emily scherer

“only a double”

ashley wagner speaking facts on gold zone about malinin and flashbacks to nathan chen in pyeongchang. maybe we stop putting this pressure on these kiddos!

France's Viral Ice Dancing Team Has A Dark Backstory | Defector Blink and you might not have caught it. On Monday, Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry took to the rink and staked their claim to the ice dancing gold medal. Dancing to Madonna’s “Vogue,” ...

Resharing this because the top teams in ice dancing just took the ice — a primer on the dark backstory behind France's viral ice dancing team. They are among the favorites for gold.

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the more the USA women pile on the goals against Canada i cannot lie, the more nervous i get that the next meeting will be Canada's revenge game and that one is likely to be far more consequential

i love that the mixed doubles curling final is between a pair with the same first name and the other pair is siblings

Pregaming the Super Bowl with the Olympics be like

knew that the vonn crash was coming and watching on mute through my hands and it still was way worse than i could have expected

black and white dog wears a patriots bandana

she’s ready

glad to know "freed from desire" remains the official unofficial song of the olympics once more

what a SKATE

Amid the hundreds of colleagues we’ve lost today, I wanted to highlight the BRILLIANT data/graphics folks who any newsroom should be fighting to hire right now—threading here:

a group of people are standing around a stuffed animal that says honeycam on it ALT: a group of people are standing around a stuffed animal that says honeycam on it

problem with the olympic mascot having a very normal name ("tina") means searching for the #content will not be nearly as easy as with bing dwen dwen, the phryges, or my love soohorang

don't give them ideas

oh god the country club lunch collars are back???

and we immediately have a power outage!

the "this olympic event will begin shortly" music and drone footage has the energy of "the walt disney corportation creates a winter focused soarin at epcot"

mixed doubles curling round robin quad view is up and running let's goooooooooooooooooooo

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026 | Defector Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end of 2024, Dan was diagnosed with neuroendocrine cancer. The news of his…

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an old photo of the poster's mother pointing with pride to the patriots' lombardi trophies

pats in the super bowl i'm gonna pin this entirely on my mom who would have ****loved**** this :)

oh my mother would have loved this

gingerbread people, enchanted forest, route 40, ellicott city, maryland, 1977

gingerbread people, enchanted forest, route 40, ellicott city, maryland, 1977

it's giving clutchpoints

parallel play with my dog (she's chewing on the empty cup from her pup cup and i'm chewing on the straw from my iced coffee)

“michael rappaport pulls a jeff varner towards former bachelor colton underwood in front of tara lipinsky and johnny weir while alan cummings wears a sweater vest that says ‘murrrrrrder’ in a scottish castle” is a wild thing to say and have watched

we're all just getting through it

ok but this is a vibe

i love looking at online estate sale auction sites bc it means trying to figure out why whoever owned this tool workshop space also had a soft serve ice cream machine there

“olympic speed skater and olympic ice hockey captain fall in love” you can’t tell me that someone hadn’t already pitched this as a book titled “cross ice pass” or something and yet it’s real!

multiple times in fact

cannot wait for all the new hockey fans to discover women’s hockey this olympics bc the way we’ve seen this film before!