His gait will never recover.

They should make mens double luge double hog-to-face like Gary and Ace flying down the track.

Its already gay, might as well make it funnier too

US team got hosed

I love the Olympics bc why am I upset about something called a twizzle rn

— V (@VictoriaEgreen) February 11, 2026

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Let's check in on France

It’s not the Winter Olympics without watching this clip (sound on) at least a hundred times

Oh monsieuuurr pic.twitter.com/NrCd06FbAO

— Sierra (@Sierra_rak) February 11, 2026

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I'm pretty sure even Texags members will now allow him to compete in the women's downhill now that he has been "changed".

Yikes, Gold medal favorite Ilian Malinin falls twice in free skate and fails to medal, placing 8th.

Sucks, my 11 year old son really was rooting for this kid because of his nickname "Quad God" and did a short research paper on him that he presented to his class on Tuesday.

He was the only one to be able to land a quad-axel (4.5 rotations).

Bummed for the kid, he seems really humble and kind

Maybe he can switch to soccer. They showed him warming up with a soccer ball and he has gpod skills

[Way over the line -- Staff]

PhatMack19 said:

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History is being made this year. For the first time ever, a Fightin’ Texas Aggie is competing in the Winter Olympics. Aggies everywhere are cheering on Boone Niederhofer '16! WHOOP!👍

💥 Do you know any Aggies working at or coaching in the Winter Olympics this year? Let us know! pic.twitter.com/F0sF0urMvh

— The Association of Former Students (@AggieNetwork) February 6, 2026

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Is it me, but that name could have been a character in "Animal House"!

Eileen is beautiful. Also has now established she's willing to be a honey pot for China.

Fartswallow must be aching to get to her.

Simple, China just upped their NIL game...

Similar to college football, all it takes is a pot of cash to get anyone you want.



In this case, they overpaid.

Dirty_Mike&the_boys said:

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CURLING HISTORY FOR THE USA! 💪

For the first time EVER, the US women beat Canada at the #WinterOlympics after a thrilling finish. pic.twitter.com/kh8enhPc33

— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) February 13, 2026

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Can curling ever be thrilling?

ts5641 said:

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Dirty_Mike&the_boys said:

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CURLING HISTORY FOR THE USA! 💪

For the first time EVER, the US women beat Canada at the #WinterOlympics after a thrilling finish. pic.twitter.com/kh8enhPc33

— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) February 13, 2026

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Can curling ever be thrilling?

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If you understand the sport and appreciate the difficulty of what it takes to be great at it, absolutely.

ts5641 said:

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Dirty_Mike&the_boys said:

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CURLING HISTORY FOR THE USA! 💪

For the first time EVER, the US women beat Canada at the #WinterOlympics after a thrilling finish. pic.twitter.com/kh8enhPc33

— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) February 13, 2026

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Can curling ever be thrilling?

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It's shuffleboard on ice, so no. Only reason I think it's an Olympic sport is because once upon a time the Winter Olympics didn't have enough to choose from so they threw it in there to fill space.

AN AMERICAN UPSET TO REMEMBER. 😤

USA men's curling starts hot and closes strong to topple reigning #WinterOlympics gold medalists Sweden. pic.twitter.com/beqlm5UgaF

— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) February 15, 2026

nortex97 said:

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China paid $6 million to Olympic loser to betray USA…think what they’re paying leaders of Democrat Party to fight for open borders to weaken & destroy America…& let in the fentanyl…& make it easy to steal elections- so Dem pols on CCP payroll can win. https://t.co/H5y0vhuPMI

— Wayne Root - Wayne Allyn Root - TV & Radio Host (@RealWayneRoot) February 14, 2026

Wow.

A very interesting contrast between two American-born athletes at the Olympics.

Freestyle Skier Eileen Gu (right), despite living her entire life in America, competes for China and gets paid millions of dollars to do it.

Figure skater Alysa Liu (left), who just won a gold medal… pic.twitter.com/xHua369pMx

— Theo Wold (@RealTheoWold) February 11, 2026

Never judge a book by it's cover I guess.

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The right one left?

nortex97 said:

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China paid $6 million to Olympic loser to betray USA…think what they’re paying leaders of Democrat Party to fight for open borders to weaken & destroy America…& let in the fentanyl…& make it easy to steal elections- so Dem pols on CCP payroll can win. https://t.co/H5y0vhuPMI

— Wayne Root - Wayne Allyn Root - TV & Radio Host (@RealWayneRoot) February 14, 2026

Wow.

A very interesting contrast between two American-born athletes at the Olympics.

Freestyle Skier Eileen Gu (right), despite living her entire life in America, competes for China and gets paid millions of dollars to do it.

Figure skater Alysa Liu (left), who just won a gold medal… pic.twitter.com/xHua369pMx

— Theo Wold (@RealTheoWold) February 11, 2026

Never judge a book by it's cover I guess.

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I'm still a big time fan of not just Chloe Kim but her father too.

The one on the right (Gu) in the second tweet may, or may not (she won't say for sure), have given up her US citizenship (CCP doesn't allow dual citizens) but she lives in Palo Alto while championing China/hating America.

TEAM USA WOMEN'S CURLING WALKS IT OFF. ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?! 🇺🇸 #WinterOlympics pic.twitter.com/sW0pWyAozY

— On Her Turf (@OnHerTurf) February 15, 2026

Every Olympic Games puffs and exhales at the turn, and we are here, through the opening week, entering the homestretch, exit season, knockout stage, medal round, and whatever you want to call speedskating's climax, the mass start race, a chaotic, risky multi-skater marathon which is basically a potluck knife fight on ice.

The Games are unpredictable theater, but they can also be goofily predictable. At Milan Cortina we have experienced the usual cycles: The host isn't prepared, the host is prepared, the venues will be empty, the venues look quite full, my medal is cool, my medal is falling apart, and at last, right on time, where did all the condoms go in the Olympic Village.

The Olympics get weird, and not just when the public starts speculating about randy Olympian rendezvous or whether or not ski jumpers are supplementing their undercarriages. We have already witnessed an ice dance judging scandal and a curling kerfuffle featuring a cursing Canadian. We watched a Dutch speedskating queen celebrate gold with her fianc, the Ohio-born YouTube imp Jake Paul. We have seen a bronze-winning Norwegian biathlete seize the moment to dolefully apologize on live TV to his ex-girlfriend, and the entire planet…for cheating on her.

The best thing I've seen thus far? Well, you know me. I'd say the Wisconsinite Jordan Stolz, the speedskating dynamo who has already won Olympic record gold in the 1,000 meter and 500 meter races. Stolz was honed at the Pettit Center, the Milwaukee ice mecca which is to long blades what Rucker Park is to hoops, and he's giving everyone Eric Heiden vibes, even if he doesn't do the long-distance 5,000 meter and 10,000 meter events as Heiden did, and won't match Heiden's five-gold Lake Placid haul.

Heiden, a longtime orthopaedic surgeon, low-key guy and probably America's most overlooked living athlete, is in Milan, cheering on Stolz, a nice touch. Stolz is winning in the way the great ones do: making it look easy, when it's so obviously hard, all that muscle-pounding max intensity building up a rush of lactic acid that would make the rest of us sit on a bench for a month (or reach for liquid broccoli.) Stolz has the 1,500 left, and then there's the frantic mass start, which Stolz's old-school coach, Bob Corby, is tolerating in the OK fine way parents say OK fine when junior wants to leap off a pier at the beach.

Stolz seems like he's been at this forever. In other sports we are having an extended conversation about Olympic pressure, and whether there's something about Games which causes even the best to unravel at the worst possible time. This, too, is predictable, but it's always a rough watch, whether it's Ilia Malinin's tumbles in men's figure skating, or Mikaela Shiffrin's mysteriously nondescript slalom run in the team combined event.

Confessing Exes, Cursing Curlers and a Condom Shortage: When the Olympics Get Weird - WSJ

Iraq2xVeteran said:

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Every Olympic Games puffs and exhales at the turn, and we are here, through the opening week, entering the homestretch, exit season, knockout stage, medal round, and whatever you want to call speedskating's climax, the mass start race, a chaotic, risky multi-skater marathon which is basically a potluck knife fight on ice.

The Games are unpredictable theater, but they can also be goofily predictable. At Milan Cortina we have experienced the usual cycles: The host isn't prepared, the host is prepared, the venues will be empty, the venues look quite full, my medal is cool, my medal is falling apart, and at last, right on time, where did all the condoms go in the Olympic Village.

The Olympics get weird, and not just when the public starts speculating about randy Olympian rendezvous or whether or not ski jumpers are supplementing their undercarriages. We have already witnessed an ice dance judging scandal and a curling kerfuffle featuring a cursing Canadian. We watched a Dutch speedskating queen celebrate gold with her fianc, the Ohio-born YouTube imp Jake Paul. We have seen a bronze-winning Norwegian biathlete seize the moment to dolefully apologize on live TV to his ex-girlfriend, and the entire planet…for cheating on her.

The best thing I've seen thus far? Well, you know me. I'd say the Wisconsinite Jordan Stolz, the speedskating dynamo who has already won Olympic record gold in the 1,000 meter and 500 meter races. Stolz was honed at the Pettit Center, the Milwaukee ice mecca which is to long blades what Rucker Park is to hoops, and he's giving everyone Eric Heiden vibes, even if he doesn't do the long-distance 5,000 meter and 10,000 meter events as Heiden did, and won't match Heiden's five-gold Lake Placid haul.

Heiden, a longtime orthopaedic surgeon, low-key guy and probably America's most overlooked living athlete, is in Milan, cheering on Stolz, a nice touch. Stolz is winning in the way the great ones do: making it look easy, when it's so obviously hard, all that muscle-pounding max intensity building up a rush of lactic acid that would make the rest of us sit on a bench for a month (or reach for liquid broccoli.) Stolz has the 1,500 left, and then there's the frantic mass start, which Stolz's old-school coach, Bob Corby, is tolerating in the OK fine way parents say OK fine when junior wants to leap off a pier at the beach.

Stolz seems like he's been at this forever. In other sports we are having an extended conversation about Olympic pressure, and whether there's something about Games which causes even the best to unravel at the worst possible time. This, too, is predictable, but it's always a rough watch, whether it's Ilia Malinin's tumbles in men's figure skating, or Mikaela Shiffrin's mysteriously nondescript slalom run in the team combined event.

Confessing Exes, Cursing Curlers and a Condom Shortage: When the Olympics Get Weird - WSJ

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If anyone had any questions...

This Chinese man who escaped communism supports President Trump. He is much more loyal than American born Olympian freestyle skier Eilene Gu, who is competing for China.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUrN6VBEcJP/

From the start of her freestyle skiing career, Eileen Gu has been a runaway financial success. When the U.S.-born star opted in 2019 to compete for her mother's home country of China, sponsors flocked to her camera-ready charismaand for her access to one of the world's largest markets.

But Gu, who grew up in the Bay Area and studies at Stanford, might be even more valuable to the Chinese government than she is to backers such as Porsche and Red Bull. And in the leadup to this Olympics, it became clear just how much China was willing to pay to support her.

In 2025, the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau was set to pay Gu and another athlete a combined $6.6 million.

Gu is already one of the highest paid female athletes in the world. She earned $23 million last year, almost entirely from endorsements, according to the sports-business publication Sportico. That ranked behind only three other female athletes in the world, tennis players Coco Gauff, Aryna Sabalenka, and Iga Swiatek.

The Hidden Government Funding of China's American-Born Olympic Star - WSJ

BadMoonRisin said:

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They should make mens double luge double hog-to-face like Gary and Ace flying down the track.

Its already gay, might as well make it funnier too

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I'm glad I'm not the only one! All I can think of is those TV Funhouse skits on SNL of Ace and Gary TAGD when I see Men's Double Luge. Could it be any more awkward?

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BadMoonRisin said:

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They should make mens double luge double hog-to-face like Gary and Ace flying down the track.

Its already gay, might as well make it funnier too

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I'm glad I'm not the only one! All I can think of is those TV Funhouse skits on SNL of Ace and Gary TAGD when I see Men's Double Luge. Could it be any more awkward?

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There are so many jokes to make, but I'm still wondering just who in the heck thought the double luge is a good idea? Also, what types of athletes wants to participate in this event?

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13B said:

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BadMoonRisin said:

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They should make mens double luge double hog-to-face like Gary and Ace flying down the track.

Its already gay, might as well make it funnier too

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I'm glad I'm not the only one! All I can think of is those TV Funhouse skits on SNL of Ace and Gary TAGD when I see Men's Double Luge. Could it be any more awkward?

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There are so many jokes to make, but I'm still wondering just who in the heck thought the double luge is a good idea? Also, what types of athletes wants to participate in this event?

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The gay ones.

Dirty_Mike&the_boys said:

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CURLING HISTORY FOR THE USA! 💪

For the first time EVER, the US women beat Canada at the #WinterOlympics after a thrilling finish. pic.twitter.com/kh8enhPc33

— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) February 13, 2026

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ELANA MEYERS TAYLOR'S QUEST FOR GOLD IS COMPLETE! pic.twitter.com/0AN1LlmPfs

— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) February 16, 2026

BACK WITH A VENGEANCE. 🇺🇸
Bouncing back from a loss to Italy, Team Peterson defeats Denmark 10-3 in #WinterOlympics women's curling! pic.twitter.com/JfLVL13hYW

— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) February 17, 2026