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Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Feb 24, 2018 - 08:17am PT

Scott Patterson got 11th in the 50K. Pretty sure that’s our best ever in that.
That’s a long damn ways to ski, especially in a little more than 2 hours!

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Feb 24, 2018 - 05:02pm PT

How'd he get from cowering outside that school to the Olympics?

ms55401, so now we are represented by an Austrian body builder?

ms55401

Trad climber

minneapolis, mn

Feb 24, 2018 - 05:14pm PT

my take is this: you build a wildly successful Hollywood franchise on a persona of machismo, biceps, pecs and lots of guns killing lots of bad (often foreign-looking) guys, with a liberal (see what I did there?) dosing of really bad puns, puns so bad they wouldn't even make it onto a James Bond script, and then go on to govern the most important (arguably) and most populous (certainly) state in the USA, your American bona fides are utterly unimpeachable.

that said, the America curling gold was fukking awesome. If I were a crier, I would have cried last night.

Toker Villain

Big Wall climber

Toquerville, Utah

Feb 24, 2018 - 05:26pm PT

Well, he's been "me tooed", so I guess that makes him a red blooded American.

ms55401

Trad climber

minneapolis, mn

Feb 24, 2018 - 05:32pm PT

but perhaps more red-blooded American than, say, Woody Allen

Marlow

Sport climber

OSLO

Feb 25, 2018 - 12:13am PT

Marit Bjørgen, winner of the 30 km in OL 2018:

Marit is the most winning winter Olympics athlete of all time with 8 golds, 4 silvers and 3 bronze medals.

SC seagoat

Trad climber

Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone

Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2018 - 03:36pm PT

Oh oh.
Closing ceremony. The winter gloves add a little something.

Ski wax melted all over him because he’s so HAWT.

since he does summer and winter I guess I only need to wait two years.

Maybe after Hawaii this year we can sail to Tonga instead of Alaska.
We could pick up crew there. Yes. A plan coming together.

Susan

Trad climber

Calgary

Feb 25, 2018 - 04:55pm PT

The quintessential Canadian choke is to blow curling in a world event.
Most of the other countries have only 1 or 2 good teams and would have a hard time getting out of Southern Alberta.
I curled with Paul Gowsell (in 74) who a few years later had the best team in the World.
We were also probably one of the only teams to sample J Tree type produce while on the ice.