Winter Olympics 3- As we Curl towards the Closing Ceremony, join us with Bill and Ted , on the most excellent final weekend of competition.

[Raahh]

It's nearly over .

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Neither of Zoe's parents are American, mind.

even Charlotte Banks played for France previously.

I was thinking that Gu is on this trajectory to becoming a US president or something - she's some kind of Renaissance woman. But the competing for China rather than the US will always be there in the background now.

7th in the bobsleigh . They're disappointed. It's a shame they couldn't keep up the result they had in their first run yesterday.

I think in truth for many people national identity is a very flexible thing.

Nice to see the other teams supporting each other.

Zoe Atkins and Eileen Gu are both studying at Stanford!

I'm catching up on the bits of the skating gala I missed. I enjoyed the Macarena/YMCA/Cotton Eyed Joe mash up .

Kaori Sakomoto was beautiful.

Also really liked Malinin's performance to Fear. He seemed to be happy to be free of the pressure of competiton. The whole thing seemed to have more passion to it, for me.

Kung Fu Panda/Britney Spears was even funnier second time around.

I went from feeling quite choked up watching Malinin to laughing my head off through Shaidorov’s fever dream skate.

I absolutely loved it- he never would have expected to be the gold medalist- and to be at the gala doing that- just brilliant. Loved it.

It cracked me up, when Shaidorov came back at the end- I expected him to be changed for the final group skate- but no, still a panda

He really embraces the panda 😂😂😂

one thing that really struck me this year watching the skating is how nice most of them seem.

Where are you watching it?

I'm still watching the hockey. It's very tense.

Could someone please tell me whether the bobsled event has happened yet? Did Jamaica win?

thanks x

How are people catching up with the Gala ?

Can't find it anywhere.
I don't have TNT or Discovery.

I suppose that is my problem ! 🤣

In the final run, the blade came off their sled and they crashed, but they picked it up and carried it over the line. They’ve vowed to try again at the next Olympics.

It was all very dramatic, although I did had a strong sense of deja vu.

Oh no! Bless them, at least they finished

thank you 🙂

I did record it on TNT (I have some channels with my Virgin package this year), sorry!

They were all lovely to each other.

Have you seen the clip of Kaori helping Alysa hang her mascot between her medal ? It's really sweet
It reminds me of the Chinese Gymnast in Paris, who copied the other winners when they bit their medals , so she did too She didn't know why they were doing -it but she thought , why not .

It is worth getting discovery for a month if you can.

There’s a clip somewhere of Amber trying to clear away all the photographers when Kaori was distraught after the free.

There does seem to be a much nicer atmosphere than there has been previously.

That didn’t actually happen - that was just the plot of Cool Runnings.

Jamaica were lying in equal 21st position after the third run so didn’t progress to the final run.

Oh 😂😂😅 I don’t know anything about them or the sport, so believed you 😅 - they just seem cool, like the Usain Bolt of bobsledding - doesn’t sound like this team is though