Winter Olympics - Vancouver 2010 - WHOSE GAME IS IT, BITCHES (Shin has no teeth)
 

So, pretty much the Olympics are well on their way especially after a beautiful opening ceremony last night, didn't know deni had the same style as our Canadian poet. I didn't manage to catch the whole thing because by the time I got home last night the majority of it was over.

To us, the GFF community who loves watching the Olympics. This is the thread for it. What are going to be some of your favorite events to watch during the Winter Olympics. Which members are going to have bragging rights for their country winning the most medals.

On a sad note, it the with my greatest condolences that a luge skater by the name of Nodar Kumaritashvili from the Country of Georgia had lost his life the other day during his luge training run. Nobody ever goes to these games to live their Olympic dream to end up being killed even though some of these sports have their associated risks. I commend the Georgia team for making it to the opening ceremonies, despite the tragic loss they went through. I wish nothing but the best for their country during this tragic event. I'm sure people on this site has seen the video, but I won't post it here out of respect.

It isn't really surprising to see Vancouver and the surrounding areas get a rainfall warning for the Olympics. They've had to postpone some of the events today.

For myself, I'm obviously very excited about the Olympic Hockey this year because the competition this year is going to be incredibly fierce. I'm also a big fan of watching sports such as the freestyle moguls, and the freestyle aerials.

I'll be home for the first 8 days of the Olympics, then its back to work, but our workplace promised to let us take off work to watch some Olympic Hockey if Canada gets really far in the Olympics this year.

Also for any Canadian who wants to check out the Olympics online, you can get a live stream of Olympic coverage from:

Canadian Olympic Coverage

Let us enjoy the Winter Olympics together.

So who else buys into the theory doing the rounds that it was lack of practice time that led to the Georgian dude getting killed? Practice time limited by the Candian team using the course all the time so they can win a load of medals. Apparently quite a few other luge type athletes have said the course is (literally I guess) a deathtrap.

The winter olympics have always largely passed me by, primarily because we simply don't so any winter sports over here except curling, and that's gay.

It doesn't matter what you're doing, whenever you are less experienced you run a more significant risk of injury. That rider was quite young, and yeah, with more practice it's likely he would've known the intricacies of the track a bit better.

That said, though, can anyone find any information on if foreign athletes have been limited to fewer practice runs as compared to past Olympics? I saw a guy say in an interview that Canada's allowed more practice runs involving other countries to take place than in any past winter games, though I haven't been able to find anything confirming that. If that is the case, though, everyone talking about how Canada's a bunch of assholes for limiting practice time can suck countless dicks.

On another topic, why does ski-jump have a style component? With all the disdain people have for subjective scoring (a feeling I share) why do things like this persist? Ski-jump is a perfect sport for a purely objective scoring system. If you go further than the other guy, you win. Why should anyone give a shit about style?

Because if you can ski jump seventy meters, that's good.

If you can ski jump seventy meters while flashing goat horns, you're just that much more awesome.

I like watching Curling :(

Ciao.

Actually, if you can ski jump 70 meters, that's rubbish.

If you can ski jump 108 meters, that's pretty awesome.

Pssssh.

What chance of medalling did he have if he can't even survive the course?

I dunno. Do they still award medals to a corpse that somehow manages to finish in good time? Is there anything in the rule book that requires an athlete to be alive when they pass the finish line?

I think we've hit a very exploitable loophole here. I say, in 2014, that the American luge team should consist of hollowed out corpses, and one living player to mount them on the luge. Hell, they won't even need protective gear adding weight and slowing them down. Maybe we could just strap a fetus to the luge and give it a good, swift kick.

I would pay good money to see the Americans hoist a dead baby with a gold medal around its neck as they carry it around the course in celebration. Fuck you, Russia. You got beat by an abortion. How does that feel?

I barely settled down to watch the highlights from today and caught this news. It's fucked up but, you know, what are you gonna do. I know most people consider a lot of these games boring but you never really wanna hear this kind of stuff in any case; much less before the games even get into their full swing.

I watched the 5,000 metres (I think) speed skating last night and the Dutch guy who won it did so by a country mile. It's not even his strong distance apparently. It's horrible to watch though because even though the guy's a clear 6 seconds up on the nearest competition, he's still got to make it the distance without falling over. I'm sure that professional speed skaters (Well, very good amateurs, who'd ever let a professional sportsman in the Olympics?) hardly ever fall over but I suspect it happens to them more often than it happens to runners.

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Man, if that doesn't lead to a lifetime of bitterness I don't know what will.

Damn they took it down. What was that? Was that the downhill skier who took a dive right out of the box?

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I saw that. Yet, clumsy ass Vonn managed to not only make it but win. Good for her.

Lindsey Vonn. A respected female athlete. Famous for no other reason.

PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE.

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ATHLETE.

She's kind of like Gina Carano that way except she's actually good at what she does.

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I'm cool with her sucking at whatever she does, to be honest.

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If we want to start picking on female athletes who are clearly not famous for being athletes, I vote we start with the queen:

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Not sure exactly what you're trying to get at here. At least Lindsey Vonn is actually very good at what she does.

My initial point is that Lindsey Vonn is not famous because she's good.

And then there were pictures of hot chicks.

What are you, queer?

Fuck Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3-0 Canada not even the first period is over yet.

Yeah, but its Miller Time.

Yeah, if we had only one card to play repeatedly that happened to share it's name with a shitty beer we'd be harping that point endlessly too.

Sound a little bitter there, Skills.

Miller did win us the game, but don't act like we weren't able to put up four goals of our own against Brewdeur. Hopefully we'll have the chance to prove it wasn't a fluke this weekend.