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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Feb 25, 2010 - 01:22am PT
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Just read about the very unfortunate circumstances surrounding Manusco and the Giant Slalom run. Can't really fault the race officials for making Vonn crash, but the handling of it after that seems a bit, perhaps, opportunistic?
If you can't "own the podium," you can try to play spoiler for the US.
Maybe I'm reading to much into it, but why the hell did they want to make Manusco take the gondola up for her re-run?
Article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/sports/olympics/25ski.html
Edit--bmacd, thanks for the information. I guess it was just a general screw up / bad luck.
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 25, 2010 - 01:48am PT
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I want to drink beer with German women bobsledders. And I bet they could climb a mean wide crack. Several crashes tonight.
As the American goalie said after beating Canada, "We'll prolly see them later, and they're going to be mad."
Canada beats Russia! Radical! USA handles the Swiss.
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bmacd
Trad climber
Beautiful BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2010 - 01:49am PT
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blahblah yes you are reading too much into it.
From what I have seen at world cup ski events on Whistler, the race officials, whom are out on the course are multinationals, managing race operations, heavily weighted with Europeans. These are most certainly FIS personnel (International Ski Federation) on the course. Just like it's NHL referees on the ice officiating the Olympic hockey games.
Someone did get their wires crossed though, because the Gondola on that side of Whistler mountain is not nearly as fast a method to get back to the top of the race course as it would be on a snowmobile.
Anyway I am 99% certain it's not the "Canadians" running the race course, it's the FIS supplying the manpower and expertise .
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 25, 2010 - 02:03am PT
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Many of the female athletes seem to be real women. I would happily go into a random dark alley with some of the women's bobsleigh teams.
In the unending coverage of the Olympics, there was an article about Lindsay Vonn, who has apparently modeled and such. The article suggested that her photos might have been enhanced, so as to have her appear slimmer. But that in fact most of the Olympic women were better role models in terms of body type than those often seen in the news media.
Today's joke, regarding women's figure skating: "Yeah, she's a lead pipe cinch".
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 25, 2010 - 02:08am PT
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Is bobsledders correct? Or is it bobsleighers or perhaps both? Anders?!
Gotta get this right.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 25, 2010 - 02:25am PT
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It seems to be spelt (spelled?) bobsleigh. One word.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 25, 2010 - 02:29am PT
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What about tense? Today I bobsleigh. Yesterday I bobslid.?
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 25, 2010 - 02:31am PT
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This thread is beginning to bobslip.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 25, 2010 - 02:46am PT
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And just who is bob, anyway? It just sleighs me.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Feb 25, 2010 - 02:56am PT
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Chuckle....
Guffaw...
Bob was actually BOB, an acronym for Bolshoi ot Boroslav. Russian for bigger than Boroslav, who, I understand, wasn't that big.
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Mimi
climber
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Feb 25, 2010 - 03:00am PT
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Goodnight, Bob. See you on the morrow.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 25, 2010 - 12:18pm PT
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OK, you Merricans - watch out. We're tied with yas for gold medals at 7, and we've got curlers and hockey players coming up in the next few days!
So far, only Soren has had the courage [stupidity] to wager me a six-pack of King Cobras on the men's hockey. Anyone else wanna take a pop at the total number of golds?
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 25, 2010 - 01:06pm PT
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I will bet a two-four of any good beer that:
1. Canada will win a gold medal in one or more of men's curling, men's ice hockey, women's curling, and women's ice hockey.
2. The top nation in terms of medals/citizen will be Norway.
3. The USA won't be in the top 10 nations, in terms of medals/citizen.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Feb 25, 2010 - 01:09pm PT
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So what happened to Finland? They used to be rather
respectable but they have one silver I think so far.
Are they all too busy playing with their cell phones
these days?
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andy@climbingmoab
Big Wall climber
Denver, CO
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Feb 25, 2010 - 01:17pm PT
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My wife is Finnish, so tomorrow's Finland-USA hockey game is going to be a very tense time at my house. The Finland-Czech game last night was really something. I've never seen a team kill as many penalties as Czech did, but it did eventually catch up with them.
Finland had some doping scandals with winter olympians, especially with their traditionally strong cross country ski team. It'll take them a few years to really recover from that.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Feb 25, 2010 - 01:46pm PT
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I also noticed Mighty's notable absence since Sweden beat his
boyz in the 4 x 10 relay yesterday. I hope he's ok.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 25, 2010 - 02:51pm PT
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WOW! What a game of curling!
Miriam just didn't have it today, and Cheryl Bernard had just enough. So we're in the Gold Medal match against the defending champs, Sweden! Woo-hoooooo!!!!
Gold Medal match tomorrow afternoon!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 25, 2010 - 03:09pm PT
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Well, ol' Anders will be happy - his girl just ski-skated across the finish line carrying the Norwegian flag - congrats.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Feb 25, 2010 - 03:50pm PT
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I will bet a two-four of any good beer that:
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3. The USA won't be in the top 10 nations, in terms of medals/citizen.
If even 1% of Americans gave a damn about what you call "bobsleigh" (this is a US website so you should use US spelling) or curling or whatever, your point No. 3 might be slightly interesting.
Hockey is as close as you're going to get to something any appreciable number of Americans care about--it is a minor, inconsequential sport that few Americans with any real athletic talent would participate in, but at least it is a sport.
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bmacd
Trad climber
Beautiful BC
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 25, 2010 - 04:04pm PT
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If Mighty Hikers interpretation of medal statistics based on population had any merit, it would be in general use, but it's not. Anders has discovered a favorable statistic for his beloved Norway, fair enough if you are a troll ...
What is interesting, is how tight the gold medal count has become between the top 4 nations is playing out. Germany leads the top 4 by one gold medal.
By descending rank in total medal count, the gold medal distribution is relatively even till 5th place:
28 USA = 7
26 Germany = 8
19 Norway = 7
15 Canada = 7
13 Russia = 3
11 Austria = 4
10 Korea = 5
10 France = 2
08 Swiss = 6
Looking at this list, to me, the surprise contender is Korea.
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