Winter Olympics Thread: Vancouver 2010

[Lavabe]

Eyebrows. Joe Biden has some eyebrows. Does anyone have some tweezers he could borrow?

ask kd lang.

[colchar]

Rush would've been awesome! Same with Shania Twain.

The rest of it is just getting embarrassing now. Leave it to us to fuck this up...

This don't impress me much.

Extremely well played, my vertically imposing, lemur-seeking friend.

I concur - that was very very well played!

[colchar]

Leave it to us to royally fuck that up. How typical...

[CameronBornAndBred]

The cauldron is broken. This is embarrassing.

I liked how they all to stand there smiling.

[wilson]

Tonight's men's downhill has been postponed due to fog and rain. No word on when it will go forward.
This means Apolo Ohno will get tonight's spotlight all to himself for the 1500m.

[colchar]

Tonight's men's downhill has been postponed due to fog and rain. No word on when it will go forward.
This means Apolo Ohno will get tonight's spotlight all to himself for the 1500m.

Dude, I expect a lot more races to be postponed. I seriously cannot figure out why they awarded the games to a city with a climate like Vancouver's.

[wilson]

Dude, I expect a lot more races to be postponed. I seriously cannot figure out why they awarded the games to a city with a climate like Vancouver's.

I read that a number of the U.S. skiers regard this as an advantage for them, as the U.S. championships are always late in the season, and they're all more accustomed to skiing powder/slush as opposed to icier conditions than many of the European skiers. It will be interesting.

[Lavabe]

Tonight's men's downhill has been postponed due to fog and rain. No word on when it will go forward.
This means Apolo Ohno will get tonight's spotlight all to himself for the 1500m.

Think that will sop up viewers from the NBA slam-dunk contest?

[Lavabe]

Dude, I expect a lot more races to be postponed. I seriously cannot figure out why they awarded the games to a city with a climate like Vancouver's.

I read that a number of the U.S. skiers regard this as an advantage for them, as the U.S. championships are always late in the season, and they're all more accustomed to skiing powder/slush as opposed to icier conditions than many of the European skiers. It will be interesting.

Vonn is happy, as it gives her more time to heal.

[Lavabe]

On the bright side, at least they didn't have any GoDaddy.com commercials/sponsorships for the Olympics. ;)

[wilson]

Tonight's men's downhill has been postponed due to fog and rain. No word on when it will go forward.
This means Apolo Ohno will get tonight's spotlight all to himself for the 1500m.

Think that will sop up viewers from the NBA slam-dunk contest?

No, I don't. I think there is precious little overlap between the viewership for the dunk contest and the Winter Olympics. This is why I still think the dunk contest will draw about 6 million. It drew almost 7 million last year, and I just don't see how it declines by 45% this year.

[Lavabe]

Best outfits: AZERBAIJAN!!
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[wilson]

Best outfits: AZERBAIJAN!!
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I think the "Snow Leopard" is Ghana be in that conversation too:

[colchar]

Best outfits: AZERBAIJAN!!
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/13022010/ ... 24409.html

I think the "Snow Leopard" is Ghana be in that conversation too:

Wow, that outfit is rather special isn't it?

[Miles]

Exciting day to start the Olympics. Men's Short Track and Women's Freestyle Moguls were both equally exciting events.

[colchar]

Judged events are a joke. In ski-jumping, the third place finisher actually had a longer jump than the second place finisher. Ridiculous. As far as I am concerned, distance is all that should matter. I don't care if you are flailing your arms the whole way, if you jump furthest you should win.

[Lavabe]

Is there an event in which judging doesn't play a significant role in determining the outcome? Even the speed events, such as speedskating, have judges who often evaluate whether or not someone gained speed illegally.

And don't get me started with judging in hockey! Officer Koharski?

[Lavabe]

Exciting day to start the Olympics. Men's Short Track and Women's Freestyle Moguls were both equally exciting events.

The Lindsey Jacobellis D'oh of the Day Award goes to the Korean speedskater who made a move from 3rd to 2nd on the final turn, and in the process wiped out himself and his countrymate, leaving open a silver and a bronze for Americans Ohno and Celski.

SALUTE!!

D'oh!!

[Lavabe]

Canadian women's hockey team 18, Slovakia 0.

[colchar]

Is there an event in which judging doesn't play a significant role in determining the outcome? Even the speed events, such as speedskating, have judges who often evaluate whether or not someone gained speed illegally.

And don't get me started with judging in hockey! Officer Koharski?

Yeah, there are plenty of them. Judges in speed skating are referees determining that no rules were broken just like refs in hockey, football, etc. But in judged events the winners are determined by opinion and, in the case of figure skating, by collusion amongst corrupt judges.