Beijing Winter Olympics 2022
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NBC has the rights to all of the sports this weekend, and somehow we have a choice between ice dancing, amateur Euro hockey, and local news.
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There's curling tonight! Men's USA vs Canada in primetime!
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Wow lol
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That's embarassing.
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Meh. The USA team is a bunch of kids from college and the junior leagues. But, Canada isn't much better - a bunch of 35 year-old has-beens and never-weres who play in Russia.
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There will never be another situation like the Miracle on Ice.
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If this USA team had beaten the NHL Canadians, then perhaps.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Sat Feb 12, 2022 4:20 pm There will never be another situation like the Miracle on Ice.
Olympic hockey without the NHLers is grim.
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Eh, the 1980 team was carefully put together months in advance, had legitimate NHL prospects, was given a legit chance of winning a medal, and had the twin advantages of younger legs and home ice. The Soviets were a glorified all-star team that had grown complacent and was travel weary. Call it a miracle if you want, but that’s just bending to the narrative.
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It was a miracle, damnit!Rex wrote: ↑Sat Feb 12, 2022 7:56 pm Eh, the 1980 team was carefully put together months in advance, had legitimate NHL prospects, was given a legit chance of winning a medal, and had the twin advantages of younger legs and home ice. The Soviets were a glorified all-star team that had grown complacent and was travel weary. Call it a miracle if you want, but that’s just bending to the narrative.
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The US were gunning for bronze, kind of like womens teams are gunning for bronze. USSR and CSSR were expected 1-2 because those were their national teams.Rex wrote: ↑Sat Feb 12, 2022 7:56 pm Eh, the 1980 team was carefully put together months in advance, had legitimate NHL prospects, was given a legit chance of winning a medal, and had the twin advantages of younger legs and home ice. The Soviets were a glorified all-star team that had grown complacent and was travel weary. Call it a miracle if you want, but that’s just bending to the narrative.
The first upset was the US beating CSSR in the round robin. Then Sweden also beat the Czechs to knock them out.
Then US beating USSR was a miracle. USSR won 8 golds before the pros got in.
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And I don’t know how you bring Canada into this. Done some research and it looks like Canada lost the 1981 “Canada Cup” final to USSR by 8-1. Must have been a bunch of nobodies on that team!
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That was a full Canadian team they slaughtered. Mike Liut still can't show his face in Canada.
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Anyone who knows what Mike Liut looks like should absolutely get a free shot at him
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I feel like Shuster’s team is technically better than they were 4 years ago, but they’ve never lost that WTF quality to them. You know the longer they talk through a shot, the worse it is going to be.
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Just hiding out in plain sight at a Waldenbooks 3 minutes before puck drop
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*drives to Hartford with a private arsenal*
*sees a fancy looking McDonalds on the way*
*life saved again*
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There's something called monobob!
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He was replaced by Peter Sidorkiewicz, that’s punishment enough.degenerasian wrote: ↑Sat Feb 12, 2022 8:17 pmThat was a full Canadian team they slaughtered. Mike Liut still can't show his face in Canada.
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Sure these ice dancers all look super-attractive but I bet when they’re not all glittered up they’re still super-attractive
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IOC is such a bullshit outfit. How do you let this Russian skater compete?
It's one thing if this was all fuzzy judging "scandal" stuff. This is clear cut. She tested positive for a banned substance.
It's one thing if this was all fuzzy judging "scandal" stuff. This is clear cut. She tested positive for a banned substance.
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If she was from Romania or Finland, no way she's allowed to compete.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 5:30 pm IOC is such a bullshit outfit. How do you let this Russian skater compete?
It's one thing if this was all fuzzy judging "scandal" stuff. This is clear cut. She tested positive for a banned substance.
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She is under 16. She is being protected as a youth and as a result not fully responsible. Only reason she is competing while the investigation is ongoing.pruitt2 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:49 amIf she was from Romania or Finland, no way she's allowed to compete.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 5:30 pm IOC is such a bullshit outfit. How do you let this Russian skater compete?
It's one thing if this was all fuzzy judging "scandal" stuff. This is clear cut. She tested positive for a banned substance.
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Well... There's also the US (black) female runner who points out that this attractive, young white female gets a pass, while she was banned for a similar infraction.pruitt2 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:49 amIf she was from Romania or Finland, no way she's allowed to compete.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 5:30 pm IOC is such a bullshit outfit. How do you let this Russian skater compete?
It's one thing if this was all fuzzy judging "scandal" stuff. This is clear cut. She tested positive for a banned substance.
I know most folks on here aren't really paying attention, but this decision is pretty outrageous. You can't have a system where being U15 pretty much allows for any kind of nonsense. Being protected, while skating against adults who have to follow all the rules is a ridiculous system.
Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski both detailed that they were both tested from very early ages (12 and 13), so the idea that this Russian skater was too young/naive to fully understand what was happening around her is just preposterous.
It's also long past time that Russia is just outright banned from international competition on any level. Their culture is beyond fucked up at this point.
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Sorry, didn't see this... See my post above. If she wants to compete at the Olympics, she needs to be covered under the same rules as "adults."wlu_lax6 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:56 amShe is under 16. She is being protected as a youth and as a result not fully responsible. Only reason she is competing while the investigation is ongoing.pruitt2 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:49 amIf she was from Romania or Finland, no way she's allowed to compete.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Mon Feb 14, 2022 5:30 pm IOC is such a bullshit outfit. How do you let this Russian skater compete?
It's one thing if this was all fuzzy judging "scandal" stuff. This is clear cut. She tested positive for a banned substance.
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it's not an Olympic-specific issue, however
not arguing that the rule shouldn't be changed. but this same scenario unfortunately happens in any WADA competition
not arguing that the rule shouldn't be changed. but this same scenario unfortunately happens in any WADA competition
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Yeah, that's a good point. The decision wasn't the IOC, it was the Court of Arbitration for Sport (roughly the Supreme Court of international sports governing.)
The IOC isn't going to hold medal ceremonies for the team competition and also if she wins in individual until they hold another hearing in a few weeks (months?)
It's being pretty widely reported that she's going to lose that case, and be stripped of her medals and everyone else will move up a spot. It's insanity.
The IOC isn't going to hold medal ceremonies for the team competition and also if she wins in individual until they hold another hearing in a few weeks (months?)
It's being pretty widely reported that she's going to lose that case, and be stripped of her medals and everyone else will move up a spot. It's insanity.
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That was a hell of a shot. And that one in the end before. But otherwise it mostly seemed to me like they were getting out-thought and out-shot.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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I have no faith the Sportacrats from the CAS to do what is expectedNonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:56 am Yeah, that's a good point. The decision wasn't the IOC, it was the Court of Arbitration for Sport (roughly the Supreme Court of international sports governing.)
The IOC isn't going to hold medal ceremonies for the team competition and also if she wins in individual until they hold another hearing in a few weeks (months?)
It's being pretty widely reported that she's going to lose that case, and be stripped of her medals and everyone else will move up a spot. It's insanity.
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Yeah, who really knows... But the fact that they're not going to hand out medals in two premiere sports, not to mention the pall this is putting over all of the figure skating events (non-stop questions from the media) sure isn't going to be forgotten anytime soon.
This might be the black eye that is necessary to get the Russians banned from int'l competition for a couple of cycles. This is incredibly problematic for the IOC and other governing bodies. Everyone knows she's dirty, and there she is about to win another gold.
This might be the black eye that is necessary to get the Russians banned from int'l competition for a couple of cycles. This is incredibly problematic for the IOC and other governing bodies. Everyone knows she's dirty, and there she is about to win another gold.
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Based on the amount of $ Gazprom and other Russian Political related Oligarch companies spend on sports...have a hard time seeing the IOC ban them.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:22 am Yeah, who really knows... But the fact that they're not going to hand out medals in two premiere sports, not to mention the pall this is putting over all of the figure skating events (non-stop questions from the media) sure isn't going to be forgotten anytime soon.
This might be the black eye that is necessary to get the Russians banned from int'l competition for a couple of cycles. This is incredibly problematic for the IOC and other governing bodies. Everyone knows she's dirty, and there she is about to win another gold.
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It's really hard to ban athletes, even if state sponsored. You can throw out the country but then they'll compete as ROC. And then if you disallow that, they will compete as independents, no affiliation. The Olympics have had independent athletes or refugee athletes forever.
Let's say US Track and Field was really dirty and was caught, plus a few other athletes from other sports and you suspend USA. You're not stopping the Basketball Dream Team or Katie Ledecky from competing. They'll get there one way or another. The Dream Team would be let into a qualifying tournament by FIBA where they beat Tahiti by 100.
So either they're USA, or USOC or independent, you can't stop clean athletes from competing.
Let's say US Track and Field was really dirty and was caught, plus a few other athletes from other sports and you suspend USA. You're not stopping the Basketball Dream Team or Katie Ledecky from competing. They'll get there one way or another. The Dream Team would be let into a qualifying tournament by FIBA where they beat Tahiti by 100.
So either they're USA, or USOC or independent, you can't stop clean athletes from competing.
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First off, to be crystal clear, the reason Russia is in so much hot water is that they are actively pushing a state-run doping program. When US (or Canadian or French or almost everyone else*) gets caught cheating, they ban or suspend the athlete. Marion Jones and others associated with the Balco scandal weren't doing so under some large conspiracy pushed forward by US track or the US Olympic folks. Now, you can (in hindsight) wonder why more questions weren't being asked, particularly around a few of the track athletes back in that era that were "all of a sudden" putting down record times, seemingly out of nowhere. But that's an entirely differently animal than what was happening in E. Germany (and other Eastern Bloc countries and now Russia.)
That's why the US sprinter I referenced above has a squishy point in all of this. She'd have an argument (on the merits, as opposed to sentimentality) if Katie Ledecky got caught smoking dope and didn't get banned.
And that's really the point of all this. The Russians do this to prove a point about how great they are at all of these sports... it's very deeply engrained in the Communist/Autocrat ethos to prove they are better than the West in a highly visible way.
When you strip the state's ability to truly raise the flag and play the anthem, you are taking a MASSIVE aspect of the benefit of the state-run doping program out of the mix. And, of course, when they knowingly put forward athletes that have tested positive, you take away the medals (obviously).
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* - What's not being discussed are the longstanding "suspicions" around China and its athletic programs. There's a ton of smoke, most notably the swimmer that got banned a few years back... But there are a lot of other very fishy things going on. One of the reasons they want to push participation ages up is the concern that China, behind their near-totalitarian rule, is pushing kids to take PEDs and other practices that are pretty sketchy/dehumanizing.
And, degen, I'm not really sure what you mean. Of course you can ban or suspend athletes if they test positive. If you mean you can't ban an entire populace from competing, sure, I guess. But from what I understand, they sure would find it difficult to compete unless they got outside the testing procedures/apparatus of Russia. They can't just say "no country, no tests" and since Russia is (obviously) at the heart of the sponsored cheating... If it goes down like that, they (the athletes) are going to need to figure out another (clean) way to compete.
That's why the US sprinter I referenced above has a squishy point in all of this. She'd have an argument (on the merits, as opposed to sentimentality) if Katie Ledecky got caught smoking dope and didn't get banned.
And that's really the point of all this. The Russians do this to prove a point about how great they are at all of these sports... it's very deeply engrained in the Communist/Autocrat ethos to prove they are better than the West in a highly visible way.
When you strip the state's ability to truly raise the flag and play the anthem, you are taking a MASSIVE aspect of the benefit of the state-run doping program out of the mix. And, of course, when they knowingly put forward athletes that have tested positive, you take away the medals (obviously).
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* - What's not being discussed are the longstanding "suspicions" around China and its athletic programs. There's a ton of smoke, most notably the swimmer that got banned a few years back... But there are a lot of other very fishy things going on. One of the reasons they want to push participation ages up is the concern that China, behind their near-totalitarian rule, is pushing kids to take PEDs and other practices that are pretty sketchy/dehumanizing.
And, degen, I'm not really sure what you mean. Of course you can ban or suspend athletes if they test positive. If you mean you can't ban an entire populace from competing, sure, I guess. But from what I understand, they sure would find it difficult to compete unless they got outside the testing procedures/apparatus of Russia. They can't just say "no country, no tests" and since Russia is (obviously) at the heart of the sponsored cheating... If it goes down like that, they (the athletes) are going to need to figure out another (clean) way to compete.
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That's what I mean. You can ban athletes but not a blanket ban from athletes from a country.
For example, tennis is in the Olympics and you can't ban Medvedev and Rublev from competing. They have nothing to do with the Russian state-run program, they don't even compete for Russia in grand slams, the country is just for our benefit as viewers and they don't even live in Russia, they are professional. This is where the fuzzy line of professional and amateur comes into play. Amateurs get state-sponsored funding and state-sponsored cheating, not professionals.
Now if the Olympics said, you must be an amateur and part of a state program to compete like in the 70s then yeah, you can kick an entire country out. But that's not the case anymore. The waters have been muddied long ago by allowing pros. Lebron James, or Medvedev or Shuster are basically hired guns with citizenship.
For example, tennis is in the Olympics and you can't ban Medvedev and Rublev from competing. They have nothing to do with the Russian state-run program, they don't even compete for Russia in grand slams, the country is just for our benefit as viewers and they don't even live in Russia, they are professional. This is where the fuzzy line of professional and amateur comes into play. Amateurs get state-sponsored funding and state-sponsored cheating, not professionals.
Now if the Olympics said, you must be an amateur and part of a state program to compete like in the 70s then yeah, you can kick an entire country out. But that's not the case anymore. The waters have been muddied long ago by allowing pros. Lebron James, or Medvedev or Shuster are basically hired guns with citizenship.
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I have a feeling when the ratings come in for this Olympics, the IOC is going to be in a bit of a panic. Figure Skating is the one sport that gets a ton of people watching who never watch sports. And a drugged up minor winning gold is not a good look.Nonlinear FC wrote: ↑Tue Feb 15, 2022 11:22 am Yeah, who really knows... But the fact that they're not going to hand out medals in two premiere sports, not to mention the pall this is putting over all of the figure skating events (non-stop questions from the media) sure isn't going to be forgotten anytime soon.
This might be the black eye that is necessary to get the Russians banned from int'l competition for a couple of cycles. This is incredibly problematic for the IOC and other governing bodies. Everyone knows she's dirty, and there she is about to win another gold.
No amount of inventing new sports will remove this taint. Think we're moving into an era where the Olympics is no longer going to be what it once was.
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Dunno. If we all make it to 2028 I'm those will be huge in the market that counts.
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Biiiiiig curling gane coming up. Womens USA vs Canada. Loser is out.
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Beating Italy 84-3 in demonstration football (spoiler-free) for all the ratings
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