P.F. Changs 2018 Olympics Thread

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Been fun to watch so far! Post your favorite stories

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Canadian slopestyle snowboarder Mark McMorris is in the finals on tonight. Just last year he was in a devastating injury, and has made an absolutely insane recovery to make it to the games.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BSZQX_xDGXf/?utm_source=ig_embed

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Biathlete Marketa Davidova

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Mcmorris won bronze! Great to see.

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Never forget the greatest Olympic moment ever


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UpRNOkb4hw

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:lol: damn that movie made me laugh...

These guys put the bone in Zamboni

If you cut my head off..

underrated gem :thumbsup:

[DemonGeminiX]

Congrats on the figure skating team gold, Canada.

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Americans won Gold in Slopestyle for both men's and women's.... no other country has won a gold in that even since it was introduced!

They shouldn't have ran the women's finals today though... it was extremely windy and almost everyone was crashing huge. Scary to watch.

[lost in melb.]

Gonna pip Germany, guys? ;)

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Should be read in its original form :lol:

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[DemonGeminiX]

Should be read in its original form :lol:

http://imgur.com/gallery/w5qUZ


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t-kCKSadyQ

[Teh One Who Knocks]

US Women beat the Olympic Atletes from Russia 5-0 in hockey today...and during the game:
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[PorkChopSandwiches]

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[Muddy]

Did someone change the thread title? :lol:

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[RBP]

Great ending. Well done, Shaun. Nailed it.

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[Teh One Who Knocks]

Great ending. Well done, Shaun. Nailed it.

https://i.imgur.com/BxrxP91.jpg?1

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[Muddy]

I saw that too Lance..

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Yeah, definitely not cool

[RBP]

Agreed, I was commenting on that as it aired.

[Muddy]

I'm going to chalk it up to just being a stoner and overwhelmed with the moment..

[RBP]

I'm going to chalk it up to just being a stoner and overwhelmed with the moment..

Yeah me too, he was crying and overwhelmed.

Time Magazine was sure to couch his victory as being potentially overshadowed by sexual misconduct accusations by the drummer in his band. Fuck you, Time.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

The US men's hockey team lost to Slovenia 3-2 in OT after having a 2-0 lead :facepalm:

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The US men's hockey team lost to Slovenia 3-2 in OT after having a 2-0 lead :facepalm:

Out of respect I won't say a word.


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Full contact downhill ice skating :lol:

Make it an Olympic sport!


https://i.imgur.com/hFl2lwb.mp4

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Man I was so happy for Shaun White, I'm a huge fan. I read that article in a magazine where he talked about how in the past he was just a lazy snowboarder, hitting the gym and watching your diet wasn't cool, but after fucking up at the last Olympics he got in with a world class trainer and got in the best shape of his life so he could continue to compete in his 30's. Absolutely dominated. So great to see him back winning the Gold. And fuck these haters and bullshitters trying again and again to bring him down.

[DemonGeminiX]

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Fuckin' dicks. :lol:

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Man I was so happy for Shaun White, I'm a huge fan. I read that article in a magazine where he talked about how in the past he was just a lazy snowboarder, hitting the gym and watching your diet wasn't cool, but after fucking up at the last Olympics he got in with a world class trainer and got in the best shape of his life so he could continue to compete in his 30's. Absolutely dominated. So great to see him back winning the Gold. And fuck these haters and bullshitters trying again and again to bring him down.

Didn't he throw his helmet to the fans after the best run...then remembered he had two more runs to do and had to ask for it back? Hilarious :lol:

[Muddy]

That was funny.. "Uh I need that back".. :lol:

[DemonGeminiX]

I've stopped watching. :meh:

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Didn't a British speed skating chick fall down and take someone out of the competition...again...and get barred for it?

And wasn't there another female who won bronze and got death threats from the South Korean public because their skater didn't win?

And didn't the idiot announcers write off a Czeck girl from a skiing competition saying ____ has got this thing won, we don't need to see the rest of the competitors?

I'm trying to catch up by reading articles.

[Muddy]

We are sucking ding dongs on the pursuit speed skate track..

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The slope-style skiing final was unbelievably fun to watch yesterday, those guys are unreal. I'm a snowboarder so I was biased, but during the last Olympics I was convinced snowboard slopestyle was more fun to watch, but I think skiing has surpassed it. It was incredible.

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So cool to see how excited the German team was to tie the men's two man bobsled team for the Gold, great sportsmanship all around! I love this shit :D

Absolutely wild fact... the last time we won gold in this very same event, it was also a tie :lol:

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I'm a sucker for these gestures. So great.

https://i.giphy.com/media/9r8JPrf4HOMwTWZQKG/giphy.mp4

[Muddy]

Im not sure whats the point though..? He won the thing.. Pulling those other guys up there didnt change the scores or remove the word "winner" from beside his name..

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I'm a sucker for these gestures. So great.

https://i.giphy.com/media/9r8JPrf4HOMwTWZQKG/giphy.mp4

similar thing happened in the Olympic Village later that night..

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Is that North Korea?!

[DemonGeminiX]

:cheers: :usa:

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Americans won the gold in Women's Hockey, congrats! Shouldn't come down to a shootout, but the US was the better team that game anyways.

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Someone was saying that's actually a legit strategy?




Don’t blame the skater, blame the rules of short track. If a skater falls by themselves at the start then tough luck. But if a skater falls and causes another skater to fall or stumble at the start then the race is stopped and they do it again. Skaters are incentivized to intentionally cause as many problems as possible at the start if they fall. I skated at the Olympic Trials for short track, every skater learns to do this from a young age.

Edit: Regarding the was it intentional debate: Yes it is absolutely intentional to reach his hand out and grab the Japanese skater. But the Japanese skater is “ok” with it because it’s just part of the sport and it is expected, so no it wasn’t intentionally devious or unsportsmanlike.

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https://i.imgur.com/SCFN5Dd.mp4

Someone was saying that's actually a legit strategy?




Don’t blame the skater, blame the rules of short track. If a skater falls by themselves at the start then tough luck. But if a skater falls and causes another skater to fall or stumble at the start then the race is stopped and they do it again. Skaters are incentivized to intentionally cause as many problems as possible at the start if they fall. I skated at the Olympic Trials for short track, every skater learns to do this from a young age.

Edit: Regarding the was it intentional debate: Yes it is absolutely intentional to reach his hand out and grab the Japanese skater. But the Japanese skater is “ok” with it because it’s just part of the sport and it is expected, so no it wasn’t intentionally devious or unsportsmanlike.

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Someone was saying that's actually a legit strategy?

I get the sweep of the arm...but actually grabbing his foot :nono: surely

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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A little bit of poor sportsmanship there.

[Muddy]

Whats her problem?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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Whats her problem?

We get sent to the Gulag and beaten daily when we lose hockey games....silver = work camps :(

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Someone was saying that's actually a legit strategy?


I get the sweep of the arm...but actually grabbing his foot :nono: surely

I read the same skater was disqualified because he did it twice. And he may have committed the same foul against the same skater (Japan) :lol:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

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First I've seen of the medal winning goal...that was just filthy :usa:

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Wow. No Gold for Canadians in men's or women's curling, women's hockey, and men's hockey is not looking great. I wonder when the last time we didn't win at least 1/4 of those golds :lol: It's a national tragedy.

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Wow. No Gold for Canadians in men's or women's curling, women's hockey, and men's hockey is not looking great. I wonder when the last time we didn't win at least 1/4 of those golds :lol: It's a national tragedy.

I thought the US getting ousted by the Czechs was bad enough but you guys lost to Germany in the quarters :facepalm:

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Wow. No Gold for Canadians in men's or women's curling, women's hockey, and men's hockey is not looking great. I wonder when the last time we didn't win at least 1/4 of those golds :lol: It's a national tragedy.

The Tim Hortons flags are at half mast.

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I thought the US getting ousted by the Czechs was bad enough but you guys lost to Germany in the quarters :facepalm:

Agreed, it was embarrassing.

Still, as I said before the Games, it was a hodgepodge. This tourny dictates "Who has the best pro players who can't make the NHL." It's not either a) the very best players in the world or b) the best ameratures in the world. It's just somewhere gross in-between :lol: You can call that an excuse, but it helps me sleep at night.

[DemonGeminiX]

I wonder if the NHL players are pissed off about it?

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I wonder if the NHL players are pissed off about it?

I have to think so eh.

What if you were a player who was in his early 30's, not looking at a deep playoff run for a Cup, and know that by the next Olympics even if the NHL goes you'll be too old? I'd think that'd be pretty disappointing.

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For real. How about the younger guys? You watched the heroes that inspired you to play go and play in the Olympics. You probably expected to have that opportunity as well.

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Fuck Russia. Test them for doping.

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Fuck Russia. Test them for doping.

Should've sent the whole team home went they caught the fucking curling team doping. If that's not proof they're systemically doping the whole lot of them, I'm not sure what is.

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Should've sent the whole team home went they caught the fucking curling team doping. If that's not proof they're systemically doping the whole lot of them, I'm not sure what is.

Ya you gotta dope for the curling event, then something is definitely wrong.....

fun fact: My father was part of a curling team that scored an eight ender against a much younger team. My Dad was 72 and was the youngest guy on his team :lol:

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Ya you gotta dope for the curling event, then something is definitely wrong.....

fun fact: My father was part of a curling team that scored an eight ender against a much younger team. My Dad was 72 and was the youngest guy on his team :lol:

:lol: That's sweet.

We've been discussing at work: If you started training now, what sport do you think you could make it into the Olympics in the soonest? I have to think Curling, at least for the Winter Games. In fairness though, it's way harder than it looks landing the stone where you want it...

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The Simpsons Did It strikes again :lol:

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[DemonGeminiX]

We're going to end up with the government whisking Matt Groening away to some secret CIA location to study his future predictions one of these days.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

IOC: Russia is banned from competing in the 2018 Winter Olympiad

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[Teh One Who Knocks]

Good thing the whole non-Russian Russian men's hockey team got exempted and allowed to play :rolleyes:

[Muddy]

Why does Drudge hate the Olympics so much? Whats that fuckers problem?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Why does Drudge hate the Olympics so much? Whats that fuckers problem?

Possibly because the Olympics have become less about sports and more about political commentary.

[Muddy]

Possibly because the Olympics have become less about sports and more about political commentary.

I didn't see any political commentary.. All I saw were some people competing and giving it their all. Aside from the news articles that want to focus on whos in the stands and what they are doing..

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Question and it's an old school one about the Olympics in general. Hockey players, the Dream Team basketball players...any sport that uses players from a professional team.

Aren't the Olympics supposed to be about athletes that haven't reached or been paid on the pro level? It seems so unfair to me and this is coming from a guy who has watched handfuls of NHL players play on his Canadian teams.

Something about allowing pro's from any sport makes it feel tainted in my opinion.

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Question and it's an old school one about the Olympics in general. Hockey players, the Dream Team basketball players...any sport that uses players from a professional team.

Aren't the Olympics supposed to be about athletes that haven't reached or been paid on the pro level? It seems so unfair to me and this is coming from a guy who has watched handfuls of NHL players play on his Canadian teams.

Something about allowing pro's from any sport makes it feel tainted in my opinion.

It used to be that the West honored the 'amateur only' rule for the Olympics. But the argument was made that the Russians and the former Warsaw Pact type countries weren't following those same rules. Not exactly who petitioned the IOC to open it up to pros worldwide, but the 1992 Dream Team in basketball was the first time I remember the pros from the United States being involved.

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It used to be that the West honored the 'amateur only' rule for the Olympics. But the argument was made that the Russians and the former Warsaw Pact type countries weren't following those same rules. Not exactly who petitioned the IOC to open it up to pros worldwide, but the 1992 Dream Team in basketball was the first time I remember the pros from the United States being involved.

Yeah the Russian hockey program was so different than our system. They had (and still do) people that played on the national team as sort of a life time job slot, and they drew from that pool throughout the 70's on. We started populating our teams with pros in answer to their wonky, if not dishonest sporting system.

Not to go over old ground...but how the hell does Russia get to be in the Olympics after being banned from the games? I would drug test every one of those hockey players right down to cold medicines if I was the IOC.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Yeah the Russian hockey program was so different than our system. They had (and still do) people that played on the national team as sort of a life time job slot, and they drew from that pool throughout the 70's on. We started populating our teams with pros in answer to their wonky, if not dishonest sporting system.

Not to go over old ground...but how the hell does Russia get to be in the Olympics after being banned from the games? I would drug test every one of those hockey players right down to cold medicines if I was the IOC.

I think the basic gist of it is, that the Russians appealed the ban but the IOC upheld the ban against Russia participating at the Olympics. But, they relented and let a certain group of athletes, ones that hadn't tested positive at the time I guess, to compete at the Olympics under the stipulation that they couldn't compete as Russians for Russia, that where the OAR (Olympic Athletes from Russia) came from. So while there were Russians there, technically they were not competing AS Russians.

Still BS if you ask me, especially since one of their Curlers tested positive for doping.

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I think the basic gist of it is, that the Russians appealed the ban but the IOC upheld the ban against Russia participating at the Olympics. But, they relented and let a certain group of athletes, ones that hadn't tested positive at the time I guess, to compete at the Olympics under the stipulation that they couldn't compete as Russians for Russia, that where the OAR (Olympic Athletes from Russia) came from. So while there were Russians there, technically they were not competing AS Russians.

Still BS if you ask me, especially since one of their Curlers tested positive for doping.

Yeah it is BS. For years athletes have hidden behind flags to compete and I think they should have to live in the country for a least one year as a citizen :lol: