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The Ski-Mo purists have distanced themselves from the Olympic Event evidently as it bears no resemblance to actual Ski-Mo races which are far more about challenging terrain, stamina and not just ripping your skins off!
As an XC enthusiast I found the commentary was lacking in detail that I wanted to hear.
Though I think Tim & Ed toned down using amplitude this time round, well at least in the first week 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I'm so posting this on Tims podcast.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@Weathercam, it was... odd, I watched the 15m highlight on BBC, but I'd seen a Skimo team event on Eurosport before and that race was again 80% decided on peoples ability to stow skis and remove and stash skins, 20% on their climb cardio, and a relaxed pootle down to the finish. What does good skimo look like, because it doesn't feel like it relies on being good at the skiing part?
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| gixxerniknik wrote: |
Not sure anything can make curling in any way exciting, except for maybe random exploding stones. |
This has been making me smile every time I think about it. Imagine being about to win the match when a couple of your crucial stones explode (it does sound painful). 
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| Old Fartbag wrote: |
This has been making me smile every time I think about it. Imagine being about to win the match when a couple of your crucial stones explode (it does sound painful). |
For the mens game only then?
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@Weathercam, not exactly TV friendly though is it.
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| cameronphillips2000 wrote: |
Probably not best to try and win Olympic downhill gold with a ruptered ACL
Curling can be more exciting when they start cheating and swearimg at each other.
JD vance being. booed is is still the highlight ofthe games.
The San Siro Should never be demolished and needs statues of Pavarotti, Roberto Baggio, Paul Gascgoine and Jurgen Klinsmann.
Corporate tickets and banning of crowds/cowbells from the side of slopes has killed the alpine atmosphere
Shove a Brit on a tray, head first down a slippery slope and we'll take on the world. We would probably win at Jeigerbombs too.
Chemmy Alcott was made for TV
Wilf O'reilly was made to speedskate
Someone had had a chat with Ed and the baggy pants brigade and asked them to stop saying 'Stoked' every minute and the result is so much better for it.
We probalbly saw the best two skiers ever to walk the planet - Vonn and Shiffrin
Not surprisingly, the Germans make the best bobsleighs
Seems Quad King, like Tiger king, went from Hero to Zero
Drone pilots are the unsung heros - Down the bobsleigh run ffs???
The Dolomites are the most beautiful mountains in the world and Cortina is simply majestic
British slalom skiers are amazing considering the grew up skiing on Toothbrushes
Lindsay Vonn being airlifted below a helicopter with Tofana as the back drop was almost as sad as seeing Goose lifted out of the sea
Big air makes amazing TV and they are now pushing the laws of physics
They should introduce the bobsleigh, being chased by a skier, being chased by a motorcyclist with guns. Winter Triathlon?
The Dollies have had a lot of snow during the last two weeks.
A wolf on the cross country skiing run in adds to the event. Maybe wolves chase the competitors around the course?
Kurgen Klopp adds value wherever he goes
Ski jumping is still the most insane sport in the world
It's probably the best place to have been in the world over the last two weeks after Glenshee. |
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Corrected the fat thumbed Typos.
I'm just watching the Canada Finland semi (Don't Google this at work)
I was once om Quebec City and asked a taxi driver his thoughts on French speaking regions independence.
His response was 'This is Canada sir. We only care about obe thing. Hockey.
Exploding Curling stones would be great. What. about Bin men playing it with large Biffa bins and roadsweepera brushes. Played in a warehouse in Sheffield, with the brushers wearing 'Trigger' outfits from Only. Fools and horses.
There's a difference between a. big dog and a wolf?
I was once skiiing in Whistler when skiing the top to. bottom when a wolf ran up piste at me through the heavy snow. fall. When I returned to the top station, it was. sitting with the lifties, who. told. me that every day, it jumps the fence at home and runs to to top of the Whistler peak (1600m.vertical ascent) I later saw it going down a chairlift on a. lifty's knee.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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You cannot beat a European winter olympics, it’s still magical for me. I’ve loved these.
I work, so haven’t watched it wall to wall. My highlights have been all the Alpine skiing, big track speed skating, ice hockey men and women's, plus the UK medals.
Italy receiving all the snow in the days before, following a very long snow drought, set the olympics up to look and be the part. Livigno, Cortina and the obscure parts of Südtirol holding other events have looked beautiful.
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| cameronphillips2000 wrote: |
His response was 'This is Canada sir. We only care about obe thing. Hockey.
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I hope you asked in your best plummy accent, “Would that be field or ice, my dear chap?”
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@ster, there is only hockey and field hockey
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You know it makes sense.
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| SnoodyMcFlude wrote: |
| @Weathercam, not exactly TV friendly though is it. |
Marathon isn’t exactly TV friendly either. But it’s part of the summer Olympics. Receives a lot of TV coverage too.
On the other hand, the summer game’s “sprint” triathlon was equally underwhelming as SkiMo.
Figure skating were boring. Without the Russians, it’s basically a second tier competition. Didn’t help the “Quad God” completely blew up in his individual final (he did the job in the teams though)
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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The ice hockey (both men's and women's) over the last 3 days has been unreal!
Next up USA - Slovakia.
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Poster: A snowHead
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@abc, true, but still a lot easier to cover a marathon with a few motorbikes than it is someone climbing 5 peaks with 2k of vert
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Why is ski cross on instead of the important advertised curling bronze medal match? I rush home after a day at work and a few swift halves and I expect to see curling !
And why are they skiing by one by one by themselves???
Phew, mens 15km mass biathlon saves the day.
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| ster wrote: |
Phew, mens 15km mass biathlon saves the day. |
Yeah, mass biathlon surprisingly exciting
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@cameronphillips2000, absolutely brilliant. Carnt disagree with a word. It has been great TV.
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Unlike some (many?), I've really enjoyed watching the curling. Being retired and at home during the day, I've generally had it on in the background while getting on with stuff. Fully accept that it's probably had rather too much coverage on main BBC channels, though, given that it could more often have been shown on red button/iplayer.
Also enjoyed alpine events (obviously), ski and snowboard cross are great entertainment, and skeleton/luge/bobsleigh.
Switched on at lunchtime today and saw biathlon (I think) was showing, but had to switch off after around 15 seconds when I realised that commentary was the abysmal Rob Walker. First I remember seeing of him was London 2012 when he covered sailing. Ben Ainslie had just won his gold, sat back to take in the moment but this prat pulled up alongside within seconds and thrust a microphone in his face. I'd have told him where to put it. Snooker fans can't stand him.
All in all it's been a great success. Seeing the amount of snow falling has also been a joy.
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| SnoodyMcFlude wrote: |
| @ster, there is only hockey and field hockey |
Jammy Fitzwilliams. Not often I want to see the US win but I find myself hoping they give this bunch a good shellacking in the final (and that’s despite the US’s coaches’ Trump ties).
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@ster, Nah, having skied in both USA and Canada, I'm cheering for the Canucks every time.
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Oh and the Czech Hockey coach
'Let's stick six players on and see if they notice'. and they didn't.....
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The female 1500m (short track? maybe) races last night were absolute chaos. I’m sure at one point every competitor, bar one, fell over. Then they were all rushing to get back up on their skates to get the remaining qualifying spots.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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I love Tim and Ed, Tim was my kids absolute favourite CBBC presenter and he is always so engaging. Chemmy so brilliant and so glamorous- like someone up thread said - made for TV (and instagram). I’ve loved it all - was even a bit sorry to be in Andorra for 5 days in the middle of it. The biathlon is one of my favourites - got some more of that coming up today and my daughter can’t wait for Eileen v Zoe tonight. It’s been brilliant, not least because of the fabulous backdrops in Italy.
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You know it makes sense.
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| Boris wrote: |
| @cameronphillips2000, broadly agree with the observations, apart from curling, everytime I turn the highlights on it's flippin curling and it's dull - even with the cheating. |
Agree and goodness knows who thought it was a good idea to mic them all up. Constant screeching.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Thing about curling is we (GB, well scottish really) can actually do it. You don't have to watch every second either. Almost gentle background activity while you half do something else.
I can only take so much of Tim and Ed - they do get rather excited. They were definitely working through their metaphor list yesterday. Ah, ignore me, I've become a grumpy old git
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Poster: A snowHead
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Where did ‘Czechia’ come from ?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Peter S wrote: |
| Where did ‘Czechia’ come from ? |
There are websites that can answer that kind of question.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I was introduced to this poem back in 2003. It was lovely to hear it at the opening ceremony.
Giacomo Leopardi, the Sicilian
XII
L'INFINITO:
Sempre caro mi fu quest'ermo colle,
e questa siepe, che da tanta parte
dell'ultimo orizzonte il guardo esclude.
Ma sedendo e mirando, interminati
spazi di là da quella, e sovrumani
silenzi, e profondissima quiete
io nel pensier mi fingo; ove per poco
il cor non si spaura. E come il vento
odo stormir tra queste piante, io quello
infinito silenzio a questa voce
vo comparando: e mi sovvien l'eterno,
e le morte stagioni, e la presente
e viva, e il suon di lei. Così tra questa
immensità s'annega il pensier mio:
e il naufragar m'è dolce in questo mare.
***
I always loved this solitary hill,
This hedge as well, which takes so large a share
Of the far-flung horizon from my view;
But seated here, in contemplation lost,
My thought discovers vaster space beyond
Supernal silence and unfathomed peace;
Almost I am afraid; then, since I hear
The murmur of the wind among the leaves,
I match that infinite calm unto this sound
And with my mind embrace eternity,
The vivid, speaking present and dead past;
In such immensity my spirit drowns,
And sweet to me is shipwreck in this sea.
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Let's hope Auston Matthews delivers his traditional captaincy success tomorrow. Leafs suck! 
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Best Winter Olympics and TV coverage (BBC in the main) of my lifetime.
The Dolomites are simply the most stunning Alpine playground in Europe.
Chemmy, Clare, Ed + Tim have all been superb … Steve Cram is a t*at.
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Too much curling
Drone s were amazing
felt like 4th was the new 1st in the first week .
Yes backdrop of Vonn being airlifted was truly spectacular.
Chemmy , Chemmy , Chemmy …….. and her Golden Fleece .
Agree with the non crowds on Alpine .
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That ski mountaineering is a bizarre event. A short ascent around some plastic obstacles that look like a wonky contra flow , time taken putting on and off skins (a ski race or a faff show?) and tucking them in a pouch (one commentator said if they aren’t completely tucked away and can be seen you get penalised?) Who’s ever seen stairs on a mountain that you have to race up, excepting those slippy ones on the way to every alpine loo, maybe thats why a few of them fell there. Then a short ski down. All seems a bit silly.
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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
| Was it a wolf? Looked like a big cuddly dog to me |
I believe it was a czechoslovakian wolf dog, which I understand can be very cuddly, but they have a lot more wolf dna than the average poodle. 
The ones I have seen have been lovely dogs but they can be a handful, including being renowned escape artists, which this one sort of proved as it slipped it's leash.
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@ster, Graham Bell explained that the stairs are sort of half intended to be a nod to the point of an ascent where you have to boot pack up a steep pitch. He also made fairly clear that this was very much a taster event and not the real deal.
I think it looks a little weird and it's clearly not ski mountaineering, but if you step back and just consider it in terms of being an event I think it's good. You could really see how much athletes were going into the red zone
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| ster wrote: |
| Why is ski cross on instead of the important advertised curling bronze medal match? I rush home after a day at work and a few swift halves... |
Ooh I can answer this! The BBC are only allowed to show 2 active live channels. They will always favour British interest in what they select, and medals in priority. Thats why we didn't get the snowboard slopestyle qualifiers. They can pick up anything once its not live for replay.
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FAQ
, and the final 3 men in the Mass Start lining up for a 100m sprint for the fans 