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Olympic Winter Games Officially Open

Potvin29 said:
Stickytape said:
If you need makeup, a hair stylist, jewellery, a pretty costume, and music to compete, you aren't playing a sport.  There's some major physical and technical skill involved that I can appreciate, but the pageantry is just so silly.  Cut that stuff out already, Ice Dance.  You aren't fooling anybody.

The real scandal here is that the Ice Dance wastes valuable ice time that could be spent playing hockey.  And yeah, I'm looking at you, too, Curling.  ;D
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I don't think you're going to want to be playing hockey on a curling rink...
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I love how the ice pebbling allows me to curl my shots from the point.
 
Heroic Shrimp said:
Potvin29 said:
Stickytape said:
If you need makeup, a hair stylist, jewellery, a pretty costume, and music to compete, you aren't playing a sport.  There's some major physical and technical skill involved that I can appreciate, but the pageantry is just so silly.  Cut that stuff out already, Ice Dance.  You aren't fooling anybody.

The real scandal here is that the Ice Dance wastes valuable ice time that could be spent playing hockey.  And yeah, I'm looking at you, too, Curling.  ;D
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I don't think you're going to want to be playing hockey on a curling rink...
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I love how the ice pebbling allows me to curl my shots from the point.
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The dimensions really make for a small neutral zone, but think of how many games at once!

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Canada's Mike Riddle wins a silver in the Men's Ski Halfpipe.

Gold went to the US David Wise, while the bronze went to Kevin Rolland of France.

Source:  TSN
 
China's disqualification helped vault the Canadians to second place and a silver medal in the Women's 3000M Short Track Speedskating event.

The Koreans won gold, while Italy won the bronze coming from fourth place to third also on account of the Chinese team's disqualification.

Source:  CBC Sports
 
OldTimeHockey said:
My daughter who is a figure skater said that the first portion of the competition should of went to the Canadians with the 2nd going to the Americans. This would of apparently evened out the scores quite a bit. She wasn't necessarily upset that the Americans won, just that she felt it was closer than the scores reflected.

You can see my expertise as I'm not even sure what each portion is called.
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I'm not an expert by any means, but I thought the Canadians should have won it. Either way, it would have been very close. I think this win by the American team will have much less controversy to it than some of the previous events in the last two years where they've beat Virtue and Moir everytime.

From a purely subjective point of view, the Canadians' dance was more beautiful, but the technical skills of the Americans is what keeps them at the top. After Virtue and Moir got a world record in the long program, I thought there was a real chance they'd get the gold, but then of course the American's score beat that WR by quite a bit.
 
I thought the Russians looked great*, but I've spent maybe 10 hours watching ice dance in all my life, so who knows.

EDIT:  By "looked great" I mean in terms of technique.  In terms of actual appearance they were dressed like vampires.
 
Potvin29 said:
AvroArrow said:
WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:
They lost to the same couple that has beat them every event the past two years, hardly a stitch up.

They performed beautifully, but the American's are even better.
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Yeah, it's so funny how they don't get gold and some Canadians are up in arms with nonsense like, "They didn't win silver, they lost gold", coaching controversies, and what-have-you.

My wife watched both, the Canadians and Americans, and said the Americans deserved it.  As good as the Canadians were, the Americans were just better.

*Both my wife and I are Canadians, so there's no bias here towards the Americans.
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Well I think a lot of people genuinely believed it.  I forget which skate it was of theirs, but they were deducted marks for a certain portion while the guy who invented that particular section of ice dance (I forget the name of the "move" for lack of a better word) tweeted that he didn't understand why they would have been deducted for what they did.  So it's not just Canadians (that guy is European I believe).

I know nothing about figure skating though so I have absolutely no idea.  Also, unless anyone here is serious about figure skating I don't know how we could possibly judge who deserved it more.  How would I know what are considered good/bad/deductions/etc?
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The move was called a finnstep. I heard about that on Tim and Sid yesterday afternoon. Sid blew a gasket about the whole thing. I was fortunate enough to hear the whole thing live. Whether you agree with what he is saying or not, it was pretty funny.

A video link can be found here.
 
Yeah I caught the replay numerous times. It's quite funny yet annoying at the same time that he cares so much. I couldn't imagine being stuck on a plane next to that guy.
 
Finally, another G-O-L-D!!  Canada's 2-Woman team Humphries & Moyse come up big in winning the gold in the Women's Bobsleigh event, edging out the U.S.team which won the bronze.

Great come-from-behind victory!


http://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/humphries-moyse-win-gold-in-womens-bobsleigh/

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Three guaranteed gold or silver medals today and tomorrow for Canada. Hopefully all are of the gold variety!
 
Wow, Sweden just had a fairly straightforward chance for 2 in the 9th, which would have given them a 5-4 lead going to the 10th, but the skip knocked her own rock out instead and Canada now has a 6-3 lead. Lucky break for Canada!
 
Peter D. said:
Random question, but do the medals have the event inscribed anywhere on it, or they all the same all across?
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They are inscribe with the individual sport. Sometimes they have a separate design for each sport.

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GOLD!!  Canada's Jennifer Jones and here Curling team beat the Swedes to win it in the Women's Curling Final.

Jones is the most successful female curling skip in history, tying male skip Kevin Martin's perfect record at an Olympic Curling event including having won several championships.

Wow, and what a comeback for these golden girls as they trailed but rallied and made good to win it all!

Simply fabulous!
http://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/jones-canada-cap-historic-run-with-curling-gold/!

The silver & bronze went to Sweden and Britain, respectively.

 
Gold and a Silver today! 8 Golds (tied for 2nd overall) and 10 Silver (1st overall).

Still have the curling Final to go!
 
Looking good for curling gold. Canada just forced GBR to take one with the hammer in the 5th. Canada is out in front 6-2 heading to the 6th.

I guess the coach shouldn't have opened his mouth and criticized the Canadian team yesterday. :)
 
Derk said:
Looking good for curling gold. Canada just forced GBR to take one with the hammer in the 5th. Canada is out in front 6-2 heading to the 6th.

I guess the coach shouldn't have opened his mouth and criticized the Canadian team yesterday. :)
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I just tuned in right as GB was going and the announcer said "another awful, awful shot from GB". You don't usually hear that in gold medal competitions.
 
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