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The Power Four => Big Ten => Topic started by: 847badgerfan on February 06, 2026, 12:15:40 PM
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Anyone gonna watch?
What sports interest you?
I like hockey, luge, bobsled, speed skating and some of the skiing. Not sure how much I'll get to watch.
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I'll watch. It's live sports.
Unless there's another sport on like basketball
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I love the winter Olympics, I prefer it over the summer games (which I also enjoy).
My favorites are Alpine/downhill skiing, speed skating, bobsled, luge, ski jumping, freestyle skiing and snowboarding events (big air, slopestyle, etc.), and ice hockey.
I avoid figure skating and its even worse cousin, ice dancing.
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I'm not a fan of any sport that is judged.
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I'm not a fan of any sport that is judged.
If it's judged, then by my definition, it's not a sport at all. You could call it an athletic competition I suppose.
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Might not be a true sport :57:
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If it's judged, then by my definition, it's not a sport at all. You could call it an athletic competition I suppose.
They are athletes for sure.
Curling? That's a game, like golf.
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Snowboarding, Ice Hockey and Curling.
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Some sports require athleticism
Some games require athleticism
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For anyone interested, here's a link to a doc with the full schedule of televised Olympic events, across NBC's various channels. It's a little weird formatting because it's made to be printed and read as separate pages.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zrfvjTYu4k5sHU1MMJUaQvPtcrX_n1PVc7PDIsgDclw/htmlview?usp=drivesdk&pru=AAABnFd28uc*-GBXSlOckQzsg3anUegTvA
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I don't like sports when you are racing the clock, and IMO that's too much of the winter Olympics. You watch 30 people ski down a hill one at a time, and they all look essentially the same, unless they totally screw up. Then the top 20 are all within like 0.8 seconds of each other.
That's why I prefer the summer games, everyone in the pool, or on the track at once. I do like some of the cross events. I'll watch hockey now that it's best on best again, and not a weird combination of minor leaguers and former players.
I'll watch figure skating because my wife likes it, but it's not my favorite. I don't care about the judging inasmuch as I don't know enough to know what to look for in the tricks. Same with any of the ski and snowboarding pipes/jumps.
I do enjoy curling
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I liked curling when I did it. I'm not a fan of watching it though.
Good drinking game.
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Drinking is a sport, not a game
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I actually like the mixed doubles version better. I think it was just added at the 2022 games?
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I've tried to get into curling, I know lots of people really love it. It's just not my thing.
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I don't have the stones for it
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Cross Country and specifically Biathlon is my favorite. Great racing, tactics, teamwork, and endurance. Makes for great theater.
YouTube the Diggins finish in rhe relay last olympics. Stuff like that is the best.
Ive curled... so I do like it.
Hockey is quite good.
Agree w skiing and luge/sled sports racing tine is less interesting.
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I get the disinterest due to timing, but personally I just love watching people go fast. Down a hill, down a sled track, whatever.
Watching the very best carve a perfect line, and seeing how those who are just slightly inferior simply can't do it as well, is fascinating and exhilerating to me.
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I don't have the stones for it
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/2019515200613827039?s=20
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I don't even want to know.
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I don't like sports when you are racing the clock, and IMO that's too much of the winter Olympics. You watch 30 people ski down a hill one at a time, and they all look essentially the same, unless they totally screw up. Then the top 20 are all within like 0.8 seconds of each other.
That's why I prefer the summer games, everyone in the pool, or on the track at once.
This is a great idea.
Have all the skiers go at the same time. THAT would be worth watching.
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I honestly had no idea the Olympics were happening. Since I don't do commercials (Netflix, Youtube Premium, etc), I'm not bombarded with it, I guess.