tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post6933206283239212954..comments2024-03-29T00:38:31.950-04:00Comments on The Heath Post: XXIII Olympic Winter Games, Pyeongchang 2018 (Introduction/Day 0)GoHeathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11122010542579322600noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-51829109627046202452018-02-27T18:38:27.335-05:002018-02-27T18:38:27.335-05:00Turns out Chris Knierim is really into muscle cars...<a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisKnierim/status/966278602991046658" rel="nofollow">Turns out Chris Knierim is really into muscle cars</a>, and he was all excited about getting to meet Dale Earnhardt Jr., who participated in NBC's coverage of the Olympics.<br /><br /><i>Chris Knierim @ChrisKnierim<br />While I’m waiting for my flight that leaves in 3 hours. Watching a car show in the lounge. No better way to wait if you ask me.<br />11:13 PM - 25 Feb 2018</i>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-68365478701432036402018-02-27T18:29:15.014-05:002018-02-27T18:29:15.014-05:00Hooray! I love love stories.Hooray! I <i>love</i> love stories.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-65958053522031281662018-02-27T18:28:35.732-05:002018-02-27T18:28:35.732-05:00Per Chris Knierim's Wikipedia page, his "...Per Chris Knierim's Wikipedia page, his "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Knierim#Personal_life" rel="nofollow">family lived in Ramona, California before moving to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2006 to focus on Chris' skating career.[5] In addition to skating, Knerim took classes at the local college and also worked as an auto mechanic.[5] After parting with his previous pairs partner, his coach Dalilah Sappenfield suggested skater Alexa Scimeca. In April 2012 Knierim and Scimeca became skating partners, and almost immediately began dating. They became engaged on April 8, 2014,[6] and married on June 26, 2016 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.[7]</a>"Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-8714571664995454002018-02-27T18:23:59.602-05:002018-02-27T18:23:59.602-05:00Aw, and here's Mike Tirico signing off the big...Aw, and here's Mike Tirico signing off the big prime-time show with a nice tribute to Bob Costas. I did miss Bob Costas this entire Olympics. I hope he's doing well.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-29317470450693812072018-02-27T18:23:13.945-05:002018-02-27T18:23:13.945-05:00So here were the team-skate standings after these ...So here were the team-skate standings after these first two competitions:<br /><br />1. Canada 17<br />2. United States 14<br />T3. Japan 13<br />T3. OAR 13 (I’m assuming they cheated)<br />5. Israel 11<br />T6. China 10<br />T6. Germany 10<br />T6. Italy 10<br />T9. France 6<br />T9. South Korea 6Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-14896801740726990582018-02-27T18:15:11.381-05:002018-02-27T18:15:11.381-05:00The pairs short competition was also staged on thi...The pairs short competition was also staged on this soft-opening Thursday of the Olympics, and Alexa Scimeca Knierim and Chris Knierim delivered the same seven points in this eigthh of the total team-skate event. But I think this might've actually been a bit of an outperformance. The Knierims came in only 10th at last year's World Figure Skating Championships, and, in this short program at Pyeongchang, they finished ahead of two of the sets of pairs who beat them in the worlds.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-9751014317912198002018-02-27T18:06:40.520-05:002018-02-27T18:06:40.520-05:00It's really cool how this team-skate event was...It's really cool how this team-skate event was set up. Ten teams competed. Each team had one entry apiece in men's singles, pairs, ice dancing and women's singles short and free programs. Within each competition, the 10 entries are scored and ordered--and then the placement corresponds to a number of points, 10 to 1. You add up the eight point totals per team, and then those grand totals determine the medals.<br /><br />So Chen 's fourth-best performance in the men's singles short program earned Team USA a disappointing seven points. Johnny Weir had said that the Americans really needed all 10 out of Chen's turn to improve upon their Sochi 2014 bronze-medal performance; now he felt Team USA was in real danger of slipping off the podium altogether.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-63606874413892625392018-02-27T17:04:39.848-05:002018-02-27T17:04:39.848-05:00By the way, here was Scott Hamilton's reaction...By the way, here was Scott Hamilton's reaction to Chen's short program later in this same show: "Woooooo! That was <i>rough</i>!"Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-13618935562069605132018-02-27T17:01:23.879-05:002018-02-27T17:01:23.879-05:00Every day, I'm a little more impressed with Wi...<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronological_summary_of_the_2018_Winter_Olympics#Day_(%E2%88%921)_%E2%80%94_Thursday_8_February" rel="nofollow">Every day, I'm a little more impressed with Wikipedia. I don't know what number, but, to me, it seriously might be a Wonder of the World.</a>Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-67206294471028363172018-02-27T16:55:53.626-05:002018-02-27T16:55:53.626-05:00So my cable TV has NBC's Olympics shows on dem...So my cable TV has NBC's Olympics shows on demand through March 31. I'm watching the prime-time big-NBC show from this opening night, and I just saw Nathan Chen's ill-fated performance in the team skate. Man, that was actually fairly harrowing live TV. <br /><br />I had a very, very bad work month about 10 years ago where it just seemed like I could not quit making mistakes. It was awful. I hate to even think about it, for fear of throwing myself back into a similar spell.<br /><br />Anyway, I really felt for Nathan Chen watching this, and I'm actually glad I didn't see it in real time. The 18-year-old from Salt Lake City came in as the two-time U.S. national champion; the 2017–18 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final champion (according to Wikipedia, that's considered to be the world's second-most-important annual competition in figure skating), and sixth-place finisher in the 2017 World Figure Skating Championships (that's the most). "Abysmal" is the word Johnny Weir used to describe Chen's Olympics-debut performance, and, indeed, Chen looked like he was just in shock coming off the ice. Even several minutes later, in an interview, he was still sweating. It was really rough.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-66066231393200342002018-02-26T17:47:48.135-05:002018-02-26T17:47:48.135-05:00Programming note to future self: Don't waste y...Programming note to future self: Don't waste your time on this stuff. You're making fun too complicated.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-86139150416699934682018-02-10T19:18:23.726-05:002018-02-10T19:18:23.726-05:00Ah, that's too bad. Yeah, I don't know wha...Ah, that's too bad. Yeah, I don't know what level we pay for, but it's about $40 a month and we get the big NBC, NBC Sports Network and USA Network, plus the streaming. It's expensive, but it's still worth it to us--we still find the cable package being the best package of channels and music stuff for us. We don't subscribe to any music services, etc.<br /><br />You might be more interested in the prime-time coverage this time because there is some live stuff the way the clocks work out. Also, there's something available on YouTube called the Olympic Channel, and that has some stuff, too.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-35953263891276133062018-02-10T00:38:11.506-05:002018-02-10T00:38:11.506-05:00Nope. Last Olympics I made a point of getting cab...Nope. Last Olympics I made a point of getting cable so we could watch. I'm especially interested in streaming have no interest in prime time coverage. I was unable to watch then either. My cable subscription wasn't a good enough package. If NBC would give me a pay wall to access the Olympic coverage I would pay it, but otherwise I'm done.Matthewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-88655449782428670152018-02-08T16:11:14.289-05:002018-02-08T16:11:14.289-05:00You don't get NBC?You don't get NBC?Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-54864438812638515392018-02-08T13:03:12.034-05:002018-02-08T13:03:12.034-05:00I cannot watch the olympics.I cannot watch the olympics.Matthew Vaughnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10349035708120354682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-21804838396420795032018-02-08T09:52:46.542-05:002018-02-08T09:52:46.542-05:00NBC Sports Network started its live overage of the...NBC Sports Network started its live overage of the games with a 10 Central tape-delayed show of some downhill skiing, and the program's lack of Olympics gravitas--it felt like most any of the skiing shows NBC Sports Network plays on the weekends in winter--scared the dickens out of me. Has NBC decided to go less-is-more understated with these games? Then I woke up at 3:30 and flipped on the TV and found that NBC Sports Network was still the only one of the NBC networks showing anything Olympics, and I really got upset.<br /><br />But then I decided I needed to settle down and catch a clue of thankfulness. My default mood--particularly around big stuff like the OIympics, date nights, Christmas, new old NFL Films finds on YouTube, etc.--is entitled and disappointed, and I have to talk myself into being thankful for most anything. So first I have to tell myself I'm thankful, and then I actually do get thankful, and then everything's usually OK.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-83389482489545483172018-02-08T09:23:01.360-05:002018-02-08T09:23:01.360-05:00Programming note to self: Maybe what I need to do ...Programming note to self: Maybe what I need to do today is figure out one each of the 15 sports to focus on over the next days, and also I need to figure out how to do the EBOPs in that Google-cloud version of Excel.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-71337517727021156902018-02-08T09:19:49.938-05:002018-02-08T09:19:49.938-05:00OK, China's got three in the house, but South ...OK, China's got three in the house, but South Korea can pull off the home-ice victory if the woman curler can lay up in the button ... NO, MA'AM! ... TOO STRONG! ... South Korea's last rock sails to the back of the 4-foot ring, and China survives, 8-7. That has to be a heartbreaker for the Pyeongchang Countians.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-28071650568279311382018-02-08T09:16:45.152-05:002018-02-08T09:16:45.152-05:00Now we've got some overtime mixed-doubles curl...Now we've got some overtime mixed-doubles curling pitting China against South Korea. I imagine this is one of those you-can-throw-out-the-record-books situations, even in curling. It's 7-7 in the extra ninth end. China's in a timeout trying to figure out its last shot; South Korea then will get the last go of the end ...Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-90213546272611273882018-02-08T07:48:07.092-05:002018-02-08T07:48:07.092-05:00Indeed, Team USA lost that one.Indeed, Team USA lost that one.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-12131643807572501132018-02-08T07:04:31.861-05:002018-02-08T07:04:31.861-05:00USA 10100-2
CAN 01013-5
That is devestating. I do...USA 10100-2<br />CAN 01013-5<br /><br />That is devestating. I don't know much about curling, but I know a <i>steal of three</i> is devestating.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-28519309347326527592018-02-08T06:51:10.975-05:002018-02-08T06:51:10.975-05:00USA 1010-2
CAN 0101-2
I like the mixed doubles. T...USA 1010-2<br />CAN 0101-2<br /><br />I like the mixed doubles. This is new in the Olympics. We've only had men's teams and women's teams competitions previously. I like those, too, but I do like to see spots where men and women compete together and against one another. They're pretty rare, actually. I just got together a weekly group of people playing basketball together at the church gym, and I tried to get men and women there together right from the get-go. Well, almost immediately, it turned into an all-guys thing, and already it'd be a pretty big hullabaloo for a woman to join us.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-47434379075056122822018-02-08T06:45:07.230-05:002018-02-08T06:45:07.230-05:00I plan to get his party started in earnest with a ...I plan to get his party started in earnest with a new Day 1 post on Friday evening (U.S. Central) with Channel 6's big-show (tape-delayed) telecast of <a href="https://www.cnet.com/how-to/olympics-2018-opening-ceremony-time-how-to-watch/" rel="nofollow">the opening ceremonies</a>. I don't want to get the little paper flags out and go over the moon with stuff until the fam is home and free to hopefully enjoy that with me. Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-27600121167792535012018-02-08T06:36:24.283-05:002018-02-08T06:36:24.283-05:00After three ends, ...
USA 101-2
CAN 010-1After three ends, ...<br /><br />USA 101-2<br />CAN 010-1Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1697242053625998558.post-46696827128832881422018-02-08T06:33:06.758-05:002018-02-08T06:33:06.758-05:00Live curling on NBC Sports Network ... mixed doubl...Live curling on NBC Sports Network ... mixed doubles ... the Hamilton siblings of Wisconsin versus some Canadians ...Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11218278987255792995noreply@blogger.com