2010 Winter Olympics

[pam]

Oh poor Jeremy. He did horribly. But Evan Lysacek was absolutely wonderful. Plushenko is still as cocky as he has always been.

[nbblood]

**SPOILER****SPOILER****SPOILER****SPOILER****SPOILER****SPOILER****SPOILER**

In case you don't want to wait for NBC's coverage, Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso from the U.S. went 1, 2, respectively, in the Women's Downhill event.

Edited February 17, 2010 by nbblood

[pam]

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRr

[Wingnut]

So, I've been curious about the USA snowboarding uniforms because it looks like they're just wearing their jeans down the mountain (and in the half-pipe), which would be very "in character" and very cool as well, but wouldn't provide movement, warmth, or flexibility needed. then I came across this article about the "Anti-uniform": Burton Introduces ‘Anti-Uniform’ for U.S. Snowboarders - Vancouver 2010 Blog - NYTimes.com

[pam]

They had a story about that a couple of days ago, and the company that provided the uniforms wanted a jean type look though they aren't actually jeans like you or I would wear. I like them.

[pam]

Shaun White is absolutely amazing. For those of us who are time delayed..I haven't seen the 2nd run so don't tell me anything. lol

Edited February 18, 2010 by pam

[Wingnut]

LYSACEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Oops...uh, this post contains a spoiler.)

[pam]

I'm glad I didn't see this before. I would have been soooooooooooooooo upset.

I think people need to be courteous to us in the western side that are seeing the events on tape delay.

Edited February 19, 2010 by pam

[Maureen]

Christine Nesbitt of Canada won gold in the 1000m long track speed skating. I've been hoping one of our stations here will repeat the race so I can watch it, but no one will. I want to watch the race from start to finish, especially since I know how it ends.

M.

[pam]

Oh man. That's the one coming up next for me. Well now I won't need to watch it. But only because I missed the earlier. But that's okay.

We have a station that shows most of the highlighted events which is nice.

[pam]

Maybe we need to have a rule that you can't post winners until the next day.

[AnthonyB]

Since no body has mentioned it yet, the Australian flag bearer, Torah Bright (an LDS church member) won a Gold medal in the "half pipe".

[pam]

Oh I didn't know she was LDS. That's awesome.

[Wingnut]

She lives and trains in SLC. Her parents aren't at the Olympics because she's getting married soon and they could afford to go to the Olympics or her wedding, and they chose her wedding. My husband said he would have chosen the Olympics.

[john doe]

She lives and trains in SLC. Her parents aren't at the Olympics because she's getting married soon and they could afford to go to the Olympics or her wedding, and they chose her wedding. My husband said he would have chosen the Olympics.

Your husband needs to adjust his priorities.

[pam]

I have to admit. The ice dancing bores me.

[Lbybug]

it bores me too....i changed the channel for it, but had to keep turning back cause i didn't want to miss the skeleton.

and boy am i glad i caught the final round of it!

[pam]

Ice dancing just lacks the excitement of the jumps etc.

[Lbybug]

i still don't understand the difference between ice dancing and figure skating.

as for skeleton and luge.....i think they need to have an event in the summer olympics for watersliding.....since it's almost the same thing

[pam]

I think in ice dancing they have to be in touch the entire time except for a couple of seconds to change hands etc. They don't do the jumps and the spins etc like the pairs figure skaters do. It's just doing like the tango etc on ice.

[Wingnut]

Your husband needs to adjust his priorities.

He figures everyone can say they've been to their daughter's wedding, but how many people can say they watched their daughter perform in the Olympics? I'm with you, though. :)

I have to admit. The ice dancing bores me.

I'll watch the original dances and the free dances. I watched the first one or two pairs during the compulsory dances tonight, and I heard the commentators say that all the moves and everything is completely prescribed in the compulsory dance, even the order and everything. So I decided I didn't need to watch the exact same thing 15 times tonight. Then I stuck in a disc of Alias and watched it for 3 hours.

I need a life.

[Lbybug]

i just briefly heard the CTV commentators say this is the last year for the compulsory in ice dancing at the olympics. did anyone else hear that? or was it wishful thinking on my part?

[pam]

Ice dancing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[pam]

I guess I missed that but I wasn't paying much attention to that event. After watching about 3 couples I was like Wingers and thought..I don't need to watch 15 more of this.

[dazed-and-confused]

pam...seems that you and i...matbe a couple others, actually like curling. did you see the US beat France last night?

and watching the ladies in the downhill skiing....just incredible.