Olympics

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 […]

As the Winter Olympics head toward their official closing ceremony on Sunday, February 25th from the Olympic Stadium in Pyeongchang, South Korea (which you can watch live on the NBC network starting at 6 a.m. ET; or catch the taped replay at 8 a.m. ET), the Olympic Channel (the official social media account for the International […]

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 […]

Sure, the official opening ceremonies for the 2018 Winter Olympics isn't until Friday night on NBC, but as we've been telling you for the last two weeks, the events start early. Right now in fact, on NBCSports, there is a Curling match between Korea and Finland, with Korea taking the mixed doubles first win in […]

The PyeongChang Winter Olympics are set to start in two days, but the Russian athletes still haven't heard whether they'll get to compete. Also, a large ship containing 114 members of North Korea's delegation to the games requested oil and various other items upon docking in South Korea. There is also news that North Korean […]

There may be a number of conspiracy theories at work today after the announcement that over 1,200 PyeongChang security staff have been replaced with military personnel due to an outbreak of Norovirus. Yesterday, there was rising concern of over the dropping temperatures in regards to spectators, and the possibility of illness. Mostly, that the projected […]

We're less than 4 days away from the start of the 2018 Winter Olympics from PyeongChang, and that means things are starting to get going in the picturestic South Korean host city. The big news today was a "tune-up" match featuring the Korean women's joint hockey team (with members from both North and South Korea) […]