Winter Olympics 2022 - Beijing

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kev1974

kev1974

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Any excitement for the Winter Games? These are the first Winter Olympics in China. I'm here for the Skeleton insanity.

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Opening ceremony is this Friday, a couple of events have already started to happen.

Here's a bunch of useful links:
Apparently there's not enough snow or something, so they've been artificially creating it all.
 
StephenTJackson said:
I strangely enjoy watching the curling. I never understood the rules until that Winter Olympics episode of The Simpsons though.
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That is a great episode! I’ve never played curling myself but my grandparents did and I spent a lot of time watching them play when I stayed with them as a kid. Where they live it’s super popular and most school kids take curling lessons. It’s one of these super but weirdly fascinating sports to watch.
 
I'm so pleased the BBC have rights again, the Channel 4 coverage was shite and focused far too much on what the Brits were doing, I just want to see people doing great things, not just a snippet of us coming 16th.

Ski and snowboard cross are my favourites, absolute chaos.
 
Gutted for Katie Ormerod not qualifying today in woman’s slopestyle. Incredible to see her competing though after breaking her heel in training at the last Olympics and having to relearn how to walk. Really enjoyed both her runs today but feel the judging was quite harsh!

Megansnarkle said:
Ski and snowboard cross are my favourites, absolute chaos.
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Love it! I had a go on a mini snowboard cross course a few years back in France and I managed about two rollers before my legs were dead and I couldn’t control my speed and I just totally decked it 😂 it’s so hard - takes serious skill! It’s amazing to watch.
 
Rosie glow said:
Love the winter Olympics especially enjoying the figure skating so beautiful to watch
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the figure skating and the ice hockey are my absolute favourites (though i’m sad that the nhl didn’t let any of their players compete).

kamila valieva blew my mind today though. can’t believe she’s only 15, her long programme has three quadruple axels (which is unheard of for female skating).

just in case anyone didn’t see her:

 
LaBlonde said:
the figure skating and the ice hockey are my absolute favourites (though i’m sad that the nhl didn’t let any of their players compete).

kamila valieva blew my mind today though. can’t believe she’s only 15, her long programme has three quadruple axels (which is unheard of for female skating).

just in case anyone didn’t see her:

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Do you mean axels or other quad jumps? I know one of the Japanese male skaters has said he's going for a quadruple axel, for women I thought triple axel were being landed and any fully rotated quad jump in competition was the next big thing.
 
Megansnarkle said:
Do you mean axels or other quad jumps? I know one of the Japanese male skaters has said he's going for a quadruple axel, for women I thought triple axel were being landed and any fully rotated quad jump in competition was the next big thing.
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yikes i meant quad jumps! a quad axel for a female skater would be ridiculous 🤣

is it yuzuru hanyu you’re referring to as the male skater? i really hope he lands it - he’s been working to and talking about it for so long.
 
Just watched the men's short track speed skating, what happened there? Young Hungarian disqualified for a small infringement but one of the chinese team seemed to grab him crossing the finish line causing the lad to go down and gets rewarded with gold medal??? Surely the remaining three racers should have won.
 
I don't have time to watch all the coverage, the BBC keep telling me there's going to be 300 hours of it. So I just want to watch the one hour 7pm "today at the games" highlights programme each day, and then I might go on to watch the extended coverage of particular events that took my fancy out of those highlights.

So why the hell have the BBC made it so hard to find those 1 hour "today at the games" programmes on iplayer. All the Winter Olympics pages on the iplayer or BBC Sport sections of the site just lead to a white wash of tens and tens of separate programmes each day. And they don't really come up in a simple search for "Today at the Games" either. It's the same with every major event at the BBC. How difficult would it be to have a simple playlist page listing just the daily highlights programmes. Honestly for the State Broadcaster and all the money they have available to spaff, it staggers me that they can't manage to employ someone with enough talent to realise how inaccessible their online offering is and sort it out.

For anyone else that just wants to watch the highlights programmes, the only reliable way I've found is to go to the schedule pages and scroll through to the BBC2 19:00 slot each day.
 
Always find the short track judge decisions to be 🙄 ruins it really. Was hoping to see Elise Christy but she retired due to injury she had 2 or 3 Olympics where such cruel decisions went against her and never meddled
 
If someone in a race is responsible for causing another to crash out and two others narrowly avoiding crashing out should they have been allowed to progress to the next race?? 🤔
I only ask as I watched the snowboarding race and the same racer caused one definite crash and two very narrowly avoided by other racers quick thinking and still went through. in a few of the other sports there have been competitiors pulled up for similar things under obstruction?
 
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