Game Thread 2022 Winter Olympics

[SlyPokerDog]

No

That's exactly what an FBI informant would say.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

 

[Lanny]

Remember when Laura Ingraham told LeBron James and Black athletes generally who spoke about social justice to shut up and dribble? Another Fox mouthpiece, Maria Bartolomo, is outraged. But not at Ingraham. She falsely attributed the quote to Nancy Pelosi addressing US Olympic athletes. Even though it doesn't make sense since basketball isn't played in Winter Olympics.
What Pelosi actually said was to caution US athletes to remember that Constitutional protection doesn't exist in China.
But who needs facts?

What a nit wit. Don't tell me, she's a Republican. Am I right or am I right?

 

[crandc]

What a nit wit. Don't tell me, she's a Republican. Am I right or am I right?

A True Trumper.

 

[bigbailes]

Isn't that about Vax mandates by the government, not masks?

Details matter ... unless you're on Twitter and trying to look/sound like you know what you're talking about

 

[bigbailes]

The video of this has mysteriously vanished ... wonder what that was about?

Also going to assume Trico wanted the hell out of there. Why hang out in China when you can come back stateside and cover the Super Bowl. Still not sure why any studio people are sent to these Olympics any way, just as easy to do it from a studio back in the states.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

The video of this has mysteriously vanished ... wonder what that was about?

Also going to assume Trico wanted the hell out of there. Why hang out in China when you can come back stateside and cover the Super Bowl. Still not sure why any studio people are sent to these Olympics any way, just as easy to do it from a studio back in the states.

It says Trico criticized China. You can't do that or you get kicked out

 

[bigbailes]

It says Trico criticized China. You can't do that or you get kicked out

Easy way to get sent home!

 

[Shaboid]

Women's Downhill may be my favorite sport. Full stop.

 

[HailBlazers]

When do the Olympics start?

 

[ABM]

This ain't 1980, folks...

https://www.espn.com/olympics/story...ed-us-goes-1-2-slopestyle-more-action-beijing

Winter Olympics 2022: Team USA men's hockey eliminated

 

[ABM]

Had the games on all day. Caught some biathlon (had to explain that one to my kid), mixed doubles curling (the Italians are unstoppable!), team ski jumping, and women's speed skating. Nice background noise during the work day.

Curling is way cool.

 

[Stevenson]

Like most of you, I love the Olympics - those athletes are incredible.

But these dystopian Beijing Olympics are hard to watch imo. The fascist, totalitarian, Big Brother police state that imprisons minorities and spies on its own people is too reminiscent of Berlin 1936 for me to ignore.

 

[Chris Craig]

The IOC states they will not hold an award ceremony for medals if Kamila Valieva finished in top three.

Valieva the frontrunner for Gold, falls twice during her program and drops to fourth, as her two Russian teammates win Gold and Silver.

Coincidence?

I wonder if Russia made her take a dive so her teammates could get the top two medals in a televized ceremony? Wouldn't put it past them.

 

[ABM]

The IOC states they will not hold an award ceremony for medals if Kamila Valieva finished in top three.

Valieva the frontrunner for Gold, falls twice during her program and drops to fourth, as her two Russian teammates win Gold and Silver.

Coincidence?

I wonder if Russia made her take a dive so her teammates could get the top two medals in a televized ceremony? Wouldn't put it past them.

You tink, comrade?

 

[Chris Craig]

 

[ABM]

The shrinkage factor is a legitimate concern.

 

[Chris Craig]

The shrinkage factor is a legitimate concern.

 

[ABM]

https://www.foxnews.com/media/nbc-beijing-olympic-ratings-disaster

NBC's Beijing Olympic ratings called a 'disaster' for network: 'I'm stunned ... There is karma in the world'

........The media adjectives pouring in to describe the legacy of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics aren't pretty: "Disaster." "Joyless." And NBC's $7.75 billion investment in 2014 that gave it exclusive American media rights to the Olympic Games through 2032 is under question after a second consecutive ratings dud.......

........
"The media for the most part is still skittish when it comes to talking about Beijing's acts in Xinjiang and other places," author and prominent Chinese government critic Gordon Chang told Fox News Digital. "It's not alleged human rights violations. They are atrocities. There's genocide, as determined by both the Trump and Biden administrations. They're crimes against humanity, and the coverage, and this is not just the U.S media, it's around the world that you see there is an unwillingness to call it out for what it actually is."

Chang called himself an Olympics fan who skipped watching this year out of protest. He said NBC shouldn't have broadcast them at all.

Normally I am totally glued, excluding all else, watching Olympics, but I didn't this year at all, and the reason is I thought it was wrong to have the Games in China," he said. "It was wrong for NBC to broadcast them … I'm surprised the ratings were so low. As a matter of fact, I'm stunned. And the reason is I thought these Games would attract an abnormally high viewership because it's in China and because of all the things that go with that, including the atrocities."

"I think part of it is because people just have made a decision that China is too atrocious to deal with, so therefore they didn't watch," he added, saying he was gladdened by the low numbers. "There is karma in the world."