I missed Chen's performance but have caught the highlights since then.

I stayed up last night to watch the women's hockey gold medal game between the US and Canada. Congrats to the Canadians on their 3-2 victory. I enjoyed watching their enthusiasm and joy as they sang "O Canada" at their medal ceremony.

Bobsled today!

Oh, and Jamaica has their first female driver/pilot.

Posted by: @coracle

My interest increased today, when a New Zealand girl won a gold medal in snowboarding. 

It's the first gold we've ever won at the Winter Games.  

Now New Zealand has won a second gold medal. Congratulations.! 🙂

Posted by: @cyberlucy

Has anyone been watching the figure skating?  I loved Nathan Chen's gold medal winning performance.  

It's so funny, even without all of the controversy, I found myself a bit annoyed at figure skating this year. I just don't like the scoring system. If skaters can fall and take first place because they can rack up a higher technical score over others who don't fall, have perfect skates, but not quite as high as a technical score, then I'm far less interested. I think that's why in the last few winter Olympics, ice dancing is the only version I'm really into. My favorite skaters this year were Madison Chock and Evan Bates. I REALLY liked their alien/astronaut performance. (Sorry Nathen Chen )

Snowboarding in its various forms has become my favorite set of Olympic sports. If I had to pick one, it'd be the half-pipe. I like watching the tricks and combinations. It's almost like seeing someone fly. And I have no idea how they even do it! It's crazy. And (to build off of the previous paragraph) I like how it's scored, far more fair than ice skating. And speaking of which, congrats to NZ on their first gold metal! That was one of my top three favorite moments of the Olympics, when Zoi Sadowski Synnott landed her gold-winning halfpipe run and the other two girls ran out and tackled her they were all so excited for her.  

This Olympics I surprised myself by watching a fair amount of Curling. It's the first time I caught on to strategy involved and that was REALLY interesting. USA Men's team took 4th place this year. It would have been fun to watch four years ago when they took gold, but I still enjoyed watching a few of the games.  

But my most favorite moment from the games was with Erin Jackson. Particularly the story behind it.... of her slipping in Olympic trials to even go to the Olympics, and then Brittany Bowe gave up her spot so Erin could skate, and then Erin scored the gold medal. Yep. I admit, I got a little emotional. 

Anyways, I hope in four years the next winter Olympics will be able to avoid a lot of the controversy from this year. I do enjoy watching them. 

Here's to Summer 2024 Olympics in Paris!

I haven't managed to watch as much of the paralympics as I wanted to, but I did manage to catch most of the snowboarding, and I watched the gold medal sled hockey game last night! Very fast and exciting and ending in 5-0 for the USA. Here's hoping for better US coverage next time.