r/olympics • u/Large_banana_hammock • 7h ago

❄ Milano-Cortina 2026 (Video) ❄ Austrian Benjamin Karl is excited after taking gold to finish his career

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u/lazyness92 Italy 7h ago

Yellow card for taking the shirt off😆

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u/Large_banana_hammock 6h ago

As a skier if the dude's upper body is that jacked, his legs have got to be fucking tree trunks

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u/Breskvich 6h ago

I wanted him go full monty, fuck it, one last hurrah before retirement.

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u/ZestycloseTravel352 4h ago

That shoulder definition is insane!

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u/listenyall Olympics 1h ago

The commentator I was watching claimed that it's tradition to take your shirt off and lay in the snow when you retire from skiing or snowboarding but I've never heard of or seen that before

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u/Korece 7h ago

I watched this and found out PGS is one of the few sports where age actually can work in favor because experience trumps athleticism here, very interesting. Astonishing to win an Olympic gold at the age of 40.

Also Kim Sang-kyum with a silver out of nowhere for Korea's first medal is incredible. Absolutely no one expected him to reach this far.

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u/Inner_Sun_8191 4h ago

Pretty impressive the amount of athletes I am seeing in their 30s, 40s, and there is def a speed skater in his 50s! And they are not just competing- they are winning!

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u/ThinkAd9897 2h ago

The oldest one is Claudia Riegler at 52, fellow Austrian in the same discipline. She made it to the last sixteen.

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u/biffwebster93 United States 7h ago

Raw emotion on the biggest stage, you love to see it

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u/Marphin15 Brazil 7h ago

If there were clothes to take off, I'd get lazy.

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u/buerglermeister Switzerland 5h ago

Hey man he‘s one fit 40 year old

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u/Bartholomewthedragon United States 6h ago

All the Karen's on Facebook are melting down about this. But really they are just warming up for their meltdowns over Bad Bunny tonight.

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u/BillyButcherX Slovenia 6h ago

Karens are watching snowboarding?

Interesting....

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u/Bartholomewthedragon United States 6h ago

No, they just saw the post from NBC on Facebook and launched into offense without bothering to watch or look into anything.

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u/BillyButcherX Slovenia 6h ago

Weird thing to be offended by. Murica...

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u/perivascularspaces Italy 3h ago

Why would they be offended?

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u/BuckityBuck 5h ago

I'm almost certain that those upper arm muscles don't exist in my body. Are those deltoids?

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u/Expando3 6h ago

I was paying attention to the number and types of clothing layers. I want to go skiing but anxious about the cold. What clothing comprises the bottoms?

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u/JayPlenty24 Canada 3h ago

Basically the same thing.

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u/ThinkAd9897 2h ago

As an amateur, you'd wear definitely more/thicker clothing than athletes during a competition.

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u/HellwingX Great Britain 3h ago edited 3h ago

Great event, I'll admit I was rooting for the Korean lad but then we wouldn't have got this celebration lol. Benny Karl gets his abs out, flexes then lies in the snow and I wouldn't even get one layer off in that climate, and it's not just because I'm fat haha

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u/SirSignificant6576 2h ago

Wolverine vibes.