Official 2006 Winter Olympics Thread
 

There may be little to no interest in the Winter Olympics (for all I know I'm the only fan). Or maybe there are a lot of you wanting to discuss Torino 2006

Either way, for the next couple of weeks let's put all Olympic discussion in this thread.

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The only thing I'm really looking forward to is that Board Cross. Sounds pretty interesting. Warpath reminded me of hockey so I'm all about those as well. I'm normally a Summer games guy myself.

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i dont no why, but i have absolutely no interest... rather catch an afl game instead.

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only winter events that I normally watch r bobsledding, the luge, speed skating, and sometimes I watch the slalom (sp?) and the ski jump.

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C'mon now, Hockey of course, and then theres one of the greatest sports of all time. It takes the most training and hard work than any other sport in Olympic history. Strategy and Stamina as well. [URL=http://www.nbcolympics.com/index.html]Find out [/URL] more about this sport!
p.s. I just bought a [URL=http://stores.xpapparel.com/usacurling/product_info.php?cPath=38_39&products_id=653]shirt[/URL] as well to show my USA pride.
But yea Im following the 20th winter games

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For those that truly dont care, that still end up reading this, heres the medal count to date (Saturday night 12:30am into Sunday morning)

Gold Silver Bronze
Norway 0 2 2
Germany 2 0 0
USA 1 0 0
Canada 1 0 0
Austria 0 1 0

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what'd we gold in?

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Winter Olympics will be my life for the next 2 weeks.
Not because I'm all that interested, I've been assigned to work the stats data for ESPN-SportsTicker.

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So far USA golds in Men's 5000M Speed Skating and Men's Half Pipe Snowboarding.

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USA has 3 medals now:
Gold: Mens 5000m Speed Skating
Gold: Mens Halfpipe
Silver: Mens Halfpipe

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Curling is live at 3 am Sunday night - Monday morning EST!

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[QUOTE=Warpath]Curling is live at 3 am Sunday night - Monday morning EST![/QUOTE]
Sweet!!! Who can't get jacked for curling! Sweep sweep sweep!!!! :yeahright But as far as everything else goes I enjoy the Winter Olympics far better than the Summer games. Favorite event is the skeleton.

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[QUOTE=skin4Life28]Sweet!!! Who can't get jacked for curling! Sweep sweep sweep!!!! :yeahright But as far as everything else goes I enjoy the Winter Olympics far better than the Summer games. Favorite event is the skeleton.[/QUOTE]

but the summer games have basketball and soccer etc...

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I love the games, my only problem with em, is I get set to watch a cool event, then figure skating comes on, and I lack the patience to suffer through it.

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USA is disappointing so far in the medal count. On the plus side, our hockey team is wiping their collective asses with the world so far.

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The US curling men are beating New Zealand 7-2 during the 7th End. Still don't quite understand it...I see it like a cross between bocce, horseshoes and chess.

I watched the women in the wee hours this morning (couldn't sleep) and they got housed by those pesky Canadians.

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Anyone catch that Lindsey Jacobellis chick hotdog her way to a silver in the boardx? "Dude, act like someone just stole your visa, er gold medal!"... (Lindsey)- "I'm good!"

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Usa versus Russia LIVE hockey on tueday afternoon! 4:30 pm theres about 10 minutes left and with that last score by USA its now tied at 4-4. Ovechkin is on Russia, that guys good.

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the best thing is the female skating and it starts tonight

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[QUOTE=BigSKINBauer]the best thing is the female skating and it starts tonight[/QUOTE]Man I hope your kidding, I like just about all the winter games but the skating i just can't watch. i think the sports that they have brought over from the X games has added alot to the winter games. It is amasing how fast some of these people are moving in some of the sports up to 80 mph on a sleed that has to be a rush.

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My favorites
1. Snowboarding
2. Womens skating
3. jamica's got a bob sled team
4. Hockey.
5. The long jump thing. Actually all things skiing but the damned cross country(which i spent a long time just watching??)
6. Speed skating
I can't think of anymore good ones

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2 man ludge is where it is at. Two guy on top of each other wearing tights. Who in the world thought of that one? Who would want to do that sport?

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Jamaica's bobsled team did not qualify for the 2006 Olympics.

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaican_Bobsled_Team[/url]

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snowboardcross is a winner, wipeouts every race. hockey is alright, curling is strange.

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[QUOTE=Skins fan 44]2 man ludge is where it is at. Two guy on top of each other wearing tights. Who in the world thought of that one? Who would want to do that sport?[/QUOTE]

Gary and Ace?

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[QUOTE=TheMalcolmConnection]Gary and Ace?[/QUOTE]

Oh yeah. The dynamic duo.