment and similarly getting off before twatting yourself on the concrete cable thing just before the railway lines. 

[TheHowieLama]

15 hours ago, sir roger said:

Supposed to be ' non-enhancing ' isn't it , I'm guessing whacky-baccy.

Heart medicine that increases blood flow and heart efficiency.

 

Russian athletes are no stranger to the substance. In the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Russia's bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva was disqualified two days before her race after testing positive for trimetazidine.

[sir roger]

1 hour ago, TheHowieLama said:

Heart medicine that increases blood flow and heart efficiency.

 

Russian athletes are no stranger to the substance. In the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Russia's bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeeva was disqualified two days before her race after testing positive for trimetazidine.

Cheers,  Howie , the BBC sport app definitely said a few days back that the medal ceremony was delayed due to a non-enhancing failure , but this seems totally at odds with that report.

[KMD7]

This men's Arial ski jump thing on BBC now is mental.

[YorkshireRed]

Just watched the young Russian skater do her thing. Whatever the rights/wrongs of her being allowed to compete her performance, even with a mistake, was a thing of beauty. 

 

Apparently an additional skater will go through to the next stage in case they decide to kick her out between now and then. 
 

If she’s knowingly taken something she shouldn’t, she obviously shouldn’t be allowed to compete. There’s ways and means though and this must be very difficult on a fifteen year old. 

[Bjornebye]

11 minutes ago, YorkshireRed said:

Just watched the young Russian skater do her thing. Whatever the rights/wrongs of her being allowed to compete her performance, even with a mistake, was a thing of beauty. 

 

Apparently an additional skater will go through to the next stage in case they decide to kick her out between now and then. 
 

If she’s knowingly taken something she shouldn’t, she obviously shouldn’t be allowed to compete. There’s ways and means though and this must be very difficult on a fifteen year old. 

Haven't they said they wont kick her out because of the emotional impact on her with her being so young? 

[YorkshireRed]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

Haven't they said they wont kick her out because of the emotional impact on her with her being so young? 

That’s the current line but they’re allowing an extra competitor through to the next stage in case that changes between now and Thursday when they go again.

 

I suspect she will see the competition out now but it’s not 100% guaranteed. 
 

Whatever, it seems this has been handled very badly.

[TheHowieLama]

They have already said there will not be medal ceremony if she is in the top 3.

 

The 3 ROC skaters are expected to sweep. Can't remember why they have to compete as the ROC....