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utee94

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Re: The China Olympics
« Reply #98 on: February 09, 2022, 10:56:53 AM »
That's great for Lindsey.  I did a lot of dumb things at a young age too, it's a good thing I was never on camera, on a global stage, when they happened.

I gotta say I prefer the 6-person version over the 4-person version.  They mentioned that it's just too expensive to build those courses with all of their obstacle features, as wide as needed, for a 6-person competition.  I'm guessing it would be considerably less expensive if it were built in an area that actually had, you know, appropriate mountains and snow.

Which brings us back to the fact that these winter Olympics never should have been in Shanghai to begin with.

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Re: The China Olympics
« Reply #99 on: February 09, 2022, 10:59:59 AM »
Which brings us back to the fact that these winter Olympics never should have been in Shanghai to begin with.
Uhh, they aren't. 

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Re: The China Olympics
« Reply #100 on: February 09, 2022, 11:00:55 AM »

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« Reply #101 on: February 09, 2022, 12:01:16 PM »
I must say that last evening I watched the men’s “big air ski jumping“

Either I didn’t remember seeing it before or just forgot how entertaining it is. And I will say this: those dudes are absolutely, positively, bat shit crazy! They’re going 90 miles an hour, backwards, doing all kinds of crazy shit in the air and about 50% of the time laying on their damn faces.


They are insane, but they're not going 90 mph.  Downhill skiers hit 90 mph and I believe bobsled can hit 75 to 80.

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Re: The China Olympics
« Reply #102 on: February 09, 2022, 12:03:54 PM »
Terminal velocity in sky diving is around 120 mph is you are spread out.


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« Reply #104 on: February 09, 2022, 03:19:22 PM »
So they're telling me the 15-year-old girl doing unprecedented quads with ease might have been doping?  NO WAI!!!!!!

And it's all just so weird and unexpected.  Sure seems like banning Russia from the Olympics for doping scandals yet allowing their athletes to compete under the banner of "Russian Olympic Committee" would have put an end to all of this.  The plan seemed foolproof, but I guess it's back to the drawing board, now.  Maybe they'll use the tried and true pinky swear for 2026?





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« Reply #105 on: February 09, 2022, 05:06:25 PM »
So they're telling me the 15-year-old girl doing unprecedented quads with ease might have been doping?  NO WAI!!!!!!

And it's all just so weird and unexpected.  Sure seems like banning Russia from the Olympics for doping scandals yet allowing their athletes to compete under the banner of "Russian Olympic Committee" would have put an end to all of this.  The plan seemed foolproof, but I guess it's back to the drawing board, now.  Maybe they'll use the tried and true pinky swear for 2026?
They only got caught because they were brash enough to connect their athletes' dorm to the testing facility.

At least the Chinese government is surely on the up and up with the COVID testing.  There is zero reason to doubt their transparency with this disease.

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« Reply #106 on: February 09, 2022, 05:08:06 PM »
They are insane, but they're not going 90 mph.  Downhill skiers hit 90 mph and I believe bobsled can hit 75 to 80.
They've added a million snowboarding events.  And freestyle skiing.  But I still think the downhill skiing events are the most watchable part of the Olympics.  I just wish they would always include an overlay of the leader.  The technology is there, and not distracting IMO.  That's another big downside to the winter games, is how few of the race sports are actually head to head

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« Reply #107 on: February 09, 2022, 05:33:51 PM »
Look at this winter wonderland, this just screams major international winter event, doesn't it?



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« Reply #108 on: February 09, 2022, 08:20:10 PM »
If you told me that was a Yugoslavian kid enjoying an abandoned Olympic facility, I'd buy it.

The host nation thing needs to end.  They need to set on 3-4 permanent hosts on a rotating basis.  USA, Western Europe, Asia, Australia for Summer; Canada, Europe, Asia for Winter, and be done with it

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« Reply #109 on: February 09, 2022, 08:38:50 PM »
Well it might happen now that the IOC has pretty much used up all of the grifting potential from extorting money and perks out of the host nations.  They're basically having to beg countries to host them now, so all that extra income funneled directly to IOC officials is coming to an end.


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« Reply #110 on: February 09, 2022, 08:50:37 PM »
If you told me that was a Yugoslavian kid enjoying an abandoned Olympic facility, I'd buy it.

The host nation thing needs to end.  They need to set on 3-4 permanent hosts on a rotating basis.  USA, Western Europe, Asia, Australia for Summer; Canada, Europe, Asia for Winter, and be done with it
It's sort of stupid that they don't do this. The biggest issue with the Olympics is it's hard to watch for the rest of the world. Why wouldn't they have events happening all across the globe so that every region in the world gets live events in primetime? Seems like the TV execs would have forced this change already.

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« Reply #111 on: February 09, 2022, 09:03:59 PM »
It's sort of stupid that they don't do this. The biggest issue with the Olympics is it's hard to watch for the rest of the world. Why wouldn't they have events happening all across the globe so that every region in the world gets live events in primetime? Seems like the TV execs would have forced this change already.
Well in the past, the IOC has benefitted from multiple nations bidding.  They've extorted and grifted and lined their pockets with the payments, gifts, and bribes from all the potential host nations.

But now the landscape is changing, nobody's bidding anymore and the IOC is just about begging countries to host it.  So now, the power dynamic will shift, and maybe the results will make more sense.

 

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