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Just watched most of the opening ceremony. Little hiccup on the torch lighting :P

Looking forward to watching some athletes eat some snow over the next two weeks.

Trust South Australia to see snow only on the telly...
But seriously, its always so hot here, but were right next to Antartica!!! what gives??
Anyway, I wonder if anyones gonna stack it this year... hmm.

earlier today a Georgian athlete doing a practice run in the luge flew off the track at a corner going 140 km/h and rammed into a pole. he died instantly.

I hope these Olympics will finish soon, I'm getting really irritated of all these promotional commercials on my television (note: my location).

I'm picking the USA for upsets in the Male Hockey.

The luge thing was horrific.

I am pumped for curling.

Spawn of Yanni wrote:The luge thing was horrific.

NBC's tastelessness was also horrific ... if it bleeds, it leads.

That said, I'm excited for speedskating, which always results in harmless, amusing, disaster. Go Ohno!

(And ski jumping this afternoon was also cool.)

EDIT: Bob Costas just announced preceding yet another goddamn montage of the death that they would /not/ show the graphic footage any more for the rest of the Olympics. Obviously someone upstairs got complaints and shut them down. Too late, but w/e.

HOW ABOUT THAT SHORT TRACK MAN WHAT AN INCREDIBLE FINISH

xVxCrushloaderusSupremusxVx wrote:HOW ABOUT THAT SHORT TRACK MAN WHAT AN INCREDIBLE FINISH

<3

Jennifer Heil was robbed today at the moguls.

Winter sports have the weirdest names. Mogul? Skeleton? Luuuuuuuuge?

Moguls was fun to watch, must kill their knees.

The luge accident was absolutely awful. I saw the footage of it, man. He looks dead practically the second he crashes.

Leaff wrote:Moguls was fun to watch, must kill their knees.

That's exactly what I thought and then six seconds later they announced that the current chick had had six knee surgeries.

Hahah, really? No wonder.

SlappyMcGee wrote:Jennifer Heil was robbed today at the moguls.

What? The last American's run was nearly flawless.

Spawn of Yanni wrote:The luge thing was horrific.

Oh man, I saw some pictures of them trying to resuscitate him with blood all over his face. That was horrible. Glad I didn't watch the video. :S

smartalco wrote:

SlappyMcGee wrote:Jennifer Heil was robbed today at the moguls.

What? The last American's run was nearly flawless.

Flawless nothing. Heil deserved it.

SlappyMcGee wrote:Flawless nothing. Heil deserved it.

Under what argument? Heil had an excellent run. Kearney's was just better yet.

Anyone interested in the Men's Ice Hockey?

987654321 wrote:Anyone interested in the Men's Ice Hockey?

SWEDEN


But, yeah, southpaw, I mean, you can't say that completely objectively that she had a better run. It's still a matter of opinion. My argument is that Heil's air was worse but her technique in the moguls was flawless.

That American blew the gold in nordic combine yesterday afternoon. Great finish though.


EDIT: Eff I missed men's downhill with Bode.

The Winter Olympics are so weird. We never seem to win the overall medal count, but so far we are in the lead.

USA - 6
GER - 4
FRA - 3

flagmyidol wrote:That American blew the gold in nordic combine yesterday afternoon. Great finish though.

No. He wasn't even expected to medal, he kicked soon and died at the end. There was no choking involved, that was a great upset and our first ever medal in that event. ever.

rocket_thumped wrote:
USA - 6

Seven, actually. Bronze in Men's Downhill and Moguls, plus Men's 1500M and Women's Moguls, Silver in the same 1500M+the nordic, and of course, the Gold in Women's Moguls.

SlappyMcGee wrote:

987654321 wrote:Anyone interested in the Men's Ice Hockey?

SWEDEN.

Brodeur, Lundqvist and Miller are easily the top 3 goalies... Canada and Russia are *dangerous* ... I have a soft spot for Czech because of Jagr... happy 38th birthday!

SlappyMcGee wrote:

rocket_thumped wrote:
USA - 6

Seven, actually. Bronze in Men's Downhill and Moguls, plus Men's 1500M and Women's Moguls, Silver in the same 1500M+the nordic, and of course, the Gold in Women's Moguls.

You're right, but I wasn't counting todays medals.