Country Stars Reveal Their Favorite Winter Olympic Sports

For the next couple weeks, the 2018 Winter Olympics will continue to take over millions of television screens and streaming devices as footage from the Games held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, will captivate audiences everywhere.

Although in separate capacities, country stars recognize the talent they encapsulate within those athletes who worked day and night to reach the top honor in all of sports. But as former athletes and sports fans alike, the hottest stars still plan to spend their free time from creating music and touring to catch the biggest highlights from the competitions.

From snowboarding to curling to bobsled, a few country singers let Sounds Like Nashville in on their favorite events of the Winter Games. Even though they’ll cheer for the American team no matter the sport, they still love to witness the dedication these athletes put in regardless of what country they represent.

Russell Dickerson is a man who loves to watch the snowboarding events, especially when it involves the crazy tricks and flips he admits he would never even know how to do.

“Anything snowboarding. I love snowboarding. Yeah, no, I love snowboarding, and it’s just so crazy, because I know how difficult it is to do what they do, because I can’t do any of it. Like I’ve tried. Well I’ve tried to jump off a ramp. And like do a 180, and they’re doing like 1080s,” he said to SLN in awe.

Although Drew Baldridge didn’t grow up around the intense winter sports he watches on the Olympics, he’s still looking forward to Lindsey Vonn’s skiing comeback after her horrific injury.

“She’s coming back, and she looks stronger and everything. I just think that, that’s so cool, just to know that…it’s like that in music too, a lot of times in our life we get knocked down but you can always get back up again. I think her story’s really awesome, so I’ll be excited to watch what she does,” Baldridge explained.

Josh McSwain from Parmalee even got his own experience out on a bobsled track, where he finally realized how intense the speed actually weighs onto a competitor.

“They make you take a little training course before you get in there. And then say you’re getting to go in so fast and pulling so many G forces that you have to remain sitting up. It’ll try to suck you down in there. And there’s no handles, you’re just mashing again the insides… And the last thing the guy said, once we start, have fun. Don’t forget to breathe. And we took off. I didn’t think about it. I held my breath the whole time because you’re straining so hard to stay in there, you don’t think about it. I was like I’m about to pass out and I realize, he’s right, I didn’t breathe the whole time,” he said.

The 2018 Winter Olympics air different events daily on NBC and their sister networks.