Time once again to fall in love all over again with sports almost no one pays any attention to other than the athletes and their families for three years and ten months. How many winter Olympic sports ca you name? Luge bobsled, figure skating that's actually three men's women's and pairs. Then there's that mad game where men and women in galoshes and carrying brooms polish the ice in front of slowly moving rocks. There are actually more than thirty separate events.
I wonder if people in Canada go to the bar after work to watch curling. Or if it's just something people have in the back ground
From what I've seen of curling t looks more like soething you'd do if you already been too long at the bar...
Curling, like bull riding, clearly had it's origins in prodigious quantities of alcohol. Do love the Winter Olympics! Go Team USA!
^ two of my faves There's also skeleton, slopes, XC skiing, biathlon, long track speed skating, and hockey. Strange, how nowadays I seem to enjoy Winter Olympics more than Summer games. All great stuff.
Well for one thng there are fewer events and it doesn't challenge one's attention span to the same extent.
Some little known trivia . . . curling was invented by the McKenzie brothers. The rules were codified on a cocktail napkin. They originally wanted to use vacuum cleaners instead of brooms.
Is it over yet? Not to worry. The Paralympics follow. Looking forward to the "almost as good as" Olympics. Is it fun to watch them try and pretend . . . .
Downhill skiing, slalom skiing, Super-G slalom, Snow board style and half pipe, mogul skiing, ski jumping, biathlon, cross country skiing, hockey, speed skating--various lengths of races, pursuit speed skating,
Well done sir. I have but one problem with winter olympics it all involves being out doors in weather that causes rational people to stay indoors
I agree. I live in Florida, and have no plans to move north. I do like to watch the Winter Olympics from the comfort of my couch, though.
Depends on the sport. It would be easier to lust the sports I haven't played. The only one I ever made any money at was chess.
Alina Zagitova, the gold medalist in women's figure skating, was harshly criticised by Ashley Wagner, who said that her free program is not a program because all jumps are in the second half. I partially agree with Wagner but I wish Evgenia Medvedeva had moved one more jump to the second half to earn extra points. Evgenia needed just one more point to win the gold medal and it was painful to accept her loss.
'You didn't expect that, did you? I did it on purpose!' Mesmerising stuff TT, and thanks for posting it. I'll be watching it again and again on my smart tv.
Dude the closest I've been to a serious game of chess since the early eighties is is chess titans arguably the worst chess program of the last thirty years.
I play CT too (and I don't know of a better one). Here's my score-sheet when I recently tried it at level 8 Won: 2 Lost: 43 Drawn: 1 So in order to restore my confidence and self-respect, I went back to level 3 and stayed there!
I play on level ten. It always plays either c5 or d5 to which I respond nf6.and we go straight to some variant of the Nimzoindian Defense. I am 20 10 and 2 an unknown number of the ten belong to my oldest grand daughter who barely knows the moves. Let me give you my complete break down of the game. Opening master level but since it only plays two I'd expect that. Middle game between class A and expert. End game no better than D class. Imagine an AI that can't count Tempi. In my hey day I had a draw with an IM in simultaneous exhibition he gave. The IM in question was Ken Smith the creator of the Smith-Morra gambit and tied for first in a 30-30 tournament.
