Topic: 2018 Winter Olympics Thread

It's that time again. The Winter Olympics have officially started and all eyes of the world will be on Korea for the next few weeks.

Any events you guys looking forward to? Feel free to discuss the Olympics here but please keep the discussions to the sports and games themselves do not bring up any politics or anything of that nature.

Thanks for understanding

I am looking forward to Skiing, snowboarding, hockey and of course curling.

i have to admit i do enjoy watching the sledging events for some reason

although i do wish the BBC would get some better presenters for their sports the ones they have now are terrible plus they focus more on them than the events themselves

and watching Balding host is like watching a dead fish, still it's not as bad as the way Channel 4 handled the last Paralympics

Looking forward to speed skating, especially short track, the ski jump, and I forget what they call the ski jumping thing where they do all those twists in the air, freestyle I think it’s called. And of course the snowboard half pipe!

@FullbringIchigo We have no winter sports stars to commentate on the tv so the coverage in comparison to the summer olympics is pants. Plus the beeb has Michael Johnson who imo is like John Madden of athletics. So it will always fail by comparison.

Im looking forward to speed skating and the best sport ever... Curling.

Cheering for Seppe Smits! Belgium's snowboard pride made it to the finals of the slopestyle event. Looking forward to that.

I also like Biathlon as it is a very complete sport. High intensity langlaufing combined with precision shooting sessions. From full action mode to zen focus is a very hard thing to do.

@Tasuki @themcnoisy I can’t tell if you guys are kidding about the curling. Do people actually watch that? To me it looks like shuffleboard, which of course is popular amongst all the geriatrics on cruise ships and at retirement homes, but hardly worthy of an Olympic event. Almost as bad as synchronized swimming or speed walking being in the Olympics.

@Th3solution It's like lawn bowls but with bad ass sweeping action.

@Th3solution I am kinda joking kinda of not if that makes sense. It's actually a pretty popular sport but the joke is that you can only watch it during the Olympics. I do actually watch it when I can.

@Kidfried Yeah that's the one thing I hate about the Olympics, there is so much I want to watch but with work I just don't get any time really to watch it. Even on my days off, I am usually busy with other things.

I don't understand the guidelines for what country you can represent. It seems some are representing countries that there grandparents came from? Oh well, as long as I see some good Downhill racing the Olympics will be golden...or maybe silver, hopefully not bronze.

@Elodin I believe you have to live there a certain amount of time and of course be sponsored by the country.

@Th3solution Seriously joking.

Don't like it as much as the Summer games, but there are a few events I like watching.

Caught a few Curling matches, lots of Luge (so much so I'm kinda burnt out on it), and Ski Jump.

I really liked the snowboarding stuff from what I've seen, but I don't really get a chance to see it because NBC saves it for primetime, and no one else in the household is that interested in it.

@RR529 You can always download the NBC app on your phone or if you have one a tablet and watch it that way.

That's actually what I did for the Summer games a couple years ago, but now the allure of the Switch is too strong, lol.

The slalom is stupid. They should ban hitting the poles, its like a game of hitting poles and looks absolutely ridiculous. Quality from the dude whos won 2 gold though hes easy the best in the sport and is a class act.

Wow the USA woman's hockey team totally decimated Finland to make their way to the gold medal game. Now we just have to wait and see who wins between Canada and Russia.

@Th3solution I love watching curling. There is a lot of strategy involved once you understand how the game works. It is similar to shuffleboard if your shuffleboard pucks would always curve when you slide them. But mostly it's about setting up the last few stones and get your opponent to make a move you want them to make.

For some reason, the last winter olympics is when I really got into curling. I like the new doubles they've added this olympics.

@Tasuki A rematch USA vs Canada for gold! It should be a wild game after Canada sneaked out that gold last olympics. USA has something to prove, Canada says bring it. haha