[GDT] What are you watching right now?

[Meelapo]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

Goosebumps whenever I see Bilodeau with his brother.

He should be the flag bearer for the Closing ceremonies this year.

It's so great that he celebrates with his brother. What a great moment!

[Puppet Guy]

3 medals today?

[formulate]

Bilodeau's run was the best I've ever seen in this sport. Magical evening.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Puppet Guy

3 medals today?

And two of them gold! This is an awesome change from old Canada where all three would have been bronze


... and taken 6 days to get. Own the Podium has really advanced our athletes.

[Rhettzky]

Originally Posted by Flabbibulin

This web feed is awesome! You hear and see everything after the event and don't have to hear the word "gutsy" 20 times by the commentators.

I needed them to watch moguls or I would have been lost. That caveman dude throwing front flips looked great but hearing where he was off on his turns made his scores make a little bit more sense to me.

[Izzle]

Fixed.

[nik-]

The Netherlands is so weird. They've won 86 Winter Olympics medals ever, and 82 of them are from Speed Skating.

[Shawnski]

Originally Posted by Izzle

Fix?

[Tyler]

Originally Posted by nik-

The Netherlands is so weird. They've won 86 Winter Olympics medals ever, and 82 of them are from Speed Skating.

Its a canal-centric country. Skating is a huge cultural piece for them. Makes sense.

[M*A*S*H 4077]

The Dutch are fast skaters.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by nik-

And two of them gold! This is an awesome change from old Canada where all three would have been bronze

... and taken 6 days to get. Own the Podium has really advanced our athletes.

Yeah, you definitely have to give it to them. We've become to Winter Olympics what Australia has to Summer Olympics.

Hopefully we keep pushing in the Summers as well, where sometimes it still feels like the old days.

[Table 5]

Originally Posted by Hatter

We would be so hooped without our Quebecois athletes. Kudos to them!

I know they have mountains in Quebec, but I always found it strange that our best skiers are from the opposite side of the country to where all the best hills are. You'd think kids from BC and Alberta should be right up there in terms of participation.

[Burke Salad]

How are the Dutch seperating themselves from the rest of the nations in speed skating? They are just killing it so far.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by Burke Salad

How are the Dutch seperating themselves from the rest of the nations in speed skating? They are just killing it so far.

It may have to do with the Dutch being the tallest people on Earth?

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=301472

[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by Table 5

I know they have mountains in Quebec, but I always found it strange that our best skiers are from the opposite side of the country to where all the best hills are. You'd think kids from BC and Alberta should be right up there in terms of participation.

It basically happened because that's where the best coaches were, so the program developed there faster and better (still, western Canadians Jenn Heil and Kriti Richards were far and away the two best women Canada had for a decade). Out west the mountains provided a greater range of activities for ski clubs so there's more racing while the smaller Quebec mountains tended to push towards freestyle. With COP having a more permanent moguls set up you're likely to see more Albertans working their way through (in addition to more younger skiers now wanting to follow in the footsteps of the people who are inspiring them on TV).

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Table 5

I know they have mountains in Quebec, but I always found it strange that our best skiers are from the opposite side of the country to where all the best hills are. You'd think kids from BC and Alberta should be right up there in terms of participation.

we're not as crazy as them

[dubc80]

Originally Posted by Table 5

I know they have mountains in Quebec, but I always found it strange that our best skiers are from the opposite side of the country to where all the best hills are. You'd think kids from BC and Alberta should be right up there in terms of participation.

Different type of skiing though.

For freestyle you only need a small hill. Skiers from Onatrio, Quebec, etc can easily participate. In the offseason, they use lakes, trampolines, and foam pits I think and you can do that almost anywhere.

For bigger mountain skiiing like downhill, Super G, Giant Slalom, etc Canada relys on the Western Canadian skiers since the mountains for training are way bigger. Unfortunately, Canada has been on a massive medal drought in those events.

After you get to a certain level, it doesn't matter where you're originally from anyways since you'll be travelling and training elsewhere.

[19Yzerman19]

Um, sorry guys, but the best skiers in the world do not ski in the olympics. They're skiing out of helicopters in Alaska. If you want to see the best in the world, you have to watch movies.

The reason Quebec produces more mogul skiers than the west is that the skiers out west are skiing pow and skiing their way up backcountry peaks, not riding down fields of bumps.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Any idea on when we can catch the medal ceremonies? Hearing the Canadian anthem be played on foreign soil is always one of the best parts of watching the Olympics

[GirlySports]

think it's tomorrow at olympic plaza probably 7am-ish?