Winter Paralympic Games Milano Cortina 2026

[heywoodu 16,458]

Oh god, the cross-country skiing is done by one of those typical English-language generic commentators again

 

Keeps calling the Icelandic lady Arna Albertsdottir 'the Australian Lauren Parker'.

 

Mind you, Parker won Paralympic gold in triathlon in Paris so should be somewhat recognizable or known to a professional commentator. Mind you again, when he started with that, which was when Albertsdottir was coming up to a split time, the graphics clearly showed Parker's time as currently fastest with Albertsdottir's time still counting (hence, it was her we were looking at).

 

Oh, and the lady he keeps calling Lauren Parker (from Australia) has 'ICELAND' written on her suit.

[heywoodu 16,458]

Ah, now the lady - clearly the one who fell - is coming in to the finish (oh, yeah, I forgot to mention the obvious bib number 1) and he just casually refers to her as Albertsdottir, obviously without mentioning his earlier mistake.

 

Isn't there any English-speaking person who is somewhat involved in these sports who'd like to do commentary?  

[Josh 13,606]

Golubkov and Mao for gold and silver in men's sitting 10km interval, rest of the field, Ribeira, Cameron, Zheng, Romele are chasing bronze

[Monzanator 5,093]

 Mao only held off Zheng by 2.4 secs for silver.

[Orangehair43 314]

GB wheelchair curling funding is being cut according to C4. 

[Josh 13,606]

13 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

GB wheelchair curling funding is being cut according to C4. 

According to yourself, maybe.

[Orangehair43 314]

8 minutes ago, Josh said:

According to yourself, maybe.

They said it during commentary on the China match. And then the studio presenter and Pundit had a lengthy discussion about Paralympic funding in the UK. They pretty worried about the cuts that are coming. 
 

Edited 38 minutes ago by Orangehair43

[Josh 13,606]

 defeat  5-4 in wheelchair curling

 

 officially qualify for the semifinals

Edited 29 minutes ago by Josh

[Josh 13,606]

 Marchand out after being +23s up for bronze at the halfway mark 

[Josh 13,606]

 Peterson beats  Nilsen by 2.6 !