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2026 Winter Olympics: Thread Title Under Construction

Two days into the Milano-Cortina games, and Italy has 9 medals, leading the totals by 3. Norway has the most golds with 3,

Go Italy!!! Got a lot of people rooting for you.
 
A US figure skater being delayed because of JD Vance's motorcade and security causing her to miss her entire pre-routine and *almost* miss her performance, and somehow getting Silver is the *perfect* summary of the current state of the United States.

Also, who the fuck brings a plane filled with food, like Chef Boyardee, with them to *Italy*?!?! Fuck JD Vance.
 
aparch said:
A US figure skater being delayed because of JD Vance's motorcade and security causing her to miss her entire pre-routine and *almost* miss her performance, and somehow getting Silver is the *perfect* summary of the current state of the United States.

Also, who the fuck brings a plane filled with food, like Chef Boyardee, with them to *Italy*?!?! Fuck JD Vance.
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JFC. what a POS.
 
Shoutout to Magic: The Gathering nerds Amber Glenn and Leonard Williams on their Gold Medal and Super Bowl title respectively yesterday.
 
Shared elsewhere regarding Vonn-

I wondered about that too, a friend who is a competitive skier said no. Vonn qualified for the team weeks before she blew out her ACL. The ski team doesn’t have alternates, so if she would have dropped out, no one else was stepping in. You qualify for the US team by your points in international competition. So even before the Olympics you are qualifying against the world, not just US skiers. It’s why there’s no downhill skiers from Jamaica, they could be the best skier in all of Jamaica but they have no world points. Should Vonn have skied at all? Thats a different question, but she didn’t cause another skier to miss out.

Vonn qualified for the team in December, she blew out her knee in late January.
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MichVandal said:
They are bitching because they don't know how to skate.
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Yeah, the players have been mostly unconcerned throughout the whole saga.

It always obvious that the story was mostly Canadian media drumming up a story (possibly at the behest of NHL owners and/or management).
 
Man, it's crazy how unforgiving the sliding sports are. Watching luge, and a mistake at the start always ends up being .75 down by the end. And then another slider had a great run going, fastest going into the middle, and a small mistake there ended up a little over .3 back. When you rely on gravity, and being perfect removes less than not- brutal.
 
Drone footage of the downhill is a great addition. Not just how it shows the speed and the turns but being able to see the town and mountains in the distance is just a cool view.
 
MichVandal said:
Man, it's crazy how unforgiving the sliding sports are. Watching luge, and a mistake at the start always ends up being .75 down by the end. And then another slider had a great run going, fastest going into the middle, and a small mistake there ended up a little over .3 back. When you rely on gravity, and being perfect removes less than not- brutal.
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Just happened again- the person *barely* in 2nd place lost 1.7 seconds to the leader because a big mistake at the race start. She was clearly in the running for gold, and now way out of the podium.
 
MichVandal said:
Just happened again- the person *barely* in 2nd place lost 1.7 seconds to the leader because a big mistake at the race start. She was clearly in the running for gold, and now way out of the podium.
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And it ends with a really dominant run by a German slider- almost a second gap to 2nd.
 
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