The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics Discussion Thread

WHOOT!!!

 

Oh, Canada!

Woo!

 

Congrats, Canada. Although I wasn't able to catch all of the game (yay for working in retail ), what I saw was a game worthy of the gold medal match up in the Olympics.

I'm disappointed that the US didn't win, but two weeks ago, I would have been thrilled with a bronze medal. Ryan Miller was a stud. Great tournament for North America, after a very disappointing Turin games.

 

I'd like to note that I was at a trivia competition tonight (one my friends and I go to every week), and one of the questions was "how many players are on a curling team?" We answered 4, and were told we were wrong, and it was 5. Appealed to no avail, even pulling up the official rules from the World Curling Federation website, which clearly state that a curling team has 4 players.

Oh well, we still took third even with that counted wrong.

 

I would have said four, too.

 

It sounds like a technicality but the 5 might not be completely incorrect. The teams travel with a extra "alternate" curler incase someone gets hurt or something. Four definitly should have been the answer in simplest terms though.

 

Truly this week the streets of Canada have run brown with maple syrup.

 

If that were me, I'd always use that fact when playing two truths and a lie, or a similar game.

 

Obi, what is being said in Sweden over both hockey teams missing the medals--which I found *very* surprising--as the Russians are plenty ticked.

OTOH, Sweden had a good games, or so it seemed to me?

 

Winners and losers: Canadians steal show.

It will be interesting to see how much money was lost as well when the final tabulations are calculated.

 

Interesting article.

 

Yep, I agree. Good reading.

 

Indeed, very good read... though I had to lol at this bit near the beginning: I investigated whether the sport of curling was doomed due to the world?s supply of granite.

 

Was it the goaltending?

 

Everybody here is terribly hungover...not necessarily from booze, but from excitement.

We miss the Olympics.

 

It still feels weird for me not to turn on the Olympics as soon as I get home every day. Even when I wasn't watching closely, I had it on in the background almost constantly.

 

Have no fear, the Paralympics start in a couple weeks and then we get to see the BEST type of hockey being played:

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Sledge hockey!

 

And don't forget the Duke banner you'll be putting up after Saturday.

(Yes, I know we lost last night, but all that does is to serve as a convenient wake-up call for the big game this weekend.)

 

Sledge hockey is pretty sweet to watch in clips, but I don't know about a whole tournament.