De_Gambassi

When you make 4th 5th and 6th, you do get a consolation prize, a plush or something, right ?a plush arm maybe ? Something, anything...

So fucking happy for Maurice Now, go get that historic globe 

That was like a week ago, give me a break

And yet, they DSQed Min-jeong from gold in the first race. Is it really about corruption (more likely pressures of many sorts) than plain bad refering (and possibly rules that need to be adjusted ) ?

Just give them the mecedonian treatment. "Former short track speed skating". The sport of FSTSS.

I wanted to add "(I know about the mass start but that's not what I'm talking about)", but I was too lazy to do so.

General question from a speed tracking newbie: Have they ever tried to have short track events on long track ? I immagine, it would be less random and less judge proned.

Marie Dorin from likely not selected for the Olympics (not even as a backup) to olympic champion in less than two months I think, it's called 'depth'. But i'm not sure. We need a expert.

Ffs how long can it takes, that's torture!

Looking at Italians faces tells a lot too. Heartbreaking.

A no DSQ you mean ?

http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attn/avesvk.htm Sub 1,000 attendance in first league

Cool story.

The chauvinist nature of the olympics IS the only reason why the Olympics are still a thing. Whithout it, there will be nothing on your screens, an no "nice" people for you guys to cheer for. Cheering for someone because he shares the same nationality than you is no less idiotic than cheering for someone because he sounds nice on ITW or because your like his haircut.

2 heures de sommeil hier, Plus de 12 heures de sport quasi non stop, pour presque uniquement des déconvenues. J'ai complètement explosé en vol sur l'individuelle. Bref, plus jamais. Je me mets à la diète.

La demie de Vaultier, Bon en fait non pas vraiment, c'était plutôt l'angoisse en vérité Sinon, nuit assez moyenne en somme. On pouvait espérer 2, sinon 3 médailles. On risque d'être pas mal en or, mais si les biathlètes ne commencent pas à scorer gros, l'objectif de 20 médailles va être dur à atteindre.

Back to back Olympic medallist in such a volatile sport. That's amazing I hope he will get the credits he deserves by the médias.

There are only 160km between Aachen and Dortmund. That's less than between Vancouver and Wistler IIRC. That seems more than manageable. What are some of the specific venues missing: Velodrome ? Wild water canoeing stadium ?

Shooting has been part of the Games since the begininng. History is a criteria for IOC and entering and staying are two differents things all together (ie, if Modern Pentathlon had to bid today to enter the olympics they will never be chosen). Besides, I've heard many times people saying that shooting should be excluded for that reason (and I'm personnaly not far from agreing with them)

And why do you believe we consider (I agree btw) that e-sport is no sport and should not be part of the olympics, if not because of tradition ?

Speaking of widespread olympics. I wonder if the Rhein-Rhur 2032 project we heard about last year is moving forward ? Any german perhaps ? @EselTheDonkey @OlympicsFan ?

I've a hard time imaginning chess, poker and e-sport players sharing the same event. That doesn't seem like a natural fit at all My bet, e-sport will end up having their own sort of games. That will be big, but not as big as anyone thinks and won't hurt the OG. Kinda like the X Games, really.

Are there many downsides to have widepsread olympics anyway ? Maybe some hidden costs (transport, security), but still a lot less than to the cost of builiding new specific facillities. I guess some spectators wouldn't like it as they will have to spread themselves out and maybe we should consider splitting the olympic village. If this it what it takes to save the Wnter OG (and perhaps Summer ones too) that's fine by me. And yes, pretty much everyone wants Switzerland to host the Games for a third time. The only question, does the the people of Valais (Sion's canton) want it too ?

https://olympics.cbc.ca/news/article/canada-kim-boutin-breaks-down-tears-during-emotional-medal-ceremony.html#.WoR5gblOUEM.twitter

Ah, Portugal was not a member yet. You do learn something new every day ^^ I allways assumed they were, and allways assumed that it was perfect normal for them not to score any medal too