Re: 2010 Winter Olympics

[TruffleShuffle]

mccormack is a choker too. what a horrible draw.

[Careless]

McCormick has really sucked in Womens curling.

I want to make a joke about how sex between her and Shuster would end... but I won't.

[ISUCubsFan]

This will probably be a Visa "Go World" commercial in 4 years.

 

Majdic won bronze with collapsed lung

 

Basically a Slovenian cross-country skier broke 4 ribs and collapsed a lung in a crash in practice and managed to get through qualifying, quarterfinals, and semifinals to finish third in the final. She also managed to get through an ultrasound which somehow missed the broken bones.

[TruffleShuffle]

is that the girl from the ting tings?

 

katie white? that's not her name.

[Derwood]

The properties of curling shoes are confusing. They can slide on them like a skateboard when they want to, but get great traction while running down the ice

 

they have one teflon coated shoe and one traction shoe, but they can slip a rubber cover over the teflon one when they're not delivering

[Magnetic Curses]

americans almost pulled a cool runnings right there.

[kujay]

Pretty awesome women's curling effort from the American. Good day all around.

[Andy]

americans almost pulled a cool runnings right there.

Miracle that they didn't crash. Unfortunately they're pretty much out of the medals because of it.

[Magnetic Curses]

dammit. americans allergic to [expletive] gold all of a sudden.

 

davis gets upset in the 1500, in which he was a heavy favorite, vonn loses the super-g, miller gets edged out in the super g, too. win the [expletive] gold a-holes.

[cubsfan]

Send em off to the gulags.

[Soul]

dammit. americans allergic to [expletive] gold all of a sudden.

 

davis gets upset in the 1500, in which he was a heavy favorite, vonn loses the super-g, miller gets edged out in the super g, too. win the [expletive] gold a-holes.

 

 

Don't come back home unless there's gold around your neck!!

[Guest]

Finally got around to watching the end of the US-Sweden match (was at UCD baseball all day) and that was a great shot by Jason Smith to end the match.

[Andy]

How the hell can the judges just arbitrarily advance that Canadian when he was in 3rd when he crashed and only the top two are supposed to move on? That's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

[Flames24Rulz]

Beautiful move by Ohno to get into the final.

[Magnetic Curses]

dammit. americans allergic to [expletive] gold all of a sudden.

 

davis gets upset in the 1500, in which he was a heavy favorite, vonn loses the super-g, miller gets edged out in the super g, too. win the [expletive] gold a-holes.

 

 

Don't come back home unless there's gold around your neck!!

 

exactly, losers.

[Andy]

Ohno just got screwed getting pushed by that Canadian. Managed to come back and win bronze.

[wvcbxl]

She also managed to get through an ultrasound which somehow missed the broken bones.

 

Canadian health care?

[Careless]

The Canadian women's curling team is 4-0 with 4 one point wins, but they're just destroying the American team. Their men's team is almost doubling their opponents' scores

[Roast]

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Canadian-commentators-fail-to-cool-it-with-Johnn?urn=oly,221050

 

The Canadian french-language commentators made some unkind remarks about Johnny Weir.

 

" 'This may not be politically correct,' Mailhot said during the segment, in which Weir ... was shown sporting a semi-sheer, pink-and-black costume he designed himself.

 

" 'But do you think he lost points due to his costume and his body language?' "

 

"Goldberg replied that Weir's feminine style may reflect badly on other male figure skaters.

 

" 'They'll think all the boys who skate will end up like him,' he said. 'It sets a bad example.' "

 

...

 

 

" 'We should make him [Weir] pass a gender test at this point,' Goldberg said, and Mailhot then jokingly suggested Weir should compete in the women's competition."

 

Good job, dumbasses.

[kujay]

^Perhaps that last comment was over the line, but Johnny Weir is insufferable. We get it, you are super gay and super dramatic about everything. That's great. Now go back to being completely irrelevant as quickly as possible.

[TruffleShuffle]

yeah, they can't really say stuff like that on the air, but honestly, he's completely ridiculous. people who act over-the-top flamboyant are silly, as are people at the gym who need to make a spectacle of how straight they are by making comments about every girl's rack and what he'd like to do to her.

[Guest]

The Canadian women's curling team is 4-0 with 4 one point wins, but they're just destroying the American team. Their men's team is almost doubling their opponents' scores

 

We gave up after only seven ends. That's amazing.

[Careless]

At least one guy in the biathalon found a short-sleeved/legged uniform today.

[Derwood]

yeah, they can't really say stuff like that on the air, but honestly, he's completely ridiculous. people who act over-the-top flamboyant are silly, as are people at the gym who need to make a spectacle of how straight they are by making comments about every girl's rack and what he'd like to do to her.

 

he's doing it to get a rise out of everyone, and it's working.

[wvcbxl]

An irrelevant side story, since Belgium doesn't stand a chance in hell of winning anything in Vancouver, but worth telling anyway.

 

Four years ago, two TV guys (I assume after a night of drinking in a bar) came up with an idea for a new program: find a group of random (female) athletes who aren't getting anywhere in their chosen sport, stick them in a bobsleigh with cameras rolling and call the program "Road to Vancouver".

 

Fast forward four years; next Tuesday Elfje Willemsen (who used to throw a javelin) and Eva Willemarck (a former sprinter) will participate in the Olympic bobsleigh competition.

 

Beware of crazy ideas - they might just become reality. If you'd have predicted this to those TV guys at the time, they'd have said you'd been drinking. 8-)