Vancouver 2010 Olympics THREAD!

[DirkPitt45]

No one started one yet!

Not that I've watched much of them :p I really only watch skiing, probably hockey this year if someone has a party.

Not sure what else to add, other then Vancouver is a sh*tty place for winter olympics.... Other then blackcomb. They have rain forests ffs, course its gonna be raining sometime.

[laxfish76]

Should have been in Toronto.. ;)

Lax

[Hawk280]

The only thing i'm really looking forward to is the freestyle snowboarding, seeing as how i'm a big snowboarder (and because I would go gay for Shaun White ;)).

[Guirec730]

I usually watch figure skating, but after the Canada/Russia debacle from last time I'm not really all that interested anymore.

[Orannis]

MENS AND WOMENS HOCKEY !!! [/thread]

[Sw0ll_MC25]

While watching the olympics, to many times I have to ask myself is that a dude or a chick?

More often then not I'm surprised, delightfully :o


I remember back in the day I would be so excited to watch the olympics, now I see it as nothing more then a marketing tool.

/whatta shame

[hitemhigh]

I usually watch figure skating

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[Ender]

I love watching the skiiing and snowboarding. Other than that I'm not really interested in it. But I do LOVE those two.

Makes me want to move to the mountains... And I've boarded on Blackcomb mountain in Whistler. YAY for me!

[Platinum]

Speed-skating and Curling are my two favorites. Weird, eh? LOL.

[Purple Gryphon]

If anyone watched the open ceremonies. Canada lost what little man points it had with that fiddle and riverdance thing they did. :D

Sorry Shay...

[hitemhigh]

that snowboard cross is really fun to watch.

[Ender]

Oh speed skating is awesome too.

[Guirec730]

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I give you Mass Effect codes and this is how you repay me?!

And I used to figure skate.

Now I do Kung Fu, so c'mere!

[DirkPitt45]

that snowboard cross is really fun to watch.

Heh canada won silver in mens and gold in womens :p That track look like sh*t though, sounds like ice the whole way through.

[Batou079]

snowboarding events... and curling are my favs.
but im biased, anything involving snowsboardings makes my fiddle do a little wiggle.

i can honestly say curling is STUPID, but it freaking mesmerizes me, like shiney things!

[DirkPitt45]

I actually watched curling for an hour today.... Not sure why, just kinda zoned out and stared at the t.v....

[Batou079]

see? SEE?!?! wtf is with that "sport" its moronic be incredibly mesmerizing.

like Paz Vega's butt, or something. could watch both for hours!

[laxfish76]

I actually watched curling for an hour today.... Not sure why, just kinda zoned out and stared at the t.v....
The drugs will do that to you.

I like the Summer Olympics wayyyyy better, and that is coming from a true Canadian.

Much more action... I am not a fan of the winter in general, though.

Lax

[DirkPitt45]

:o What's more action in summer? Winter you've got hockey, multiple skiing, snowboarding, figure skating, CURLING!!!, luge, skeleton, and idk what else.

Summer you get running, running, walking like a retard, running, jumping AND running, throwing stuff, and trampoline + assorted gymnastics the Chinese win everything in. Oh an swimming, which is running, horizontally, diving is interesting occasionally.

EDIT: I've been "clean" since oh idk, friday :p Had a couple tylenol today; have a cold :(

[Guirec730]

The biathlon is totally action. Cross country skiiing is brutal enough, as is winter sniping...combine both for frigid badassery.

[Orannis]

8-0 Canada over Finland. what a great game for the men!

[DirkPitt45]

The biathlon is totally action. Cross country skiiing is brutal enough, as is winter sniping...combine both for frigid badassery.

Friend has tickets for Biathlon, lucky SOB is/was at silverstar then they went on to Vancouver to watch the Olympics.

[Orannis]

Friend has tickets for Biathlon, lucky SOB is/was at silverstar then they went on to Vancouver to watch the Olympics.

biathlon should be renamed war in russia!

[DirkPitt45]

biathlon should be renamed war in russia!

You mean Finland? :p It was the Fins who skied and sniped people.

[Orange]

MENS AND WOMENS HOCKEY !!! [/thread]

THlSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

[Nicholbert]

So for a while now I have been steering away from watching ESPN. I have found it's reporting, "story-breaking" content to be no better than a celeb magazine broadcast such as ET. I have never been a fan of Rick Reilly, who felt it necessary to become critical of an entire country and its patrons. Regardless of any truths he points out in his rant, he does it in a very classless manner. So I thought I would post it here as I felt it necessary to defend our Canadian brethren. Here is the jump to his editorial.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=reilly_rick&id=4916058&ex_cid=MyESPNToday_MostSent

And for those who do not want to leave our warm walls of SK.net:


Apparently, I may have inadvertently upset some of our Canadian friends with my recent column in which I pointed out that Vancouver is somewhat rainy, as evidenced by a mallard winning the women's moguls.


Many people thought I was making fun of this fine city, such as local resident Kev Holloway, who wrote: "Yeah, it's tough living in a city that's consistently voted as one of the best places to live. ... Bitter much?"



And Pat Gibson, of Calgary, who wrote, "Are you sure you weren't in Michigan?"



So, as they say in Canada, sore-ee aboot that. I love Vancouver. I love rain. I love algae growing between my toes.



I am also sore-ee that:



• Vancouver's opening ceremonies were so boring that I wanted to jam my official Olympic drumstick into my brain and stir. Of course, Vancouver had to follow the greatest spectacle in theatrical history -- the opening ceremonies of the Summer Games in Beijing in 2008 -- but, wow, most of it was duller than a Mennonite knitting workshop. Although I liked the Coca-Cola polar bear.

• The big, emotional moment -- the lighting of the Official Olympic Giant Reefers -- was botched. Only three of the Official Olympic Giant Reefers came up, and points are deducted for going for the quad and pulling only a triple. Although I did like torchbearer Wayne Gretzky being taken to the lighting of the Official Olympic Giant Outdoor Reefers in the back of a pickup truck. It was just him back there, holding on to a steel bar, riding through town. That is what's known as a Canadian limo.



• Vancouver officials tried to tell people that "3 billion people" watched the opening ceremonies. Three billion? No. Not possible, no way, no how. Consider: There are around 6.8 billion people on Earth. Three billion is 44 percent of the world's population. Really? Forty-four percent of the world's population watched, when approximately 1.5 billion people live without electricity? When nearly 2.2 billion are children? No.



Huddling man by a dung fire in Mongolia: Whatchu doing tonight, Gorg?
Gorg: Dude! Watching the opening ceremonies on TV! I'm all about k.d. lang!
Huddling man: What's a TV?



• The Canadian team's promise to "own the podium" has not exactly come true yet. After the first weekend of competition, 30 medals were handed out, and only three went to Canadians. Perhaps Canada is leasing the podium out?



Anyway, my apologies, Canada. You are a very kind people living in a beautiful country that has given the world many kinds of bacon. As soon as it stops raining, I would like to make up for it by awarding the following Canadian citizens gold in other disciplines:



• The Canadian Olympic women's hockey team, for beating Slovakia 18-0. Slovakia beat Bulgaria 82-0 almost two years ago in pre-Olympic qualifying. Eighty-two to nothing! Suck on that, Slovakia! How's it feel? Canuck women rule!



• The Canadian fans who wait more than four hours at Robson Square to ride a 30-second zip line. And they wait happily! And they say "sore-ee" when they bump elbows accidentally! Do they realize they could build their own 30-second zip-line ride in four hours?



• The guy who writes the messages that run on the front of the public buses here. About one-third of them come with a "SORRY" in huge letters, followed three seconds later by "OUT OF SERVICE." You know a country is polite when the buses apologize to you.



Really, do not blame Canada. Blame me. And for all the Canadians who now hate me, I offer up this story of vengeance, which involved me, my wife and accidental nudity:



We arrived in Vancouver to find our hotel had screwed up our reservation. We had nowhere to go, so the hotel allowed us to work out in the empty fitness room and shower there. But the women's shower didn't work, so my wife, Cynthia -- a curvaceous blonde who would make a male figure skater drop his sequin gun -- decided she'd shower in the men's locker room. "But there's no shower curtain in there," she told me. "So you have to watch the door."



Well, we were so alone in there, I never dreamed anybody would come in. Which is how I managed to miss the pool guy.



I heard a kind of muffled shriek, followed by the pool guy coming out of the men's locker room with a squeegee in his hand and a quarter grin on his face, followed 30 seconds later by my wife, furious, wrapped in a towel, tromping across the floor, leaving behind a stream of water and whispering/screaming at me: "I thought you were going to watch the door!"



OK, Canada. We're even.



...and here is my response to him:

Regardless of the truths you present in your rant, your retort to your readers is tactless. You have reaffirmed my belief that ESPN is slowly becoming a sports oriented version of such terrible shows like Entertainment Tonight. It was a touch of karma with the incident happening with your wife in the locker room. Maybe she shrieked out of a bit of enjoyment? I hope you have more successful, classier writing days ahead of you.

[Redenbacher09]

Sounds like ESPN is becoming the Fox of sports news.

[Batou079]

yall hear that there was a 4 month pregant woman competing in the curling event?!

[Hawk280]

Haha I'm watching the women's curling right now. :p

[Redenbacher09]

That's not fair... the raging hormones give her an advantage!

LOL... curling.

[Batou079]

raging amounts of strength?
hmm this plan might backfire when she ends up KILLING her sweepers from hurling so damn hard.

rofl

[Jurgy]

The Winter Olympics are a JOKE!!! There has been more news on the stupid random crap that has been going, rather than the actual events. It's sad what the Olympics have turned into.

[Castrum]

I have never been a fan of Rick Reilly

Any relation to Bill O'Reilly?

:-P

On a similar note, this guy sounds like the kind of American the rest of the world imagines when they think "America" (though your image is improving :-P ).

[General Twigums]

Curling is an awesome sport, I like to describe it as chess on ice.

[Guirec730]

It looks like a quick time event made into a sport.

[PLOWKILL]

Canada got the good old USA boot in the arsh in the hocky ring :D

I blame SK for not giving us a bank in TooHuman; thats what yall get! :cool:

[Castrum]

Goddamn Brodeur in net. That aging fossil let in at least two goals by sheer idiocy. I expect they'll toss Luongo in net now after seeing that piss-poor performance.

Aside from Brodeur's failure, the Canadian puck-handling was spotty as hell. They definitely need to get their **** together there. Those penalties they earned through their dumbass tactics were also very unnecessary (Staal's 2 ****-ups, that dude who jumped on that US forward, and Crosby's wild swing).

Overall, the Canadian offense needed serious improvement. Most of the game it was very predictable, and the one time they got serious near the end was what they needed all along. They also need to find a way to split up that goddamn phalanx Miller had in front of him; 3/4 of the shots blocked were due to that formation from what I could see.

Anyways, it was a good game ultimately, aside from Brodeur (if we had Roy in net like in 2002, I think things would have been much different). Ryan Miller in particular was absolutely stellar. I don't think I've ever seen a goalie **** up that many plays so easily.

EDIT:

Also, I think they let the crowd get to them far too much.

[DirkPitt45]

Yeah wtf happened to Brodeur... Miller was on a whole different tier then Brodeur, nothing was getting by him at all. Canada was spotty but we had control for much longer, and had twice as many shots. Just Brodeur's too old ffs, dumb idea to use him, does he even play NHL anymore? I remember him on my psx, NHL 99 lmao.

[Shaynard]

Yes Brodeur still plays in the NHL and he is still one of the best Goalies in the NHL... ANY goalie can have a poor game. Marty had a VERY poor game from what I saw. The defense and team-play in front of him was equally poor.

No excuses.. USA was a better TEAM. Canada has a bunch of great players, but they are always slow to become a good team in these tournaments. Along with that they general "bounce back" well from a loss in the round.

After listening to Leaf radio talk about how "superior" Canadian Hockey players are.. I was actually happy to see the US win.

I was also laughing my face off listening to them talk about Snowboarding. How it shouldn't be an Olympic sport because the snowboarders are all pot smokers. :rolleyes:

I haven't been watching any of it really.. I don't even like Zeus. :D

[Castrum]

It was like Brodeur was cursed or something. One goal goes from the blue line straight into the net like an arrow. Another deflects off a guy's skate then off Brodeur's stick between his legs into the net. And then another goes in after an excellent play by the US where Brodeur leaves a gap large enough for Crosby to fall into (literally).

And those were just the ones I saw (started watching at 2-2).

On a related note, for Canada to ultimately lose in 2010 would suck so damn hard, considering this is pretty much the last Winter Olympics worth caring about (NHL's Bettman being a money-grubbing douche-weasel and all).

[Shaynard]

It was like Brodeur was cursed or something. One goal goes from the blue line straight into the net like an arrow. Another deflects off a guy's skate then off Brodeur's stick between his legs into the net. And then another goes in after an excellent play by the US where Brodeur leaves a gap large enough for Crosby to fall into (literally).

And those were just the ones I saw (started watching at 2-2).


I said VERY bad game.. lol.

It was pretty sad. It happens, but it shouldn't.

[DirkPitt45]

On a related note, for Canada to ultimately lose in 2010 would suck so damn hard, considering this is pretty much the last Winter Olympics worth caring about (NHL's Bettman being a money-grubbing douche-weasel and all).

Whose Bettman?

[Castrum]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Bettman

He has plans to prevent any NHL player from participating in any Winter Olympics game after 2010.

EDIT:

Oh god... this is too good :-P

Bettman wants to save money by stopping NHL participation in the Olympics... and he is actually a Jew...

Forgive me :-P

[DirkPitt45]

What a deushe. What's the point of that? If the players want to play in the Olympics let them, just don't pay them...

[Shaynard]

I expect they'll toss Luongo in net now after seeing that piss-poor performance.

.



You were correct. :)

[laxfish76]

Anyone watching the Canada-Germany game?

Canada is looking alright, but the opponent isn't that great.. Roberto Luongo is playing solid, although he isn't doing too much.. :p

Stall-Crosby-Iginla is a bright spot; the line is unbelievable.

Hopefully this is a good sign.

Lax

[DirkPitt45]

Long as Brodeur gets his act together or someone else is put in net we should be fine.

[laxfish76]

Long as Brodeur gets his act together or someone else is put in net we should be fine.
Yeah, I would prefer to keep Brodeur out; it's the highest level in the world. If you preform bad when you have the chance, you don't deserve another.

Sorta like my feelings on Pronger.. but he keeps playing..

Lax

[Castrum]

Canada beat the US 2-0 for the Women's Hockey Gold! WOOT!

[General Twigums]

Canada beat the US 2-0 for the Women's Hockey Gold! WOOT!

That's three times in a row now, right?

[Castrum]

I believe so, yes.

Canada/US in 2002, Canada/Sweden in 2006, and Canada/US in 2010.

[Zakath]

OMG ! how did he miss that open net at the end of the game ?? Phew, we won :) Here we come for the gold :)

[laxfish76]

That was a very intense ending.. huge props to Luongo, he is really doing what he is capable of, solid goaltending.. Brodeur looks like a huge mistake at this point.

Lax

[Zakath]

He's still the best. That just wasn't his game.

[Castrum]

WE WON THE GOLD! WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /10char

[Wildkarde]

WE WON THE GOLD! WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /10char

Congrats! It was an amazing game.

[Castrum]

Indeed it was. Both tesms were fantastic. Probably the best game of hockey I've seen in over a decade.

[Zakath]

Definetly, the game could have went both ways.

[Orannis]

twas a good game, we (canada) fell apart in the third period though.

[Castrum]

True, but we made up for it nonetheless.

[Sw0ll_MC25]

I was going to make a spiffy flow chart stereotyping you guys and your hockey:p