2010 Winter Olympics thread...

[Puckstop31]

35 minutes until puck drop on the mens tournament.


Just sayin.... LOL


The Swiss have me more worried the more I read.

[RICHARD]

http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-feat...nhomepage&cid=


what are the Olympics without controversy?

[Puckstop31]

3-1 USA win. Now to the house to watch the DVR'd game.

[Puckstop31]

http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-feat...nhomepage&cid=


what are the Olympics without controversy?

Meh... I can understand the "Miller Time" thing on Ryan's mask. But since when was supporting the troops a controversial thing?

Oh well. LOL

[RICHARD]

The rest of the Women's Hockey games are going to be played on a half-rink.

To keep the scoring down.

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PS.....

IT's all marketing, If you ain't the 'official' sponsor......Tough luck.

I was watching some international event and both team's jerseys had more advertising than on some NASCAR rides....

Money talks!!


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Not more than two minutes ago I looked up to see a MILLER BEER TRUCK pass by...My street is not a main drag, so I was really surprised to see that!!!

[Queen of Poop]

Woo Hoo!!! 8-0 win for the Canadian Men's hockey team!!! Love the line of Nash, Crosby and Iginla. Iggy got the HAT!!

And we got another gold today, in women's snowboard cross.

[RICHARD]

Woo Hoo!!! 8-0 win for the Canadian Men's hockey team!!! Love the line of Nash, Crosby and Iginla. Iggy got the HAT!!

And we got another gold today, in women's snowboard cross.

What happened to Stephen Stills?

Oops, He's not the Canuck, Neil Young is!

[Puckstop31]

Woo Hoo!!! 8-0 win for the Canadian Men's hockey team!!! Love the line of Nash, Crosby and Iginla. Iggy got the HAT!!

That was a good move by Babcock to move Bergeron off that line... The Norwegians hung in there for bit.... LOL

And, bummer for Iggy, he did not touch that last goal. The official results give it to Nash, from Crosby.

[Queen of Poop]

Thanks for the chuckle Richard.

What's with this ice skating dude? He's fallen down twice already.

[RICHARD]

Thanks for the chuckle Richard.

What's with this ice skating dude? He's fallen down twice already.

Do you think I can let something like that get passed me?

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Is Cammie Granato's nose awesome in High Def?


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I am still blow away by the scar on JR Celski's thigh. I have seen tons of scars for knee sugeries, My brother has a 8 inch 'catepillar' on his inside knee, but....
They said it went down to his thighbone and was six inches across.

His story is pretty remarkable!

[Grace]

I didn't watch hockey - there will be many more games.

I watched Biathlon this afternoon, women's and men's. What a fantastic event!! And still more to come.

I really love the cross country skiing events and ski jumping.

And tonight I watched the Westminster Dog Show - Sadie won!!

[Grace]

Not enough French??

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/...french016.html

[RICHARD]

Not enough French??

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/...french016.html

French IS The OFFICIAL LANGUAGE of the games. All the announcements are done in French, then in the host's countries tongue.

I think that they expected everything to be in French?

Some people......It just takes one yahoo to spout of then the language police show up!

[RICHARD]

Where have you gone Jim McKay?

Besides the bobos that are reporting the Games, I almost went bonkers over listening to the sno-board gal, Jacobellis, do an interview after her race.

Yaknow? What is it with athletes, yaknow? I saw the same thing, yaknow, after the Danica Patrick race, yaknow? Seems like they cannot put a sentence together without, yaknow, putting a few thoughts together, yaknow?

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I did try and figure out what Bode Miller was trying to say during his interviews. He and the US ski team have had a pretty asty relationship.
They both came to an agreement to ski in Vancouver because he is/has the best chance for us to medal in any downhill event. Another non story.

All the "Up CLose and Personal" stories are, at best, clips about obnoxious athletes that cause their own problems....

What happened to the feel good stuff where an athlete is run over by a truck, tossed into air where they land on a power line, get electrocuted, go into a coma, regain their senses, get an olympic dream and sell hotdogs on a stick to finance their training?

Now?

It's super rich snow boarder with the secret training site in the mountains....all financed by Red Bull Energy Drink!!!

Give me a Moldavian curler, who cut and shaped their stones with an emery board and a meat tenderizing mallet.

Now, That's an Olympic athlete that had a dream!

[slick]

I have to chime in here with my own comments/observations.

For the past year "we here locals" have been hearing time after time after time about transportation during the Olympics. Road closures, construction, skytrain running more frequently with extra cars, leave the car at home and take public transport. So I made arrangements to drive into a different office to work during these two weeks so I wouldn't have to battle traffic into town.

WTH??? Where is all the traffic???? Message must have gotten through because yesterday I had to drive into to town to my "usual" office and it only took me 20 min. vs 45 min. You could shoot a cannon down the freeway and not hit anyone. I'm liking this. It's like summertime traffic. I also heard this morning that lineups at the skytrain ranged anywhere from 30 min to an hour just to get on the sardine packed train. Gee - car vs train......duh it's a no brainer.

Vanoc - gee what can I say about that. There is a very ugly chain link fence around the flame downtown and people everywhere are complaining that it's not "picture friendly" so bright and early this morning the construction crews were down there taking down the fence and , I hear, that they are putting up perhaps a plexiglass surrounding. It's a shame but without some kind of barrier, the protesters and "riff raff" alike would be doing a number on it. Now, why didn't Vanoc think about this years ago in the planning stages????

Blunders?? There have some some major ones and apparently the British tabloids are picking up on all of them. The weather isn't doing us any favours either - it's the warmest February in the past 114 years. Go figure!!! Many spectators who purchased tickets to one of the Cypress mountain events had to get refunds - costing Vanoc over a million buckaroos.

I'm not negative about the Olympics - I love them and I admit the ambiance in the city is amazing. Everyone is hyped up and bearing ear to ear grins. I'm optimistic that tourism is going to bring in some big bucks and maybe those who visit might love it here enough to move here or at least visit again.

So, I have a sofa bed up for grabs. $300/night can get you some blankets, a soft pillow and perhaps coffee in the morning.