Running 2018 Winter Games thread

Don’t bring @BTExpress into this!

 

He's here. As are the facts, sad to say.

Russia had a whopping 3 golds in 2010. Were 3-5-7 all told. As of today they are 0-4-9. In 2014 they kicked ass and brought about 70 more athletes. Host nations usually kick ass.

At this point in the games the U.S. (6-3-5) is much further behind their 2010 medal haul (9-14-13) than Russia.

Should be asking "what's different?" with the Americans.

 

I'm just busting your balls, but I sometimes actually think that you should sue the creators of "The Americans" for stealing the plot life of your life.

 

I wanted to sue them for wasting 20 minutes of my life with that digging scene from last season's first episode.

 

It's about damn time.

US wins 1st gold in women's cross-country skiing

 

For the last few days, I’d been trying to figure out why everyone in Aspen was waking up in the middle of the night to watch a local Olympian compete.

Coming in 2022: A heart-warming ad campaign centered around the humble roots of a slalom skier from Bail.

 

Bail?

 

Jessie Diggins is from Afton. It sounds like Aspen. I thought it was strange that Aspen, which is the kind of place that would be expected to produce winter Olympians, was being treated like a sleepy little hamlet where people wake up in the middle of the night to watch the local girl compete.

Vail also is a town that one would expect to produce winter Olympians. Hence, my joke about how the next ad campaign will be about someone from Bail, a soundalike.

You see ... oh, forget it.

 

The 2010 gold medal game was one of the best hockey games I’ve ever watched. The best players in the world on the biggest stage.

 

He’s the guy who can’t wait to tell you how he can’t stand watching anything anymore. How it’s not like it once was. But still an expert in all things he doesn’t watch.

 

Just weighing in to say this is easily the most boring Olympics ever, with absolutely no juice for casual American viewers. Johnny Weir's hair is more compelling than the action. The crowds are non-existent. You'd think NBC would pipe in more fake crowd noise. Aterd all, they added bird sounds for golf.