# 2026 Winter Olympics - follow along and discussion thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** olympic-sports\ **Created:** [January 11, 2026, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-winter-olympics-follow-along-and-discussion-thread/1026575 "2026-01-11T22:27:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 118
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Saw the women’s downhill today. I will be sparing the rest of my family the execrable USA coverage. They did a pretty good job giving kudos to Breezy Johnson (particularly since I heard precisely zippo about her right up to her run), but once Vonn hit the deck (my guess is that she got herself _too_ fired up and misjudged the distance to the gate), I could _feel_ the switch flip; it was as if they were at a funeral. “The show must go on” mean anything to these people? I mean, geez, this is a woman with a _long_ history of mishaps (“Super Dave”…cute. 😁), this really wasn’t that much of a shocker! The worst part is that Johnson’s time _held up_ and she won the completely improbable gold, which **used to** be the Megahyped Scream-To-The-Heavens Olympic Story, and they all but ignored it! Even in the repeat! (More on this later… 🙄) It’s [Anna Shcherbakova](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-2022-winter-olympics-thread/958841/185) all over again, goddess preserve us. 😩 I don’t want to miss out on any figure skating, and as always it’s one DVR recording a day for me, so I’m trying to catch some live footage in between. Problem right now is that USA seems really, really _really_ enamored with curling, and…uhh. How do I put this…golf is possibly the slowest-paced sport in the world, but when I watched a tournament on television (past tense, obviously, due to all that “GEDDDINDAAHOOOHHH!!!” garbage making the entire sport completely unbearable 😡), it would switch between numerous competitors, so there was always something happening. With curling, there’s just the one match and the two teams, so it’s slow-moving object, stop to strategize, slow, stop, slow, stop, over and over…it’s the sports equivalent of a traffic jam. This is not the sort of thing I can watch in real time. Hey, what are the rules on hitting in women’s hockey again? I saw one pretty good board shot that wasn’t penalized, but that’s it. They do seem to be trying to avoid big collisions. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2026-winter-olympics-follow-along-and-discussion-thread/1026575)._