Winter Olympics 2026

[burmafrd1944]

The guy is fun to watch. Just had rough night at the worst time. It happens!

It's among the world's most corruptly judged sports anyways though so....

Figure Skating has been the worst followed by Olympic Boxing
the US Dance team got screwed

 

[NorthDakota]

Ok crodie

Pls translate this into American for me

 

[TorontoGold]

Pls translate this into American for me

Why I tell ya, you're a no good rootin tootin son'of'a gun!

 

[NorthDakota]

Why I tell ya, you're a no good rootin tootin son'of'a gun!

Calm down gerbert

 

[Irish#1]

Ottawa,… in the 70s?

Sorry, now that I think about it, it was the 80’s

 

[DomeFieldAdvantage]

Men's figure skating left unnoticed. I think Malinin is the best and he just had a terrible day due to overload in teams competinion that costed him a gold in singles. Shaidorodov did a performance of his life. Too much of pressure made favorits fail.

He has also mentioned, now multiple times, how much bigger the Olympic presence and pressure is. I honestly think the US Olympic committee should spend some decent money on figuring out how to help athletes face the pressure. We have so many heavy favorites, among the all time best at their sport, who seemingly wilt under the Olympic spotlight. Simone Biles, Mikaela Shiffrin, and now Ilia Malinin. I feel like there could be a very good return on investment in terms of medals just by helping our very best perform to their standards under this increased pressure.

 

[ACamp1900]

Sorry, now that I think about it, it was the 80’s

Nahson

 

[russianirish]

The guy is fun to watch. Just had rough night at the worst time. It happens!

It's among the world's most corruptly judged sports anyways though so....

Unfortunately it is, hope with the development of technologies some things will be judged automatically like completion of rotations on a jump and take off, ideally AI replacing the technical crew. Yesterday the difference between 3 and 6 place was less than 4 points and in today's world it lays withing the marging of error due to the subjectivity of judges. It's our job to leave no doubts (c) 😃

 

[aubeirish]

They rough up the canadians during international play. Reason why they don't like them.

They didn't rough up anybody. They are what we call around here "faux tough".

 

[laughingirish92]

just watched Jordan Stolz of team USA become the world's fastest speed skater winning the mens 500m with an Olympic record time

 

[LifelongFan]

just watched Jordan Stolz of team USA become the world's fastest speed skater winning the mens 500m with an Olympic record time

The whole podium beat the Olympic record, great competition.

 

[laughingirish92]

mens hockey plays early this afternoon i believe if anyone is interested

 

[calvegas04]

mens hockey plays early this afternoon i believe if anyone is interested

Free Bird

 

[tirishman505]

There are 2 women in the freestyle big air that are competing with torn ACLs. Maybe its not as farfetched as I thought.

 

[laughingirish92]

team USA mens hocky tied 1-1 early in 1st with Denmark

 

[Irishdawg]

Down 1-2 after the 1st. USA with more shots on goal. USA goalie gave up a bad goal from center ice. Let’s go USA

 

[calvegas04]

Short track racing is insane

 

[IrishInOntario]

Pesky Denmark giving the U.S. some troubles early. I'm sure the Americans will overcome it throughout the game, but a slow start for sure!

If the U.S. doesn't get elite goaltending, probably the biggest strength of their team, they have very little chance to win it all.

 

[calvegas04]

Brady Tkachuk all he does is win

 

[calvegas04]

All Eichel does is win!

 

[calvegas04]

Hanifin! Winner

 

[Irishdawg]

2nd period wake up call

 

[laughingirish92]

4-3 team USA in early 3rd

 

[IrishInOntario]

Nice little finish from Guentzel. 5-3 USA. Recovering nicely after a bad start. This is probably a good thing Guerin's squad. It will serve to help them focus moving forward. You play like they did for the first 30 minutes vs Finland, Canada, Sweden or even Czechia and it's tournament over.

 

[laughingirish92]

that goal from back corner of net that got shot off of Denmark's goalie's back skate and bouncing backwards into the net should be an ESPN sportscenter top ten highlight

 

[calvegas04]

The snowboarding GOAT

 

[burmafrd1944]

He has also mentioned, now multiple times, how much bigger the Olympic presence and pressure is. I honestly think the US Olympic committee should spend some decent money on figuring out how to help athletes face the pressure. We have so many heavy favorites, among the all time best at their sport, who seemingly wilt under the Olympic spotlight. Simone Biles, Mikaela Shiffrin, and now Ilia Malinin. I feel like there could be a very good return on investment in terms of medals just by helping our very best perform to their standards under this increased pressure.

all the shrinks in the world cannot make someone a champion
you either have it when it matters or you don't

 

[burmafrd1944]

Unfortunately it is, hope with the development of technologies some things will be judged automatically like completion of rotations on a jump and take off, ideally AI replacing the technical crew. Yesterday the difference between 3 and 6 place was less than 4 points and in today's world it lays withing the marging of error due to the subjectivity of judges. It's our job to leave no doubts (c) 😃

something like judging might be where AI could make a difference

 

[ulukinatme]

 

[NDRock]

Looking at he medal count, why is Norway so much more dominant than Finland? My ignorant American brain just assumes they’re basically the same place (they do have about the same population).