I’ve never been a big fan of the Winter Olympics but Olympic competition always carries with it a flavor of politics. This may be especially true this year due to the location in North Korea. Can we credit the emergence of Kim Yo Jong with the new warmth between Northand South?
My favorite quote about this was the guy who said, "I just want a woman to look at me the way that the Western mainstream media looks at North Korea."
I like the Winter Olympics better than the Summer Olympics. I'm a hockey fan, I like speed skating and have gotten into watching figure skating and ice dancing too. Skiing is fun to watch, downhill is best (and ski-jumping!) but some of the other things, like that sport where they ski and shoot guns (training to be Bond villains, I guess) and even cross-country skiing are interesting. Snowboarding kind of grows on you (like fungus). The Cold War injected a lot of interest into the Olympics. There were good-guys and bad-guys. They were teams and we knew who to cheer for. The Olympics are in South Korea. (It's a Big difference.) But the North and South Koreans seem to have fielded a unified Olympic team. (Talk about incongruous... K-pop and goose-stepping juche.) The 100 or so North Korean cheerleaders and their routines have gotten some attention, for their fundamental creepiness as much as anything. She's put a more presentable face on the NK regime. Doesn't change its essential craziness, though.
I'm surprising myself on how little I followed the Olympics this year. Canada does well; Ukraine, as always, not so much (I believe 1994 Oksana Baiul figure skating win remains our one and only gold). It's always nice to hear that the Team Formerly Known As Russia loses again, so hurrah US Hockey! Other than that, I'm wholly ignorant.
Hehehe! Anyway, thanks for beating the "Olympic Athletes from Russia" "hybrid" team. Now if you could please help keep them from winning any gold in figure skating, that'd be swell. Same request for Canada's team, pretty please with maple syrup on top.
Oh yeah, this one. This one's priceless, thanks. For added effect, Americans even called Russians and confirmed that Russian forces are not there. Brilliant, brilliant stuff, keep up the good work.
I don't know what Trimetazdine might do for a bobsledder but this could be a false positive? Now look at me . . . making excuses for Russians. You'd think I've been hanging out with Trump. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/winter-olympics/second-russian-athlete-tests-positive-for-doping-at-olympics/ar-BBJue0T?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
