Showing posts with label Figure Skating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Figure Skating. Show all posts

Saturday, February 10, 2018

XXIII Olympic Winter Games, Pyeongchang 2018 (Day 1)

We had some stuff come up in the last 24 hours, so my XXIII Olympic Winter Games watching is off to a sporadic start. It's Saturday night, and we're about half through NBC's Friday-night show featuring the opening ceremonies. It has been fantastic so far--fantastic! Now we've switched over to the live Saturday-night show. There is some figure skating happening. I'm OK with figure skating.

The Olympics are great. And you know what? They're even greater with a 9-year-old. But there's not a lot of time for blogging.

Previous reports:

-- I Olympic Winter Games, Chamonix 1924
-- II Olympic Winter Games, Saint Moritz 1928

-- VIII Olympic Winter Games, Squaw Valley 1960
-- XII Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1976 
-- XVII Olympic Winter Games, Lillehammer 1994
-- XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014

-- XXIII Olympic Winter Games, Pyeongchang 2018 (Preface)
-- XXIII Olympic Winter Games, Pyeongchang 2018 (Introduction/Day 0)

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

XXIII Olympic Winter Games, Pyeongchang 2018 (Introduction/Day 0)

OK, today I'm going to concentrate on figuring out how I'm going to enjoy these Winter Olympics. I love the Olympics, and I especially love the Winter Olympics, and I especially love it even more still when it is staged somewhere outside the United States--like this year.

We've got some alpine skiing, biathlon, curling, luge and ski jumping happening today in Pyeongchang County, South Korea, but I'm uncertain how much of that we are likely to see here because the opening ceremonies aren't until 8 p.m. Friday Korea Standard Time, which would be 5 a.m. Friday Channel 6 Standard Time. I'm really hoping Frank Morock and the sports desk at Channel 6 plan to show everything live in wee hours of the mornings the next couple of weeks, because that would totally suit my schedule. 

OLYMPICS!

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Previous and future reports:

-- I Olympic Winter Games, Chamonix 1924
-- II Olympic Winter Games, Saint Moritz 1928

-- VIII Olympic Winter Games, Squaw Valley 1960
-- XII Olympic Winter Games, Innsbruck 1976 
-- XVII Olympic Winter Games, Lillehammer 1994
-- XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014

-- XXIII Olympic Winter Games, Pyeongchang 2018 (Preface)