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Winter Olympics Interest?

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I think it's a good lesson, that celebration of victory shouldn't occur until the finish line is crossed, but I don't find it funny.

Instead of being compared to the Flying Tomato, she's now immortalized in film clips alongside Leon Lett.
 
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Deety said:
A snowball fight would be GREAT. :)

Watching the Olympics is anti-climatic after being in Salt Lake in 2002. I was too dirt poor to get tickets, but it didn't really matter as there was a jumbotron next to the medals plaza, which was right by my office. It was a blast standing out there watching the games and listening to the medals plaza concerts between ceremonies with a bunch of people from all over the world who were there purely for the joy of it. Might sound silly, but some of my favorite memories of those games were going through the security area - it was more like a block party than a line, and there were always a bunch of athletes there who had finished their events. Very cool.
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Aaaah! SLC! Squatter's Pub!:biggrin:
 
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I am shocked that they do not show the anthems of the countries the athletes represent. That is the great thing about the Olympics. It isn't about the Flying Tomato or some idiot with a Terra skying down the hill. It is about pride and representing your country. Fuck all of this individualistic crap.

NBC is loosing me with their coverage. I do not care that much about some douche bag luger. I do care about a luger who is representing their country with pride and honor.

Show them on the podium respecting the flag. Love of Country, that is what it is all about.
 
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Folanator said:
I am shocked that they do not show the anthems of the countries the athletes represent. That is the great thing about the Olympics. It isn't about the Flying Tomato or some idiot with a Terra skying down the hill. It is about pride and representing your country. Fuck all of this individualistic crap.

NBC is loosing me with their coverage. I do not care that much about some douche bag luger. I do care about a luger who is representing their country with pride and honor.

Show them on the podium respecting the flag. Love of Country, that is what it is all about.
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Absol-freakin-lutely!
 
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women's curling is on MSNBC right now...I am sooo addicted!!!

Cassie Johnson is so hot!!!

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Anyone else get to watch the piece that NBC did called "The Race"? It was about the X-country 1994 duel between the Norwegians and the Italians. It was very well done. I actually remember the last three X-country races where the Italians and the Norwegians have gone down to photo finishes.

The race is tomorrow
 
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Anyone else get to watch the piece that NBC did called "The Race"? It was about the X-country 1994 duel between the Norwegians and the Italians. It was very well done. I actually remember the last three X-country races where the Italians and the Norwegians have gone down to photo finishes.

The race is tomorrow
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Yes, great piece. I love the part about the bet involving 2 bottles of barolo. :biggrin:
 
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Miller: 'If things went well, I could be sitting on four medals'
By HOWARD FENDRICH, AP Sports Writer


SESTRIERE, Italy (AP) -- All those Olympic medals Bode Miller insists he can live without? Turns out he also believes they could just as easily be his.

Instead, they're going to other skiers -- and other countries.

Miller is down to one final chance at the Turin Games after tying for sixth in the giant slalom Monday, when Benjamin Raich ended his own string of Olympic disappointments by leading a gold-bronze Austrian finish.

Through four of five men's Alpine races, Miller has finished no better than fifth place in the downhill. He was leading the combined when he was disqualified; he didn't finish the super-G after slamming into a gate.

"If things went well," he told The Associated Press, "I could be sitting on four medals, maybe all of them gold."

Asked if a common thread could tie together his results at these games, Miller offered a race-by-race assessment.

In the downhill, he said, "the other guys just found more speed." He accepted "pilot error" as reasons for his problems in the combined and super-G. In the giant slalom, Miller said, he had "a little bit of bad luck" in the first run, when he hit a rock early, then made a trio of errors in the second.

After each run Monday, the 28-year-old from Franconia, N.H., doubled over, hands on knees, gasping for air.

"Against those guys right now," he acknowledged as he walked away from the hill and toward his private RV, "that won't do."

Twelfth after the opening giant slalom leg, Miller did ski a strong second leg. For several skiers, he even watched from the leader's perch at the bottom of the mountain, mugging for the camera, sticking his tongue out, chatting with another skier.

Then, one by one, Miller's rivals bested his time.

Raich had the fastest second run and finished with a total time of 2 minutes, 35 seconds on a course drenched in sun following two days of heavy snowfall. Joel Chenal was 0.07 back for France's second medal of the Olympics, and Austria's Hermann Maier boosted his personal take to two medals with the bronze, 0.16 off the pace.

Until Monday, Raich was having his own problems at Sestriere.

He wasn't picked for Austria's downhill squad, straddled a gate when he was seconds from gold in the combined and was 21st in the super-G. Still, he said he felt no extra pressure.

"I do not have to prove to anybody anymore that I know ski racing," said Raich, who won two bronzes at Salt Lake City four years ago.

About an hour after he and Maier won gold and bronze, Austria raised its Alpine haul to nine medals when Michaela Dorfmeister and Alexandra Meissnitzer finished 1-3 in the women's super-G, a few mountains away.

The United States, meanwhile, is stuck on one medal: Ted Ligety's gold in the men's combined. He'll be among the favorites in Saturday's slalom, the last Alpine event and Miller's last medal hope.

Ligety missed a gate in the giant slalom's first leg, as did Miller's co-headliner on the U.S. Ski Team, lower-key Daron Rahlves.

Owner of 12 World Cup wins and a 2001 world title, Rahlves was thought to be a serious medal contender at his final Olympics. Yet the 32-year-old Californian will retire with nothing better than a seventh-place finish from seven races over three Winter Games.

"I really felt like we had a chance, where we could bring medals back down in every event. I'm just shaking my head at it right now," Rahlves said. "If you get a gold medal in the Olympics, it doesn't matter what else you've done."

Miller, one of the few stars from any nation entered in all five Alpine races, leaves little doubt he doesn't share that philosophy.

Over and over, he's said it's more important whether he feels good about a race than whether he was good enough to beat everybody else. He calls satisfying "my subjective criteria" his biggest concern -- rather than the "objective result" measured by the clock. It's more true to the Olympic spirit, he's said.

"He's of the mind-set he wants to inspire with great skiing," U.S. Alpine director Jesse Hunt said, "and he's not really focused on the results."

His father, Woody, had a different take, saying Miller's attitude is more like "What am I going to do with a gold medal?"

"He has this ambivalence with succeeding," the elder Miller said, sitting in the stands at Monday's race. "It's part of who he is."

As a double silver medalist at the 2002 Olympics, and the reigning overall World Cup champion, Miller was burdened by outsized expectations. That, despite the way his 2005-06 season had gone before arriving in Sestriere: 27 races, 17 finished, one victory.

"He's still not as good as he was last year," said Italian Alberto Tomba, a two-time Olympic champion in giant slalom and one of Alpine skiing's greats. "It's not easy to get back to winning after going through a bit of a rough period."

How far has Miller's stock fallen?

After he finished his first run Monday, the PA announcer's voice boomed: "Great time, with all the mistakes. Congratulations! We'll see you in the second run."

Talk about setting the bar low.
 
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I hope the violin is for the reporter, who is once again making a story out of nothing. Nothing like the media holding their own hype machine against an athlete.
 
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Golferdow01 said:
My roomate made me watching curling yesterday...dumbest thing I've ever seen...
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I disagree, but that's just me. :nerd:

Breaking News: The US men's speed-skating team is comprised of fourth-graders. Chad Hedrick and Shani Davis are making complete asses of themselves. I am embarrassed for them, since neither has the good sense to be embarrassed for himself.

Huh, Interesting. I just learned that Kimmie Meissner, the figure skater, is from my hometown of Bel Air, MD. Whaddya know? First famous person from Bel Air since John Wilkes Booth.
 
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