Winter Olympics 2018

Merlin5 · 14 Feb 2018 at 17:29

Anyone watch the 3 runs of the men's halfpipe final? Wow, nailbiting stuff!

RoboCod · 14 Feb 2018 at 18:40

Merlin5 said:
Anyone watch the 3 runs of the men's halfpipe final? Wow, nailbiting stuff!

Yeah it was very good.

rids57 · 14 Feb 2018 at 19:36

I think I must have woken most of my neighbours up when White did his final run - I'm sure he has an anti-gravity device in there somewhere

jpaul · 14 Feb 2018 at 22:46

The self-righteous/arrogant way these new aerodynamic skeleton skin suits are being reported by the UK press, seems very unsporting, it seems the ruling authorities have been caught on the hop, why was the UK not obliged to present the costumes earlier.
wasn't that what had happened with the Speedo swimming suits too ? retrospectively causing invalidation of Olympic records ?
If they win courtesy of these suits will the competitors not feel the award is diminished (... it is like arms war in formula one tech too).

the Mexico ski costumes are cool in comparison if you had not seen https://firenewsfeed.com/news/1138084

SPG · 15 Feb 2018 at 12:00

Indeed the UK press are the UK's worst enemy at times.

Same as the bikes in the summer games......

Prefer the winter games to summer any time shame the BBC are so crap.

poosemon · 16 Feb 2018 at 11:46

Dont know why the BBC arent just sticking the events up on the Iplayer/BBC sport so you can easily re-watch what you want. All we appear to be getting is a clip of the winning run and maybe second. Or having to pick your way through a highlights show.

jpaul · 16 Feb 2018 at 15:24

yes they are not tagging the timelines, like for the olympics - eurosport seem better (I am surpsrised at the quality of their apps stream - 1080?)

marc2003 · 17 Feb 2018 at 11:30

Inevitable.

robfosters · 17 Feb 2018 at 11:32

And could be injured for her final event. Just not for her the olympics.

Kenai · 17 Feb 2018 at 11:34

Wouldn't be surprised if she's fractured or broken her leg somewhere, he leg clattered into the barrier at a horrible angle

Name · 17 Feb 2018 at 11:40

She is terrible, she just can't finish a race. Should stand down from the sport as it's clearly not for her. At least at Olympic level.

robfosters · 17 Feb 2018 at 11:52

Name said:
She is terrible, she just can't finish a race. Should stand down from the sport as it's clearly not for her. At least at Olympic level.

I think that’s slightly unfair. Multiple world and European championships would suggest that she’s not too bad at it.

marc2003 · 17 Feb 2018 at 12:52

This daytime gibberish in the studio with Balding is sickening. Just show some live action FFS.

marc2003 · 17 Feb 2018 at 13:22

That's more like it.

Gold AND Bronze. :eek:

robfosters · 17 Feb 2018 at 13:24

Thats a proper pressure performance from Lizzy there! Brilliant.

robfosters · 17 Feb 2018 at 13:25

YES! GOLD AND BRONZE!!!!!!!!

SPG · 17 Feb 2018 at 13:27

The two chaps who have been covering the snowboarding etc are fantastic, love the enthusiasm from them, best thing about the BBC coverage.

A great win !!!!!

mmj_uk · 17 Feb 2018 at 15:06

Elise Christie must be the most tragic story in Olympics history, she always seems to get off to a poor start and then crash out.

SPG · 17 Feb 2018 at 18:49

Still young enough and good enough for another go, with the right people getting into her head she should do it.

I do find it a strange sport tbh, The cameras do not do the speed justice, watched a couple of people train at NIC before hockey (a proper use for a ice rink btw)

izzop · 17 Feb 2018 at 21:18

SPG said:
The two chaps who have been covering the snowboarding etc are fantastic, love the enthusiasm from them, best thing about the BBC coverage.

A great win !!!!!

Ed Leigh I don't mind at all, but Tim Warwood is another story. Can't quite put my finger on it, but I find him annoying. It might possibly be because he's just too over enthusiastic.