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I'll be super into the hockey; but beyond that just a casual watcher. Really hoping Team USA can repeat what they did in Vancouver 4 years ago; but its a much tougher field (in my opinion) than it was in Vancouver. Gotta pick up at least two wins (Slovakia and Slovania for sure) in the round robin to make sure we crack the tournament.

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[quote=mooby;1058998]I was just talking to my coworkers today about the Winter Olympics, and it felt like as soon as curling came up they were dismissing it as something that shouldn't be an Olympic sport. I hate that. Like just because it's not popular here doesn't mean there aren't people somewhere else in the world that cherish it like we cherish football, or nascar, etc.[/quote]

It is a niche sport here but it is big in Canada. The best even have groupies that follow them around.

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Turns out the fail is strong Sochi as theres a whole twitter feed called '[URL="https://twitter.com/SochiFails"]Sochi fails[/URL]' dedicated to many of the bizarre findings coming out of Russia at the moment. Many of which have to do with wash room arrangements.

[IMG]http://www.bromygod.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-fails-011-02072014.png[/IMG][IMG]http://www.tapscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Sochi-Toilet.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://www.tapscape.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/sochi-toilets-1.jpg[/IMG][IMG]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bfs7MrPCMAA6pOG.jpg[/IMG]

Never was one for toilet humor but this was enough to crack me up.

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I was planning on watching the us Russia hockey game tonight but thanks to espn making sure to blast the score on the homepage now I don't have to.

Thank you espn for not trying to intentionally ruining the Olympics just bc it is on a different network.

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I watched it live on msnbc . Awesome game! Go USA!

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[quote=over the mountain;1059526]I was planning on watching the us Russia hockey game tonight but thanks to espn making sure to blast the score on the homepage now I don't have to.

Thank you espn for not trying to intentionally ruining the Olympics just bc it is on a different network.[/quote]


Solution, boycott ESPN for 16 days. :)

Stay away from Yahoo too.

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Yawn. Host country won.

Between the doping, the judges in the judged events and the horrible conditions on certain courses such as snowboarding...who didn't see this coming?

[url=http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/23/us-olympics-idUSBREA1G0GL20140223]Russia tops medals table as Games end amid doping scandals | Reuters[/url]


Oh well, our athletes still made us proud as they always do.