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Russia sticking their OARs in: Winter Olympics 2018
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Yeah, the NHL owners can go fuck themselves. How any supposed businessmen don't recognize the marketing opportunity of letting their star players onto a platform like this is just staggering. Never mind the knock-on interest a world class Olympics would in turn spin back to the NHL. Short-sighted pricks.
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Originally posted by Snake Plissken View PostHang on a second. You can't complain that Olympic hockey was setup to favour the European teams when it is the NHL who refuse to let their players go. It's not the Olympics fault that the US and Canadian teams are basically a bunch of journeymen - albeit ones quite rightly living a bit of a dream.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostThere are five or six designated tabard colours (red, yellow, blue, white, black and green) for each race that are assigned to the lanes in the starting gate.
The colours only indicate which gate the snowboarders leave from and have nothing to do with their nationality, but the competitors are identified by tabard colour on screen and in the official app.
The problem, as the photo indicates, is that tabards are far from easily distinguishable during the full course of the race.
I will also admit I hadn’t noticed the “key” to the tabard colours on screen. Perhaps I missed it or maybe it’s because I’ve been watching via online catch up.Last edited by Ray de Galles; 17-02-2018, 10:24.
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She appeared to cause that crash though, meaning the DQ was the correct decision. She left herself with too much to do on the final corner.Last edited by Ray de Galles; 17-02-2018, 11:54.
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Originally posted by Snake Plissken View PostNo different to the previous race where the Korean blocked off a Canadian and the latter got penalised.Last edited by Ray de Galles; 17-02-2018, 12:25.
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Originally posted by Ray de Galles View PostCouldn’t find the ice hockey on any platform in the UK.Last edited by Various Artist; 18-02-2018, 16:40. Reason: Diminutive spelling misapprehension, probably
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Originally posted by Snake Plissken View PostHang on a second. You can't complain that Olympic hockey was setup to favour the European teams when it is the NHL who refuse to let their players go. It's not the Olympics fault that the US and Canadian teams are basically a bunch of journeymen - albeit ones quite rightly living a bit of a dream.
But I never said it was their fault. I just sais it was a set up that favored Europeans. Even if its not the Olympics fault that its unbalanced, it's still unbalanced. It's not their fault that nobody else can match the US in snowboard halfpipe, and yet somehow that's evidence of the Olympics selling out to commercial interests whereas the bogus "world championships" of hockey are just his its supposed to be?
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I just spent an enjoyable half hour disappearing into the rabbit hole that is the history of ice hockey, mostly with the aim of trying to find out the origins of the different rink sizes. Broadly speaking (and having read a number of message board rants from angry Canadians who believe that they invented the sport and should be listened to on all matters) the story is this :
*various hockey ish games were played in most European countries that had significant winters and these were replicated in North America upon colonisation
*the first game that we would recognise today as being close to the modern game happened in Montreal and it was codified there (though in fact they basically took nearly the entire rulebook wholesale from field hockey)
*Europe was a mass of different games with different rinks all sort of related
*the LIHG (the forerunner to the IIHF) was founded to try and come up with rules that would allow international /cross border play. Of all the challenges they faced, rink size was the trickiest because of course that was the most physical and difficult to alter aspect. But they managed
*As Canada (and latterly the US) didn't have to mediate between loads of national conventions it was much easier to find a set of rules and stick with them (tweaking as necessary). This made the development of the game much easier there. But it also meant that the LIHG could genuinely claim to be an international association.
*later there were efforts made to unify hockey and much was agreed (in general the LIHG moved closer to the North American code than the other way around). However for the same reason as the first time round agreeing on rink sizes proved impossible
I have no idea why I just typed all that. I think mostly to argue that what HP calls "European rules" are genuinely international and have come about over time to form a genuinely international sport, and while North American rules evolved differently (and understandably so) to argue that the IOC adopting LIHG/IIHF rules was somehow a stitch up doesn't really wash
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I feel sorry for Christie.
There was some pub bore yesterday exclaiming loudly how shite she was. As he was sat near enough to me, I reminded him that she's a World and European champion in her events.
It's a shame that she'll probably be remembered by the "every 4 years crowd" as a failure.
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She needs at least a silver just to get into the Merlene Ottey level of "never quite there"ness, for the public.
Having said that, if she wins on Tuesday, the outpouring from Claire Balding will be such that she will overtake Arnold in the SPOTY stakes.
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