The 2018 Winter Olympic Games live from PyeongChang South Korea! Spoiler results

bloodyroarxx

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Its that wonderful time again where the best of the best compete on the world stage for gold medal glory.

This year the games are coming to us from live from PyeongChang South Korea which is approximately 180 km (110 mi) east southeast of Seoul

Without further ado lets start with this year olympic venues

Alpensia Sports Park
The Alpensia Resort in Daegwallyeong-myeon will be the focus of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium – Ceremonies
Alpensia Ski Jumping Centre – Ski jumping, Nordic combined
Alpensia Biathlon Centre – Biathlon
Alpensia Cross-Country Centre – Cross-country skiing, Nordic combined
Alpensia Sliding Centre – Luge, bobsleigh, and skeleton
Olympic Village
Yongpyong Alpine Centre – Alpine skiing (slalom, giant slalom)



Stand-alone venues
Bokwang Snow Park – Freestyle skiing and snowboard

Jeongseon Alpine Centre – Alpine skiing (downhill, super-G, and combined)

Gangneung coastal cluster
The coastal cluster is located in the city of Gangneung. The Gangneung Olympic Park will include the following four venues:

Gangneung Hockey Centre – Ice hockey (men´s tournament)
Gangneung Curling Centre – Curling
Gangneung Oval - Speed skating
Gangneung Ice Arena – Short-track speed skating and figure skating

Kwandong University:
Kwandong Hockey Centre - Ice Hockey (women´s tournament)



Now with the venues out of the way lets talk about how to watch.

If you live in Canada you are set, The CBC does daily live shows of all the events and also streams EVERY event live online using the IOC direct feeds sometimes with commentary or without.

If you live in the US traditionally you are stuck with NBC's terrible coverage.

If you live in the UK the BBC also does a pretty good set of coverage I am to believe.

Now if you want to watch and arent in Canada or the UK I can't stress enough that you find yourself a VPN to get access to the CBC feeds. If there is one thing CBC does right it's the Olympics.


Scheudle

Anarchy Rules!

As a Brit winter sports have never had the same level of cultural penetration of the Summer games, so I have even less idea of what's going on than in rhythmic gymnastics.

For a novice, what are some good events to keep an eye out for and follow?

knitdan

I fear ice hockey is going to suck because apparently the Olympics are in a tiff with the NHL so it's all going to be scrubs instead of the best in the world.

Anarchy Rules! It's hard to say what you might be into. Anything with someone hurtling down a snowy mountain at dangerous speeds is a good bet, lots of people enjoy curling, and figure skating is quite pretty if you're into that sort of thing.

As a Brit you are culturally obligated to watch ski jumping because of Eddie the Eagle.

Snicketysnick

Anarchy Rules! wrote: »

As a Brit winter sports have never had the same level of cultural penetration of the Summer games, so I have even less idea of what's going on than in rhythmic gymnastics.

For a novice, what are some good events to keep an eye out for and follow?

For us, Curling, Skeleton Bob and some of the Snowboarding events are our best chances, I really like the alpine skiing, especially the downhill slalom, the speeds those folk reach are crazy. If you are a fan of track cycling from the summer games, check out speed skating, there is a lot of similarity there.

Sleep

I hope i can catch some curling but that's normally covered while people are at work.

I'll probably end up watching figure skating and pretty much anything where folks strap themselves to boards and launch themselves down a hill at high speeds.

bloodyroarxx

Sleep wrote: »

I hope i can catch some curling but that's normally covered while people are at work.

I'll probably end up watching figure skating and pretty much anything where folks strap themselves to boards and launch themselves down a hill at high speeds.

Not really since the games are in Korea and they are 14-17 hours ahead (depends in the US where you are. The day starts early afternoon/supper time

here is the schedule that will sync to your PCs time and curling starts prelims tommorow

https://www.olympic.org/pyeongchang-2018/results/en/curling/daily-schedule.htm

Sleep

bloodyroarxx wrote: »

Sleep wrote: »

I hope i can catch some curling but that's normally covered while people are at work.

I'll probably end up watching figure skating and pretty much anything where folks strap themselves to boards and launch themselves down a hill at high speeds.

Not really since the games are in Korea and they are 14-17 hours ahead (depends in the US where you are. The day starts early afternoon/supper time

here is the schedule that will sync to your PCs time and curling starts prelims tommorow

https://www.olympic.org/pyeongchang-2018/results/en/curling/daily-schedule.htm

I more meant when they actually televise it, the only stuff they generally show at prime time here are figure skating and downhill events.

bloodyroarxx

Sleep wrote: »

bloodyroarxx wrote: »

Sleep wrote: »

I hope i can catch some curling but that's normally covered while people are at work.

I'll probably end up watching figure skating and pretty much anything where folks strap themselves to boards and launch themselves down a hill at high speeds.

Not really since the games are in Korea and they are 14-17 hours ahead (depends in the US where you are. The day starts early afternoon/supper time

here is the schedule that will sync to your PCs time and curling starts prelims tommorow

https://www.olympic.org/pyeongchang-2018/results/en/curling/daily-schedule.htm

I more meant when they actually televise it, the only stuff they generally show at prime time here are figure skating and downhill events.

GET A VPN and stream it live

please for the love of god

bloodyroarxx

me when someone says they are going to watch NBC's coverage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umDr0mPuyQc

Marathon

I think they are showing more sports in prime time thanks to them using the several channels in the NBC Universal arsenal.

They have the US/Switzerland mixed doubles curing scheduled for 7pm tomorrow on NBCSN.

Muzzmuzz

The Winter Olympics are Canada’s time to shine, especially now that Russia is kinda disqualified.

bloodyroarxx

Muzzmuzz wrote: »

The Winter Olympics are Canada’s time to shine, especially now that Russia is kinda disqualified.

CBC was saying something like 23 golds at one point

hawkbox

CANADA CANADA CANADA!

hippofant

Muzzmuzz wrote: »

The Winter Olympics are Canada’s time to shine, especially now that Russia is kinda disqualified.

168 notRussians are showing up. They had 177 in Vancouver. Ridiculous.

Ninjeff

I love the Olympics.
I need to figure out a good way to watch all the downhill skiing and speed skating because i'm a sucker for a good race,

knitdan

It's going to be a little harder for the Russians to cheat when they can't drill into the lab and switch the samples.

Tynnan

I'm a sucker for biathlon and curling. Biathlon especially, because of how difficult it is to ski a cross country race while managing your heart rate well enough to shoot accurately.

NPR did a nice article on this year's US biathlon team: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2018/02/05/581844258/with-few-fans-and-little-funding-u-s-biathlon-team-hopes-for-first-olympic-medal

akajaybay

I'm glad I clicked into here for the CBC/VPN reccomendation. It's always so tough to find decent coverage of the curling on NBC.
Half the time if I record a block of time on the schedule it ends up being something else when I go to watch it.

hippofant

CURLING! With new rules! Because I barely only got around to understanding all the old rules/strategies! Whoo!!


Canada down 3-1 though :sad:

hawkbox

New rules? What the hell!?!

hippofant

hawkbox wrote: »

New rules? What the hell!?!

For Mixed Doubles. I think the standard curling tournaments are still using traditional rules.


Also, lol CBC commentators chatting about the dynamics of dating and marriage on mixed curling teams.

hawkbox

Oh, well I couldn't really care less about mixed gender curling. But don't you dare mess with the foundations! How will I watch Men With Brooms if I know the rules they play by are a farce?! Also, considering how much sex happens at the olympics I have to imagine some of those curling teams are hot sweaty orgies. Or I intend to imagine it anyway.

Penumbra

NBC's website doesn't appear to be rage inducing hot garbage this go round.

USA Curling

I was very impressed with the USA team's performance just now. They made it look easy and still as entertaining as it ever was.

So It Goes

Please spoiler results since many folks will be watching stuff on tape delay

So It Goes

Is starting with two stones on the ice a new thing for curling? Or is it just depending on two person or four person team?

hippofant

So It Goes wrote: »

Is starting with two stones on the ice a new thing for curling? Or is it just depending on two person or four person team?

Apparently just for Mixed Doubles curling. 4-person curling remains unchanged.

CBC explainer: http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/curling/mixed-doubles-curling-explainer-1.4060587

bloodyroarxx

Heads up there is more curling prelims starting soon



and Ski Jump qualifiers on the small ramp

So It Goes

None of the CBC streams will work for me

Edit: nm I had a setting wrong!

So It Goes

Anyway some figure skating coming up! As well as curling and moguls

KetBra

No Peter Mansbridge has me sad

So It Goes

So Russian athletes are all up ins depsite the whole scandal?

Hm

KetBra

Yeah, there's still a ton of Russians. But as is their preference, they just don't wear a flag on their uniform.

Not sure if there's any difference in support staff

hippofant

So It Goes wrote: »

So Russian athletes are all up ins depsite the whole scandal?

Hm

KetBra wrote: »

Yeah, there's still a ton of Russians. But as is their preference, they just don't wear a flag on their uniform.

Not sure if there's any difference in support staff

If RUSSIA isn't here, how are the OLYMPIC ATHLETES FROM RUSSIA fielding a team in figure skating?

This doesn't even make sense! What a crock.

KetBra

Like, there's going to be a totally not Russia team in fucking Ice Hockey

So It Goes

Ugh stream plz stay hd

hippofant

KetBra wrote: »

Like, there's going to be a totally not Russia team in fucking Ice Hockey

At least in hockey, there's no way to compete other than as a team. That is, if hockey players appealed to the IOC to be allowed to compete because they were clean, well this was the only way to do it at all. It's still BS, but I get that single hockey players can't compete.

For figure skating, the individual athletes who won their appeal with the IOC could still compete in individual competitions. So now they're just letting a not-country assemble a team of individual athletes together for another event. Well shit, why don't we let all countries just pool together athletes then?

iTunesIsEvil

WHY DO I LOVE CURLING SO MUCH?!

I didn't know there was a doubles curling. I'm watching a US couple (I think, hubby & wife?) against the Swiss. It's great.

Tynnan

iTunesIsEvil wrote: »

WHY DO I LOVE CURLING SO MUCH?!

I didn't know there was a doubles curling. I'm watching a US couple (I think, hubby & wife?) against the Swiss. It's great.

Because curling is rad! It's bocce with cool physics and materials science. What's not to love?

The US mixed doubles team is brother-sister, which is also pretty cool.

hippofant

Okay, seeing how happy and supportive the South Korean skating team is for each other is hella awesome.


Edit: All right, after lauding the CBC coverage earlier in this thread, I'm a little :redface: over some of the glitches I'm seeing.

PantsB

Down goes the German skater and the Israeli team was like mmm hmmm

hippofant

I'm a little amazed that skaters still have so much trouble with quads. I mean, not that quads aren't hard, but I kinda expected them to go the way of double combinations and triples, previously thought impossible but rapidly broken by a new generation of skaters. Maybe quads really are the true limit of figure skating jumps.