ChesterRd
2:43 Fri Feb 23
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This Ski Cross is a right old caper.
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ironsofcanada
12:50 Fri Feb 23
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Cheers, good to know.
I just looked and they got to the quarters in mens. Not bad.
But you have to have those grassroots rinks to really do anything.
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Keep dreaming
12:36 Fri Feb 23
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Semi professional league. Most talents play in Sweden or germany. Zuccarello is doing well in NHL, but there is far between Norwegian over there.
There are only a handful of indoor arenas in Norway, as Sweden has got at least one in every town.
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ironsofcanada
12:25 Fri Feb 23
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Keep dreaming 12:10 Fri Feb 23
They do have a small professional league and a handful of Norwegians have made the NHL over the years but not sure they have ever got a medal.
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Keep dreaming
12:10 Fri Feb 23
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Team sport, as in ice hockey?
Yeah, Norway has always been amateurs in hockey.
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ironsofcanada
7:30 Wed Feb 21
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Grumpster 7:18 Wed Feb 21
The lack of Russian athletes and the US tanking it help but you have to hand it to them, they are punching well above their population weight.
Bit like Iceland in football.
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Grumpster
7:18 Wed Feb 21
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Hardly a surprise that a country who has hard core snow for about 5 months of the year and is one of the wealthiest on the planet is doing well.
If you're in the centre of Oslo with your skis, you can be on the slope in about 30 mins as it's basically above you.
Guessing their athletes don't have to gofundme to get the wedge needed to succeed!
Enjoyed it though, been decent so far.
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ironsofcanada
7:07 Wed Feb 21
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Norway are doing historically well, that said they usually slow down near the end when all the team sports medals are given.
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violator
7:03 Wed Feb 21
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That Christie woman has been on the deck more times that Deli Alli
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Swiss.
7:01 Wed Feb 21
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Katarina Witt?
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Russ of the BML
6:50 Wed Feb 21
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Is it me or do they not have skiing anymore? I have not seen any!
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Keep dreaming
5:55 Wed Feb 21
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13 Gold, and 33 medals so far.
Where is the competition?
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arsene york-hunt
12:52 Wed Feb 21
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This woman who won the skeleton race did not look like a skeleton to me.
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Any Old Iron
12:42 Wed Feb 21
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Prize for the worst outfit goes to the USA womens skaters.
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Tomshardware
10:16 Wed Feb 21
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Was Elise Christie coached by Frank Spencer?
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Grumpster
10:12 Wed Feb 21
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They're all sorts Medway.
Reckon the selectors for the team were just dirty old men :o)
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medwayhammer1
9:46 Wed Feb 21
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Womens curlers through to the last four...im in love with Eve Muirhead.
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Swiss.
2:14 Tue Feb 20
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It's crap now without Torville and Dean.
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ironsofcanada
2:13 Tue Feb 20
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Not watching this year so no idea of the specifics but
Short track has always been bit of lottery. I remember the Australian getting the gold one of the first Olympics (I want to say the first) the sport was in. He won because he was so far behind that he missed a crash that took out everybody else.
That said even with that wild card, Apollo Ohno, one of the guys that fell in that race has 8 medals in the sport. So the best eventual get rewarded over time. If Christie is good it will come.
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Hasans Fish Bar RIP
2:08 Tue Feb 20
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Amplitude. Is that really a word I'm sport.
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1:55 Tue Feb 20
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Elise Chrashty.
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