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1 hour ago, dcro said:

All-time voting medal table and all-time voting points table are available from today.

Wow I never knew GB was that efficient at getting 12 points, and only 2 golds behind the mighty Ireland!! 

2 hours ago, toulousain said:

Did they give an explanation why it would be ok for british women to have a team and not for men ? I'm curious.

Yes, basically it is much more important for the exposure of women's football and FA's of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland agreed. For the men Premier league football clubs opposed an additional tournament and it was not deemed as important for the exposure of the sport.

By the way if it helps anyone’s predictions GB have agreed to allow a women’s football team to compete at the Olympics if they qualify, however they will not send a men’s team if they qualify.

14 minutes ago, thepharoah said:

 

Another disqualification in 400m after the race was ended this time it's in favor of local hero 

To be fair her lane infringement was very very obvious, one foot was entirely in the next lane!

7 minutes ago, justony said:

Anybody know where to watch today's event?

BBC2 will show it if you can access that?

@Sindo I'll do Triathlon and Taekwondo if nobody has them already!

GB is in!! 

Just now, heywoodu said:

That's not crazy, that's sort of expected  

 

I mean, historically speaking it's crazy, but at the moment it's what one'd expect.

I thought Shiffrin would have been in the team so that's slightly taken the shine off it, but an Alpine Skiing victory over any US team I'll take very happily!

1 minute ago, heywoodu said:

Team GB beats Team USA by 0,19 seconds  

No way!!! That's crazy! So glad we decided to send a team, Ryding and Tilley could carry this team a bit further! 

22 minutes ago, dareza said:

Best ever games for Great Britain!

Not quite!! We got 1 gold and 4 medals in Sochi! We need 1 more medal here and then it is our best ever!

53 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Controversy about the British suits, which have some sort of 'spoilers' built into and, and a sort of coating over it. There has been protest against it from several nations, because it's apparently rather simple as to what is allowed: nothing. No coating, no 'spoilers' under the suit, nothing. Let's see if IBSF decides to do something...probably not, but alright.

I thought my comment about the sled would throw you off the scent!! Apparently the same technology was used in 2010 and 2014 Olympics before by Team GB so it should be ok, it's the same suits material our track cyclists wear at the Olympics and nothing else, looks like Skeletons the same!

6 minutes ago, Dragon said:

You don't really think of Wrexham as a powerhouse of winter sport, do you? 

You say that but a few years ago there were plans to build a Ski Jump Centre in Wrexham, so you never know!

Amazing result for Musgarve and GB taking our best ever result from 29th to 7th!

9 minutes ago, dcro said:

Of course it's the 4th place for .

 

It's pretty worrying how few nations we could have at the final medal table...

I was thinking that today with Poland, Hungary, New Zealand, Belgium, Belarus and Slovakia missing good chances already, we could end up with about 22/23 nations with medals at the end, that would be a huge shame. 

2 minutes ago, Belgrano said:

And what`s exactly the reason that they started with the ski jumping competition on 21:00 local time?

European TV audiences

19 minutes ago, dcro said:

Maybe this is all propaganda from the start. Of all the cities in Korea they choose Pyeongchang... Pyongyang.

 

Also let's not forget that military parade from yesterday. The real opening ceremony.

Maybe they should have let the North Korean mass games organisers do this ceremony, would have been even more spectacular!

36 minutes ago, dcro said:

Commentator: "Another athlete that we'll see again."

 

So, what...? Top 10 get eliminated by this logic?

Someone needs to tell him the top 10, not the top 20 go through to the final. All the Eurosport commentators outside of curling so far have been poor, making the BBC sound world class.

10 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

He is actually a cross-country skier. And his FIS/Wiki name is Mikayel Mikayelyan.

 

Interestingly he is the 3rd member of his family to carry the flag at an Opening Ceremony, after his mother and brother, which is a new record!!

6 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

He is actually a cross-country skier. And his FIS/Wiki name is Mikayel Mikayelyan.

 

Oops!! Was searching for something else and that came up! Wasn’t paying too much attention! Will edit it now!

 Mikayel Mikayelyan - Cross Country Skiing

https://armenpress.am/eng/news/921972/skier-michael-michaelyan-says-proud-to-be-flag-bearer-at-2018-winter-olympics-parade-of-nations.html

 Dario Cologna - Cross Country Skiing

 Lizzy Yarnold - Skeleton

Pretty full looking stadium for a day before the opening ceremony at 9 in the morning!

Just now, rybak said:

I don't like this song :/ Asanda would be much better choice...

I did agree with you before tonight, but Asanda's voice wasn't great and the dancing/staging didn't lift the song at all, it was much better on radio and very messy on TV. SuRie's performance was powerful and really got the crowd going, which really hepled her come across well on TV. Asanda may have done better in Lisbon, but SuRie was the best tonight.

UK Song for the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest: Storm by SuRie