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Post by shenaynay on Feb 17, 2006 0:19:44 GMT -5
I haven't mentioned it here, but the US women's curling team is hawt. That is all.
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Post by DBBN on Feb 17, 2006 0:29:43 GMT -5
They are! Aren't there twins on the team? Hot twins?
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 17, 2006 0:39:07 GMT -5
Not twins. But sisters that look very alike. Only negative is that they always wear big sweaters and shit.
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Post by Wagasi on Feb 17, 2006 1:49:35 GMT -5
The Canadian team look like they should be driving the Americans to soccer practice every Saturday.
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 17, 2006 11:22:11 GMT -5
Bwahahaha... I need to see how Jacobellis screwed herself out of gold. She was my most hated olympian coming in, so this is grand. And tonight begins the ever boring Ice Dancing portion of figure skating.
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 17, 2006 11:22:51 GMT -5
The Canadian team look like they should be driving the Americans to soccer practice every Saturday. But, at least the Canadians are good. The American team really sucks. Also, the Russian team has some cuties, too. And they can win!
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Post by DBBN on Feb 17, 2006 12:10:23 GMT -5
Bwahahaha... I need to see how Jacobellis screwed herself out of gold. She was my most hated olympian coming in, so this is grand. Okay, I saw the headline "Jacobellis missteps cost her gold" or whatever. Who is this person? What does she do? Why does she suck? And the reason why I didn't mind looking up stuff on the Net today is because And ice dancing is the WORST.
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Post by DBBN on Feb 17, 2006 12:11:35 GMT -5
The Canadian team look like they should be driving the Americans to soccer practice every Saturday. But, at least the Canadians are good. The American team really sucks. Also, the Russian team has some cuties, too. And they can win! We had their match on at work just before, and I think it said the Russians were 1-3! Which is only marginally better than the USA at 1-4. So, they went into extra...innings? But they cut away to show the USA-SWE women's hockey match.
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 17, 2006 12:24:18 GMT -5
She was that stupid blonde in the credit card commercial before the Olympics. She's hyped because she's cute... but, she's not, and she's realllllyyyy stupid. Like, even dumber than the rest of the degenerate snowboarders who make their sport look like a joke.
I guess so. I wasn't watching. But, Russia won! And their skip is so cute! But, of course, I'm heavily biased towards the Russkies!
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Post by Brinyi on Feb 17, 2006 12:54:33 GMT -5
So, they went into extra...innings? But they cut away to show the USA-SWE women's hockey match. Extra ENDS !!!
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 17, 2006 12:58:48 GMT -5
Extra END, actually.
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Post by Wagasi on Feb 17, 2006 17:40:58 GMT -5
The Russian skip really is cute. She doesn't look like a curler AT ALL. The Canadian teams do get labeled the favourites all the time, but both the skips this year have almost zero international experience. Don't be surprised if they choke a tight 10th end...oh wait they already have And agree about the snowboarding, even the zamboni drivers seem to take their jobs more seriously than many of those twits. I've seen like ONE interview ever with a snowboarder where she came off sincere and dedicated. *gasp*
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Post by DBBN on Feb 17, 2006 18:12:19 GMT -5
USA women lose in hockey! Hilarious!
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Post by DBBN on Feb 17, 2006 18:19:31 GMT -5
www.sportsline.com/olympics/winter/story/9243219PINEROLO, Italy -- In the surest sign yet that curling has reached the big time, the stone-and-broom game has joined other Olympic endeavors with a nude calendar.
"It's about time," said Paal Trulsen, the skip of the Norwegian men's team. "It's a fun thing, but we want curling to be just like other sports. We had the doping thing, now we have the calendar."
The Ana Arce Team Sponsorship Calendar is being peddled during the Turin Olympics as curling makes its quadrennial appearance in the spotlight. The black-and white-pictures feature female curlers from Italy, Denmark, Spain, Britain, Poland, Germany, Austria and Canada, with a brief description of their athletic and sometimes academic achievements.
"Who better to represent the month of March, when many curlers are thinking of Taarnby, than Camilla Jensen?" the calendar asks -- a rhetorical question if there ever was one.
"If you have curled in charming Kitzbuehel" -- and who hasn't? -- "you probably know the equally charming Toth sisters!" says the April caption under the photo of Austrian champion Claudia Toth.
Since the models are distinctly without their uniforms, the only sign of a curling connection is the stone used as a prop in the cover photo of Ana Toth, the Austrian skip who used to date U.S. skier Bode Miller. The months are numbered 1-12, in Roman numerals, to make the calendar useful for curling buffs -- er, fans -- around the world who don't want to bother with translations.
September's model is Lynsay Ryan, a Canadian provincial champion and the daughter of Olympic gold medalist Penny Schantz-Henderson and world champion Pat Ryan. Arce, whose picture graces May, has represented Andorra and Spain at four European Championships.
The money from the calendar goes to the national programs in the participants' countries.
"This is a tasteful, artistic product that will help the athletes raise much needed funds for training and competition," Arce said. "This proves that curlers are athletes. Strong but graceful, and of course very beautiful."
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Post by Brinyi on Feb 17, 2006 20:00:20 GMT -5
USA women lose in hockey! Hilarious!
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 17, 2006 20:37:16 GMT -5
USA sucks!! Forza all European countries!!
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Post by Brinyi on Feb 17, 2006 20:53:22 GMT -5
Snowboard Cross is now my fave sport!
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Post by The Chloe on Feb 17, 2006 22:26:45 GMT -5
USA women lose in hockey! Hilarious! This is bad. Really, really bad. But at the same time it's really, really good because it finally ends the monotony that was Canada-USA in international women's ice hockey. Perhaps this will encourage more Swedish girlies to lace up and pick up skates and they can become a contender for gold in future olympics. Because I'm sorry, but Canada is going to rip them a new one the time ;D
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 17, 2006 23:10:28 GMT -5
BWAHAHAHAHA. That fall was the funniest thing ever. And the complete lies afterward how it wasn't a trick topped it off.
Those hyped USians are doing great!
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Post by DBBN on Feb 17, 2006 23:23:45 GMT -5
It really was one of the most wonderful idiocies, like, ever. But...I think maybe this whole rigamarole over it has gone a bit too far. "Dewey Defeats Truman" is not an apt metaphor, NBC.
But she's stupid, more stupid than dirt, don't get me wrong.
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Post by DBBN on Feb 17, 2006 23:27:08 GMT -5
And, to be fair...if you clip someone else's board or whatever in this race, you go down and out, possibly even in an early round. So it's not like she went into the event knowing she'd get at least a medal, so when she says any medal is good, I can buy that.
But that doesn't excuse her from hotdogging three seconds ahead of Swiss Girl when she thought she had it locked up. Has she ever, you know, followed her sport?
It's all sorts of funny and sad.
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 17, 2006 23:29:13 GMT -5
Yes, it would be apt if it was like, an upset. Lindsey was only like 3rd fastest for most of the day. She got lucky the Swiss girl fell on her board... and the other Canadian like died, or something.
And it needs to be reiterated... Ice Dancing really blows. How is it actually judged. They all do the same thing.
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Post by DBBN on Feb 17, 2006 23:36:33 GMT -5
LOL, that poor other Canadian actually did nearly die. I hope she is doing okay. And it's not apt because...it's not a big deal. I mean, in a sense, it is similar in that people way jumped the gun, but it's not nearly of the same importance. It's fucking snowboarding, you know? Either way, no one would care in three weeks. That's what I meant. Whereas a wacky Presidential election, as we all know, will affect us for a horribly long period of time. Ice dancing is by far the worst event in either Olympics. I'm going to be humming that song for months. But I do hope the wacky Italians win!
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Post by Wagasi on Feb 17, 2006 23:40:26 GMT -5
And it needs to be reiterated... Ice Dancing really blows. How is it actually judged. They all do the same thing. They're supposed to. Anyhoo, looks like the corrupto judging is taking a swing for the sentimental this olympics. Fusar Poli and Margaglio for gold! And like Maurizio should throw her recklessly or something, you know just to make sure.
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Post by The Chloe on Feb 17, 2006 23:42:24 GMT -5
Should I pick up a stranger tomorrow?
In the Olympic spirit, of course.
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 17, 2006 23:42:41 GMT -5
That's bullshit. The Russians are supposed to win every gold! Fuck figure skating and it's damn corrupt ways! The Russians CHEAT BEST!
And yes, I get that snowboarding doesn't matter. But, you could really say that for the entire winter Olympics. As every ''story" brought up now will be completely forgotten by February 27th.
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Post by DBBN on Feb 17, 2006 23:48:24 GMT -5
And yes, I get that snowboarding doesn't matter. But, you could really say that for the entire winter Olympics. As every ''story" brought up now will be completely forgotten by February 27th. Exactly! So..."Dewey Defeats Truman"? More like "Dewey Defeats Huey and Louie." Chole. If that's the case, your pants must be in the Olympic spirit every day!
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Post by shenaynay on Feb 17, 2006 23:48:52 GMT -5
She's fine, BTW. She just hit her head on the snow and knocked herself out.
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Post by DBBN on Feb 17, 2006 23:49:44 GMT -5
She's fine, BTW. She just hit her head on the snow and knocked herself out. Ah, good. I'm sure Brinyi is relieved!
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Post by The Chloe on Feb 17, 2006 23:50:05 GMT -5
And yes, I get that snowboarding doesn't matter. But, you could really say that for the entire winter Olympics. As every ''story" brought up now will be completely forgotten by February 27th. Exactly! So..."Dewey Defeats Truman"? More like "Dewey Defeats Huey and Louie." Chole. If that's the case, your pants must be in the Olympic spirit every day! It's true, they are.
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