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KyleTheGhost
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21 Aug 2016, 3:57 pm

Aww, the Olympics are ending. At least Team USA did a great job! I can't wait for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea!


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22 Aug 2016, 4:50 am

Just when I get used to having them around, the Olympics end. Happens every time.


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22 Aug 2016, 5:03 am

IKR? It makes for great filler when people are over and you don't know what else to put on TV. Oh well, the Winter Games aren't far away (and the Commonwealth Games, too).

I wonder if North Korea will show up to the 2018 Winter Games. They boycotted the 1988 Games in Seoul. And if they do show up, I wonder if North and South will march together.


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22 Aug 2016, 5:09 am

Good question. I doubt they would ever hold it in North Korea, although they did hold the Olympics in Nazi Berlin and Soviet Moscow.

Tokyo in 2020 sounds really good, too!


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24 Aug 2016, 1:38 pm

Murihiku wrote:
Oh well, the Winter Games aren't far away (and the Commonwealth Games, too).

Commonwealth Games?


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24 Aug 2016, 1:39 pm

^Yeah, what's that?


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24 Aug 2016, 1:45 pm

I hope Murihiku will enlighten us.


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24 Aug 2016, 1:49 pm

Hmm, it appears to be a British thing.


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24 Aug 2016, 3:36 pm

Yeah, it's like a smaller version of the Olympics for Commonwealth countries, held in the same year as the Winter Olympics. The next one is being held in 2018, here in my city. :mrgreen: They have most of the same sports as in the Summer Olympics, along with a few others such as cricket, netball (similar to basketball and mostly played by women), lawn bowls and ten-pin bowling.


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25 Aug 2016, 4:56 am

Thanks.


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26 Aug 2016, 9:35 am

Thanks for clarifying, Murihiku. i looked it up, and it seems they have (or have had) some interesting sports there, like lawn bowls.


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28 Aug 2016, 5:25 am

KyleTheGhost wrote:
...I can't wait for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea!
I didn't know that. lol


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28 Aug 2016, 5:27 am

So you're gonna come to see me?


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28 Aug 2016, 5:30 am

Are you excited about it? It will be in Pyeongchang.


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28 Aug 2016, 6:47 am

KyleTheGhost wrote:
Are you excited about it? It will be in Pyeongchang.
^ No, I'm not.. Anyway it takes three to four hours by car from here to Pyeongchang.


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28 Aug 2016, 7:24 am

^Why? All the commotion that interrupts a person's normal schedule?


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