Is this really called for? I get that tensions are high with China right now, but we can't be resorting to racism every time an event isn't perfect.
Do you watch the Olympics?
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Is this really called for? I get that tensions are high with China right now, but we can't be resorting to racism every time an event isn't perfect.
It’s racism to point out that China pitched their capital for political reasons instead of their Western provinces or even Baekdu for the Winter Olympics and now we’re forced to deal with bad venues?
They held this thing in the foothills of Beijing. The course was hard packed and iced over. It was way too fast and less than a third of the runs were clean. The competitors could barely stop.
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No, I was deliberately misinterpreting your use of "slope." Word play humah.
Love me some Olympics. Though is the there any more of a competition for privaleged US white kids than the winter Olympics?
OMG! Preach!
Can we not take these honkies down a peg?
It's like, "Hello? White supremacy much?!?! Yeah, could you LOOK any more like snow? Cumskin muhfuhka!"
You know whut I mean?
I was pleasantly surprised that a bunch of the stuff during the evening was live, USA carries the slope events live every night. NBC saves some of it for rebroadcast. 9ish oclock here in the midwest.
Looked like straight up ice. Surprised nobody got hurt on some of the long jumps. They had to slam the breaks pretty hard at the end and was waiting for one of them to slam that wall at the end.
This is me 100%. I am not interested in judged events at all. I never watch figure skating although I think that's probably the most popular sport. Snowboarding looks exactly the same on each person. They jump, spin around, flip over and land. 90 points. Next guy jumps, spins around, flips over and lands. 100 points and a gold medal! It was the same ****ing thing! Lol
I like the timed events and the team competition events where the winner wins because they were faster or better and the difference can be measured.
Sort of? I'll watch when nothing else is on but my love for the winter Olympics doesn't match the summer. I always look forward to hockey and they took all the pros out. Not really interested...
Women's hockey, skiing, maybe snowboarding? That's about it.
Women's hockey, skiing, maybe snowboarding? That's about it.
To be...well, I don't know if Fair is the right word, but the reality is the only reason it is in Beijing is because nobody else wanted it. Winter games are expensive and the facilities that need to be built for them are even less likely to be useful after the Olympics are over. Not to mention, that for 2/3 the planet winter games are a novelty and their athletes aren't competitive.
Doing a quick search it doesn't appear that they are in a "nobody is bidding to host" situation again, but it does seem to be former host cities are the ones making bids. Likely because they have already built most of the facilities. Salt Lake City may bid for the 2030 or 2034 winter games.
Now do median income.
Before we get into this...how many times are you going to move the goal posts?😂
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Sure, and that topic keeps coming up in the last 15-20 years. That being the fiscal viability of a perpetually rotating hosting site. Back when it was a smaller and less expensive event, places like Lake Placid could do it but now, people THINK they want it until they do the accounting. We toured and rode the bobsled when we visited NY which was pretty cool. The event sites in Brazil were boarded up and abandoned when we visited Rio 5? years ago.
I fully support them finding 5-10 locations around the globe and rotating summer winter across them.
You could also do it like the World Cup where there is a host country. You’d lose the Olympic village experience, but you wouldn’t have to build facilities in most countries and you’d have better options for mountain sports.
Yeah, the Olympic Village aspect would likely be removed/reduced. I think the other "problem" with host country and disbursed is it would then expand the number of cities events are held in, travel costs between the various cities and the staffing and infrastructure for televising would then become a burden that NBC etc likely would balk at. Depending on how disbursed it was, the US is just so big. Possibly seperating to 5 (or whatever) distinct areas, but...... snow has been a problem in the last couple events. First time 100% man-made snow in China this year. Heck, they had to ship snow in to Vancouver 2010! So the cost and dependency on weather has been increasing since the Lake Placid which was the last with only real snow, again, cost of winter is so much more than Summer. There really are only a limited number of locations that can legitimately host the winter, why not just commit to that?
NBC ruined the olympics for me. Too little sports and too many "feel good" stories. Also, they rarely show other countries compete. I want to see the best of the best regardless of flag.
Ha. Nope, and clearly we are bribe free now so the whole house of cards will come down.
At least the sites are scenic and very wintery….
Used to watch a lot of summer and some Winter Olympics but watched very little summer this past summer and I will not watch any of these Winter Olympics.
Not sure what coverage you've watched, they show pretty much all of the competitors in every sport. Watching men's speed skating now, they've shown every heat.
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