Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics
stonespring
Shipmate
in Heaven
The Opening Ceremony is today. Is anyone else planning to watch?
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You've been thinking about it for far too schlong!
I'm not worried by the opening ceremony, but I'm looking forward to seeing people finding new ways of chucking themselves off mountainsides (even if they are unfairly aided by their dicks*) - which probably means I'll end up watching the curling!
*Bet they don't try that for the two-man luge!
Abs yes, I fear you are right, @Firenze . I have nothing against curling, but I do like seeing the loony speedy stuff.
Though, as the words "I suspect" should tell you, that's a total guess.
Have to admit I went to bed while they were still at the As.
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Not Dagenham, then?
I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the firm's Cortina.
But that horror show was more than made up for by having the Italian team come in to Rossini’s Largo al factotum, having the torch brought in to Andrea Bocelli singing Puccini’s Nessun dorma (Vincerò! Vincerò! Vincerò!/“I will win! I will win! I will win!”), and having the (interminable) Olympic Anthem sung by Cecilia Bartoli.
Betjeman
Shuffleboard on ice.
We Canadians are pretty good at it though. There is hardly a private golf club in Canada that doesn't have a curling rink attached. How else are you going to justify year round membership dues for an activity that is only accessible in the few weeks of the year it isn't raining, snowing or freezing your tush off. You have to give people something to do when the inevitable weather weathers.
AFF
I like it. But it sounds like his moonlighting is rather more profitable than his Cortina-driving - perhaps that's a front.
(Is it OK to like poems that rhyme? Perhaps it is, if they're by someone famous).
One of my good friends thinks they should beer—for spectators and curlers alike—as part of the game.
Well, the country has quite a bit of oil money to spread around. I'm sure some would be available to sponsor the two contenders with equipment, lodging, and training perhaps in the Alps.
By contrast in each capital city there is an ice rink, doing mainly a relatively affordable hour or two, to take the kids occasionally, which get enough customers to stay in business. There are even a few young adults who take it up competitively. And many more of all ages who enjoy seeing on TV those dancing on ice.
As for skiing, Australia has a couple of "mountain" ranges, but fairly expensive for most people, as the "mountains" are enough far away from large cities, which therefore requires to stay overnight, which is expensive to operate because only open for a few months per year. But there enough young adults who operate as long-term hotel staff or as families of ski instructors, to be frequent users to become skilled enough to compete seriously in the European or American resorts.
But most Australians, like me, can see that downhill racing is both spectacular, exciting and very skilled. So, both me and the Marama stayed up at night to watch the women's final. As I once had a seriously damaged Achilles tendon years ago, which took months to heal, I thought it a near certainly that one of the competitors would best to be lacking control as she had ruptured her tendon or knee only a week before the final. As she did, requiring a helicopter to get her to hospital. I also left it a mystery why she wanted to come out of her retirement at the age of over 40.
If you've not seen it before, the story of Lindsay Jacobellis is brilliant. Best in the world as a youngster, spectacularly threw away a gold medal chance in 2006 but finally got gold in 2022.
Wikipedia says Lindsey Vonn retired because of pain in one knee, and came back after a knee replacement took care of the pain.
I hear one thing, and a second or two later the captions say something quite different - sometimes it is possible to figure out what went wrong, but on others I have no idea how it has come up with a word that I certainly did not hear.