2018 Winter Olympics: 축하해요! And see you in 2022 in 베이징.

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2018 Winter Olympics: 축하해요! And see you in 2022 in 베이징.

Post by stuff (?) » Thu Feb 08, 2018 9:15 pm

The XXIII Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang*, South Korea will run from February 9 to February 25.

Opening ceremony tonight at around 3 AM PST. No Russians allowed.

What better way to spend the next few days than to become extremely :jingo: nationalistic :jingo: and cheer on a bunch of athletes who will forever be more fit and better than you?

Schedule: you can just follow this link every day but, really, here are the only days that really matter

Men's hockey: Feb 14: USA vs Slovenia, Feb 15: Canada vs Switzerland, gold medal game on Feb 25. Unfortunately, the higher up assholes at the NHL refused to send their players abroad, so this tournament will be watered down. Should still be fun though, as we could see some surprises.

Women's hockey: Feb 15: USA vs Canada, a potential finals matchup! Gold medal game on Feb 22. These teams should be at full strength.

CURLING: started already (Feb 8), finals on 24 and 25. hands down, the best olympic sport of all time

no starcraft tournament, sadly. go usa/korea. Germany favored to top the golds, though, so eh.

*normally Pyeongchang, but stylized so to reduce confusion with a certain city a few km north with a similar sounding name
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Post by The Doctor (?) » Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:55 pm

The only good thing about NBC Olympic coverage is their music selection...




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Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Feb 08, 2018 11:31 pm

Go hockey, go curling, go Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski :yay:
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Post by West Filly (?) » Fri Feb 09, 2018 7:18 am

I love the winter Olympics!

I'll be watching:

All luge, skeleton and bobsled finals. UK women often have a good chance in these events.

Ski Jumping finals

Alpine skiing

Ski Cross

Curling!

I might try to learn the rules of Ice Hockey during the only time they ever air Ice Hockey in the UK.

If you haven't watched curling before or if you think it sounds stupid, seriously give it a try. It's one of the most awesomely tense spectator sports ever.
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Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Fri Feb 09, 2018 8:55 am

Go Canada go Image

My favorite events are speed skating, ski jumping, hockey and bobsleigh.
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Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Fri Feb 09, 2018 9:26 am

Apparently the opening ceremonies were rather underwhelming crowd wise, not a lot of people in the stadium.
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Post by West Filly (?) » Fri Feb 09, 2018 9:34 am

Not a lot of interest for real world sports in Korea.

But in all seriousness I think opening ceremonies are kinda eh. I can appreciate that a lot of artists and such put time and effort into making a spectacle, but in TYOOL 2018 hype building doesn't work like it did in the 50s.
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Post by stuff (?) » Fri Feb 09, 2018 8:42 pm

Damn sounds like we just got our asses handed to us in curling

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Post by Octavia (?) » Sat Feb 10, 2018 11:02 am

stuff wrote:
Fri Feb 09, 2018 8:42 pm
Damn sounds like we just got our asses handed to us in curling
Yeah I'm watching On Demand and we're getting stomped
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Post by West Filly (?) » Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:17 pm

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Post by West Filly (?) » Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:17 pm

wait.
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Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Feb 10, 2018 1:24 pm

Rocks in the house :maud:
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Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Sat Feb 10, 2018 9:34 pm

Canada has its first two medals, a silver and bronze in snowboard slopestyle. Image
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Post by stuff (?) » Sat Feb 10, 2018 9:51 pm

Gold medalist is only 17 years old. Damn

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Post by Aramek (?) » Sun Feb 11, 2018 8:27 am

stuff wrote:
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Gold medalist is only 17 years old. Damn
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Post by Octavia (?) » Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:32 pm

USA Luger took silver in men's singles. It was the first time the USA has ever medaled in that event.

USA struggled a bit in the first period of Women's Hockey vs. Finland, but they completely dominated the 2nd and 3rd periods and won 3-1.

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Post by Wayoshi (?) » Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:39 pm

Feel bad for the luge guy. From history to no medal in one half-second mistake.

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Post by Octavia (?) » Sun Feb 11, 2018 7:42 pm

Wayoshi wrote:
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Feel bad for the luge guy. From history to no medal in one half-second mistake.
He won gold in the past 2 Olympics so don't feel TOO bad :-P
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Post by Wayoshi (?) » Sun Feb 11, 2018 8:17 pm

No matter how good or bad you are, going from gold to 5th is tough to swallow.

So about the only thing NBC can show live in primetime is figure skating. Not exactly ideal

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Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Sun Feb 11, 2018 11:29 pm

Canada has its first gold medal, in figure skating. :allears:
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Post by Octavia (?) » Mon Feb 12, 2018 6:30 pm

So it turns out that shockingly, Korea doesn't have a good hockey team. :fluttershock:
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Post by stuff (?) » Tue Feb 13, 2018 4:25 pm

Another 17 year old wins gold in snowboarding. Damn it why did I get the wrong genes

Could the US sweep all the golds in snowboarding?! Hell yeah let's do it

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Post by Octavia (?) » Tue Feb 13, 2018 6:39 pm

Ahahahaha the Russians got clowned so fucking hard



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FYI the long-awaited USA vs Canada match starts at 10:10pm Eastern time tomorrow.
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Post by stuff (?) » Tue Feb 13, 2018 10:14 pm

That was fucking clutch

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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Feb 14, 2018 6:55 pm

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Post by stuff (?) » Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:18 pm

Canada too good

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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:32 pm

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Canada too good
Well their first goal was on an undeserved power play and their second was offside and the USA didn't challenge it for some reason. :unenthused:
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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Feb 14, 2018 11:35 pm

Gonna need the US women to pull a Slovenia here...
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Post by PonyHag714 (?) » Thu Feb 15, 2018 12:23 am

Canada's not that good - it's only a one goal game at the moment.
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Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Feb 15, 2018 12:27 am

PonyHag714 wrote:
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Canada's not that good
They've won gold in the past 4 Olympics, so I heartily disagree

Ah well, we'll meet again in the gold medal game I'm sure. Hopefully Canada's goalie will have cooled down by then.
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I was thinking more in terms of this game, but yeah, I'm sure there's more to come.
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Post by Octavia (?) » Thu Feb 15, 2018 12:32 am

Shots on Goal

US - 45
Canada - 23

Goalies! :argh:
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Post by stuff (?) » Thu Feb 15, 2018 12:35 am

salvaged a goal at least!

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Post by stuff (?) » Fri Feb 16, 2018 12:54 am

fuck... gotta feel so, so bad for Chen there. no chance of a medal now, right? hopefully he's young enough for a 2022 return.

also the men's hockey team actually did something

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Post by West Filly (?) » Fri Feb 16, 2018 9:21 am

A tight curling match GBR vs Sweden. Down to the wire the whole time, and we lost it on a single miss in the penultimate end.
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Post by Octavia (?) » Sat Feb 17, 2018 12:47 am

Canada loses to Czech Republic in men's hockey
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Post by Octavia (?) » Sun Feb 18, 2018 11:48 pm

USA Women up 2-0 on Finland after the first period. Both goals were scored by Minnesota Gophers. :jingo:
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Post by Octavia (?) » Mon Feb 19, 2018 12:24 am

I love USA trotting out 5 forwards for that 5on3 power play.

All offense fuck defense.
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Wayoshi wrote:
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No matter how good or bad you are, going from gold to 5th is tough to swallow.

So about the only thing NBC can show live in primetime is figure skating. Not exactly ideal
I love figure skating so much, I just sit there watching with a huge dopey grin and tears streaming down my face. I've done pretty good so far this year, I only had tears streaming down my cheeks during four of the routines, and there was even one routine that I didn't cry during at all! Last night during Chock and Evan's routine when they fell, and the whole auditorium started clapping along to the music as they got it together and kept going, I had been holding it together until that point but when I heard that? Tears everywhere.

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