2010 Winter Olympics thread...

[slick]

I saw the torch!!!!!! Got some great shots - will post when I get home. I'm giggling with excitement.

[RICHARD]

I saw the torch!!!!!! Got some great shots - will post when I get home. I'm giggling with excitement.

What did I tell you?

Wasn't that a KICK!!!


Fire on a stick?


Now tonight when you watch the cauldron being lit, it the SAME FLAME you saw cruising down the street!!

GOOD FOR YOU!!!

I think you are giddy, too!

[RICHARD]

Gonna post my last critique of the Games....I'll watch the opening and have fun afterwards.


More and more I see the selfish athletes shun the 'team' concept, compete under the flag and the concept of team, as they shun their fellow teammates.

Shaun White, Shani Davis and Bode MIller are jerks that I really don't care for.

Miller has distanced himself from being a member of the USO Ski Team and then wants to compete as a member. Shaun White defers the chance to stay at the Oly Village-he want to part of the team, but want no part of the team experience,

Shani Davis is a jerk. He refused to help the short track team in one of the team events in '02

This dude made both the short and long track teams -what a wonderful accomplishment! - yet has no idea of what the concept of "team" is.

What a bunch of crybabies and selfish morons.

IT only serves them to be part of a team when it benefits them as individuals.

I guess there is an "I" in United States!

[cassiesmom]

Oh, Canadian PT Friends! I was thinking especially of you while watching the opening ceremonies! I had a pre-Valentine's Day supper at a restaurant with some friends, so all we got was pictures and closed captioning, no audio, but I still thought it was beautiful! When the young woman came out to sing the national anthem my friends and I all got choked up. It was a neat moment, all these people there from all over the world and now, here is the national anthem for the host country. All over the restaurant, people were clapping and cheering for the U.S. and Canadian athletes coming out in their groups. Seeing all those flags waving gave me goose bumps. And I love SArah MacLachlan, I love the Joni Mitchell song "Both Sides Now" and the aerialist was so cool! We couldn't quite make out what was happening with the violinists and tap dancers - audio would have really helped with that. Anyway, we were all watching it while we were eating. And I was thinking of my PT friends from all over the world.

A very sad moment when the Georgian team came out, though. Such sad news about their athlete today. I overheard one man in the restaurant say he wished he could rewind it 24 hours and have that accident not happen. Very, very sad.

[RICHARD]

I loved the part when Don Cherry's jacket was draped on the cauldron.

Wait, that wasn't the Olympic flame?

[Grace]

I loved everything, except Oh Canada. It should have been sung by someone like Roger Doucet. Whomever that gal was, she sang it like a ballad, instead of a National Anthem.

Great to see #4 - Bobby Orr

[RICHARD]

I loved everything, except Oh Canada.

Agreed,

The best part, so far?

Pardon my French?

The bear, the whales and the way they did the ice breaking up.

That made long for the days of hallucinogenics.

Tre magnifique!

[cassiesmom]

NBC coverage is driving me bonkers this afternoon. Some luge, and then some cross-country skiing, and now lots of commercials. I just got into the luge and they switched to the skiing. Oh, well.

The weather is so strange! It's snowing down in Atlanta, but up in Vancouver they are talking about postponing some events due to lack of snow!

[momoffuzzyfaces]

NBC coverage is driving me bonkers this afternoon. Some luge, and then some cross-country skiing, and now lots of commercials. I just got into the luge and they switched to the skiing. Oh, well.

The weather is so strange! It's snowing down in Atlanta, but up in Vancouver they are talking about postponing some events due to lack of snow!

Yea, they've been trucking snow in for weeks now. They can have ours too. It's snowing here again!!!