2026 Winter Olympics

Going for the gold in the skeleton, 8 more to go and then our gold medal favourite, so probably 20mins time, the last run, must be feeling the pressure.
 
These Winter Olympics are brilliant to watch, pretty much every sport (apart from maybe The Curling ha) looks so dangerous and potentially life threatening if you make a mistake!

The speed Matt Weston was going to win that gold than was ridiculous! Imagine smashing into a wall of ice at 90mph on basically a big tea tray with no brakes, wearing just a leotard and crash helmet?


How the fuck did that Lindsay Vonn have the strength and guts to complete in downhill skiing 9 DAYS after rupturing her ACL FFS! That injury takes footballers 9+ months recovery and rehab, before they even consider starting light training again!

They all must have a screw loose and balls of steel!
 
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Ysabel 123 said:
How the fuck did that Lindsay Vonn have the strength and guts to complete in downhill skiing 9 DAYS after rupturing her ACL FFS! That injury takes footballers 9+ months recovery and rehab, before they even consider starting light training again!

They all must have a screw loose and balls of steel!
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In fairness, she did crash and break her leg requiring extensive surgery, so perhaps not the best decision she ever made.
 
Bless Lizzy Yarnold, had no trouble hurling herself headfirst down an ice track but struggled to keep it together talking about someone else doing it :-)
 
Eccles Blue said:
And on the eve of Torvill & Dean’s Gold with Bolero 14th February 1984!!
First man to win a Gold in Skeleton.
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It was nice of him to thank the Lottery and anyone who plays it to fund his dream!

Hopefully he inspires some of the younger generation that theirs more to life than social media influencers!

When i was a kid, it didn't matter what the sport was, if there was a Brit who was good at it, we would all be playing it!
The council tennis courts used to be rammed during Wimbledon fortnight!
Same with the local pitch and putt during the open!
Cricket whenever we got smashed in the Ashes! Kids
Or even everyone getting out on their bikes after Chris Boardman won in 92'
these days are only interest in Socer aid or the Balerz league because of the likes of Angry Ginge and his online mates ha!
 
Ysabel 123 said:
It was nice of him to thank the Lottery and anyone who plays it to fund his dream!

Hopefully he inspires some of the younger generation that theirs more to life than social media influencers!

When i was a kid, it didn't matter what the sport was, if there was a Brit who was good at it, we would all be playing it!
The council tennis courts used to be rammed during Wimbledon fortnight!
Same with the local pitch and putt during the open!
Cricket whenever we got smashed in the Ashes! Kids
Or even everyone getting out on their bikes after Chris Boardman won in 92'
these days are only interest in Socer aid or the Balerz league because of the likes of Angry Ginge and his online mates ha!
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Yes I thought that was lovely, especially as he must have been so buzzing after that win.


I agree about when we were kids. We also did all those things.
 
That was brilliant to watch, he knew he was winning it, didn't flinch once, didn't watch anyone else do a run.

What's been so good is the camaraderie from everyone no matter where they finish.

Then I watched that video on the previous page, so sad to watch those young people who have died for their country.
 
Really enjoying the Winter Olympics, but irritated by the BBC spending too much time on Claire Balding and repeating what we saw yesterday. IPlayer is better, but TNT is much better, it just shows the sport.it would be interesting to see stats on how much time the BBC shows people in the studio talking shite compared to live action.
 
Bournemouth Blue said:
Really enjoying the Winter Olympics, but irritated by the BBC spending too much time on Claire Balding and repeating what we saw yesterday. IPlayer is better, but TNT is much better, it just shows the sport.it would be interesting to see stats on how much time the BBC shows people in the studio talking shite compared to live action.
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They can only show so much live action if they were allowed to show more they would.
 
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