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Olympic Thread? Olympic Thread. (Pyeongchang 2018)
« on: February 09, 2018, 09:41:14 pm »

We didn't have a thread to discuss the Olympics. So now we do.

Rules: cheering on your country is encouraged, friendly shit-talking is allowed, rabid nationalism is not.

Opening ceremony was today, in a wonderful troll move, the sister of Kim Jong Un was seated directly behind US Vice President Mike Pence.
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Re: Olympic Thread? Olympic Thread. (Pyeongchang 2018)
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2018, 10:11:39 pm »

I want to see Lindsey Jacobellis do something stupid again. I’m still annoyed with her showboating 12 years later heh.
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Re: Olympic Thread? Olympic Thread. (Pyeongchang 2018)
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2018, 11:01:30 am »

The 1000 drone thing was pretty cool, even if it was prefilmed
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Re: Olympic Thread? Olympic Thread. (Pyeongchang 2018)
« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2018, 10:04:11 pm »

Sweary child wins gold medal in Slopestyle snowboarding. Mike Tirico apologizes for the potty-mouthed brat.

Bloody good run though.
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Re: Olympic Thread? Olympic Thread. (Pyeongchang 2018)
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2018, 04:09:51 pm »

I was surprised they didn't have the feed on a swear-delay.  I thought was standard practice even for live feeds.
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Re: Olympic Thread? Olympic Thread. (Pyeongchang 2018)
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2018, 06:15:09 pm »

I've saw that NBC went on a long spiel about the glorious history of Nederlandish Canal-skaters. So that was fun.
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Re: Olympic Thread? Olympic Thread. (Pyeongchang 2018)
« Reply #6 on: February 14, 2018, 12:38:16 am »

Shaun White is back to form. Unreal runs, both of them. If he and Chloe Kim were to have a baby, the kid would probably do a double backside 1440 out of the womb.

Sadly, snowboarding is the ONLY sport the US is killing it in.

EDIT: And with that, the US has 100 gold medals all-time in the Winter Olympics.
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Re: Olympic Thread? Olympic Thread. (Pyeongchang 2018)
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2018, 11:08:47 pm »

So I was watching the figure skating and couldn’t pay attention to one of the Kaori Sakamoto because of the pianist’s horrible rendition of the first movement of Moonlight Somata, hammering the keys like they had done horrible things to their family.
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Re: Olympic Thread? Olympic Thread. (Pyeongchang 2018)
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2018, 07:39:52 am »

Sadly, snowboarding is the ONLY sport the US is killing it in.

We invested our top athletes in a sport the rest of the world literally could not care less about.
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