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= December 9 =

Olympic judges
During the 1998 Winter Olympics, some judges were invited to judge some places and things in some areas. One of the things was Titanic. I can't seem to find anything about all that. Where's a good place to start? Anyone know?2604:2000:7113:9D00:E489:B375:36EB:1AC5 (talk) 23:45, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * What would the movie Titanic have to do with anything? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:24, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Well, Titanic was in cinemas around the world at the time. The judges were also international. Could those be a little bit helpful?2604:2000:7113:9D00:E489:B375:36EB:1AC5 (talk) 04:43, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Are you saying they did movie reviews to help sharpen their skills at judging figure skating? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:52, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Not really. Some CBS and Olympic officials showed the judges around some areas. The judges were being encouraged to show viewers what they thought of all that was shown to them.2604:2000:7113:9D00:E489:B375:36EB:1AC5 (talk) 05:00, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Sounds like another irrelevant entertainment piece CBS typically does (that most people do not really care about) to bloat their Olympics coverage (you can read the CBS Olympic broadcasts article where there are several cited paragraphs referencing how CBS tends to edit its broadcasts to resemble a program meant more to entertain rather than a straight live sports event). And 1998 was way before social media, the popularity of DVRs and so forth, so anybody who did actually care about this sort of stuff did not really have a good way to save it online for public consumption. You could go to youtube and search for something like "1998 winter olympics" to see if you see anything remote. But other than that, I can't help you. Zzyzx11 (talk) 02:34, 11 December 2017 (UTC)