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The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby ConfederateSS on Tue Jan 25, 2022 5:28 pm

--------The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread :!: :!: :!:
--------Before people around the world post their KOOL 8-) names and stories of their athletes...KOOL...
---------Let us wonder it was 1503 years between the old Olympics of Greece...393 A.D. to The beginning of the modern Olympics starting in 1896 A.D...Should we stop and wait another 1503 years , take a break for awhile?...
---------Outside of the fact that China started a worldwide pandemic...Has stated that they are taking over the world, going to lead the world... Everything is made in China...So there isn't much the world can do...Or argue how things are done in China...XI the Chinese leader will showcase his power much like The Germans in the 1936 Olympics...Well maybe, it will be broadcast around the world...I don't know if there will be people in the stands...Outside of athletes being safe from Covid...Will athletes be safe from the Chinese Government???...The Traditional torch relay/run was brought to the Olympics by, the last one you would expect...The Germans ,The 1936 Olympics, the last one like XI...Who would use the games to showcase a world take over...Kind of wonder why the Olympics still use a tradition started by the 1936 Olympics...Or does the old saying still mean something these days...."There is a wee bit of good , in even the worst of us."...Does the I.O.C. follow that saying???


--------Well, I started the thread early...So before everyone talks their countries Stars up...
---------Should we risk the safety of our Stars???
---------Once the Olympics start ...Let the showcasing begin...Will The World have another Jesse Owens out there, to stick it to XI???...Come on all you Jesses out there...You can do it... :!: =D> =D> =D>


----------After the 1936, 1972, ...The 2 superpowers of 1980,1984...Which ironic delt with Afghanistan,maybe now, but did they even have Olympic athletes in 80,84???...Outside of the superpowers , did anyone else boycott those games...I think it was more about Russia and The USA, then about Afghanistan...If we knew about 1936 A.D. Germany, what we know now, would we have boycotted...Big man ,Joe Kennedy made lots of money,the famous Kennedy fortune with the Germans, as I am sure many others did...Much like Coke,Niki,Nfl,Nba,etc..etc..In 2022 A.D. China...
-----------Now me personally, it comes down to the safety of the athletes...Not so much political...What happened in 1972 was horrible...As in 1936 Olympics, I hope some Jesse Owens sticks it to XI this year.. Just like the 1980 U.S. Hocky team stuck it to those Commie Pinkos...I am sure The Summer Team would have done the same...But this year is different, Who knows, China exposed the world to a global pandemic...Can we be sure they won't expose our athletes to something???...I am for a Boycotting the 2022 Winter Olympics...Yes, China sucks,their government can't be trusted...I would like to stick it in their face, on the field of competition.....But for the athletes sake and safety...I say screw China...Have it next year somewhere else...Or maybe take another 1503 year break....I think it's time...
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---------Let the Posts and The 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Begin... :!: =D> =D> =D>
----------USA. :!: USA. :!: USA. :!: =D> =D> =D> ... Although I watch CBC out of Windsor... American media sucks...Outside of stories, they're o.k., but I don't want to hear ,this athlete slept with a teddy bear for an hour...When I could be watching some kind of event...I mean Canada has some topics about athletes, but it's wall to wall coverage on events...On top of the 1996 Oympics in Atlanta,yes,yes,the bombing....So in the woman's marathon...
---------This pissed me off And I Am An American...The American media...waited to interview the Winner of the race..A Woman from Ethiopia I think, could be Kenya, It's been awhile...But The American media,I.E. NBC and friends...Waited to Interview the American Woman runner ,who I think finished 12th or 17th....Before going over and talking to the Woman who finished 1st...That is another reason why the American media sucks...I probably won't watch any of this year's Olympics, but if I do, I'll be watching The CBC coverage... :D
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby ConfederateSS on Wed Jan 26, 2022 4:03 am

----------The Woman who won the 1996 Woman's Marathon was from Ethiopia...Fatuma Roba....The American runner Anne Marie Lauck finished 10th....But still a "F"ed up move, by American media to wait until the American crossed the finish line...To talk to her...Instead of being with the rest of the world media...Congratulating the Winner from Ethiopia, right when she crossed the finish line...Nice job jackasses, way to keep the world imagine of Americans as conceded assholes... :roll: :roll: :roll: ....You wonder why no one likes us... :( ... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:)
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby ConfederateSS on Wed Feb 02, 2022 12:30 am

-------------Even though some events are shown tomorrow.....2 days till the Opening Ceremony... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:)
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby ConfederateSS on Fri Feb 04, 2022 12:37 am

-------------The Winter Olympics are on....Play Ball as it were... :!: :!: :!:
-------------O.k. I am hoping for a Jesse Owens out there to stick it to China...
----------------Was I going to watch, well I wasn't going out of my way...
----------------Until now..... Because American born Skier .... Eileen Gu...World Class, most likely best in her event....Has denounced her U.S. citizenship...Left Team USA...Her mom was born in China...So she has gone over to Team China...Is now a Chinese citizen...Why?...Because China owns everything nowadays...She can make more money winning with Team China...

-----------------Now, she is free to do what she thinks is best for her...I can respect that...She will get huge endorsements , money etc...
-----------------But outside of what China does to it's own people, struck the World with a pandemic...
-----------------But I now have a reason to watch...Not that she gets killed or like seriously hurt for life...But I will be watching all her events, hoping she crashes , wipes out...Like the old ABC sports , ski jumper, slamming upside down into a shed...Maybe she gets a broken arm or leg,or both...But able to fully recover...Why do you think people watch auto racing?...For the car crashes of course...Before all the bleeding heart liberals say, oh, that's horrible,hoping someone crashes...PLAY BALL BABY!!!MONEY BALL!!!
------------------She is known as The Snow Princess in China... Already has 20 big endorsements in China...
------------------She left America Yesterday for Good...
-----------------If she doesn't win Gold....If she comes in 2nd...she will get her 30 pieces of silver... ;) ...
------------------As for Team USA.... Someone has just moved up onto the team...
-----------------I started by saying America's past time ...PLAY BALL.... Baseball....Maybe Miss Snow Princess can learn of a man called Wally Pipp...He was a champion...Sat out one day with the flu...A young man named Lou Gehrig took his place...Wally never played again...Lou would become the Iron Horse playing in a record consecutive games...Only surpassed by Cal Ripken Jr...
-----------------You may have just allowed that Jesse Owens to make TEAM USA ...Snow Princess...That will stick it to China and XI...Thank You Kindly Snow Princess... :D
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby ConfederateSS on Sat Feb 05, 2022 1:54 am

-----------Dutch reporter , Live on camera...Grabbed and taken by Chinese Police...As China shuts him up...
-------------A Belgian athlete was almost , taken and was going to disappear...Until she was able to speak out on social media...She was saved before taken, she is back with her athletes in the Olympic village...YIKES...
----------------No, word where that Dutch reporter is...Yay!! The Olympics are on... :roll:
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby jusplay4fun on Sat Feb 05, 2022 2:42 am

Let's go Curling..! and the other winter sports are fun, too.

I do not watch much TV these days, except for Live Sports, so Olympics are near the top of my "Gotta Watch" List. I really enjoy the Summer Olympics as I am not teaching at that time of year and I have watched some Olympics while a vacation in the late summer at the Beach with the Family. GREAT times.

The drama of it is great, and I try to not hear the news to tell me who won. Much of the coverage in the USA is on tape or video delay. BUT I am sure that the American TV (NBC) pays big bucks to get certain events run LIVE during the USA Prime Time TV 7-11 pm in the Eastern USA. As I recall, Michael Phelps did many events live on the USA TV, even from Beijing in 2008.

A few stories of a few athletes are worth watching. Getting reaction of athletes at the point of their finish, and often their wins, is GREAT TV, too. I doubt interviewing a female runner (and winner) who likely does not speak good English is compelling TV for most American viewers. I am reminded of Michael Phelps and his competitions with the Australian swimmers. That was FUN. Who was the Thorpedo? Ian Thorpe..! And the GUITARS..!

https://www.theringer.com/2020/3/24/21191822/social-distancing-diaries-olympic-swimming-ian-thorpe-michael-phelps

Back to the current Winter Olympics:
Curling is so entertaining with the guys and girls yelling "HARD..!!.." or some such and in various languages. The drama of competition is great to watch. And there are SOOO Many other events to enjoy, too..

AND LET'S GOOO..! U-S-A..! U-S-A..!!
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby DoomYoshi on Sun Feb 06, 2022 9:27 am

ConfederateSS wrote:But I now have a reason to watch...Not that she gets killed or like seriously hurt for life...But I will be watching all her events, hoping she crashes , wipes out...Like the old ABC sports , ski jumper, slamming upside down into a shed...Maybe she gets a broken arm or leg,or both..


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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby mookiemcgee on Sun Feb 06, 2022 12:53 pm

Americans cheering for curling...

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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby ConfederateSS on Mon Feb 07, 2022 5:47 am

-------------Norway is running away with The Medal Count as usual in the Winter Games...
-------------Doomy....Now there are others who gave up their U.S. Citizenship to play for China... Like Figure Skater ZHU YI...Who fell twice and finished 5th...Not the caliber athlete ,top of her field like...Eileen GU...Even the Chinese are wondering why China let her figure skate for China, that was Chinese propaganda...U.S. person comes and Skates for China...
-------------But YI has not given pathetic excuses for playing for China...In interviews...
--------------Where GU has , for my mom, for the children, so I can inspire children in China....She could inspire children no matter who she skied for, USA,PERU, CHINA....As she states in interviews...When she could just come out and say FOR MONEY.....Like someone switching teams....49ers to Cowboys, Sanders...or Red Sox to Yankees , Clemens...Like I said I respect her wanting to play MONEY BALL....Stop the lies,I'm doing it for the children...Which ones?, the ones making shoes for Free for NIKE...
--------------Anyway in her qualifying rounds , she finished 5th like YI....Doomy... CANADA sits 1st spot... Megan...
--------------In GU's 2nd run , her ski mysteriously fell off ;) ...Not hurt, wiped out...In BIG AIR Event...Medal run 3 rounds,best of 2, you get to throw one run out, but must land 2... Tonight between 9pm/10pm...One of the Americans is named Darin Stevens... Like Bewitched,T.V..show...That is KOOL...
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby ConfederateSS on Mon Feb 07, 2022 10:20 pm

-------One event in the books...One GU gold....2 more to go....As she inspires people who all get paid the same under communism...As she bank rolls Millions...From the same Government...What will be in her Fortune Cookie after the Olympics?... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:)
---------Is the Freestyle Sking course built right next to a nuclear reactor...Those sure look like those kind of towers...YIKES!!!
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby jusplay4fun on Thu Feb 17, 2022 2:42 am

Bad 24 hours for the USA Team:

Women lose 3-2 to arch-rival Canada in ice hockey;

Men lose hockey too, to Slovakia and get no where near a medal. I think it was R1 or R2 of the knock out rounds.
Winter Olympics 2022: Team USA men's hockey eliminated, U.S. goes 1-2 in slopestyle and more from the action in Beijing

details below

And Mikaela Shiffrin fails to finish another ski race:
U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin doesn't finish slalom leg of Alpine combined at Beijing Olympics


Good news:
Meanwhile, Team USA captured gold and silver in the men's freeski slopestyle, as Alex Hall and Nick Goepper were 1-2 in the event.


and more on the Men's Hockey loss:

USA men's hockey stunned, eliminated
Slovakia stunned Team USA in their Olympic men's ice hockey quarterfinal 3-2, tying the game in the final minute of regulation and then eliminating the tournament's top seed in the shootout Wednesday in Beijing. Former Boston Bruins winger Peter Cehlarik scored the lone goal of the shootout on Slovakia's fourth attempt, beating U.S. goalie Strauss Mann (34 saves).

The U.S. was unsuccessful on all five shots against Slovakia goalie Patrik Rybar (33 saves), including the final attempt by captain Andy Miele. The U.S. team leaves Beijing without a medal, making this three straight Olympics without one. Its last Winter Games hardware was the silver medal it won in Vancouver in 2010. Team USA hasn't won gold since its "Miracle on Ice" title in 1980.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/33297249/winter-olympics-2022-team-usa-men-hockey-eliminated-us-goes-1-2-slopestyle-more-action-beijing
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby Maxleod on Thu Feb 17, 2022 2:57 am

jusplay4fun wrote:Bad 24 hours for the USA Team:

Women lose 3-2 to arch-rival Canada in ice hockey;

Men lose hockey too, to Slovakia and get no where near a medal. I think it was R1 or R2 of the knock out rounds.
Winter Olympics 2022: Team USA men's hockey eliminated, U.S. goes 1-2 in slopestyle and more from the action in Beijing

details below

And Mikaela Shiffrin fails to finish another ski race:
U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin doesn't finish slalom leg of Alpine combined at Beijing Olympics


Good news:
Meanwhile, Team USA captured gold and silver in the men's freeski slopestyle, as Alex Hall and Nick Goepper were 1-2 in the event.


and more on the Men's Hockey loss:

USA men's hockey stunned, eliminated
Slovakia stunned Team USA in their Olympic men's ice hockey quarterfinal 3-2, tying the game in the final minute of regulation and then eliminating the tournament's top seed in the shootout Wednesday in Beijing. Former Boston Bruins winger Peter Cehlarik scored the lone goal of the shootout on Slovakia's fourth attempt, beating U.S. goalie Strauss Mann (34 saves).

The U.S. was unsuccessful on all five shots against Slovakia goalie Patrik Rybar (33 saves), including the final attempt by captain Andy Miele. The U.S. team leaves Beijing without a medal, making this three straight Olympics without one. Its last Winter Games hardware was the silver medal it won in Vancouver in 2010. Team USA hasn't won gold since its "Miracle on Ice" title in 1980.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/33297249/winter-olympics-2022-team-usa-men-hockey-eliminated-us-goes-1-2-slopestyle-more-action-beijing


https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/ ... cs-beijing

The Guardian wrote:NHL decision left US with hastily assembled young squad


The Guardian wrote:The Americans arrived in Beijing with the youngest roster in the 12-team tournament, a group including 15 college students and five teenagers hastily assembled after the NHL withdrew from Olympic participation in December due to the spread of the Omicron variant, and a team who didn’t skate together until a few weeks ago.
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby ConfederateSS on Thu Feb 17, 2022 8:42 am

--------------Medal Count.....
----------------1st Place Norway
----------------2nd Place Germany
----------------3rd Place USA
----------------4th Pace Sweden
----------------5th Place China

---------------Well GU for China Has 1 Good,1Silver, and she is most likely to win Gold in the Freestyle Half pipe...Yes,she is that talented...The Finals for the Half Pipe are tonight or today depending where you are...Doomy ,it is fun to Say I hope Roger Clemens falls on the mound...When someone is That Good, that is how you know...When the opposing fans BOO you...You know you're Awesome...

---------------Not Just The Americans playing for China,and other countries...One girl from New Jersey is playing for El Salvador or Ecuador...A Canadian bobsled woman's champion , Kalleii Humphreis is bobsled in singles for Team USA...Does anyone play for their country anymore?... Although they haven't had it for awhile thanks to Covid and every 3 years....But I loved watching The World Baseball Classic before spring training...Watching Detroit Tigers play for different countries around the world... Although they where from those countries...
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-------Now in her 2nd event...GU won silver,came tenths of a second from her 2nd good...She could have won 3 gold medals...She should slow play for bronze...

-----------I would try for bronze in my 3rd event if I won 1gold,1silver...Why???...Because I would try for the cycle...Like baseball...I think having 1 of each would be KOOL....Now if I won 2 gold in my early 2 events with 1 to go...I would shoot for my 3rd gold medal...I would go for the Hat Trick...

----------What would you do????
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Postby 2dimes on Thu Feb 17, 2022 8:50 am

Con do you have your own television or do you watch one through your neighbors window?

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Postby ConfederateSS on Thu Feb 17, 2022 9:01 am

2dimes wrote:Con do you have your own television or do you watch one through your neighbors window?

Don't worry, I won't tell the bishop.

------------My own, but It has rabbit ears with aluminum foil, and I change the channel with needle nose pliers... :D ,. But when the shades are open across the street,at the drug dealer's house...You can see their 65 inch T.V...They play it loud enough, It can probably be heard in Canada... :D ... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:)
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Postby 2dimes on Thu Feb 17, 2022 9:12 am

I don't think my old analogue TV would work with rabbit ears since they started broadcasting in digital here. I should try it.

Edit: I just discussed it with my wife. We had to use a PVR to convert the signal for it to pick up free broadcast content.
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Postby mookiemcgee on Thu Feb 17, 2022 11:37 am

ConfederateSS wrote:--------------[size=200]Medal Count.....
----------------1st Place Norway
----------------2nd Place Germany
----------------3rd Place USA
----------------4th Pace Sweden
----------------5th Place China


that's the 'most golds list', the list for total medals top 5 is as follows... bye china (aka felicia)

Norway
Russia
Germany
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby ConfederateSS on Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:12 am

----------Gu won her second gold medal...in the Half pipe... Canada took silver and bronze... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:)

---------- Either way...Overall,this year... Congratulations to the Winter Olympic Dynasty...Norway =D> =D> ...It is actually pretty remarkable... Considering...Size and population of Norway.... Compared to...USA, Canada,China,India, Russia,etc....I remember one Summer Olympics...It was day like 5 or 6...China had 1 gold medal and Costa Rica had 1 athlete ,1 gold medal...I thought that was KOOL , The size and population between the 2 countries...Costa Rica was tied with China ....
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby jusplay4fun on Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:33 am

I am enjoying the competition of the Olympics, no matter what the sport. Of course, watching athletes from your own country is more interesting. I asked my students today and almost NONE are watching. One student asked about that "game like shuffleboard" and I said "do you mean curling"?

Too late to delete this post, it seems. I put this (below) at end of Max's post and wanted to delete this one. So I added comments above.

Yes, Max, I know of the youth (lack of experience at the Olympics) for the Men's USA Ice Hockey Team. There were high expectations, built on early success in the preliminary rounds. And it was a very close game. Leading by one with a about one minute but to lose in the shoot-out HURTS.

Men's Curling was going for the Bronze, vs. Canada, now. We were down 1-2 at the end of the 2nd End, last I check a bit ago.

USA now up 5-4 at start of End 8.

Update and conclusion to the Curling match:
I JUST now watched the END and Canada wins Bronze, 8-5. (It was so decisive in End 10 that the Americans did not bother to throw the last two stones and the Canadians only had one stone left to throw.) Congrats to our northern neighbors on the win!

It was fun to watch the American run to the Gold Medal in Men's Curling 4 years ago..!
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Postby jusplay4fun on Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:41 am

Current Medal Count:

Order by Gold; Canada 3rd by totals, but #11 by Gold; see the link below

Gold/Silver/Bronze/TOTAL in the far right column
China up to #4, as of the
1Norway
14 7 8 29
2Germany
10 7 5 22
3United States
8 8 5 21
4China
8 4 2 14
5Sweden
7 4 4 15
6Switzerland
7 2 5 14
7Austria
6 7 4 17
8Netherlands
6 5 4 15
9ROC
5 9 13 27
10France
4 7 2 13

https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/all-sports/medal-standings.htm?utm_campaign=dp_google
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby jusplay4fun on Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:41 am

Maxleod wrote:
jusplay4fun wrote:Bad 24 hours for the USA Team:

Women lose 3-2 to arch-rival Canada in ice hockey;

Men lose hockey too, to Slovakia and get no where near a medal. I think it was R1 or R2 of the knock out rounds.
Winter Olympics 2022: Team USA men's hockey eliminated, U.S. goes 1-2 in slopestyle and more from the action in Beijing

details below

And Mikaela Shiffrin fails to finish another ski race:
U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin doesn't finish slalom leg of Alpine combined at Beijing Olympics


Good news:
Meanwhile, Team USA captured gold and silver in the men's freeski slopestyle, as Alex Hall and Nick Goepper were 1-2 in the event.


and more on the Men's Hockey loss:

USA men's hockey stunned, eliminated
Slovakia stunned Team USA in their Olympic men's ice hockey quarterfinal 3-2, tying the game in the final minute of regulation and then eliminating the tournament's top seed in the shootout Wednesday in Beijing. Former Boston Bruins winger Peter Cehlarik scored the lone goal of the shootout on Slovakia's fourth attempt, beating U.S. goalie Strauss Mann (34 saves).

The U.S. was unsuccessful on all five shots against Slovakia goalie Patrik Rybar (33 saves), including the final attempt by captain Andy Miele. The U.S. team leaves Beijing without a medal, making this three straight Olympics without one. Its last Winter Games hardware was the silver medal it won in Vancouver in 2010. Team USA hasn't won gold since its "Miracle on Ice" title in 1980.

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story/_/id/33297249/winter-olympics-2022-team-usa-men-hockey-eliminated-us-goes-1-2-slopestyle-more-action-beijing


https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/ ... cs-beijing

The Guardian wrote:NHL decision left US with hastily assembled young squad


The Guardian wrote:The Americans arrived in Beijing with the youngest roster in the 12-team tournament, a group including 15 college students and five teenagers hastily assembled after the NHL withdrew from Olympic participation in December due to the spread of the Omicron variant, and a team who didn’t skate together until a few weeks ago.


Yes, Max, I know of the youth (lack of experience at the Olympics) for the Men's USA Ice Hockey Team. There were high expectations, built on early success in the preliminary rounds. And it was a very close game. Leading by one with a about one minute but to lose in the shoot-out HURTS.

Men's Curling was going for the Bronze, vs. Canada, now. We were down 1-2 at the end of the 2nd End, last I check a bit ago.
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby jusplay4fun on Fri Feb 18, 2022 2:57 am

ConfederateSS wrote:----------Gu won her second gold medal...in the Half pipe... Canada took silver and bronze... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:)

---------- Either way...Overall,this year... Congratulations to the Winter Olympic Dynasty...Norway =D> =D> ...It is actually pretty remarkable... Considering...Size and population of Norway.... Compared to...USA, Canada,China,India, Russia,etc....I remember one Summer Olympics...It was day like 5 or 6...China had 1 gold medal and Costa Rica had 1 athlete ,1 gold medal...I thought that was KOOL , The size and population between the 2 countries...Costa Rica was tied with China ....


As I recall, China (not Taiwan) started their Olympic involvement slowly after the Cultural Revolution under Mao. I also recall Ping Pong (or Table Tennis) Diplomacy under President Nixon. More History below:

Ping-pong diplomacy (Chinese: 乒乓外交 Pīngpāng wàijiāo) refers to the exchange of table tennis (ping-pong) players between the United States (US) and People's Republic of China (PRC) in the early 1970s, that began during the 1971 World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan as a result of an encounter between players Glenn Cowan (of the US) and Zhuang Zedong (of the PRC).[1] The event paved the way for President Richard Nixon’s visit to Beijing in 1972 and has been seen as a key turning point in relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping-pong_diplomacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_at_the_Olympics

I knew that once China got going, that they would be a power in the Olympics, once the Leaders decided to make this a priority.
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby ConfederateSS on Sat Feb 19, 2022 6:54 am

jusplay4fun wrote:
ConfederateSS wrote:----------Gu won her second gold medal...in the Half pipe... Canada took silver and bronze... O:) ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... O:)

---------- Either way...Overall,this year... Congratulations to the Winter Olympic Dynasty...Norway =D> =D> ...It is actually pretty remarkable... Considering...Size and population of Norway.... Compared to...USA, Canada,China,India, Russia,etc....I remember one Summer Olympics...It was day like 5 or 6...China had 1 gold medal and Costa Rica had 1 athlete ,1 gold medal...I thought that was KOOL , The size and population between the 2 countries...Costa Rica was tied with China ....


As I recall, China (not Taiwan) started their Olympic involvement slowly after the Cultural Revolution under Mao. I also recall Ping Pong (or Table Tennis) Diplomacy under President Nixon. More History below:

Ping-pong diplomacy (Chinese: 乒乓外交 Pīngpāng wàijiāo) refers to the exchange of table tennis (ping-pong) players between the United States (US) and People's Republic of China (PRC) in the early 1970s, that began during the 1971 World Table Tennis Championships in Nagoya, Japan as a result of an encounter between players Glenn Cowan (of the US) and Zhuang Zedong (of the PRC).[1] The event paved the way for President Richard Nixon’s visit to Beijing in 1972 and has been seen as a key turning point in relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping-pong_diplomacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_at_the_Olympics

I knew that once China got going, that they would be a power in the Olympics, once the Leaders decided to make this a priority.

--------I have stated that in other threads...
------------That Nixon came back....From his trip to China... Warned the world...China is on the move...Much like Charles Lindbergh visit it to Germany...When Lindbergh returned home to America...He warned , what the Germans were up to , as he toured their military production factories....No one believed him either, just like Nixon... warnings went Ignored...
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby jusplay4fun on Sat Feb 19, 2022 8:53 pm

From the advantage of hindsight, the fact that China "woke up" as and to become a world power is not a surprise. They had to get beyond the disruption of the Cultural Revolution started by Mao; I think it was around 1966.

The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 until Mao Zedong's death in 1976. Launched by Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC), its stated goal was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought (known outside China as Maoism) as the dominant ideology in the PRC.

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The Cultural Revolution was characterized by violence and chaos. Death toll estimates vary widely, with roughly 250,000 to 20 million people perishing during the Revolution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
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Re: The Official 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics Thread!!!

Postby ConfederateSS on Sun Feb 20, 2022 10:14 am

--------------------Well The 2022 A.D. Winter Olympics just wrapped up with the closing ceremony...
----------------------The Top 5 in the Medal Count!!!!
-------1) Norway
-------2) Germany
-------3) China
-------4) USA
-------5) Sweden
------- now we will have people put others up....But it goes buy Gold medals....Norway has the most medals anyway...37...But Russia/Roc...has the 2nd most 32, but Gold medal wise, they are 9th in the Medal Count...

-----------Now that the I O C has let XI show case his Commie Power to the world....
---------------The games are over , let the real fight begin...Russia takes Ukraine...China finally gets the Island of Formosa/Taiwan...Nice job screwing Afghanistan up Biden, making America weak and releasing the hounds of war on the world!!!
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