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The 2018 Winter Olympics are drawing to a close tonight, and the closing ceremonies are upon us. It’s been a stellar two weeks of competition in PyeongChang, with subpar coverage (seriously, get your act together, NBC) and some surprise wins. The medal count for this year ended about how we thought it would; Norway once […]

One of our favorite fabulous personalities from this Winter Olympics has to be Team USA mens skater Adam Rippon. The sparkly spinner helped nab the bronze medal for Team USA’s skate during the team event, and his quadless solo programs were no slouch when compared with the multi 4-rotation jumps his competitors were landing. And today […]

After last night’s Olympics skating action, it’s time for even more figure skating with the men’s free skate (aka long program). Previously we had the team skate events where the various countries entered competitors in four different skating disciplines; pairs, men’s, women’s, and ice dancing.  Team Canada took home the gold, The Olympic Athletes of Russia took […]

There have already been two Olympics figure skating medal ceremonies in PyeongChang, and tonight the men’s short program kicks their point accumulation towards the podium. Previously we had the team skate events where the various countries entered competitors in four different skating disciplines; pairs, men’s, women’s, and ice dancing.  Team Canada took home the gold, The […]

The Olympics have been going in earnest for almost a week now, and the medals are starting to stack up for the various counties in events across the board. Three days ago the results of the team skate events were revealed after the competitions in Mens, Womens, pairs, and ice dancing. The rules for such […]

We are SO READY for the Olympics opening ceremonies tonight! We’ve been talking a lot about the PyeongChang Winter Games over the past week, and it’s only gonna get more frequent starting this weekend. Tonight, the cauldron lighting and Opening Ceremonies air on NBC (they keep saying LIVE, but seeing as how it ALREADY HAPPENED, […]

It’s not surprising that Star Wars fans can see inspirational similarities everywhere, and last night the Olympics team skate was no exception.  During the pairs portion of the evening, Vladimir Morozov and partner Evgenia Tarasova resembled some familiar First Order personalities. Vladimir and Evgenia are competing as OARs, Olympic Athlete of Russia, which is the delegation approved […]

This story is breaking, but The AP has reported that the ongoing appeals of the Russian athletes looking for special dispensation to compete in this year’s Winter Olympics have been denied. BREAKING: All 45 Russian athletes lose appeals to sports’ highest court against exclusion from the Pyeongchang Olympics. — The Associated Press (@AP) February 9, […]

Tonight’s Olympics coverage on NBC includes several events, but the thing we are here for right now: the Men’s and pairs short skate and team events are happening. We’ll be live updating with performances (which you can livestream here) and the scores: The short program started with hometown competitor, 16-year-old South Korean Cha Jun-hwan. He […]

While yes, officially the Winter Olympics haven’t had their cauldron lighting and opening ceremony yet (that’s tomorrow night), things are kicking off in a big way tonight in PyeongChang. Over on NBC (the official carrier of the Olympics in the US again), we’re going to get one of the highly anticipated events starting at 5 […]