Topic: 🥶 Winter Beijin 2022 🥶 Discussion and bet thread 🥶 Winter Game 🥶 - page 2. (Read 1737 times)

One thing we have to give credit to China in hosting these games is that there is zero covid19 cases throughout these Olympics. I wanna share few interesting facts from this Olympics.

Timothy LeDuc, a USA based Figure Skater made history by participating as the first openly non-binary Winter Olympian.

It was Saudi Arabia and Haiti first ever Winter Olympics.

Erin Jackson becomes first Black woman to win speed skating medal

Following 16 exciting days of action-packed competition, the closing ceremony of the 24th Winter Olympic Games in Beijing was held at the Bird's Nest Stadium. There will be many memories from the 2022 Winter Olympics. Records were set, and Beijing put on a spectacular finale to a games not without scandal and controversy. I look forward to the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milano-Cortina, Italy. See you!

scandal will always be a part of olympics. but i also didn't buy the reasoning that valieva's excuse of accidentally taking her grandfather's heart medication. are you going to believe it? taking the meds that's not for you..
anyway, it created the noise so more eyes on this sports. not bad for marketing though.
but yes, the upcoming summer and winter olympics for sure will have a different ambience, and will accommodate live audience, by that time, the govt may even lift up the mask mandates.

Finally the event have come to an end. Norway kept the lead with 16 gold medals. Norway's Johannes Thingnes Boe, Biathlon keeps the lead as an individual to grab highest number of gold medals (4 gold). Even under the worst pandemic situation China managed to do the best in terms of infrastructure development and management. Right now the scenario is getting worse with Hong Kong. During this season 109 Gold, Silver and Bronze medals have been distributed to the winners of different games.

Finland achieved deserved win against Russia and got first hockey Olympic gold medal in country history. After all, they were best team in tournament and only team undefeated.
Norway skiing star Therese Johaug in women 30 km race won gold with almost 2 minuted advantage against 2nd place. It helped Norway to reach new record with 16 gold medals. Until record was 14 gold medals.
In men 4-man bobsleigh Germany took another gold. I already lost count how many medals Germany took in bobsleigh, luge and skeleton.
Great Britain women didn't had any problems against Japan in curling final and took only gold for country in this Olympics.

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It was interesting Olympics, unfortunately there was doping scandal. Also, it was affected by Covid, but not that much that I was afraid of.
Not that much left to wait until 2024 Paris summer games. Next winter Olympics 2026 will be in Milan-Cortina. So, finally it will be convenient times to wwatch events for us in Europe .

Ah I arrived late to this. I've got Norway on an outright win on medals counts (should have also gone for them on gold medals count) so I won a nice... 1.11 bet haha. But it was part of a promo where I'd get freespins for every gold so that's where my profit's been coming from.

Summer's definitely going to be more exciting for us as we'll also have more stakes. My country has 2 athletes in Winter but they're just there to represent. No snow in my country

China can defend their position at number 3 while Norway still leads at number 1. Germany can not chase Norway position since the gap for their medals is too far to get. The USA needs to be satisfied with the number 4 positions.

This event will not forget by those who participate and they will be back in the next events. The closing ceremony is underway. The event shows that it is successful from the beginning until the end in the middle of this pandemic so we will see other big events coming soon.

One way or another, I'm sure there's a lot of cheating involved in China's success. From the point of view of normal logic, if there is a broad development in the country, then this leads to uniform success, the so-called organic growth. But when a team drastically increases the number of gold medals while the number of silver and bronze medals remains very modest, then it looks like cheating (or sniping certain disciplines, but in any case, these are nasty political games and not normal sports).

Winter olympics 2022 comes to an end. Norway won most of the medals and with 16 medals they are at no one followed by Germany with 12 gold. What's astonishing is that China who was at bottom throughout the games finished 3rd with 9 medals ahead of there rivals usa with 8 medals.
Today's main news is Finland got there first ever gold in men's hockey as they beat ROC, final score was 2-1.

I enjoyed the games though there is only one participant from my country. Will catch this thread again in summer olympics.

During the previous season of winter Olympics it was Norway that won the medals and next is the Germany. This time too the same is happening. As China is the host nation they might've practiced well to grab more medals. China have got different practice methodologies which is very crucial. Maybe this could've happened prior, reason why there is a massive difference in the medals won.

It was historic match for Slovakia - it's first Olympic hockey medal in country history.4:0 result don't fully reflect game because last 2 goals were scored to empty net, but in general, this tournament wasn't succesfful for Sweden, despite that they were so close from the final.
Tomrrow is big final between Russia and Finland. There is no favorite, but I'm rooting for Finland.
decodx, 50km cross county skiing marathon was shortened to 28.5 km because of weather condition. Well, if Norway dominate in biathlon, Russia is main powerhouse in skiing. Tomorrow there is women 30km race scheduled.
Curling final between Sweden and UK was dramatic with extra end nedded where Sweden won. Tomorrow is women final between UK and Japan.
Another golden medal for Germany in bobsleigh, this time taken i 2-woman competition. Tomorrow they can take another gold in 4 man competion where two their teams lead after 2 heats.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but gymanstics have age limit, I think it's 16 years. But in other sports when younger athletes, especially women may have advantage against older opponents, there is no talk about age limit. For example in swimming medals is often taken by 15 years old girls. Or skateboarding - in recent Olympics I think there were some participants 132 or 14 years old.

It's a shame the games are over again. There were many beautiful matches and beautiful events in between. Still, I'm more into the summer games myself. The time format is also not convenient for everyone, since China has a different time zone than Europe. You always keep it that way. I think the medals are a bit divided based on what to expect beforehand, I don't see any surprises. It is surprising that both Canada and America have no medal and therefore no winner, but the 2 best teams in the world.

ya.ya.yo!

Highlights from Day 15 of the Beijing Winter Olympics

Slovakia wins historic bronze in men's hockey over Sweden.
Team China's Wenjing Sui and Cong Han won gold, after 12-year wait, in pairs figure skating.
Sweden wins men's curling gold over Britain.
ROC's Bolshunov wins gold in the 50km cross-country race.
Belgian speedskater Bart Swings won the men's mass start, the country clinched its first Olympic gold in 74 years.
Nolte and Levi secure Germany's 11th gold in the two-woman bobsleigh


Olympic Medal Table (Top 10)


Source: https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/en/results/all-sports/medal-standings.htm

It seems that no one will be able to move Norway from the first team place. At the last Olympiad, Norway took first place, but in gold medals they were on a par with Germany, but in this Olympiad they completely dominate - the gap from second place is 5 gold medals.
China scored 8 times more gold medals than at the last Olympiad. Good progress, but it looks like cheating - the number of gold medals exceeds the number of silver and bronze medals in total.

It will not be easy for China to seize the position of the USA because the USA team itself will not want to give in to China. In the remaining matchdays, the competition is getting fiercer, while Norway might confirm that they can take their position as number one.

It was a surprise for us because China seems to be able to overcome Covid-19 and with that kind of budget, I think they have allocated it to various places around the area. But I'm still curious how they can do that even though many new cases of Covid-19 have emerged and their new variants in other countries.

Yes, applying a minimum limit for athletes will really help children under the age of 17 prepare themselves to take part in bigger events. Children under the age of 17 are still too unstable and can get higher stress, which can trigger their psyche later when they grow up. At least, they need guidance from adult people before they participate in the bigger events.

I agree that the age of more than 15 years is completely unsuitable for participation in such major international competitions.  17 years and more is much better suited, although young people of this age are still practically teenagers with a fragile psyche.  But 15-year-olds are just children, allowing them to experience such stress is not humane.  I think they will set an age limit after all.  Or as a compromise, for example - athletes over 16 years old.  This is true for figure skating, first of all.

Speaking of medals. What were, for you, the surprise countries that managed to win medals?

For me it was a surprise to see Australian athlete Jakara Anthony, having won a medal from another in Freestyle Skiing.
But it was even faster for New Zealand to get two gold medals, in Men's Freeski Halfpipe and Women's Snowboard Slopestyle. In addition to other medals they got.

China has gone up and it will be interesting to see whether china overtakes USA or not.
No USA and Canada, ROC to compete with finland in men's hockey final.
One of best thing about this Winter olympcs is that there are zero covid19 cases in this olympc. This show how well china has organised and managed the olympics. China has spent 8.8 billion dollars to host these games.

What a game between Russia and Sweden. Nothing surprising that it went to overtime and then to penalty shootout. Both teams made 16 penalty shots combined and Russia won after shootout. In other semifinal Finland managed to beat Slovakia 2:0. Their second goal was scored to empty net. So, we have final beteeen Russia and Finland.
Amazing win by Justine Braisaz-Bouchet in women biathlon mass start race. She got 4 penalty laps, but despite it she won - her closer opponents also made mistakes in shooting. Norway athletes Tiril Eckhoff and Marte Olsbu Roeiseland were 2nd and 3rd.
In men race, another gold was taken by Johannes Boe. He had 4 penalty laps, his opponents were better on shooting, but Boe was fastest on track. Martin Ponsiluoma is 2nd, Vetle Sjaastad Christiansen 3rd. In general, biathlong competition was awesome for Norway.
Olympic games is coming to an end. Tomorrow we have many finals in individual competions and bronze finals in hockey, curling and 2-woman bobsleigh.

This is why it is so devastating for those athletes when they suffer an injury, after all we are not talking about a few years of preparation, most of them have trained all their lives to have a few minutes and in some cases a few seconds to compete in the games.

And if to this we add that a great deal of the sports are not really popular and that most people only watch that sport during the olympic games this makes any injury even worse.