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Yes, I don’t really get the double luge. It looks like a way of contriving another event. There were only 11 teams in the women’s event anyway.
The idea of doing a back flip on skates!
I saw the men’s event which in fairness did deliver an exciting finish but yes it does seem slightly excessive, particularly as the women’s event clearly wasn’t oversubscribed.
I hope that the BBC hype train doesn’t give the kiss of death to the figure skating pair. They have even been promoted to BBC1.
Short Track Speed Skating … what’s the point? Surely has to be a serious contender for the most unfair sport
Only the round robin but great game in curling going on 7-7 into last end Italy will have last stone though
As our American cousins would say, he smashed it out of the park.
I am a little surprised to see he is as big as 8/1 for Sports Personality of the Year. OK, it is a World Cup year; and the likes of Lando Norris have to be considered as well. But I am happy to throw a fiver on at that price.
I wonder if George Russell would be prominent in the betting if he were to become F1 champion. He’s only 7/4 for the Drivers’ Championship, though I’m not sure he’s got the right attitude to become champion.
I mean someone who complains way too much through team radio lacks the class of becoming even a title contender.It is all kicking off in the curling, of all places.
Gold in the snowboarding.
The first time Britain has ever won more than one gold medal at a winter games. And the first ever gold in a snow event.
And another gold, in the team skeleton. How did Matt Weston pull that one out of the fire?
Watching the luge; it would be far more interesting if they sent them down two at a time
Why are so many competitors in the skating falling over?
Is the ice rink poor? Are they trying to do too much with quadruple jumps etc? Or are they not as good as skaters of yesteryear?
It is not entirely pleasing to realise it is now fifty years since the great John Curry won the gold medal in Innsbruck, at the time only Britain’s fifth such medal at a winter games.
He really was something else:
I have been away so missed the gold rush. Brilliant stuff. Back to the curling now, could do with the win here.
The BBC asks what has gone wrong for British short track speed skating. It’s pretty obvious, as we were discussing it’s a bit of a lottery. You can be the fastest but someone clips you and it’s game over. Who wants to dedicate their life to that? The sliding events for example are essentially you vs the track. I know which I’d be more inspired to try.
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