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The Ringer: Winter Chill: Olympian Jamie Anderson’s Freestyle Life, On and Off the Slopes

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ESPN: Olympics 2022: The Team USA athletes to watch in Beijing

https://www.espn.com...s-watch-beijing

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CBS Sports: Winter Olympics: Day 1 schedule, events to watch, results from Beijing

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Men's Moguls was fun...but the announcers seemed shocked by the judging on the last 3-4 runs.

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Straight fire from the women's @usahockey team. #WinterOlympics  5-0 USA over Russia

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538: What We Expect From Each Country At The Beijing Olympics

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Balt Sun: Shaun White, a 3-time gold medalist, plans to retire after the Beijing Olympics: ‘In my mind, I’ve decided this will be my last competition’

[Mackus]

Curling, snowboarding (freestyle and half pipe...the ones with tricks), and speed skating are my favorite events to watch.  Luge, bobsled, and ski jumping also constantly amaze me that anyone even tries to do it.

[TwentyThirtyFive]

I like the skiing. In particular the downhill. Curling is surprisingly fun to watch

[Mike in STL]

I would totally do luge, Skeleton, or bobsled, or the new monobob. I love speed. But you couldn’t get me on the ski jump no way no how.

Probably not the two man luge though. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

[glenn__davis]

I enjoy and will watch literally all of it.  Especially the winter games where there's so much less going on and it's easier to follow more sports.

 

Much prefer any sport that doesn't include judges though.  Give me alpine skiing, speed skating, short track, bobsled, hockey - any sport where the fastest/highest/strongest athlete wins.

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CBS Sports: Mikaela Shiffrin Olympics schedule: Skiing star misses out on giant slalom gold, still has four events left

https://www.cbssport...ur-events-left/

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CBS Sports: 2022 Beijing Olympics medal count: Tracking how many gold, silver and bronze medals each country has won

https://www.cbssport...ountry-has-won/

[DuffMan]

I just haven't been able to get into the Games much this time.  I've watched a little curling and skiing and that's about it.   It was kind of weird watching the one ski event (some sort of tricks) where they are going down this giant ramp that they decided to build next to the power plant.

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CBS Sports: Winter Olympics 2022: Team USA schedule, live results tracker, United States medal count from Beijing Games

https://www.cbssport...ing-games/live/

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538: Without NHL Players, Canada And The U.S. Went From Men’s Hockey Favorites To Also-Rans

[Mackus]

It was kind of weird watching the one ski event (some sort of tricks) where they are going down this giant ramp that they decided to build next to the power plant.

 

It's like a  bad knockoff of the Cruisin' World arcade game.  The ski-jumping tricks are incredible, but agree the backdrop is hideous.

[Mackus]

538: Without NHL Players, Canada And The U.S. Went From Men’s Hockey Favorites To Also-Rans

 

I find that the more mainstream the sport, the less I care about it in the Olympics.  Basketball, hockey, soccer, tennis, boxing...just not as interesting when the Olympics aren't the biggest stage for the competitors like they are for the other sports.  Or maybe I'm just ignorant as to how important Worlds and other non-Olympic competitions are for the other events.