• CrimeDadOPA
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      1 month ago

      Usually dry but I think it actually melts under the pressure of a blade, so events with skates might have to go in the dry wet Olympics.

        • @valkyre09@lemmy.world
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          41 month ago

          The phrase “pre-melted” is making me chuckle. If it’s pre-melted, surely it’s frozen? If it’s frozen, isn’t that just ice?

          • @PatrickYaa@lemmy.one
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            31 month ago

            Eh, that’s what they called it in the article and I’m neither a physicist nor a material scientist. They made a definite distinction between the two forms of the materials in this and other articles related to the topic which I was too topic-uninformed to understand. So you might be right :D

  • Subverb
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    61 month ago

    I prefer it the way it is. The hot and cold Olympics.

  • @gspm@lemmy.world
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    471 month ago

    How about qualitative and quantitative Olympics?

    All the higher, faster, farther sports on one side. All the sports that include style judges on the other.

      • Beacon
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        71 month ago

        I don’t see how. Summer games are games that can be played outdoors during the summer season. Winter games are games that can be played outdoors during the winter season.

        • CrimeDadOPA
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          21 month ago

          Why so many indoor events then? Also, the typical seasons of many of of the “Summer” Olympics events are in the winter.

          • Beacon
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            11 month ago

            Why so many indoor events then?

            They’re games that people CAN play outdoors during summer.

            Also, the typical seasons of many of of the “Summer” Olympics events are in the winter.

            I don’t understand this question.

            • CrimeDadOPA
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              21 month ago

              What I mean is that I consider basketball, for example, to be a winter sport since it is properly played indoors on a wooden court and therefore its season is during the cold months of the year.

              • Beacon
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                11 month ago

                I can’t say i agree. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion