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Even in Houston, the kids playing hockey have to share ice time with figure skaters and people who rent it out for birthday parties.

The winter sports are just much less accessible for people in general. Clearly luge, skeleton, and bobsled are the least accessible, but I believe there are only 4 or 5 long tracks for speed skating in the whole country.

Ice hockey is clearly more accessible than those but nowhere near the major team sports or golf, tennis, track, or swimming.

I’d say the most accessible winter sports is actually freestyle skiing and snowboarding, specifically slopestyle.

One of the Olympians came from A Perfect North, which is nowhere near as exclusive as Jackson Hole or Aspen and is mostly used by kids in Ohio and Indiana on the weekends.

Another primo role has opened up for Timothee Chalamet

I think they showed every single US ceremony in primetime, too.

I didn’t watch prime time every night, but I saw the aerials team, Shifrin, Breezy Johnson, Jordan Stolz, etc on the podium

That was round 1, where she did poorly.
But she got 5th overall, in line or better than expectations bc she’s never gotten an individual medal.

Agreed on Malinin. Our biggest or second biggest name heading in, with an impeccable resume. Then a terrible performance in round 2 that took him off the podium altogether.

I got a kick out of his dramatic voiceovers during his performance where he says the most trite things as if they are profound :lol:

Amber Glenn, who has never won a single individual medal at a major event, held a very weird place in the mind of certain Twitter accounts, though she ultimately finished in 5th place.

Outside of this board, I saw nothing about it being a disappointing performance.

This was one of the strongest US Winter Olympic teams heading into the games and outside of Malinin (who did choke), overall the team met or exceeded expectations.

There were some other disappointments like with short track speed skating for the women, but also surprises like women’s moguls, Ben Ogden in cross country skiing, and team aerials

FWIW I don’t have Peacock, but I do have YouTube TV.

I think every single event was shown live on NBC or USA, though the long events like Biathlon and Cross Country Skiing were trimmed down to 30 or 60 minutes.

But of course these were in non-primetime slots. It did require us to search on YouTube TV. I think DirecTV was pretty similar though. I set up a bunch of recordings for my parents in 2024.

At this point, is anyone fully injured and unable to play besides CCV?

Duke is number 1 now. IMO Michigan is 3 because Arizona had a really nice win tonight and will be ranked 2.

I think each team is pretty much a lock for a 1 seed

Bilas lives to have fans of other teams credit him for being unbiased :lol: He is the opposite of Kenny Smith; who takes full pride in being a homer.

Calling him a Duke homer is as lazy and uninformed as calling Clarence Thomas a black nationalist

Do you have the same view towards actors and professional wrestlers?

Penn Jillette is trying to entertain at his magic show. He’s not trying to convince you that he is clairvoyant or actually able to do the impossible.

This is truly overcoming adversity.

She deserves so much credit, and I’m very happy for her.