2026 Winter Olympics

[Puffin]

Whenever I hear this music I always think of Boginskaya (who did it better)

 

[Big_rock_show]

That women’s hockey game was almost the 1980 Miracle on Ice…except the opposite

 

[ArnoldRimmer]

I see that skank Eteri has turned up again like a bad penny. Social media is aflame.

 

[RedBirdie]

I really thought the US women were going to go full Caps (cruise through the regular part as the clearly superior team only to grip their sticks too tight and lose when it really mattered) on us. Jesus, that game damn near killed me. Absolute murder on my stomach lining.

 

[Puffin]

Alysa!!!!

 

[makam]

Ski mountaineering is not quite as cool as I hoped it would be (coming in, not knowing anything). I think the staircase is the problem and how short each run was. If the stairs looked like mountain rocks and were about 5 stories longer... but a 2:40ish run feels...lacking. maybe I want a ski mountaineering marathon.

 

[Puffin]

Ski mountaineering is not quite as cool as I hoped it would be (coming in, not knowing anything). I think the staircase is the problem and how short each run was. If the stairs looked like mountain rocks and were about 5 stories longer... but a 2:40ish run feels...lacking. maybe I want a ski mountaineering marathon.

I agree - I was expecting them to go up a mountain on skis like the cross country skiers sometimes do when they zigzag from the bottom to the top of an alpine hill. The running part just seemed a bit meh

 

[MaryClare]

I see that skank Eteri has turned up again like a bad penny. Social media is aflame.

This is the thing, she hasn’t turned up again. She’s here as a Georgian national who is an accredited member of the Georgian delegation as the personal coach of Georgian skater Nika Egadze. And I guess in a personal capacity too as mother and mother in law of the Georgian ice dance pair. Absolutely nothing to do with the Eteri Tutberidze who was involved in the Kamila Valieva debacle. And also nothing to do with the Eteri Tutberidze who was denied AIN status.

Maybe I need two separate usernames, Russian MC and British MC.

 

[MaryClare]

I will post more about the skating tomorrow. I haven’t witnessed live in person top level skating since Sochi. I’d forgotten just how much pride and emotion goes into the performance. They all looked like they really loved what they are doing. It made me feel a bit sad for gymnastics.

Mr MC enjoyed women’s hockey more than he thought he would. I mean, he’s still a fully paid up member of the patriarchy but he was definitely impressed/intimidated