Official Sochi Winter Olympics thread

unfrozencaveman said:

Time to get this thread back on track - upcoming we have Mens Super-G (2/15) and Giant Slalom (2/18)

Blast from the past and favorite from my generation - Hermann Maier (Austria). After this fall in downhill @ Nagano (1998), got right back up and won gold in SG and GS, days later.

The Herminator:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OaM6m7SKOM

This guy was my favorite non American skiier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_1ivF87q7k

unfrozencaveman said:

Time to get this thread back on track - upcoming we have Mens Super-G (2/15) and Giant Slalom (2/18)

Blast from the past and favorite from my generation - Hermann Maier (Austria). After this fall in downhill @ Nagano (1998), got right back up and won gold in SG and GS, days later.

The Herminator:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OaM6m7SKOM

A Blast from the Further Past. . .when real men used real skis at least 14 feet long and a different colored strip on your sweater was considered trendy.

Jean-Claude Killy-Triple Gold Medalist, (Alpine skiing only offered three) Grenoble Olympics, 1968.

I'm watching men's super g right now. The snow is terrible. Ruining the alpine events for me.

New rule: No winter Olympics in subtropical climates and surrounding mts. The snow is absolute shit and it's 45 degrees half the time.

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

New rule: No winter Olympics in subtropical climates and surrounding mts. The snow is absolute shit and it's 45 degrees half the time.

This should have been the rule from the beginning. Unfortunately the IOC has the integrity of a skinny jeans wearing failed real estate agent, so this is what we get stuck with.