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AHHH Mark McMorris! Red Gerrard has a medal!

His face when he saw his score. Just stunned. He's overwhelmed with happiness.

RED! Beautiful!!!!! Talk about pressure!

AHHHH why!?!?!?!??!?! That was such a good run!

I must have misunderstood you then. I assumed you were talking about how they couldn't wait for the wind to die down like they do in Ski Jumping. I was saying that it was because they were light limited. Additionally, ski jumps are some 15-20 seconds long. We saw last night how many times they couldn't get 2 jumpers back to back because of the wind speeds. Downhill races, where you do get airborne on turns on this course, need a little more consistency with the wind.

Oh, I'm dumb. I was looking at my schedule and it had it on Thursday, because it's Thursday night for me. You're right.

Oh, God, if Touts hits the Triple Cork, I will lose it.

Absolutely! Almost all of these guys went above 80 in the qualifiers, and Sandbech is the first to break 80, so the 3rd run is going to be BIG.

What a recovery and last two jumps!

Just finished a set of tests and labs yesterday, so I'm much freer for next week. Also, I love winter sports. I follow them as much as I can.

It's the next day that there are no Alpine events in the morning. Yes, because lighting. All freestyle events put more lights than North Korea has as a nation onto their runs, but they are also much, much shorter, especially than a downhill. Slalom runs, however, can be run at night on some tracks. But I am guessing that they just haven't installed the lights, so they can't.

Team USA 2018 - Winter Olympics Schedule All times in PST Day 1 (February 10th) Alpine Skiing Men's Downhill - 6:00pm Team USA Bryce Bennett Jared Goldberg Wiley Maple Thomas Biesemeyer Thoughts/Background Information Jk, lol, too much wind. Biathlon Men's 10km Sprint - 3:15am Team USA Tim Burke Lowell Bailey Leif Nordgren Russell Currier Sean Doherty Thoughts/Background Information Tim Burke and Lowell Bailey have medaled in World Cup events, including a World Championship gold for Bailey in the Individual. This and the individual may get us our first medal in Biathlon, so it should be a fun race. Cross Country Skiing Men's 2 x 15km Skiathlon - 10:15pm Team USA Patrick Caldwell Erik Bjornsen Noah Hoffman Scott Patterson Thoughts/Background Information These guys have a combined 1 podium in their World Cup career, Noah Hoffman back in 2013. I'm not holding my breath for this one. Curling Mixed Doubles United States of America vs Finland - 4:05pm Team USA Matt Hamilton Rebecca Hamilton Team Finland Oona Kauste Tomi Rantamaeki Thoughts/Background Information Tried so hard, got so far...but in the 8th end, it didn't even matter....Unfortunately, this game is irrelevant towards medal contention, but hopefully it will get the HamFam on track for their 4-person events. Figure Skating Team Event(Short Dance, Ladies' Short, Pair's Free) - 5:00pm Team USA Maia Shibutani Alex Shibutani Bradie Tennell Alexa Scimeca Knierim Chris Knierim Thoughts/Background Information We are in a fantastic position in the team event right now. We will have the Shib Sibs and Bradie Tennell finish off the short program, which should be 2 great results. Then we have the Free programs with the Knierims, who were phenomenal in the short. Excited for this one. Freestyle Skiing Women's Moguls Qual 2, Finals - 2:30am Team USA Morgan Schild Jaelin Kauf Keaton McCargo Tess Johnson Thoughts/Background Information Tess is the only one yet to qualify, she will need a top 10 finish to qualify for Final 1. Again, the finals go 20->12->6. Get freakin hype for this one. Ice Hockey - Womens' United States of America vs Finland - 11:40pm [I don't want to type all of their names] Thoughts/Background Information Finland did pull the upset over Canada at the last Worlds, but I don't think that lightning will strike twice and the US will pull out a pretty comfortable win. Luge Men's Runs 3 & 4 - 3:00am Team USA Chris Mazdzer Taylor Morris Tucker West Thoughts/Background Information Mazdzer is in a fantastic position to win. 4th overall right now and had a 2nd run that was 2nd only to the God of Luge(understatement), Felix Loch. Snowboard Men's Slopestyle Finals - 5:00pm Team USA Red Gerard Thoughts/Background Information Okay, here it is. 3 runs, best run wins gold. Red had a great run in qualifying, and he could well pull out a medal. Let's go Red! Speed Skating - 11:00pm Men's 5000m Team USA Emery Lehman Thoughts/Background Information I'll admit to being a fan of Emery. But I don't think he will get a medal here. But he's also only 21, and in his second Olympics. So good for him. EDIT: You sniped me on that! I like the standings that you put in. Makes it look very nice.

Team USA 2018 - Winter Olympics Schedule All times in PST Day 1 (February 10th) Biathlon Women's 7.5km Sprint - 3:15am Team USA Susan Dunklee Clare Egan Emily Dreissigacker Madeleine Phaneuf Joanne Reid Thoughts/Background Information We have little to no chance to medal in this event. Dunklee might have a good shoot and get a little lucky. But I love Biathlon, so I'm still gonna watch. Cross Country Skiing Women's 2 x 7.5km Skiathlon - 11:15pm PST Team USA Jessie Diggins Sadie Bjornsen Kikkan Randall Rosie Brennan Thoughts/Background Information Jessie Diggins has been phenomenal this year. Wells mentioned it, it'd be a shock if she didn't win a medal. That would be huge, as the USA haven't won a Cross Country Skiing medal since Bill Koch in 1972 in Innsbruck. Which is our only medal in the sport. However, I don't think this will be her event, as she specializes in the freestyle skis, and this race mixes free and classic. But she did outski Heidi Weng in Seefeld a few weeks ago. So who knows at this point. Curling Mixed Doubles United States of America vs China - 4:05pm PST Team USA Matt Hamilton Rebecca Hamilton Team China Ba Dexin Wang Rui Thoughts/Background Information This is effectively an elimination game for both teams. This is crunch time for the Cheeseheads. They need a win and some help in the draw to get back in, althought that help is very reasonable! United States of America vs Norway - 3:05am PST Team USA Matt Hamilton Rebecca Hamilton Team Norway Kristin Skaslien Magnus Nedregotten Thoughts/Background Information Yet Unknown Luge Men's Runs 1 & 2 - 2:10am Team USA Chris Mazdzer Taylor Morris Tucker West Thoughts/Background Information Luge is a fickle, fickle beast. Our sliders are good, but at the end of the day, 4 runs total will determine who will win. Germans are the favorites, but the Americans might get a surprise podium. Short Track Speed Skating Men's 1500m - Heats: 2:00am, Semis: 3:21am, Final A: 4:28am Team USA J.R. Celski John-Henry Krueger Aaron Tran In order to qualify: Top 3 in Heats, Top 2 in Semis Women's 500m - Heats: 2:44am Team USA Maame Biney Lana Gehring In order to qualify: Top 2 in Heats Thoughts/Background Information Celski and Krueger might give some people a run for their money. Celski has been off and on lately, and Krueger is able to get some good world cup results, so maybe a podium will be in his future. Our women are looking to get past the heats in the 500m, and I expect them to do so. Ski Jumping Men's Normal Hill - 4:35am Team USA Kevin Bickner Michael Glasder Casey Larson Will Rhoads Thoughts/Background Information We almost certainly won't medal, but hopefully these guys get some good experience! Snowboard Men's Slopestyle Qualification - 5:00pm Team USA Red Gerard Chris Corning Ryan Stassel Kyle Mack In order to qualify: Top 6 from each qualifer Thoughts/Background Information This will have 2 qualifiers of 20 athletes each. Top 6 advance to the final. Great chance to medal in Red Gerard, but this is going to be a tough one. Also a super fun one to watch. Speed Skating - 3:00am PST Women's 3000m Team USA Carlijn Schoutens Mia Mangenello Thoughts/Background Information Carlijn Schoutens, a New Jersey-born, Dutch raised skater, might get a medal as a young 23 year old, but I'm not sure if she will.

Gotchu, fam. I just finished a couple of assignments and exams so I'm free to pick up where you left off in a little bit.

Congratulations!

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So NBC in America has been showing the curling matches on their live streaming since the start. Now they have it on their channel, in the first end, and they are trying to tell me it's live. Basically, NBC sits on a throne of lies.

So 3 of our Ski Jumpers are from the Chicago area, very close to where I grew up. In other words, we picked 3 guys from the 2nd flattest state for ski jumping.

Early Morning recap: Curling: Lost to Canada 6-4 Ski Jumping: All 4 Qualified(Top 50 of 57), Bickner highest at 25th. To answer some of your questions posed, Our ski jumping team is not going to medal. A top 20 would be fantastic. The Swiss are the only 2-0 team, while the Finns are the only 0-2 team in curling. Should be a good fight Nathan Chen will be in the Men's Short Program for the Team Event Moguls: Schild, Kauf, and McCargo have all had podiums in either of the last two World Cup seasons. The women's will be a good fight. Bradley Wilson will have a decent chance of medaling, but you can just hand the gold to Mikael Kingsbury of Canada now. He deserves it, to be honest. Qualifying for Moguls is Top 16.* Also, this is a neat thing that I found: https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/en/general/noc-schedule-united-states.htm It's not updated for every event yet, but I imagine it will be accurate within a day. * Edit: This is wrong. It's 30 in Q1, top 10 qual for F1. 20 in Q2, top 10 qual for F1. 20 in F1, top 12 to F2, top 6 in F2 to F3. F3 is the Super Final.

[hide] Event & Date Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Men's Downhill Day 1 February 11th, 2018 Max Franz Vincent Kriechmayr Matthias Mayer Hannes Reichelt Adrien Theaux Thomas Dressen Peter Fill Dominik Paris X Kjetil Jansrud Aksel Lund Svindal X Beat Feuz X Gilles Roulin Any Athlete from North America Any Other Athlete Women's Giant Slalom Day 2 February 12th, 2018 Any Athlete from Austria Tessa Worley X Victoria Rebensburg Federica Brignone Sofia Goggia Manuela Moelgg X Ragnhild Mowinckel Tina Robnik Estelle Alphand Sara Hector Lara Gut Mikaela Shiffrin X Any Other Athlete Men's Super-Combined Day 3 February 13th, 2018 Romed Baumann Marcel Hirscher X Matthias Mayer Victor Muffat-Jeandet Alexis Pinturault X Peter Fill Dominik Paris Kjetil Jansrud X Luca Aerni Mauro Caviezel Pavel Tirkhichev Any Other Athlete Women's Slalom Day 4 February 14th, 2018 Bernadette Schild Any Athlete from Germany Any Athlete from Italy Nina Haver-Loeseth Petra Vlhova X Estelle Alphand Frida Hansdotter Anna Swenn-Larsson Wendy Holdener X Melanie Meillard Mikaela Shiffrin X Any Other Athlete Men's Super-G Day 5 February 15th, 2018 Max Franz Vincent Kriechmayr Matthias Mayer Hannes Reichelt X Any Athlete from Canada Adrien Theaux Thomas Dressen Josef Ferstl Peter Fill Dominik Paris Aleksander Aamodt Kilde Kjetil Jansrud X Aksel Lund Svindal X Beat Feuz Any Other Athlete Women's Super-G Day 6 February 17th, 2018 Nicole Schmidhofer X Anna Veith Any Athlete from France Victoria Rebensburg Federica Brignone Sofia Goggia Johanna Schnarff Tina Weirather X Ragnhild Mowinckel Michelle Gissin Lara Gut X Any Other Athlete Men's Giant Slalom Day 7 February 18th, 2018 Manuel Feller Marcel Hirscher X Alexis Pinturault Luca De Aliprandini Henrik Kristoffersen X Leif Kristian Nestvold-Haugen Zan Kranjec Matts Olsson Justin Murisier Ted Ligety X Any Other Athlete Women's Downhill Day 8 February 21st, 2018 Cornelia Hutter Nicole Schmidhofer Ramona Sieberhofen Any Athlete from France Sofia Goggia Tina Weirather X Ragnhild Mowinckel Michelle Gisin Lara Gut Mikaela Shiffrin X Lindsey Vonn X Jacqueline Wiles Any Other Athlete Men's Slalom Day 9 February 22nd, 2018 Manuel Feller Marcel Hirscher X Michael Matt Alexis Pinturault Dave Ryding Stefano Gross Sebastian Foss-Solevaag Henrik Kristoffersen X Andre Myhrer X Luca Aerni Daniel Yule Any Other Athlete Women's Super-Combined Day 10 February 23rd, 2018 Ricarda Haaser Anne-Sophie Barthet Federica Brignone Sofia Goggia Marusa Ferk Denise Feierabend Michelle Gisin Wendy Holdener X Mikaela Shiffrin X Any Athlete from North America Any Other Athlete X Team Event Day 11 February 24th, 2018 Austria X Canada France Germany Italy X Norway Slovakia Sweden X Switzerland United States Any Other Athlete [/hide]

[hide] Women's Tournament Preliminary Round February 10th - February 15th, 2018 8 Nations, 2 Groups, the 1st and 2nd Nations from Group A will qualify for the Semifinals, the 3rd and 4th Nations from Group A and 1st and 2nd Nations from Group B will qualify for the Quarterfinals, the 3rd and 4th Nations from Group B will qualify for the 5th-8th Places Semifinals Group A Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 11th 2018, h. 16:40 Finland 3 United States February 11th 2018, h. 21:10 Canada 4 Olympic Athletes form Russia February 13th 2018, h. 16:40 Canada 2 Finland February 13th 2018, h. 21:10 United States 3 Olympic Athletes from Russia February 15th 2018, h. 12:10 United States 1 Canada February 15th 2018, h. 16:40 Olympic Athletes from Russia 1 Finland Group B Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 10th 2018, h. 16:40 Japan 2 Sweden February 10th 2018, h. 21:10 Switzerland 5 South Korea February 12th 2018, h. 16:40 Sweden 5 South Korea February 12th 2018, h. 21:10 Switzerland 1 Japan February 14th 2018, h. 12:10 Sweden 2 Switzerland February 14th 2018, h. 16:40 South Korea 3 Japan Men's Tournament Preliminary Round February 14th - February 18th, 2018 12 Nations, 3 Groups, the 1st Nations from each Group and the best 2nd ranked Nation between all Groups will qualify for the Quarterfinals, the other Nations will qualify for the Round of 16 Group A Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 15th 2018, h. 21:10 Czech Republic 2 South Korea February 15th 2018, h. 21:10 Switzerland 2 Canada February 17th 2018, h. 12:10 Canada 1 Czech Republic February 17th 2018, h. 16:40 South Korea 2 Switzerland February 18th 2018, h. 16:40 Czech Republic 1 Switzerland February 18th 2018, h. 21:10 Canada 4 South Korea Group B Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 14th 2018, h. 21:10 Slovakia 2 Olympic Athletes from Russia February 14th 2018, h. 21:10 United States 1 Slovenia February 16th 2018, h. 12:10 United States 1 Slovakia February 16th 2018, h. 16:40 Olympic Athletes from Russia 3 Slovenia February 17th 2018, h. 21:10 Olympic Athletes from Russia 2 United States February 17th 2018, h. 21:10 Slovenia 1 Slovakia Group C Date & Time (GMT +9) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 February 15th 2018, h. 12:10 Finland 3 Germany February 15th 2018, h. 16:40 Norway 2 Sweden February 16th 2018, h. 21:10 Finland 2 Norway February 16th 2018, h. 21:10 Sweden 3 Germany February 18th 2018, h. 12:10 Germany 2 Norway February 18th 2018, h. 21:10 Sweden 1 Finland [/hide]

Next one is going to be a rough one. 6 AM Eastern vs Canada.

This. They need better audio balancing between the skips, who are literally yelling, and the announcers, who sound like they are watching a putt on the 18th hole.

This is the only TV delayed event of the Olympics on NBC. But they put everything on online streaming.

Yeah, so that's where I'm confused. I didn't see any of the stones being moved aside from the middle.