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2026 Winter Olympics

Erik Tracy said:
I dvr'd the opening cermony and could zip thru parts. I thought is was ok - better than the mess in France was. The speech by the Italian olympic host was good, but the next one by the president of the Olympic committee went on and on....and on.......and on.

The Olympic flame lighting was a bust - the schedule on my dvr was listed as 3hrs for the opening ceremony and it ended when the torch left the stadium (??) and some Italian rapper started. WTF?

I had to find the actual lighting of the Olympic flame on youtube - it was just kinda meh.

I found out from my wife that we do have a subscription to Peacock (she somehow gets subscriptions 'free'), so I can watch A LOT more choices than my Wrecktum subscription.

Watching Men's freestyle skiing now.
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I ran into the same problem on the opening ceremony. Fortunately, I recorded the morning broadcast and was able to then record the end of the replay in the evening. But I hadn't missed much.

For me, they had too much interpretive dance and bobble heads. The 100 years of the Olympics dance skit, was a bit interesting but jumped past a lot.

The athletes walking in seemed to take a lot longer than usual. In prior years didn't they have them in a continuous line with just spaces between each country? The thing this time of having a person slowly walk all the way in by themselves with the country name and then the athletes enter and walk all the way in before the next country name entered was really slow.
I also thought that in prior years the opening ceremony walk in was a bit more reserved with a hint of formality and the closing ceremony was more of a party. I know I'm an old fuddy-dud but it seemed odd having some do dance moves and strike poses on their way in, but I guess that is the TikTok world we live in.
 
USA vs Sweden in the Mixed Doubles Curling Gold Medal match was really good!

Down to the last stone in the last end.

Congrats to Sweden for Gold.

USA proud for getting the Silver.
 
Dswankey said:
@Erik Tracy

You mentioned you DVR'd, was that via the Peacock app? if so how?
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I only DVR'd the Opening Ceremony via my Spectrum box and recording NBC.

My wife then told me "we" have the Peacock app, and that's what I've been using ever since via my Roku box. The opening ceremony is still available on the Peacock app under the Olympic menu selection then going to the Replay section for events.
 
I'm watching the Women's Mogul Qualifying and have notices that all the competitors have their respective country's emblem on their helmet and the name on the back of their gear so you can quickly identify competitors.

While watching Women's half-pipe they didn't and if you looked away too soon, you'd have to wait until their run was over and the scores would come up to figure it out.

I've noticed that in other events too; sometimes easy to see where they are from, sometimes not.

I know its a nit pick, but you'd think the IOC would just make it required with so many nations competing.
 
Kudo's to Ryan Cochran Siegle for winning the Silver in Super G, I forget the dudes name from Wisc but he won the 1000M speed skating.
 
What happened to the Austrian Men in Downhill & Super G?

I guess it's time for Switzerland to shine these days
 
Men's Hockey gets the gold in overtime. We were up at 630 this morning to watch the game. It was worth it. Watched the first period and made some egg sandwiches for breakfast during the 2nd period. Then watched the USA win in overtime. Was a great morning.

So mens and women's hockey beat Canada in the finals for the gold. Pretty sweet.

What I like the most about the men's final is how many players actually play for a team in the NHL that is in a different country then who they play for in the Olympics.

No way USA could have won if it wasn't for the monster of a goalie with Connor Hellebuyck. Props to that man for one hell of a game.
 
Congratulations to USA Men's Hockey Team!
And...
Congratulations to all the USA Olympic athletes!
And to all the Olympic athletes!
And Nazgul the dog!
 
I watched all of the biathalon events and was constantly shaking my head on how much training and skill goes into this event.

Then this popped up this morning in my youtube feed - and it makes me even more impressed.
 
Erik Tracy said:
I watched all of the biathalon events and was constantly shaking my head on how much training and skill goes into this event.

Then this popped up this morning in my youtube feed - and it makes me even more impressed.
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I Cross Country Skied for many years. Just doing that alone is tough. Stopping to shoot is even more difficult.
 
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