I know we have a ton of threads now, the deceased luger, Lindsey Vonn, hockey, etc. I love the winter olympics though, and wanted to talk about some of the other stuff (not figure skating).
Watching short track tonight was pretty cool. The finish in the final was fun to watch. The Koreans were but a moment away from sweeping the medals, when one of them pulled a dumb move and wrecked him and his teammate. Ohno and Celski were trailing, and glided past the wreck to take the silver and bronze that the other two guys were in line for. It was cool to see Celski place after what they showed happened to him a few months ago. A wreck gave him a gash in his thigh from the blade of his own skate, a mere inch from his femoral artery. He still bled out plenty on the ice. I can't imagine coming back and competing at all - let alone so soon. It was his first competition since his near-death experience.
Also, it Americans finished with gold & bronze in women's moguls. They actually had four of the top seven qualifiers going into the finals. Annoyingly though, NBC kept talking up the top Canadian competitor. They had Dan Patrick there to cover the expected celebration - it would be the first time a Canadian would have won a gold medal on home soil. I guess they forgot they are NBC, not CBC. This is America. I don't give a hoot about most of these sports any other time - I tune in to see Americans kick some ass. You can talk about the Canadian thing, but when you have four Americans in contention for medals in a single competition, don't you think they should be promoting that angle instead?
I'm ready to watch some curling. I'm not sure when it's on, but I remember four years ago they showed a ton of it on their cable networks. I don't quite understand how the scoring works, but it looks like cornhole on ice. I think I could watch curling all day if I had enough cold beer on hand.
Watching short track tonight was pretty cool. The finish in the final was fun to watch. The Koreans were but a moment away from sweeping the medals, when one of them pulled a dumb move and wrecked him and his teammate. Ohno and Celski were trailing, and glided past the wreck to take the silver and bronze that the other two guys were in line for. It was cool to see Celski place after what they showed happened to him a few months ago. A wreck gave him a gash in his thigh from the blade of his own skate, a mere inch from his femoral artery. He still bled out plenty on the ice. I can't imagine coming back and competing at all - let alone so soon. It was his first competition since his near-death experience.
Also, it Americans finished with gold & bronze in women's moguls. They actually had four of the top seven qualifiers going into the finals. Annoyingly though, NBC kept talking up the top Canadian competitor. They had Dan Patrick there to cover the expected celebration - it would be the first time a Canadian would have won a gold medal on home soil. I guess they forgot they are NBC, not CBC. This is America. I don't give a hoot about most of these sports any other time - I tune in to see Americans kick some ass. You can talk about the Canadian thing, but when you have four Americans in contention for medals in a single competition, don't you think they should be promoting that angle instead?
I'm ready to watch some curling. I'm not sure when it's on, but I remember four years ago they showed a ton of it on their cable networks. I don't quite understand how the scoring works, but it looks like cornhole on ice. I think I could watch curling all day if I had enough cold beer on hand.
at the south koreans that crashed
I just saw that, massive fail
