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Sochi Olympics 2014

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Caught a bit of the 2-women bobsled during NBC's Primetime 3-hour highlight show (with at least half always devoted to ice skating/dancing)... it's interesting to see two track starts turned bobsledders in the Olympics for the US, Lolo Jones who gets all the press and Lauren Williams. I find it funny that everyone is all over Lolo being the cross-over star where Williams has two more Olympic medals (2004 silver in the 100m, 2012 gold in the 4x100... Lolo has zero) and has a more decorated World Championship resume than Lolo could dream of attaining. Oh, and Williams is sitting in Gold medal position in the middle of the last run whereas Jones will probably finish outside of the top 10.
 
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bkochmc said:
Caught a bit of the 2-women bobsled during NBC's Primetime 3-hour highlight show (with at least half always devoted to ice skating/dancing)... it's interesting to see two track starts turned bobsledders in the Olympics for the US, Lolo Jones who gets all the press and Lauren Williams. I find it funny that everyone is all over Lolo being the cross-over star where Williams has two more Olympic medals (2004 silver in the 100m, 2012 gold in the 4x100... Lolo has zero) and has a more decorated World Championship resume than Lolo could dream of attaining. Oh, and Williams is sitting in Gold medal position in the middle of the last run whereas Jones will probably finish outside of the top 10.
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Looks like this bobsled could be huge for the US in the medal count with Russia being out of it already.
 
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Heck of a win by Murdoch and Great Britain in men's curling (to advance to the gold medal match).

Gotta feel for Edin and Sweden b/c his final stone was probably a cm off on the run back (to allow GB to score 2).
 
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exhawg said:
Looks like this bobsled could be huge for the US in the medal count with Russia being out of it already.
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Yep, two more medals for the USA! US teams finished 2-3-11, Williams's team won the silver, Lolo's finished 11th. Great showing by the US bobsled teams so far. The Canadian team squeaked out the gold by 1/10th of a second.

That brings the US medal count to 23, back into the lead over Russia and the Dutch.
 
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TheStoicPaisano said:
Bilyaletdinov may never be seen again.
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Q: What future, if any, do you see for your own work and for your coaching staff? Because, you know, your predecessor was eaten alive after the Olympics—
A: Well then, eat me alive right now—
Q: No, I mean—
A: Eat me, and I won't be here anymore.
Q: But we have the world championship coming up!
A: Well then, there will be a different coach because I won't exist any more, since you will have eaten me.
Q: But you're staying, aren't you?
A: Yes, I will remain living.

:lol:
 
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Slate has to go and piss in everyone's Cheerios:

Way to go, Slovenia! Not so hot, Team USA

It’s easy to feel some nationalistic pride as yet another American athlete raises her arms in triumph in Sochi. In one sense, this is perfectly reasonable. Whatever country an athlete is from, winning a medal requires an unimaginable amount of hard work and talent. Even so, considering the United States is one of the world’s richest countries and one of its most populous, the USA’s medal haul at the Winter Olympics isn’t all that impressive.

At the time of this writing, the United States, with its hundreds of millions of people and multitrillion-dollar economy, is tied for the most medals with the Netherlands, a country without a tenth of the U.S.’s population or GDP. America’s performance is actually abysmal, though, considering its financial and human resources. As the following numbers from the website Medals Per Capita illustrate, the U.S. can boast only one medal per 16 million Americans, while Norway has one per a mere 280,000 Norwegians. Among the medal-winning countries, the U.S. has one of the lowest ratios of medal count to population. Similarly, the U.S. now stands at almost $800 billion of GDP for each of its 19 medals, while tiny Slovenia has a more impressive $8 billion for each of its six. (The data in the chart will be updated once per day throughout the Olympics.)
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