Quaker2001

I'm debating how early I want to go to sleep tonight so I can be up in time for the opening ceremony tomorrow. After yesterday's performances, not sure how motivated I am do stay up through USA-Sweden curling. I'll probably watch that in the morning on another screen while I have the opening ceremony up.

Norway has scored 6 in the last 2 ends, including the 7th end with the US on a power play. Completely blew this match

Awesome shot by Vicky Persinger for a double take out and 3 in the 5th end! leads 6-3

More strangeness from as Italy burns a stone mid-way down the ice. They're up 2 heading into the 8th, USA with hammer

This is a new one for me.. malfunctioning hog line sensor on 1 of the rocks for ITA. They're checking out the handle to see what the story is. Edit: handle is working properly, it's a hog line violation. with another steal

Saved that one, only gave up 1. Could have been much worse

Disaster for as they give up a 4-ender to

Live curling, gotta love it! I'm hoping I can stay up through the next set of matches, but that'll be it for me. Depending on how much I need to sleep, hopefully will catch the end of the USA-Finland hockey game tomorrow morning

Except for that last shot. So that's 2 matches that ended on misses.

To be fair, our guy beat your guys twice last Olympics

Wow, bad miss by gives the match to Hate to see a match end like that, but I'll take a win for my team!

Great double takeout for Vicky Persinger and . Tied 5-5 going into the 8th end

I've been saying since the trials this would be who they should pick as flag bearer and they did! Thrilled for Shoostie, very well deserved honor

I'm ready for this one!..

Agreed. The blue works a lot better than the light green they had last time. The snow motif is cool

Let the games begin! Rooting for Chris and Vicky, although tough start as Australia made a triple takeout to start the first end

I don't have it in my to go to full on Beijing time, especially with work. But I'd be surprised if there's any night during the games I go to sleep much before 2am or 3am

I'll be up at 7am for the curling. Probably go to work after that and back home in time for the next morning's matches at 8pm ET. I have the entire thing all planned out. Lots of nights staying up til around 4am or 5am and a couple of all-nighters. As they say, it's a marathon not a sprint!

The 2 athletes I was pulling hardest for 4 years ago were Jessie Diggins and John Shuster. And that will be the case again this time around. Fully plan on pulling an all-nighter to watch the individual sprints!

I live in New York. The spike here is ridiculous. At our worst, both early on in the pandemic and around this time last year, we had at most around 5,000 cases per day. During this spike, we were hitting 40,000 per day, but it took only a couple of months to go back down to where we were in early December. And this is with most of the city vaccinated. We were unprepared for how transmissible Omicron has been. If this had happened a couple of weeks earlier, maybe not such a big deal. But we're just starting to see the downslope of the case numbers, so it'll be at least another month before they start to level out

That's kinda my point though. Started out with a lot, people thought it would be more, and then every medal event was finished to completion. This time, the lead-up has been all these stories and the closed loops and quarantine camps and China's zero COVID policy. So we'll still be hearing about this in a few days. Whether or not it has a major effect on competition remains to be seen. But like you said, for those reasons, pretty nonsensical of certain sports federations to have World Cup events so close to the start and not to give anything more of a buffer to get to Beijing, isolate if they need to, and be ready if someone tests positive.

Are we that surprised though? There were a lot of positives before Tokyo as well, but it wasn't as big of a story. We knew this was going to be a story

It says analyst for him instead of reporter, so maybe he will be in the booth with Hicks rather than calling it from Beijing. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing though