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Chief
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Feb 27, 2010 - 02:54pm PT
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I'm looking forward to a great hockey game and don't want to see anybody humiliated. The best team will win and right now it doesn't look like it's the Canucks.
Peace
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gonzo chemist
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a crucible
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Feb 27, 2010 - 03:07pm PT
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Radical,
the Canadian guy was TOTALLY pushing off of the Korean (or was it Chinese?) guy's hip as well!!! If Ohno got DQ'd, then the Canuck should have got DQ'd as well!
either way, the speed skating relay is AWESOME! that sh#t is INTENSE!
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Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
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Feb 27, 2010 - 03:19pm PT
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So stop you whining America...a country of 30 mill is kicking the sh#t out of a country of 330 million....But have solace, you guys are great at third place..
I thought we had the most medals of any country. Actually, it's amazing how well the USA has done. It wasn't that long ago when about the only thing we would medal in was figure skating or an occasional ski medal.
Oh Canada, Wait til the summer Olympics
Bejing 2008- USA 110 medals (1st place). Canada 18 medals. USA's 36 gold doubled all of Canada's
At least you did better than Iran, Israel or Togo.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 27, 2010 - 04:24pm PT
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The Norwegian team's medal in the 4 x 7.5 km biathlon yesterday was Norway's 300th medal in all winter Olympics. The USA has 248 total.
During their on-ice party after the game on Thursday, one of the Canadian women's hockey team even drove the Zamboni. There was a picture of it in the paper today - but she forgot to take off her skates! Must have been quite a sight.
micronut had some good thoughts just upthread, which express some of the things I've mentioned, in a different way.
I know this is gonna make some of the northerners angry, but Canada has had an uncanny ability to "advance" or win medals on Canadian Referee judgements throughout these games. The short track has been the most obvious, on more than one account. Canadian skaters advancing on tacky calls. I don't know enough about short track speed skating to commment, but I believe that it's the international sport federation that chooses the referees and judges for all events. I believe that you can find who the judges are for each event on the VANOC website, and that they have various processes to ensure no one judges his/her own country. Whether there is some "home" or other distorting effect is beyond me. Short track speed skating seems a rather random event, in terms of results.
By the way, country medal counts are kinda lame in my opinion. The individual athletes tend to think they are for the couch potatoes back home really. The Olympics are a sometimes unsavoury intersection of commerce and nationalism. The athletes put up with it, and even feed it - it pays the bills. But many of the athletes are more international than national. They may come from a given nation, but sometimes have mixed parentage, sometimes compete for another country, and in their residency, training, and competition lives are largely pan-national. But commerce considerably distorts it all.
It has been both amusing and dismaying that some suggest (even when sober) that I'm unCanadian for what I've said about ice hockey and curling. Sorry, guys - get a life, and get some perspective.
Even if medals are won by countries rather than athletes, that still doesn't factor in the other things I've mentioned upthread - top eight/ten finishers, population, proportion of population living in snowy places, GDP/person. The "winning" countries, on any rational basis, include neither Canada nor the USA. And it's no secret that the winter Olympics are largely about richer, northern, white and/or brown countries.
It was quite amusing reading our papers today. So far on every day of the Olympics they've shown the various countries, in order of the total number of medals won. Every day, every paper. So essentially USA, Germany, Norway, Canada, then Austria. Today they're suddenly showing Canada as #1 - because it has more gold medals. Pretty tacky.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 27, 2010 - 04:51pm PT
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ELEVEN - gold!
ELEVEN - gold!
ELEVEN - gold!
Take that, you eight-gold Merricans!
Now, what do we Canadians have on tap for further golds today?
4-man bobsled - we're in second by 0.4 seconds behind you guys. A tough one to win, but you never know
Gold in Men's pursuit on the speed-skating rink! Rumour has it we won a gold in a similar even last night, but I have YET to see the TV footage. Bloody wanker TV stations. Dutchmen just knocked out the Norwegians to take bronze. Canadians just barely beat the Merricans. Go Canada!
Some sport that nobody knows nor cares about - side by side snowboard slalom. Well, we're in the final
And then of course, there's Kevin Martin and the men's curling team.
Woo=hooo!!! Go Canada!!!111
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 27, 2010 - 05:20pm PT
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TWELVE TWELVE TWELVE
TWELVE TWELVE TWELVE
TWELVE TWELVE TWELVE
TWELVE TWELVE TWELVE
Jasey Jay Anderson is our twelth gold medal!
Holy frig, what a race. Side by side snowboarding slalom, our dude was behind 0.76 seconds. So what happens is that his gate opens 0.76 seconds behind the leader's, and they race for the finish line together. AMAZING. Buddy comes from behind to take the gold!!
Woo-hooo!!!
And did I say,
"Tuh-WEL-vuh!"
And may I point out that the number 12 is 50% bigger than the number 8?
I don't think no one's gonna catch us!!! HOSERS GO FOR GOLD!!!!!
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Srbphoto
Trad climber
Kennewick wa
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Feb 27, 2010 - 07:09pm PT
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4-man bobsled - we're in second by 0.4 seconds behind you guys. A tough one to win, but you never know
Oh yes we do know! USA=Gold
Canada=Bronze http://www.sadtrombone.com/
Edit for gratuitous wooting: WOOT WOOT!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 27, 2010 - 07:53pm PT
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The new Norwegian trousers, part of their psychological warfare against the Canadians. This time a subtle, discreet grey interspersed with red and white. Although it might have been somewhat more patriotic to have retained the blue/red/white version, given that those are the colours on Norway's flag.
Canada ahead 3 - 2 after six ends.
Heia Norge!!!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 27, 2010 - 08:15pm PT
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Congrats to the Merricans for their gold in the sledding. Und a big raspberry to ze Chermans who beat us for the silver by 0.01 seconds. Dang.
Those Norwegian curler guys better have something special hiding in their fancy-pants, cuz they're down two in the middle of the 9th.
Or else it's th - th- th- [I can't dare to speak it yet]
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 27, 2010 - 08:39pm PT
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THIRTEEN GOLDS FOR CANADA!!!!!11111111111111[
Olympic champion country!! Woo-hoo!!!
Thirteen ties the most golds ever won by any country in a Winter Olympics. And we got one more chance tomorrow in men's hockey to beat it. [Of course, when that other country got 13, they probably didn't have side by side snowboard slalom - sheesh]
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 27, 2010 - 08:45pm PT
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Hopefully the Canadian team won't fail the post-event urine test - curling while unimpaired, a blood alcohol reading of below .05.
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 27, 2010 - 08:50pm PT
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Guess I'm buying the first round, eh, Anders?
Woo-hooo!! I'm goin' curling tomorrow morning! Will likely get my first beer by about 10:30am!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 27, 2010 - 08:58pm PT
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Thirteen ties the most golds ever won by any country in a Winter Olympics. It might be more meaningful (if not rational) to look at the number of golds/medals won as a percentage of the total awarded, especially given the many events that have been added over the last 15 years. Not that anyone is particularly rational about objectively measuring national Olympic performance.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
Monrovia, CA
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Feb 27, 2010 - 08:59pm PT
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You better play well if you're gonna 'dress' like that!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 27, 2010 - 09:10pm PT
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Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrring on the bagpipers!!!
And one more beer!!!!!! Here comes the Hoser flag! So like, take OFF, eh?!
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Feb 27, 2010 - 09:58pm PT
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I could have them made in China for 20 bucks and retire in Regina. And have you been to Regina?
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 27, 2010 - 10:10pm PT
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"Pete, I keep saying thay your avatar pic, when looked at in the small version, looks like a guy in jeans bending over and showing his butt."
Well that's better than the Princess* said - she thought I'd pissed my pants.
*Princess of the El Cap Bridge
Thirteen is a very lucky number!
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Feb 27, 2010 - 10:43pm PT
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Along the way, there was plenty to like in Vancouver, if not always the weather.
Best quote from the MYT article Mighty Hiker quotes and the games in general.
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