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brian wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 1:44 am Win or lose, going to 4 on 4 in OT on the Olympic ice sheet is dumb.
I disagree. Anything to increase the odds that it doesn't go to a shootout.
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Win or lose a shootout is fucking stupid to decide a gold medal in a tournament played every four years. Play til someone scores.
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USA! USA! USA!
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I hate the shootout but that was a fucking sick goal to win the gold.
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Olympic Ice is dumb period.

US dominated that game. They could have played a few more OTs and Canada wasn't getting close.
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I think I would like to party with this Finnish women’s hockey team.
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brian wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 2:30 am I think I would like to party with this Finnish women’s hockey team.
Your team is hot. You have Hilary Knight
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The Kessel family is the new First Family of hockey.
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This curl is on fiiiiiiiiire
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Ryan wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:26 am This curl is on fiiiiiiiiire
Shit. Thanks for the heads up!
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Landsteiner currently works as a corrosion engineer for Lake Superior Consulting
Hamilton works as an R&D technician.He resides in McFarland, Wisconsin.
George works as a general manager for George's Liquor.
Shuster is employed as a "Team USA Sales Associate" for Dick's Sporting Goods.
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I was gonna bump the deadspin thread but this fits here too. An epic and accurate takedown of Bode Miller as an announcer:

https://deadspin.com/bode-miller-is-the ... ssion=true
The poison goes beyond his deathly monotone. To hear Miller describe it, the outcome of an event like the women’s downhill—contested last night to his crushing, terminal disdain—has been determined by the time the skiers get out of bed in the morning, and possibly was determined by the time the youngest of them was born. The medal-winning runs happen because of a combination of favorable external conditions and fixed personal attributes over which the skiers have no real control or recourse and into which genuine insight is impossible. The early contestants post good times because they went early and did just enough not to squander advantages that all but guaranteed their spots on the podium, not because they raced brilliantly. The later contestants are wasting everybody’s time, because no matter how well they race the developing course conditions have doomed their efforts. You are watching the rote, bloodless recitation of a script written and published at the dawn of time. It’s like having the games narrated by Anton Chigurh, only without the enlivening possibility that he will murder someone.
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Ryan wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:45 am
Landsteiner currently works as a corrosion engineer for Lake Superior Consulting
Hamilton works as an R&D technician.He resides in McFarland, Wisconsin.
George works as a general manager for George's Liquor.
Shuster is employed as a "Team USA Sales Associate" for Dick's Sporting Goods.

So you're saying these are people that Hillary never visited.
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tennbengal wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 9:01 am I was gonna bump the deadspin thread but this fits here too. An epic and accurate takedown of Bode Miller as an announcer:

https://deadspin.com/bode-miller-is-the ... ssion=true
The poison goes beyond his deathly monotone. To hear Miller describe it, the outcome of an event like the women’s downhill—contested last night to his crushing, terminal disdain—has been determined by the time the skiers get out of bed in the morning, and possibly was determined by the time the youngest of them was born. The medal-winning runs happen because of a combination of favorable external conditions and fixed personal attributes over which the skiers have no real control or recourse and into which genuine insight is impossible. The early contestants post good times because they went early and did just enough not to squander advantages that all but guaranteed their spots on the podium, not because they raced brilliantly. The later contestants are wasting everybody’s time, because no matter how well they race the developing course conditions have doomed their efforts. You are watching the rote, bloodless recitation of a script written and published at the dawn of time. It’s like having the games narrated by Anton Chigurh, only without the enlivening possibility that he will murder someone.

I can't believe NBC didn't do more vetting on this one. He seems like he would be a good coach, or someone you put on for 2 minutes to explain technical stuff if you have to. But every Olympic analyst should be the Rowdy Gaines of his or her sport, and that's that.
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Don't worry. It'll be Lindsey Vonn in 4 years.
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Rex wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 9:33 am
Ryan wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 8:45 am
Landsteiner currently works as a corrosion engineer for Lake Superior Consulting
Hamilton works as an R&D technician.He resides in McFarland, Wisconsin.
George works as a general manager for George's Liquor.
Shuster is employed as a "Team USA Sales Associate" for Dick's Sporting Goods.

So you're saying these are people that Hillary never visited.
They told her to go meet with some curlers and she thought it was another hairstyle thing so sh...this is going nowhere, nevermind it should have just stopped with your good comment.
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Rex wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 9:35 am
tennbengal wrote: Thu Feb 22, 2018 9:01 am I was gonna bump the deadspin thread but this fits here too. An epic and accurate takedown of Bode Miller as an announcer:

https://deadspin.com/bode-miller-is-the ... ssion=true
The poison goes beyond his deathly monotone. To hear Miller describe it, the outcome of an event like the women’s downhill—contested last night to his crushing, terminal disdain—has been determined by the time the skiers get out of bed in the morning, and possibly was determined by the time the youngest of them was born. The medal-winning runs happen because of a combination of favorable external conditions and fixed personal attributes over which the skiers have no real control or recourse and into which genuine insight is impossible. The early contestants post good times because they went early and did just enough not to squander advantages that all but guaranteed their spots on the podium, not because they raced brilliantly. The later contestants are wasting everybody’s time, because no matter how well they race the developing course conditions have doomed their efforts. You are watching the rote, bloodless recitation of a script written and published at the dawn of time. It’s like having the games narrated by Anton Chigurh, only without the enlivening possibility that he will murder someone.

I can't believe NBC didn't do more vetting on this one. He seems like he would be a good coach, or someone you put on for 2 minutes to explain technical stuff if you have to. But every Olympic analyst should be the Rowdy Gaines of his or her sport, and that's that.
Like the guy losing his shit (and voice) during the women's cross country relay.
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Exactly. Problem is, all the alpine skiiers are likely to be really mellow, for reasons I can't quite put a finger on.
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Good to see US upset the Canadians as Hamilton looked like garbage in the mixed curling that started the Olympics...but that is a solid mustache. He probably benefited from the extra matches (learning the ice).

Also do you think on their down time the curlers at the games are playing side games for $ or shots?
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The single-run races seem like death for broadcasters. Make those glory boys and girls do 4 runs like the bobsled and you'd have a little excitement at the end instead of "hey, that was probably the winning run but check back in an hour and a half to see if the weather changed and someone else did better."
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After the 3rd consecutive penalty to Canada



Check out Patrick Chan's shifty eyes to the right. At hockey games, I've been both the guy holding the beer yelling at the ref and the friend sitting beside the guy holding the beer yelling at the ref.
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I don't have the most highly refined gaydar, but I get the idea that Johnny Weir might be gay.
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U-S-A! All we needed was Trump to start dominating Canada at hockey and curling!
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It's amazing how Sweden always chokes in big matches in any sport.
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degenerasian wrote: Sat Feb 24, 2018 8:54 am It's amazing how Sweden always chokes in big matches in any sport.
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Anyone else watch that snowboard giant slalom thing last night? I watched at least a dozen races, men and women, and whoever was on the red course won every single time except for the one time the red person fell.

That seems ... a bit unfair. I can't imagine training for four years to get to the Olympics and then having to race on the course that everyone knows you're going to lose on.

Oh, and the announcers never said anything about it, even though it was dead obvious after about 3 races.
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hasselborg for Sweden women’s curling is my jam.
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If anyone is awake you need to turn on the gold medal hockey game right fucking now.
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L-Jam3 wrote: Sun Feb 25, 2018 1:18 am If anyone is awake you need to turn on the gold medal hockey game right fucking now.
It's fucking wild. The most improbable and greatest gold medal game.
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I thought Ilya was going to end it just now.
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That was a killer.
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Yup.

That hurts. Up 3-2 with a PP with 2:20 left.
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Russia still has never won an Olympic gold medal. Sad!
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brian wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:22 pm I don't have the most highly refined gaydar, but I get the idea that Johnny Weir might be gay.
My daughter was very confused by him. I am really shocked that the openly gay skater is the first openly gay skater.
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The Sybian wrote: Mon Feb 26, 2018 11:53 pm
brian wrote: Fri Feb 23, 2018 1:22 pm I don't have the most highly refined gaydar, but I get the idea that Johnny Weir might be gay.
My daughter was very confused by him. I am really shocked that the openly gay skater is the first openly gay skater.
Weir was pretty much out, just refused to be labeled, if I recall. And Brian Boitano was pretty heavily rumored to be gay, but didn't officially come out until much later (I think as part of the Russian olympics as a political statement.)
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