Winter Olympics Thread: Vancouver 2010

[colchar]

I liked Tessa and Scott, too. Also loved their medal ceremony. I really enjoyed them singing "O Canada" quite heartily, along with all the Canadians in the crowd. Don't know why that struck me as being especially cool.

A hearty second. I have long felt that O Canada is a beautiful anthem, and I can really get behind a moment of such joyous patriotism, as I am given to such moments myself.

We do have a pretty cool anthem eh?

[colchar]

Jonas Miller, the Swiss goalie is proving our earlier conversations about hot goalie play to be true...he's playing his ass off today (though he got lucky on the last play of the second period, with the horn sounding just in time). Still knotted 0-0 at the end of the second.

A hot goalie can single handedly win a game as Miller clearly demonstrated against Canada* - and there is usually no answer for a goalie who is on top of his game. The puck looks like a beach ball to those goalies and they stop everything thrown their way.


* Canada didn't play well but played well enough to win had it not been for Miller.

[wilson]

The Canadian women just won both gold and silver in the bobsled.

Well done, and thank you for knocking the krauts off the podium, so as to help maintain the USA's medal count lead.

[wilson]

The Canadian women just won both gold and silver in the bobsled.

Well done, and thank you for knocking the krauts off the podium, so as to help maintain the USA's medal count lead.

Elena Meyers, brakeman for the bronze medal-winning American women's bobsled pair, is from the Atlanta area.

[colchar]

Wilson, did you get to see any of the hockey game?

[wilson]

Wilson, did you get to see any of the hockey game?

Most of it. Canada played with verve and energy, and Russia played like a bunch of sissies. Canada will be tough to beat from here on out.

[colchar]

Wilson, did you get to see any of the hockey game?

Most of it. Canada played with verve and energy, and Russia played like a bunch of sissies. Canada will be tough to beat from here on out.

Only if they keep playing that way. If they slip back into bad habits they will be beatable.

[Lavabe]

The Canadian women just won both gold and silver in the bobsled.

Well done, and thank you for knocking the krauts off the podium, so as to help maintain the USA's medal count lead.

Don't look now, wilson, but the Canadians are now in a threeway tie with the US and Germany for the most gold medals.

[wilson]

The Canadian women just won both gold and silver in the bobsled.

Well done, and thank you for knocking the krauts off the podium, so as to help maintain the USA's medal count lead.

Don't look now, wilson, but the Canadians are now in a threeway tie with the US and Germany for the most gold medals.

I'm well aware of this. I'll applaud our neighbors to the north while continuing to heartily cheer a superb overall effort from Uncle Sam.

[colchar]

The Canadian women just won both gold and silver in the bobsled.

Well done, and thank you for knocking the krauts off the podium, so as to help maintain the USA's medal count lead.

Don't look now, wilson, but the Canadians are now in a threeway tie with the US and Germany for the most gold medals.

And we've got a very good chance of winning gold in men's curling, women's curling, and women's hockey. If the Canadian men's hockey team continues to play like they did last night they will be tough to beat as well.

[wilson]

Stupid prospective students' weekend. I'm gonna miss the entirety of the women's hockey gold medal game while schmoozing with a bunch of people who aren't good at schmoozing, only to arrive home just in time for...women's figure skating.

[Lavabe]

And we've got a very good chance of winning gold in men's curling, women's curling, and women's hockey. If the Canadian men's hockey team continues to play like they did last night they will be tough to beat as well.

If Joannie (ladies figure skating) wins a medal of any sort, all of Canada will be cheering.
I can't fathom what will happen if Joannie wins a gold medal.

I, for one, hope that the Japanese and Korean leaders ahead of her each fall twice in their programs. That's the only way she'll have a chance at a gold.

[wilson]

If Joannie (ladies figure skating) wins a medal of any sort, all of Canada will be cheering.
I can't fathom what will happen if Joannie wins a gold medal.

I, for one, hope that the Japanese and Korean leaders ahead of her each fall twice in their programs. That's the only way she'll have a chance at a gold.

I'm certainly rooting for Joannie.

[CameronBornAndBred]

The Canadian women's hockey coach looks like she could kick your ass to Mexico.

[colchar]

The Canadian women's hockey coach looks like she could kick your ass to Mexico.

She wouldn't kick your ass to Mexico. She would, however, slap shot your ass all the way there.

[colchar]

And the Canadian women's hockey team beats the US for the gold medal.

Gold - Canada
Silver - America
Bronze - Finland

[CameronBornAndBred]

And the Canadian women's hockey team beats the US for the gold medal.

Gold - Canada
Silver - America
Bronze - Finland

Hard to beat 'em if we can't even score with 5 on 3..they had some amazing defense.

[wilson]

Big time hats-off to Bill Demong and Johnny Spillane, gold and silver medalists respectively for the U.S. in nordic combined. These guys have toiled anonymously in a fringe (at best) sport in which the U.S. has traditionally been absolutely dismal. Spillane comes home from Vancouver with three silver medals, including the first medal the U.S. has ever won in this sport. They won team silver yesterday along with Todd Lodwick, who contributed unselfish "defense" to today's effort. The first four American medals won in this sport, all within a few days of each other, by a crew of dudes who by all accounts genuinely love each other, is something to really applaud.

[wilson]

Big day Friday for the U.S. effort. Strong medal hopes for Apolo Ohno in the 500, and at least decent hopes in the women's slalom. Finally, a semifinal matchup vs. Finland for men's hockey. The hockey team is already guaranteed of playing for a medal, and a victory over the Finns would ensure no worse than silver.
Two more medals would put the U.S. at its best-ever total in a Winter Olympiad, and Uncle Sam is inching ever closer to also clinching this year's highest overall medal count.

[colchar]

Big time hats-off to Bill Demong and Johnny Spillane, gold and silver medalists respectively for the U.S. in nordic combined. These guys have toiled anonymously in a fringe (at best) sport . . .

Dude, that isn't just in the US. When I read the opening sentence of your post the first thought that ran through my head was 'What the fuck is nordic combined?!?'

Maybe their medals and the fact that these games were held in Canada (although I'm still not convinced that Vancouver, or any other part of British Columbia, is actually part of Canada) might help raise the profile of that sport here in North America.