Olympics

[Lilith]

My students are not really all that interested in these Olympics. I think part of it is because they have no frame of reference for these snow sports. I'm wondering which Olympics you enjoy more and if you have a fave event.

[fzzy]

Since I'm blessed in my life to know several former Olympic athletes, a few even have medals .... and all of them are in the summer games venues .... I guess I'll say I prefer the summer ones, though the skating events can be so very beautiful to watch. My favorites though would have to be the volleyball ones ... indoor and beach ... I love em both.

[jbh3]

Easy...Winter Olympics---Hockey!!

[jay-t]

winter games ,down hill racing ,ski jump

[Scarecrow]

Speed Skating, Bonnie Blair and I learned on the same track. I got to meet her after she won her first Gold metal. Also like short track racing.

[bare4you]

I guess I am getting old (like I really need to guess, boy can I say some stupid things sometimes) but recently I have come to enjoy the finer points of curling. Must be all that Canadian air that is blowing down I-5 to Seattle, eh?

[Eros]

Winter here...figure skating (love those short skirts), short track speed skating, skeleton(Tristan Gale is HOT), Luge, Snowboarding, Hockey, hell..I like just about all of it, I'll even watch Biathalon!

[FallenAngel5]

I love love the winter games. May be my background in snow sports, but I love all the skiing events, especially moguls. I also like speed skating, luge, and bobsled.

[Steph]

I JUST MET A GOLD MEDALLIST TODAY!!!! Donovan Bailey was at my office! AT MY OFFICE!!!! 100 m sexy man!!! I saw him run across the road!!! :D

(The Americans who work in the office didn't know who he was -- he's a big hero here for the '96 gold in the 100m & the relay with Bruny Surin)

It's a wonderful international cultural event celebrating dedication to the body.

My fave event will be hockey. We won gold for female & male hockey in 2002 & it was a happiness that can't be explained. I don't think we'll do the double this time but I'll be cheering like a madwoman (cuz I'm not crazy as it is).

LOL They're going alphabetically & Dan just yelled, "Venezuela? What the hell? There are two of them!!"

Same as the Jamaican bobsledders, I guess.

[Neige]

I like the winter Olympics better - I love watching the hockey as well as all the rest because it's all stuff I would really suck at if I tried :D

[PantyFanatic]

I like the summer games. I’m hoping to see Steph on the Javelin Catching team in 08. :D

[Steph]

I like the summer games. I’m hoping to see Steph on the Javelin Catching team in 08. :D


I've been dying to catch your javelin for years now. :rolleyes:

[jbh3]

I've been dying to catch your javelin for years now. :rolleyes:
I've been waitin' 12 minutes for this reply...lmao!!

[Oldfart]

You'll catch something, anyway.

[sodaklostsoul]

I've been dying to catch your javelin for years now. :rolleyes:
I never thought I would see this in type! *faint*

[Oldfart]

Back to the original topic (is this an anti-Jacques?), you should maybe try Territory Biathelon.

You drag a skier around a measured course and then you shoot him.

Snow skiiers are thus an uncommon sight up here.

[PantyFanatic]

Very interesting OF. I like it!! :rolleyes: I'll get my jeep, you bring Steph. :D

[jseal]

Lilith,

I prefer the Summer Games. My favorite event is diving.

[Steph]

The Opening Ceremonies were as strange as always. Yoko Ono? You'd think she'd have better public speaking skills by now.

Pavarotti was awesome!

[LixyChick]

Yeah Steph...I just don't get the appeal of that woman either!!?? Peter Gabriel's rendition of "Imagine" coulda been done better too. Oh well!

I LOVED the torch lighting though! At least this year there were no doves set free to fly into the flames...lol!

I totally enjoy both winter and summer events. Figure skating and all forms of skiing are fun to watch. The luge is pretty cool too. I'm glued to the TV for the summer gynastic events.

Whenever I am home I turn on the tube and see what event is going on!

[gekkogecko]

Well, aside from the fact that ice hockey is the best sport ever invented...I like biathlon.

[PantyFanatic]

Because we suck at it, we get absolute minimum coverage of it, but I too find the biathlon very interesting. There aren’t many events that cause you micro adjustments of how far away to stay from going all out.

[rockintime]

Speed skating, skeleton, luge....speed, baby!

Oh yeah, and cross-country skiing because TV usually makes a big production of it to make it into this mythic competition of not only person against person and country against country, but person against his/her inner demons.

[Steph]

The first period of women's hockey just ended. Canada 5, Italy nada

I'm assuming they let Italy play because they're the host country?

[gekkogecko]

Yeah, I just turned off that game after a while. Italy was playing like Canada had a power play, even when they were at full strength.

Yes, the host country automatically gets a seed into the preliminary rounds. After that, it's what you can do with the skill & talent you have.

Earlier, the USA women beat the Swiss women in the same sport, 6-0. International ice hockey, particularly among women, doesn't have a very even distribution of skill.

[Steph]

CBC cut away from the game after the second period because it was so mismatched. The Italian goalie wasn't even as tall as the net!

Canada's only competition is the U.S.

[maddy]

I like both olympics equally. I just heard this morning Michelle Kwan has withdrawn from the Olympics. I can't imagine how Emily Hughes must feel to be "in", "out" and back "in" again

[Scarecrow]

For those who watched the pairs figure skating last night. What do you think of the new scoring system?? I can not figure it out yet.

[gekkogecko]

I just heard this morning Michelle Kwan has withdrawn from the Olympics. I can't imagine how Emily Hughes must feel to be "in", "out" and back "in" again


So, I ran over to the olympic web site to check: sure enough, Kwan pulled out due to a groin injury.

Good, she really had no business being on teh team this year anyway: it kind of pissed me off that the US Olympic Committee bent the rules, gave her special dispensation, and bumped Hughes off just for her.

[bare4you]

Very interesting OF. I like it!! :rolleyes: I'll get my jeep, you bring Steph. :D

For the life of me I thought for sure this comment would get a response from someone other than me!

Do you think they'll cancel the Olympics now that Michelle Kwan has pulled out? Shoot - she should have never been allowed to go with an injury in the first place. Time for some new talent I say.

[Steph]

For those who watched the pairs figure skating last night. What do you think of the new scoring system?? I can not figure it out yet.

This might help:

In Fitting Twist, Pairs Will Provide the First Olympic Test of New Scoring
NY Times
By LYNN ZINSER
Published: February 10, 2006

TURIN, Italy, Feb. 9 — The scandal's hard edges have faded in time, the details etched into Olympic lore under the phrase "French judge." But the figure-skating scandal that sidetracked the Salt Lake Olympics four years ago will reverberate here Friday, when a new Winter Games begin.

In attempts to avoid scandal, which shook the 2002 Olympic pairs, judges keep a running tally of points, adding or subtracting after each move.

<snipped>

But there will be an instant reminder of the judging scandal — not only does the pairs competition open the skating on Saturday, it will also serve as the Olympic unveiling of the scoring system created to fix the corruption. But while the new scoring is more transparent, it is also maddeningly complicated and comes with its own built-in debate: anonymous judges.

"At least in the old system, you knew" who had misjudged you, said Richard Pound, an I.O.C. member from Canada. "Now you can't tell." The competition may end in 17 days with as many questions as answers.

But Salt Lake's Games introduced a new platform for Olympic controversy. The French judge Marie Reine Le Gougne became the focus of international intrigue after she said she was pressured into helping a Russian pair win. Thanks to insistent television announcers and an enraged North American audience, the silver medalists Jamie Salé and David Pelletier became the sympathetic victims of a fix. They eventually walked away with their own set of gold medals, matching those of the Russians Anton Sikharulidze and Yelena Berezhnaya, after the I.O.C. intervened.

A sport that had always been at the mercy of murky judging was suddenly under siege.

<snipped>

The double gold medals quelled the initial furor somewhat, but the scoring system took two more years to reform.

Le Gougne, who denies the conspiracy charges, was banned from international judging for two years, but she now says that she believes the scandal was worth it because the skating union was forced to install a new judging system before another worldwide audience would pay rapt attention again.

<snipped>

The new system has been generally applauded by the athletes, although some are still struggling to learn its nuances. It replaces the old, simple 6.0 system, in which deductions were taken from the 6.0 to produce a set of technical scores and a set for artistic impression.

Now, a routine is evaluated in what appears to be a blizzard of numbers, assigning values to each element performed based on its difficulty. Judges are still given a set of marks to judge artistry as well, all rolled into a confounding total. Sasha Cohen won the United States championships with a 185.98.

"I think it's alienated a few in the public because it's complicated," said Peter Oppegard, a former Olympic pairs skater and current coach. "They look at those numbers and say, 'What does that mean?'

"You lose that immediate reaction of, '6.0, wow.' You do lose that excitement. But if it means these athletes are competing on a more even playing field, it is a good tradeoff."

That was ostensibly the purpose of the new system. In the old one, judges were allowed to give the same score to several skaters and decide later how to rank them. It was standard practice to judge early skaters lower in order to "leave room" for the more accomplished skaters to come.

All that is gone. What exists now is anonymity. There may be a French judge, but no one will know. The skating union insisted on this because it said judges felt it would keep nations and federations from trying to influence their judging.

"It worries me that the system is so corrupt that judges cannot make proper judgments without anonymity because of retaliation," Pound said. "That's a problem."

Pelletier agrees. "A system that protects the judges makes me laugh," Pelletier said in a recent teleconference. "It should be a system that protects the skaters."

The United States Figure Skating Association argued against anonymity when the new system was formulated, but has since supported it because the I.S.U. instituted a judge-review process. Now, a panel reviews the judges' marks at every competition. Wayward marks draw an official reprimand, which affect that judge's future international assignments.

But the general public's ability to match a set of marks with a judge is gone.

"Before, I think people liked to see the country identified with the judges and could understand it very quickly," said Jim Scherr, chief executive of the United States Olympic Committee. "Now it's something of a black box."

Pound and others say a better solution is for the International Skating Union to train a staff of professional judges instead of relying on each country's federation to train and nominate judges for international duty, leaving them open to outside influence.

Still others say that judged sports, by their very nature, can never be free of controversy.

Many skaters will point out that under the new judging system, the Russian pair would have finished first and the Canadians second. All the upheaval would not have changed that result.

"I was sitting in the front row and I saw both teams compete," said John Baldwin, half of the top American pair, with Rena Inoue, at this Olympics. "What happened was one team won by a tenth of a point. That's how figure skating is. It's a judged event. I don't know if you're ever going to get rid of that.

"The new system is good on the technical side. But as long as it's a subjective sport, you're not going to get rid of it."

The sport of figure skating was turned upside down, but may have landed nearly where it started.

[mayhem1978]

Love the winter games esp the tea tray event.......sorry the luge :P


Also the new scoring system for the skating sucks, I can remember when Torvil and Dean got their scores...The cheeres just got louder with each 6.0 while the announcer was very calm. You dont get that with the new 158.9..bleagh

[bare4you]

I can't believe the US lost to Finland today in Curling! :mad:

[Oldfart]

They were just too straight for the task.

[WildIrish]

I enjoy watching the downhill skiing and of course...


Brokeback Luge! :D

[bare4you]

Another loss for the US curling team....this time the ladies gave one away to the Japanese.....I guess I need to find a new sport.

Can anyone tell me when Michelle Kwan skates?

[maddy]

bare4you... she's no longer in the olympics ;)

[bare4you]

I knew that Maddy, just wanted to see if anyone was awake :D

The US men's curling team lost to Italy today.....can anyone tell me when Bode gets his downhill gold medal?

[maddy]

/me smax bare4you's butt - smarty pants!

[bare4you]

Maybe they could make this an Olympic sport! I just might become more excited (and even about the Olympics!) :p

[Fangtasia]

I prefer the summer olympics

Equestrian events are my thing

[Steph]

I can't get over the moguls (literally). I went down a moguls hill with downhill skis cuz I'm an idiot. To think of people training on short skis how many hours a day? Going down those insane bumps? Jesus Murphy.

[PantyFanatic]

...The US men's curling team lost to Italy today........
And I think Italy won it useing forks. :(

[Steph]

And I think Italy won it useing forks. :(

Is that a weakness in the US curling team? We need it. A Newf is leading the Canuck men. A Newf with a mom going through chemo right now! I'm hoping the other teams forget to show up to allow a NEWF to win an Olympic Gold especially under such heartbreaking circumstances!

[PantyFanatic]

.... A Newf is leading the Canuck men. ...
They should win easily. I know one Newfie that knows how to use a broom.

[WildIrish]

I can't get over the moguls (literally). I went down a moguls hill with downhill skis cuz I'm an idiot. To think of people training on short skis how many hours a day? Going down those insane bumps? Jesus Murphy.

I haven't skied in five or six winters, and used to love the moguls. It was rough on the back and knees but fun. Made for really good wipe-outs too. :D

But those dudes go really fast and when they fly up in the air...they only look out of control! lmfao

[bare4you]

They should win easily. I know one Newfie that knows how to use a broom.

That's too funny :D

I wonder why we even sent a team to Italy! Aside from the young lady that nearly broke her back practicing for the downhill and then competing a couple days later, there really isn't anything to catch my excitement yet

[gekkogecko]

But my girl let me down! Uschi Disl place only 13th in the Women's 15km individual biathlon the other day. And I was away from the house all day, so I didn't get to check the results of Thursday's event.

[Steph]

Canada scored four medals today! Outstanding!

[RandyGal]

Lovin' the winter over the summer olympics the best I think.
REALLY facinated by the "skeleton" style luge they're doing........talk about your dangerous sport! :eek:
Those women who do it are brave......but I wonder if they have breast protection or some sort of body armour under their clothing? :p

[Lilith]

The skeleton, the luge and snowboarding are the ones we keep discussing in class the most. I saw the ladies skeleton last night and the one lady announced she was 2 months pregnant. They run and flop down, I was nervous for her.

[Steph]

Two months pregnant!?!?! :eek:

I often question the parents of these athletes. I can't imagine letting my kid jump on a luge!

[gekkogecko]

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck! Fucking hate shootouts! Stupid fucking way to decide a team game.

Sweedish Women get to play for the gold medal, US Women will play for bronze, all due to the fucked rules of the IIHF.

[jbh3]

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck! Fucking hate shootouts! Stupid fucking way to decide a team game.

Sweedish Women get to play for the gold medal, US Women will play for bronze, all due to the fucked rules of the IIHF.

Amen!!!! :mad: Fuckin' blows

[WildIrish]

I was glued to the tv last night in watching the snowboarding. Now THAT looks like fun!

Wish I wasn't so damned old! ha ha

[RandyGal]

Two months pregnant!?!?! :eek:

I often question the parents of these athletes. I can't imagine letting my kid jump on a luge!


Imagine bein' the little babe inside!!! :eek:

All I can think is What. A. Rush!! :p

[wyndhy]

snowboarding's my fave. the half-pipe especially

make's me wanna play coolboarders2 ... er ... too

[RandyGal]

snowboarding's my fave. the half-pipe especially

make's me wanna play coolboarders2 ... er ... too


What the heck was the event I saw last night...the one where they were on snowboards but in a pack like a race instead of the one-man-down-at-a-time thing? I've never seen anything like that before!

[wyndhy]

snowboard cross, RG. first time at the olympics

[WildIrish]

And it was WICKED cool!

[RandyGal]

And it was WICKED cool!


It really was wasn't it? Looked like a LOT of fun!!

[wyndhy]

duuuude....

[WildIrish]

duuuude....


OMG!!! I just realized what was missing!







None of them were using iPods! :D

[RandyGal]

duuuude....


ROTFLMAO I KNOWWWWWWW there's just this personna that goes with the snowboarding isn't there?!?!

DUuuuude!!

I keep joking that I have NO idea how these guys pass their drug tests. :p

[bare4you]

I am so glad I didn't see the young lady fall while acting up during the snowboard contest and blow the gold medal.....Seems to me that the Olympics just don't mean the same as they used to

Someone please bring back the athletes of my youth!

[jbh3]

I am so glad I didn't see the young lady fall while acting up during the snowboard contest and blow the gold medal.....Seems to me that the Olympics just don't mean the same as they used to

Someone please bring back the athletes of my youth!

Same here...I guess Visa will have to shit can all those Gold Medal commercials now that Lindsey made an ass out of herself.

[Lilith]

I am so glad I didn't see the young lady fall while acting up during the snowboard contest and blow the gold medal.....Seems to me that the Olympics just don't mean the same as they used to

Someone please bring back the athletes of my youth!
Like Pete Rose?????? :D

[Steph]

Sweedish Women get to play for the gold medal, US Women will play for bronze, all due to the fucked rules of the IIHF.

It's NHL rules now, too. It makes for a more dramatic end but it sucks if your team loses. That was a huge shocker yesterday!

[gekkogecko]

It's NHL rules now, too. It makes for a more dramatic end but it sucks if your team loses.

It's not just that "my" team lost (and I will admit, as far as Ice Hockey goes, I *am* pulling for the US team heavily). It's just that, win or lose, to have an event which is meant to be a team effort decided by smething so arbitrary is aanoying. It sucks in soccer, it sucks in the NHL, and it sucks in the IIHF.


I mean, yes, the NHL in it's how-many-year history had a very few games go into four or five overtimes. But in the end, the games were decided by team endurance and team effort. Hockey is meant to be a large amount of physical effort. Let them play, don't have this stupid, arbitrary "we" suddenly get luckier than "they" do decision. If you're going to do that, why play the game in the first place?

[Steph]

Good points, gekko.

Canada men are losing 2-0 to the Swiss right now & it's the end of the 2nd period. The pain!

[Neige]

:( I am not watching but am paying close attention to CBC's blog about it (http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/sports/icehockey/mensglog/game3.shtml). Come on Canada!!!!!!

[Steph]

:( I am not watching but am paying close attention to CBC's blog about it (http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/sports/icehockey/mensglog/game3.shtml). Come on Canada!!!!!!

That blog sucked for me yesterday at work. I got email updates from a friend before they updated on the site. How long does it take to post a score?

[Neige]

I'm not sure how long it takes... but it is kind of slow, I find. But I love some of the comments they make though! ("Calling Judge Judy. Is there a Judge Judy in the house?" :D)

[Steph]

AUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We've never lost to the Swiss before! OMG That was awful! Gerber, the Swiss goalie, was amazing.



("Calling Judge Judy. Is there a Judge Judy in the house?" :D)

LOL That call did take a long time. :D

[Neige]

:(

[gekkogecko]

I was too busy watching biathlon to see the game, but...

Switzerland beat Canada?
What the Fuck?

And a shut out?

Switzerland?

[RandyGal]

WTF indeed.....HUGE shocker!! :eek:

[Steph]

The Swiss goalie was outstanding -- 49 saves. He plays for the Hurricanes.

The guy who scored the two goals is actually a Canadian who married a Swiss woman. *sob* He used to play for Montreal. *sob*

[jseal]

As one of the older guard, it continues to please me that countries like Croatia, Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine not only can compete now, but also win.

[Steph]

:eek: :confused: Another hockey shocker!!! The American men are out of medal contention! Holy smoley!!! :eek: :confused:

[PantyFanatic]

Bibi wonders if the Kanucks and US will be playing floor hockey at the summer games. She think they might have a better chance there. :D














ROFL

[gekkogecko]

:eek: :confused: Another hockey shocker!!! The American men are out of medal contention! Holy smoley!!! :eek: :confused:


Yes, Finland 4, US 3...but not such a shocker, given that the US cound't stay out of the penalty box, and Finland has the best power play of any team in the tournament.

At least it wasn't decided by a shootout.

[jbh3]

Do you believe in miracles?

Ya,right...This is the most pathetic group of American athletes I have ever witnessed!

[gekkogecko]

And Russia 2, Canada 0. Finalnd gets to play Russia in the semifinal game. Wonder who is going to win that one.

Canada lost because they just couldn't deal with the special teams. Both Russia's goals came on the power play (and I note, it was the Washington Rookie sensation, Alexander Olvechkin, who scored the first goal for Russia), whereas Canada squandered its eight power play opportunities.

[flutelady]

I love the olympics and start looking forward to them about a year before they're due to start. I prefer summer to winter, but I really like ice dancing, figure skating, speed skating (NOT short track, too much like roller derby) and alot of the downhill events.

But... even if my favorite event was being shown and the fight was on for the gold medal, I'd turn it off the minute American Idol started :D

[Steph]

And Russia 2, Canada 0. Finalnd gets to play Russia in the semifinal game. Wonder who is going to win that one.

Canada lost because they just couldn't deal with the special teams. Both Russia's goals came on the power play (and I note, it was the Washington Rookie sensation, Alexander Olvechkin, who scored the first goal for Russia), whereas Canada squandered its eight power play opportunities.

I can't disagree with that. We had some close chances but didn't have the offense.

I can't believe the US and the Canucks are out!!

The last eight minutes were ours but we had another goal disallowed. Not pathetic but looking around my office this evening, we all looked like we had been punched in the stomach.

[Steph]

Do you believe in miracles?

Ya,right...This is the most pathetic group of American athletes I have ever witnessed!

And you would be better than them how???

[WildIrish]

And you would be better than them how???

In all fairness...he's never seen me play hockey. :D

[gekkogecko]

You know what we need? A Pixie's-league hockey team. Send ourselves to the freakin' Olympics!

[WildIrish]

You know what we need? A Pixie's-league hockey team. Send ourselves to the freakin' Olympics!


Excellent idea! We can be a model for our countries in gathering together a multi-national team. All pulling together. :D

[jbh3]

And you would be better than them how???

First of all, I never claim anywhere in my post that I would be better than them.Second,if I aspired to be an Olympic athlete and was chosen to represent the US I would at least have SHOWED UP

And third...get over it!! We stunk!!

[Steph]

First of all, I never claim anywhere in my post that I would be better than them.Second,if I aspired to be an Olympic athlete and was chosen to represent the US I would at least have SHOWED UP

And third...get over it!! We stunk!!

1. I know you didn't claim you were better than them. I'm just asking you how in the hell you can be such a whiner.

2. They showed up.

3. I don't have anything to get over. I think every country SHOWED UP.

[Steph]

The Newfoundland men won curling gold for Canada. The province closed all schools on Friday afternoon so the kids could watch the match. It's the first gold won by Newfoundlanders (who aren't known for healthy living. :D )

[PantyFanatic]

They didn't close the Newfie pubs, did they? :#*X*#: <----- bloodchillingpanicsmilie

[Steph]

They didn't close the Newfie pubs, did they? :#*X*#: <----- bloodchillingpanicsmilie

Gushue's gold brings Rock to a standstill
Newfoundlanders bask in Games glory

The party's on with no end in sight
Feb. 25, 2006. 01:00 AM
STEPHANIE PORTER
SPECIAL TO THE STAR


ST. JOHN'S, Nfld.—Let the parties begin.

Memorial University student Jason Crowley expressed the well-lubricated adoration of Canada's gold-medal curlers — four of whom hail from Newfoundland and Labrador — that energized the St. John's campus bar yesterday.

"Listen, the last time they closed the high schools for a person was when the Pope came," Crowley said, shaking a plastic beer cup. "So today, Brad Gushue is up there with the Pope."

Pope John Paul II visited St. John's in 1984. Yesterday, kids from kindergarten to Grade 12 were let out of school at noon to watch the curlers go for gold.

The streets of the capital city, silent for 2 1/2 hours and eight ends, jumped to life immediately after, filled with honking horns and flapping flags. The lively pubs of downtown St. John's were off to an early start.

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1140824434340&call_pageid=970599119419


Lead Korab couldn't wait to get to return to St. John's on Tuesday for the party he knew would still be going strong.

''I think St. John's is totally going crazy, the schools, the homes, the bars,'' he said.

http://www.tsn.ca/olympics/news_story/?ID=156058&hubname=olympics

[PantyFanatic]

*WEEEEEEE* :)


scared me there for a minute!!!! :eek:

I’m so happy for the “Curlers Of Determination”. :D

[Steph]

Two more medals in women's speed skating for us. The woman who won the bronze has won five medals for us here!

The Czechs are looking pathetic on a five-minute PP in hockey.

[BIBI]

Bibi wonders if the Kanucks and US will be playing floor hockey at the summer games. She think they might have a better chance there. :D














ROFL

There you go!

I am gone for a while and you are lulled into a false sense of security and start telling lies about me! :p

[PantyFanatic]

LMAO :D

I thought you may be back early and need some things to keep you 'occupied'.;) ROFL

[Steph]

The Czechs are looking pathetic on a five-minute PP in hockey.

I misspoke. The Czechs scored seconds after I posted & it's now 3-0. They've got the bronze.

[Lilith]

My students are fascinated with curling. They told me that the peeps who do it wear dress shoes and push a rock. :p

[gekkogecko]

Yes, the Czechs won, but the worst thing about the bronze-medal game from my point of view is that Alexander Olvechkin hurt his left hand. Not sure how severely, but he did come back to play later in the game.

[gekkogecko]

And Poland, in the person of Tomasz Sikora taking the silver medal in men's 15km mass start biathlon? How did that happen? Poland has never won a biathlon medal of any sort. And I like the irony of Germany & Poland going 1-2 in the event.

[RandyGal]

My students are fascinated with curling. They told me that the peeps who do it wear dress shoes and push a rock. :p


Your students are kind of right!! :p
Seriously...rent the movie "Men With Brooms". You'll learn a lot about curling AND beavers. :D



.

[Lilith]

What is it rated?

[Steph]

What is it rated?

Rated R for language, sexuality and some drug use

Hmmm, maybe I'll finally rent it now. :)

There are some excellent Canuck actors & singers in it.

[Lilith]

I think I'll have to take a pass on showing it to my students :D

[IAKaraokeGirl]

I think I'll have to take a pass on showing it to my students :D


Yeah, but think about how popular you'd be. :D

[gekkogecko]

Hm, last day. Only one or two more events left to be decided. And then the excuse for a mass party in the form of the closing ceremonies.

Speed, grace, finesse, power, skill, teamwork. I love the Olympics.