Cortina d'Ampezzo-Milan Winter Olympics

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I'm not gonna lie. Carlton Kirby is wildly entertaining in speed skating short distances.

As a YT comment aptly put it: "The man knows nothing but he can shout like noone else"
He was great in the team pursuit, just kept saying how well USA were doing and how they were running away with it etc., forgetting to look at the lap times and see Italy catch up and pass them
 
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I'm not gonna lie. Carlton Kirby is wildly entertaining in speed skating short distances.

As a YT comment aptly put it: "The man knows nothing but he can shout like noone else"
The thing that's crazy is he's done speed skating several times and he actually appears to know LESS now than when I first heard him do it.

It's where he came up with the epic shout about Jordan Stolz "sometimes a man has to step into the limelight, AND HE'S! JUST! CHANGED! THE! BULB!".

And where he was wittering on about the celebrations of the Dutch winning the Team Pursuit despite the screen clearly showing another team celebrating and Joy Beune crying and pleading with the judges, and he was busy writing confused mixed-metaphor soliloquies about how happy the Dutch team would be, then getting completely confused when the classified result came up and the Dutch weren't at the top because they'd been disqualified, a fact plainly obvious to anybody capable of the sense of sight. "Wait a minute... just wait a minute!" he would exclaim, then insisting that nobody knew what was going on when everybody had clearly been demonstrating all of the body language in the world to illustrate what was happening for a good two minutes while he was digging into his book of nonsense rather than looking at the monitors.
 
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At least her win ( and photo of her opponents lovely gesture at the finish line) got some deserved attention in U.S. media. Unfortunately is probably behind a paywall: https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...ederica-brignone-olympics-skiing-gold-medals/
I couldn't watch/read your link because paywall, but what YT has is at least her run and the following celebration. What a heartwarming moment from the skiers and fans alike, bravo Federica!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvvJS8tRE9w
 
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A beautiful comeback by Miura and Kihara in figure skating. They were under pressure after performing below par yesterday, and although they ultimately wouldn't have had to skate as well as they did, their new free skate WR certainty sealed the deal and must have made the remaining pairs feel somewhat scared.

Georgia gets silver despite doing something which people with far more figure skating than me calls a very ugly death spiral, but the Germans were not able to keep their very high level from the short program, which would otherwise have secured silver.

Germany also lost out on gold at the very end of the women's monobob competition.
 
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Could someone explain a bit more about the Norwegian slalom racer who walked off into the woods after crashing out (rather than going into the finish area and all the cameras).
 
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Could someone explain a bit more about the Norwegian slalom racer who walked off into the woods after crashing out (rather than going into the finish area and all the cameras).
His grandfather died the day of the Opening Ceremony, and it's been a rough couple of days on a private level for him, so he wanted some alone time after suffering the biggest disappointment of his career.
 
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His grandfather died the day of the Opening Ceremony, and it's been a rough couple of days on a private level for him, so he wanted some alone time after suffering the biggest disappointment of his career.
Oh crap, that’s terrible. Thanks for explaining—I didn’t want to read the media coverage.
 
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Oftebro looking good for another gold after jumping 5th best. Nobody looks like they can beat him on skis at the minute.
 

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Second gold for Jens Oftebro in Nordic Combined. Lamparter second again, bronze for Finland again, this time Herola.