I’m sitting on my couch eating a corn dog because I feel like that is super American and I’m trying to do my part to actually win some medals today since yesterday was not great.
Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Aerials
I’m not going to lie, I did not remember this was an actual sport but I’m enjoying it so far. These are some rough crashes though. But ok Hanna Huskova bringing home Belarus’s first medal of these games. And it’s a gold!
Freestyle Skiing: Women’s Slopestyle
How are they going off all these ramps backwards and also landing jumps backwards? They are half my age and I can’t even recite the alphabet backwards.
Darian Stevens maybe shouldn’t have french fried on the rail but question, do you have to grind a rail (is that the right terminology? I haven’t played Tony Hawk for a decade)? Can you still get a good score while avoiding the rails?
Women’s Downhill
It might be the glass of wine but that Lindsey Vonn clip….keep it together Royer. But she didn’t medal. And it’s really sad to wake up to articles talking about the hate tweets she is getting. I’m not going to dive into politics but will just try to make sure I keep this blog far away from the unfortunate online trolling trend that has become the norm.
Men’s Free Skate
Nathan Chen, forget all the other performances and do it for your country.
2 jumps in and so far, so good. Third wasn’t great but four and five were spectacular. He’s going for 6. And he did it. It took a little while but he got into his groove at the games and this was fantastic. Absolutely destroyed the competition with 215 points. He’s young, he should be back for another games. And hopefully he comes back with a vengeance. Imagine that free skate combined with a good short program.
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