Since I was away from home the past week I had to DVR everything I was interested in. Was mildly pissed when the NBC coverage of the opening ceremony cut off just as the torch lighting was starting.
Yeah, that ‘snow’ is something…well, I’m sure they are all well familiar with artificial, but that shit seems super-natural. I know I wouldn’t want to try to cut it. Look at how many crashes there are. Not righthous, man, not cool.
Yeah, i gather the snow is fast but sticky. All the Alpine skiing looks really dangerous. I mean, it’s always dangerous, but it looks even moreso this year.
Russian 15 year old figure skater Kamila Valieva - who is a real prodigy, and overwhelming favourite to win individual gold on Sunday - has failed a drug test.
This is obviously extra difficult for the authorities to manage because of the age of the athlete, but the ROC are very robustly defending her. She helped win the team gold for ROC earlier and they are still waiting for the medal ceremony because of this uncertainly and it’s not gone to the Court of Arbitration for Sport to decide.
I hope this is one of those accidents. The idea that even the Russian child athletes have been meddling in PEDs is horrible.
she probably didn’t know about it other than “take this” by someone important
Sorry, should have written that is HAS gone to the court of arbitration
And yes, as a minor, even if it was shown to be a deliberate act the fault would lie with her adult handlers.
That is refreshingly naive IMO.
Russia is already banned, so their athletes have to compete as the “Russian Olympic Committee”. If they’re now caught doping, the punishment could be serious; they might have to come up with a whole new name.
Olympic Committee of Russiia.
I look forward to the OCR in 2024.
The Russians shouldn’t even be there in the first place, and now they’ve been caught doping again? As PFC Pyle once said, “Surprise. Surprise. Surprise.”
Splitter!
Splitter!
Eighty two women, all dealing with the same pressures, and the same snow, entered the competition. Sixty women managed to make it down, and three of them somehow got medals, on that same snow. Twenty-two DNF’d. And how many sat down and felt sorry for themselves in the snow for 25 minutes? One.
Curling - at what point is the opposition allowed to sweep a “path” for your team’s stomes? It often happens when one of your stones is coming close to exiting the house, and the opposition is trying to encorage it to do that.
Trivial comment - the Swiss men’s team has at least two members with obviously German names, yet they do all thier talking/yelling in French.
Ah, all the yelling in Curling. Almost like they are overcompensating for how slow it moves. 
I didn’t see it mentioned upthread anywhere, but Lindsey Jacobellis finally won her elusive snowboard cross gold medal. Nice redemption story; Jacobellis has been by far the most dominant athlete in that sport for nearly 20 years, but has had horrible luck at the Olympics. She can finally stop hearing about the 2006 incident too.
There’s a line that goes across the house called the tee line.
Behind that line, one player from each team can sweep, but you can sweep your stone or the opponent’s.
In theory, you could have one player from each team sweeping. but if one team wants the stone to slide farther, the other wants it not to.
Nah!!
It’s snowing! I almost forgot what that looks like.
They can go back to their 2018 name - Olympic Athletes from Russia.