BoatBanter.com - Olympics

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On 2/16/2018 7:07 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 2/16/18 12:08 AM, wrote:
On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 20:54:10 -0500, Keyser Söze
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Are you all watching? Our girls are doing pretty well.
BTW did "Rocky and Bullwinkle" really get the silver in the woman's
giant slaloms?
I heard them say it but they never put up the graphic with her name.

Not watching.

It is really the only interesting thing on TV.
I am done with murder, mayhem and the Trump witch hunt.

I won't dispute your point there is little interesting on TV. If I can't
find anything on the science, nature, history, channels, et cetera, I
just open the book I am reading to my bookmark.

OH!, You missed a fascinating and awe filled evening of Curling!

Mikek

That is why I record this stuff. I can fast forward over things I
don't care about. Curling is interesting for a little while but I am
not going to spend the evening watching it. The biathalon is
interesting too. Those boys and girls can shoot, all the while cross
country skiing. There is no shooting between heartbeats when your
heart rate is 150-160. I didn't mind seeing that arrogant French guy
drop his last 2 shots and lose.
I also like watching the snowboard and some of the alpine stuff. The
skeleton is just nuts.. They are belly whopping head first on tiny
little sleds hitting 80MPH or more.

Agreed on the Frenchman. My Dutch friend thought it was funny and appropriate that this 'hero'
missed so many shots!

It was really only 2 on the gold run but it was the last 2. I think he
was already writing his comments for the TV interview and forgot he
had not won yet.
Fourcade is not that good a skier but he prides himself on his
shooting. It was interesting that Boe, the winner missed two also and
made up the 2 minutes plus some on his skis. The silver and bronze
shot clean.

We talked after the first event in which Fourcade missed three shots.

I just saw the final of the 20KM. We have 20 hours or so in the can
that we have not seen yet. Once you skip over the stuff we don't care
about that will go pretty fast. The weather has just been too nice to
sit in the house.

The USA is working hard to lose to the Russians. Hope that doesn't ruin your viewing.

What Russians?
Actually I have not even seen much of the russians playing under the
OAR flag
My girl Rocky and Bulwinkle got beat by Lindsey Vonn but she was one
of the few Vonn beat. (W Super G)
Rocky is a cute little thing tho.

Those 'OAR' Russians. The ones who trounced us yesterday. Here's part of the reason:

https://www.sbnation.com/2018/2/17/1...-olympics-2018

Vonn made a big boo, boo at the end of her run. She was probably thinking about her absence if and
when Trump invites the team to the White House. I'm sure she'll be making the news then. I wrote a
letter to the Olympic committee telling them her anti-Trump antics cost them any more contributions
as long as she's on the team.

I am not really watching the hockey.
I will admit that when the top 13 places in the super G are separated
by a fraction of a second, it does not take much of a mistake to be on
the wrong side of that. I watched the recording and it is hard to even
see that mistake. NBC CGIed Vonn running with Ledecka and she could
have hit Ledecka with a ski pole at the finish if they were running
together.
Even "Rocky and Bulwinkle" (Ragnhild MOWINCKEL) was inside that one
second margin at 0.89 back.
These skiers were all very well matched.

Vonn went way right of the line (outside the blue) and had to come back in for the next flag.
Probably only cost her a couple tenths of a second, but like you say, they were all close.