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.
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 nationalistic 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
Opening ceremony tonight at around 3 AM PST. No Russians allowed.
What better way to spend the next few days than to become extremely nationalistic 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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The only good thing about NBC Olympic coverage is their music selection...
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Go hockey, go curling, go Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski
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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.
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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Go Canada go
My favorite events are speed skating, ski jumping, hockey and bobsleigh.
My favorite events are speed skating, ski jumping, hockey and bobsleigh.
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Apparently the opening ceremonies were rather underwhelming crowd wise, not a lot of people in the stadium.
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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.
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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Damn sounds like we just got our asses handed to us in curling
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Rocks in the house
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Canada has its first two medals, a silver and bronze in snowboard slopestyle.
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Gold medalist is only 17 years old. Damn
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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.
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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Feel bad for the luge guy. From history to no medal in one half-second mistake.
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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
So about the only thing NBC can show live in primetime is figure skating. Not exactly ideal
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Canada has its first gold medal, in figure skating.
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So it turns out that shockingly, Korea doesn't have a good hockey team.
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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
Could the US sweep all the golds in snowboarding?! Hell yeah let's do it
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Ahahahaha the Russians got clowned so fucking hard
That shot was so nice, here's a gif of it thrice!
FYI the long-awaited USA vs Canada match starts at 10:10pm Eastern time tomorrow.
That shot was so nice, here's a gif of it thrice!
FYI the long-awaited USA vs Canada match starts at 10:10pm Eastern time tomorrow.
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That was fucking clutch
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Gonna need the US women to pull a Slovenia here...
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Canada's not that good - it's only a one goal game at the moment.
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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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Shots on Goal
US - 45
Canada - 23
Goalies!
US - 45
Canada - 23
Goalies!
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salvaged a goal at least!
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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
also the men's hockey team actually did something
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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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USA Women up 2-0 on Finland after the first period. Both goals were scored by Minnesota Gophers.
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I love USA trotting out 5 forwards for that 5on3 power play.
All offense fuck defense.
All offense fuck defense.
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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.