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Ohno! Love that short track speed skating! The womens' mogul event was cool as well.

Less positive observations: They pretend they're journalists with repeated showings of the luge death, but I have not see coverage of the the anti-olympics protests.

The Opening Ceremony was cool, missed the torch lighting because I had to deal with a nut. Put up with the whole parade of nations and the speeches, missed the good bit.

Was wondering why women (and men) not wearing jingle dresses were dancing in that style, but then I remember that Native or not, they were all Canadian.

FoxNews has coverage of the protests.

mmmm... guns-n-skis

Awesome Nordic combined race. We're #2!!!

Aw crap, I missed that? The Nordic skiing and shooting is one of my favorites.

I'm hoping the Canadians do well.

US ice dancers, Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto, train less than two miles from my house, and had a hell of a time getting to the games because of the snow.

The story that surprised me most was the three athletes from India had no uniforms.
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That's biathlon you're thinking of glatt. But that was on too, this afternoon.

Woo Hoo, Canadian beat the Frenchman in Men's Moguls.

watching the mogul skiiers hurts my knees

judged sports are a joke. a really bad nasty hurtful joke.

if I ever met a figure skating judge.....man or woman....I would strike them.

National anthems suck... all of them.

Unbelievable breathe/heart rate control with those guys.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-feat...+wins+whistler

Exactly. Anybody who has ever done cross country skiing knows how your heart is freaking pounding out of your chest, and then to stop and quickly relax to focus on taking a shot is incredible. It I tried it, I'd be shooting the cameramen behind me, I'd be so wild.

PC Olympics
 

not to mention the condoms for curlers.

the official condom sponsor of the US Curling Team

Hurry hard!

I'd heard that the Olympic village is a free love fest. All those young, fit, attractive athletes with nothing to do after their competition. Lots of partying and hooking up.

good for them!

I think most leave after their competition is over though, don't they?

Watching the men's 15K XC while on the treadmill today was awesome!

no way - they stay for the closing ceremonies. At least thats what I was told. no link or documents though

Woooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Downhilll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Will Bode hang on to the bronze? It's a nail biter...

You guys watching on DVR?

No I was distracted by the fetch-obsessed cat.

Good. Yay Bode!

That was pretty interesting, in fact all five of them are.

Am I the only person who thought the Olympic torch looked like a huge joint?

Ha! Turbo used to do that when he was younger. My husband could play that game with him the whole time he was watching a Colts game.

you know, I didn't even read past the condoms--but you're right. Very cute little story

It's interesting that the vendor/supplier/sponsor ties, are not always a goal of financial gain... some are emotional.

yeah, "just for the fun of it" or to honor past ties. That's the kind of employment perk that is good for the soul, as well as good for the company.

The "big" sports get the sodas and sneakers and whatnot, but those curlers, they've got some stones, baby!

Shame on the U.S. loss to Germany today. Quite an exciting match.

Yes, I really did watch it.

I wish I had internet on my phone so I could get Olympic feeds.

When did they start marking the downhills with blue?

Lindsey Vonn- "Holy Mother of Fuck, I'm the Olympic Champion."

Anya Pearsons threw one hell of a yard sale but apparently she's okay.

Lindsey Vonn: I thought she was screaming in agony at the end of her run at first.

Hey! We're up in the medal count from yesterday.

LOL! I love how the snowboarding athletic "uniforms" are plaid [flannel] and baggy pants

I thought they were ghey.

the pants look like jeans

You think everything is ghey.

Snowboarding is not an Olympic Sport. It's just a bunch of slackers smoking up and fooling the whole lot of us.

True! During the half pipe qualifications last night, I saw one of the Americans pull his iPod out of his pocket, fiddle with it, and then start bopping his head around like crazy. I figured he was waiting for his turn to go in the back stage area, but then his coach tapped him on the shoulder, the camera angle changed, and he started his run down the pipe. He had been in the starting gate, playing with his iPod.

I know for a fact that I kick 15% more ass at Tony Hawk Skateboard video games when this song is on:

mental training is just as important as physical training in athletes, I hear. I'm sure this was part of pysching himself up for his run. Just because they do it differently, doesn't invalidate the method.

Obviously. My point was it's not a method I've seen used in any of the other winter games. Snow boarders are more casual.

I thought your point was that he was goofing off beforehand. Okay then.

and . . . boy, curling is boring to watch. and they're all so serious!

I bet they all have super clean floors in their homes

Olympic sock races!

A old friend of mine who is Canuck-raised, says that the brushing is just superstition and can't possibly have any effect.

it's hard what to imagine just exactly what it does. move the air currents? make the ice smoother? give the "athletes" something to do?

read the part under Sweeping

I don't know how tough the brooms' bristles are, but I imagine they could scrape up little piles of ice shavings in the path of the stone, or remove any piles remaining from earlier.

Like figure skaters in a way, I believe they time things with the music.
Don't tell mom :)

Talking about all this stuff reminds me of the time I went to the ski jump in Innsbruck. Bergisel ski jump in Innsbruck is open year round for training. You don't need snow to use it. They have a slippery plastic on the jump itself, and the landing area is covered in a very long stranded astroturf style carpet. Every once in a while, sprinklers turn on and wet it down, just like the produce section of the grocery store. Speaking of food, there's a cafe at the top with spectacular views of the valley and of the jump itself. You can see the athletes up close as they go through their training runs.

There's a little elevator/train car that takes you to the top, and the public rides the same elevator as the athletes. Kind of neat. It's probably limited access during actual competitions. Then outside the cafe there's a little observation platform where you can watch the guys getting ready to jump.


A running joke at this place is the grave yard just beyond the landing area. If you land wrong, they say you will end up in the graveyard. But it's actually about half a kilometer away.

people are craaaaaaaazzzzzy!

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holy fuck

What the crap? No. That's just a thing that glatt made up.