It’s again that moment in universe when another winter olympics are hosted, this time in Italy.
As before feel free to share your thoughts about events, athletes and expectations for upcoming weeks.
It will be great to see another ice hockey tournament where NHL players and most importantly audience are present, Beijing 2022 was such strange experience even when men’s tournament ended with best possible result.
Biathlon is the sport where I have biggest hopes, current season has been amazing especially for Finnish women’s team.
Also the venue for sprint skiing looked exciting when it was part of World Cup some weeks ago, men’s finals winner shouldn’t be too difficult to predict.
Like every international sport event I wish the Dutch team would abandon that stupid marketing name they adapted 10 years ago. Our outfits, shirts and everything are dominated with the stupid branding and sponsor logos while seeing competitors from Italia, Belgium, Germany proudly have the name of the country on there sides, or chest, or back. No. The Netherlands slams the state lottery logo on the chest, and half asses the TeamNL branding somewhere where it’s okay-ish visible for cameras.
Besides that,
I despise cold weather and the Winter Olympics really don’t tickle my fancy. The fact that Jamaica participates with a bob sledding team tickles my 90’s funny bone and that is about it. When possible I will see if I can watch some Ski Jumping because that is the only thing I think is cool to look at.
As an Austrian I pretty much grew up with winter sports both active and passive. Winter Olympics are always a highlight for me. In general I am a huge fan of Alpine Skiing, so I am going to watch every single second of those competitions. However, I am not only rooting for the Austrian skiers but for many different ones from different countries, there are plenty that I really like. Todays Downhill was already one of the highlights for me and had a deserved winner.
I also love watching competitions (and learn new things) that I am usually not watching - so pretty stoked for the days to come.
Last few days have been really eventful, talking point naturally being awful ( and possibly career ending ) crash of Lindsey Vonn.
The corner cutting incident in men’s 20km skiathlon was a weird one, no changes after protesting.
Also the podium in men’s normal hill was a breath of fresh air: surely Philipp Raimund has had good results earlier but silver going to Poland’s Tomasiak and bronze shared by 2 other athletes was a surprise. Looking forward to see balance of power restored in large hill/team competitions by team Slovenia.
Big surprise in the Slovakia vs. Finland ice hockey match yesterday. Also expected the Czechs to score at least a few goals against Canada today. Let’s see who joins the TGC this year:
Cooper Woods winning the Men’s Moguls event is a massive story here in Australia!! It is being talked about everywhere
He is only our 7th Winter Olympics gold medallist of ALL TIME and was ranked 20th in the world entering the competition. Pretty crazy upset, especially given Aus only has a handful of regions high enough for snow in winter and even then it’s not super accessible for the average citizen to develop talent etc.
Here in Italy this kind of competition it’s not very famous but in these days our national channel is broadcasting everything and got the opportunity to see this final, crazy!!!
I don’t have any clue about the rules but the combination of fast downhill + tricks it’s amazing,
As I said to a friend last night; Winter Olympics really had a lot of new sports introduced in the last 20 years. Especially the half pipe snowboarding and all the X-Games alike sports. When I was a little boy Winter Olympics were boring to watch because it was nothing but ice skating, curling, biathlon and skiing.
Now you have half pipe snowboarding, downhill snowboarding and skiing with tricks and jumps. New sports without decade old records, new sports where being the first to pull something off would put you into history books. A young kid doing snowboarding really can make history for him/herself risking it a bit more, doing an attempt to get a “never done before” ranking on a trick, hitting major points.
My country is probably on weaker side in winter olympics as they started to grow and give some fight in summer olympics past few years.
I generally watch T20I cricket world cup where India is featuring better at this point of time, but let’s see how far can we go in today’s cross country skiing which may start in half an hour…
Not much hopes but atleast we slowly crawled back in summer olympics, so expecting some sort of fight here in winter olympics..
Lucky guy, wasn’t even shipped back home like ski jump coach of Finland after being too wasted.
Really heated matches in men’s ice hockey today, Finland beats Sweden while Slovakia takes another victory so everything is still open with group B positions.
Klaebo being really dominating force in cross country, 3rd gold already ( 8 overall ) and plenty of events left where he can become most successful winter athlete.
Sorry I know this isn’t Winter Italy Sport directly related. But That Finnish basketball player from the Summer Tournament I still can’t get over. He can dunk. I thought he was gunna transfer to a US college for basketball. “Slim J” Miikka Muurinen.
I love watching downhill sking and curling for the Olympics. I havent seen any direct Pokemon instances yet. Maybe I saw a couple Snoms thats all. How about you?
She had to do it for herself. Now she knows. She took that way to aggressive out of the gate. She was stressed and had too wait too long at the top. But downhill skiers are gnarly.
