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2026 Winter Olympics: Thread Title Under Construction

I think this will be the first Olympics where I've just fully checked out on them...

I'm stuck with just broadcast NBC, and with my parents cutting the cord, I can no longer log in under their Comcast User ID to stream anything I needed.

Don't know the first thing about "Sailing the Seven Seas", so I'm just kind of accepting the fact that the era of non-stop sports for 16 days has come to an end...

The "cable" era from 2004 onward was something special. Unless it was something super obscure, you basically had it where you could follow any event you wanted. And now streaming has made it to where we are back in the 1990s where most of the non-major draws are inaccessible again.
 
Kepler said:
Since lots of people are watching on delay in lots of ways, can we have a 24-hour embargo on event results?
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My thoughts on this are that there are some sports that absolutely need to be watched live, the team sports like hockey and curling or any races where everyone is competing at the same time like XC skiing or short track, and if you miss it then well you missed it and good luck not getting spoiled.

On the other hand, there are plenty of events that you are way better off just watching highlights. Figure skating is especially like this. Unless you’re a real sicko you can skip all but the last two groups. Maybe don’t spoil those results so people can watch the good parts.
 
RaceBoarder said:
I think this will be the first Olympics where I've just fully checked out on them...

I'm stuck with just broadcast NBC, and with my parents cutting the cord, I can no longer log in under their Comcast User ID to stream anything I needed.

Don't know the first thing about "Sailing the Seven Seas", so I'm just kind of accepting the fact that the era of non-stop sports for 16 days has come to an end...

The "cable" era from 2004 onward was something special. Unless it was something super obscure, you basically had it where you could follow any event you wanted. And now streaming has made it to where we are back in the 1990s where most of the non-major draws are inaccessible again.
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Get Peacock for a month? Everything is available on that app.
 
Jimjamesak said:
My thoughts on this are that there are some sports that absolutely need to be watched live, the team sports like hockey and curling or any races where everyone is competing at the same time like XC skiing or short track, and if you miss it then well you missed it and good luck not getting spoiled.
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Nope, I don't buy any of that, but okay I have created a spoiler-free thread for adults.
 
Kepler said:
Backmarker women's Olympic hockey (Italy-France) reminds me of NC$$ women in 1990. A couple players on each team know what they're doing; the rest are pylons.

By 2010, NC$$ womens hockey was completely transformed -- it became as exciting and deep as D3 mens. May the world improve at the same rate. Maybe by 2050 the NC$$ women will be indistinguishable from the men except for size and its concomitant idiocy.
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I'm watching a replay of the Japan-France game while WFH today.

I wish I was joking when I say it doesn't look all that different from a high-B level beer league game, complete with a few ringers and a bunch of weekend warriors on each team. Like the teams clearly play better team defense since they have actual coaches, and the goalies are probably more solid positionally (again, cause of the availability of coaching), but overall skill-wise I'm not seeing the difference we'll see with a US-Canada game.
 
unofan said:
I'm watching a replay of the Japan-France game while WFH today.

I wish I was joking when I say it doesn't look all that different from a high-B level beer league game, complete with a few ringers and a bunch of weekend warriors on each team. Like the teams clearly play better team defense since they have actual coaches, and the goalies are probably more solid positionally (again, cause of the availability of coaching), but overall skill-wise I'm not seeing the difference we'll see with a US-Canada game.
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That's why Group B has to qualify where all of Group A gets in. And the Olympics avoid massive blow outs that are not really fun to watch.

Sucks that so much of the world does not like hockey enough to have enough women's hockey players.
 
Kepler said:
Since lots of people are watching on delay in lots of ways, can we have a 24-hour embargo on event results?
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Why? Can't you stay away for 24 hours? Seems pretty easy and is no pressure on other posters- especially when something big happens.

Oh, I see you made a thread. ... ok.
 
MichVandal said:
That's why Group B has to qualify where all of Group A gets in. And the Olympics avoid massive blow outs that are not really fun to watch.

Sucks that so much of the world does not like hockey enough to have enough women's hockey players.
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TBF, even the places that like hockey don’t have enough women’s hockey players. Sweden is in Group B for a reason and even the other Group A teams are not as strong.
 
Show watching yesterday's coverage of Snowboard....

IMHO, this has become a repetitive and boring sport. All of the top athletes are just doing the same trick. Over and over again.

At least with similar events like: 1) diving- they have to do multiple different dives and they all count, 2) figure skating- they have to put a full show of tricks together with music, and they all do it in different orders,

It's great and all that these athletes get their day, but I'm reminded why I don't pay attention to any of the X games anymore. It's down to who does the one trick the best, and they are so close to each other that you really have to know what you are looking for to tell the difference (unless they fall..,,).
 
Jimjamesak said:
Considering the structural integrity of the San Siro, I’m surprised it was lit at all.
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Is it really not good? It looks pretty cool from the outside... at night. The walking ramps look like Roman columns.

If they can hang those rings, they could have added a handful of lights to help see things.
 
Scarlet said:
Is that why? I find it very disjointed. I didn't like the parade of nations on the water in Paris either.
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Yea- the venues are really far from Milan, and there are 3 different mountain venues. The commented that commonly the skiers can't participate in the parade because they are so far from the host city.
 
MichVandal said:
Show watching yesterday's coverage of Snowboard....

IMHO, this has become a repetitive and boring sport. All of the top athletes are just doing the same trick. Over and over again.

At least with similar events like: 1) diving- they have to do multiple different dives and they all count, 2) figure skating- they have to put a full show of tricks together with music, and they all do it in different orders,

It's great and all that these athletes get their day, but I'm reminded why I don't pay attention to any of the X games anymore. It's down to who does the one trick the best, and they are so close to each other that you really have to know what you are looking for to tell the difference (unless they fall..,,).
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I have the same problem with the men's mogul event. All they do is 1080 backflips now, and the moguls are perfect, machine-made walls with no variability. It's like watching a guitar virtuoso play scales - technically impressive, but predictable.
 
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