2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread

[93henfan]

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

Here's hoping we do well. I can't take actually watching the event, so I'm going to catch a little Led Zeppelin on Palladia. Let us know how we do.

[UNHWildCats]

Lysacek leads with two skaters remaining so USA will win atleast one medal here and Weir is one of the final two skaters so he could hit the podium too.

[UNHWildCats]

If Weir pulls a perfect routine he should medal here even with the 6th place short program.

[UNHWildCats]

Weir in 5th. It will be just a gold or silver for USA. Final skater up

[UNHWildCats]

USA takes gold. 18 medals now

[T-Dog]

We're better at effeminate skating with glued-on fake jewels than the evil Ruskie!

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[Fresno St. Alum]

Slovakia 2, Russia 1 shoot out(SLV wins on the 7th penalty shot) Russia was the #1 ranked team going in.
Canada 3, Switzerland 2, Shoot out(CAN wins on 4th penalty shot)

I thought I liked Olympic hockey before but those games were fuckin awesome, and I don't even watch the NHL.

[93henfan]

Did anyone see those blonde sisters on the Denmark women's curling team the other day? ShaWING!!!!

I love the fact that Denmark makes their chicks wear skirts too.

Is it hard to become a citizen of Denmark?

[UNHWildCats]

Bode leads a silve, Bronze USA finish in the Super G for the only medals of the day for Team America.


Mens Curling wins today with Shuster on the bench.


USA should add a few more medals tomorrow.

[EPJr]

kicking azz and taking names


USA 3:1 SWITZERLAND
USA 6:1 NORWAY


USA 12:1 CHINA
USA 13:0 RUSSIA

[UNHWildCats]

kicking azz and taking names


USA 3:1 SWITZERLAND
USA 6:1 NORWAY


USA 12:1 CHINA
USA 13:0 RUSSIA
USA 6:0 Finland

fixed it

[isumatt]

Did anyone see those blonde sisters on the Denmark women's curling team the other day? ShaWING!!!!

I love the fact that Denmark makes their chicks wear skirts too.

Is it hard to become a citizen of Denmark?

http://www.vg.no/sport/ol/2010/artikkel ... tid=589446

[Rob Iola]

Did anyone see those blonde sisters on the Denmark women's curling team the other day? ShaWING!!!!

I love the fact that Denmark makes their chicks wear skirts too.

Is it hard to become a citizen of Denmark?

http://www.vg.no/sport/ol/2010/artikkel ... tid=589446

er, um, NSFW...

[BDKJMU]

Jesus H. CHRIST! Why am I watching **** figure skating?

Don't answer. That was rhetorical.

Have been coerced into watching figure skating and figure skating dancing 4-5 nights in a row by my girlfriend. Damn, I have lost major man points..

[BDKJMU]

1st time I've watched much of any winter Olympics since around 92'? (if Calgary was in 88' and the Olympics are held every 4 years and are being held in 2010 then something doesn't add up).

Problems I see.

Too many events. Read an article today that back in 88' was 46 Winter Olympic events and now are 86.
-Since when did snowboard racing become an Oly sport?
-WTF is it with a bunch of hippie snowboarders riding down this tube thingy doing tricks becoming an Oly sport?
-Since when did curling become an Oly sport? Don't remember that one either in the 80s-early 90s.
So what new obscure sh*t are they going to come up with next?

-Too many damn commercials.

-Too much human interest touch feelly crap. 1/3 commericials, 1/3 human interest, and 1/3 competition. And since I was watching it live with my gf, Sun-Fri, I couldn't fast forward through all that.

-There's shouldn't be mens singles figure skating. It just isn't manly, with their sparkly spandex and flailing their arms all around. At least with the couples it looks like the men sort of get to cop a feel.

[JayJ79]

-Since when did snowboard racing become an Oly sport?
-WTF is it with a bunch of hippie snowboarders riding down this tube thingy doing tricks becoming an Oly sport?

That's not really much different than the ski racing and freestyle skiing events, or the speed skating and figure skating.

-Since when did curling become an Oly sport? Don't remember that one either in the 80s-early 90s.

Curling was included in the program of the inaugural Winter Olympic Games in 1924 in Chamonix. The results of that competition were not considered official by the International Olympic Committee until 2006. Curling was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Games, and then again after a lengthy absence in 1988 and 1992. The sport was finally added to the official program for the 1998 Nagano Games.

As for obscure sh*t, most of the Olympics is sh*t that 99% of people don't give a rat's a$$ about outside of the Olympics. Especially in the Winter Games, where hockey is the only sport that gets much significant non-olympic coverage.

But I agree with you on the commercials.

[Rob Iola]

If you think that men's figure skating isn't manly, then you'll just luv the 2-man luge...

[UNHWildCats]

-Since when did snowboard racing become an Oly sport?
-WTF is it with a bunch of hippie snowboarders riding down this tube thingy doing tricks becoming an Oly sport?

That's not really much different than the ski racing and freestyle skiing events, or the speed skating and figure skating.

-Since when did curling become an Oly sport? Don't remember that one either in the 80s-early 90s.

Curling was included in the program of the inaugural Winter Olympic Games in 1924 in Chamonix. The results of that competition were not considered official by the International Olympic Committee until 2006. Curling was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Games, and then again after a lengthy absence in 1988 and 1992. The sport was finally added to the official program for the 1998 Nagano Games.

As for obscure sh*t, most of the Olympics is sh*t that 99% of people don't give a rat's a$$ about outside of the Olympics. Especially in the Winter Games, where hockey is the only sport that gets much significant non-olympic coverage.

But I agree with you on the commercials.

Several sports get plenty of coverage, they just dont have leagues that highlight the sport on a daily basis. Short track skating is wildly popular in asia as is speed skating and figure skating in europe. Figure Skating also gets plenty of coverage in the US when there are significant events which is about all you can ask for. Just because something isnt as popular here doesnt mean it isnt popular. The Olympics arent an American Sporting Event, so you cant, nor should you expect each sport at the Olympics to be widely popular here.

[UNHWildCats]

1st time I've watched much of any winter Olympics since around 92'? (if Calgary was in 88' and the Olympics are held every 4 years and are being held in 2010 then something doesn't add up).

Problems I see.

Too many events. Read an article today that back in 88' was 46 Winter Olympic events and now are 86.
-Since when did snowboard racing become an Oly sport?
-WTF is it with a bunch of hippie snowboarders riding down this tube thingy doing tricks becoming an Oly sport?
-Since when did curling become an Oly sport? Don't remember that one either in the 80s-early 90s.
So what new obscure sh*t are they going to come up with next?

-Too many damn commercials.

-Too much human interest touch feelly crap. 1/3 commericials, 1/3 human interest, and 1/3 competition. And since I was watching it live with my gf, Sun-Fri, I couldn't fast forward through all that.

-There's shouldn't be mens singles figure skating. It just isn't manly, with their sparkly spandex and flailing their arms all around. At least with the couples it looks like the men sort of get to cop a feel.

Until 1992 the Winter and Summer Olympics were held in the same year. It was decided to split them up and the Sumjmer Olympics remained on the same roation while the Winter Olympics were moved to the even year between. The Winter Olympics held a games in 1994, two years after the 1992 Winter games and has been on a 4 year cycle since then.

Winter Olympics:
1980 - Lake Placid, NY USA
1984 - Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1988 - Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1992 - Albertville, France
1994 - Lillehammer, Norway
1998 - Nagano, Japan
2002 - Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
2006 - Turin, Italy
2010 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
2014 - Sochi, Russia

[UNHWildCats]

1st time I've watched much of any winter Olympics since around 92'? (if Calgary was in 88' and the Olympics are held every 4 years and are being held in 2010 then something doesn't add up).

Problems I see.

Too many events. Read an article today that back in 88' was 46 Winter Olympic events and now are 86.
-Since when did snowboard racing become an Oly sport?
-WTF is it with a bunch of hippie snowboarders riding down this tube thingy doing tricks becoming an Oly sport?
-Since when did curling become an Oly sport? Don't remember that one either in the 80s-early 90s.
So what new obscure sh*t are they going to come up with next?

-Too many damn commercials.

-Too much human interest touch feelly crap. 1/3 commericials, 1/3 human interest, and 1/3 competition. And since I was watching it live with my gf, Sun-Fri, I couldn't fast forward through all that.

-There's shouldn't be mens singles figure skating. It just isn't manly, with their sparkly spandex and flailing their arms all around. At least with the couples it looks like the men sort of get to cop a feel.

If you dont like an event, dont watch the event.

[AZGrizFan]

Slovakia 2, Russia 1 shoot out(SLV wins on the 7th penalty shot) Russia was the #1 ranked team going in.
Canada 3, Switzerland 2, Shoot out(CAN wins on 4th penalty shot)

I thought I liked Olympic hockey before but those games were fuckin awesome, and I don't even watch the NHL.

Can't stand NHL hockey, but LOVE Olympic hockey.

[DJH]

Slovakia 2, Russia 1 shoot out(SLV wins on the 7th penalty shot) Russia was the #1 ranked team going in.
Canada 3, Switzerland 2, Shoot out(CAN wins on 4th penalty shot)

I thought I liked Olympic hockey before but those games were fuckin awesome, and I don't even watch the NHL.

Can't stand NHL hockey, but LOVE Olympic hockey.

you mean, olympic hockey that is played on NHL rinks with NHL players? Yeah, huge difference..

[FargoBison]

-Since when did snowboard racing become an Oly sport?
-WTF is it with a bunch of hippie snowboarders riding down this tube thingy doing tricks becoming an Oly sport?

That's not really much different than the ski racing and freestyle skiing events, or the speed skating and figure skating.

-Since when did curling become an Oly sport? Don't remember that one either in the 80s-early 90s.

Curling was included in the program of the inaugural Winter Olympic Games in 1924 in Chamonix. The results of that competition were not considered official by the International Olympic Committee until 2006. Curling was a demonstration sport at the 1932 Games, and then again after a lengthy absence in 1988 and 1992. The sport was finally added to the official program for the 1998 Nagano Games.

As for obscure sh*t, most of the Olympics is sh*t that 99% of people don't give a rat's a$$ about outside of the Olympics. Especially in the Winter Games, where hockey is the only sport that gets much significant non-olympic coverage.

But I agree with you on the commercials.

I'd say snowboarding is pretty popular, probably why it was added. It gets a decent amount of coverage outside of the Olympics, the X-Games is pretty big....

http://www.denverpost.com/extremes/ci_14407668

[Grizalltheway]

Can't stand NHL hockey, but LOVE Olympic hockey.

you mean, olympic hockey that is played on NHL rinks with NHL players? Yeah, huge difference..

Yeah, apparently the fighting in the NHL offends Z's liberal, peace-nik sensibilities.

[Rob Iola]

Can't stand NHL hockey, but LOVE Olympic hockey.

you mean, olympic hockey that is played on NHL rinks with NHL players? Yeah, huge difference..

With the only decent refs being the NHL refs...


Who suck hard...