I followed all these events live because I’m in the same timezone as Italy, and all of them had been finished before the hockey final started.
Figured as much. I’m at US Central (UTC -6) NBC is showing the Women’s 50km XC now
Brian
Pretty close race for Bronze in the 50k. Jessie Diggins came in 5th. NBC showed more than I expected. And quite a few collapsed, and this race is a mass start.
Brian
There was a curious incident in the 50k: most skiers change their skis mid-race, and one Russian skier (starting as a neutral athlete of course) confused the changing box with that of German skier Katharina Hennig Dotzler and took her skis. Hennig Dotzler was supposed to change her skis 20 minutes later, so the German ski technicians, who were already on their lunch break, had to rearrange their workshop on the service truck, as they had already everything packed because their work was done for these Olympics, and prepare and wax another pair of skis for her in a hurry. They were ready only seconds before she needed them. Unfortunately, in that hurry there was still a piece of tape left under one ski which she had to remove mid-race, and that slowed her down so much that she lost contact to the group she was skiing in. Notably, she finished 9th nonetheless. The Russian skier got disqualified.
Despite when they happened the 50k medals are awarded during the closing ceremony.
Similar to marathon in summer games.
Brian
That reminds me of something I realized the other day; I didn’t see any medal ceremonies this year. Admittedly the only events I watch are the figure skating, so it’s possible that medal ceremonies for other events were broadcast. But my recollection from past Olympics was seeing medal ceremonies after most events, but this year, none.
Klaebo won individual golds at the sprint (<1 mile) and the 50k (31 miles). That’s almost like Usain Bolt winning the 100m and the 5,000m. Impressive.
My wife and I noticed that too. There may have been short clips here and there, but not many. Wonder why?
I had to seek out most of them on Youtube later. I did see the American hockey teams get their medals, though.
It’s probably how you watched the Games. I mostly watched by streaming an individual event. Those always show the medal ceremony.
Perhaps other channels made different choices.
Showing medal ceremonies gets in the way of moar curling.
I watched some of the Two Woman Bobsled runs. The commentator Bree Schaaf was extremely informative. She used to be a bobsled driver and she knew all the inside information that was useful and fascinating. I learned more than I ever did watching other olympics. Leigh diffey was also there but he is horrible - just useless noise.
Wow, welcome back after 15 years!
Hear, hear - and on quite a global occasion, too!
All right, got about 190 recordings worth of not-figure skating to keep me busy for a while (and I am in no hurry to get to Dimestore Ice Capades Night), so I’ll keep reporting on anything interesting I see. Should go a lot faster than Paris because I plan to zap past most of the hockey and curling. I was frankly unsettled by how much time hockey and curling ate up, not to mention utterly mystified by how these sports are apparently enormously popular in America right now. I could see pickleball, but that? (I wanted more ski mountaineering, dangit. 
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Saw the first round of ski jump. Mmm, not really interesting as a spectator sport because everyone does exactly the same thing and the winner is just the one who’s slightly more thingly exacting than the rest, so I don’t think I’ll be spending much time on this. I did find it interesting that this the only event that gives the individual judges’ scores by nationality. Figure skating ended this a long time ago, and neither skiing nor snowboarding ever had it. My guess is that these scores don’t count enough to really swing the results, thus preventing any raging firestorms, so they don’t mind standing by their scores.
Also saw Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo win the 20K…pardon, “10K + 10K” (
) skiathlon. Would’ve really liked it if USA 1. showed the whole thing instead of the last 1 1/2 legs and 2. freaking EXPLAINED the difference between “traditional” and “freestyle”. 
Much like the clip here, he eased up a lot at the end, which I’m guessing is a courtesy move to not embarrass the field, which he absolutely could’ve done. I’m really looking forward to watching his golden journey, mainly because I’m frankly baffled as to how a human being can win six events in a sport that’s essentially a death march in really crappy weather in a span of two weeks. It’s like that Special Olympics episode of South Park except Eric is actually good.
Oh, and since no one brought it up…that curling nonsense between Sweden and Canada. Here’s all I’ll say about it: If a sport built on “gentlemen’s agreements” starts introducing all kinds of bush league gamesmanship bullcrap and/or profanity-laced tirades, that’s when it has to grow up, cut the crap, and become a real sport. That means officials with real authority, video review, accountability for all players and officials, and REAL PENALTIES for stepping out of line. Look, I know it was fun when you were this maverick weirdo sport, and you didn’t need tons of rules and fancy-schmancy equipment and nagging governing bodies and everything just worked. But now you’ve seen what that always leads to. Marc Kennedy was the warning shot. Now either you crack down on this BS hard or watch as others follow in his wake and your beloved sport devolves into a hideous, grotesque joke. Do as you will; I’m just a passive observer here.
I thought that happened in the various artistic/technical ski/snowboard ‘style’/jump events too? I might be misremembering.
Pistols at dawn, sir!
Pro-Tips: Never shoot against someone with a Robot Arm or play pinball with a guy with a key to the machine.
What if you’re a deaf, dumb, and blind kid?
Depends. How supple are your wrists?