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The Winter Olympics Thread
Feb 9^th, 2010 at 3:56pm

i guess some of you know the winter olympics are about to start up in vancouver, canada in a few days.

any people care for this and what are some of your favorite events?

some of mine are ....the bobsled, especially the luge. all of the snowboarding events...the ski jumping and the speed skating. i love to see Apollo Reed skate and i hope he does well. he is a heavily favored. i also enjoy the womans figure skating, think legs

Are you fucking serious?

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Re: The Winter Olympics Thread
Reply #1 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 4:02pm

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i guess some of you know the winter olympics are about to start up in vancouver, canada in a few days.

any people care for this and what are some of your favorite events?

some of mine are ....the bobsled, especially the luge. all of the snowboarding events...the ski jumping and the speed skating. i love to see Apollo Reed skate and i hope he does well. he is a heavily favored. i also enjoy the womans figure skating, think legs

Are you fucking serious?

I like the figure skating - male, female and couples. Let's hope no one channels Tonya Harding this year. Did you mean Apollo Ohno instead of Reed?

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Re: The Winter Olympics Thread
Reply #2 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 4:05pm

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i guess some of you know the winter olympics are about to start up in vancouver, canada in a few days.

any people care for this and what are some of your favorite events?

some of mine are ....the bobsled, especially the luge. all of the snowboarding events...the ski jumping and the speed skating. i love to see Apollo Reed skate and i hope he does well. he is a heavily favored. i also enjoy the womans figure skating, think legs

Are you fucking serious?

My son is an emergency paramedic at the bottom of the bobsled/luge run. He has spent 2 years working on the track preparations and updating his medical training. Please note folks the City of Vancouver will not have snow and the opening ceremonies are indoors in a dome. The main outside events will be held where my son lives about 2 hours north in Whistler where there are mountains and plenty of snow.

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left shoe shuffle Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 4,141	Re: The Winter Olympics Thread Reply #3 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 4:07pm Skiing gold medal favorite Lindsey Vonn is in the SI swimsuit issue. Warwick Saint/Sports Illustrated No doubt a lot of SI subscribers will be pulling for her...
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Re: The Winter Olympics Thread
Reply #4 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 4:11pm

Ginda wrote on Feb 9^th, 2010 at 4:02pm:

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i guess some of you know the winter olympics are about to start up in vancouver, canada in a few days.

any people care for this and what are some of your favorite events?

some of mine are ....the bobsled, especially the luge. all of the snowboarding events...the ski jumping and the speed skating. i love to see Apollo Reed skate and i hope he does well. he is a heavily favored. i also enjoy the womans figure skating, think legs

Are you fucking serious?

I like the figure skating - male, female and couples. Let's hope no one channels Tonya Harding this year. Did you mean Apollo Ohno instead of Reed?

yes i did mean to say ohno. i think i was thinking about a popular rock climb in west virginia. what was i thinking. i stand corrected. doh

That was clever

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Re: The Winter Olympics Thread
Reply #6 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 4:38pm

Speed skating is one of the biggest sports in the Netherlands, so in the past few editions the national team picked up quite a few medals. Personally I don't care for it that much, but the Winter Olympics are the most important series, so I'll check those out. And a dude I interviewed twice for a magazine is a dark horse for the 10.000 meters, so that's cool.

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Paranoid Android Rocks Off Regular Online The Rocks Off Ladies Rule You Bastards!! Posts: 6,344 Chapel Hill, NC Gender:	Re: The Winter Olympics Thread Reply #9 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 5:07pm I enjoy the Slolim (sp) skiing and the Couple's figure skating...the moves they can make while in full motion...is amazing....and the hockey finals I had a high school professor who was an Olympic judge for the luge...
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Re: The Winter Olympics Thread
Reply #10 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 5:20pm

I love the Olympics....
everthing about it: the pomp, over-the-top commentary, the stories about young Romanian skaters with Olympic dreams walking miles and miles just to train in some facility in the nearest village ...love it!
What sucks is that Sasha Cohen didn't qualify....she's amazing, but that young Korean girl is amazing too, so we'll see.
Love the snowboarding and can't wait to see Shaun White up the ante in tricks this year....
Sadly, I think the Olympics is a little lost on younger generations....

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left shoe shuffle Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 4,141	Re: The Winter Olympics Thread Reply #12 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 5:30pm Looking forward to some international hockey, too. Unfortunately they'll be playing on NHL sized ice...
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Bingo Rocks Off Regular Offline Exiled from IORR Posts: 942 Gender:	Re: The Winter Olympics Thread Reply #13 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 5:53pm left shoe shuffle wrote on Feb 9^th, 2010 at 5:30pm: Looking forward to some international hockey, too. Unfortunately they'll be playing on NHL sized ice... What??????? What happened to the Olympic size rink? Are you serious? When, why and how the hell did that happen?
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left shoe shuffle Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 4,141	Re: The Winter Olympics Thread Reply #14 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 6:01pm The games are being played in the Canucks' building. The International Ice Hockey Federation agreed to keep the North American rink size. Saved millions on a refit of the arena, and allows more fannies in $eat$.
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platter Ex Member	Re: The Winter Olympics Thread Reply #16 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 6:19pm in figure skating. does anyone remember what a triple sow cow is?
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sweetcharmedlife Rocks Off Regular Offline Do the horrendous to that if you can Posts: 11,943 San Mateo Gender:	Re: The Winter Olympics Thread Reply #18 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 6:23pm Quote: in figure skating. does anyone remember what a triple sow cow is? A triple sow cow? Isn't that Ann Wilson,Kirstie Alley and Rosie O'Donnell
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Re: The Winter Olympics Thread
Reply #20 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 6:34pm

left shoe shuffle wrote on Feb 9^th, 2010 at 6:01pm:

The games are being played in the Canucks' building.
The International Ice Hockey Federation agreed to keep the North American rink size.

Saved millions on a refit of the arena, and allows more fannies in $eat$.

AMAZING...that gives Canada (and the US too) not only home court advantage...but Style advantage too...i can already see Euros skating into the boards unintentionally!!! Grin

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left shoe shuffle Rocks Off Regular Offline Posts: 4,141	Re: The Winter Olympics Thread Reply #21 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 6:37pm Not as much of an edge as you might think. Don't forget a lot of European stars play in the NHL - including the biggest one...
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