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Pretty good. What medal did she end up getting?

I'm not sure but it was not that much more uninteresting then when they are actually trying in that event.

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Surprised no women are calling her brace and inspirational for just participating in it

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I think its funny, give her credit though, she is an Olympian.

She found a loophole. Changed her nationality and accrued qualification at 2nd tier events in nowhere places. She gets credit for that I suppose.

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There's no way I could stay upright and I highly doubt any of you could either. You go girl.

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There's no way I could stay upright and I highly doubt any of you could either. You go girl.

Lol this is my thinking. At the same time though, as an athlete competing in the olympics you expect a lot more from them. Just looks like a lazy way to compete and that she didnt take it that serious at all

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I thought it was amusing how they actually played the highlights from her run in slow motion

Hah... And how she turned backwards at the end and he said she was adding some Flair. Like they were taking her runs seriously

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There's no way I could stay upright and I highly doubt any of you could either. You go girl.

Thats what I was thinking, I would have been airlifted out with a broken neck just getting into the half pipe

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Pretty good. What medal did she end up getting?

 

From the height she got, I'd guess lead. :dunno:

 

I was hoping that this was the ice dancing chick with the nip slip. :dunno:

 

So... I stepped away from the TV for a second and my teenage daughter said "oops, I think I just saw a nipple." That's a terrible quandary, because as a dad I couldn't replay it and come off like the old man perv that I am. :wall:

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This is stupid. Its demeaning to the real legit athletes in all sports who are competing for real.

 

Its also a slap in the face to all the other legit contenders who just missed qualifying and are sitting at home watching this farce.

 

Fock her and the skis she rode in on.

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From the height she got, I'd guess lead. :dunno:

 

 

So... I stepped away from the TV for a second and my teenage daughter said "oops, I think I just saw a nipple." That's a terrible quandary, because as a dad I couldn't replay it and come off like the old man perv that I am. :wall:

Oh man. Dontcha hate that? Last year at the beach, my wife made a remark about some teenage girls wearing thong bikinis. There was no way to turn over and sneak a glance as I was laying on my stomach facing the other way.

 

So I just laid there, silently digging a hole to China with my boner.

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This is stupid. Its demeaning to the real legit athletes in all sports who are competing for real.

 

Its also a slap in the face to all the other legit contenders who just missed qualifying and are sitting at home watching this farce.

 

Fock her and the skis she rode in on.

Depends on the body. Haven't seen a good look at it yet.

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Oh man. Dontcha hate that? Last year at the beach, my wife made a remark about some teenage girls wearing thong bikinis. There was no way to turn over and sneak a glance as I was laying on my stomach facing the other way.

 

So I just laid there, silently digging a hole to China with my boner.

 

Hmm... I think in that case you have plausible deniability to turn around and take an ogle. If your wife gets mad you can toss some compliment like you are confident that the teen's bagina isn't as tight as her... nostril or something she'll maybe believe. :dunno:

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Oh man. Dontcha hate that? Last year at the beach, my wife made a remark about some teenage girls wearing thong bikinis. There was no way to turn over and sneak a glance as I was laying on my stomach facing the other way.

 

So I just laid there, silently digging a hole to China with my boner.

:lol:

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I was hoping that this was the ice dancing chick with the nip slip. :dunno:

We need unaltered video of this

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Oh man. Dontcha hate that? Last year at the beach, my wife made a remark about some teenage girls wearing thong bikinis. There was no way to turn over and sneak a glance as I was laying on my stomach facing the other way.

 

So I just laid there, silently digging a hole to China with my boner.

 

Also, I would like to say that the bolded is one of the funniest things I've read here in some time. I'm giggling like a 13 yr old every time I re-read it. :first:

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So... i dvr all olympic coverage and I go to fire up last nights nip slip and lo and behold... half my program is missing. So i look for the on demand.... missing for 2/18.

 

Fockin conspiracy I tell you

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Oh man. Dontcha hate that? Last year at the beach, my wife made a remark about some teenage girls wearing thong bikinis. There was no way to turn over and sneak a glance as I was laying on my stomach facing the other way.

 

So I just laid there, silently digging a hole to China with my boner.

Stop that please. We have all the white boners we need over here, thanks.

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There's no way I could stay upright and I highly doubt any of you could either. You go girl.

Good call. Not falling over is a good reason to send someone to the olympics.

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Meh, I can do that, as can any mediocre skier.

Yeah....going up and down the hill isn't hard..agree.

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This is stupid. Its demeaning to the real legit athletes in all sports who are competing for real.

Its also a slap in the face to all the other legit contenders who just missed qualifying and are sitting at home watching this farce.

Fock her and the skis she rode in on.

My level of anger and caring rivals your level of anger and caring, except opposite.

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My level of anger and caring rivals your level of anger and caring, except opposite.

 

:thumbsup:

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There’s a premise built into the structure of the Olympics that pretty much every single Olympian, even those far down the standings, are elite athletes at the top of their game performing at a level most fans could only dream of. Freestyle skier Elizabeth Swaney is an affront to this notion, and her, um, laconic run down the halfpipe is so thoroughly average that it’s an inspiration of sorts.

The 33-year-old American has been freestyle skiing since 2013 with the single-minded goal of making it to the Olympics. Since the American team is, well, good, she initially competed for her mother’s native Venezuela, before switching her allegiance and representing Hungary, which she was eligible to do because of Hungarian grandparents. Swaney can’t throw a single trick in the halfpipe, and she can barely catch any air to speak of, but that doesn’t matter, since the real competitive portion of her Olympics came before she even traveled to South Korea, as she worked her way onto the team in an effort that was something between a scam and a tale of perseverance.

In order to qualify, Swaney needed to finish within the top 30 at a few World Cup skiing events. After “competing” in halfpipe contests around the world, Swaney finally qualified in December, when she went to a Chinese event while the top skiers in the world were at a more prestigious event in Colorado. She finished 13th out of 15, which has nothing to do with her actually besting anyone, since, once again, she doesn’t even do any tricks. Other people fell or certain events simply featured fewer than 30 competitors, which let her sneak in. That’s her gameplan: show up and stay upright.

Because a few competitors pulled out of the Olympics with injury, because of limits on how many skiers from a single country can compete in the same event, and because of some arcane reallocation rules within the Hungarian ski federation designed to balance men’s and women’s competitors, Swaney got to go do her fake run in Pyeongchang. The Denver Post reported that some actually competitive skiers are less than thrilled with Swaney’s presence at the Games, and they even a got a slopestyle judge to explain exactly how her scam worked.

“The field is not that deep in the women’s pipe and she went to every World Cup, where there were only 24, 25, or 28 women,” said longtime FIS ski halfpipe and slopestyle judge Steele Spence. “She would compete in them consistently over the last couple years and sometimes girls would crash so she would not end up dead last. There are going to be changes to World Cup quotas and qualifying to be eligible for the Olympics. Those things are in the works so technically you need to qualify up through the system.”

Apparently, rules might tighten and people like Swaney might not get to go to the Olympics. For now, however, she gets to represent Hungary and, as she said, “inspire others in Hungary and the world to become involved in freestyle skiing,” by doing one limp 180.

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And worse was Maddie Mastro (sp?) during the women's snowboarding halfpipe. I think she got a combined score of 14 for her 3 runs. She basically slid into the halfpipe and then fell down, 3 times.

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