Olympics: 2022 Beijing Olympics

[Ben Grimm]

Please post all 2022 Beijing Olympics posts here.

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[Ben Grimm]

"U.S. considering joining boycott of 2022 Beijing Olympics, State Department says

• The potential diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics comes as the Biden administration works to rally allies to mount international pushback on China.
• The Olympic Games are due to take place between Feb. 4 and Feb. 20.
• The United States has not yet made a decision". 2022 Beijing Olympics: U.S. considering joining boycott, state department says (cnbc.com)

 

[CHRDANHUTCH]

we have to get through Tokyo before Beijing.....

 

[Ben Grimm]

This may be the American hockey team:

USA

F1: Matthew Tkachuk, Auston Matthews, Patrick Kane
F2: Johnny Gaudreau, Jack Eichel, Brock Boeser
F3: Kyle Connor, Dylan Larkin, Blake Wheeler
F4: Max Pacioretty, J.T. Miller, Jake Guentzel

D1: Zach Werenski, Seth Jones
D2: Torey Krug, Jaccob Slavin
D3: Quinn Hughes, John Carlson

Goalies: Connor Hellebuyck, John Gibson, Ben Bishop

 

[Ben Grimm]

This may be the Canadian hockey team:

Canada

F1: Jonathan Huberdeau, Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon
F2: Brad Marchand, Sidney Crosby, Patrice Bergeron
F3: Steven Stamkos, John Tavares, Mitch Marner
F4: Sean Couturier, Brayden Point, Mark Stone

D1: Thomas Chabot, Alex Pietrangelo
D2: Morgan Rielly, Cale Makar
D3: Josh Morrissey, Dougie Hamilton

Goalies: Carey Price, Jordan Binnington, Carter Hart

 

[Ben Grimm]

This may be the Swedish hockey team:

Sweden

F1: Gabriel Landeskog, Elias Pettersson, William Nylander
F2: Filip Forsberg, Mika Zibanejad, Viktor Arvidsson
F3: Victor Olofsson, Nicklas Backstrom, Elias Lindholm
F4: Andre Burakovsky, William Karlsson, Rickard Rakell

D1: Victor Hedman, Erik Karlsson
D2: Oliver Ekman-Larsson, John Klingberg
D3: Rasmus Dahlin, Oscar Klefbom

Goalies: Robin Lehner, Jacob Markstrom, Linus Ullmark

 

[Ben Grimm]

This may be the Finnish hockey team:

Finland

F1: Patrik Laine, Aleksander Barkov, Mikko Rantanen
F2: Teuvo Teravainen, Sebastian Aho, Joel Armia
F3: Mikael Granlund, Roope Hintz, Joonas Donskoi
F4: Kasperi Kapanen, Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Kaapo Kakko

D1: Miro Heiskanen, Rasmus Ristolainen
D2: Esa Lindell, Sami Vatanen
D3: Olli Maatta, Henri Jokiharju

Goalies: Tuukka Rask, Juuse Saros, Mikko Koskinen

 

[Ben Grimm]

This may be the Russian hockey team:

Russia

F1: Artemi Panarin, Evgeni Malkin, Nikita Kucherov
F2: Alex Ovechkin, Vadim Shipachyov, Vladimir Tarasenko
F3: Kirill Kaprizov, Artem Anisimov, Andrei Svechnikov
F4: Nikita Gusev, Ivan Barbashev, Valeri Nichushkin

D1: Ivan Provorov, Nikita Zaitsev
D2: Dmitry Orlov, Slava Voynov
D3: Mikhail Sergachev, Alexander Romanov

Goalies: Andrei Vasilevskiy, Igor Shesterkin, Ilya Sorokin

 

[Ben Grimm]

This may be the Czech hockey team:

Czech Republic

F1: Jakub Vrana, David Krejci, David Pastrnak
F2: Dominik Kubalik, Tomas Hertl, Jakub Voracek
F3: Filip Zadina, Martin Necas, Ondrej Kase
F4: Ondrej Palat, Radek Faksa, Dmitrij Jaskin

D1: Michal Kempny, Filip Hronek
D2: Jakub Jerabek, Radko Gudas
D3: Radim Simek, Tomas Kundratek

Goalies: Pavel Francouz, David Rittich, Petr Mrazek

 

[CH]

This may be the Canadian hockey team:

Canada

F1: Jonathan Huberdeau, Connor McDavid, Nathan MacKinnon
F2: Brad Marchand, Sidney Crosby, Patrice Bergeron
F3: Steven Stamkos, John Tavares, Mitch Marner
F4: Sean Couturier, Brayden Point, Mark Stone

D1: Thomas Chabot, Alex Pietrangelo
D2: Morgan Rielly, Cale Makar
D3: Josh Morrissey, Dougie Hamilton

Goalies: Carey Price, Jordan Binnington, Carter Hart

I was looking for potential Olympic teams to compare with the one I picked. My team has one more forward and one more defenceman than yours but is rather similar.

The discrepancies are that I have Steve Stamkos and Ryan O'Reilly at forward omitting Jonathan Huberdeau. On defence I have Drew Doughty, Shea Theodore and Kris Letang omitting Josh Morrissey and Morgan Rielly. In goal I have Marc Andre Fleury in place of Carter Hart.

 

[John Price]

They start tomorrow. Given, it's curling at 7 AM EST but still. Opening ceremony Friday.

Also Canada plays tomorrow night in women's hockey if you are all interested.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

If I am going to get stuck at home due to an ice storm, at least I can watch US women's hockey.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Jesus, as soon as I post that a Finnish player slew-foots an American player and clearly broke her leg or ankle.

...was Decker, the #1c

 

[John Price]

Scar, team USA!

 

[John Price]

2-0

 

[Havre]

How many will get Covid?

Laughable that these games are being held in China of all places. Already a huge number of athletes who won’t be allowed to participate. There will be more.

 

[GKJ]

I f***ing love watching curling. I love it so much

 

[Bures Elbow]

Ice dance just won’t be the same without Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.

 

[LemmyUlanov55]

Ice dance just won’t be the same without Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.

Pretty cool 80's vibe from the canadian couple, though.

 

[Jussi]

Maybe do separate thread for the most active events, like figure skating, cross country, X-events, alpine events etc.?

 

[Jussi]

They really went for the most boring song choices for the country intros...

 

[TheBeastCoast]

Opening ceremonies aren't what they used to be. Just a half hour LED show at this point lol

 

[Eisen]

A beautiful ceremony even though the flame could have been a bit bigger.

 

[GQS]

Ice dance just won’t be the same without Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.

I think figure skating in general won't be the same for me. They're my all-time favorite figure skaters and watching the start of team figure skating in these olympics got me all nostalgic and I went on youtube to watch Tessa and Scott's old olympic performances and they were so amazing. Definitely won't be the same without them competing in this olympics.

 

[GQS]

A beautiful ceremony even though the flame could have been a bit bigger.

When they put the torch in the middle of the snowflake, I kept thinking OK what's next that's going to totally blow us away and then when nothing else happened I was like hmmmm OK. Still good, but didn't expect it to end right there.