2026 Olympics Thread

[slugsrbad]

USA! USA! 

[847badgerfan]

When I saw here that it was going to OT, I turned on the 2026 Olympics for the first time, on Peacock.

That was fun to see, and it makes me happy that the USA won and that Canada is sad.

[Honestbuckeye]

Incredible!  And historic.  Canada dominated- but our goalie was outrageously good.  

[bayareabadger]

USA! USA! USA!

[ELA]

Incredible!  And historic.  Canada dominated- but our goalie was outrageously good. 

He was unreal.  Nearly single handedly won the game

[Cincydawg]

[ELA]

[ELA]

[longhorn320]

The puck dont lie

[GopherRock]

So now that the Olympics have finally ended, my thoughts from our visit to Milan:

- This started during the Paris Olympics, where we registered for the ticket lottery for the Milan Games, and then promptly forgot about it. Roughly a year ago, we got notice that my wife had a winning entry, and that OPENING CEREMONY tickets were part of the draw. To make a long story short, we decided to go for it.

Our jet lagged selves arrived in Milan from Atlanta Thursday morning, and promptly had our first experience with crush-loaded trains on the Malpensa Express on the way into the city.

Our credit cards got a hard workout at the massive merch store in Duomo Piazza.

Somehow they ran out of solid food at womens hockey at the Rho Fieramilano convention center Threat. Plenty of beer for sale though. 

So, the San Siro. Legendary stadium. World Cups, UEFA Champions League finals, U2, Taylor Swift, the Stones, Bruce Springsteen. AC and Inter titles.  Historic football ground. And it's very clear why AC and Inter are building a new stadium. Think of the most run down, smoke filled, cockroach-infested beer joint you ever got drunk in. That place is downright palatial compared to the San Siro. 

The opening ceremony was one of the most moving things I've ever been part of. I now know why people make a habit of going to them, Olympic cycle after Olympic cycle. 

I'll admit that going to figure skating on the first Sunday night was an idea that my wife really had to sell me on,  due mostly to the cost of the tickets. Well, I wasn't a skating guy going out there, but I left VERY impressed. It didn't hurt that it had the top pair, man, and woman of the top 5 teams, so it was basically the All Star Game starting lineups. 

More thoughts later. Very glad we went. 

[SFBadger96]

I saw some social media BS trying to stir up stuff about a Canadian men's hockey player saying that he thought they were the better team on the day. I don't know why people get so exorcised about comments like that. He was right, they were...in all phases except the one that mattered. Our goaltender was the hero, for sure.

[FearlessF]

his comments don't bother me in the least bit

[MikeDeTiger]

I saw some social media BS trying to stir up stuff about a Canadian men's hockey player saying that he thought they were the better team on the day. I don't know why people get so exorcised about comments like that. He was right, they were...in all phases except the one that mattered. Our goaltender was the hero, for sure.

I mean, sure, don't get bent out of shape about it, but he's objectively wrong.  They'd have been the better team on the day if they scored more points, which is the point of the game, and how we measure how good the teams were that day.  

It's always stupid when a player in any sport on the losing team says they were really better that day.  Objectively and literally, no, they weren't.  It was stupid when Matt Leinart said it about the 2005 Longhorns, it was stupid when Bama players said it about LSU in 2019, and it was stupid when this doofus said it.  Guess what, if the other team's goalie is so amazing that he overcomes the entirety of your team on his own, then oh well, you're not the better team.  

[FearlessF]

calm down dude