A complete guide to bluffing your way through the Winter Olympics

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They’re here! The Winter Olympics have returned to fill our lives with two weeks of skiing, skating, and hot luge action and make these deep, dark days of late winter before baseball spring training a little less awful.

The Winter Olympics is one of the few events when the entire globe will be following along — even if their TV coverage is all a little bit different. The ratings in the U.S. will certainly be huge and the results a hot topic around the workplace and internet.

But this only happens every four years and many of the sports aren’t exactly mainstream. So it’s understandable that you might be a little lost while gorging yourself on athletic competition.  Read more…

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Everything you need to know to enjoy curling, the Winter Olympics’ best obscure sport

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The Olympics are here and besides the pomp, circumstance, and human interest stories, it also means our lives are about to be taken over by really obscure sports we get hooked on for two weeks and then forget about until the next Olympics. 

The Summer Olympics have a bevy of these — water polo and handball being among my favorites — but the Winter Olympics has the very best of these sports: curling. 

Like shuffleboard on ice, curling is a sport that unfolds slowly but is no less captivating. It can set up thrilling moments, even if we don’t really understand what, exactly, might be going on.   Read more…

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Team USA flipped a coin to choose flag bearer and Shani Davis isn’t thrilled

With the Opening Ceremonies of the 2018 Winter Olympics less than 24 hours away, Team USA has finally selected its flag bearer. Unfortunately, the process looks like it’s left some raw feelings.
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