|
Post by Edna Krabappel on Feb 17, 2010 19:23:21 GMT -5
Yes. USA! went 1 and 2 with Julia Mancuso claiming the silver.
|
|
|
Post by janie on Feb 17, 2010 20:52:51 GMT -5
The biggest USian profile at the Games wasn't shown live? I don't understand that. Yes, it's hard to understand. I think there must be a Federal law against showing it live. I just saw Shani Davis win. Was that live? I'm beginning to lose any sense of real life vs tape. I just don't have the habit of checking Olympic results like I do with tennis every few hours of every day, so it's rare I know these results ahead of time I just happened hear that Vonn scoop on an old-fashioned radio.
|
|
|
Post by Wagasi on Feb 17, 2010 23:15:17 GMT -5
|
|
|
Post by DBBN on Feb 18, 2010 0:52:54 GMT -5
I mean...my roommate made a good point: they can't ski in the dark. So, unfortunately, that will take place before prime time, even on the east coast.
|
|
|
Post by Wagasi on Feb 18, 2010 6:28:18 GMT -5
But there are always events going on in primetime. You guys could have been watching curling/half-pipe/hockey/short-track/long-track speedskating in primetime last night and got highlights from the earlier events like we get. It's weird that NBC still pretends like events don't actually happen until their tape machine runs.
|
|
|
Post by Edna Krabappel on Feb 18, 2010 7:26:20 GMT -5
Amazing story in cross country skiing yesterday. The Slovene Petra Majdic fell in practise and broke four ribs. She then skied four sprint races in the span of a few hours and won the bronze. She collapsed after the finish line and had to be taken away. She said she wouldn't survive being placed fourth.
|
|
|
Post by DBBN on Feb 18, 2010 8:06:28 GMT -5
Fourth is the worst, I'd rather be last.
|
|
|
Post by Maeby Fünke on Feb 18, 2010 10:13:25 GMT -5
Don't worry, its our turn next.
|
|
|
Post by leelee on Feb 18, 2010 10:42:04 GMT -5
But there are always events going on in primetime. You guys could have been watching curling/half-pipe/hockey/short-track/long-track speedskating in primetime last night and got highlights from the earlier events like we get. It's weird that NBC still pretends like events don't actually happen until their tape machine runs. NBC does show things live at night when they can. They did a fine job with this last night. And we get every second of curling/hockey live on secondary channels. The coverage really hasn't been bad this year. It's more of a problem when it's in different continents and nothing is live... then NBC hacks it up with untimely commercials and puff pieces.
|
|
|
Post by GoDom on Feb 18, 2010 13:24:30 GMT -5
I hope Maria Riesch can take Gold in the combined event.
|
|
|
Post by GoDom on Feb 18, 2010 15:11:42 GMT -5
Lol - the US people in the chat on the official site correctly predicted that the US skip would choke on the fairly easy last stone. USA 0-4 now but Germany isn't doing much better.
|
|
|
Post by Edna Krabappel on Feb 18, 2010 15:14:53 GMT -5
Yay for Tora Berger, the Svetlana Kuznetsova of biathlon - she's either awesome (rarely) or horrendous (most of the time). She chose a very good day to be awesome today.
|
|
|
Post by GoDom on Feb 18, 2010 15:16:18 GMT -5
The Germans were really slow again on the course. Strange.
|
|
|
Post by Edna Krabappel on Feb 18, 2010 15:22:16 GMT -5
Heads will roll on Russian and German biathlon teams after these Games. Something must have gone terribly wrong in preparations for them.
|
|
|
Post by GoDom on Feb 18, 2010 15:27:38 GMT -5
One would think so, but the German coaches have been in place forever. I'm not sure anything will happen. On the women's side they have Neuner to cover up. Today's race will show how bad the men really are after the first two got spoiled.
|
|
jon
Full Member
Posts: 286
|
Post by jon on Feb 18, 2010 15:35:47 GMT -5
And don't forget the Swedes. Except for the surprising Bjorn Ferry win, it's been "Magdalena Forsberg" all over again...
|
|
|
Post by janie on Feb 18, 2010 15:55:25 GMT -5
Amazing story in cross country skiing yesterday. The Slovene Petra Majdic fell in practise and broke four ribs. She then skied four sprint races in the span of a few hours and won the bronze. She collapsed after the finish line and had to be taken away. She said she wouldn't survive being placed fourth.
|
|
|
Post by GoDom on Feb 18, 2010 16:16:56 GMT -5
SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILER SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILER
Yay. Bad ending though.
SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILER SPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSPOILER
|
|
|
Post by GoDom on Feb 18, 2010 17:11:10 GMT -5
Yup, confirmed now: German biathlon men are in horrible form.
|
|
|
Post by leelee on Feb 18, 2010 18:46:46 GMT -5
The skip of the US men's curling team is so Women's Tennis.
USians are up to 15 medals... they may win the total medal count. Boooo.
|
|
|
Post by DBBN on Feb 19, 2010 0:07:35 GMT -5
AHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Suck it, Plushy!
|
|
|
Post by leelee on Feb 19, 2010 1:01:19 GMT -5
Glad that Evan won, he deserved it. All in all, a very enjoyable evening. And the attires were much better today, except for Weird but he doesn't count of course.
The last 3 days were really awesome to watch... it slows back down tomorrow, though. 3 days of ice dancing, yawn. And the USian specialized sports are mostly done now.
|
|
|
Post by The Chloe on Feb 19, 2010 1:40:32 GMT -5
I heard that Weir had a beautiful skate. Did you see it? I will youtube it later. I mean, I know he didn't medal, but as long as he performed well and had beautiful flowers on his head or whatthefuckever, I doubt he really cares much. Dude's special.
Glad to see Evan take out Plushy. A hilarious amount of Evan hate can be found on wtaworld, btw. Odd, considering how inoffensive he is. He's not the most creative skater, but he's a solid competitor and doesn't take swipes at anybody else. I must be missing something.
|
|
|
Post by leelee on Feb 19, 2010 1:57:27 GMT -5
Weir did well in both skates except he tripped or something on one spin. I guess he could have won bronze over Takahashi that fell on his ass, but his jumps and spins were clearly not as good as the top guys. He put flowers on his head after, and only wore his usual girly cleavage thing with white gloves. Nothing outrageous. I <3 IRL trolls.
Also, I'd totally do Evan. Gorgeous smile he has. And a fit bird.
And Danish curlers.
|
|
|
Post by Wagasi on Feb 20, 2010 15:54:36 GMT -5
Our media is in a panic over the first week's results. With all the "own the podium" bs, Canadian athletes became women's tennis and now cry on national television for "letting the whole country down." It's sad. We tried to be like USians in talking shit but unlike them never had the goods to back it up.
|
|
|
Post by Calico on Feb 20, 2010 17:13:39 GMT -5
Our media is in a panic over the first week's results. With all the "own the podium" bs, Canadian athletes became women's tennis and now cry on national television for "letting the whole country down." It's sad. We tried to be like USians in talking shit but unlike them never had the goods to back it up. Your media is probably panicing at about 1/10th of what the Russian media is. Russia used to be great in both the Winter and Summer Olympics but not anymore. My how the mghty have fallen. The breakup of the Soveit Union was good in many ways for the freedom of people but it was bad for the future of Russian Winter and Summer Olympic teams.
|
|
|
Post by Calico on Feb 20, 2010 17:29:19 GMT -5
Glad that Evan won, he deserved it. All in all, a very enjoyable evening. And the attires were much better today, except for Weird but he doesn't count of course. The last 3 days were really awesome to watch... it slows back down tomorrow, though. 3 days of ice dancing, yawn. And the USian specialized sports are mostly done now. Evan Lysacek deserved the gold medal over Evgeni Plushenko? No. Most people think otherwise including Vladimir Putin and Elvis Stojko. Putin's opinion carries no weight but Stojko's does. Stojko ripped Lysacek winning the gold medal to shreads. I won't go that far because Lysacek is a fine skater and a good guy. But if he was awarded the gold over Plushenko for having a cleaner albeit safer long program then Nacny Kerrigan should have won the gold over Oksana Bauil in the 1994 Winter Olympics. The paralells are there.
|
|
|
Post by Calico on Feb 20, 2010 17:51:07 GMT -5
In the Super G women's ski race today Austria's Andrea Fischbacher won gold, Solvenia's Tina Maze won silver and America's skiing wonder woman Lindsey Vonn won bronze. Of course those of us in America get to watch this competition on tape delay tonight. Vonn has completed 3 of her five events and she has won gold and bronze medals thus far with 2 races to go. It doesn't look like Vonn will have the great winter olympics that some poeple thought she would have but considering her shin injury she has saved her olympics thus far with a chance to still improve on her 2 medals with 2 races to go. But it's sad that Lindsay hasn't talked to her father in more than 4 years. There is some family feuding going on there.
|
|
|
Post by leelee on Feb 20, 2010 19:29:44 GMT -5
Stojko is adamant that landing a quad should be worth more. Maybe so.
Looking back at how the scoring is, I stand by Evan winning. The announcers repeatedly stated that 10% bonus for doing stuff in the 2nd half of the program, and Plushy did nothing in the last minute. This shows in the scoring. Otherwise, it was graded fairly IMHO. Evan was docked slightly for the 2 combos he wasn't clean on. Plushy paid for his 2 bobbles. If anything, Evan probably should have earned more in choreography and such.
And looking at it from a logical point of view, having a clean program should be worth a lot. This is figure skating where appearance is more important than other sports. Falls and stumbling are obviously the most noticeable way to ruin the feel of a presentation. There's a commercial showing the Chinese couple in Torino that won silver after he threw the girl's face into the boards. That just doesn't make sense. Figure skating can't have it both ways... if you're specifically going to grade presentation, then you really really have to be clean and graceful and not fuck up.
|
|
|
Post by Edna Krabappel on Feb 20, 2010 20:59:16 GMT -5
This Shani Davis is a bit of sore loser, isn't he.
|
|