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2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:32 pm
by dbackjon
Opening Ceremonies tonight!


USA!

USA!!

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:33 pm
by dbackjon

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 1:44 pm
by dbackjon
SKI JUMPING starts today

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:51 pm
by CatMom
kudos to our Canadian brothers. The Opening Ceremony has been pretty damn awesome. (ok, except that Olympic Hymn)

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:19 pm
by BlueHen86
I didn't see much of the ceremony, but I thought it was cool when NBC showed how Canada helped smuggle some American embassy workers out of Iran in 1979 and also Canada's response on 9/11 when they allowed planes to land there because the US had grounded all planes.

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:23 pm
by T-Dog
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Yeah, that was weak. London will have an easy time topping that. Some cool moments, but most of it looked like a stoner's cliffnotes version of Canadian history.

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:29 pm
by Col Hogan
Eight years ago, I worked at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics...great time, really cool people to hang with...

I'll have to find my pin collection some day and dust it off...

How time flys...

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:00 pm
by Mountaineer
Not a bad opener I thought. A little Canadiana and I always enjoy watching the parade of nations.

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:17 pm
by Grizo406
Mountaineer wrote:Not a bad opener I thought. A little Canadiana and I always enjoy watching the parade of nations.
Agree, but what disappointed me was that I didn't see Georges St-Pierre in attendance! :coffee:

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:14 am
by ALPHAGRIZ1
Saw him at a bar last week and left him on the ground in the parking lot.............if you know what I mean and I know you do.


Fairly certain thats why he didnt show up.

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:01 am
by BDKJMU
Opening ceremonies are so gay.

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:42 am
by ALPHAGRIZ1
True, but that is why they are such a hit on here........

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:36 pm
by 93henfan
Whoever invented short-track speed skating deserves a beer.

The regular track event is sooooo fucking boring. :sleep:

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:41 pm
by CatMom
93henfan wrote:Whoever invented short-track speed skating deserves a beer.

The regular track event is sooooo fucking boring. :sleep:
the 5000 is, the others aren't as bad.

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 2:42 pm
by Grizalltheway
93henfan wrote:Whoever invented short-track speed skating deserves a beer.

The regular track event is sooooo fucking boring. :sleep:
True dat. I imagine it's one of those things you can only really get into if you've done it before; being able to appreciate the strategy and all that.

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:49 pm
by 93henfan
Women's biathlon has the potential to be a phenomenal sport. You already have chicks and guns. If they could just weed out the bulldykes, make the event topless, and have one final segment where the women stop at a keg, fill several steins with beer, and then finish by dropping off the steins at a table of male judges, it would really be the ultimate sport in the world.

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 3:52 pm
by ASUMountaineer
Mountaineer wrote:Not a bad opener I thought. A little Canadiana and I always enjoy watching the parade of nations.
Yeah, it went well with my Labatt Blue. :thumb:

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 7:57 pm
by Ivytalk
Where the hell is the G.D. snow???

We all know that Vancouver is rainy, but this is nucking futz! :ohno:

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:17 pm
by dbackjon
USA picks up 4 medals, including one gold to lead the medal standings after one day.
South Korea is the only other country with multiple medals, a gold and a silver

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:22 pm
by dbackjon
US gets a silver and a bronze in 1500 m Short Track as Apollo Ono becomes the most decorated US athlete, ever.


Hannah Kearney wins the Gold in Ladies Freestyle Moguls.

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:07 pm
by BlueHen86
dbackjon wrote:SKI JUMPING starts today
Is that the event where the skiers try to jump the farthest, but a judge picks the winner? I never understood the point in have a judge. Seems pretty simple, jump further than everyone else = win.

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 12:13 am
by Fresno St. Alum
what is fucking lame is that the olympics are in my timezone and the shit is still on tape delay, so the fucking east can see it live, while I wait 3 hours. ESPN ruins the fucking results. Can't watch college bball unless I wanna find out who won 3 hours ahead of time. Ummm Monday Night football aint on tape delay neither should the olympics.

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 1:29 am
by Shellin
Fresno St. Alum wrote:what is **** lame is that the olympics are in my timezone and the **** is still on tape delay, so the **** east can see it live, while I wait 3 hours. ESPN ruins the **** results. Can't watch college bball unless I wanna find out who won 3 hours ahead of time. Ummm Monday Night football aint on tape delay neither should the olympics.
Yeah, I completely agree, bogus.

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 5:48 am
by 93henfan
Fresno St. Alum wrote:what is fucking lame is that the olympics are in my timezone and the shit is still on tape delay, so the fucking east can see it live, while I wait 3 hours. ESPN ruins the fucking results. Can't watch college bball unless I wanna find out who won 3 hours ahead of time. Ummm Monday Night football aint on tape delay neither should the olympics.
ECB: It's what's for dinner. :lol:

On a serious note, that truly is BS.

Re: 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2010 8:06 am
by tribe_pride
dbackjon wrote:US gets a silver and a bronze in 1500 m Short Track as Apollo Ono becomes the most decorated US athlete, ever.


Hannah Kearney wins the Gold in Ladies Freestyle Moguls.
Thank you South Korea.