2010 Olympic Winter Games: Vancouver

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Should the Money Spent have been Used For Something Better?

YES!: For the poor, and needy, and essential stuff
NO: Sometimes there must be such events, and the money spent on the Olympics is minute to what is typically spent to finance essentials such as healthcare.
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16 Feb 10 - 10:43
FuzzyLobster wrote:Well you only have three athletes, if I remember correctly.
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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16 Feb 10 - 21:09
Kay, wtf is with all the attacks, especially British ones on the Olympics?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/fe ... mpics-2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/others ... takes.html

http://olympics.fanhouse.ca/2010/02/15/ ... f-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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16 Feb 10 - 22:50
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.
Nero wrote:We're not China; we can't control the weather. We're doing the best we can with such a climate.
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. :P




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16 Feb 10 - 22:55
Nero wrote:We're not China; we can't control the weather.
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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16 Feb 10 - 23:02
AND YOU'RE SAYING THEY CAN'T!?! :P

Edit:

SECOND GOLD! Maelle Ricker, Women's Snowboard Cross.

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17 Feb 10 - 11:26
No, that is not really controlling the weather as modifying the weather.

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18 Feb 10 - 00:27
I watched about 2 minutes of the opening ceremony. Got bored after staring at a guy banging a stick on the ground nonstop.
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18 Feb 10 - 03:28
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.
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18 Feb 10 - 04:24
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. :P

Edit the next day: Annnnnd another gold. Christine Nesbitt 1,000m speedskating. From mah city too. :D

Why do they always win gold when I'm the last poster in the thread?


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19 Feb 10 - 05:30
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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21 Feb 10 - 16:15
Looks like UK actually won a medal.

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

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21 Feb 10 - 18:02
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.


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22 Feb 10 - 12:29
We are? T_T
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22 Feb 10 - 12:38
Haha.

India vs. Pakistan on the 28th of Feb (Hockey World Cup) and I say India wins.
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23 Feb 10 - 00:15
rubberchickenben wrote: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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23 Feb 10 - 00:38
FuzzyLobster wrote:
rubberchickenben wrote: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.

India and Pakistan play hockey? Are they any good?
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N&B's talking about field hockey.
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23 Feb 10 - 00:40
*slaps forehead* Well duh.


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23 Feb 10 - 09:44
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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24 Feb 10 - 18:01
Sigh. More criticism to the Olympics. Now by Russia.

http://english.pravda.ru/sports/games/1 ... r_mutton-0
wrote: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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25 Feb 10 - 00:19
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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