Quaker2001

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

I'm ready for this one!.. 

I'm ready for this one!.. 

I'm ready for this one!.. 

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

I'm ready for this one!.. 

I'm ready for this one!.. 

I'm ready for this one!.. 

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.

Who Dey!

Epic match. Glad it went long enough to see the finish when I woke up this morning. Vamos Rafa! 21 slams!! 

Team USA en route to Beijing..
 
 

U.S. gets another Olympic ski jumping spot
 
Most notably, they're up to 4 men's jumpers, so they'll get to compete in the men's team event

That was the most insane weekend of playoff football I can remember.  Saved the best for last with Bills-Chiefs.  That was a new level of insane

And both #1 seeds have now been eliminated as the 2nd game of the night ends in the same fashion as the first.. 49ers with a field goal to win it.  Perhaps we've seen the last of Aaron Rodgers as a Green Bay Packer

Who Dey!