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| 2010 Olympic Winter Games: Vancouver; Topic Almost Overdue | |
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| Topic Started: Feb 10 2010, 09:33 PM (2,974 Views) | |
| FuzzyLobster | Feb 15 2010, 03:23 PM Post #16 |
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YES. |
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| nathanielandbartimaeus | Feb 15 2010, 03:58 PM Post #17 |
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I bet India wouldn't win a single medal. Any takers? |
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| FuzzyLobster | Feb 15 2010, 05:49 PM Post #18 |
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Well you only have three athletes, if I remember correctly. Think Australia has something like 9. One of whom is the Canadian-born skiier whose butt we kicked yesterday.
Edited by FuzzyLobster, Feb 15 2010, 05:49 PM.
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| Nero | Feb 15 2010, 11:21 PM Post #19 |
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http://www.torontosun.com/sports/vancouver2010/news/2010/02/15/12887346.html Pfft. They're just jealous. |
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| FuzzyLobster | Feb 16 2010, 01:18 AM Post #20 |
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It's ridiculous, is what it is. I watched the whole thing, he had the fastest time of the entire competition and his jumps had a higher degree of difficulty. Turns be darned, he won fair and square. On another note: Snowboard Cross is awesome. |
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| nathanielandbartimaeus | Feb 16 2010, 10:43 AM Post #21 |
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Darn. I was hoping nobody would advertize that fact. Sokay, I will make money another way. About the Aussies' claim, such things always happen. |
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| Nero | Feb 16 2010, 09:09 PM Post #22 |
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Kay, wtf is with all the attacks, especially British ones on the Olympics? http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/feb/15/vancouver-winter-olympics-2010 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/winter-olympics/7251301/Winter-Olympics-2010-2012-organisers-must-learn-from-Vancouvers-mistakes.html http://olympics.fanhouse.ca/2010/02/15/u-k-press-slams-canadas-hosting-of-games/?icid=main|canada-toshiba|dl1|link4|http%3A%2F%2Folympics.fanhouse.ca%2F2010%2F02%2F15%2Fu-k-press-slams-canadas-hosting-of-games%2F Fracking christ, attacking the Olympics before you doesn't raise your status. Same with the death of the luge athlete. Do you all really think that padding a steel bar could really have saved the live of the Georgian athlete? Yes, it would have helped, but such an idea is simply a horrible attack. How would we think that someone would go over the wall? If anything, as much as I have my condolences for Nodar Kumaritashvili and his family, it was his human error. Instead of grieving, typically, people have to blame someone. Hindsight is always goddamn 20/20 If the Olympics in London are as much, as the media seems to be inferring, as much a "failure" as Vancouver, I won't feel any sympathy. Where's our sympathy? We're not China; we can't control the weather. We're doing the best we can with such a climate. We couldn't stop Nodar from crashing into a pole, unpadded or not. Even with a higher railing, a railing could still seriously hurt, if not kill someone at those speeds. It's the sacrifice of sports. So critics, British or not, just shut your mouths and enjoy the games. |
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| FuzzyLobster | Feb 16 2010, 10:50 PM Post #23 |
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It's might be just natural pigheadedness because they're hosting next. Do the whole "we can do better thing." But it's probably just only a few people trying to make trouble. About Nodar Kumaritashvili, I don't think anyone expected anything like that to happen. But with all the push to make sports "faster and exciting," an accident was bound to happen eventually, especially with this course being supposedly the fastest ever. We really need to start thinking about possible dangers. Personally I think that if the beams were padded it may have saved him, though I'm not an expert. But every sport has the potential to be dangerous; this is not the first time the games have killed an athlete. The athletes know what risks they are taking, particularily with a sport as fast as luge.
THIS IS NOT CHINA! (sorry I couldn't resist; saw it in a youtube video) Y'know this past year has been a really crazy year for weather. In June, El Nino conditions started appearing in the Pacific, which always causes irregular weather, particularily to the coastlines. The summer was freezing, the winter unusually warm. We had no way of knowing that these conditions would be there when we won the bid for the games; Vancouver's ski hills usually have more snow. Maybe next time we should have the games in Winterpeg. ![]() |
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| Sentynel | Feb 16 2010, 10:55 PM Post #24 |
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I'd just like to say that a) I haven't seen any articles on the Olympics, but I've hardly been looking, so I wouldn't really like to speculate on any sort of general negativity, and b) the quoted sentence seems to imply China can control the weather. |
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| FuzzyLobster | Feb 16 2010, 11:02 PM Post #25 |
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AND YOU'RE SAYING THEY CAN'T!?! ![]() Edit: SECOND GOLD! Maelle Ricker, Women's Snowboard Cross.
Edited by FuzzyLobster, Feb 16 2010, 11:17 PM.
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| nathanielandbartimaeus | Feb 17 2010, 11:26 AM Post #26 |
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No, that is not really controlling the weather as modifying the weather. |
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| Damonenkopf | Feb 18 2010, 12:27 AM Post #27 |
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I watched about 2 minutes of the opening ceremony. Got bored after staring at a guy banging a stick on the ground nonstop.
Edited by Damonenkopf, Feb 18 2010, 03:40 AM.
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| Luciene | Feb 18 2010, 03:28 AM Post #28 |
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omg watch figure skating, this guy tanned so bad http://i45.tinypic.com/2zivacl.jpg (large gif warning...) I'm looking for a poster of Patrick Chan aka Pchiddy's crazy eyes...in all the ones I saw he's smiling but when they show him on tv and he's not expecting it, he looks like a true psycho, it's so terrifying. Edited by Sentynel, Feb 18 2010, 10:08 AM.
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| FuzzyLobster | Feb 18 2010, 04:24 AM Post #29 |
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Thank you. I was watching that guy skate yesterday, but was looking away when he fell. My best friend is a Patrick Chan fangirl. We saw him and the other Canadian Olympic skaters skate here back in January, she wouldn't stop screaming when he was performing. So yeah, if you find a pic of him with crazy eyes, send it to me too plz. ![]() Edit the next day: Annnnnd another gold. Christine Nesbitt 1,000m speedskating. From mah city too. ![]() Why do they always win gold when I'm the last poster in the thread? Edited by FuzzyLobster, Feb 19 2010, 02:45 AM.
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| Luciene | Feb 19 2010, 05:30 AM Post #30 |
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I'm not a fan of Plashenko at all. His jumps tonight were shaky and he keeps on stopping to do weird things with his hands. Daisuke was totally robbed, his performance, even though he fell was so much more inspiring. But it's their last Olympics so whatever. In four years, I will be fangirling Dennis Ten and Florent. |
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