Monday, February 23, 2026

FROM TIME TO TIME .........!!!!!!!!!

 


From time to time....... i like to explain my self ......on why i do internationalhippie.com ........simple...... i have  no reason !!!!!!......or underbelly......  or  agenda......i have had this website   for more that  two decades ........and love  writing  blogs  ........sarcastic ...... caustic......  infuriating.. ....irritating ...... truthful........anything i can vacuum off the  soles of humanity ......the bottom  floor of  life  ....the gutter  of existence ....... .....the urinal of  normality ..........the piss pot off  the population .......you get my drift !!!!!.........i scour daily  for   things   that  will shock /offend/disturb .......or  have fun with ..... it's  like i always  say........ its a  conduit of  my existence....... in  this  life  .......  and i   like to add my ........  as  they say in america .........  my  2  cents ........to  things ...... blogs ......  articles ...... posts ..... whatever  .....i do not  write as they would want me to write ........ so  it's   done  in my  way of  breathing .....nothing is planned  ........  just random ........  thoughts...... blurted ........ out  as  i think!!!!!!!  .....so you are  getting my inner  most thoughts in  here !!!!!......nothing else ........  just  raw  ,.......so please enjoy or  not !!!!!!!....... your  choice not  mine....... i will always  try and  be different   .....grammar  cops  can go   fuck themselves   




THE BIG SHIP IS SINKING .......

 


Listen........ i think the whole  epstein thing........ is  like a  big ship !!!!!! .........and it is  sinking  .....and  leaking fast .....the more  shit comes  out........ the  more  arrests   ........i personally think........ andrew is  going to squeal like a pig !!!!!(deliverance )........  ...he  can't   do time .......  and  probably will not ........ as  he is   the  son of the  queen of  england.....kings brother   ...they got some  exclusion ......    the  monarchy ....... ........ or he will go to  some    snobby  country  club prison cell .....like they all do!!!!!!  ......you know there are  2  laws   ...one for the  rich ........  one  for the lower   dirtbags ........  like myself !!!!....... and   all the rest of   you .......you know we  are all dirtbags  .....like it or not !!!!!! ....... andrew  has  some  of  protection ........ he  knows   some low life's  have done   some  nasty shit !!!!!!  ...and  saw  some  nasty shit   ...... so  he will accidentally crash his  car  ..........or     get  some  sort  of .......  as we  say in Scotland   ......SHALIMAR!!!!!!! ......Shalimar was a  pop disco  group .......who had a song  called  "called  disappearing  act"..........get it  ...... no!!!!!....for fuck sake .........well  andy will probably get a shalimar..........he has  connection in the  pedo world  for  sure  .....but in the  end ....... it will not  matter   !!!!!! ...he is  in the ring  .......whatever  ring that may be !!!!! .........he is  royalty....... and  will not  face the  same  shit  as  joseph   blow!!!!! ......get  it!!!!!......   joe blow  .....  average  joe  .....i do not  care  about all this!!!!!........ it will never  get  resolved  ever........  too much power on the  table  ....there  will be  some  casualties ....... who will get revealed   .........then clipped   .......it's a  foregone conclusion...... as i see it  .....the real   power people.....  will stay in the  shadows ......and  run the  planet.........     and  as ths  ship slowly  sinks ........ the rats  will appear ......    and  offer  themselves  up !!!!!!!......only to   be  offed  /clipped /iced/accidentally drown/fall/get hit  by a  blind  driver........  or simply die in a  paddleboarding accident!!!!!!! ..............who knows.......  who cares  .......it's all a game!!!! ......all i can say is  ...jeffrey  puled off one  big scam .....the circus...... will deliver the  clowns  and all the people involved in the best show on earth ...........enjoy the ride folks ........





CROTCH SHOT

 

Am i the only guy that watches  figure  skating for the  crotch shot  ......surely there  must be  more  perves  than me  .........  watching   they have  nice  crotches   .......just kidding ....... am i   we will never  know   ......... but they do have  great  bodies .....anyways  great  USA   with gold  and  of  course   crotches ...they have nice asses   ....but i am more of a  crotch guy my self ........by the way i am talking about female skaters  here  .......always  female skaters .......just in case you misread   anything .......just  female .....hee hee hee 



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Winter Olympics 2026: From crotch-gate to honoring a fallen teammate, the long and winding road of the Milan Cortina Games

Jay Hart, Senior editor
Updated 
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Over the course of 19 days in February, the 2026 Winter Olympics covered more ground than the 11-hour drive from Milan to Cortina to Livigno/Bormio — the three main clusters of these Games. It started with a ski jumping scandal that involved, of all things, the crotch. It ended with an epic hockey game between two bitter rivals. Sandwiched in between was the golden glory of an American who’s more famous in Europe than in his hometown in Wisconsin and the sheer guts and determination of an American icon who simply went for it.

Here is the winding path taken during these Olympic Games:

(Hassan Ahmad/Yahoo Sports illustration)
(Hassan Ahmad/Yahoo Sports illustration)

Ski jumping’s crotch-gate

From Jeff Eisenberg:

MILAN — Male ski jumpers must wear tight-fitting suits that are no more than 4 centimeters larger than their body measurements at any point. Most national teams seek to find every millimeter they can because a bigger, baggier suit catches more wind and provides more lift during flight than a smaller one does.

Fittingly, the most advantageous place to enlarge a ski jumper’s suit is the crotch area.

It’s a story you have to read to believe.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, ITALY - FEBRUARY 08: (EDITOR’S NOTE: This Handout image/clip was provided by a third-party organization and may not adhere to Getty Images’ editorial policy.) Lindsey Vonn of Team United States crashes during the Women's Downhill on day two of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics at Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre on February 08, 2026 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. (Screengrab by IOC via Getty Images)
Lindsey Vonn crashes during the women's downhill. (Screengrab by IOC via Getty Images)
(Handout via Getty Images)

Once the Games began, all eyes quickly turned to Cortina, where Lindsey Vonn was attempting to win a gold medal on a busted ACL she’d torn just a week earlier. She managed both training runs in the downhill without incident, and actually appeared strong. But then …

Lindsey Vonn goes for it

From Dan Wolken:

LIVIGNO, Italy — It was devastating to watch, even more brutal to hear.

For a nation that had become enraptured in Lindsey Vonn’s comeback story and the norm-defying attempt to win an Olympic medal without an ACL in her left knee, the helpless cries of pain as she lay on her back and as the mountain fell silent will be hard to erase from memory.

Downhill skiing is often breathtaking. It is sometimes gruesome. And for the second time in nine days, the images of an American sports heroine being strapped to a board and lifted into a helicopter churned the stomach.

But that’s skiing down a mountain at 80 miles per hour. That’s the risk Vonn signed up for when she decided to compete in an Olympics nine days after an ACL tear during a different competition in Switzerland. That’s what happens sometimes when you go for it.

And that’s exactly what Vonn did.

Milan, Italy - February 14, 2026: Jordan Stolz of United States celebrates after winning the men's 1000 meters speed skating event at the 2026 Winter Olympics on February 14, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
Jordan Stolz celebrates after winning the men's 1000 meters, his first gold of the 2026 Olympics. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
(Robert Gauthier via Getty Images)

While Vonn’s daily health updates from surgery after surgery and her eventual return to the United States captured everyone’s attention, so did Jordan Stolz, a celebrity in Europe but a virtual unknown in America until …

America, meet Jordan Stolz

From Jeff Eisenberg:

MILAN — Since rocketing onto the global speedskating scene three years ago, Jordan Stolz — called the next Eric Heiden by none other than Eric Heiden — has become the rare athlete more famous internationally than in his home country. The 21-year-old is a superstar in speedskating hotspots like the Netherlands, Norway and Germany, but he remains almost completely unknown across America and even in his home state of Wisconsin.

Stolz took a big step toward changing that Wednesday night in Milan when he shined in the first of his four races on the Olympic stage. The kid who learned to skate on his family’s backyard pond in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, outraced a world-class field in the men’s 1,000 meters to win his first Olympic gold medal.

Stolz wasn’t done.

Feb 13, 2026; Milan, Italy; Ilia Malinin of the United States of America reacts after competing in the men’s singles free program during the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games at Milano Ice Skating Arena. Mandatory Credit: James Lang-Imagn Images
Ilia Malinin reacts after competing in the men’s singles free program. (James Lang-Imagn Images)
(IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect / Reuters)

But while Stolz lived up to the pre-Olympics hype, even if claiming silver in the 1500 left him feeling these Olympics were only a “partial success,” Ilia Malinin felt the pressure, and it got to him.

‘I blew it’

From Jay Busbee:

MILAN — Something was wrong from the very start. Something about Ilia Malinin’s free skate seemed tentative, uncertain, so very unlike the “Quad God.” This was his gold-medal moment, and it was slipping away from him.

He landed his first element, a quad flip, but it had the feel of an unexpected success, like a half-court heave that went through the net, rather than the start of a triumphal procession. And then he skated toward his planned quad axel, a move literally only he can land, a move that could have put him on a direct path to the top of the podium.

He flinched … and was lost.

In one of the most stunning collapses in Olympic figure skating history, Malinin plummeted from a near-certain gold medal all the way to eighth place.

Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States poses for photos during the awarding ceremony of the alpine skiing women's slalom at the Milan-Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games in Cortina, Italy, Feb. 18, 2026. (Photo by Fei Maohua/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Mikaela Shiffrin celebrartes winning the women's slalom. (Fei Maohua/Xinhua via Getty Images)
(Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images)

Malinin wasn’t the only American feeling the pressure. Maybe nobody was under more than Mikaela Shiffrin, the most accomplished World Cup skier of all time but one who has struggled on the Olympic stage. Early in the Games, she let slip a lead in the women’s team ski event, one staked to her by Breezy Johnson, the gold medalist in the downhill. After going medal-less four years ago in Beijing, the doubts started to creep in. And then …

Mikaela Shiffrin gets her mojo back

From Jay Busbee:

MILAN — One of the cruel ironies about the Olympics is that it’s better to be a one-and-done medalist than a win-a-few, lose-a-bunch multi-time Olympian. Beijing blanked Mikaela Shiffrin; she didn’t even finish three of the events she entered. Milan Cortina was a bit kinder — she at least made it down the mountain in her earlier events, though at underwhelming-for-her speeds.

With every event that passed without hardware, though, the muttering grew louder. Was Shiffrin spooked by the Olympics? Cursed? How could the most decorated World Cup skier in history dominate everywhere else on the calendar except these two weeks every four years?

Milan 2026 Winter Olympics Medal Count

RankCountry
G
S
B
Total
1
Norway
18121141
2
United States
1212933
3
Italy
1061430
4
Germany
810826
5
Japan
571224

So that’s why Wednesday’s race was so critical for Shiffrin. Imagine if she’d fallen short yet again. Imagine if her pole had broken, or if she’d caught that first gate, or suffered any of the other hundred woes that would have kept her off the podium. Imagine the questions that would have followed her, the media second-guessing, the social-media garbage, the internal anxieties that would have wracked her for another four years, and maybe forever.

"There will always be criticism, but I was here to earn the moment and that is going to require some risk,” she said. “Risk of not finishing. It’s also risk of being criticized, and to accept that. [It is] not the easiest thing to do, but in the end today we were able to do that."

She stared that grim future in the face … and she flat-out skied right through it.

MILAN, ITALY - FEBRUARY 19: Gold medalist Alysa Liu of Team United States celebrates on the podium during the medal ceremony for the Women's Single Skating - Free Skating on day thirteen of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics at Milano Ice Skating Arena on February 19, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Tang Xinyu/VCG via Getty Images)
Gold medalist Alysa Liu celebrates on the podium during the medal ceremony for the women's single skating. (Tang Xinyu/VCG via Getty Images)
(VCG via Getty Images)

A little more than 24 hours later, these Olympic Games hit maxim overdrive when, simultaneously, the women of USA and Canada squared off on the ice for gold, while Alysa Liu tried to become the first American women to medal in figure skating in 20 years …

The happiest Olympian alive

From Jay Busbee:

MILAN — As she skated around the Assago Ice Skating Arena rink, moments before the most important routine of her life, Alysa Liu caught sight of her teammate Amber Glenn near the kiss-and-cry couch. Glenn, devastated after Tuesday night’s program, had skated a spectacular routine of her own nearly two hours before. As Liu drew close, she gave Glenn a congratulatory thumbs-up.

“What are you doing?” an exasperated Glenn replied. “Go skate!”

So Alysa Liu did. And she won herself a gold medal, smiling all the way.

There are no record books to measure such things, but it’s entirely possible that no Olympian has ever smiled as much as Liu did on Thursday night, executing a brilliant, virtually flawless free skate that vaulted her from third place into first. She smiled when she stepped onto the ice, she smiled when she spotted Glenn, she smiled through her lutzes and loops and salchows, she smiled when she pointed her left finger to the sky to close out her routine. And she smiled — and giggled a triumphant laugh — when she skated right up to the rinkside camera and bellowed, “That’s what I’m f***ing talking about!”

That is the entire breadth of the Alysa Liu experience — giddiness, confidence, joy, serenity — and gold-medal-winning talent. At an Olympics where so many others have crumbled under the pressure, she literally laughed in pressure’s face.


FROM TIME TO TIME .........!!!!!!!!!

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