Do you like the Olympic Games?

Do you like the Olympic Games

  • Love em

    Votes: 5 26.3%
  • I enjoy watching them

    Votes: 8 42.1%
  • Don't really care one way or the other

    Votes: 3 15.8%
  • Not really

    Votes: 2 10.5%
  • Long outdated concept. Wish they'd go away.

    Votes: 1 5.3%

  • Total voters
    19
Yeah, and it's dirt cheap compared to going to the snow here too.

The closest snow to me is Mt Bulla, but compared to Europe/Asia/The Americas, it's a bit of a joke, and 3 days will costs you about $5k.

Or, you could fly to NZ for $100, and spend two weeks there for the same amount.

I really should attempt going some time. My friends and I really aren't the "Doing stuff" kind of people most of the time. We take holidays based on wineries, bars and theme parks, but I think we're getting too old for that now.

Ive always wanted a white Xmas, and my cannuck friends have made the offer a few times, but it's too hard to get away from work at that time.
I'd love to go to Treble Cone sometime. One of the instructors there has a DVD called Sofa Ski School which is exactly what it sounds like. Helped me learn how to ski just by watching a movie.
 
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Watching women's super-g skiing now. It's just making me sad. Really want to ski but this season has been complete trash. Looking at next 10 days I'll be lucky to get in one more day. Didn't get out for the first time until a week or two into January because the weather wasn't that great and I'm pretty picky unfortunately. If snow isn't in good condition and fast then it's just not fun. And when it was cold it was like 5 degrees with 10-15mph winds for a couple weeks. We finally got snow last weekend and then this week had two days around 40.
 
Ive never even seen snow lol.

I bought a Groupon once to try curling at the local ice skating place, and and the dude kept telling me I wasn't sweeping enough.

I was all "b****! I'm an apprentice hairdresser! All I do is sweep for 40 hours a week!"

There was a free pie afterwards. Worst. Date. Ever.
Never played curling, but it looks like a good time, and I can tell that it was most definitely invented as a drinking game.

Now, watching it as an Olympic sport makes me feel like I'm watching some kind of "Extreme Chores" game show on Japanese television.
 
I don't really care about the Olympics, that being said it's hard for me to cheer for one country over the other simply because all of these young people put so much of their time that they'll never get back into trying to be the best. I just want the best to win regardless of where they come from.
 
You want a regular Joe performing in the Olympics for comparison? Well, this is how you get a regular Joe competing in the Olympics.



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There’s a premise built into the structure of the Olympics that pretty much every single Olympian, even those far down the standings, are elite athletes at the top of their game performing at a level most fans could only dream of. Freestyle skier Elizabeth Swaney is an affront to this notion, and her, um, laconic run down the halfpipe is so thoroughly average that it’s an inspiration of sorts.

The 33-year-old American has been freestyle skiing since 2013 with the single-minded goal of making it to the Olympics. Since the American team is, well, good, she initially competed for her mother’s native Venezuela, before switching her allegiance and representing Hungary, which she was eligible to do because of Hungarian grandparents. Swaney can’t throw a single trick in the halfpipe, and she can barely catch any air to speak of, but that doesn’t matter, since the real competitive portion of her Olympics came before she even traveled to South Korea, as she worked her way onto the team in an effort that was something between a scam and a tale of perseverance.

In order to qualify, Swaney needed to finish within the top 30 at a few World Cup skiing events. After “competing” in halfpipe contests around the world, Swaney finally qualified in December, when she went to a Chinese event while the top skiers in the world were at a more prestigious event in Colorado. She finished 13th out of 15, which has nothing to do with her actually besting anyone, since, once again, she doesn’t even do any tricks. Other people fell or certain events simply featured fewer than 30 competitors, which let her sneak in. That’s her gameplan: show up and stay upright.

Because a few competitors pulled out of the Olympics with injury, because of limits on how many skiers from a single country can compete in the same event, and because of some arcane reallocation rules within the Hungarian ski federation designed to balance men’s and women’s competitors, Swaney got to go do her fake run in Pyeongchang. The Denver Post reported that some actually competitive skiers are less than thrilled with Swaney’s presence at the Games, and they even a got a slopestyle judge to explain exactly how her scam worked.

“The field is not that deep in the women’s pipe and she went to every World Cup, where there were only 24, 25, or 28 women,” said longtime FIS ski halfpipe and slopestyle judge Steele Spence. “She would compete in them consistently over the last couple years and sometimes girls would crash so she would not end up dead last. There are going to be changes to World Cup quotas and qualifying to be eligible for the Olympics. Those things are in the works so technically you need to qualify up through the system.”

Apparently, rules might tighten and people like Swaney might not get to go to the Olympics. For now, however, she gets to represent Hungary and, as she said, “inspire others in Hungary and the world to become involved in freestyle skiing,” by doing one limp 180.​
 
I laugh but at the same time feel bad for her. I've never done tricks let alone the halfpipe and would probably break something trying to pull it off. People can criticize her all they want but lets be real here, she can say she actually competed in the Olympics.
 
I think the original intent of the Games was to set aside differences while coming together to compete in a neutral setting. I agree the heavy commercial interest makes this very not neutral.

Kind of the same for cities competing to host the games and dumping tax payer money into infrastracture hoping The Olympics will somehow be a stimulus to their local economy.

It is also twisted by politics when any nation wants to pump their athletes full of drug cocktails to win just to prove their country's supposed superiority.


Rarrrr Priscilla SMASH


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Shes on more hormones than me... and I am trangender... Which means 100mg of test per week.
 
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