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2022 Beijing Olympics: Don't Mention the Slaves

Russell Jaslow said:
Oh. My. God.

This has got to be the most creative defense ever. But it doesn’t matter. How you got something in your system has never worked as a defense.
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It’s not for us, it’s for people in Russia so they don’t get PO’d about them doping 15 year olds.
 
Anyone else watch the Monobob races? I won't post who won (and got 2nd) to prevent a further kep ansurism.

But those things look like a handful. They are way lighter than the 2man and 4 man sleds, which makes driving them much harder- less traction on the straights with the less weight, but more responsive in the corners due to the light weight. If I were the director of Bobsled development, I would totally make sure that the drivers spend time in all 3 sleds- especially the monosled, so that it teaches the drivers a light touch and good timing in corners.

I remember how much it changed my driving when I drove a kart and getting back into a car. Helped slow down the feel of the car a lot.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
I’d have gone with “I accidentally took one of paw paws pills”
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That's the only "oopsie" explanation that remotely makes any sense once you've painted yourself into the corner she now has. But I think I agree with Lipinski and Weir - even though she's under 16 and can't be held personally responsible per the rules, we generally don't accept a plea of ignorance as grounds for totally dismissing evidence of wrongdoing. Especially a plea based on a technicality and coming from an athlete representing a nation with a well-established history of systematic doping violations.
 
I'm both too lazy and too busy to look but when is the men's hockey team playing and who are they playing? I know the women play for the gold tonight at 11:00pm but I haven't seen anything about the men.
 
Scarlet said:
I'm both too lazy and too busy to look but when is the men's hockey team playing and who are they playing? I know the women play for the gold tonight at 11:00pm but I haven't seen anything about the men.
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Women play tomorrow night at 11. Men play tonight at 11 against Slovakia.

Mens quarters are:
8 Slovakia vs 1 USA
5 Canada vs 4 Sweden
10 Switzerland vs 2 Finland
6 Denmark vs 3 ROC
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Women play tomorrow night at 11. Men play tonight at 11 against Slovakia.

Mens quarters are:
8 Slovakia vs 1 USA
5 Canada vs 4 Sweden
10 Switzerland vs 2 Finland
6 Denmark vs 3 ROC
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I’m a bit nervous about Slovakia, CAN-SWE should be a good one though.
 
Jimjamesak said:
I’m a bit nervous about Slovakia, CAN-SWE should be a good one though.
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Slovakia didn’t look great against Sweden or Finland. But I don’t know to read into the last two games as improving or just beating lower competition.

Canada has not impressed me since the Germany game. I think Sweden takes it.

I don’t see the Finns losing either, and while I’d like to see Denmark continue the Cinderella run, the Danes were badly outshot but ROC and Czechia in the prelims, so they’ll need some puck luck to get by ROC this time.

I’ll be boring and say the quarters go chalk.
 
Spartanforlife4 said:
Slovakia didn’t look great against Sweden or Finland. But I don’t know to read into the last two games as improving or just beating lower competition.

Canada has not impressed me since the Germany game. I think Sweden takes it.

I don’t see the Finns losing either, and while I’d like to see Denmark continue the Cinderella run, the Danes were badly outshot but ROC and Czechia in the prelims, so they’ll need some puck luck to get by ROC this time.

I’ll be boring and say the quarters go chalk.
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The Danes are playing in their first Olympics and made the quarterfinals without the player (Ehlers) that got them there. Amazing.
 
I was going to say "wow no comments on the men's game" and then realized that it's quite late for most of you and only 8pm for me...
 
Huh.

But according to documents reviewed by The New York Times and confirmed by someone who took part in the hearing, the Stockholm laboratory that carried out the examination of Valieva’s sample also found evidence of two other substances that can treat the heart but are not on the banned list. Valieva even listed them, Hypoxen and L-carnitine, on a doping control form.

The presence of trimetazidine in Valieva’s system may have been a mistake, Russian and Olympic officials have suggested. But the discovery of several substances in the sample of an elite athlete, especially one as young as Valieva, was highly unusual, according to a prominent antidoping official.

“It’s a trifecta of substances — two of which are allowed, and one that is not allowed,” Travis Tygart, the chief executive of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, said when told of the discovery. He added that the benefits of such a combination “seem to be aimed at increasing endurance, reducing fatigue and promoting greater efficiency in using oxygen.”
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