#2022 winter olympics

[quotesfrommyreading]

I’ve typically loved the Winter Games for the triumph. Nordic skiers who become national heroes after tying for first on a broken pole. Jamaican bobsledders and the Miracle on Ice, when the youthful U.S. hockey team came out of nowhere in 1980 to defeat the best teams in the world. Maybe the euphoria around those moments was a mirage too, distracting us from real problems. It was thrilling anyway. It also feels over.

The athletic moments that capture our collective attention these days are quite different. Many of them reflect a growing acceptance of limitations in our lives. We celebrated Simone Biles last summer in Tokyo for prioritizing her safety and bowing out, and shared the relief on Friday of the gold medal favorite Mikaela Shiffrin for finishing in ninth place after struggling on her first two forays on the ski slopes.

And there was applause for the 35-year-old snowboarding champion Shaun White, who was trying for a fourth and final gold but ended up expressing his joy at being usurped by talented younger riders: “They’ve been on my heels every step of the way, and to see them finally surpass me is, I think deep down, what I always wanted,” he told reporters through laughter and tears.

All this is also inspiration — but a new kind, befitting this strange moment. It’s not the familiar underdog success story, which flips every loss into a story of ultimate gain, or turns every setback into a narrative of empowerment and success. Athletes are now inspiring us by showing us their humanity, by no longer forcing themselves to endure the untenable. The stories we’ll remember from the past two Olympics will not be about shattering limits, but accepting them.

  —  Why the Beijing Olympics Are So Hard to Watch

#lindsay crouse #sports #olympic games #gymnastics #skiing #snowboarding #2022 winter olympics #simone biles #mikaela shiffrin #shaun white

[sheltiechicago]

Beijing, China

A skater is photographed using a multiple exposure during the Women’s Single Skating Short Program.

Photograph: Amin Mohammad Jamali/Getty Images

#amin mohammad jamali #photographer #getty images #beijing #china #figure skater #figure skating #sport #women's single skating short program #2022 winter olympics #multiple exposure

[karadin]

US wins gold in Beijing Olympics 2022 for team figure skating after court finds Russian skater took banned drugs.

Japan wins silver, Russia (rather than being dropped out) wins bronze. Canada remains in fourth place.

#figure skating #olympics #2022 winter olympics

[fa-cat]

Russia Demoted to Team Skating Olympic Bronze Without Doped Valieva – ISU

Kamila Valieva's doping ban has resulted in the Russia Olympic Committee team being demoted from the gold to bronze medal in the 2022 Winter Olympics team skating event, the International Skating Union (ISU) said Tuesday.

The then 15-year-old's positive test in December 2021, for which she received a four year ban on Monday, has led the ISU to perform "a re-ranking of the Team event" from the Beijing Games.

The USA has been promoted to the gold medal with Japan moving up to silver.

Canada will be disappointed as they finished fourth in Beijing and in other sports would have expected to be promoted to bronze.

However, unlike in athletics, the regulations of the ISU only provide for collective disqualification in the event of a positive doping control of one of the athletes during the competition, not eight weeks before as was the case with Valieva.

Her four-year ban from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) was confirmed on Monday.

#doping #Kamila Valieva #demote #ISU #CAS #WADA #RUSADA #2022 Winter Olympics #gold #USA #silver #Japan

[ryedoesnthavebreadart]

Alexandra Trusova Free Skate (2022) - I saw a photo of Alexandra Trusova in this pose and costume and just knew it would be an incredible piece. The fabric, skin, and hair textures were a challenge, but overall, I’m very satisfied with their outcome. I also tried to balance realism with a more cartoon-y style. I do not condone the actions of Alexandra Trusova at the 2022 Winter Olympics :)

#2022 #alexandra trusova #2022 winter olympics #digital #digital illustration

[lazycatdd]

被逼退感覺很糟！冬奧「76歲組合」摘金：年齡不是問題│北京冬奧│Lindsey Jacobellis│Nick Baumgartner│雪板│TVBS新聞網

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#2022 winter olympics #usa team

[musaszage]

#Love #love #2022 winter olympics

[russianfigureskatinghell]

Good for them. I hope the skates hurt and I hope Zhenya caught the first flight to Canada.

(I'm pretty sure Eteri is making stuff up cause she's a bitch...)

#figure skating #russian figure skating #someone save those russian girls #alina zagitova #russia #evgenia medvedeva #zhenya #sasha trusova #alexandra trusova #winter olympics 2018 #pyeonchang 2018 #winter olympics 2022 #beijing olympics

[lxh-arts]

罗小黑的清晨~｡:.ﾟヾ(*´▽`*)ﾉﾟ.:｡+ﾟ 罗小黑CAT的微博视频

Luoxiaohei's early morning ~｡:.ﾟヾ(*´▽`*)ﾉﾟ.:｡+ﾟ Luoxiaohei CAT's Weibo video

#year: 2022 #(i think?) #video #xiaohei #bidiu #winter olympics

[elenitrack]

Kaori Sakamoto 🇯🇵

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

#kaori sakamoto #team japan #japanese #figure skating #ice skating #kneeling #thighs #beijing 2022 #winter olympics

[quotesfrommyreading]

The modern Olympics, founded in the 1890s as a way to showcase “a life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles,” are now synonymous with scandal of many varieties, including doping, bribery and physical abuse of athletes.

They’ve sparked suffering among the poor and working class in host cities through gentrification and the forced removal of tens of thousands of residents at venues from Beijing to Seoul to Rio.

I’ll never forget reporting from the costly, freshly constructed arenas of the 2016 Rio Games and then heading off to the nearby favelas — the impoverished tenement communities dappled across the port city.

There, near open sewers that flowed with rivers of urine and feces, I heard the anguished stories of residents who had been kicked out of their small homes to make way for Olympic construction. I also saw an ever-present feature of the Games: the paramilitary-style police seemingly on every corner, machine guns in tow, rousting street kids from corners, keeping tabs on the locals so the city could maintain a sterling image to the world.

Rio couldn’t afford the Olympics, same as Athens, which put on a boondoggle of a Summer Games in 2004 that ended up costing nearly $11 billion — double the early predictions — in a precursor to Greek financial woes that saw the nation nearly become bankrupt. Those cities are hardly alone.

It’s time to ask the big questions about the Olympic enterprise.

  —  Why It's Time to Rethink the Olympics

#kurt streeter #why it's time to rethink the olympics #sports #olympics #corruption #doping #economics #exploitation #abuse #poverty #classism #2022 winter olympics #2016 olympics #2004 olympics

[sheltiechicago]

YE Sports 2022

Jan Zabystran, of Czech Republic crashes out during the first run of the men's slalom at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing.

(AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati) ASSOCIATED PRESS

#alessandro trovati #photographer #associated press #ye sports 2022 #jan zabystran #czech republic #mens slalom #2022 winter olympics #yanquing district #beijing #skiing #sports

[haldes]

yuzuru hanyu - short program (beijing 2022)

#mp #** #yuzuru hanyu #figure skating #beijing 2022 #olympics #fskateedit #daily yuzu #winter olympics #team japan #yuzuruhanyuedit #yhedit #fsedit #fskaedit #he is ethereal

[polyjuicedpadfoot]

Golden Goal

Gift recipient: @siriuslythatbitch​

Pairing: Sirius Black/Remus Lupin

Rating: Explicit

Word Count: ~30k

Description: When Remus gets selected to play on Team Canada in the 2022 Winter Olympics, nothing can bring him down...nothing except being forced to play with his old teammate, Sirius Black, once again. Thrown together on the same team, Remus tries to navigate his past with Sirius while refusing to believe that he's changed...but oh, how Sirius has changed.

Read it here!

#wolfstar #remus lupin #sirius black #james potter #regulus black #christmas gift #hockey au #olympics #team canada #2022 beijing winter olympics #enemies to lovers #smut #em writes #polyjuicedpadfoot

[drgrlfriend]

My Heart Will Be Your Home

Here, have some soulmark (photo manip) art from my Winterhawk Olympic Bang 2022 fic to brighten up your midweek. :-)

My Heart Will Be Your Home by dr_girlfriend

Excerpt:

Clint makes a strangled noise as the paramedic uses a set of shears to cut the t-shirt open from hem to neck, pulling the scraps aside.

“Was that really necessary?” Clint yelps, hand coming up to cover the words written on his chest, but it’s too late.

It’s one of the largest soulmarks Bucky has ever seen.  The script in Bucky’s neat cursive handwriting starts at the crest of one shoulder and arcs below Clint’s collarbones to end at the crest of the other shoulder, golden letters that no tattoo ink has ever been able to replicate.

What kind of idiot are you?

“Oh, shit,” Bucky says, his heart sinking.  “I wasn’t sure — I hoped I’d said ‘hi’ or something first.  I’m so — I’m so sorry.”  Clint has had that scrawled across him his whole life, just because Bucky is a thoughtless idiot.

Clint’s eyes dart up to Bucky’s, widening a little.  “Is that really what you said?  I thought maybe, but —” he trails off.

Bucky can’t manage to assemble a coherent sentence, still grappling with what he’s done, but he unstraps his tac vest and casts it aside, pulling his shirt up to show the words he’s carried his whole life, three rows of untidy golden handwriting above his left hip.

There’s a weak spot

in the armor plating

on the left side.

“Holy shit,” Clint says softly.  “That’s — that’s pretty definitive, huh?” 

#winterhawk #clint barton #bucky barnes #the winter soldier #hawkeye #mcu #avengers #marvel #marvel comics #fanfiction #my fic #my heart will be your home #mhwbyh #whob 2022 #winterhawk olympic bang 2022 #soulmates #soulmates au #soulmarks #single dad!clint barton #winter soldier!bucky barnes #alternate universe

[scotianostra]

February 21st 2002 saw the all-Scots curling team won gold at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, watched by over 5 million TV viewers in the wee small hours of the morning.

The team led by skipper Rhona Martin, clinched the title and a place in history with the last stone of the final end. Martin, backed by Fiona MacDonald, Margaret Morton, Janice Rankin and Debbie Knox, are the first British Winter Games gold medallists since Torvill and Dean back in 1984.Scottish curler Martin needed nerves of steel to knock out a Swiss counting stone at the climax of the final, but she managed to pull it off.Her own stone then finished up close to the centre of the rink and that was enough to seal a 4-3 triumph.

"I was just panicking on the last stone," Martin admitted afterwards.

"It was just a case of having faith that I could I do it.

"We had to keep it a close game to have a chance and we were always in control."

MacDonald added: "All the hard work we've put in has paid off.  We've been living in each other's pockets for nine months now and we know each other so well."

Martin had earlier fired the team into a narrow 2-1 lead at the close of the fifth end with a double after successfully taking out a Swiss counting stone. A mistake by the Swiss during end seven increased that advantage to 3-1 before they struck back to tie the scores with singles in ends eight and nine.

The four women were the  first Scots to win gold at a winter games since 1936.  

And we did it all again last year  in Beijing, with a dominant performance against Japan in the final.

Eve Muirhead’s team, also all Scots, naturally, led from the first end of the gold medal match, and continued that form throughout to win by a score of 10-3 and top the podium. Skip Muirhead, who won bronze in 2014, expertly controlled affairs throughout and finally has a gold medal at her fourth Olympics after returning from hip surgery. 

Teammates Vicky Wright, Jen Dodds, and Hailey Duff are champions at their first attempt.

“It’s a dream come true,” Muirhead, who shed a tear on the medal podium said “That was my third semi-final, and the two I lost were hard but I bounced back and here we are. We are Olympic champions. It’s such a special moment.”

#Scotland #scottish #olympians #olympic champions #winter sports #winter olympics #champions #2002 #elvis 2022