MichVandal
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It's one of many reasons our two schools should be adding women's hockey.
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2022 Beijing Olympics: Don't Mention the Slaves
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It's one of many reasons our two schools should be adding women's hockey.
Spartanforlife4
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Men’s curling will play for the bronze after dropping their semi to Great Britain. I’m no curling expert, but it was an interesting final shot choice by Schuster with the hammer. GB was up 6-4, GB had one on the button, the US had the next closest and the left side was wide open. To me the obvious play was to curl it in on the left, bump the GB stone, and hope the thrown rock stays closer than the bumped GB stone.
Instead he went for a shot on the right side that required multiple rocks hitting each other. He certainly knows more than I do about the physics of it all, but on the face it seemed much more intricate than trying to nestle it in on the left.
Instead he went for a shot on the right side that required multiple rocks hitting each other. He certainly knows more than I do about the physics of it all, but on the face it seemed much more intricate than trying to nestle it in on the left.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
Brianne Jenner gets MVP. Just another gold for Cornell (Jenner '15, Rebecca Johnston '12, Jillian Saulnier '15 and Micah Zandee-Hart '20).
8 members of next year's freshman class were selected to the U.S. and Canadian U18 teams for the 2022 Worlds.
So everybody enjoy our one down year.
ticapnews
Never Forget!
This was your women's figure skating champion the moment she won the gold medal. Doesn't she look excited? Like it's the best day of her life? The culmination of a lifetime of work?
Silver medalist Sasha Trusova pulled away from her coach (she coaches all three Russians) and screamed, "You knew everything all along"
She threw some subtle shade during the medal ceremony.
And that coach greeted the 15-year old Kamila Valieva as she came off the ice totally devastated with words of concern and a warm embrace. Just kidding. She actually scolded her as the teen left the ice surface, at which point the kid completely broke.
The Russians never should have been allowed to compete. And the coach should be under investigation for child abuse.
Congratulations to Japan's Kaori Sakamoto, the champion of skaters from countries that weren't supposedly banned from the Olympics.
Silver medalist Sasha Trusova pulled away from her coach (she coaches all three Russians) and screamed, "You knew everything all along"
She threw some subtle shade during the medal ceremony.
And that coach greeted the 15-year old Kamila Valieva as she came off the ice totally devastated with words of concern and a warm embrace. Just kidding. She actually scolded her as the teen left the ice surface, at which point the kid completely broke.
The Russians never should have been allowed to compete. And the coach should be under investigation for child abuse.
Congratulations to Japan's Kaori Sakamoto, the champion of skaters from countries that weren't supposedly banned from the Olympics.
MichVandal
Well-known member
Sucks for her.
Kepler
Cornell Big Red
This was your women's figure skating champion the moment she won the gold medal. Doesn't she look excited? Like it's the best day of her life? The culmination of a lifetime of work?
Silver medalist Sasha Trusova pulled away from her coach (she coaches all three Russians) and screamed, "You knew everything all along"
Bela Karolyi was not available for comment.
I love when people play holier than thou about this stuff, as if it stops as a national border. Reminds me of all the anger about cycling cheating before Lance oops never mind.
Root for the athlete, not the laundry, you saps. People matter. Flags are all the same.
Put all the coaches and all the national team administrators and especially every donor in a blender and turn it on puree. They are all the same, the world over; the athletes are equals in being victims.
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FadeToBlack&Gold
Kettle Medallion
I am hoping to become independently wealthy enough to bankroll MTU women's hockey. No luck thus far.
Spartanforlife4
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Who endorsed doping when Armstrong got caught? He’s been labeled a cheater and cycling in America has basically been killed off for good.
ticapnews
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After I settled my disability claim I had the option to buy a series of CD's and an IRA or bitcoin. Had I invested in bitcoin they'd be building the William & Diana Forsyth Memorial Sports Complex in Orono and I'd be posting from my private island. But hey, my 5-year CD finally matures next summer for a whopping gain of a few hundred bucks. Yay.
Deutsche Gopher Fan
Registered User
My god these Russian breakdowns are bad. Like we shouldn’t be seeing this
FadeToBlack&Gold
Kettle Medallion
Russia unsurprisingly running their program with an iron fist. Yelling at 15-year-olds who just missed the podium to quit crying. Silver medalist screaming at the coach that she knew the judging was rigged.
aparch
Well-known member
Agreed. Live, fine, maybe avoidable. But they've had all goddammed afternoon to cut the tape down and stop exploiting these children more. I get NBC is trying to provide the live experience via tape delay to the 8-11 timeslot, but that was disgusting to watch.
(I tuned in right when the 15 year old fell, and the combination of lingering cameras and NBC commentators waxing poetically for far to long about how it was good for the 15 year old to fall and finish fourth so the others could get their medal moment was very offputting and I had tune away.)
ticapnews
Never Forget!
No, we shouldn't
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Curse the adults - the IOC, the coaches, the court, all of them - who allowed this to happen. They failed her. They failed the other athletes who should have had their moment of glory but had to deal with this distraction instead.
What do you expect from NBC? Did you think they would learn after Simone Biles? Mikaela Schiffrin? It was horrifying listening to Tirico greedily promote the "unprecedented drama" that would unfold after the final skate. Show Kamila's scores, show the medal ceremony and have Tara and Johnny talk about the things that happened. We didn't need to see it.
ericredaxe
Veteran
Not sure if it has been discussed in this thread…. Eileen Gu did very well. Born and raised in the USA, obviously would have made the US team, but instead chose to compete for China.
i understand her hope to inspire Chinese girls, but seems naive of her to choose to represent an autocratic, repressive government over her home country. Not a fan.
i understand her hope to inspire Chinese girls, but seems naive of her to choose to represent an autocratic, repressive government over her home country. Not a fan.
MichVandal
Well-known member
While I was kind of joking about the IOC, since they are a political entity, which means their goal is to line their own pockets- NBC should at least recognize the number of viewers of that gold medal game, and start a fund to get women's hockey started all across Michigan.
If there were just two international players per school here, it would field most of one team. And the increased competitiveness even with the number of teams that are there would go a long way.
Russell Jaslow
Registered User
You are extremely late to the game here...
ericredaxe
Veteran
Yeah I did not read through this whole thread at all.
Jimjamesak
Already insane, UAA making it worse
Finland plays Totally Not Russia in the Gold Medal Game.
ticapnews
Never Forget!
The only medal Putin cares about and Russia is going to win gold two consecutive Olympics, despite being "banned."
Good job, IOC