2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

[93henfan]

Curling = televised crack. I love that stuff.

You ain't lying. Hard to believe those matches last nearly three hours, and I can watch ever friggin' throw/toss/slide/whatever it's called.

[93henfan]

...and Shuster chokes again. 0-3 on game winners.

[JayJ79]

lots of crashes in the womens downhill.

[93henfan]

lots of crashes in the womens downhill.

How about the French girl that faceplanted right out of the gate?

Those two crashes at the bottom were pretty nasty.

[JayJ79]

lots of crashes in the womens downhill.

How about the French girl that faceplanted right out of the gate?

Those two crashes at the bottom were pretty nasty.

Obviously Canada is to blame for not allowing adequate practice time (they maliciously controlled the weather so that the conditions didnt' allow for practice)

[93henfan]

USA picks up two more: gold-bronze in men's halfpipe for White and Lago. 14 medals total, to lead Germany by 4.

[kardplayer]

Shaun White is unbelievable

[Shellin]

White is ridiculously good. I just got to watch the preliminary runs for men's halfpipe (like 5 minutes ago) since NBC hates the west coast but even that run was disgusting.

[Mountaineer]

Wednesday was the best medal day for the US in olympic history with 6 total.



Stuff to watch for on Thursday:

Skiing:
Women's Super-Combined, Downhill 12:30 pm EST / Slalom at 3:30 pm EST
-Can Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso keep things going for the US women? Kaylin Richardson and Leanne Smith are also skiing for the US.

Curling:
US men vs. Denmark 12:00 pm EST
US women vs. Denmark 5:00 pm EST
-The men enter Thursday's match with an 0-3 record while the women are 0-2. Must wins for both.

Figure Skating:
Men's free skate 8:00 pm EST
-Evan Lysacek comes into the free skate in 2nd place behind the Russian leader Yevgeny Plushenko. Johnny Weir also has a shot at medaling for the US.

Hockey:
US men vs. Norway 3:00 pm EST
US women vs. Finland 5:30 pm EST

Snowboarding - Women's Halfpipe: Qual, 3:30 pm EST - Semis 7:00 pm EST - Finals 9:00 pm EST
-The team consisting of Hannah Teter (Gold in Torino), Gretchen Bleiler (Silver in Torino), Kelly Clark and Elena Hight could give the US a legitimate shot at a medals sweep.

Speed Skating - 1000 meters: 4:00 pm EST
-Rebekah Bradford, Jennifer Rodriguez, Heather Richardson and Elli Ochowicz will all try to top the favored Christine Nesbitt of Canada for gold.

[UNHWildCats]

Wednesday was the best medal day for the US in olympic history with 6 total.



Stuff to watch for on Thursday:

Skiing:
Women's Super-Combined, Downhill 12:30 pm EST / Slalom at 3:30 pm EST
-Can Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso keep things going for the US women? Kaylin Richardson and Leanne Smith are also skiing for the US.

Curling:
US men vs. Denmark 12:00 pm EST
US women vs. Denmark 5:00 pm EST
-The men enter Thursday's match with an 0-3 record while the women are 0-2. Must wins for both.

Figure Skating:
Men's free skate 8:00 pm EST
-Evan Lysacek comes into the free skate in 2nd place behind the Russian leader Yevgeny Plushenko. Johnny Weir also has a shot at medaling for the US.

Hockey:
US men vs. Norway 3:00 pm EST
US women vs. Finland 5:30 pm EST

Snowboarding - Women's Halfpipe: Qual, 3:30 pm EST - Semis 7:00 pm EST - Finals 9:00 pm EST
-The team consisting of Hannah Teter (Gold in Torino), Gretchen Bleiler (Silver in Torino), Kelly Clark and Elena Hight could give the US a legitimate shot at a medals sweep.

Speed Skating - 1000 meters: 4:00 pm EST
-Rebekah Bradford, Jennifer Rodriguez, Heather Richardson and Elli Ochowicz will all try to top the favored Christine Nesbitt of Canada for gold.

Just quickly glancing this USA could top yesterdays medal collection today

[grizzaholic]

Wednesday was the best medal day for the US in olympic history with 6 total.

Just by this picture....I don't see China anywhere on it. Must be a down year for the Chinese.

[UNHWildCats]

Wednesday was the best medal day for the US in olympic history with 6 total.

Just by this picture....I don't see China anywhere on it. Must be a down year for the Chinese.

winter games arent their thing.

[UNHWildCats]

Here is the latest medal projection from 538.com. This projections were done after last nights events.

[93henfan]

Here's the link to the prediction from the Colorado professor that has the 95% accuracy rate over the last several olympics: http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/19/olympi ... storiesbox

These have not been updated based on actual results. These were his predictions before the olympics. It looks like he underestimated Germany and overestimated Norway, but might come pretty close with Canada and USA.

[Ibanez]

What probelms have occured today?

[CitadelGrad]

Here's the link to the prediction from the Colorado professor that has the 95% accuracy rate over the last several olympics: http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/19/olympi ... storiesbox

These have not been updated based on actual results. These were his predictions before the olympics. It looks like he underestimated Germany and overestimated Norway, but might come pretty close with Canada and USA.

Norway was expected to do much better in the Nordic events than they have actually done. Pretty disappointing for them since the Nordic sports are their bread and butter.

[danefan]

lots of crashes in the womens downhill.

How about the French girl that faceplanted right out of the gate?

Those two crashes at the bottom were pretty nasty.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/vi ... itrate=300

Unbelievable.

[Grizalltheway]

US beating Norway 3-0 in the 2nd period.

[Grizo406]

Couple of rumors I heard from the half pipe, (no pun intended), is that after last night's performance, Shaun White is going to change his name to Shaun Grizo, and Gretchen Bleiler wants me to call her!??!

[ALPHAGRIZ1]

So hes coming out and she is delivering take out?

[93henfan]

Courtesy UNHWildCats on the other site. Here's the URL if the image is too tough for you to read here:

http://posterous.com/getfile/files.post ... d.1000.jpg

[93henfan]

How ironic was it that the PA system at the half-pipe was blaring "Keep On Rocking In The Free World" as the Chinese participant was making preparations for her run?

[UNHWildCats]

2 more medals for team USA

[93henfan]

2 more medals for team USA

silver-bronze in women's half-pipe

[UNHWildCats]

Mens figure skating will be final medal event of the day... lets hope for a medal or two here.