Meh. Curling, yes, hockey I'm not feeling so much. No shame losing to the US in women's hockey, and men's was something of a crapshoot with no NHLers. Certainly some shame in losing to the Germans, but gold was a big unknown.

To consider these Olympics a failure is to disrespect a whole lot of athletes that came through in a big way. 29-30 medals in spite of none for team curling sounds pretty damn good to me.

I know that's probably a little too srs biz, so...LOL Canada?

I get it. I'm just floored by the zero medals in curling. It's like American football becoming an Olympic sport and the US not taking gold.

this is the end:


Women's Curling, gold (Sweden v Korea) - 4pm PT / 7pm ET

Four-Man Bobsleigh, runs 3 & 4 - 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm ET

Men's Hockey, gold (Germany v Russia) - 8pm PT / 11pm ET

Women's Cross Country, 30km Mass Start Classic - 10:15pm PT / 1:15am ET


gg

Gonna miss it

i literally lol'd at the end of that race when that pack of 4 was going for bronze and the Russian guy exploded up the hill like Usain Bolt on skis and pulled away from everyone, and the announcer was like "I DON'T KNOW WHERE HE'S FOUND THE ENERGY TO DO THAT" or some such, so yeah, hopefully they're actually doping and get caught

otherwise Alex Harvey starts and ends his Olympic career with 4th places finishes

I don't even remember anymore what that meme is saying

neither do i, that was basically just my reaction is all

edit: oh, are you saying that you're just gonna miss having the Olympics going on?
i thought you meant that you were gonna miss the GMG

****ing hell now I'm crying

best story of the Games, by far, was Ester Ledecká

you misspelled John Shuster

yes, the 4-time Olympian, who previously won bronze, and won a bronze in the 2016 World Championships, winning gold here is definitely the goat oat story ainec ldo


DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES

yeah such a great story, they seem so nice too. i heard she brought a present to rachel homan (the canadian skip) before their game, which if true is super awesome, ya gotta root for them. my friend in korea said like no one knew what curling was and now they are all going crazy for this team, super cool

Oh yeah, for sure. 0 medals for Canadian team curling is unprecedented and a HUGE disappointment, and combined with just a silver and bronze in hockey, is pretty bizarre. And there will definitely be Canadians who feel this puts a big damper on our Olympics.

Or like USA not getting a medal in basketball. I think this is the most medals Canada has ever gotten at a Winter Olympics, but not as many golds as Vancouver nor as many medals as predicted. Still, a pretty good Olympics for Canada other than the lol curling embarrassment.

I hope nothing ever turns me into as salty of a human being as you

the Chokez didn't break you?

This Estonian speed skater is bat**** insane and I am 100% on board with it

Jessie Diggins GOAT story

Pure American WIM. Shustahhh love is fine but Diggins the true GOAT of the olympics

There were a lot of really good stories at these games. Shaun White winning his 3rd GOLD in snowboard halfpipe. Mark McMorris coming back from death to win a medal...Stuff you likely didn't hear about, like Martin Fourcade winning 3 GOLDZ in Biathlon (including a legendarily clutch final leg in the mixed relay, with 0 missed shots while everyone else melted down on the range...) as well as Johannes Høsflot Klæbo winning three Cross Country Skiing GOLDZ. The skating rivalry between Evgenia & Alina... Tessa & Scott's last cocktease//love story performance (which was truly unbelievable and will go down in history as they are now the winningest figure skaters in Olympic history...)

Shuster is right there though. Yes, as 72o points out, the guy is a competent, world class curler. But the way Shuster has been publicly dejected and abandoned by USA Curling... most people don't know him in the World Championship stage or other matches... like 98% of curling fans are Olympic exclusive, and they only know the SHUSTAHHHHH we all used to know and love. Shuster was a TRUE underdog story and is now *the* American hero coming home from these games. I'm not kidding, he's still young enough where 2 more GOLDZ isn't out of the question and he could go down in history as an all time great.

After all, isn't a great comeback story what we all love? As men, trying to find our place in the world, looking at the down-on-his-luck John Shuster and co, coming off as a failure of a man, a degenerate, unlovable, shrugged off by his own sport's national body... how can we not be inspired by what we've seen here??

We have truly seen one of the most unbelievable, amazing, inspiring, legendary Olympic performances of all time... capped off by that wonderful double take-out for 5 in the 8th end of the Gold Medal Match. John Shuster is now a legend, and we were all lucky to have bore witness to him.

It's hard to argue against Ester Ledecka has being *the* story of the Olympics though. Here's the list of Olympians who have ever won medals (let alone golds) in two sports, dating back to 1936:



Full list is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...nt_disciplines

As you can see though, the majority of these were done in trash-tier Olympics, like in 1904, when there were hardly any competitors, so guys who came last place also happened to come in 3rd place and got bronze medals. What Ester did is genuinely unprecedented in modern Olympics where there was actual competition, and may not be repeated for a very, very long time.

That being said, John Shuster is an inspirational story that will be told for generations to come, while Ester's story will likely become just a crazy anomaly trivia fact; given the nature of what Shuster overcame, compared to Ester simply winning two races in different sports.

John Shuster may very well be the true legend of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang. Forever and always. And when he lights the cauldron at the 2038 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the gods will smile upon the Earth knowing they have done us well.

Lol how the **** are there 3 different events in biathlon

Oh yeah, Clara Hughes was awesome

Can someone explain curling scoring to me? So at the end of each end, they just count up the number of stones each team has in the circle and that’s it? The different colors of the circle or the bullseye don’t count for more?

So, "shot rock" is the stone closest to the center.

At the end of each end, whichever team has shot rock gets 1 point for each stone they have in the house that's closer than their opponent's closest stone. Like this:

the rings are only used to help determine which are closest to the center

There are 5 for each gender, (4 individual and 1 relay) and now a mixed relay with 2M 2F, which was introduced in 2014. So theoretically one could win 6 biathlon medals in a single Olympics.

Biathlon is legit one of the most truly badass and best spectator sports in either Olympics. Maybe #1 overall.