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2010 Winter Olympics Thread
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The XXI Olympic Winter Games will be held on February 12–28, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 5,500+ athletes will be participating in 86 events. The opening and closing ceremonies will take place at BC Place while most events will be either the Richmond Olympic Oval or GM Place. Snow sports will take place at Whistler Olympic Park just outside of Vancouver. The sports at the games are (with more events in each of them): - Alpine Skiing - Biathlon - Bobsleigh - Cross Country Skiing - Curling - Figure Skating - Freestyle Skiing - Ice Hockey - Luge - Nordic combined - Short track speed skating - Skeleton - Ski Jumping - Snowboarding - Speed Skating Participating countries: http://www.ctvolympics.ca/countries/index.html 2006 Medal Standings: SPOILER: show Event calender: http://www.imagechicken.com/uploads/...4094506600.jpg FUN FACTS: - This will be the first winter OR summer Olympic opening ceremony to be held in indoors - Vancouver is the largest city in history to host the Winter games - Vancouver is also the warmest city to host the Winter games |
I only really care about hockey and speed skating, which Canada is going to RAPE at. :D
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Yeah Canada sure was crushed at the World Juniors. Didn't even make it to the medal rounds or anything. Maybe next year, they'll leave half their best players that are still WJ elible with the NHL clubs and wo't bother dressing their best Dman.
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One silver medal :cool:
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Go Jamaican bobsled team.
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Figure skating will be interesting this year. For the first time, basically ever, the U.S. doesn't have a medal contending woman. And, because they did poorly at Worlds last year, the U.S. only had two (instead of three) bids for women. Watched the women's free skate finals at nations last night, but will be interesting to see if Rachel Flatt or Marai Nagasu can surprise in Vancouver. It was too bad Sasha Cohen didn't have an opportunity to get the rust off before nationals, but that's just how it is, I guess.
The men, on the other hand, look in a strong position with Evan Lysacek the reigning world champion and Jeremy Abbot just looking very good when he won men's nationals last week. Other then that, I'm looking forward to men's bobsled, where the U.S. men, aka Night Train, are the reigning world champions (and overall an interesting team). In luge, the U.S. has Erin Hamlin as the reigning world champion, after she broke a hex of like 10 years of Germans winning last year. So that will be interesting. A lot of interesting storylines though. I work with the US Olympic team and was able to meet a lot of these people at the Media Summit last September, so will definitely be following this year's games closely. |
Figure skating will never be interesting in any year.
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The Canadian Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium's broadcast abilities by the numbers for Vancouver 2010.
(From http://ctvmedia.ca/olympics/releases...2054&yyyy=2010) 4,800 – hours of Vancouver 2010 coverage by Consortium 2,350 – hours of coverage on CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca 2,250 – hours of coverage on television 1,400 – members of Consortium production team 800 – hours of coverage in French, more than double the French-language coverage in Canada of Turin 2006 (375 hours) 421 – hours of coverage that will air in languages other than English and French 374 – total hours of coverage on CTV 354 – total hours of coverage on RDS 306 – total hours of coverage on Rogers Sportsnet 296 – total hours of coverage on TSN 284 – total hours of coverage on V 282 – hours of coverage each day on Consortium television channels 240 – people on French production team 214 – total hours of coverage on APTN 200 – hours of Olympic Games content and programming on Consortium radio 107 – total hours of coverage on ATN 101 – total hours of coverage on RIS Info Sports 100 – total hours of coverage on OMNI.1 and OMNI.2 75 – total hours of coverage on OLN 64 – theatres in which fans can watch Consortium’s coverage (Cineplex Entertainment cinemas...the big screen) 51 – total hours of coverage on MuchMusic 22 – languages in which coverage will air 22 – hours of coverage each day on CTV 21 – hours of coverage each day on RDS 20 – radio stations within Consortium 14 – live streams available at CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca 13 – languages in which the Opening and Closing Ceremonies will air 12 – television channels within Consortium 9 – times CTV has been the official broadcaster of the Olympic Games, including Vancouver 2010 8 – sets (6 in Vancouver and 2 in Whistler) 2 – broadcast locations In other words, Canada will be doing something NO ONE ELSE in the world will be doing for these XXI Olympic Winter Games....airing AND streaming every single event LIVE on Television and the Internet. It's not ever been done before in global Olympic broadcast history. |
Ummm go Canada?
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Will be interesting. I wish they did more of that in the U.S. Remember watching the World Track & Field Championships on BBC last summer while in London and being able to watch the whole event is great. Any Olympic sport in the U.S. is shown on tape delay filled with bells and whistles that make it harder and less exciting to follow. Meh.
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I'm sorry.... but not Canada nor USA will win the gold in Ice hockey... that honor will go to Russia..... and this is coming from a die-hard Canadian.....
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USA even medaling in men's hockey would be a surprise. I've heard that maybe one player on Team USA would even have made Canada's roster. Oh well. The hockey tournament should be exciting at least.
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<font color=goldenrod>I'm pretty excited. On the whole I think I enjoy the winter games more than the summer ones.</font>
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Man, the hockey medal round isn't till the end? Suckssss. Only sport I care about in the Winter Olympics.
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I will watch the shit out of curling. Dunno why but that event's amazing to me
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FearedSanctity, in curling, you will see the curlers carrying wither brooms or brushes. Those are used to help the curling stones travel further down the ice...they kind of change the stone's trajectory, and are used as good offensive tools when trying to get around other stones into what is called 'cover', or getting your stone to be hidden behind other ones in order to score points.
And to score points, you have to get your stones as close to the full circle in the middle of the rings you see at either end of the ice. The biggest ring is the 12-foot ring, the one just inside that one is the 8-foot ring, the one just inside the 8-foot ring is the 4-foot ring, and inside the 4-foot ring is the 'Button', where you hope your rock lands, as most rocks on or near the Button score points. There's also a figurative object called the 'Hammer'. That just simply means one teams' advantage to throw the last rock in an end of curling. Each team consists of 4 players per team, known as the Lead(who throws rocks 1 & 2), the Second(who throws rocks 3 & 4), the Third(who throws rocks 5 & 6), and the Skip(aka Team Captain(who throws rocks 7 & 8)). There are 8 rocks thrown per end per team, for a total of 16 shots(each player throws 2 shots). All major curling tournaments have 10 'Ends' in them. They would be the equivalent of baseball's innings. In reference to the 'Hammer' talked about earlier, the way a team keeps possession of the Hammer is to score 2 points in an end. If you only score 1 point, you give the Hammer up to the other team. The team who does NOT have the Hammer can also score points too, though if they score in an end, they get a Steal of whatever they score, but I'm not positive that they steal the Hammer away from the other team. I don't think they do. Well, there's a little bit of catch-up for you on what curling is. |
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Gunna be weird seeing people walk around in shorts and tshirts during the winter games.
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TEAM CANADA HOCKEY
GOLD OR NOTHIN |
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Gonna try and follow the Winter Olympics for the first time. Sucks about the 8 hour time difference. Should have watched the Italian one :o
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Luger killed...
Not Lex either... |
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An Olympic athlete from the former Soviet republic of Georgia died after crashing his sled, according to media reports Friday. Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, was reportedly thrown off the sled and slammed into a pole near the track. The death comes hours before the Winter Olympics were officially to start. |
Just saw the Video of that guy dying.
It was terrible. |
Man. That was a brutal video. I had my shirt over my face and it was still hard to watch.
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Just saw it, shit was terrible.
Willing to bet that wall gets raised before that event, or some sort of net or something gets added. Ridiculous that they've got massive poles like that uncovered so close to the track |
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Props to Bermuda for wearing shorts to the Opening Ceremony.
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Opening ceremony is trippy
Will be watching a lot of Curling. Just hoping Canada and Crosby get assraped in hockey and I am rooting for USA/Russia/Sweden in that. I like to watch the aerials also but they hardly ever show those. |
I was unaware Canada had such a history of tap dancing...
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Lol K.D Lang
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The lighting of the cauldron at the end ruined the whole opening ceremonies for me. They fuck it up plus they drive like 5 miles away to light another one. I was watching the NBC feed and they had no idea there was another one to light.
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These speed skaters look entirely too relaxed as they go around the track.
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I was flipping back and forth from NBC to CTV and while Gretzky was driving down NBC was interviewing Joe Biden then near the end the announcer was like, "Looks like there is another cauldron to light lets take you there now." He made another reference to not being sure how they would light a cauldron so the whole city can see.
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Yeah lol @ the 5 minutes of confusion when the ice things wouldn't work
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Canada has neveer won a Gold Metal in any event during an olympics they have hosted. (Montreal 1976, Calgary 1988) This year will be different!!!!1
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When does the ice hockey start, or have i missed some already?
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USA trolling Canada already, some Canadian chick in Moguls was about to win gold until the USA lady came in and won in the last round
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Canada won a gold!
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lol@ china 'playing' ice hockey
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Moguls gold!
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Apolo Ohno and JR Celski were awesome in the 1500 short track. Excited to see the other short track events now.
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So, Ryan "Miller Time" Miller, of Michigan State hockey fame before he went pro, understandably has to remove "Miller Time" from his helmet as it could be seen as advertising for Miller beer or smething, and he's appealing the IOC on the "Matt Man" marking featured on all of his helmets to honor his cousin who also had dreams of making it big as a hockey player but died of Leukemia a couple years or so ago.
Ah well, hopefully we'll see the USA Hockey team back to the gold, and remind the world of why we're just as good, if not better than, the US Hockey "Dream Team" which defeated Russia in the 1980 Winter Olympic Games. |
This just in.
Gold medal for some, silver, bronze, and ribbons for the others. |
The 1980 US Hockey team was a bunch of college players, not exactly a dream team
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from DAMN iNATOR's post
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Great game, nice to see Iggy perform well with Crosby and Nash. :y:
Really impressed with Doughty, he played OHL in my hometown, I took him for granted when he played here, but he really has a bright future in the NHL and playing for Team Canada. |
Canada looked like shit in the 1st. Thank God we picked it up.
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The 1980 USA team didn't beat The Soviets for the gold, btw.
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DO YOU BELIEVE IN MIRACLES
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US Mens and Womens curling chokes again.
Bastards. |
<font color=goldenrod>Shaun White. Holy shit.</font>
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Jagr is awesome.
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Jonas Hiller was incredible yesterday for the Swiss. Almost pulled off the upset again.
Can't wait till Sunday. US v Canada should be great. |
Right, so some Aussie sheila won the 4th winter olympics gold in the country's history. Snowboard halfpipe or something.
I guess it was nowhere near as entertaining as Steven Bradbury though :o |
The Snowboarding cross has been the best thing about the Olympics. Well, the elimination races anyway. The qualifiers are a bit boring. But once the racing begins, crazy shit happens.
The thought of the 2006 finals with Lindsey Jacobellis still cracks me up. |
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watching Jagr play for the Czehcs :love:
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We won a gold medal. :eek: top of the table here we come!
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Skeleton gold, alright!
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Been downtown for the Olympics and holy shit I have never seen so many people in my life just randomly walking around and being in such a good mood. 1-6 hour waits in line at pretty much every venue with dick all to do once inside, yet people are still so happy. It's wild. This coming friday I'm going to an awards ceremony and if a Canadian wins gold it's going to be wild.
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CANADA'S GONNA KILL YOU
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:n: This is poor Canada
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USA
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riots in Canada
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That game was epic. Canada either is now gonna be unstoppable rest of the tournament or they wont rebound and lose to like Germany in next game and be out. I can't see an in between happening.
What a win for the U S of A. |
Canada has not been playing the best, but I'd really hope we can still get past Germany. And hopefully tonight was a wake up call.
But following Germany, we've got Russia. And that's probably the end of the line. |
Well, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Canada sandbagged in the ealry part of the game and the U.S. killed them for it. But what can I expect from anyone in this country lately?
I Am Canadian, but am really ashamed how all of us can be expected to cheer the key athletes who do NOTHING BUT SANDBAG on the world stage. It really speaks volumes of us when we can go around as a nation and say were proud of choke-artists like this Team Canada who are lazy, wishy-washy, and incompetent. Yeah, I said it. They're incompetent and deserve nothing but a semi-final loss now. TEAM CANADA DOES NOT DESERVE TO PLAY FOR GOLD NEXT WEEK AT ALL, AND THEIR PRESENCE THERE IS A GODDAMN FLUKE IF THEY MAKE IT SOMEHOW, WHICH THEY WON'T! They failed being up 7-0 after 2 against the U.S. and paid for it dearly. But then, I suppose most of that has to do with our global 'nice guy' image, which has made our country totally irrelevant on the larger and most important global competitive stage, where all the glory and money lies. That is what we should greedily and selfishly go after, and give the rest of the world a big Fuck You! Because, to be honest, we are greedy pricks. Yeah...we are greedy. And as a result of putting up this False Front of 'nice guy', we are getting our asses handed to us in short order, when we here in Canada should be selfishly throwing our weight around. I mean, when other countries view us, they say 'Aww...how cute.' when they really think of us as idiots and morons who WILL NOT go out there in the world and just take success ruthlessly. And yeah...we here in this country are not ruthless. We're more like gutless, spineless cowards who bungle things up at the MOST IMPORTANT, GOLD-MEDAL / CHAMPIONSHIP WINNING times, not only in sports, but in life in general. We frankly deserve no respect from any other nation until we realize that going on a blunt-force, kill em' all attack with intense rage is the only way to succeed at things. That ditching our 'good guy / babyface' image is the route to getting lots of good things, such as on-field dominace of and higher political control over sports and industries. I don't think anyone out there in Canada realizes how far back we truly are when it comes to positive advancements in the world at large. Other nations have already passed us by because we refused to say 'No' to them. Avro Arrow anyone? Let's face it...Canada is complacent, incompetent, clueless, gutless, and spinelessly cowardly. How the hell can we expect anyone to take us seriously when we aren't choosing to drop the Front and become openly ruthless, vicious, and ticked off? And enough to the point where we want to take someone's head off for laughing at us? Why do you also think that the 6 Canadian NHL teams haven't won a Stanley Cup in 17 years, and won't win it this year either? Canada, GROW A SPINE AND GROW THE FUCK UP, AND FACE THE FUCKING TRUTH!!!!!! |
yo chill
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chill pill vol 2
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This is devastating. We lost at our own game. Its the equivalent of us beating America at baseball or murdering people.
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We invented basketball and suck at that (minus Steve Nash) |
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Ronic, chill
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Bubonic Ronic
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Is Canada fucking serious????
http://sports.espn.go.com/olympics/w...ory?id=4937426 Benching Brodeur is RETARDED |
think I'd probably play Luongo over Brodeur at this point in their careers
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Unfortunately was traveling and missed the game, but all of the analysis I heard on the game seemed to indicate that Broudeur was simply outmatched yesterday. Seems like Luongo would be the right choice.
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Madeleine Dupont
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The World Baseball Classic, while it has the potential to be a really cool thing, simply is not because Major League Baseball handicaps it and the top American players sit out.
Would be devastating and incredibly stupid if the NHL holds its players out of Sochi 2014. The NHL and NBA seasons are so unnecessarily long as it is, and both sports have legitimate futures of international play. Would love to see an NHL champions league and cut out 20 games from the regular season. |
Switzerland about to go to a shootout with Belarus
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rofl@ the puck going through the net, that happened on my nhl 2k9 game recently to.:lol:(opposite way round though!)
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I don't understand why Espn hasn't picked up woman's curling to air late at night.
Best sport to watch in the late night. |
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