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Post by shenaynay on Jan 30, 2006 21:00:49 GMT -5
It starts in like 2 weeks.
I'm sure this thread will be overrun by Chole perving over 12 year old figure skaters.
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Post by DBBN on Jan 30, 2006 21:04:31 GMT -5
Me too! Me too! Good thread! I CAN'T WAIT. I LOVE THE OLYMPICS.
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Post by shenaynay on Jan 31, 2006 0:55:06 GMT -5
I love the Summer Olympics.
Winter is meh. Not many sports. Usually filled with figure skating on the main networks, and 1000 hours of boring hockey on the peon cable networks.
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Post by The Chloe on Jan 31, 2006 2:20:48 GMT -5
12 year olds *swoon*
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Post by The Chloe on Jan 31, 2006 2:21:17 GMT -5
The worst feature of the winter olympics is clearly too much clothing!
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Post by DBBN on Jan 31, 2006 6:09:31 GMT -5
Summer Olympics >>>>> Winter Olympics Still, sports + geography + tight clothing = <-- Jason
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Post by DBBN on Jan 31, 2006 6:10:05 GMT -5
Except without the ponytail.
Heh, I always thought that was a hat. Hee.
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Post by Pamela Shriver on Jan 31, 2006 18:25:50 GMT -5
I love the Olympics. Though I agree, summer is much better than winter. SLC2002 was great though. I went to it for a few days.
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Post by shenaynay on Jan 31, 2006 19:31:12 GMT -5
Is there anywhere in the US you haven't been.
I wish they'd have the summer Olympics every 2 years. Or 4 months like Crazy Goran said.
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Post by The Chloe on Feb 8, 2006 1:58:05 GMT -5
Do people care enough about the olympics to make it worthwhile to move this forum to the top of the board for the duration of the event? I can't see the point of making a whole new forum for it, this should suffice. But I know that I'll be posting on it daily, so I wouldn't mind having the forum handy.
Thoughts? ;D
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Post by DBBN on Feb 8, 2006 6:48:51 GMT -5
I too will be posting in it. But we have to ban ys for the duration. Just in case.
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 8, 2006 9:10:13 GMT -5
I'll post in it, as long as this big lump under my nose doesn't kill me.
I'm guessing lots of Big Forehead pics.
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Post by Pamela Shriver on Feb 8, 2006 14:06:03 GMT -5
Is there anywhere in the US you haven't been. I wish they'd have the summer Olympics every 2 years. Or 4 months like Crazy Goran said. I want to see Mount Rushmore, but it's kindof in the middle of no where, I'm told. I've actually not been to alot of midwestern places, and places like Chicago I've only been to once. Never been to New Mexico either.
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 9, 2006 20:09:47 GMT -5
The 12-year olds are obviously having wild sex!!!
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Post by DBBN on Feb 9, 2006 22:27:05 GMT -5
Wow, Chole wants to squeeze into there, no doubt.
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Post by The Chloe on Feb 9, 2006 23:01:54 GMT -5
That's sort of a bad photo of both. NOt that I don't have it in my folder, I'm just sayin!
Besides, Sasha is friends with my new boyfriend Jeremy. I read so in her blog! Now I must find a photo of them together.
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 10, 2006 12:11:41 GMT -5
There will be one soon enough!
And now I'll stop posting in this thread as Lardesia has USURPED it!
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Post by Tennislurker on Feb 10, 2006 12:33:49 GMT -5
Most people where I live probably dont know winter olympics exist
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Post by DBBN on Feb 10, 2006 16:07:25 GMT -5
Honestly, aside from figure skating, I don't think many USians care either.
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Post by DBBN on Feb 10, 2006 16:14:05 GMT -5
CESANA, Italy - A court agreed that Zach Lund is no drug cheat. Then it dashed the U.S. slider's Olympic dream anyway — and along with it, the turmoil-wracked skeleton team's best hope for gold.
Lund was banned from the Turin Olympics on Friday for taking a common hair-restoration pill with an ingredient that can be used to mask steroids.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport — while saying it believes Lund did not cheat — ruled he should serve a one-year suspension anyhow, retroactive to Nov. 10 and enforced immediately.
So instead of preparing to hurtle down an icy track face-first on a sled, Lund will spend a couple of nights in a Turin hotel, then head home to Utah early next week, before his teammates even compete.
"If you ask any champion, the road to the top is never easy," Lund said on a teleconference, his voice breaking while teammates readied for the Olympic opening ceremony.
"This is just another bump in the road," he said. "It's not going to keep me from my athletic goals and my life goals. One of them is being an Olympian. So I'll definitely be back."
Chris Soule, who was seventh at the Salt Lake Olympics four years ago, is expected to arrive sometime Saturday to replace Lund on the U.S. team, joining Eric Bernotas and Kevin Ellis.
"On a whole, his skeleton teammates and coaches are devastated by this decision," said Terry Kent, the USBSF sports director.
Now it would seem to be up to Bernotas — who won a World Cup event at Lake Placid earlier this season and was the top American in the final standings — to win a medal for U.S. skeleton. Lund has always listed the hair-restoration drug on his medical forms, and insists that's proof he wasn't hiding anything. But he said he didn't check the forms in 2005 when finasteride, an ingredient in his hair medication that he's since thrown away, was added to the banned list.
"Unfortunately, in 2005, he made a mistake," CAS wrote.
Lund told CAS he was misled by the Web site of the governing body of his sport, which lists finasteride both as a "prohibited substance" and a "specified substance."
"It was very confusing," said Lund's attorney, Howard Jacobs. "The international federation shouldn't be able to put things on their Web site that are misleading to athletes and leave them there without any consequences."
Last month, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency decided Lund deserved only a public warning and should forfeit his second-place finish from the season's opening World Cup event in Calgary, where he tested positive in November.
But the World Anti-Doping Agency wanted a tougher sanction and appealed to CAS for a two-year ban. Lund will be able to compete again on Nov. 9, but will not have to forfeit any other results from this season aside from Calgary.
"Mr. Lund was not well served by the anti-doping organizations," CAS wrote. "The Panel concluded that Mr. Lund bears no significant fault or negligence."
WADA director general David Howman said the organization was "comfortable" with the one-year ban.
"The correct process was followed," Howman said. "CAS functioned in the way we have come to expect of them. ... Once the offense is established, then the onus goes on the athlete to convince the panel that there was no fault or no significant fault. The panel found no significant fault."
Lund narrowly missed making the Olympic team in 2002, and was enjoying his best season before learning of the positive test — the first, he said, he's failed despite his usage of hair-restoration drugs since 1999.
After packing his bags and leaving the athletes' village, Lund was to return his accreditation for the Olympics. He'll stay in a hotel provided by the U.S. Olympic Committee, but will not watch the skeleton races next week in person.
"I'm very sad and disappointed in the outcome," Lund said. "I feel like the anti-doping system really let me down as an athlete. As I sit here talking to you right now, I sit here as an Olympian and I believe no one can take that away from me."
Skeleton racers slide headfirst on a thin sled down the same track used for bobsled and luge, exceeding 70 mph. Lund, who was the World Cup leader at one point this season, was the Americans' best gold-medal chance.
"The current anti-doping rules lack any notion of common sense. ... He had a well-documented reason for the positive test," Jacobs said. "It had nothing to do with performance enhancement."
Meanwhile, the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation now finds itself dealing with more drama.
Last year's World Cup champion Noelle Pikus-Pace missed the first half of this season after breaking her leg in Calgary when an out-of-control U.S. bobsled smashed into her.
On Dec. 31, coach Tim Nardiello was suspended over sexual harassment allegations made by athletes; he was later reinstated but ultimately fired after ignoring orders to stay away from the American team during its final Olympic preparations in St. Moritz, Switzerland last week.
Lund's saga began Dec. 15 in Sigulda, Latvia, when he learned of the positive test. He was later barred from two races by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (FIBT) over the test, which the USBSF did not promptly report to the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Finasteride has been banned list since 2005. Two athletes, Argentine tennis player Mariano Hood and German soccer player Nemanja Vucicevic, were banned for taking the same drug last year.
"I was following the rules," Lund said. "And the rules let me down."
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 10, 2006 16:35:45 GMT -5
Honestly, aside from figure skating, I don't think many USians care either. Some care about the X-Games type sports. And hockey. And to hopefully watch someone crash in skiing. Besides that, not much.
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Post by DBBN on Feb 10, 2006 17:52:32 GMT -5
That's what I mean -- a few do about certain things but many don't.
If the US fielded a really good hockey team, there would be more buzz, yes, but good luck with that. I bet the ratings will be pretty low. Henin/Mauresmo low.
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 10, 2006 18:02:31 GMT -5
The US still fields a really good team. It's just that the US hasn't cared about hockey since at least the 90's. The ratings will really suck. Especially for NBC. Except for the figure skating junk, I don't see many clamoring to watch any pre-recorded stuff.
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Post by DBBN on Feb 10, 2006 18:06:04 GMT -5
Yep, the tape delay ruins everything. Don't they know the Olympics are supposed to be in the United States every year?
Still, I'll be watching every night with my fellow Olympic geeks.
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 10, 2006 18:16:31 GMT -5
NBC even did the tape delay shit for the Atlanta games. They just suck.
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Post by Maeby Fünke on Feb 10, 2006 18:52:32 GMT -5
I always seem to watch the ice hockey at the Winter Olympics, even though I don't care about it the rest of the time. And I call it ice hockey, because I played hockey at school.
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Post by Maeby Fünke on Feb 10, 2006 18:54:13 GMT -5
I always support whoever is playing USA.
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Post by Wagasi on Feb 10, 2006 23:56:54 GMT -5
I loathe the new superlame 'Canada for the gold at all costs' commercials. Who do they think we are? The US? Apparently this will help us become the Norway of winter sports by 2010.
Still, those aren't as bad as the mindnumbing Bell beaver commercials. ewww. But even those are decent compared to the silly Fargo hats the Bay designed.
It's like they're all competing for my disgust.
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Post by Wagasi on Feb 10, 2006 23:58:16 GMT -5
Some care about the X-Games type sports. And hockey. And to hopefully watch someone crash in skiing. Besides that, not much. maybe they could throw in a texas holdem event and the ratings would skyrocket.
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Post by R. Black on Feb 11, 2006 8:46:33 GMT -5
Still, those aren't as bad as the mindnumbing Bell beaver commercials. What! I mean, wot? I like the Bell beavers.
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