I love the slope style commentating, so fresh compared to the usual fuddy duddy stuff. Where else would you get a commentator saying he couldn't feel his left leg anymore from excitment and singing about one of the competitors and having to explain what 'squirrely' meant. It made my day watching it.
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nickyboy
Norven Mankey
- Location
- You want hills? We got hills
If I closed my eyes it was like listening to Terry Christian on The Word all over again *shudder*
It definitely wasn't! Imagine that, Terry Christian does Slopestyle with Danni Behr as a guest commentator. It could be worse though. They might have used Johnny Vaughan.
Ganymede
Veteran
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- Rural Kent
I fleetingly wondered this - I'm sure the testing must be in place. I really wish I didn't have to think about things like that though
Have you never watched Ski Sunday? Ed Leigh has been doing that for years! He does all the red bull programmes too. Sure he did the last winter olympics as well but I could be wrong!
Ganymede
Veteran
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- Rural Kent
Ooh, the banana chap is going to be on in the Luge now. Alas, the bleddy rugger is back on. Mr G to cook dins tonight methinks.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I am not a winter sports fan (though I do like watching biathlon) but I wasn't impressed when watching highlights of the Dubai Tour this morning, to see winter olympics results popping up on the screen! Haven't Europsort heard of spoilers, and if so, do they not realise that some people like cycling and winter sports?
Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
I see what you mean, but the thing is that if like me you only ever see winter sport on Ski Sunday (no cable etc) then you're used to a lack of suspense. It's all about watching the technique and getting the gossip. And in the age of the internet, it's harder to avoid results anyway, it's not like the Likely Lads!
GrumpyGregry
Here for rides.
too many subjective "sports" even if GB did win a medal in one.
Stephenite
Membå
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- OslO
Bruno Banani next
Ganymede
Veteran
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- Rural Kent
GB's Amanda Lightfoot just came 75th out of 84 in the 7,5km biathlon sprint! Yay!
Stephenite
Membå
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- OslO
He's still alive
Ganymede
Veteran
- Location
- Rural Kent
Aww, he did quite well!
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- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
Maybe he just watched it to see what it was about.
I did exactly that as it had been so hyped up - never watched it before.
Very impressive the amount of time spent in the air and clearly the competitors are skillful at what they do.
I have no idea why the rails etc are there; not exactly wintery and I don't recollect seeing any in my mountain forays over the years and it made it all feel very artificial to me..
Ultimately, after a first impression of thinking 'that's quite clever' I found it tedious as it all looked pretty much the same to me. On the upside it's a sport that imo is marginally less dull than that celebrity dancing on ice nonsense on 'the box'.
The course is ridiculously hard, I've seen a few top parks and they're nothing like that one! Some of the competitors were saying it's the biggest kickers they've ever been on. Rails are a feature of every snowboard park, and notoriously difficult.
