Re: 2010 Winter Olympics

[Magnetic Curses]

man, that was close. canucks got lucky

[17 Seconds]

seriously canada, bring that weak [expletive] on sunday afternoon and see what happens

 

i feel like this canada team has choke written all over them

[TruffleShuffle]

i'll take a 6-0 first period lead on the finns over hanging on for dear life and needing help from the crossbar against the slovaks.

[17 Seconds]

i'm really starting to question canada's mental toughness.

[17 Seconds]

canada got out chanced 12-3 in the 3rd period? wow

[sherwood921]

Would have loved to see home-towner Demitra score on home-towner Luongo there to force OT and destroy that place. Would be interesting to see the reception he'd have gotten after the Olympics.

[Flames24Rulz]

Hossa and Kopecky deserve medals. Hopefully they defeat Finland tomorrow.

 

I thought for sure Demitra's shot was good as soon as he let it go. That was rather irritating.

[NCCubFan]

Temporarily hijacking this thread for a Summer Olympics related post rather than starting a new thread. The U.S. women's gymnastic team may get a belated bronze medal for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. That's the year that the Chinese won the bronze with gymnasts that everybody knew were underage but nobody could actually prove. The International Gymnastics Federation is now recommending that the International Olympics Committee strip the Chinese of the bronze. If that happens the U.S. would move up from 4th to 3rd.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/gymnastics/news/story?id=4950365

[Andy]

Temporarily hijacking this thread for a Summer Olympics related post rather than starting a new thread. The U.S. women's gymnastic team may get a belated bronze medal for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. That's the year that the Chinese won the bronze with gymnasts that everybody knew were underage but nobody could actually prove. The International Gymnastics Federation is now recommending that the International Olympics Committee strip the Chinese of the bronze. If that happens the U.S. would move up from 4th to 3rd.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/gymnastics/news/story?id=4950365

Haha, it only took them a year and a half to figure that one out.

[NCCubFan]

Temporarily hijacking this thread for a Summer Olympics related post rather than starting a new thread. The U.S. women's gymnastic team may get a belated bronze medal for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. That's the year that the Chinese won the bronze with gymnasts that everybody knew were underage but nobody could actually prove. The International Gymnastics Federation is now recommending that the International Olympics Committee strip the Chinese of the bronze. If that happens the U.S. would move up from 4th to 3rd.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/gymnastics/news/story?id=4950365

Haha, it only took them a year and a half to figure that one out.

A lot longer than that. This is the 2000 Olympics we're talking about, not the 2008 Bejing games.

[Andy]

Temporarily hijacking this thread for a Summer Olympics related post rather than starting a new thread. The U.S. women's gymnastic team may get a belated bronze medal for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. That's the year that the Chinese won the bronze with gymnasts that everybody knew were underage but nobody could actually prove. The International Gymnastics Federation is now recommending that the International Olympics Committee strip the Chinese of the bronze. If that happens the U.S. would move up from 4th to 3rd.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/gymnastics/news/story?id=4950365

Haha, it only took them a year and a half to figure that one out.

A lot longer than that. This is the 2000 Olympics we're talking about, not the 2008 Bejing games.

Oh. I didn't even know they had that age limit back then, and I don't remember hearing about any controversy.

[NCCubFan]

Temporarily hijacking this thread for a Summer Olympics related post rather than starting a new thread. The U.S. women's gymnastic team may get a belated bronze medal for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. That's the year that the Chinese won the bronze with gymnasts that everybody knew were underage but nobody could actually prove. The International Gymnastics Federation is now recommending that the International Olympics Committee strip the Chinese of the bronze. If that happens the U.S. would move up from 4th to 3rd.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/gymnastics/news/story?id=4950365

Haha, it only took them a year and a half to figure that one out.

A lot longer than that. This is the 2000 Olympics we're talking about, not the 2008 Bejing games.

Oh. I didn't even know they had that age limit back then, and I don't remember hearing about any controversy.

The controversy apparently existed back then, but I think it was just more widely discussed in 2008 since the games were in China. In any event I should have said A year when they used underaged gymnasts rather than THE year.

[Guest]

Ohno sure came off as a whiny little bitch after getting DQd (which I thought was the right call).

[17 Seconds]

Ohno sure came off as a whiny little bitch after getting DQd (which I thought was the right call).

 

didn't see his comments, but if he was DQ'd (and he should have been), then it's ridiculous that the canadian dude who won wasn't DQ'd also. his was way worse

[imb]

damn, dont show the girl sobbing on the snow, that made me pretty sad

[kujay]

Ohno shouldn't have been DQ'd. His hand was on the guy, but he didn't appear to push him at all. It looked like the guy just lost an edge. I guess if the rules say touching a guy means a DQ, but I'm sure that's not the case.

 

I gave up on the Canadian/Slovak game last night when it was 2-0. The Slovaks honestly didn't appear to be showing a lot of effort, couldn't break out of their own zone and just looked terrible. I can't believe they came back and almost tied it.

[Roast]

Ohno sure came off as a whiny little bitch after getting DQd (which I thought was the right call).

Not so much, IMO. He made his point (canadian judge, he didnt really push the guy, canadian won gold/silver, etc) but he did it with a smile and right away moved on to talking about the next race he was going to be in. I like the way he handled it, personally.

 

And yeah, if simply having your hand on someone means you get DQ'd, then sure, he deserved it. But the guy who won gold did the same thing, and actually pushed (unlike Ohno), and he didn't get a damn thing. Pretty pathetic.

[Andy]

Ohno sure came off as a whiny little bitch after getting DQd (which I thought was the right call).

Not so much, IMO. He made his point (canadian judge, he didnt really push the guy, canadian won gold/silver, etc) but he did it with a smile and right away moved on to talking about the next race he was going to be in. I like the way he handled it, personally.

 

And yeah, if simply having your hand on someone means you get DQ'd, then sure, he deserved it. But the guy who won gold did the same thing, and actually pushed (unlike Ohno), and he didn't get a damn thing. Pretty pathetic.

The race Ohno fell in, he got pushed by someone too, and that guy wasn't DQ'd either. Seems really lame.

[NCCubFan]

50 years ago today the USA beat the Soviets in hockey on their way to their first gold medal in hockey.

[Guest]

Ohno sure came off as a whiny little bitch after getting DQd (which I thought was the right call).

Not so much, IMO. He made his point (canadian judge, he didnt really push the guy, canadian won gold/silver, etc) but he did it with a smile and right away moved on to talking about the next race he was going to be in. I like the way he handled it, personally.

 

And yeah, if simply having your hand on someone means you get DQ'd, then sure, he deserved it. But the guy who won gold did the same thing, and actually pushed (unlike Ohno), and he didn't get a damn thing. Pretty pathetic.

 

Saying that it's a Canadian judge who called it because they're on Canadian soil was a bit too much especially because every time someone else gets DQd or falls and it benefits Ohno he does the whole "well, that's short track" thing. This time he was quick to blame it on the ref because it didn't go his way for once.

 

Did anyone watch the women's relay final? What the Koreans did to the Chinese wasn't anywhere near as bad as what Ohno did (nobody fell, for one) and they were DQd from a gold medal.

[Magnetic Curses]

Ohno sure came off as a whiny little bitch after getting DQd (which I thought was the right call).

Not so much, IMO. He made his point (canadian judge, he didnt really push the guy, canadian won gold/silver, etc) but he did it with a smile and right away moved on to talking about the next race he was going to be in. I like the way he handled it, personally.

 

And yeah, if simply having your hand on someone means you get DQ'd, then sure, he deserved it. But the guy who won gold did the same thing, and actually pushed (unlike Ohno), and he didn't get a damn thing. Pretty pathetic.

 

Saying that it's a Canadian judge who called it because they're on Canadian soil was a bit too much especially because every time someone else gets DQd or falls and it benefits Ohno he does the whole "well, that's short track" thing. This time he was quick to blame it on the ref because it didn't go his way for once.

 

Did anyone watch the women's relay final? What the Koreans did to the Chinese wasn't anywhere near as bad as what Ohno did (nobody fell, for one) and they were DQd from a gold medal.

 

so, why didn't hameline or whatever his name is get dq'd?

[Magnetic Curses]

and it looks like the home country for the second olympics in a row is going to take home the most golds, after meh showings for pretty much ever.

[mul21]

I wouldn't have had a problem with Ohno getting DQ'd if there was some consistency. The race he lost out on a medal in, he got pushed much harder than he "pushed" the guy last night, but because his balance was better and he stayed up, the guy didn't get DQ'd when he should have been. Even though Ohno didn't fall, the bump/push certainly cost him a medal. Just a little consistency would be nice, although when you change the head judge because his life is getting threatened, I guess things may be looked at differently.

[Guest]

I wouldn't have had a problem with Ohno getting DQ'd if there was some consistency. The race he lost out on a medal in, he got pushed much harder than he "pushed" the guy last night, but because his balance was better and he stayed up, the guy didn't get DQ'd when he should have been. Even though Ohno didn't fall, the bump/push certainly cost him a medal. Just a little consistency would be nice, although when you change the head judge because his life is getting threatened, I guess things may be looked at differently.

 

Ohno got a bronze in that race.

[Careless]

Wow, the end of that race was weird