Chicago is out.

[blue]

I dont get into the summer games.

Winter games, I love the downhill skiing events except the jumping. Slalom, and Super G are where its at.

Ild love to see monoskiing get popular enough to become an event but I dont see that ever happening.

[Grace]

Then there is Curling. I even enjoy watching this sport.

The best rock for the stones comes from Ailsa Craig, an island off Turnberry on the west coast of Scotland. My grandfather never curled, but he designed and built a boat he named Ailsa Craig.

The first Olympic curling Gold went to the Canadian women, in 1998.

[Grace]

Winter games, I love the downhill skiing events except the jumping. Slalom, and Super G are where its at.

Did you ever see this?

Arguably the single best downhill ever.

[blue]

Very impresive yard sales followed by the jaw dropping run and stats! No I hadnt seen that before, thank you.

I had the chace to run a super g course once, but my big board gets really unstable at those speeds and my all mountain board isnt fast enough for the course.

ETA: I saw he was riding Blizzards. Ild love, heck maybe kill, to get my hands on a Blizzard monoski.

[RICHARD]

Did you ever see this?

Arguably the single best downhill ever.

Meh,

Bill Johnson.

[blue]

Is speed skiing still an Olympic event? Those guys and gals are nuts.

[RICHARD]

I heard that GWB is the real reason Chicago lost the bid.

Are we really bitter?

[lizbud]

I heard that GWB is the real reason Chicago lost the bid.

Are we really bitter?

I read that article too Richard, and that wasn't given as the reason
Chicago lost their bid.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I read that article too Richard, and that wasn't given as the reason
Chicago lost their bid.

Just curious...where was an article that suggested that?

[lizbud]

Just curious...where was an article that suggested that?

I honestly don't remember, I think Daily Beast or Huff Po.

I'll find it for you if you want to read it. It was just a throw away line at the beginning of the article.

[Grace]

Just curious...where was an article that suggested that?

From Politico -

Former Bush Press Secretary Dana Perino, who supported Chicago’s bid, shrugged off such reactions: “I… don’t know anyone who’s high-fiving,” Perino wrote in an e-mail. “Though I’d bet there are some doing that, I’m just as sure there are some who are finding a way to blame President Bush somehow. “

[RICHARD]

I read that article too Richard, and that wasn't given as the reason
Chicago lost their bid.

I didn't read anything on it. I just heard it on a Sunday morning talk show and thought it was an astute observation.

Dana Perino is pretty hot. I'd like to see what's in her monring briefings.

[Edwina's Secretary]

GWB's press secretary says maybe that is what people are saying...

Isn't that what is called a red herring?

[RICHARD]

Some Chicago poltician-Burris- and Jesse Jackson both tossed GVB some blame.

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LOL, what is the deal with sitting on my dad's lap and cheering one Carl Lewis?

[lizbud]

From Politico -

That wasn't the article I was speaking about. The article I saw was
saying that Europe still had a bad taste in their mouths from the Bush
years & was not enclined to favor America's bid.