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Sochi Olympics 2014

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Buckeye513 said:
When you have a 4-on-3 in overtime and the ref calls a love tap five seconds into it to even it up, you have plenty of room to pout. It was atrocious refereeing.
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Yep, it is really clear that when our player fell, the Canadian was barely, if at all, touched in the process. Want to call the tight body on the approach before she fell? I have no problem with that. Waiting until the fall, with no real contact to call it? That I have a problem with.

EDIT: I also agree with the idea of the "don't deserve it if you can't keep the lead" posts, it is clear Canada was fighting and wanted it more at the end.
 
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scarletmike said:
Yep, it is really clear that when our player fell, the Canadian was barely, if at all, touched in the process. Want to call the tight body on the approach before she fell? I have no problem with that. Waiting until the fall, with no real contact to call it? That I have a problem with.

EDIT: I also agree with the idea of the "don't deserve it if you can't keep the lead" posts, it is clear Canada was fighting and wanted it more at the end.
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I'm mostly pissed about the "slash." It was so dumb I can't even process it right now
UpNorth_Buckeye said:
Why were they in the OT? Why leave it up to that situation?
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They blew a lead. That doesn't make them suddenly deserving of getting fucked over.
 
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I just want to see Tara Lipinski v Johnny Weir in a celebrity death match. I think she would kick her ass.

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The two sports bodies within the USOC that are catching the most flack following these Olympics seem to be Speedskating (both long and short track) and Curling. Both heads of speedskating and curling promised changes, but that's probably lip service.

Can't really change much with curling other than the selection process.

Speedskating will probably see some changes though.
 
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Buckeye513 said:
When you have a 4-on-3 in overtime and the ref calls a love tap five seconds into it to even it up, you have plenty of room to pout. It was atrocious refereeing.
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Yeah I'm more upset about the "slash" than the penalty on the breakaway. If I hadn't been on the phone trying to get the title on my soon to be sold house unfucked because Key Bank sucks, I probably would have said more about it at the time.

the thing is, I'm not even sure she made contact with anything but the ice. Just because she slapped down with her stick and it hit the ice in anticipation of a rebound doesn't mean it was a slash. Refs shouldn't be calling shit on "intention", especially in those situations.
 
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I didn't watch it, but it wouldn't be an Olympics without a figure skating or gymnastics judging controversy.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...e-skating-women-yuna-kim-gracie-gold/5643143/
One of the nine judges who picked a young Russian skater over two more refined competitors for the Olympic gold medal Thursday night was suspended for a year for trying to fix an event at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.

And another is the wife of the former president and current general director of the Russian figure skating federation. Another Olympics, another huge skating controversy involving the countries of the former Soviet Union.
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Thursday saw one of the wildest finishes seen yet at these Sochi Games, with three competitors crossing the finish line at the same time ... and none of them upright on their skis.

Egor Korotkov (Russia), Victor Norberg (Sweden) and Jouni Pellinen (Finland) all wiped out on the final jump, paving the way for Switzerland's Armin Niederer to cruise to the win. But the three who crashed all still had a shot at second place, and raced for the finish. Korotkov managed to get an arm across before anybody else, but it was a jumbled mess at the end.
 
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In Moscow, Russians Protest Disallowed Hockey Goal

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It was the biggest demonstration so far concerning the Sochi Olympics, and it had nothing to do with gay rights, environmental damage or corruption.

Dozens of Russian fans gathered Monday at the Moscow State Agroengineering University, some brandishing hockey sticks, to protest a disallowed goal scored by the Russian team in Saturday’s Olympic hockey match against the United States in Sochi, a decision that they felt cost them the game against their Cold War rivals.

A crowd of mainly students erected a large banner in front of the building reading, “Turn the referee into soap!”, a common Russian chant at sporting events, implying the referee is fit only to have his bones and body fat boiled down for soap.

Entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/18/s...hockey-goal-at-us-embassy-in-moscow.html?_r=0

Oddly I don't remember any Russian students protesting in 1972 when the USA actually got screwed in an Olympic basketball game (vs the Soviet Union).

In case you wondered....our Silver Medals are still unclaimed:

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