Olympics 2026 Thread

[GrimCo]

I'm waiting for men's ice hockey tournament to start. That's about only event i'm interested in watching besides ones where my home country athletes are competing.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It appears Lindsey Vonn (sp?) had quite a bad spill and probably is done with the games now.

I cried a little when she crashed.

 

[GMMichael]

I cried a little when she crashed.

What about the relief of knowing the answer to the question: can you really do Olympic downhill skiing with a torn ACL?

 

[Maggan]

Anyone else watching? What sports do you follow? Do you enjoy the artistic figure skating, X-games style feats, hardcore racing, or are you just a fan off the rare double i in "skiing"? Things are just getting started and I haven't seen any major upsets yet, but there's plenty of time for drama.

Me and my wife watch as much as we can. We work from home, so we let the telly run.

Skiing and Biathlon are the most exciting, since I am Norwegian and she is Swedish, and those two nations compete fiercely for those medals.

My wife loves watching curling, which I only check in on when the last 2 rounds of a game are up.

Hockey is always exciting, and the alpine sport as well. Not so fond of figure skating myself, but my wife loves it.

The worst thing for me is me having such big hopes for Norway. They usually come through, but I'm afraid this will be a so-so olympic games. Still, 3 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals so far aint bad. But Norway averages about 25 medals each time, so they have to keep the pressure up! I still remember Torino in 2006, where Norway only took 2 gold medals and a bunch of silver and bronze medals ... the horror, the horror!

 

[trappedslider]

What about the relief of knowing the answer to the question: can you really do Olympic downhill skiing with a torn ACL?

the answer is: You can but not for very long.

 

[trappedslider]

also Winter Olympics 2026: Breezy Johnson breaks gold medal after winning Alpine downhill

ea nasir has struck again

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

the answer is: You can but not for very long.

One wonders if she'll become the new "Agony of Defeat."

Extreme bravery and extreme foolhardiness are not mutually exclusive, and seem to have a lot of overlap in these high-risk sports. Vonn knew what she was getting into and I think deserves some credit for being willing to push 100% -- go big or go home -- but at the same time I think that level of physical self-destruction should be discouraged in sports. It's the football problem of normalizing playing with TBI, just in a different venue.

 

[aco175]

also Winter Olympics 2026: Breezy Johnson breaks gold medal after winning Alpine downhill

ea nasir has struck again

One does not simply break a gold metal.

Would have been better in a Borimir meme, I know.

It does say she was jumping up and down and the ribbon broke and 'it' broke in three pieces, but I'm not sure if it being the gold part or the ribbon counting at what it was.