2026 Olympics Team Event - Strategy, Predictions & Discussion

[Karen-W]

@Karen-W, I like your schedule, but I don't think the two days off between short/rhythm, and free is a good idea. It's something that was mentioned in the broadcast, and by other skaters on social media. Skaters aren't used to two days off while competing.

Good point. Maybe just have each individual event compete back-to-back days instead. The skaters are definitely more used to that type of competition schedule

 

[allezfred]

Day 2 - rest day - currently NBC always winds up with the Super Bowl broadcast for on the 1st Sunday of the OWG, so they don't really need figure skating on that day and it gives ALL of the skaters a day to rest before their individual events begin

NBC and the USA can f*ck right off if they think the rest of the world is going to accommodate an American domestic event.

 

[Karen-W]

NBC and the USA can f*ck right off if they think the rest of the world is going to accommodate an American domestic event.

Lmao. Get back to me when the rest of the world pays the sort of $$ NBC pays to the IOC for broadcast rights.

The point of reconfiguring the scheduling for the TE isn't actually about accommodating NBC for the Super Bowl, it's to help the skaters rest & prepare for their individual events. But, of course, you've got such a strong, immovable anti-American streak in you that you fly right into a predictable blind rage at the suggestion that a rest day be incorporated into the figure skating schedule that coincides with the Super Bowl. No, no, no, hellllll no, we shall not do anything that "accommodates" NBC & the USA, even when it obviously benefits the people who matter most - the Olympic figure skaters.

 

[marbri]

To be fair Karen you brought up the Superbowl as part of your argument

 

[Karen-W]

To be fair Karen you brought up the Superbowl as part of your argument

I did.

Listen, the Super Bowl is certainly an American event, but it is also an event that is watched around the globe given the growing popularity of the NFL internationally. The fact is, the Winter Olympics and the Super Bowl are competing events and while I know that causes resentment & anger from some quarters, it is just a simple truth these days.

So, you have a choice, continue screwing over the athletes impacted by a slightly more compacted Olympics figure skating schedule or build in an extra rest day that just so happens to coincide with another major sports event that is going to draw eyeballs away from the Winter Olympics no matter which of your marquee sports (figure skating & alpine skiing) you have on the schedule for the same day.

But, nope, some European sports administrators are so hung up on their resentment & bias against the US, they'd rather dig their heels in at any suggestion of slightly altering the Olympics figure skating schedule to better accommodate the athletes because it may also, God forbid, benefit NBC too. So sad and, like I said, utterly predictable, knee-jerk reaction.