The Winter Olympics (Jamaica dey av a... skier)

[Spikey M]

https://www.ehtrend.com.br/en/img/US_lnk_NNTATQEwAAD1KM_en.jpg

:cool:

Have a schedule:

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/winter-olympics-2022-beijing-schedule-dates-events-uk-start-times-games-b978764.html

I'd put it in a quote, but it's massive, so fuck you all. Enjoy.

[Spikey M]

Careful with the sharpness of that photo guys. :face:

[Ian]

Will need to give Cool Runnings a rewatch and see how much I regret it because of all the racism.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I watched it recently, it holds up I think, as long as you're willing to give a pass to the 'black people in cold climates lol' which is the premise of the entire film.

[Ian]

I watched it a few years ago I think and yeah, other than that being the one joke I actually thought it was a remarkably decent film and not just nostalgia.

[Spikey M]

Who are the people that attend opening ceremonies? I'm only watching from home and I'm doubting my life choices.

[Don]

I couldn't be arsed with the summer one, this one ain't getting a second of attention unless some deaths occur.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Speed skating, especially short track, is by far the best sport at the Winter Olympics.

The mixed team relay final was fun.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Snowboard cross is the best.

[-james-]

Biathlon. :nodd:

[Don]

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/cf/40/a5/cf40a5aac89db5756215608aa15f0b42.jpg
The pervert ain't wrong, they're all tick. Even that mentally ill British one is :drool:

[Ben]

Currently enjoying the curling, even though I have zero clue how the scoring system works.

[Shindig]

It's just bowls on ice, isn't it?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Pretty much.

There are some additional rules like POWER PLAY in Mixed Doubles which I don't understand though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I can only imagine the level of pathos in whoever it is in the world curling association that sits around having meetings trying to get it to appeal to a younger audience.

Might be a sitcom in that, actually. NEW BROOM starring Greg Davies as a delusional curling federation head.

[Spikey M]

I always wonder how much the little sweepy broom things actually in Curling.

[Lewis]

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lmao

[Manc]

Narly.

[Spikey M]

It took me a while to work out what I was looking at there. Fuck me.

[Shindig]

I suppose when you know there's no spectators, you can put events anywhere.

[Spikey M]

Just wish the world would go back to treating them, the Russians and the Arabs as the weird cunts they are and stop giving them international events.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

They paid millions to get all the fake snow.

[Shindig]

No they didn't. It's Uyghur ashes.

[Baz]

My dad had this on yesterday. It’s rubbish.

The commentators really overselling snowboard jumping only for the graphic to show they’re in 5th was weird.

Dancing in ice skates is also somehow more boring than just dancing.

[SincereTheRebel]

Just throw on those madmen flying off the ski jump and the Jamaican bobsleigh and call it a day.

[Don]

Missus has got this on and jesus, Chinese snowboarder gold is a premium ting:

https://www.instagram.com/eileen_gu_/?hl=en

[Manc]

You need to get out more.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Missus has got this on and jesus, Chinese snowboarder gold is a premium ting:

https://www.instagram.com/eileen_gu_/?hl=en

:nodd:

[Don]

Italian mixed curling gold. Provide linkage Mahow, immediately.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Stefania Constantini :nodd:

I did not think you'd be a fan so didn't mention her.

Unfortunately linkage is quite sparse.

https://img.olympicchannel.com/images/image/private/t_16-9_1240-700_15x/f_auto/v1538355600/primary/gpw6ncr7mbgonb5eztqy

https://www.inquirer.com/resizer/B9q7cZfDlyM6AE3CLyxktUfcB9E=/760x507/smart/filters:format(webp)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/pmn/HBXKMWO5UNCCZODJKQTR34NIBY.jpg

Happy to make this a Winter Olympics Best Babes thread especially as we seem to be agreeing so much.

[Ian]

More like Phwoarlympics am I right lads?

[Spikey M]

What does "am L right" even mean?

[Reg]

More like Phwoarlympics am I right lads?
More like "Oh my!"-lympics amirite?

[Spikey M]

Just wish the world would go back to treating them, the Russians and the Arabs as the weird cunts they are and stop giving them international events.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-60298184

The food :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

As high performance athletes, how can they actually get by on that diet?

[Lewis]

Missus has got this on and jesus, Chinese snowboarder gold is a premium ting:

https://www.instagram.com/eileen_gu_/?hl=en

The BBC profile (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-60277353) on her was lol:


Ms Gu has expressed support for movements Black Lives Matter and spoken out against anti-Asian violence in the US, but remained silent on issues like the mass internment of ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang and the arrests of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong.

"There's no need to be divisive," she told news site The New York Times. A difficult, if not impossible posture to take when several countries, including the US, are engaged in a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing games in protest at Beijing's human rights record.

In China however, she has been embraced by state media. Dubbed "genius girl skier" and "snow princess" - she has been featured in several government TV documentaries and has also shown her commercial potential by modelling for high-profile brands and her intelligence with a place at Stanford University.

Deals with the Bank of China, China Mobile and JD.com, a Chinese retailer, are among her commercial contracts.

:o

[Spikey M]

As high performance athletes, how can they actually get by on that diet?

I suspect they can't for very long. I wonder how their own athletes are being fed. Record medal haul incoming.

[Pepe]

Anti-Asian violence in the US = bad

Anti-Asian violence in Asia = good

[Pepe]

Reminds me that, of all the made up shit that the lunatics complain about, anti-Asian violence might very well be the most made up shit of them all.

[Lewis]

It clearly happens, so it is a thing, but it's mostly black people committing it, so they have to cook up all sorts of demented explanations about whitey brainwashing them into doing it or equating Trump saying 'Chinese virus' to pushing an old woman under a train. It's like they invented it as a test to see how much people are willing to delude themselves.

[Pepe]

Well yes, it happens, just like anti-everything violence happens because it is a violent as fuck country, but blaming it on 'whiteness,' just like everything bad that has ever happened or will ever happen, defies even the most rudimentary of logics.

[Pepe]

Btw:

https://www.insidehighered.com/sites/default/server_files/media/FK9XDU_aIAI6xNI.jpeg

[Jimmy Floyd]

I haven't watched a second of it so far. Does that constitute a boycott? I think I'm going to claim it. Yes We Can.

[Giggles]

Are countries actually boycotting it or is it just people not watching?

[Jimmy Floyd]

There's a diplomatic boycott by several countries, ie. the athletes go but no suits. Xi Jinping shaking in his boots at that obvs.

[Shindig]

So that Russian 15 year old ice dancer failed a drugs test. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

It's now been confirmed.

Test was from December it seems and right now she's still scheduled to compete again on the 15th unless CAS make a ruling before then.

[niko_cee]

Considering that Rusada is not considered to be fit for purpose by WADA it seems strange to me that they are entitled to 'lift' provisional suspensions for failed drugs tests.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

The fallout is quite fun.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/11/kamila-valieva-british-journalists-receive-death-threats-from-russia

The journalists who broke the story of Russian skater Kamila Valieva’s positive drugs test on Wednesday say they have faced death threats, abuse, and warnings they should check their tea.

A separate British newspaper journalist who asked Valieva whether she was a doper on Friday has also faced intense criticism from Russian members of parliament and online.

https://www.rt.com/sport/549032-kamila-valieva-kremlin-support/

Peskov said the 15-year-old should hold her head up high in response to the news that Valieva was seen wearing a hood while walking past a crowd of journalists at training on Friday in Beijing.

“Overwhelmingly, we absolutely overwhelmingly support Kamila Valieva in any case, and we urge everyone to support her,” Peskov said.

“And we tell her: ‘Kamila don’t hide your face. You are Russian. Walk proudly and, most importantly, compete and defeat everyone!’” he added.

[Shindig]

Yeah, that's a ruined life before it's even got going. Poor kid.

[Lofty]

I saw that footage and am not really sure how she was left to walk off the rink past the press without at least an escort, she is after all a schoolgirl.

[niko_cee]

Looks like the Russians have found a new way to dope then. Welcome to the future of all their competitors being 'children'.

[Shindig]

That's bollocks. I've seen 15 year olds kicked off the WTA tour for doping.

[Spikey M]

I'm getting my 3 year old on the roids now. He's going to win everything at both Olympics. :cool:

[niko_cee]

Should probably get Liz Truss briefing that whilst we sympathise with the poor young girl, if she's been the victim of someone slipping something into her tea, at least it's not the worst thing Russians are inclined to put in tea.

Or on door knobs.

Maybe we need Jimmy Carr in the foreign office.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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They've just had their first official run, sadly no fuck ups with the start.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/winter-olympics/60399339


Kamila Valieva's anti-doping sample showed traces of three drugs that can be used to treat heart conditions, according to a New York Times report.

The 15-year-old Russian figure skater is being allowed to compete at Beijing 2022 despite testing positive for banned angina drug trimetazidine.

The report said it also showed hyproxen and L-Carnitine, which are not banned.

The combination of substances prompted "a lot of red flags", United States anti-doping chief Travis Tygart said.

"Those are three substances that are all used for increasing performance," he told BBC sports editor Dan Roan on the Sports Desk Podcast, explaining they can increase endurance and reduce fatigue.

:sherlock:

[Ben]

Just let them pin loads of tren. An Olympics full of superhuman specimens would be tremendous viewing.