Posted on 02/06/2026 2:06:03 PM PST by Kid Shelleen
More than 2,900 athletes from 92 national Olympic committees will compete at the Milano-Cortina Winter Olympic Games. The United States will have the largest presence with more than 230 athletes, followed by Canada with 210 athletes and host nation Italy with 196.
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used to be called the olympic movement. not dissimilar to bowel.
Oh, no! There's a real exciting episode of "Gilligan's Island" being rerun at the same time on a Roku channel.
I used to never miss the Olympics, I haven’t watched them for the last 10 years.
Any straight male figure skaters this time?
Without the Russians being to compete, all medals should come with an asterisk.
NBC broadcast them live at 2PM- i’ve had the broadcast on in the background....very average thus far..
Ukraine got the largest ovation...the ovation for the USA was loud at first then seemed very tepid...
a lot of cute chicks marching in...
No depictions of beheadings were present in the opening ceremonies.
Highlight the above with the cursor to reveal.
-PJ
There is also Banacek, McCloud, Ironside, and Rockford.
the lighting of the torch is worse than average....Paris really killed the lighting of the torch...
Why does the Olympic torch look like a hookah pipe now?
“Any straight male figure skaters this time?”
There’s a better chance you win the powerball. Lol!
Alberto Tomba- i’ve got great pictures of him at the top of the mountain in Calgary in 1988....
(((YAWN))) I’ve got an AHL game to go to tonight.
I liked the Cold War undercurrent, and I liked Jim McKay.
I haven’t watched the Olympics in many years.
An SNL Classic
The U.S. Men’s Heterosexual Figure Skating Championship
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ZYTQToX9A
American Nathan Chen, who won the gold in 2022, made the comment “I’m one of the few straight guys in a sport filled with gays” and holy hell was brought down on him- for telling the truth!!!
I’ve seen bits & pieces....PC and boring
That one always cracks me up!
For the record: Ginger
But..... But........ The “experts” guaranteed that all of the snow and ice on the entire planet was going to melt away by........1995.........
by..uh....2005.......
by..uh....2015.............
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