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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 10:48 am 
apnews
22m
Lindsey Vonn says she had a "successful" third surgery on her broken left leg following her downhill crash at the Olympics.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 1:00 pm
Grooch, that worked on my computer, but I usually watch thru xfinity. I'll see if I can tap in directly to Peacock online on my smart tv.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 1:03 pm
I take that back, the only things available now are the same things available on the tv stations.
I'm over this. LOL.
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Juju2bigdog
Member
10-26-2000
| Wednesday, February 11, 2026 - 9:53 pm
quote:Grooch, no. I go to Peacock via Xfinity, and choose "watch live" and it only shows me what's on the three channels I listed!
I wonder why? I'll dig around some more.
Kar, strangely enough since I don't watch much television, I do have some familiarity with xfinity/stream. I do recall that way back when I first discovered it, (maybe 4-5 years ago?) it presented me with 300 channels and asked if I would like to select favorites, so I quick selected the three then-major channels of cbs, abc, and nbc. Now, when I go to watch it, (although I rarely watch live), and I try to search, it does ask me if I want to search all or just my favorites.
So, at some point, you may have been asked that question and been distracted, and somehow set search only your favorite channels as your default? That is something I might do in my old age.
Continuing to battle cancer is definitely not for sissies. I am grateful for every day you check in here.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Friday, February 13, 2026 - 2:06 am
Right now I'm watching the US is Canada in men's curling.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, February 13, 2026 - 8:14 am
Heh, Grooch, was on from 1 am to 3 am here. I was awake because they give me steroids with my chemo, so I watched.
Women played a few hours later, but I got spoiled on Facebook, so prolly won't watch.
Still rooting for both!
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Friday, February 13, 2026 - 3:06 pm
The Guardian
@theguardian.com
· 2m
Matt Weston slides to skeleton gold as Team GB finally win medal at Winter Olympics
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Kappy
Member
06-28-2002
| Friday, February 13, 2026 - 3:41 pm
My only irritation with Peacock is that when I try to fast forward to a later portion of a replay, they make me watch more commercials because I refuse to pay for ad free, lol. I've found I can tape the morning programs on regular nbc and just fast forward through the commercials when I watch them later. Otherwise, the Peacock Olympic portal has been pretty great for looking up the sports you actually want to watch. Karunna, I hope you figure out how to access it for yourself. It would be great for you to use for the next week.
It was a heartbreaking morning for the top men (and expected gold winners) in ice skating. Both Yuma Kagiyama and Ilia Malinin let their nerves get the better of them and had falls. Yuma dropped to silver and Ilia failed to make the podium. When you go for more difficult moves, you are punished more for not completing them. I look forward to seeing both of them in the next olympics.
I'm on to enjoying the alpine skiing and the snowboarding.
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Legalboxer
Member
11-16-2003
| Friday, February 13, 2026 - 4:02 pm
Ilia lost 72 points on mistakes. It reality was a gut punch to watch and know he just wanted to cry as soon as it was over. Yet he was so poised and while I feel horrible for Ilia, I love the excitement from the winner Mikhail Shaidorov. If anyone deserved to be the surprise winner, it’s him!
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Friday, February 13, 2026 - 7:00 pm
Kappy, I did figure it out. Once I figured out how to navigate it from the app on my laptop (from Grooch's instructions), I can now do it from my tv too! Watched the replay of the women's curling.... wonderful!
They sure don't make it intuitive tho!  . Or maybe it's just my brain!
Ilia did well after that, I would have crumpled into a bawling mess. He congratulated the winner, took the interview well. Only thing he said subtly was that he would have done better had they let him come 4 years ago.... I presume to get over his jitters.
Well, hope we see him again in 4 years!
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Saturday, February 14, 2026 - 8:35 am
And by the way, I LOVE being able to search by sport now, and find either live coverage, or replays.
Watched USA mens' curling this morning... wow!
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Saturday, February 14, 2026 - 9:39 am
apnews
21m
Milan Cortina Olympic mascots, the eponymous Milo and Tina, have taken off in popularity. Plushies of the stoat siblings are flying off the shelves, and many of the official Olympics stores in the host cities are already sold out a week into the Winter Games.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Saturday, February 14, 2026 - 9:39 am
apnews
24m
Jordan Stolz wins his second Olympic speedskating gold medal and is the second man to complete the 500-1,000 double at one Olympics.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Saturday, February 14, 2026 - 12:54 pm
nbcbayarea
Olympics
34m
Lucas Pinheiro Braathen made history with gold in the men’s giant slalom, becoming the first South American to reach the Olympic podium in the sport.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Saturday, February 14, 2026 - 12:56 pm
nbcbayarea
Olympics
1h
After her Caesar salad–reviewing Instagram blew up online, U.S. goalie Aerin Frankel talks about how her longtime hobby suddenly went viral.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Sunday, February 15, 2026 - 8:17 am
Curling fans? Did I lose you all?
I've developed the bad habit of watching in the middle of the night!
spoiler in case you haven't see last night's results:
Spoiler
Click below to view spoiler | | Men won again! Now 3-2 overall, 5th in standings, 4 games to go... must be in top 4 to go to finals. Women barely eeked one out over China, after trailing the whole game, now 4-1!! |
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Sunday, February 15, 2026 - 11:14 am
The Americans are doing really well!
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Sunday, February 15, 2026 - 1:52 pm
LOL, Karuuna, I watch them at the crack of dawn myself.
Enjoying the Pairs Skate Short Program right now.
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Dipo
Member
04-22-2002
| Sunday, February 15, 2026 - 2:07 pm
Ut Oh, who ever heard of curling controversy!
nbcbayarea
Olympics
30m
As scrutiny grows in the Olympic curling cheating controversy, NBC Sports’ Cara Cooper explains how Canada’s women and other teams have also been called for granite touches.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, February 16, 2026 - 12:53 am
Kar, are you awake? I'm watching Canada vs China (womens) right now. I really should be sleeping.
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, February 16, 2026 - 12:58 am
In the curling highlights yesterday, there was a clip in the "best of moments" section of the men's Swedish is Canada game where the Swedish captain accused a Canadian player of touching the granite after he released the stone. The Swedish guy even went to the judges about it. A lot of cursing from the Canadian when accused.
On replay, you can see the Canadians finger going to touch it, but because of the angle of the camera, you can't actually see if he did or not.
And now the women are being accused of it? What's going on?
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, February 16, 2026 - 7:09 am
I fell asleep right after my post last night. Lol!
I googled and I see the male Canadian player has been accused of touching the stone in another game. Also a Canadian woman, and a British male player.
And a stone was removed from another game, but I forget why.
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Karuuna
Board Administrator
08-30-2000
| Monday, February 16, 2026 - 8:23 am
Yeah, who'd have thunk so much cheating in Curling??
I was not awake then, Grooch, since the men played 2x yesterday, no middle of the night game.
Men now stand at 4-2... they say they need 6 wins to get into final four, but currently they are tied for 3rd place (I think).
Women stand at 4-1, and they play in about 2 hours!! Fingers crossed they get another win today!
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Grooch
Member
06-16-2006
| Monday, February 16, 2026 - 10:18 am
Women's Curling - US is Italy starting right now. 
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Jimmer
Board Administrator
08-29-2000
| Monday, February 16, 2026 - 10:58 am
I think describing it as cheating is a little harsh. It’s more like an infraction and a very trivial one at that. It would be like saying a football player who is called for pass interference is cheating. Far less really, because there is no discernible advantage in touching the rock that way. The whole thing is ridiculous.
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