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Old 01-23-2010, 03:01 PM   #1
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2010 Winter Olympics Thread


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:
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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
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I only really care about hockey and speed skating, which Canada is going to RAPE at.
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I only really care about hockey and speed skating, which Canada is going to RAPE at.
What country won the Juniors? The Under 17s? The under 18s? Oh, that's right, NOT CANADA.
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Old 01-24-2010, 11:44 AM   #4
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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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Old 01-24-2010, 04:43 PM   #6
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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.
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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.

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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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I'm pretty excited. On the whole I think I enjoy the winter games more than the summer ones.
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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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Man, the hockey medal round isn't till the end? Suckssss. Only sport I care about in the Winter Olympics.
Were you expecting the medal rounds to come before the preliminary games or something?
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Gunna be weird seeing people walk around in shorts and tshirts during the winter games.
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No, of course not. It was more of "god 2 weeks of sports I don't give a shit about before the medal rounds"
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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
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From MarketWatch.com -

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.
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Just saw the Video of that guy dying.

It was terrible.
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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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Gonna try and follow the Winter Olympics for the first time. Sucks about the 8 hour time difference. Should have watched the Italian one
People on the west coast of the U.S. are pissed because even though they are in the same time zone as Vancouver, NBC is showing everything on a 3 hour tape delay.
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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.
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I was unaware Canada had such a history of tap dancing...
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Props to Bermuda for wearing shorts to the Opening Ceremony.
I guess they all wore shit that was extremely warm, but the temperature inside was 72 degrees
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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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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.
They did, they said that there has to be one visible by the entire city so Gretzky left with it to go light that one but I switched and dont know if they showed it or not.
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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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