Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

Speaking of Maelle Ricker, I saw her winning run. Great job. She was ahead for pretty much the whole race. She almost lost it a couple times but stayed strong and won. I'm very proud of her and all the other Canadians who have won medals.
 
Last night we caught the men figure skaters and that Russian guy Evgeni Plushenko, who scored the highest was fantastic although so conceited:rolleyes: I thought they were all fabulous, To think that mere humans can do the things they do on ice, unbeliveable~:eek:
 
I'm a bit late but I have to say, I loved the Opening Ceremony. The special effects were super cool. Loved the whales, that was awesome. :D

On to the events, I saw Lindsay Jacobellis fall yesterday. That must have been very hard for her. She wanted to win gold.
I heard, but did not see that Apollo Ohno (local boy) won silver, but is racing again tonight.
I missed the last part of the pairs skating and the men skating, but not surprised the Russian won.
Does anyone know when the women skate?
 
Marianne St. Gelais of Canada just won silver in the Ladies 500m Short Track (Speed skating)! Her boyfriend is Charles Hamelin, also a Short Track speed skater, and he got to see her win silver. Today is also her 20th birthday, so what better birthday present than an Olympic medal?

The winner of the gold medal was Meng Wang of China and the bronze medal went to Italy's Arianna Fontana.

EDIT: I just watched the Men's Halfpipe. Shaun White won gold, no surprise considering in his final run he did a double McTwist 1280. It was crazy. The American snowboarders are brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
 
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FINALLY! First medal from men's halfpipe! And I White really deserved his gold.
AS for qualification - justicemurder with one Finn. Clean, good run and 26 points? One dude, who fell got the same ones? THanks a friggin' lot. They could have give him place in quarterfinals.

And thankfully Finland beat Belarus in hockey :p

Oh last night was challenging.. I managed to stay up at 3:30am (made coffee arooun 1am), then took 1.5h beautysleep and woke up at 5am to watch half-pipe final.

Tonight women's hockeygame - I hope they survive
 
Shaun White was absolutely brilliant last nite! He makes snowboarding look almost poetic.
Congrats to Shaun, Shani, and Lindsey!
Watching the short track speed skating relay was a trip! I'm glad the players know what's going on, because I was thoroughly confused when they were switching skaters.
A very entertaining night for the Olympics. And the ratings dethroned American Idol for the first time. Congratulations to all the athletes and the games!
 
I watched last night too.
The snowboarding was very cool. I couldn't believe how high those guys got on their boards.
I did doze off before Shaun Whites second run, but not surprised he got gold. He was awesome. And I did feel sorry for the Finnish guy. He looked so down. :(

I'm looking forward to tonight's men skating.
Oh any watch the mens skaking relay. That was incredible.
 
You know, I'm finding it interesting right now... On the one hand there's a guy at work who mentioned all the bad press we're receiving about this Olympics (apparently the British press are saying it's all crap?) and then on the other hand you keep hearing people around town saying how exciting it all is and how friendly everyone is... I just you just can't please everyone all of the time, huh?

I'm guessing this is probably how it goes at every Olympics. Some stuff works, some doesn't. Apparently our "fenced in" torch was a bust so they've fixed it (plexiglass?), but apparently our Olympic Athlete housing is the nicest they've ever had. You win some, you lose some! :lol:

Also, it's pretty brave for the UK in particular to slam 2010, since they'll be in the hotseat for 2012. ;)
 
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I did doze off before Shaun Whites second run, but not surprised he got gold. He was awesome. And I did feel sorry for the Finnish guy. He looked so down. :(
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Do you mean Peetu, who won silver? He wasn't sad, he was really excited in interviews and he's bit shy so perhaps all the people, all the noise and cameras and the fact that he has won medal in Olympics got him like that.

Finns in general (esp men) barely go all WOOO!and WHEE if they win (except Palander :p )

About bad press. Well speed skating stuff has been quite a disaster. And the horrible start screwup in biathlon.

But alpine skiing (where that swiss hurt, I don't think anyone could have thought of that) and what happened to Majdic - I cannot believe there was no net there! And even Majdic fell, I didn't see net at that spot during the race! Especially when track has been fast.

Every game has it's troubles, weather isn't your side (well there's not much you can do), equipment doesn't work sometimes.. we are all humans :rolleyes::rolleyes:

I remember horrible bashing about our games (Athletics WC 2005) when in one day we happened to have storm of the century and they had to pause games and turn off some electricity (for safety).

I always remember Atlanta olympics and how their problem was horrible traffic, when getting from place a to b took several hours and people missed events :lol:
 
Yeah, I figure these things never go smoothly. It's more about how quickly they clean up the messes! :lol:

All I know is everyone here seems to be having a great old time and I'm just gonna go with that! :)

I'm looking forward to checking out some Finnish Men's hockey. I've been missing some of the others so far and I need to see what's going on out there.

Oh, and we just got our 3rd gold medal (in speed skating)! Woo Hoo!
 
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