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Hi Tulsa, long time no see. Great Games, eh? Pyeongchang revived my interest in the Games after Sochi killed it. Hope you're enjoying the Olympics from your mountaintop in Annecy. Lol.

We're well into the second week and still a ton of empty seats. I thought they'd fill-up more now, but no. Lots of seats at the Women's Downhill right now. The other day I had CBC's VR app going, and goggles on and was watching the ice dancing competition. I was looking around in the stands, and a lot of empty seats there too. Ouch. Bring the games back to North America. We'll fill the seats here.

Not surprising, considering the leadup was filled with lot of bad news regarding the low ticket sale and general interest of the games. When PC was awarded the games in 2011, the situation was very different. Winter sports were kind of popular thanks to popular figures like Kim Yuna and the SK Speedskating team of back then. A lot of things have changed ever since: Many of those original idols have retired so the populace still haven't found someone who can fill these roles as well as they did, since they're also prone to look for charismatic athletes they can root for (Kim Yuna is still adored almost to a godhood/K-Pop status in her country) I don't think these games were badly organized, but I agree it's better to give the games to Northern Europe and North America. At least people there have a genuine love for winter sports. Even if they manage to fill all the seats in Beijing 2022 (and they will, even if they have to encourage people from day one like they did for 2008) it won't count for me, since I know they will do it more as a matter of national pride than for actual interest for the games. So yeah. I really hope Canada gets the games in 2026. Problem is we have to see if Calgary citizens want to go through the plans.

Golden showers! Brady Lehman wins in ski cross!

You should change the channel to the USA-Czech Republic hockey game. I think I saw more people at a local high school's basketball game this weekend. It's pretty upsetting, especially considering they claim to have over 90% of the tickets sold. Hopefully China can fill events, at least the stadium events based in Beijing, as they have the population.The alpine ones out in the distance are still up in the air though, we'll see. But you're correct. Calgary 2026 and Salt Lake 2030 are both looking better and better every day.

I won pins at work!

INo photos sorry. If I go again I will. The table is run by a government employee who works in Seoul and a COC volunteer. There are some postcards all in Korean and a video screen playing tourism videos (which according to them is all on Youtube)

Is this your first games? Glad you’re having a great time. I’d sure like to read of your experience there!

Amazing experience. If I get a chance I met write something about my experience here.

New fly-through video posted yesterday of LAX's automated people-mover, scheduled to start construction this year, to be completed by 2023: