i see i was right in predicting a gold medal for the GB team in the goosefat greased baking tray speeding down the hill at 90mph womens event :-D
GratefulFan · Member since
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Aksel Lund Svindal from Norway: gold medal winner in Vancouver (Super G) and moon walker - what a great athlete :-)
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While watching coverage yesterday I learned that Norway is the most decorated country in winter Olympic history. Pretty cool!
«¤~Mrš. BÃD GÛŸ~¤» · Member since
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i see i was right in predicting a gold medal for the GB team in the goosefat greased baking tray speeding down the hill at 90mph womens event :-D[/QUOTE]
[img=/images/smiley/msn/thumbs_up.gif][/img] Well done my friend!!!
JoxerTheDeityPirate · Member since
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i see i was right in predicting a gold medal for the GB team in the goosefat greased baking tray speeding down the hill at 90mph womens event :-D
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[img=/images/smiley/msn/thumbs_up.gif][/img] Well done my friend!!!
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the GB 2 man bobsleigh team did a fantastic impression of Blue Peter's John Noakes [i'll let you google/you tube it].if you are gonna crash,do it in style i say :-D
«¤~Mrš. BÃD GÛŸ~¤» · Member since
Talk about courage...My thoughts and prayers are with Joannie Rochette (6 time Canadian champion) who lost her Mother due to a fatal heart attack this week, and still had the strength and courage to skate her short program last night.
The Real Wizard · Member since
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Talk about courage...My thoughts and prayers are with Joannie Rochette (6 time Canadian champion) who lost her Mother due to a fatal heart attack this week, and still had the strength and courage to skate her short program last night.
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Yep... that was pretty incredible, to say the least.
john bodega · Member since
I dunno, I've tried to keep up with the Winter Games this year but nothing can really match the excitement or drama of a luge artist wiping himself off the map on the first day. I don't mean that in the ghoulish sense, but I mean really .... you can't top the dead guy. That's just how it is...
pittrek · Member since
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I dunno, I've tried to keep up with the Winter Games this year but nothing can really match the excitement or drama of a luge artist wiping himself off the map on the first day. I don't mean that in the ghoulish sense, but I mean really .... you can't top the dead guy. That's just how it is...[/QUOTE]
A Slovak hockey player got almost killed yesterday during the match with Norway
john bodega · Member since
See, not good enough! He's a silver performance at best...
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Talk about courage...My thoughts and prayers are with Joannie Rochette (6 time Canadian champion) who lost her Mother due to a fatal heart attack this week, and still had the strength and courage to skate her short program last night.
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It is immensely sad, and your heart just breaks for her knowing that the wonderful high of participating in the Olympics and the terrible low of the sudden death of a parent will always be intertwined. But I'm not sure about lauding her for courage and strength. It's not for anyone on the outside to know if skating, or not skating, would have been harder. If it would have been more psychologically difficult for her to consider not skating for her mom, her family, her town, her country and her career, then it's not really courage or strength. If anything, I'd say it's the ability to block and focus in an extreme circumstance, something all successful high level athletes are trained for years to do.
My point really is that the media indulgence on this has been predictable, and the well meaning people have been predictable, and I can't think of it as anything but one more burden on Joannie Rochette, who doesn't need a bunch of qualities and expectations imposed on her during a numbing and heartbreaking time when she herself probably doesn't completely know how she feels or why she skated or what the impact of her decisions will be.
«¤~Mrš. BÃD GÛŸ~¤» · Member since
Enjoyed watching the Canadian hockey team kick Russia's butt last night winning the quarter final match, for a total score of 7-3!!
Nice to see Canada is tied with the U.S. and Norway for a total of seven golds medals!!!
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Enjoyed watching the Canadian hockey team kick Russia's butt last night winning the quarter final match, for a total score of 7-3!!
Nice to see Canada is tied with the U.S. and Norway for a total of seven golds medals!!!
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And after curling is done, it'll be 8 or 9.
Joannie Rochette got bronze! The country is proud of her beyond belief for putting on such a performance after losing her mother earlier in the week.
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Enjoyed watching the Canadian hockey team kick Russia's butt last night winning the quarter final match, for a total score of 7-3!!
Nice to see Canada is tied with the U.S. and Norway for a total of seven golds medals!!!
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And after curling is done, it'll be 8 or 9.
Joannie Rochette got bronze! The country is proud of her beyond belief for putting on such a performance after losing her mother earlier in the week.
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Yes, indeed she did!!
Happy, proud, and sad for her all at the same time.
JoxerTheDeityPirate · Member since
so £5.8m spent on the GB team for these Olympiads and we get ONE medal with the girl on her baking tray,bring on the proper ones in 2 years time where we've spent £1bn on the the arena in London that looks like a IKEA fruit bowl in the East End and trains that wont work or get there on time,we should get at least 5 medals then at this rate.
what a waste of public spending!
