I’ll be honest, work has gotten a bit in the way for constant Olympic watching. I’ll attempt to stay awake for all the coverage tonight and get caught up to speed. I know the chances of that happening are similar to that of a U.S. speedskater bringing home a gold medal this games (more to come on that in a special blog) but I’ll do my best and try not to fail like the 2018 Olympics putting on downhill skiing as scheduled (did you get those jokes? you are becoming a pro).
Let’s go!
Women’s Downhill Skiing
-How do they straight french fry the whole way and never have to pizza?
-I think we are all so excited to Mikaela Shiffrin. So much hype and so far, most of the mega-hyped athletes at this games have done nothing but perform. Solid first run for her, probably not hyped about it but oh shit, she could have just done what the Swiss skier did and attempt to take out half the photographers.
-Anyone else just hear those awkward comments from the commentator about how getting married makes it hard to be a successful skier? Not sure where that came from. Is there proof to those claims or he is just bitter that she’s married and he’s sitting alone on Valentine’s day in a commentator booth? UPDATE: He just apologized, is he reading this right now? I’m sure not but he probably got torn about on twitter. “Spouses are great”.
-Mikaela Shiffrin taking home the gold…it begins!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BfNYtGKF83c/?taken-by=teamusa
Women’s 1,000 Speedskating
-I did not know that Heather Bergsma married a dutch speedskater. Not the happiest about that since they are kinda the enemy in this sport but love is love. How are their future children going to pick what country to skate for?
-No surprise here, a Dutch skater won. Shocker.
Men’s Skeleton (things I did once)
-I think there should be extra points for helmet design, just saying. Ironman is a great one for the overwhelming favorite from the home country.
-Matt Antoine won bronze in Sochi. John Daly regularly puts him in his social media. Not an amazing first run for him but I’m confident he can come back strong.
-Ruh-roh, John Daly also didn’t have a great first run. Luckily there are 3 more runs to start making up on that time difference. Where is Steve Langton. I’m 99% sure that if John can just do one more trust fall on Steve between his runs he’ll come away with a medal. Or maybe whoever slid into his DM’sslid into his DM’s should slide him a message of encouragement right now about sliding down the track a bit faster.
-Just need to do a quick shout-out to this Canadien skeleton helmet as an ode to where my Olympic blogging began:
-Matt did a little bit better in his second run while John stayed steady. Let’s get some top ten finishes tomorrow night boys.
Another Happy Valentine’s Day message courtesy of Norway’s curling team:
[I fell asleep, it’s no longer live, just an FYI]
Pair’s Free Skate
-Ok China throwing some Star Wars in the mix but Johnny has declared it a disaster. I think some of that music was from Phantom Menace right before Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan faced Darth Maul and we know how that ended so maybe that was just bad music selection.
I think this screenshot below summarizes everything pretty well:
-Eric Radford and Meagan Duhamel became the first pairs to do a clean quadruple throw jump in the Olympic games and took home bronze. They are hugging in excitement to the left. Heard someone mention their chemisty is sometimes off…probably because he’s not skating with his hot fiance ice dancer Luis Fenero.
-Wenjing Sui and Cong Han of China put in a solid skate with total points of 235.47. They were favorites to win gold and clearly wanted it because that face means….
-Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot won gold with 235.90. They were only fourth after the short program but did a record scoring free skate and sneaked into first with a flawless performance. This is her fifth Olympic performance and after bronze in Vancouver and Sochi she wanted that gold and she got it. She and Bruno are completely overcome with emotion in the center crying for joy.
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