Winter Olympics

[canefan]

@Virgil said in Winter Olympics:

@Smudge said in Winter Olympics:

Can't wait for the two-man luge. Something deeply erotic about it.

Something?

I can't remember if they do tandem skeleton? Seems super scary on all levels

[canefan]

@Virgil said in Winter Olympics:

@Smudge said in Winter Olympics:

Can't wait for the two-man luge. Something deeply erotic about it.

Something?

I assume topsy does most of the work...

[Virgil]

@canefan said in Winter Olympics:

@Virgil said in Winter Olympics:

@Smudge said in Winter Olympics:

Can't wait for the two-man luge. Something deeply erotic about it.

Something?

I assume topsy does most of the work...

Just like at home with the Mrs aye boys, am I right?… guys?

[antipodean]

@Virgil said in Winter Olympics:

@Smudge said in Winter Olympics:

Can't wait for the two-man luge. Something deeply erotic about it.

Something?

I feel they're missing an opportunity for one to go down head first.

[1kiwi]

[Kiwiwomble]

looks like there will be a NZ exlcusive channel on stan which is sweet

[mariner4life]

Always a surprise when you get to watch a kiwi.

Some girl in the downhill practice gets a small Mariner cheer

[MiketheSnow]

Men's Downhill is live

[MiketheSnow]

Franjo van Allman of Switzerland takes the Games' first gold in the Men's Downhill

Italians Giovanni Franzoni and Dominik Paris take silver and bronze respectively

Franzoni's silver was Italy's 800th Olympics medal

[sparky]

Lindsey Vonn, aged 41, is competing in the Olympic skiing with a ruptured ACL.

Huge respect.

[sparky]

Italy says railways hit by 'serious sabotage' as Winter Olympics begin

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr4rx04xjpo

[sparky]

And Lindsey Vonn crashed early on the Downhill course. She's been down for more than ten minutes.

[antipodean]

@sparky said in Winter Olympics:

Lindsey Vonn, aged 41, is competing in the Olympic skiing with a ruptured ACL.

Huge respect.

Stupid fucking decision.

[sparky]

They've winched her away to the air ambulance.

She is hanging in an bag underneath and not in the helicopter which suggests very bad news. It's what you do to get someone to hospital as quickly as possible apparently.

[nostrildamus]

@mariner4life said in Winter Olympics:

Weirdly my favourite Olympics despite a complete inability to ski.
...
NZ should be better at this

But at least they can ski...

[canefan]

@antipodean said in Winter Olympics:

@sparky said in Winter Olympics:

Lindsey Vonn, aged 41, is competing in the Olympic skiing with a ruptured ACL.

Huge respect.

Stupid fucking decision.

Hard enough to do on two fully functioning legs

[sparky]

It don't come off for her today, but no criticism from me for Lindsey Vonn for thinking she could still compete with the best in the world.

As Teddy Roosevelt said, it's the man (or in this case the woman) in the arena who matters.

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

[MiketheSnow]

Hear hear

An absolute titan of the sport

[sparky]

An update on Lindsey Vonn's condition.

https://twitter.com/usskiteam/status/2020529377797447746?s=46

[sparky]

She's had surgery on a fractured left leg so won't be competing again these Olympics. But in an otherwise stable condition.