2026 Winter Olympics

[JDB]

Nice throw from Thiesse and Dropkin.

 

[RedBirdie]

The 8th end nearly killed me. The whole game was so back and forth, but that 8th destroyed my stomach lining. The last throw was absolutely magnificent.

 

[makam]

The 8th end nearly killed me. The whole game was so back and forth, but that 8th destroyed my stomach lining. The last throw was absolutely magnificent.

When you "watch" the live results on Olympics.com, they put up a diagram after each stone showing where everything is. You don't know how they got there, but it is still a cool way to keep up with the action if you can't watch until you get home from work. FYI...

 

[irichluck21]

I didn't realize USA made the mixed finals against Sweden. That's a big upset!

 

[JDB]

Yuma Kagiyama's short program is so fun. Good thing he got to perform it twice at this Olympics.

 

[MaryClare]

 

[RedBirdie]

I'm really over what I can only describe as "Ice Dancing EMOTE FACE"

 

[MaryClare]

I'm really over what I can only describe as "Ice Dancing EMOTE FACE"

The British commentator has described it as “a tendency to over dance”

 

[rlayt]

I’ll bet they choreograph faces the way they do everything else.

 

[JDB]

Today started a new era in women's doubles luge at the Olympics, the first with separate men's and women's events. It was previously an open event, but all the entrants were dual men for the weight advantage.

 

[MaryClare]

I’ll bet they choreograph faces the way they do everything else.

Oh it is definitely all highly choreographed. Some of the emotion might be real between those who are couples but the others are gay or siblings

 

[makam]

So the French dance team has only been together for a year? They must be the best ice dancers ever or the competition stinks... used to be you had to be partnered for a decade before the judges would look at you, right?

 

[RedBirdie]

They've both been around for a long time, him having exceptional success with his previous partner--who has publicly accused him of being abusive. She had to find a new partner because her previous partner/current boyfriend is banned for 6 years for sexual assault.

France's Viral Ice Dancing Team Has A Dark Backstory | Defector

Blink and you might not have caught it. On Monday, Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry took to the rink and staked their claim to the ice dancing gold medal. Dancing to Madonna’s “Vogue,” complete with Blond Ambition–inspired costumes and voguing arms, their routine already is...

defector.com

 

[rlayt]

And she supports the old partner. I don’t know the particulars beyond what was in the Netflix documentary. I don’t know judging either. But their performance was less appealing and he had the mistake on his twizzles. Aldo I thought I saw something out of place where he dragged his boot sideways on the ice.

Gilles and Poirier were my favorites today.

 

[JDB]

Fournier Beaudry and Cizeron were one of the few athletes the world was hoping would lose to Americans. It's an impressive accomplishment.

 

[rlayt]

It’s funny how Johnny said about another team that they couldn’t win because one fell out of the twizzles. Boom. Cizeron fell out of twizzles.. Are we sure that the winners weren’t already decided?

 

[CameliasFingerpaint]

That was some truly absurd judging. The French judge had them 8 points above the Americans and 11 points above the Canadians in the free dance. Absolutely criminal.

I’ll take the gross incompetence of the FIG over this corrupt nonsense any day.

 

[rlayt]

The French judge held C&B down in the Rhythm Dance, I read. Scored them way lower than any other of the judges did. That’s fishy.

 

[rlayt]

Olympic cheating claims after French judge ranks France first, USA worst

A French judge at the Winter Olympics is under fire after their scoring of the ice dance competition gave the win to France.

www.newsweek.com

 

[makam]

Olympic cheating claims after French judge ranks France first, USA worst

A French judge at the Winter Olympics is under fire after their scoring of the ice dance competition gave the win to France.

www.newsweek.com

This is better than crotch-gate. Being on the FS drama!