Cornellians in 2022 Winter Olympics

[dbilmes]

Cornell student Karen Chen bounced back from a poor performance in the short skate to help the US win a silver medal in the team skating. According to Corey Earle, she is the first Cornellian to win a medal while still a Cornell student since Brianne Jenner '15 won gold for Team Canada in women's hockey at Sochi in 2014.

[ugarte]

can she stickhandle

[billhoward]

Bleep. Silver is first loser. Bronze is "I made the podium." But still, very nice.

About Cornell undergrads winning Gold while on the Hill: I was about to say, didn't Dryden backstop Canada's Olympic team his senior year, 1970, took two weeks off and Bob Rule in the nets keeping Cornell hockey unbeaten. You know, the year USA beat Russia for Gold. I think that's how it went. I could be wrong. I'm waiting -- well, not really waiting -- for some obituary of Dryden to cite that 29-0 1970 season. It's part of the legend.

[Chris H82]

And definitely better than F^2....

F'ing Fourth, as I heard some Canadian womens rowers describe it when hanging out with a rowing buddy who got a silver in LA in '84.

[billhoward]

I for one plan to spend 11 pm to 2 am EST Monday/Tuesday, watching Cornell -- sorry, Team Canada -- try to make amends for 2018. Even if this is not the final.

There should be a drinking game, you down a shot every time there's another up close and personal of an American athlete overcoming a personal struggle to be on the team and aim for gold. Meanwhile, there's some Ukraine skater whose brother is on the border with a Vietnam surplus armored vest looking out at 50,000 Russian troops.

[Swampy]

I for one plan to spend 11 pm to 2 am EST Monday/Tuesday, watching Cornell -- sorry, Team Canada -- try to make amends for 2018. Even if this is not the final.

There should be a drinking game, you down a shot every time there's another up close and personal of an American athlete overcoming a personal struggle to be on the team and aim for gold. Meanwhile, there's some Ukraine skater whose brother is on the border with a Vietnam surplus armored vest looking out at 50,000 Russian troops.

How about an enticing shot plugging Mikaela Shiffrin? I don't know if this qualifies as schadenfreude, but after hearing her being plugged every 10 minutes all evening last night, I took a certain pleasure seeing her fall down on her first run.

I don't wish her any ill. OTOH, the corporate marketing of good-looking people qualifies as a 21st century, neoliberal form of slave trading. -- Not quite, because the marketed body is richly rewarded. But it's still commodifying people.

[Scersk '97]

I don't wish her any ill. OTOH, the corporate marketing of good-looking people qualifies as a 21st century, neoliberal form of slave trading. -- Not quite, because the marketed body is richly rewarded. But it's still commodifying people.

She doesn't get marketed because she is good looking; she gets marketed because she is the best women's skier of all time. Now, you may be confused because NBC otherwise produces packages on athletes for the reason you suggest, or any number of other even less savory reasons, the most obvious of which during the Olympics is suffer porn. No, Shiffrin is our best chance for an alpine medal—Cochran-Siegel is really an outside chance if you look at his WC history. They made an obvious call there.

Regarding Schadenfreude, you might want to leave US skiers out of it. We are by no means dominant in alpine, and, if you watched the rest of the GS, are having something of a tough go so far. I focus my inappropriate Schadenfreude on over-marketed snowboarders, part of NBC's conspiracy to prop up a thankfully dying "sport."

Regarding the excesses of neo-liberalism, I assume you don't watch professional sports?

[cu155]

USA putting a lot of pressure on Cornell in period 1.

[Swampy]

USA putting a lot of pressure on Cornell in period 1.

But Cornell wins 4-2. Jenner '15 scores 2 goals.

Free Tibet!

[cu155]

USA putting a lot of pressure on Cornell in period 1.

But Cornell wins 4-2. Jenner '15 scores 2 goals.

Free Tibet!

Lol, you're going to get me sent to a garlic peeling operation in Xinjiang with posts like that!

Micah Zandee-Hart I think had an assist on one of the goals as well.

[dag14]

US outshot Cornell 2-1 so while our women were better offensively, the Team Canada goaltender was the star of the game.

[scoop85]

US outshot Cornell 2-1 so while our women were better offensively, the Team Canada goaltender was the star of the game.

It's the system (?)

[Swampy]

US outshot Cornell 2-1 so while our women were better offensively, the Team Canada goaltender was the star of the game.

It's the system^TM (?)

[ugarte]

US outshot Cornell 2-1 so while our women were better offensively, the Team Canada goaltender was the star of the game.

i don't know that i'd say this despite the shot advantage. there were stretches where US was puck-dominant but the quality of chances on the Canadian side was much higher. it was a great game.

[TimV]

A GREAT effort.  You out-Trotskyed Trotsky!  Never saw that done before...  We ugly people deserve equal opportunity.