Winter Olympics

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thank god for curling, as this olympics was like buses 🚃 wait 13 days & we have 2 in 2 days. which in history is rescuing what couldve been the worst Olympics for 30 years. we have got 2 medals guaranteed & GB had won no more than 2 between 1948 - 2010. but i hope it doesnt sweep on the mat, how we basically become the worst sliding nation at the olympics, as we down the bottom at them all luge, bobsleigh & skeleton despite it being the 2nd most funded winter sport behind curling

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shame for the curlers this morning, played great just came up against a team that was just inspired. wouldve beaten anyone else today. but thats how sport goes sometimes
 
We come away from what has been a dismal Winter Olympics on many levels, with a Gold and a Silver. It's a bit ironic that the Gold was won by a team that only just about made it through a tough two years to squeak into the Olympics and then only just squeaked in to the Semi final but since then, their two matches were outstanding.

A tip of the hat should also go to Britain's 4 man bobsleigh team who finished sixth after pretty much having to fund their own way to the Olympics.
 
cider_and_toast said:
tip of the hat should also go to Britain's 4 man bobsleigh team who finished sixth after pretty much having to fund their own way to the Olympics.
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yeah that was brilliant. have certainly shown up the much more funded skeleton & sliding athletes

but yes hope it doesnt sweep under the mat, that curling really saved our arse. snowboard cross was unlucky but curling is the only sport that can come out of the Olympics with their head held high
 
I get the fact we are not an alpine nation but about a third of the Olympics takes place on an ice rink.

Bobsleigh tracks are made of concrete and then artificially frozen.

We could do more to develop winter sports facilities in this country if there was a will to do it.
 
the downhill was incredible. hitting 90mph & landing jumps at 75mph

Only at the Winter Olympics have you got people in skeleton, lying face-down, chin millimetres from the ice, travelling at motorway speeds on a tea tray and they’re looking at the luge lot going,
“Feet first. wimps.”
 
The BBC'S coverage so far has been absolute garbage.

I know they've effectively lost the broadcast rights to Discovery but that's no excuse.

They cut away from the Curling, British involved, to cover the Downhill, no British involved, and failed to mention the Curling was switching to I-Player.

The women's freestyle skiing qualifying, again with a British athlete involved, wasn't shown at all.

Trying to find any of the channels on I-Player is a nightmare as it's not on the home page you have to search under the sport section and then, because they're mixing live events, highlights and news reports, you have to try and dig out the live coverage.

The graphics are almost non-existent. In the Downhill for example they didn't show a single shot of a running order or current standings and then, with 35 athlete's taking part, they didn't bother to show a full result at the end.

Love the events though and just wish I could watch them.
 
cider_and_toast said:
They cut away from the Curling, British involved, to cover the Downhill, no British involved, and failed to mention the Curling was switching to I-Player.
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i guess on that. they'd say that the mens downhill trumps a round robin game of curling

i think the downhill graphics were the world feed & was annoying that you'd only see the standing at the end of a run. in top corner of the screen
 

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