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  • U.S. Olympic and Paralympic athletes use the power of Twitter to answer some common questions about their respective winter sports. Former and current Olympians and Paralympians Gus Kenworthy, Lolo Jones, Amy Purdy, Alex & Maia Shibutani, Joss Christensen, Elana Meyers Taylor, Jamie Greubel Poser, Rico Roman, Danelle Umstead, Oskana Masters, Alex Deibold, Jamie Anderson, and Chloe Kim deep dive on the sports of freestyle skiing, ice dancing, bobsledding, snowboarding, Para snowboarding, Para ice hockey, Para alpine skiing, and Para nordic skiing.
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  • @surprisedpikachuface9864
    @surprisedpikachuface9864 Před 6 lety +356

    The figure skaters siblings are so cute

  • @mypal1990
    @mypal1990 Před 6 lety +304

    "Feel the rhythm! Feel the rhyme! Get on up, its bobsled time! Cool Runnings!" Wait wrong video.

  • @TheMovieMyLife
    @TheMovieMyLife Před 6 lety +727

    Alex and Maia are so cute. :)

    • @lalie9995
      @lalie9995 Před 6 lety +3

      TheMovieMyLife I’m so confused at how I see you comment on every video I watch

  • @Tigris797
    @Tigris797 Před 6 lety +547

    Alex Shibutani is a snack!!!

  • @CrazyPangolinLady
    @CrazyPangolinLady Před 6 lety +15

    I wish the Paralympics were easier to find on tv. I love the olympics and I want more.

    • @Jenn1842
      @Jenn1842 Před 2 lety +3

      That is so true, because I had trouble finding the Summer Paralympics games that were happening in Tokyo, Japan last year.

    • @fatimahanwaar306
      @fatimahanwaar306 Před 2 lety

      that's internalized ableism for you

  • @dt5092
    @dt5092 Před 6 lety +123

    I love hearing more about Paralympic sports!

  • @Roll587
    @Roll587 Před 6 lety +96

    This is wonderful. Than k you for including Olympic and Paralympic athletes.

  • @Chewyness
    @Chewyness Před 6 lety +60

    Chole Kim just won a gold medal 🥇 at the Olympics at 17 yrs old

  • @kateh7484
    @kateh7484 Před 6 lety +143

    Love Maia and Alex

  • @ct3gct3g
    @ct3gct3g Před 6 lety +56

    Alex and Maia are so freaking beautiful.

  • @spk1121
    @spk1121 Před 6 lety +125

    Amy Purdy is so purdy! I mean, pretty! She's not the only one, too. It's funny how so many Olympic-level athletes are so good-looking. Must be that whole "pinnacle of human achievement" thing they have going on.

    • @jeandavidyeah8840
      @jeandavidyeah8840 Před 6 lety +10

      If you are fit, there is much more chance for you to look good

    • @Vendrix86
      @Vendrix86 Před 6 lety +5

      they also get paid, have sponsorships so they can afford the best personal care and/or get it for free.

  • @varizza
    @varizza Před 6 lety +65

    Can't even imagine the training they must have gone through

  • @eucamong
    @eucamong Před 6 lety +29

    Olympians are truly amazing people!

  • @notcomplet6377
    @notcomplet6377 Před 6 lety +35

    1:52 "If you never have felt a G" The earth's gravity is 1G. Everyone has felt it.

  • @macmalina
    @macmalina Před 6 lety +73

    Those figure skaters are adorable

  • @hudsonhintze
    @hudsonhintze Před 6 lety +1

    Those Paralympic athletes are honestly amazing I love hearing about them

  • @marcopolo208
    @marcopolo208 Před 6 lety +16

    I feel more impaired without having a disability than these athletes, they make their sports sound so easy. I realize they have fought the hardest and fought some more after that to get where they are now.

  • @sarthakmishra1415
    @sarthakmishra1415 Před 6 lety +4

    You guys inspire me. Thanks!!

  • @TheEdaShow
    @TheEdaShow Před 6 lety +4

    Love that they included so many Paralympians!

  • @alain-alexandregrange2598

    Loved this!!

  • @Acerbium
    @Acerbium Před 6 lety

    This was very, very cool. Great Series!

  • @dudewat212
    @dudewat212 Před 6 lety +134

    What really goes on at the Olympic Village? ...

  • @NChambernator
    @NChambernator Před 6 lety +144

    3:09 We hold the straight part of the D's

  • @carolinehart1966
    @carolinehart1966 Před 6 lety +2

    Great video. Thanks to all!

  • @triciarose389
    @triciarose389 Před 6 lety

    The ice dancers are so adorable! 💕

  • @DerTarchinPro
    @DerTarchinPro Před 6 lety +7

    i actually learned a lot, never heard of sled hockey or guided skiing. Both look so hard and dangerous!

  • @exonify8890
    @exonify8890 Před 6 lety +1

    Ive seen the bobsleder everywhere the one on the left!

  • @duyguyigit878
    @duyguyigit878 Před 6 lety

    this is great. you should do more sports.

  • @barbrabaker6579
    @barbrabaker6579 Před 6 lety

    Wow! Two major badasses: Amy Purdy and Lolo Jones! And all those paralympians. Amazing people. I hope they're treated well.

  • @IGleeker
    @IGleeker Před 6 lety +1

    LOLO JONES she was on The Challenge. That’s my show. I love her

  • @natalieshah4998
    @natalieshah4998 Před 6 lety +19

    It’s the Shibutani's!!!!

  • @ayoitsadam5945
    @ayoitsadam5945 Před 6 lety +8

    I only clicked for Chloe Kim to be honest

  • @leightonellis4957
    @leightonellis4957 Před 6 lety +3

    I love Gus Kenworthy

  • @t1mor29
    @t1mor29 Před 6 lety +7

    I like that the Thumbnail ist also the first question in the Video👍🏼

  • @JoeShopper
    @JoeShopper Před 6 lety +22

    That super cute girl's name is "Amy Purdy." Talk about hitting the nail on the head!

  • @jabo109
    @jabo109 Před 6 lety

    Dayummmm! The arms of Oksana Masters, those look like really really strong arms.

  • @navigill2707
    @navigill2707 Před 6 lety +8

    1:50 My real Gs know what's up

  • @Stan-san
    @Stan-san Před 6 lety +101

    I'm pretty sure most people have felt a G 🤔

    • @joscythe556
      @joscythe556 Před 6 lety +8

      Yeah, everybody in fact.

    • @reisbob7786
      @reisbob7786 Před 6 lety +1

      Stan Hildebrandt a ğ what now

    • @jazmindelgado12
      @jazmindelgado12 Před 6 lety +1

      How??

    • @juliusklose
      @juliusklose Před 6 lety +3

      Jazmin Viquez One G is equal to your body weight. So your are always feeling 1G. 5G means nothing more than 5 times the pressure of your body weight

    • @bobthetaco1057
      @bobthetaco1057 Před 6 lety

      Julius Klose "nothing more" you good?

  • @griffinteller5267
    @griffinteller5267 Před 6 lety +4

    FEEL THE RHYTHM! FEEL THE RHYME! GET ON UP, IT"S BOBSLED TIME!

  • @codename9824
    @codename9824 Před 6 lety

    Wolf Creek?! That’s such a tiny slope, I miss it!

  • @mirandarichard122
    @mirandarichard122 Před 6 lety

    My grandmother was a famous speedskater who almost made it to the olympics. She watches them every year and always seems kind of sad she never got her shot

  • @samlewis9986
    @samlewis9986 Před 6 lety +4

    0:55 about 4 years late

  • @romheadliner994
    @romheadliner994 Před 6 lety +3

    Here for ShibShibs!!!!!!

  • @lnwreal9
    @lnwreal9 Před 6 lety +36

    Amy Purdy is so cute!

    • @wgk4845
      @wgk4845 Před 6 lety +4

      You could 've said that she's purdy.

  • @fatimahanwaar306
    @fatimahanwaar306 Před 2 lety

    OMG those figure skaters are making me fangirl so hard!

  • @stephaniemcnugg9693
    @stephaniemcnugg9693 Před 6 lety +1

    LOVE GUS ❤️

  • @dothedo3667
    @dothedo3667 Před 6 lety

    Sled hockey is really fun to play. It really is awesome!

  • @Sharp50000
    @Sharp50000 Před 6 lety

    God bless you all.

  • @johnbouttell5827
    @johnbouttell5827 Před 6 lety +2

    Practice, practice, practise ...

  • @aniek4489
    @aniek4489 Před 6 lety +16

    The shibutanis❤️❤️

  • @michelleli7602
    @michelleli7602 Před 6 lety +1

    Didn’t know Robb Stark was such a good skier!! #neato

  • @TnAKicks
    @TnAKicks Před 6 lety

    were literally always feeling a g

  • @ex0duzz
    @ex0duzz Před 6 lety +1

    Alex is so handsome and maia is so pretty and cute! Their family must have good genes

  • @kamalhassan8149
    @kamalhassan8149 Před 6 lety +7

    At 0:56 they are answering a question for someone that posted it 4 years ago 😂😂

  • @zahar027
    @zahar027 Před 5 lety +1

    4:06 so how exactly are we gonna decide a winner?

  • @AcidentalStaffwriter
    @AcidentalStaffwriter Před 6 lety

    I know it's probably more trouble than it's worth to get the rights to the footage, but it would've been nice to have some reference material

  • @Kajed8963
    @Kajed8963 Před 6 lety +6

    This dude Gus looks like Robb Stark or am I crazy

  • @notonlineever
    @notonlineever Před 6 lety

    i always feel on my G

  • @salsafeynix
    @salsafeynix Před 6 lety

    Oksana Masters. Nailed her last name!

  • @hwago123
    @hwago123 Před 6 lety

    Maia the little Asian Ice dancer is such a cutie!

  • @michaelgonzalez4853
    @michaelgonzalez4853 Před 6 lety +1

    Does anyone else see the date the tweets were made, they’re like 2 years old

  • @chrismiller3490
    @chrismiller3490 Před 5 lety

    Jamie at 2:48. Lol

  • @Turtlejohn8
    @Turtlejohn8 Před 6 lety

    The paralympic girl with the exclusive Olympics Galaxy Note 8. Digging it.

  • @grun5848
    @grun5848 Před 6 lety +1

    "if you never have felt a G it is hard to explain" um pretty sure everyone here has experienced 1 G before

  • @nesiekabreck8463
    @nesiekabreck8463 Před 6 lety

    I only know lolo because of the challenge 😂😂

  • @emilyle8197
    @emilyle8197 Před 6 lety

    Ok tbh Gus kenworty is a reallllly good looking guy

  • @larvitardratini5965
    @larvitardratini5965 Před 6 lety +1

    I love G force

  • @pikanoob
    @pikanoob Před 6 lety +7

    in what world is skiing blind just as dangerous as skiing normally?

  • @TheRealAmyJane
    @TheRealAmyJane Před 6 lety

    Robb Stark?!!

  • @TheAtHamptonDotCom
    @TheAtHamptonDotCom Před 6 lety

    ole girl looks like Jamie Farr.

  • @GoinMLG
    @GoinMLG Před 6 lety +5

    G is not a unit of pressure. It is a unit of acceleration.

  • @SeychellesLover
    @SeychellesLover Před 6 lety

    My brother is 10 and he came up to me yesterday and was like "so whats with this gus guy? The athlete....?" I had no accurate explanation .

  • @hashimbokhamseen7877
    @hashimbokhamseen7877 Před 5 lety

    0:21 *rob stark any one* 😶

  • @hansolo4017
    @hansolo4017 Před 6 lety +2

    1:50 everyone is experiencing 1G right now...... SMH

  • @jasonswift7098
    @jasonswift7098 Před 6 lety

    OMG two dudes at 1:38

  • @road2moon
    @road2moon Před 6 lety

    How often do you drink and eat doping?

  • @fedfoofy
    @fedfoofy Před 6 lety

    1:43 the neanderthal duo

  • @dominickbradoey545
    @dominickbradoey545 Před 6 lety

    I love how there is 31k views and 69 comments

  • @theultimatereductionist7592

    How much longer do you think there will be any cities able to host winter Olympic and Paralympic games with Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) melting all the snow?

  • @hayleywong104
    @hayleywong104 Před 6 lety

    Wait why did they give the ice dancers figure skating questions? It’s two very different things 😂

    • @Skittl1321
      @Skittl1321 Před 6 lety

      Hayley XD ice dancing is a discipline of figure skating. They are figure skaters too.

  • @pawoo666
    @pawoo666 Před 6 lety

    Would like to know how they ended up disabled.

  • @mamamiaherewegoagain6959

    Yooo Richard Madden lost his accent

  • @thedude7726
    @thedude7726 Před 6 lety

    1:50 That's what she said. girls love them g spot forces

  • @Convolutedtear
    @Convolutedtear Před 2 lety

    can we get some blind para athletes with questions please, swimming ftw

  • @lamfgames
    @lamfgames Před 6 lety +4

    You guys should have put in some b role of all the sports and these athletes. Most people won't look them up.

  • @dragonage200
    @dragonage200 Před 6 lety

    Oksana Masters is smoking HOT! Its a miracle that she doesn't melt all the snow around her

  • @ghalibmuhammad4344
    @ghalibmuhammad4344 Před 6 lety +2

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  • @alxisl
    @alxisl Před 6 lety

    Omg theyre all hot

  • @3PhaseAC
    @3PhaseAC Před 6 lety +1

    How many people are upset at the "5Gs of pressure." I say that because a G is an acceleration force of Earth's avg gravity of 9.8 m/s^2. Oh and we all undergo 5 G's in our life, but a sustained 5G while controlling something is hard.

  • @DrippyBleedEm
    @DrippyBleedEm Před 6 lety +1

    Get Eminem

  • @soccerchic2ify
    @soccerchic2ify Před 6 lety

    Wtf is Lolo Jones on here , she was barley in the 2014 Olympics

  • @zacharydell2035
    @zacharydell2035 Před 5 lety

    Who else cringed when she said 5 G's of pressure

  • @tobymaroby9524
    @tobymaroby9524 Před 6 lety +43

    Hats off to all of them. 1:49 though... 5g of pressure? “If you have never experienced a g....” You are experiencing exactly 1g mostly all of the time, it only changes when you are accelerating or decelerating. Bad explanation, suggesting nobody can have a clue what she is talking about, which I doubt.

    • @Troe1505
      @Troe1505 Před 6 lety +4

      Aren't like.. ALL humans supposed to faint immediately at 5G? I remember 5G being some kind of limit for some situations at least. Sounds crazy =D

    • @futsell
      @futsell Před 6 lety +1

      simply looking up the internet: "racers can experience pressures that is four times the pressure of gravity"
      ok, 4g is not 5g, but you're way off still

    • @Sethsters
      @Sethsters Před 6 lety +15

      So 5 G is a lot, but it is very possible for a human being to endure. The most intense roller coasters in the world will get up to 6 G for just a few seconds. Fighter pilots will routinely endure 9 G of force, but they are very well conditioned AND have special G-suits that helps to keep the blood flowing properly. So while 5 G is a lot of added pressure, it's not something the body can't endure for some time. And the more physically fit you are the more G you can endure, so for these well conditioned athletes that shouldn't be a problem.

  • @Shinobi6407
    @Shinobi6407 Před 6 lety

    Why is Lolo Jones still a thing?

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  • @solcporter
    @solcporter Před 6 lety

    American accents especially for women is very unpleasant

  • @Arcadiez
    @Arcadiez Před 6 lety

    Sled hockey sweden lost 17-0 against Canada. Not that enjoyable to watch.

  • @jackiemu161
    @jackiemu161 Před 6 lety

    Come on guys, they're Olympians. They're not supposed to be smart. 5 G's of pressure, and blind skiing being as safe as normal skiing is what you'd expect to be said.😂😂😂 hopefully one day I can experience one G...wait sitting down is one G😂😂

  • @bodhizilla9808
    @bodhizilla9808 Před 6 lety +5

    Also, why is it fair if a Paralympic athelete is just as good as an Olympic athlete, yet they are forced into an “easier” competition... I don’t think it’s that fair

    • @citrusella-nomorecraptions
      @citrusella-nomorecraptions Před 6 lety +24

      Paralympians are technically allowed to enter the Olympics if they can qualify. At least ten athletes have competed in both the Paralympics and the Olympics over the years.
      Paralympic sports aren't necessarily easier so much as they group people in classifications that have similar issues and include accommodations where appropriate (i.e. track or skiing with sighted guides) or they're specialized versions of a sport that don't tend to be done by nondisabled athletes (i.e. monoski/sit-ski, wheelchair rugby/murderball, etc.) or they're niche sports altogether, like goalball.

    • @SaucyRamenBoy
      @SaucyRamenBoy Před 6 lety +3

      Bodhizilla It's not necessarily easier for all sports. Runners with below the knee prosthetic legs have an advantage because the springs provide more distance with each step and uses less of the runners energy.