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[BSLChrisStoner]

ESPN: Five months from Olympics, here's what you should know about Team USA men's hockey

https://www.espn.com...-usa-men-hockey

[glenn__davis]

Olympic adjacent....

Lindsay Vonn wins a World Cup downhill race at age 41. Pretty awesome.

https://www.espn.com...wnhill-win-2018

[BSLChrisStoner]

ESPN: Sources: Keller, Thompson, Jones make U.S. roster

https://www.espn.com...-make-us-roster

[BSLChrisStoner]

Vonn, Shiffrin and Kim make Team USA's Winter Olympics squad

[BSLChrisStoner]

The Ringer: A Superlative Guide to the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics

https://www.theringe...6-milan-cortina

[DuffMan]

Hard to be excited for the Olympics when your home Country has turned heel.

[CantonJester]

The mens downhill today was a lot of fun. Getting up to speeds beyond 90 mph, and then dig into a turn that drops you to say, 62 mph and then inside of 2 seconds later you're back up into the mid 80s. Unreal. 

[You Play to Win the Game]

Hard to be excited for the Olympics when your home Country has turned heel.

It’s truly embarrassing.

[Pedro Cerrano]

It’s truly embarrassing.

Eh. It’s hard to do but I try to separate the athletes from the politics. These people have trained their whole lives for maybe this one opportunity. They deserve our support.

[TwentyThirtyFive]

Eh. It’s hard to do but I try to separate the athletes from the politics. These people have trained their whole lives for maybe this one opportunity. They deserve our support.

Exactly. And a good many of them are likely either apolitical or arent supportive of this administration and its policies

[glenn__davis]

Vonn crashes out early in the downhill. Man you fell for these athletes who put in so much work only to have it not work out.

Taking her down on a helicopter. Have to think her career might be over.

[glenn__davis]

Breezy Johnson earns the first gold for the US in the women’s downhill.

[glenn__davis]

Eh. It’s hard to do but I try to separate the athletes from the politics. These people have trained their whole lives for maybe this one opportunity. They deserve our support.

 

I don't think it's all that hard to separate.  I think the Olympics are more important than ever. 

 

(Disclaimer, I'm an Olympic nut and have been since I was a kid.  Woke up at 5:30 both days over the weekend to watch the men's and women's downhill live even though the only person I knew was competing was Vonn.)

 

The sportsmanship and camaraderie shown in the Olympics is what sport should be all about.  Yes you have the occasional rivalries where personalities truly dislike each other, and honestly that makes it even more intriguing, but for the most part you watch these games and these athletes from different parts of the world and different cultures truly seem to respect and be happy for one another.  Challenging each other to bring out the best and see what we can achieve as humans.

 

Yes that sounds very naive and cornball I know but so be it.  I'm not gonna give some knucklehead the power to steal my joy from one of my favorite sporting events.

[You Play to Win the Game]

Eh. It’s hard to do but I try to separate the athletes from the politics. These people have trained their whole lives for maybe this one opportunity. They deserve our support.

I can walk and chew gum, I'm having no issue separating that. I'm embarrassed to be associated with the laughing stock of the world, is what I was saying. Just as many of those athletes we're cheering for are.

[DuffMan]

I don't think it's all that hard to separate.  I think the Olympics are more important than ever. 

 

(Disclaimer, I'm an Olympic nut and have been since I was a kid.  Woke up at 5:30 both days over the weekend to watch the men's and women's downhill live even though the only person I knew was competing was Vonn.)

 

The sportsmanship and camaraderie shown in the Olympics is what sport should be all about.  Yes you have the occasional rivalries where personalities truly dislike each other, and honestly that makes it even more intriguing, but for the most part you watch these games and these athletes from different parts of the world and different cultures truly seem to respect and be happy for one another.  Challenging each other to bring out the best and see what we can achieve as humans.

 

Yes that sounds very naive and cornball I know but so be it.  I'm not gonna give some knucklehead the power to steal my joy from one of my favorite sporting events.

Olympian Hunter Hess tried to explain the mixed feelings  about representing USA himself and gets called a loser by the pumpkin in chief for it.

[glenn__davis]

Olympian Hunter Hess tried to explain the mixed feelings  about representing USA himself and gets called a loser by the pumpkin in chief for it.

 

Sure.  What Hess said was very level-headed and classy.  What the President said, shockingly, was not. 

 

He's not going to ruin the spirit of the Games for me.

[glenn__davis]

BTW, I take this opportunity to reiterate my longstanding belief that any sport that requires judges to give scores should be a considered a 2nd-tier sport.  Not to say they aren't amazing athletes doing incredible things.

[TwentyThirtyFive]

Yeah judging is lame. Subjectivity in sports officiating is lame

[BSLChrisStoner]

Team USA reaches curling gold medal match with dramatic win over Italy

[BSLChrisStoner]

ESPN: 2026 Winter Olympics: Monday results updates from Milan

https://www.espn.com...onday-eileen-gu

 

ESPN: Can the U.S. beat Canada for a men's hockey gold medal?

https://www.espn.com...edal-usa-canada