No.907
I've thought about watching it, but the people in my household aren't interested in watching it on TV and I'm not sure if it's online other than clips. I've not really heard anyone talk about watching it other than asking if I'm watching it, and then the answer ends up being that neither of us are actually watching... I kind feel like this year's Olympics is going to go less noticed than even the Tokyo Olympics which were delayed.
No.908
No, I don't watch the Olympics in general that much just when my mum is watching it and I am in the room. I think Covid has ruined them to a degree anyway, it feels like the results are more a mater of which teams have had their training and travel schedules hit by Covid restrictions the most rather than which team is actually the best.
No.917
Not really I've never had any interest in Olympics. I rarely watch sports these days but when I do it's either soccer, motorsports, or boxing/ufc
No.951
>>915Yeah, China, and the entirety of the snow is artificial because they decided to have it somewhere without snow for whatever reason. Previous games had some supplementary fake snow, but the bulk was real so this was the first experiment.
All the resources used to create or transport it is bad obviously, but the bigger news story is that there's been more crashes and falls than usual because people aren't used to it. Apparently this was all known ahead of time.
https://www.news.com.au/sport/winter-olympics/beijing-winter-olympics-snow-blamed-for-causing-horrific-competitor-injuries/news-story/e702a42a8e0c4b5eab3c0947d4cabd72 No.952
>>951Apparently 5 female skiiers were also disqualified for over what they were wearing. I'm no sports buff, but the ruling seems pretty spurious.
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/08/1079212805/ski-jumping-suit-violation-winter-olympics No.954
as if anyone couldn't tell these olympics weren't going to be a trainwreck
No.955
>>952It makes sense to me. They are practically wearing wing suits between their legs, it's likely that it would give them an advantage in long distance jumping.
No.956
>>955except none of the other competitors cared other than the judges
No.960
>>956Their competitors are stupid, they are ski jumpers not aerospace engineers.
Plus it's hard to tell how much they actually care or not really. After all, they don't want to look like hateful people or bad sports.
No.963
Olympic sports, for such a huge event, seem rather niche as spectator events. Like mentioned here, skiing. You would have to be a skiier yourself to even care, olympic sports have very limited appeal it seems.
It only seems to be a large event worldwide out of tradition it seems.
No.1003
>>963Isn't that basically the point of the Olympics? It basically just collects together all those miscellaneous sports that would go unnoticed by the vast majority of people if they each had individual tournaments into a single big event.
No.1008
All the fake outrage from norms because it's happening in China is amusing but no, nobody cares about the Winter Olympics beyond that.
It'd be cool if someone did a performance similar to the Sailor Moon one in 2014 too.
No.1010
>>1008I can smell you through the screen
No.1013
>>1010Why shower when I never leave the house.
No.1015
>>1004I wonder how much of it is because the 2020 Olympics happened a few months ago. People generally prefer the summer stuff and without a big space between them there isn't enough time for the novelty to refresh.
No.1124
>>1122me in the top right
No.1127
>>1123
The USA is beating all of the ones who don't
No.1128
>>1121Even though its just an industrial park in China... there's something about the greens in asia.
No.1132
>>1122Dystopian!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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No.1134
>>1132Everything is dystopian on the internet these days
No.1139
>>1134Because everything is dystopian, we live in a cyberpunk dystopia now. But
>>1122 isn't really that Dystopian I guess.
No.1143
>>1139If you're allowed to call it a dystopia it's not a dystopia.
No.1146
>>1143That's stupid. After a nuclear war without anyone to enforce laws, that's not a dystopia?
No.1271
The real dystopia is this hyperreal poststructural modernity where we get bombarded with constant propaganda and made-up news, and this happens everywhere.