2014 Winter Olympics (Beware, no spoiler tags)

[Guest]

 

Agreed, the winter Olympics are easily MUCH worse than the summer games. Plus: hockey. It's a nightmare that robs me of my TV shows.

 

you farted those words you [expletive] animal. go watch the NBDL or the rucker park league you joyless fartface

[Derwood]

Illini finally wins and Broch has his dander up. LOOK OUT EVERYONE

[Guest]

derwood speaks my name in a fit of petulance. you now know that you must be my slave in the afterlife.

[Derwood]

petulance?

[Guest]

yes?

[Guest]

Germany is beating us in Golds? even Hitler knew that the best Germans left Germany in the 19th century

[Guest]

Ligety wins gold in the giant slalom and the women's bobsled takes silver and bronze, mostly due to an ineptness in the drivers.

[glavine93]

Women's figure skating will be a good watch as well, with the top 3 women within a point of each other, and all 3 American women in the top 7 and within striking distance of a medal.

 

absolutely, especially after the terrible men's competition. i counted maybe seven clean quads from anyone, and zero clean skates from anyone of note. it was extra depressing because plushenko probably would have medaled after all.

 

i don't think they've ever showed all of the performances on TV like this before. i skipped ice dance but have otherwise seen everything, and i will be happy to get my life back. the lipinski/weir commentary is a nice change, though.

[Sammy Sofa]

Russia [expletive] sucks.

 

http://www.avclub.com/article/[expletive]-riot-members-whipped-by-militia-in-sochi-201257

 

And seriously, COSSACKS are still a [expletive] thing?

[Banedon]

Yes, yes, your manhood is secure. Still a better watch than most of the events in the Olympics.

 

I can't think the sport is boring and repetitive without it being a macho thing?

I'm just not sure what the difference between figure skating and any other winter olympic individual sport is, aside from the judging scores (which they've tried to get better at by having no top score and every "trick" have a base score before deductions). I get that the ice dancing is pretty lame since there are basically zero jumps, so it's all artistic flair, but figure skating is similar especially to any of the other trick based events in skiing and snowboarding.

 

At the olympics, I prefer to watch the events in which the olympic event is definitely the biggest deal for the sport. With all the skiing and snowboarding trick events at the X-games, I actually prefer figure skating to the two.

 

Well we weren't talking about other judged sports. I don't care for them either. The races, curling, hockey...those are the ones worth watching.

[Soul]

Germany is beating us in Golds? even Hitler knew that the best Germans left Germany in the 19th century

 

They like sledding in Deutschland. So, they get golds riding their sleds.

 

They ought to rank these golds in terms of ones that actually involve doing something, and ones that involve just jumping on a sled.

[jersey cubs fan]

USA up 1-0 in gold medal game.

[jersey cubs fan]

2-0

[UMFan83]

2-0

 

dos a cero

 

wait, wrong neighboring country

[jersey cubs fan]

that was a softie

[jersey cubs fan]

that should have been a penalty

[jersey cubs fan]

the ref helps US and then an empty net post

[jersey cubs fan]

tie game

[Guest]

Dammit.

[Banedon]

the ref helps US and then an empty net post

 

tie game

 

Crazy sequence of events.

[jersey cubs fan]

4-4 doesn't seem right in first OT, but it sure has opened things up.

[Guest]

 

Agreed, the winter Olympics are easily MUCH worse than the summer games. Plus: hockey. It's a nightmare that robs me of my TV shows.

 

you farted those words you [expletive] animal. go watch the NBDL or the rucker park league you joyless fartface

 

He's completely right.

[jersey cubs fan]

David continues to be wrong about as often as kyle.

[Guest]

4-4 doesn't seem right in first OT, but it sure has opened things up.

 

I don't like that they go to a shootout if it's tied after OT.

[Banedon]

4-4 doesn't seem right in first OT, but it sure has opened things up.

 

I don't like that they go to a shootout if it's tied after OT.

 

Yeah, I love 4-4 hockey. But shootouts always suck.