the winter olympics

[**towery**]

are great fun to watch

watching ladies on their backs sliding on their luge atm

brave

have any of you done any  winter sports?

ive ice skated at sheffield and at doncaster dome - they have a freaking  slope  !!!!!

[****merlin*****]

used to ice skate as a teen

and we snowboarded for years and years, all of us

love boarding, love the snow

would love to have a go on a bobsleigh

[**towery**]

a cousins daughter is getting some snowboarding in switzerland i think i is

shes working over there as a ski season nanny  so gets a free day or two and goes boarding

she spent last season in Courcheval and loved it

[bitsnknots]

Never done any winter sports but when I was a lot younger, I always used to fancy trying the ski jumping.  I'm so accident prone that I don't really think that it would be a good idea doing that or any other winter sport for that matter.

[queenelsa83]

Meh, I'm not really bothering to watch any of it to be honest 😛

Am sticking to all of my usual daytime TV viewing on other channels instead 🙂

[cookiecookuk]

i tried ice skating ONCE when they laid an atificial rink at my daughters primary school.and i did not like it.my skates were faulty as they kept making me fall over.everybody else's seem ok as they all managed to stay upright

but i like watching winter olympics.specially curling and the bobsleigh thingy.

[chickengrandma-2008]

I've never done any winter sports but my son skis and snowboards.  Even his four year old learnt to ski last April when they went to the Alps.  

[captainbovine]

I love watching the winter Olympics, especially the speed skating, and the downhill.

I've never done any winter sports...did ice skate once, I think I had Cookie's boots, I only stepped on the ice once and fell over right away!!!!

I'd love a go on the bobsleigh too, but not that luge, or skeleton

[stroppy*cow]

I have done wheelchair curling - not an olympic sport though.

I was part of a bobsleigh team many many years ago - we were rubbish, probably because there was no bobsleigh run for us to practice on, we had to do the best we could at off peak hours at the local dry ski slope on the tobaggan run. We had a lot of fun though.

[rose2008-2008]

I LOVE SNOW but cannot somehow get into watching The Olympics. I do like watching the skiing a bit. Would not mind havin a bash myself!!!!!. I probably would have a BIG BASH into a tree or something knowing me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. LOL

[captainbovine]

they're mad on here at the moment....they're doing that half pipe...gawd they're struggling because the ice is melting and it's gone all slushy!! evidently it's 7c out there at the moment, beejeebus Russia without snow????

[bitsnknots]

Watched the British Ladies curling team trounce the USA.  They beat them 9-3 and 7 of their points came in one end which is an Olympic record.

[1311rose]

I've two cousins out in Sochi at the moment

Elder one is one of the TeamGB curling coaches (he coached the ladies team to win the world championships last year) and the other (his wee brother) is Chef de Mission for TeamGB

[ginap.123]

no excuse Stroppy! Ever watched Cool Runnings :). Brilliant film

[fishpieface]

I haven't watched much of it to be honest, but I do like it.  Love snow - proper

snow, not all slushy and horrible.

I have ice skated quite a bit.  When I ran the Guide Company I used to take them

to Queensway Ice Rink in West London, then they built a rink at Romford and we

went there.  I didn't do any of the fancy stuff, just skated about, often using the

barrier to stop before I worked out how to!

I've skid, that not right.  Skeed, that's not right either.  Went skiing!  Yes, I went skiing

once in Switzerland - I didn't know how to do it and I think it's fair to say I still didn't

afterwards but it was so much fun.  I was a bit concerned about the ravine at the end

of the beginners' slope that was cordoned off by what appeared to be a very inadequate

safety net, but I loved skiing about slowly - I'd always wanted to do it.

[kiss*my*pixel]

I'm enjoying the winter olympics, so exciting that Jenny Jones got a bronze in the snowboarding and Chemmy Alcott is through to the next round of her downhill. I prefer watching the winter Olympics to the summer ones. Love the bobsleigh and skeleton events - they must have hearts and minds of steel.

It really does not convey on the TV screen just how difficult all that is. The runs are far steeper than you could imagine, and the skiiers really do go SO very fast. I skiid for years, and tried a proper downhill slalom once - wowee, just couldn't manage more than a few of the turns at a time. It is really tricky. Also stood at the top of the ski jump in Kitzbuhl - that's all I did, stood. Absolutely nothing in this world would have tempted me to go down it and jump off, nothing, not even from halfway down!!  

[ed_blackadder_1]

I like watching it, it's lovely to see people at the top of their game going for it.

The only thing I have done is a bit of skating, on my drive last year, started at the top and slid all the way down, only to land on my bum in front of the postman. So gracefull.

[kiss*my*pixel]

[bitsnknots]

Lizzie Yarnold has just won gold in the skeleton.  It was exciting watching her.  Well done that young lady

[captainbovine]

wooo hooooo we has a gold...well done that young lady....how exciting.

I'm still waiting for the speed skating relay short track, and the snowboarding team events.

I much prefer the winter ones to the summer Olympics.