Sports! 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

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Husky_Khan

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Might as well get this thread started. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be starting on February 4th and ending on February 20th. It will be taking place in the same city as the 2008 Summer Olympics and even reusing some of the venues and infrastructure from it as well. Of the twenty six venues ALL OF THEM WILL BE RUNNING ON RENEWABLE ENERGY. No words yet on how many Uighers will be chained to the giant hamster wheels to power the electrical turbines as of yet though.

There will be a record 109 events over 15 disciplines. Some of the new events will include Women's Nordic Combined which combines cross country with ski jumping. Mixed Team Ski Jumping, not sure how Trans policy works on that and Mens and Womens BIG AIR in Freestyle Skiing which is basically doing stunts and aerial acrobatics with skis. There will also be new luge, slalom, snowboarding and biathlon events.

Also for those that only care about the one important event, the Mens Ice Hockey Finals will take place on February 20th.

In regards to participation, Russia is still under their ongoing doping ban and so will be performing under the flag of the Russian Olympic Committee yet again. Also North Korea will not be participating in the 2022 Beijing Olympics due to "Covid-19 and hostile actors" since they too were censured for not sending athletes to the 2021 Summer Olympics.

Meanwhile Haiti and Saudi Arabia will be making Winter Olympic debuts. And Jamaica is returning with a new Bobsled team!

The following countries have engaged in Diplomatic Boycotts for the game. Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Great Britain, Japan, Kosovo, Lithuania, and the United States. Also Austria, New Zealand, India, Sweden, and the Netherlands also won't be sending diplomatic officials... but due to the Covid-19 Pandemic supposedly.

The worse loss however is that the NHL won't be sending players to participate in the 2022 Olympic Games also citing the Commie Cough... so actually maybe Ice Hockey shouldn't be required watching in this hemisphere.

But you know what is coming back?

ANAL SWABS!!!

www.breitbart.com

Report: China Brings Back 'Anal Swab' Coronavirus Tests in Beijing

Two weeks before the Olympics, officials in Beijing return to using controversial anal swab tests to detect coronavirus infections.
www.breitbart.com www.breitbart.com

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*inhales sharply*

I'd say this would raise Red Flags... but... China...
 
I may watch curling and the Jamaican bobsledders, nothing more.

How many participants will claim they didn't ask for the anal probe?
 
I will be watching them. I am looking forward to Biathlon and Cross-country. Diggins is coming back after leading the US to their frist Gold cross-country medal and frist cross-country medal in about 50 years in the last game. Hopefully this builds and the US can score some more medals and break the Nordic complete domination of the sport.

I am also looking forward to Hockey. The NFL didn't go to the last games in South Korea so their stance about China falls flat. But the NHL is mainly not giving time off so tbe players are going to not go and miss out on the money. Sadly the last games where far from a second Miracle on Ice coming in 7th. Which is sad snice the U.S. has muiliple professional level players at the college level. I can only hope for a better turnout this time.


Husky_Khan said:
The following countries have engaged in Diplomatic Boycotts for the game. Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Great Britain, Japan, Kosovo, Lithuania, and the United States. Also Austria, New Zealand, India, Sweden, and the Netherlands also won't be sending diplomatic officials... but due to the Covid-19 Pandemic supposedly
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I have to wonder how many of these countries will do the same for the World Cup. But overall I don't care enough about China being a dumpster fire for human rights enough to boycott the Games.
 
Apparently the Olympics preliminary events began yesterday. Starting with the finest of all Winter Sports... Curling.

Sadly due to NBC and Olympic Copyrights and Chinese censors I'm unable to post any clips of Olympic Curling soooooo.... Here's a pretty close facsimile.



The Opening Ceremony for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is tomorrow.
 
So just started watching the Opening Ceremonies. Recroded on my DVR and just skiped the frist 20 mintues of air time becasue it was just dumb coping with covid and useless China facts.

I just want to see the athlete walk and the acutal opening ceremony.


I do have higher then normal hope that it will be a decent show after China's last one. To many Western countires try do fancy shows with hidden meaning and messages. Just look at the mess that was the London's summer games or Canada's technical failures. Say what you want about China but the drummers from 2008 where probably the best part of any opening ceremony I can remember.
 
So just finshed the Opening Ceremonies. Overall while not impressive on the scale of 2008 it was an enjoyable show.

I really like the LED floor and the effects with the back screen that allowed China to do some impressive live action scenes.

Other highlights inculded the children's choir with the light up doves. They definitely made the right choice of not trying to give a history presentation like London or Brazil. Instead they used the same group along with a sound track that everyone world wide would recognize.

I also liked the idea of have a different Olympicain for each decade carry the torch. While the Torch being carried by a gaint snowflake made up of tiny snowflakes with all the countires names on them was definitely the different in a good way.

China also didn't have to have a dozen singers to be "inclusive". They even managed to keep the show generally apoltical with a standard love, peace, Ya Olympics theme. 99 percent of the political BS came from the talking heads.
 
I was going to see about watching some of the Olympics on NBC yesterday afternoon but in their infinite wisdom, NBC decided to air something called the "DRL Drone Racing Semifinals" instead for several hours, so I just went back to streaming stuff for background noise. Didn't watch any of the evening programming because... by then I had more interesting things to do.

Maybe I'll just skip the Olympics this year actually and just watch the last Ice Hockey games if I got time. :p

Did see this story on the Internet though.

www.dailymail.co.uk

US-born Chinese skater Zhu Yi is criticized after team event flop

'Zhu Yi has fallen' was trending on social media platform Weibo, with some users slamming her for alleged false patriotism. Others questioned why she was even picked to represent China at all.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk

Beverly Zhu (or Zhu Yi) is an American-born figure skater of Chinese ethnicity and whose parents were born in China. A few years ago apparently they moved back to China so that her Dad can sell secrets to the Chinese since he worked in a University on AI Research (I'm just making this up btw, but he is a University AI Researcher) but anyways despite being born, raised and trained in the United States, she apparently decided to adopt Chinese citizenship and skate for China.

Apparently she took a few tumbles and came in like 19th place in competition which is unfortunate for her, but even more unfortuante for her is how she's apparently being savaged by her fellow Chinese on Weibo for almost dropping the Chinese Figure Skating Team out of the next stage of competition. Plus she's being mocked for her apparently poor Chinese.

AFP said:
On China's Twitter-like Weibo the hashtag #ZhuYiFellOver racked up over 230 million views before being deactivated, with searches late Sunday afternoon returning no results. Another hashtag -- #ZhuYiMessedUp -- remained accessible, clocking over 80 million views.
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Husky_Khan said:
I was going to see about watching some of the Olympics on NBC yesterday afternoon but in their infinite wisdom, NBC decided to air something called the "DRL Drone Racing Semifinals" instead for several hours, so I just went back to streaming stuff for background noise. Didn't watch any of the evening programming because... by then I had more interesting things to do.

Maybe I'll just skip the Olympics this year actually and just watch the last Ice Hockey games if I got time. :p

Did see this story on the Internet though.

www.dailymail.co.uk

US-born Chinese skater Zhu Yi is criticized after team event flop

'Zhu Yi has fallen' was trending on social media platform Weibo, with some users slamming her for alleged false patriotism. Others questioned why she was even picked to represent China at all.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk

Beverly Zhu (or Zhu Yi) is an American-born figure skater of Chinese ethnicity and whose parents were born in China. A few years ago apparently they moved back to China so that her Dad can sell secrets to the Chinese since he worked in a University on AI Research (I'm just making this up btw, but he is a University AI Researcher) but anyways despite being born, raised and trained in the United States, she apparently decided to adopt Chinese citizenship and skate for China.

Apparently she took a few tumbles and came in like 19th place in competition which is unfortunate for her, but even more unfortuante for her is how she's apparently being savaged by her fellow Chinese on Weibo for almost dropping the Chinese Figure Skating Team out of the next stage of competition. Plus she's being mocked for her apparently poor Chinese.
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She is kinda cute in her non-performance pics, thinner, too.

Somebody explain to her that she is no longer in Commiefornia and needs to put that ass into high gear, no affirmative action here. :ROFLMAO:
 
Husky_Khan said:
Maybe I'll just skip the Olympics this year actually and just watch the last Ice Hockey games if I got time. :p
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I have been watching everything on Peacock which is thier streaming service. Overall it is a great way to watch the Olympics. They have every sport and each round as separate show. They all show the longer mixed shows with the highlights.

So if you want to watch the women's hockey team dominate you can watch any games you want. You can also pick something like figure skating and watch Pairs or a short program. You can also just watch the primetime mixed show that has a bit of everything.

So far I have been watching some of the sking and snowboarding. I was kind of disappointed that the US fell out of medal contention in the mixed Biathlon relay. They where right up there going for a bronze till the last round and they missed 3 shots. They still did decent but that penalty lap just did them in.
 
Husky_Khan said:
www.dailymail.co.uk

US-born Chinese skater Zhu Yi is criticized after team event flop

'Zhu Yi has fallen' was trending on social media platform Weibo, with some users slamming her for alleged false patriotism. Others questioned why she was even picked to represent China at all.
www.dailymail.co.uk www.dailymail.co.uk
Beverly Zhu (or Zhu Yi) is an American-born figure skater of Chinese ethnicity and whose parents were born in China. A few years ago apparently they moved back to China so that her Dad can sell secrets to the Chinese since he worked in a University on AI Research (I'm just making this up btw, but he is a University AI Researcher) but anyways despite being born, raised and trained in the United States, she apparently decided to adopt Chinese citizenship and skate for China.

Apparently she took a few tumbles and came in like 19th place in competition which is unfortunate for her, but even more unfortuante for her is how she's apparently being savaged by her fellow Chinese on Weibo for almost dropping the Chinese Figure Skating Team out of the next stage of competition. Plus she's being mocked for her apparently poor Chinese.
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It's not uncommon for people from the US or other countries with a lot of competition in a sport to choose to play for a smaller country. I'm not sure how big the Chinese figure skating field is, but that might have been what her plan was. Play for China because their team was worse than the US team so she could compete when she otherwise wouldn't have made the cut, with the added bonus that she would fit in (as opposed to playing for Lithuania or something). Guess it didn't work out that way.
 
The mixed team competition in ski jumping was rather chaotic, with number of disqualifications leading to completely unexpected silver for Russia and and even more surprising bronze for Canada.
 
Husky_Khan said:
Chicken, Pasta and Potatoes!!! 😋

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner of Champions! 💪



Or at least I think it's chicken, pasta and potatoes... :unsure:

White stuff might be fish? 🧐

www.kcci.com

Concerns raised about quarantine hotels where Olympic athletes stay if they're COVID-19 positive

Some teams have started going public with their criticism.
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Not surpised. There where similar complaints in Japan. I think countires in lock down serving food just do badly. Still I tought that China would have done better snice they are big on image and this is something that makes then look bad.


In recent watching I have been watching the rest of the short programs along with the cross-country sprint which USA got a bronze. So it looks like the USA may be breaking into cross country events.

Also watched some 500, 1500 and 3000 speed skating.
 
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