pure_mercury
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Same as the Super Bowl! Let's hear it out for our countries. I am dying to see a Team USA men's hockey gold in my lifetime. . .
I felt that the opening ceremony was destroyed with the hour long interpretive dance/ballet/flute playing/history re-enacting spiritual garbage they tried to do. It really made me face palm. Also... slam poetry???
I live in Canada and I turned the opening ceremony off. Vancouver is an amazing city and BC is one of the best places to live in the world. Don't tell me that's the best that can be done because it just wasn't very good.
Short track is so much fun to watch -- it's almost surprising that it hasn't been in the Games that long. Just watched the men's 1500 final, when the Koreans had 1-2-3 locked up, and #3 slid and took #2 with him right near the end, clearing the way for Apolo Ohno and JR Celski to medal! Weird sport, but fun to watch.All I want to see is short track speed skating. Short track speed skating . Short track speed skating!!
Oh my, that's just painful. It's hard to know where to make the line (just going TO the Olympics, even with little or no chance to medal is huge for almost all of the athletes), but maybe some sports could still use some more... qualifications or smaller fields? 18-0 in *hockey* is just ugly.Women's Hockey: Canada 18, Slovakia 0.
It was like watching them kick a small child to death...
I've always loved the Olympics (yeah, I know... corruption, etc. -- it still does it for me every time). However, I'm not a huge fan of the artsy ceremony stuff (although I admit some of those "plains nations" costumes were pretty awesome). I did what I usually do -- watched the parade of nations (which I love), and then turned it off.
NBC showed a (non-graphic) version of the luge accident. How horrible. I'm no expert, and hindsight's 20-20, but that wall definitely looked like it could have / should have been higher (for those that didn't / don't want to see it, the athlete crashed and was thrown over the side of the luge track). The people who are experts are saying that it was just a fluke accident and that the track's not unsafe -- but ouch. Poor guy and his family.
Hopefully it will be a good, fun games from now on.
I guess I'm getting up there in years, but I *do* remember this (barely):
[YOUTUBE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g_VWqEqD6A&NR=1"]USA Hockey Gold[/YOUTUBE] Strange thing is, I'm not sure it's any more likely now than it was then -- things have changed in the world of sports.
Wow, I'm jealous, FMW . I've always thought it would be great to go see some of the Olympics in person (although probably expensive). I *should* have gone to the games in Salt Lake, and I was definitely contemplating going if Chicago was awarded the 2016 games, but not sure if I'll ever do it now. Looks like North America has probably seen its share of the games until at least 2020, if not longer. Have a great time!I'm en route to the Olympics right now. I'll be seeing a USA hockey game and a medal ceremony. I generally don't care about the Summer Olympics, but I love the Winter ones.
Nod . I was 9. It was really my first exposure to the Winter Olympics (I remembered seeing the summer games in '76, but not the Winter ones). My first exposure to things like bobsled and luge, which I've always thought would be a ton of fun.I remember the Lake Placid Olympics really well. I was 12.
Exactly . Last night they showed a shot of the construction upgrades they'd done to that part of the course (they added to the height of the wall between the track and those beams), and it was just so *obvious* that's what should have been there before. Easy for us to say now, of course, but like you say, a tragic way to learn that lesson.As far as the luger, why were those beams exposed? It seems like a no-brainier to have a wall around them. A very tragic way to learn a construction lesson it seems.
Women's Hockey: Canada 18, Slovakia 0.
It was like watching them kick a small child to death...
That's correct: 82 goals for Slovakia, none for Bulgaria.
Bulgaria gives up 139 shots on goal in 82-0 women's hockey loss - Olympics - ESPN
I'm en route to the Olympics right now. I'll be seeing a USA hockey game and a medal ceremony. I generally don't care about the Summer Olympics, but I love the Winter ones.
And besides, as Ivy alluded to, it might be the only time jingoism and xenophobia are socially acceptable!