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2010 Olympic Winter Games: Vancouver; Topic Almost Overdue
Topic Started: Feb 10 2010, 09:33 PM (2,973 Views)
Nero
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Looks like UK actually won a medal.

Last night, big Canadian choke, especially in the 1000 m short track.

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Edit: I may have missed the point of Nero's post. :$ Yeah, it's an awesome name.

Annnnnddd the latest installment of "Do the Vancouver Olympics Suck?":

Brian Burke Tells Everyone to Shut Up

On a related note, we are so beating the American hockey team tonight.
Edited by FuzzyLobster, Feb 21 2010, 09:00 PM.
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We are? T_T
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Haha.

India vs. Pakistan on the 28th of Feb (Hockey World Cup) and I say India wins.
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Feb 22 2010, 12:29 PM
We are? T_T
Yeeeeahhhh... Well, we would've won, only our goalie sucked so much in comparison to theirs. We got a lot more shots at the net, even with the Americans continously ramming our players against the boards.

Of course, our women's team rocks and will win gold, but no one else seems to care.

India and Pakistan play hockey? Are they any good?
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Feb 23 2010, 12:15 AM
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Yeeeeahhhh... Well, we would've won, only our goalie sucked so much in comparison to theirs. We got a lot more shots at the net, even with the Americans continously ramming our players against the boards.

India and Pakistan play hockey? Are they any good?
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N&B's talking about field hockey.
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*slaps forehead* Well duh.
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Yup, the upcoming Men's Hockey World Cup is field hockey. And Canada is playing its first match against New Zealand on the first of March. But I guess y'all don't watch much field hockey.
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Sigh. More criticism to the Olympics. Now by Russia.

http://english.pravda.ru/sports/games/19-02-2010/112308-vancouver_mutton-0

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We all knew it weeks before the game started, with accusations about doping being levelled at Russian athletes, and we all saw it on day one of the games, with the death of a Georgian athlete on a corner which miraculously was elevated the following day. Vancouver is not fit to hold the Winter Olympics.

Far from being a question of sour grapes, Russian commentators were already expressing their reservations as to the integrity of the Vancouver Lobby being able to host the Olympic Games weeks before the start. After all the IOC was starting to fire off in all directions before the first aircraft arrived.

We already have the case of a Russian skier being hounded to produce a urine sample after qualifying for a race, and if she had given the sample, she would not have had the possibility of entering the following round. Natalya Korosteleva was asked to provide a urine sample during a half-hour pause between the quarter-finals and semi-finals of a skiing event. “This seems against all the rules,” she stated, as she refused to have the sample taken, alleging that if she did, she would not have had time to continue in the next phase. Why her?

We all know Canada has problems with the future lines drawn on Arctic maps and we all know Canada lives in the shadow of its larger neighbour to the south. The abject cruelty shown by Canadian soldiers in international conflicts is scantily referred to, as indeed is the utter incapacity of this county to host a major international event, due to its inferiority complex, born of a trauma being the skinny and weakling bro to a beefy United States and a colonial outpost to the United Kingdom, whose Queen smiles happily from Canadian postage stamps.

Maybe it is this which makes the Canadians so…retentive, or cowardly. So it is not exactly a huge surprise to have international skating experts from the four corners of the Earth criticising the decision to award the Men’s figure skating Gold medal to the US athlete Evan Lysacekv over the reigning Olympic Champion Evgeny Plushenko, whose superior performance was inexplicably ignored.

As Plushenko explains, “I did a great short program but did not get the marks I deserved. When I asked why, they told me I was skating early and they had to retain top marks for the last group…Then in the free program, I was the last to skate, did everything clean and still didn’t get the marks”.

Everybody who knows anything about Olympic skating, Winter Olympic sports and international politics will infer from the pitiful and dangerous conditions provided by the Canadian authorities, which already caused one death, that Vancouver is mutton dressed as lamb. Take off the outer veneer and the stench is horrific.

It is a surprise that any Russian athlete would wish to remain in that sort of environment for a second longer.
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Well that's interesting, guess who's hosting the next Winter Olympics? Yeah.

I highly doubt that we're puposely discriminating against Russian athletes for no real reason at all. And they have to bring up baseless accusations about our military with nothing to back it up? How would it even be relevant?

Seriously guys, grow up.
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Well, all this makes it seem more than just normal reporting. But the papers here are not complaining about the Olympics. There was something about a "gaffe" and some "blunders" on the first few days, but it just stated what it was and nothing more (they reserve all their vitriol for events taking place here). Most of the reports have been quite positive, like these:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/events-tournaments/winter-olympics/Vancouvers-Green-oval-lives-up-to-gold-standard/articleshow/5563408.cms
http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report_vancouver-olympics-luge-crash-death-darkens-games-mood_1347154
And I suppose this is why the doping tests were insisted:
http://newshopper.sulekha.com/russian-terenteva-rapped-for-doping-violation_news_1148355.htm
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Feb 25 2010, 04:04 PM
Well, all this makes it seem more than just normal reporting. But the papers here are not complaining about the Olympics. There was something about a "gaffe" and some "blunders" on the first few days, but it just stated what it was and nothing more (they reserve all their vitriol for events taking place here). Most of the reports have been quite positive, like these:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/events-tournaments/winter-olympics/Vancouvers-Green-oval-lives-up-to-gold-standard/articleshow/5563408.cms
http://www.dnaindia.com/sport/report_vancouver-olympics-luge-crash-death-darkens-games-mood_1347154
And I suppose this is why the doping tests were insisted:
http://newshopper.sulekha.com/russian-terenteva-rapped-for-doping-violation_news_1148355.htm
Hmm. This is nice.

But India doesn't have to host the next Olympic Games... unlike Russia and Britain.


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I love the look of abject terror.
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Mwahaha.

Those pictures are awesome.

Was at the movie theatre until midnight watching the games. Women's Hockey won, again (not that anyone was ever concerned; the other teams are pretty terrible), and maybe the Men's team should borrow their goalie. So did Joannie Rochette in the figure skating.
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Awesome pics. I can't choose one over the other.
BTW, you put a pic twice. Not that it matters.
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