Anonymous
02/05/2022 14:41
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does anyone care about the winter Olympics? They don't even send all of the coutnries in the world because of climate restrictions.
Hockey is the only sport that is interesting, yet countries can't even use their best players anymore. It is a boring amateur fest of hockey.
Winter olympics is ice skating, skiing and snowboarding, luge and bobsled, curling. Yes, people who are not you care about the winter olympics.
ZzZzZ
Lol, that’s how I feel about ice hockey!
-NP
+1
I have a ton of friends who are big hockey fans. I cannot force myself into it.
Anonymous
02/05/2022 14:06
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:WHY can't they just pick a location in the world and STAY?
Who, the Olympic Games?
Anonymous
02/05/2022 13:47
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does anyone care about the winter Olympics? They don't even send all of the coutnries in the world because of climate restrictions.
Hockey is the only sport that is interesting, yet countries can't even use their best players anymore. It is a boring amateur fest of hockey.
Winter olympics is ice skating, skiing and snowboarding, luge and bobsled, curling. Yes, people who are not you care about the winter olympics.
ZzZzZ
Lol, that’s how I feel about ice hockey!
-NP
Anonymous
02/05/2022 13:44
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:Ice skating has always had a dark side, as has gymnastics.
Under the Russian and Chinese systems, children are basically taken from their families early to be used for the glory of the system. And yes, they are putting a ton of stress on these young girls. It might be amazing the stunts they can do, but they are being chewed up and spit out.
I understand why the point system was revamped (and I may just pay peacock $5 to finish that documentary about the 2002 scandal) but it takes a lot of the joy out of skating when you are just trying to squeeze in as many points as possible. (Same can be said of gymnastics, actually-I miss the gymnastics of the 80s and 90s)
So much is given up in the pursuit of glory for the homeland.[/quote
Yup.
Hell, even basketball in China does too. Many people don't know that Yao was the product of a forced govt marriage between two people that were told by the state to produce a kid because the govt thought the parents had the right genetics to produce a viable basketball playing offspring. People really do not understand that these kinds of states love to try to project soft power through sports victories. They have to intervene to try to win.
Anonymous
02/05/2022 13:40
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:Nobody cares about sports largely played only by rich white people.
What an ethnocentric view you have
Anonymous
02/05/2022 13:37
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does anyone care about the winter Olympics? They don't even send all of the coutnries in the world because of climate restrictions.
Hockey is the only sport that is interesting, yet countries can't even use their best players anymore. It is a boring amateur fest of hockey.
Winter olympics is ice skating, skiing and snowboarding, luge and bobsled, curling. Yes, people who are not you care about the winter olympics.
ZzZzZ
Them's fighting words. Curling is awesome.
Anonymous
02/05/2022 13:30
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Ice skating has always had a dark side, as has gymnastics.
Under the Russian and Chinese systems, children are basically taken from their families early to be used for the glory of the system. And yes, they are putting a ton of stress on these young girls. It might be amazing the stunts they can do, but they are being chewed up and spit out.
I understand why the point system was revamped (and I may just pay peacock $5 to finish that documentary about the 2002 scandal) but it takes a lot of the joy out of skating when you are just trying to squeeze in as many points as possible. (Same can be said of gymnastics, actually-I miss the gymnastics of the 80s and 90s)
So much is given up in the pursuit of glory for the homeland.
Under the Russian and Chinese systems, children are basically taken from their families early to be used for the glory of the system. And yes, they are putting a ton of stress on these young girls. It might be amazing the stunts they can do, but they are being chewed up and spit out.
I understand why the point system was revamped (and I may just pay peacock $5 to finish that documentary about the 2002 scandal) but it takes a lot of the joy out of skating when you are just trying to squeeze in as many points as possible. (Same can be said of gymnastics, actually-I miss the gymnastics of the 80s and 90s)
So much is given up in the pursuit of glory for the homeland.
Anonymous
02/05/2022 13:25
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Why did NBC discontinue their standalone sports network a month before the Olympics?
Anonymous
02/05/2022 13:22
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Nobody cares about sports largely played only by rich white people.
Anonymous
02/05/2022 13:22
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Jamaican Bobsled Team, baby!
Anonymous
02/05/2022 12:38
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:So looking forward to the ladies skating event for the Russian girls. They developed a fabulous talent pipeline over the last ten years. That’s what happens when you don’t need to worry about ice time!
I agree that the Russian dolls are doing some incredible things ( the quads! The overhead arms! The artistry!) but you gotta know there’s a huge dark side to their current domination. The way they are going through these girls so quickly, only to have them retire as depressed eating disordered young women when their bodies start to mature in their later teens.
It reminds me of how dominant the American gymnastics program has been for the last 10 years or so, only to be hiding rampant emotional and sexual abuse just underneath the surface.
Anonymous
02/05/2022 12:05
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone care about the winter Olympics? They don't even send all of the coutnries in the world because of climate restrictions.
Hockey is the only sport that is interesting, yet countries can't even use their best players anymore. It is a boring amateur fest of hockey.
If you don't like it-- don't watch. But, do not let your negative attitude try to ruin it for everyone else.
Anonymous
02/05/2022 11:59
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does anyone care about the winter Olympics? They don't even send all of the coutnries in the world because of climate restrictions.
Hockey is the only sport that is interesting, yet countries can't even use their best players anymore. It is a boring amateur fest of hockey.
Winter olympics is ice skating, skiing and snowboarding, luge and bobsled, curling. Yes, people who are not you care about the winter olympics.
ZzZzZ
Anonymous
02/05/2022 11:50
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone care about the winter Olympics? They don't even send all of the coutnries in the world because of climate restrictions.
Hockey is the only sport that is interesting, yet countries can't even use their best players anymore. It is a boring amateur fest of hockey.
Winter olympics is ice skating, skiing and snowboarding, luge and bobsled, curling. Yes, people who are not you care about the winter olympics.
Anonymous
02/05/2022 11:20
Subject: 2022 Olympics
Does anyone care about the winter Olympics? They don't even send all of the coutnries in the world because of climate restrictions.
Hockey is the only sport that is interesting, yet countries can't even use their best players anymore. It is a boring amateur fest of hockey.
Hockey is the only sport that is interesting, yet countries can't even use their best players anymore. It is a boring amateur fest of hockey.