Anyone watching men’s halfpipe? THESE are the real athletes.

@BatRinseRepeat Seriously, did you watch the women's halfpipe? Her biggest trick was a 1080 spin. I could do that when I was twelve. And I'm not even a great snowboarder. She's a tool, she's a little suburban cunt teenage prick who belongs back at the skate park. She didn't even deserve to compete in the Olympics, much less win a gold medal. Yes Chloe Kim is a loser, she's an upstart neophyte prick who tweets about being "hangry" in between doing runs of novice level tricks.

@BlueMetalChick

I watched her medal run . Personalities aside, points is points and the decision of the judges is final.

@BatRinseRepeat But that's just the thing. Her run was better than any of the other female competitors. And what does that tell you? If all the riders this year weren't even as good as a 17 year old downie whose biggest trick was something most any intermediate rider can do, then that should demonstrate that there were no actual pro-level snowboarders this year.

Got to agree, the field on the women's side was not the strongest.

But - Much as I admire real champions like Shaun, I think Hirano was the one who earned the gold.

In other news, meet my new love interest - All of them 😍:

@BatRinseRepeat I agree, Hirano should have won the gold. Shaun White's final run was spectacular...but he didn't do anything other than recycle his already-well-known tricks. To be honest, I think White was fudged just a little bit to take the gold because it's been pretty obvious how extremely upset he was at not placing during the Sochi Olympics in 2014 and he's been irate and obsessively trying to win gold this year. He's 31, so he's on his way out of the sport, and Hirano is only 10 meaning he'll be around for a lot longer with his entire career ahead of him.

@BlueMetalChick

True.

The sport definitely has a future, and it will be led by Hirano and others just coming up.