2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea
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- PonyBoy1
- Curling should be in the 65+ seniors games. It's basically an oversized game of billards, but not as dangerous as darts.BustySaintClaire
- ...MrT
- Continuity0
Oh, dear god.
Germany just beat Canada at their own game.
Now I know how Brazil must have felt at the last World Cup.
- Or how England always feel... .detritus
- We invented Football. But it's open source. Run with it guys, you're all doing great.Hayzilla
- ^ LOL!oey
- That's because we Canadians sent our C-class players. Looks like we'll finish 2nd overall in total medals.BustySaintClaire
- Well, we can thank/blame the NHL for pulling out of the Olympics.Continuity
- That match versus Germany was appalling. Team Canada looked like they were starring in a Benny Hill sketch.Continuity
- sted2
- pockets0
Russian who wore a shirt that said 'I don't do doping' tests positive for doping
- pango3
- new olympic sport?sarahfailin
- that's the extent to which canadians get angry... always like canadians :)PonyBoy
- WE LOST HOCKEY TO GERMANY!! WTH!!!!pango
- utopian-1
- the moment you realize it was dogPonyBoy
- losing to the US in curling and hockey on the same night has to be roughcolin_s
- Tried to watch this. Boring++section_014
- The final penalty from the US was magisterial.mandomafioso
- utopian3
The entire world is losing to country of 5.2M people
At the Olympics in PyeongChang, Norway's total is 25 medals and counting, including nine gold. No one else is really close.
- At least we won gold for curling!!pango
- OMG, really? What a shocker that a country with winter sports in its seasons, culture and lifestyle is winning, and not, say Brazil.chukkaphob
- ...Yea, WTF!? Brazil has 210M people. Why aren't they killing it at Ski Jump?? LMAO.chukkaphob
- I wanna see Jamaican team dominating winter sports.pango
- I think you are missing the point that it's only 5.2 million people.hotroddy
- ^LOLchukkaphob
- 5.1M of them ski.chukkaphob
- chukkaphob you got it that Norway has a population of 5.2M people? ;)sted
- LOL curlingsee_thru
- mg330
I’m no Shaun White hater, but this sums up my general feelings on the guy, and I’m not alone in thinking this way
Shaun White: The Anthesis of Snowboarding.
Don’t get me wrong, he’s an incredible talent and always impressive. But he embodies everything snowboarding isn’t. And it bums me out because the Olympics are, for most Americans, the only exposure they have to snowboarding, for that brief day they see a little of the halfpipe competition interspersed with feel-good human interest stories. White is the only name they know, they get no exposure to 99% of the rest of the sport, including the camaraderie amongst pros in the mountains, the amazing skill of
free-riding, weekend warriors like us who love being with their friends and having a great day, the breathtaking scenery of resorts, big mountain riding, urban riding, etc. I can’t imagine how many people don’t even grasp that basic novice-level snowboarding is attainable to them because all the see is pipe riding that looks super complex and dangerous. I’d give any thing for Olympic snowboarding to evolve to include some form of big mountain or free ride competition.White is an amazing rider and I’m excited to see him hopefully win again, but he’s an outcast if not somewhat of a pariah in the sport. He doesn’t hang with other pros (I’ve read as much several times in magazines over the years), he doesn’t film parts, he doesn’t just go out and cruise for the fun of it. It’s all business to him. I loved the movie First Descent because it took him out of his element into big mountains to learn from others and adapt his riding. But nothing like that since then, and that came out 13 years ago.
Lastly, I’ll take a stylish method over some lab-created robotic madman trick any day of the week.
- I had no idea he busted his face and needed 60+ stitches last summer. The footage is brutal!fooler
- Same could be said for skateboarding and the X-Games.section_014
- you can't blame him for that though, people that only know about him probably have no interest in sboarding, so if anything he is attracting eyes to theMiguex
- spectrum of the sport.
They guy is doing what he wants, it's up to the rest to look or not right?Miguex - I think the pros hate him cause he was in Smurfs 2.BH26
- lol he was?
There is a current in sboarding that is against the "acrobatics" sort of thing, which took the spotlight, but who cares?Miguex - I think vert is boring, slopestlye is the closest to what I enjoy but my favorite riders are not even participating, if you are not doing acrobaticsMiguex
- non- snowboarding crowds don't care enough to watch. I wonder if there is a similar sentiment with curling lolMiguex
- It would be great if the 'style' part of slopestyle scored higher. A massive, tweaked out 180 has as much or more style than a cork 11million or whatever.mandomafioso
- Case in point, whoever that was, Ben Ferguson maybe, who did the massive air to fakie in the pipe on his first hit. That shit was dope.mandomafioso
- It was the exact same with Tony and the 900 - "spectacle of" over the "substance of" the sport.ben_
- notype0
https://www.npr.org/sections/the…
Great shot
- there are some interesting photos in the ap gallery from that ice dance :Dsted
- plash3
- ahahaah geez :Dsted
- good ol' downhill laser dodge.
the sport of kings!futurefood
- PonyBoy3
Russian Curler Fails Drug Test, Authorities Explore Sabotage Possibility
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rus…
Haha! Who dopes-up for a curling match?! You could play this sport with a beer in your hand, ffs.
- ETM7
So did the big nip slip during ice dancing yesterday corrupt the minds of young puritan, American children?
- https://pbs.twimg.co…ETM
- What's next? pron on the ice?Beeswax
- https://media1.tenor…pango
- BusterBoy4
- Such a demanding sport, look at the intensity on her face...you can feel it.utopian
- I feel it...BusterBoy
- "I will break you"BabySnakes
- ^ArchitectofFate
- lolmoldero
- PonyBoy-9
Dog meat soup for sale in shadow of Olympic stadium
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sou…
"...despite pressure from animal rights groups - particularly from Western countries - Pyeongchang won't completely shelter Olympic visitors from the trade this month. Area restaurants were offered government aid if they stopped selling dog meat, but some declined to change their menus, fearing they'd spurn regular patrons and be left without customers once the tourists left town."
- a delicacydorf
- https://www.youtube.…dorf
- When I lived in Seoul a neighbour raised a puppy to eat. It's a different culture with different norms.i_monk
- Yes yes... and in India we'd all be assholes cuz we chow down on cows... on this subject I prefer 'western' culture: Love and care for these creatures only.PonyBoy
- *if they're cute.pango
- If it’s a normal thing I’d try it. I don’t know, but is dog commonplace? Is it like, hey guys, bi bim bap, some bbq, dog, or fried chicken for lunch today?monospaced
- American's should judge eating dogs when they are meat eaters themselves. It's total hypocracy.pinkfloyd
- *shouldn'tpinkfloyd
- so 'chow' down, buddy :)
Who's judging? I just don't want you eating my bestest lil fuzzy pal... who's a good boy? YES HE IS!. get the ball... GET IT!!PonyBoy