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I watched this live (did not see the 2018 gold live and after the other Liu being sort of robbed in the 1000m I promised I will stop watching short track), but finally he did!
As it is said "Fate plays for a draw" - 1 gold (sort of) taken away, 1 gold won.
And few days before the OG it wasnt even sure that Liu Shaoang can compete - now he goes home with 1 gold and 2 bronze...
 

Congrats @Vektor @pdr4332 that was one hell of a race!

Nice to see an individual gold medal for one of the Liu brothers. Well deserved.

From what the skiers are saying the conditions after the TV break became worse, especially in the upper half. It was harder to see due to the fog. Odermatt deserves his gold, best skier this season, Kranjec finally with a medal from the OG or worlds!

Beijing olympics are so entertaining to me. I'd like to say it loudly - I love them very much!
 
But it's hard to focus on the games, when you hear all the time about tense geopolitacal situation all over... let's call it: Eurasia?!
Hopefully no sh*t happens until the end of the games at least.
Because, frankly, after that, I can't see near future in the bright colours ;-( But hope I'm wrong here.
 
My, oh my...
 
 
 

Problem is:
 
This could be influenced two ways:
 
1./ Internal change inside the Russian system - this is impossible as only the athletes concerned could initiate it (no one else in Russia is interested in terminating Russia's doping policies) and they either don't want to jeopardize their own position (life is unhappy, brutish and short in Putinist Russia unless you are rich & famous) or if they do, they will be sidelined as they are only objects in order to attain the greater goal - glory to Mother Russia
 
2./ Enough other country athletes / sponsors make a fuss that they are not willing to compete / sponsor if Russian doping is not sorted out. This is a typical coordination problem from game theory - they could make a difference if they acted together in a coordinated way but for several reasons this is unlikely to happen.
 
Given the fact that the Olympics are overseen by an organisation that is world leading in corruption & hipocrisy (the IOC) the most likely solution is some kind of "muddling through" - maybe Russia is warned that they will be punished real hard if they don't sort out doping by 2024 - and then nothing happens.
 
Sorry for Valieva though, she is a really talented young athlete, too bad she is used this way for power political purposes.

LATVIJAAAAAA!!!!! 

Was so cheering for both them. So sad they missed the podium here, but there still 2 more chances and especially for the relay it looks really promising.

Congratulations @hckošice!
I guess Petra now maybe gets an airport named after her (like C Ronaldo)

I am sure he has fenced more people in his career  

Mr Xi can become a dear leader when he medals in fencing.

Ski Jumping Canada is based in Calgary, but its national team operates out of Slovenia, a hotspot for the sport. Loutitt lives in Bled, while Strate, Soukup, Boyd-Clowes, Eilers and Nicole Maurer are in Kranj, about 30 minutes away. They all train together in Planica and compete all over Europe and Asia.
 
Feels like we won two medals today. 

By the way, now the only sport Canada has not medaled in is Nordic Combined.
 
YET. 

Bronze medal for Dom, and another great day for Italy in Beijing 

The finish was pretty incredible.  Yea, the range was a total mess and the weather played a major factor, but yes my point was that it was entertaining and fun.  If respect for the athletes was important, we'd be talking about these Olympics in Norway.

Any of them good at cycling?  

Fair enough, but don't forget that it was the IOC's greed and corruption that drove these Olympics away from Norway, their logical home. 

Expected win for team China, a country with a rich ice hockey tradition.

Kevin FISCHNALLER,italian's luge team positive to second PCR

Haha only now at the start of the 2nd period he found it. !
 
"Oh wait, there something unbelievable, I just found it, it looks the north american players are all actualy still in the team but it looks they have all chinese names now, wow, could you believe that ?"
 
I am dead. Such person gain so much money as sport commentators. The life is so unfair 

At home Right at time and the two weeks holiday (Thanks doc ) can start.
 
Lets do some mixed doubles curling yeah...Čechy do toho
 
Not planing to step out of my bubble the next 18 days

AP is so pro-American that even one of the predicted Hungarian medals is American. 

Since my expectations for a Mexican medal are so big, here are the athletes I’d like to see on the podium:

 Loena Hendrickx avoiding a Russian sweep in women’s figure skating or matbe one in Speed Skating
 Sildaru
 any short track skater
 Dukurs and any other athlete in luge
 Vlhova
 Castellet in halfpipe
 
I’ll also be delichted with medals by competitors from        &  
 

Petra Vlhová, as I hope she will win her first Olympic medal. I also have a tendency to support and hope the best for Slovakian athletes and Petra is one who deserve Olympic succes.
 
I also hope the best for Roland Fischnaller. To see him finally winning a medal at his 7th Olympics would bring me joy. 

Petra Vlhova 
Ester Ledecká 
The ians in sliding sports