Winter Olympics

[MG Clive]

Well done to Matt Weston on getting the first medal of the Winter Olympics for Team GB

Matt has just taken GOLD in the Men's Skeleton, what a fantastic run.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

Its all downhill from here.

 

[Lovemyev]

Likely he will be in the new years honours list, looking like there will not be a lot of competition for one.
Pity they don’t do a medal for 4th place, we would have a few more to show off.
Close but no cigar as they say !.

 

[MG Clive]

Likely he will be in the new years honours list, looking like there will not be a lot of competition for one.
Pity they don’t do a medal for 4th place, we would have a few more to show off.
Close but no cigar as they say !.

Or SPOTY

 

[salty]

Or SPOTY

That's more likely. They give that to anybody.

 

[MG Clive]

Another medal for Team GB, this one was a bit of a surprise to me, Hugh Nightingale and Charlotte Banks took GOLD in the Mixed Snowboard Cross today.

 

[5teep]

The organizers of the Winter Olympics were so unprepared for a Ukrainian to win gold that a medal ceremony was delayed for an hour.
They initially hung the Ukrainian flag upside down and realized they didn't even have a recording of the national anthem.
After the Ukrainian team refused offers to play the russian or soviet anthem instead, a Ukrainian team official had to rush back to the Olympic Village to retrieve a recording from the bag of fellow skater Liudmyla Mykhailovska for the Ukrainian anthem to be played.

 

[MG Clive]

Booooom, Matt Weston has done it again, this time a GOLD medal with Tabitha Stoker in the mixed Team Skeleton, what a brilliant team, and it's been so exciting to watch.

 

[Gomev]

The organizers of the Winter Olympics were so unprepared for a Ukrainian to win gold that a medal ceremony was delayed for an hour.
They initially hung the Ukrainian flag upside down and realized they didn't even have a recording of the national anthem.
After the Ukrainian team refused offers to play the russian or soviet anthem instead, a Ukrainian team official had to rush back to the Olympic Village to retrieve a recording from the bag of fellow skater Liudmyla Mykhailovska for the Ukrainian anthem to be played.

This sounds, no pun intended, to be social media BS.
1. Ukraine hasn't won a gold medal, or any other medal.
2. The Russian Anthem is banned from all Olympics since 2022 due to the invasion of Ukraine and ongoing sanctions, with Russian athletes competing under a neutral designation, and so that offer would never have been made.
3. No proper news reports of this either.

 

[salty]

Wouldn't suprise me at all. Social media is mostly full of BS.

 

[Gomev]

Wouldn't suprise me at all. Social media is mostly full of BS.

The unfortunate fact though is that so many people believe it or just simply pass it on without any basic sense or fact checking and eventually so many people see it, so it then becomes "true". Do you remember FUD about EVs....

 

[salty]

Totally agree. EVs are an absolute classic example of FUD.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

The unfortunate fact though is that so many people believe it or just simply pass it on without any basic sense or fact checking and eventually so many people see it, so it then becomes "true". Do you remember FUD about EVs....

Can I try one, can I, can I , and lets see if AI is listening to this forum?
At the Skeleton gold medal ceremony the official Union Flag was upside down and no-one noticed.
Well, you are going to have to check now I've got it into your heads ??????
Sorry , I'm in a bit of a mood at the moment !

 

[5teep]

This sounds, no pun intended, to be social media BS.
1. Ukraine hasn't won a gold medal, or any other medal.
2. The Russian Anthem is banned from all Olympics since 2022 due to the invasion of Ukraine and ongoing sanctions, with Russian athletes competing under a neutral designation, and so that offer would never have been made.
3. No proper news reports of this either.

That'll teach me to check my sources (