The Olympics Thread

[The Ripper]

I'm so excited for the Olympics...

You're lucky, you live in Canada. Somewhere near Vancouver?

By the looks of it, I'll have to call in sick since almost all of the hockey games will be on in the middle of the night.

[Sol Invictus]

go to justintv and you can get a live stream from your laptop. I take my laptop to work all the time and sneak on in between patrols. I hate sports but love hockey so I don't think I'll be missing it.

[Sol Invictus]

PS

I'm mostly looking forward to the hockey tournament

Teemu Selänne has been one of my favorite hockey players. He's really good to watch, and a great representation of Finnish talent.

[Svanhild]

I hope we repeat the success of Turin 2006 as the overall medal winner Nr.1. Germany was always among the best countries in all past Winter Olympics.

[Sol Invictus]

It's on bitches. Ovechkin and the Red Army is going down.

[Falkata]

Nobody knows about these games around here, but I´ve just watched in the news this accident, he was georgian, 21 years old. First time that i see this sport but why those columns are there?? Is that normal? Rest in peace.. but it seems like the security is not specially good.

[Guapo]

RIP, that's sad

I noticed Jamaica has one athlete at the Olympics. He's competing in pushing weed I guess.

[Klärchen]

I've just watched the Vancouver Opening Ceremony which was repeated on our TV. I've never seen such a beautiful and enchanting performance. Congratulations to Canada!!!

It is sad, however, that these Games are somewhat clouded by this terrible accident of the young Georgian luger. I wish the Georgian team all the best and good luck for the Games!

[Aemma]

Nobody knows about these games around here, but I´ve just watched in the news this accident, he was georgian, 21 years old. First time that i see this sport but why those columns are there?? Is that normal? Rest in peace.. but it seems like the security is not specially good.

Yes very very tragic and this young Olympian was well remembered and respected during the opening ceremonies yesterday. Very very sad...

In the news yesterday they commented that the luge track is a very fast one. Apparently luge is generally a safe (enough) sport where lugers never get catapulted off the track themselves. But investigations by the RCMP as well as the IOC are apparently ongoing. Some lugers have apparently even commented that the track is too fast.

[Äike]

My favorite thing to watch is cross-country skiing, Estonians have talent in that. Estonia has always been successful in the winter Olympics, considering that the population is only 1.3 million, but we got more gold medals last time then countries like Norway, the UK or China.