2022 Winter Olymics: Beijing (February 4th-20th)

[Outlaw]

Eileen Gu wins Gold in the women's Freeski Big Air with this unbelievable run!

https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/stat...C-_bzS17ApAAAA

Ryan Cochran-Siegle of the "Skiing Cochran's" wins silver in the Men's Super G.

https://twitter.com/NBCOlympics/stat...Cy-YbK3rApAAAA

[Outlaw]

Thank you Shaun White!!

The GOAT and a class act.

[Serra]

The 15-year-old star of Russia’s figure skating team who powered it to a win in the team figure skating competition tested positive for a banned substance at a national competition leading up to the Games, potentially throwing the team’s gold medal into doubt.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/s...etazidine.html

Medals haven't been handed out for the team event as they try to figure out what to do.

[Mertron]

https://twitter.com/rodger/status/14...342580224?s=21

[Outlaw]

A big FUCK YOU to NBC for their treatment of Mikaela Shiffrin this week. If you haven't been watching here's a brief rundown of what happened.

Olympic Skier Mikaela Shiffrin Was Disappointed in Her Performance. Then NBC Made It Worse.

Olympians like Simone Biles have been rallying around Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin after NBC’s brutal coverage of her performance.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/olympi...-made-it-worse

I will not post the interviews by NBC because they are disgusting. I don't want to justify that trash. I am a fan of winter sports especially ski racing and snowboarding and it was the worst thing I have ever seen a winter athlete subjected to.. ever.. She did another interview where she was just there watching a race I think.. and idk if it was because of so much hype they have put on her or the pressure but she said she's, "a failure" and they asked about all the support other athletes and fans have given her she said, "I don't feel like I deserve it." They loved that! >.>; Believe me they had the camera zoom right in on her face hoping she would cry some more. I don't usually get this worked up over stuff but it really hurt me to she someone go through that shit.

Again, fuck you NBC! You have no shame!

[6souls]

A big FUCK YOU to NBC for their treatment of Mikaela Shiffrin this week. If you haven't been watching here's a brief rundown of what happened.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/olympi...-made-it-worse

I will not post the interviews by NBC because they are disgusting. I don't want to justify that trash. I am a fan of winter sports especially ski racing and snowboarding and it was the worst thing I have ever seen a winter athlete subjected to.. ever.. She did another interview where she was just there watching a race I think.. and idk if it was because of so much hype they have put on her or the pressure but she said she's, "a failure" and they asked about all the support other athletes and fans have given her she said, "I don't feel like I deserve it." They loved that! >.>; Believe me they had the camera zoom right in on her face hoping she would cry some more. I don't usually get this worked up over stuff but it really hurt me to she someone go through that shit.

Again, fuck you NBC! You have no shame!

Maybe you should stop being sexist.

https://apnews.com/article/winter-ol...8e4124f6b61a74

NBC offered a full-throated defense of how it covered skier Mikaela Shiffrin’s shocking Olympics flameout, to the point of suggesting there’s sexism involved in criticism that it was cruel in its portrayal of her emotional response.

NBC was doing its job, said Molly Solomon, executive producer of NBC’s Olympics coverage.

“We have an obligation in that moment, as the broadcaster of the Olympic games, to cover the moment,” Solomon said in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday evening. “There’s no script when there’s a wipeout on the slopes or a fall in figure skating. We’re watching real people with real emotions in real time and we did everything we were supposed to do.”

“I’ve thought a lot about this, and if Joe Burrow or Matthew Stafford sit on the sidelines 22 minutes after the Super Bowl on Sunday, you can bet the cameras are going to stay on them,” Solomon said.

“Here we are in 2022 and we have a double standard in coverage of women’s sports,” she said. “Women’s sports should be analyzed through the same lens as the men. The most famous skier in the world did not finish her two best events. So we are going to show her sitting on the hill and analyze what went wrong. You bet we are.”

NBC pointed out that Shiffrin was a world-class athlete enriched by endorsement deals with her face emblazoned on billboards.

“Let’s all remember, Mikaela Shiffrin is a professional athlete who has won 73 times and (has) three Olympic gold medals,” Solomon said. “She one of the greatest alpine skiers of all time. She’s 26 years old and incredibly accomplished. So, for all of us, of course she’s going to be one of the centerpieces of the Games. I would think that she would want that.”

[Vil]

So, the Russian skater will be allowed to compete, but if she places in the top 3 there will be no medal ceremony. Their plan is to have "dignified medal ceremonies once the case of Ms. Valieva has been concluded.''

[Salodin]

A big FUCK YOU to NBC for their treatment of Mikaela Shiffrin this week. If you haven't been watching here's a brief rundown of what happened.



https://www.thedailybeast.com/olympi...-made-it-worse

I will not post the interviews by NBC because they are disgusting. I don't want to justify that trash. I am a fan of winter sports especially ski racing and snowboarding and it was the worst thing I have ever seen a winter athlete subjected to.. ever.. She did another interview where she was just there watching a race I think.. and idk if it was because of so much hype they have put on her or the pressure but she said she's, "a failure" and they asked about all the support other athletes and fans have given her she said, "I don't feel like I deserve it." They loved that! >.>; Believe me they had the camera zoom right in on her face hoping she would cry some more. I don't usually get this worked up over stuff but it really hurt me to she someone go through that shit.

Again, fuck you NBC! You have no shame!

Yeahhhh I think you're going easy on her cause she's a woman.

She's a world class athlete that failed spectacularly. That is def news worthy and worth discussing in the moment live on air. Nothing wrong with it and they'd do it to a man too.

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[Serra]

So, the Russian skater will be allowed to compete, but if she places in the top 3 there will be no medal ceremony. Their plan is to have "dignified medal ceremonies once the case of Ms. Valieva has been concluded.''

From the ESPN article about it:

Those issues will be dealt with in a separate, longer-term investigation of the positive doping test that will be led by RUSADA, which took the sample in St. Petersburg.

Which raises concerns after this line earlier in the article:

The Russian anti-doping agency (RUSADA) immediately suspended her then lifted the ban a day later

But, I mean, it's not like the Russian Anti-Doping Agency is Suspended from World Anti-Doping Agency because of a state-sponsored doping scheme that RUSADA participated in or anything.

[Outlaw]

Yeahhhh I think you're going easy on her cause she's a woman.

She's a world class athlete that failed spectacularly. That is def news worthy and worth discussing in the moment live on air. Nothing wrong with it and they'd do it to a man too.

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Nooooo I feel the same way when they do it to a man. I don't think they care at all about athletes and just want to profit off their hardships.

And she didn't fail imo. In sports you really only fail if you just quit. Ski racing is one of the hardest things in the world. Your careening down a mountain on two thin pieces of fiberglass faster than most people drive. Oh, and the course is pretty much soild ice and your skiis are waxed to boot. In the interview after the saalom race she said, "I don't know what happened.. It felt like I just slipped." You can't blame her for that. I agree that they should cover it but not be so harsh.

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[kuronosan]

In other news the Russian figure skater has publicly claimed the medication was her father's and she took it by accident, leading anyone with a brain to wonder why anyone would buy this.

[Xno Kappa]

Because Russia paid the IOC a lot of money to believe it. Thank god she didn’t smoke weed at least.

[kuronosan]

Her career is going to be forever affected though.

[Serra]

Kamila Valieva -- the teenage Russian figure skater at the center of a doping controversy roiling the Beijing Olympics -- had three substances that can be used to aid the heart in her testing sample, according to a report in the New York Times, which cited an exhibit filed in a Sunday hearing by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Two of those substances, Hypoxen and the supplement L-carnitine, are not banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/16/sport...hnk/index.html

Later in the article:

The presence of the additional substances raises further questions about the skater's drug use, according to Tygart. USADA tried to ban Hypoxen in 2017 due to its performance-enhancing capabilities, but that ban was not implemented, Tygart told CNN.

"It raises a whole host of questions that have yet to be determined and what appears to be the case of a pretty deliberate attempt to use substances in order to enhance performance," Tygart said.

[6souls]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/16/sport...hnk/index.html

Later in the article:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/k...ance-qmmdgrdhf

At the time she submitted her sample, she had declared that she was already using hypoxen and l-carntine. The hypoxen is for a heart condition.

[Serra]

Is it for a heart condition or is it because they are drugs that enhance performance but aren't banned?

[Salodin]

Would love to see information on the heart condition that doesn't exist

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[Richybear]

At the end of the day, you know it was the ROC like "Take this and this" with threats to her family.

[Xno Kappa]

Vitor Belfort was also famously prescribed TRT due to low testosterone as he was knocking everyone out spamming spinning head kicks.

[kuronosan]

Is it for a heart condition or is it because they are drugs that enhance performance but aren't banned?

If she had a a heart condition requiring this particular cocktail she should not be competing in any sport let alone at her age.