| Watching the Winter Olympics 20:58 - Feb 12 with 837 views | Benters |
Bonkers isn’t it.
Enjoyable viewing though. |  |
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| Watching the Winter Olympics on 00:46 - Feb 13 with 735 views | armchaircritic59 |
The "Halfpipes " are something else. Yikes! |  | | |
| Watching the Winter Olympics on 07:09 - Feb 13 with 635 views | Benters |
| Watching the Winter Olympics on 00:46 - Feb 13 by armchaircritic59 |
The "Halfpipes " are something else. Yikes! |
Yes that was great viewing as was the speed skating and skeleton.
I also liked the skiing and shooting and the four person race thing on boards. | |
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| Watching the Winter Olympics on 07:27 - Feb 13 with 616 views | Deano69 |
130kph on a tin tray. Bonkers and amazing. |  |
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| Watching the Winter Olympics on 07:55 - Feb 13 with 577 views | LRB84UK |
| Watching the Winter Olympics on 07:27 - Feb 13 by Deano69 |
130kph on a tin tray. Bonkers and amazing. |
I didn't realise, until the relay last night, that you could have two of them on the tin tray! | | | |
| Watching the Winter Olympics on 08:19 - Feb 13 with 546 views | Churchman |
As somebody who loves the mountains and stumbling about in them, I think the Winter Olympics are great.
The skiing, obviously, but while Boardriders are the spawn of the devil in recreational skiing what the professionals do is incredible. I’ve seen those Half Pipes and they are enormous annd not exactly flat. While I’ve not seen the riders in action, even from what one sees on tv it’s truly spectacular and terrifying.
The ski runs themselves are as steep as hell in parts and these people are literally on the edge of what they can do and wiping out.
Love the ski and snowboard racing, speed skating, ski jumping, endurance stuff, Bobsleigh, ice hockey in particular. The idea of going down an ice chute on a tea tray (skeleton and luge) faster than you can legally drive a car is bonkers. The only stuff that doesn’t do it for me is Curling and ice skating - though I respect the enormous skill involved.
Great fun. I’ve not been to that area of the Alps (Dolomites) and I wish I had. It looks stunning.
Edit: anyone who has never skied but likes the look of it, try and give it a go. It’s not for everyone but for some, including me, it’s one of the best, most fun things you’ll ever do. [Post edited 13 Feb 8:25]
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| Watching the Winter Olympics on 08:30 - Feb 13 with 528 views | Deano69 |
| Watching the Winter Olympics on 07:55 - Feb 13 by LRB84UK |
I didn't realise, until the relay last night, that you could have two of them on the tin tray! |
Doubly bonkers. | |
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| Watching the Winter Olympics on 08:37 - Feb 13 with 517 views | soupytwist |
I watched the highlights of the women's super giant slalom last night. I genuinely feared for their safety most of the time and apparently over 30% didn't finish, including the winner of the women's downhill.
Real heartwarming, back from serious injury, story for the Italian winner. [Post edited 13 Feb 8:38]
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| Watching the Winter Olympics on 10:30 - Feb 13 with 452 views | Benters |
| Watching the Winter Olympics on 08:19 - Feb 13 by Churchman |
As somebody who loves the mountains and stumbling about in them, I think the Winter Olympics are great.
The skiing, obviously, but while Boardriders are the spawn of the devil in recreational skiing what the professionals do is incredible. I’ve seen those Half Pipes and they are enormous annd not exactly flat. While I’ve not seen the riders in action, even from what one sees on tv it’s truly spectacular and terrifying.
The ski runs themselves are as steep as hell in parts and these people are literally on the edge of what they can do and wiping out.
Love the ski and snowboard racing, speed skating, ski jumping, endurance stuff, Bobsleigh, ice hockey in particular. The idea of going down an ice chute on a tea tray (skeleton and luge) faster than you can legally drive a car is bonkers. The only stuff that doesn’t do it for me is Curling and ice skating - though I respect the enormous skill involved.
Great fun. I’ve not been to that area of the Alps (Dolomites) and I wish I had. It looks stunning.
Edit: anyone who has never skied but likes the look of it, try and give it a go. It’s not for everyone but for some, including me, it’s one of the best, most fun things you’ll ever do. [Post edited 13 Feb 8:25]
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Yeah I don’t do the curling or figure skating tbh.
That snowboarding looks amazing,as for the size of the wotsit,I bet it’s huge buh in real life. | |
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| Watching the Winter Olympics on 11:00 - Feb 13 with 414 views | leitrimblue |
| Watching the Winter Olympics on 07:27 - Feb 13 by Deano69 |
130kph on a tin tray. Bonkers and amazing. |
Think I got close to that speed on a house for sale sign down the big hill as a kid. And without the aid of lycra |  | | |
| Watching the Winter Olympics on 11:12 - Feb 13 with 388 views | Churchman |
| Watching the Winter Olympics on 10:30 - Feb 13 by Benters |
Yeah I don’t do the curling or figure skating tbh.
That snowboarding looks amazing,as for the size of the wotsit,I bet it’s huge buh in real life. |
The internet says 22 feet (6.7 meters) high, 600 feet (180 meters) long, and 64 feet (20 meters) wide. the riders will go anything up to about 20 feet higher than the lip of the pipe making a total of up to and around 40 feet drop.
No wonder if they don’t land top of the arc A&E often beckons. That’s well above the height of the average two storey house (ground to eaves av 20-25 feet).
Skiers will go anything up to 100mph, snowboard racers up to about 70mph. Bobsleigh up to 90mph, Skeleton slightly less. | | | |
| Watching the Winter Olympics on 12:27 - Feb 13 with 324 views | Bent_double |
Snowboard cross - womens event about to start on BBC. Its incredible. |  |
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| Watching the Winter Olympics on 12:32 - Feb 13 with 313 views | mellowblue |
love biathlon and ski jumping, follow it the whole winter, not just olympic glory hunting.
Loath curling. | | | |
| Watching the Winter Olympics on 12:37 - Feb 13 with 297 views | Deano69 |
| Watching the Winter Olympics on 11:00 - Feb 13 by leitrimblue |
Think I got close to that speed on a house for sale sign down the big hill as a kid. And without the aid of lycra |
We used to candle wax kitchen lino, thrashed sledges etc and only a few cuts and bruises
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| Watching the Winter Olympics on 13:20 - Feb 13 with 251 views | Benters |
| Watching the Winter Olympics on 12:27 - Feb 13 by Bent_double |
Snowboard cross - womens event about to start on BBC. Its incredible. |
Yeah I’m watching that it’s great. | |
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| Watching the Winter Olympics on 16:54 - Feb 13 with 147 views | Blue_Uprising |
Puerto Rico bob skeleton outfit is fire. 🔥
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| Watching the Winter Olympics on 04:49 - Feb 14 with 26 views | Benters |
We won a Gold Medal yaay !  | |
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