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They currently have 0 medals. Hell, Australia has 2 medals and it's summer down there right now. There have to be some decent athletes in the UK. They have shown they are willing to bend the rules and dope to do well at sport like with their cycling program full of drugs cheats. Why not pump some money into speed skating or something? Is the BBC even airing the games?
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I would expect them to be good at sports where you have knives on your feet, combining their two favorite things: knifecrime and footy. They can’t even manage that!
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Feb 14, 2018 06:03
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No one's playing cricket so they can't be bothered op
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Feb 14, 2018 06:09
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Whistler is polluted with Aussie scum every winter problem solved
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nature6pk posted:Whistler is polluted with Aussie scum every winter problem solved Fernie too. They have to go back.
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Feb 14, 2018 07:27
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we're using our illegal cycling skin suits in the skeleton op so stay tuned
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When Strava released their heatmap, I was surprised to see a lot of winter sports taking place in London. It seemed weird that people would be skating or skiing around Hyde Park. Then I figured it out, London joggers select the snow crystal tag when it's cold, so most Londoners' idea of winter sports is "jogging while cold". So I think the biggest reason is that the UK doesn't have a tradition for the particular sports, so they don't get many viewers, low funding from sponsors and a small pool of recruits to pick talent from. Dutch speed skaters, Norwegian cross country skiers, Austrian alpine skiers are examples to the contrary. Some notable exceptions to the rule I happen to be a big fan of are Andrew Musgrave, who has a medal chance in 15 km cross country, and Dave Ryding in slalom.
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Feb 14, 2018 13:31
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There is a program set up to improve British speed skating, with the goal I think to at least get to Winter Olympics in the coming future, which would be plenty impressive since they don't even have skaters participating in the world cup at the moment.
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Because whenever we see snow/ice here, there tends to be a freakout and chaos ensues. Proof - the headlines every time we get a few cm of snow. I guess also that to practice those sports properly means going to a country with actual snow, and that needs money. I'm not going to spend money falling over and getting cold in another country but I'm poor and of the underclass - doesn't appeal and I tend to react in an interesting way when surrounded by the privileged rich. gently caress 'em.
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Ola posted:When Strava released their heatmap, I was surprised to see a lot of winter sports taking place in London. It seemed weird that people would be skating or skiing around Hyde Park. Then I figured it out, London joggers select the snow crystal tag when it's cold, so most Londoners' idea of winter sports is "jogging while cold". Its not even cold there though. 5 degrees mate let's go get eggy toast instead
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Ola posted:When Strava released their heatmap, I was surprised to see a lot of winter sports taking place in London. It seemed weird that people would be skating or skiing around Hyde Park. Then I figured it out, London joggers select the snow crystal tag when it's cold, so most Londoners' idea of winter sports is "jogging while cold". This made me lol thank you
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Limeys are pretty decent at curling, thought I think they get to snipe the Scottish curlers?
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no mountains
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Kurtofan posted:no mountains There are ski hills in the UK, and Holland has no mountains and they get loads of medals in skating
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15 km cross country starting now. Andrew Musgrave is British if he wins, Scottish if not.
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Feb 16, 2018 07:26
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they just got a bronze in skeleton which seems appropriate
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African AIDS cum posted:There are ski hills in the UK, and Holland has no mountains and they get loads of medals in skating since when do you need mountains to skate
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bump_fn posted:they just got a bronze in skeleton which seems appropriate
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African AIDS cum posted:There are ski hills in the UK, and Holland has no mountains and they get loads of medals in skating
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Curling is a minor Scottish tradition (all GB curlers are Scottish) and there's some basic ski facilities here. Day-trip worthy, not holiday worthy. England has nothing. In general I mean.
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Lack of cold weather and a lack of sitting down sports. Slightly more serious answer: the UK has an extremely cut-throat funding system. After the Summer Games in 1996, which probably ranks up there as the worst performance for a highly developed nation in an Olympic Games ever (36th, with a single gold. 15 medals total so it was some variance, but even 15 total is majorly lacking compared to France/Germany/Italy who are reasonably comparable.) Since then, UK Sport, which assigns funding to sports, adopted a highly targeted approach of basically defunding no-hoper sports and pumping extra cash into sports with medal potential. Over time that eventually led to Rio 2016, the only time in history where a host nation has increased its medal haul in the next Olympics, and a crazy over-performance - potentially the last time a much smaller nation will ever come ahead of China. The knock on effect of this is that the UK Winter Sports don't have much funding, which means they don't win, which means people don't watch, which means people don't get involved, which means that there's no expectation that the UK will ever be particularly successful outside of anomaly athletes. Every top nation in the Winter Olympics has winter resorts, snow and mountains of some sort except the Netherlands who win 100% of their medals in skating, which has a long cultural history there and a long-established successful athlete training programme. Yes, even Australia has mountains and skiing. Places to ski in the UK are extremely limited, pretty much every UK Winter Olympian trains abroad.
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Britain just won their first skiing medal in the women's slopestyle! OK so she was born in Boston, lives in Utah, but has a British father and competes for Britain.
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Feb 17, 2018 09:29
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1st and 3rd in the women's skeleton 
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If we have proven anything it is that we're the kings and queens of hurling ourselves headfirst down a slope
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Purple Monkey posted:If we have proven anything it is that we're the kings and queens of hurling ourselves headfirst down a slope You proved that with Brexit.
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sweek0 posted:You proved that with Brexit. 
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Because we haven’t really tried yet. If and when we do, you’ll see us dominate them like we do the summer games.
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sweek0 posted:Britain just won their first skiing medal in the women's slopestyle! She sucked too, Maggie Voisin got robbed
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Pissflaps posted:Because we haven’t really tried yet. Are you in charge of doping?
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:1st and 3rd in the women's skeleton Calm down Ian Huntley
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Bobby Digital posted:Calm down Ian Huntley Wow
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