XXIV Winter Olympic Games

[Ripitz]

Photos: Abandoned Olympic venues after Games are over — Business Insider

The 2022 Winter Olympics are underway in Beijing. Sometimes cities successfully repurpose parts of their Olympic set-ups, like in Montreal. But oftentimes these giant investments are torn down or abandoned, as these photos show.

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[Ripitz]

The Olympics Hero Who Embodies Why the Games Still Matter — Slate

Forget the pablum about unity and world peace. Just look at what she put herself through.

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[MC2]

The Olympics Hero Who Embodies Why the Games Still Matter — Slate

Forget the pablum about unity and world peace. Just look at what she put herself through.

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Yeah, she went through a lot, but what about that guy who froze his dick? That’s some real hardship:

Cross-country skiing-Finn Remi suffers frozen penis in mass start race

The men's 50km mass start race at the Beijing Games was shortened to 30km but that did little to help Finland's Remi Lindholm, who needed a heat pack at the end of the race to thaw out a particularly sensitive body part.

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[Tjf1967]

First time in my life I did not watch one minute of the Olympics.

 

[jasonwx]

Lowest rated ever

 

[Warp daddy]

I've been watching The Winter Olympics since 1960 the first year they were widely televised. This Olympics were the absolute Worst I've seen .The skiing venues were dystopian ,the degree of chicanery in drug screening was out of control ergo the cheating was rampant.

The gulag conditions and lack of both acculturation and ambiance for both athletes and coaches was horrible.
Much needs to change and hopefully Cortina / Milano gets it right.

Frankly IMHO Russia should be permanently banned after this debacle
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[Peter Minde]

The Olympics Hero Who Embodies Why the Games Still Matter — Slate

Forget the pablum about unity and world peace. Just look at what she put herself through.

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My personal Diggins story: for several years, the Climb to the Castle roller ski race coincided with a US Ski Team training camp in LP. Diggins, then the young phenom, was warming up and came in hot to the turn up to the toll gate. She overshot it and crashed into a ditch. I thought for sure she was headed to the emergency room. She got up, dusted herself off, and finished 5th.

 

[Warp daddy]

Jesse Diggins has my utmost respect , she is a true champion in every way .

 

[Warp daddy]

FWIW : i thought Mikala Shiffrin handled herself extremely well with the media . hell anybody can be a gracious winner , the REAL proof of a person is how they handle defeat and whther they can recognize that without the media their fame does not exist . It IS a synbiotic relationship

So Shiffrin taking time to be honest about her feelings , yet using it to motivate herself to pick up the pieces in her words "Again , Again and Again "

I loved her positive message to the haters and arm chair couch potatoes who lack the guts to even try to understand the risks involved in this sport yet open their ignorant yaps to criticize the best female skier .

These ignorant fools do not know what they do not know, yet speak as if they know exposing their ignorance for all to see. She simply got up on her skis and tried her damndest and for that she earned our respect . Her records speak for themselves

 

[tirolski]

I've been watching The Winter Olympics since 1960 the first year they were widely televised. This Olympics were the absolute Worst I've seen .The skiing venues were dystopian ,the degree of chicanery in drug screening was out of control ergo the cheating was rampant.

The gulag conditions and lack of both acculturation and ambiance for both athletes and coaches was horrible.

In the closing “ceremony" when they played Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, for some reason my mind had a flashback to Kubrik’s A Clockwork Orange. It seemed to make more sense when seen thru that lens.

Much needs to change and hopefully Cortina / Milano gets it right.

It won’t take much for the shitshow to improve.
Events in Tirol events should be fine.
Food’ll be better.
There used to be unannounced strikes a lot in the cities so shows in Milan and the other cities could be tricky.
The IOC most likely should know who to pay off so it might just be fine.