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.
