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(I was a young adult but not treated like the other adults on the hill, that’s why. The staff were cheering, trying to be encouraging, but yeah, it was patronizing…just don’t do that. My friend’s mom told me they were taught to do that for the people with whatever colour pass it was. She thought that was just great. I did not.)

Anyway…I’m glad there are Paralympics and that they’re (mostly) respected as athletes.
 
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Kimmio Laughterlove said:
I’m looking forward to the sit-skiing for the Paralympics. I want to try that! It’s on my bucket list. It’s expensive though, I think. To rent the sit skis and get lessons.

Abled people can try it - to be inclusive and so that friends can join. Sounds like way more fun for me. Might still be hard on my back at my age, but I’d try it.

@chansen have you tried it?
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Track 3 is the organization that arranges sit-ski days on the hill for those who can not ski themselves.

I looked into it for Carter, but he was too young for Track 3. I should have bought the smallest sit ski and taken him my bloody self. One of my bigger regrets. We'd have terrorized the hill.

The guide needs to be a very strong skier, I assume. I can definitely handle that part, but I have no guide training for sit skis.

I considered volunteering with them, but I don't know if I can handle that. I have a role to play in coaching young racers and mentoring young coaches. Maybe some day I'll approach Track 3 again.
 
My dad was semi famous-professional at sports ... I was booed for not being that way.

It was this bad hole in my heart ... a sick valve that upset some critical processes and directed me not to do that. In some instances I blacked out ... it wouldn't have been good when some of my activities were critical to my being quite alert ... compared to those above ...

It come back at me in Vasal Vegas mannerisms ... that a lot of Pros. do not acknowledge ... thus holies-ticks ... para site that appear as something other ... gross unseen's? Keep it down ... they say! Then it burst ... gone in a flash!

It is often hard to take and understand how reality drifts ... at time it creates a lot of mighty con d' real matter ... of heels ! Much un spoken of ... profound slime? Con sequence ...
 
Watched the ice dance rhythm dance, at least some of it, on Gem last night. This round is a bit less creative and kind of same-y since it is mostly about required elements. The free dance is going to be more interesting artistically. But it at least showed off the skill and gave me a sense of who's who in that world because I have not really paid much attention to ice dance since local favourites Virtue & Moir retired. Top 20 in rhythm dance qualify for the final and that includes all three Canadian couples and ditto for the USA. Canada's top couple, Piper Gilles & Paul Poirier, was third. French couple Laurence Fournier Beaudry (who is actually born in Montreal and has competed as a Canadian in the past) and Guillaume Cizeron topped the night.
 
Oh, my, women’s hockey team didn’t do well. I was trying to find out how the games score at the end- understand that they still have to play Finnland- who is playing who after that? Is there semi finals and finals ? Will they get into those?They said the US had their last game- who will they play after that?
Watched a moment of ski moguls freestyle- clearly, these women will be future patients for total knee replacements ( and that probably at a young age. Hopefully they make enough money with their sports before that they can afford to have them….
 
I just realized that both the men's and women's ski cross races will be happening on the 20th and 21st, while I'm...driving to coach a ski cross race.
 
chansen said:
I just realized that both the men's and women's ski cross races will be happening on the 20th and 21st, while I'm...driving to coach a ski cross race.
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Oh the bitter irony. You have to miss ski cross to go to ski cross. :ROFLMAO:

Mrs.Anteater said:
Oh, my, women’s hockey team didn’t do well. I was trying to find out how the games score at the end- understand that they still have to play Finnland- who is playing who after that? Is there semi finals and finals ? Will they get into those?They said the US had their last game- who will they play after that?
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It's similar to other team world events like the football World Cup. This is the elimination round. Next is quarter finals, then semis, then finals. Quarterfinals start Friday (who wants to play hockey on Friday the 13th?) but placements aren't decided yet. There's 8 slots and 10 teams in two groups so I guess top 4 in each advance and matchups are determined by placements in the groups but the official standings don't show those details yet.
 
TV's are complex things ... runners-up to processors ... and other devices created from the assaults of the earth ... very pithy according to some visions and cartoons ...
 
Watched a bit of the slopestyle last night (the event where Meghan Oldham of Parry Sound, Ontario took bronze). Wow. That would give me a serious case of the willies with some of the jumps they were doing but also, wow, what skill these skiers have. Mathilde Gremaud (Switzerland) and Aileen Gu (China) who took gold and silver just blew my mind and I only saw their first runs. One of the first time Olympians in the event (I think it was an American) was only 17. My wife would have freaked if our son had been doing her run like that at 17.
 
BetteTheRed said:
@Mrs.Anteater not only do I not understand what is going on in ANY sport, I needed a brief lesson in TV operation before the big guy left.
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My preference would be for less technical controls on everything. I had no difficulty operating a On/Iff switch, a volume control plus a channel selecter.
Now I have to start by trying to find the correct remote!
 
KayTheCurler said:
My preference would be for less technical controls on everything. I had no difficulty operating a On/Iff switch, a volume control plus a channel selecter.
Now I have to start by trying to find the correct remote!
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Actually, we are back down to just one remote (unless we use the soundbar, but that's mostly for me when I am watching concerts). We don't have a DVD player or set-top box of any kind, just use the TV's built-in apps. It's a Samsung and has a pretty good selection (basically, it's a 55" Android tablet). We can also cast from our phones and tabs since we use Samsung devices but we don't actually do that much in practice.
 
Mendalla said:
Actually, we are back down to just one remote (unless we use the soundbar, but that's mostly for me when I am watching concerts). We don't have a DVD player or set-top box of any kind, just use the TV's built-in apps. It's a Samsung and has a pretty good selection (basically, it's a 55" Android tablet). We can also cast from our phones and tabs since we use Samsung devices but we don't actually do that much in practice.
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Forms great illusions tho' as all that remains ... thoughtless is a goal in some Circe as a way to free will and no inhibitions ...

Maybe a mental abstract for when one gets deep into the mystery called soul! Even Satchmo spoke of it ... you do have to ask!

In conclusion it is alien and generally unknown ... other wise ... wisdom can be a detriment in some states! Best not know? I have doubts given my experiences ... thus Thom-has been my friend ... mysterious lay about ...
 
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Olympic ski cross track from the athletes' perspective:


Lots to potentially go wrong here. Some of the rollers have to be doubled, and if you fly too far you can hit the front side of the third roller. That can be bad. It makes for a very hard landing, pushed your knees into your face and more importantly, slows you down.

Also some pretty serious air time. Not a lot of drop because they designed it well and the athletes are never that high above the surface, but if you're not in balance off the ramp, lots can go wrong when you're not connected to the ground.

Should be a hell of a show.
 
Watched the ice dance free dance last night. Some terrific performances. The three medallists deserved their podium spots. Canadians Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier put on a fantastic show to a cover of Don McLean's "Vincent" by someone named Govardo to take the bronze. Piper's dress is even based on "Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh, the subject of the song. If I had a quibble, it's that I might have reversed the gold and silver. American silver medalists Madison Chock and Evan Bates were flawless while French gold medalists Laurence Fournier Beaudry (who is originally from Montreal and has skated for Canada in the past) and Guillaume Cizeron had a small, but obvious, error early in their routine. Sadly, it was also a bit of an end of an era, with both Gilles & Poirier and Chock & Bates expected to retire from competition after the Olympics. Cizeron is getting up there, too, and I believe mostly came back because of a friendship with Beaudry, who had to part ways with her previous skating partner after a scandal. Fortunately, all three countries have backup in form of newer, up and coming couples who will hopefully blossom by 2030.
 
Two more medals so far today. Mikael Kingsbury in moguls skiing (no surprise, he is one of our stars in that sport) and Eliot Grondin in snowboard cross. Both silver. I assume snowboard cross is similar to ski cross but with boards in place of skis? @chansen?
 
In hockey, our men's team debuted by smoking the Czech 5-0.

Meanwhile, the women closed their preliminaries with a victory over the Finns by the same score. Their quarterfinal match is on Saturday against Germany. It looks like the semi would then be against Finland or Switzerland, both of whom we beat in the preliminaries.
 
Mendalla said:
Two more medals so far today. Mikael Kingsbury in moguls skiing (no surprise, he is one of our stars in that sport) and Eliot Grondin in snowboard cross. Both silver. I assume snowboard cross is similar to ski cross but with boards in place of skis? @chansen?
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That, and you have to be high as a kite.
 
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