Dude, I dont even know. No one understands figure skating judging anymore. I bet the moguls judges could do a better job despite their lack of familiarity with the sport.

Tough crowd....

We could always pay the IOC to cover it up like the Americans did in track for all those years (particularly with Carl Lewis).

:)

O, here we go again, she falls on her ass, and boom, on the podium...

Thats hilarious. The NBC commentators are mourning the death of this Canadian team's olympic dream, and bam, 3rd place.

How the **** did those Canadians get 3rd? They totally choked and looked terrible.

I don't get figure skating.

I guess the moral of this story is that we should all just watch figure skating for the entertainment value and not care about who wins. The new scoring system is so incredibly complicated that no one understands it enough to call out the judges.

I'm thinking the strategy here is everyone should just do the most rediculously difficult routine possible. If you fall, big deal, they count difficulty so high its worth the mistakes.

That last girl had a wedgie...

That last couple was pretty cool. Kind of like "hey, we all know this is kind of goofy, so we'll dress up like clowns!"

So, tomorrow, it looks like itll be Chinese married couple vs German Clowns vs Russian and fake Japanese Russian.

Damn those medals are huge!

Are they real gold? Just plated I assume?

I went ahead and looked it up. It varied over the years, but it looks like they standardized it sometime around the 1992 olympics.

Gold: 550 grams of sterling silver, plated with a minimum of 6 grams of gold

Silver: Sterling silver, which is 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% copper.

Bronze: Bronze, which is mostly copper.

edit: actually, although the gold medal has been at least 6 grams of gold for the last couple decades, the rest of the material for the 3 medals varied. They just went with silver for the base material for gold and didnt do anything crazy with silver and bronze in vancouver, but in other olympics they have used all sorts of different things, like sparagmite (a type of stone), lacquer, and even glass.

edit2: The vancouver medals are the heaviest (with the most metal content) ever given out, and among the most valuable in terms of the metal content.

This is cool, apparently these medals are also the first ones that aren't really flat or flat-ish at all. If you look at them straight-on they appear to be normal (and huge) circular medals, but from the side they are all warped and wavey, supposed to be like ocean waves. Apparently they are also all unique, no two of them look exactly alike.

http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/C...jt9Ya3bKkl.jpg

How would you like to be presented with one of these after a lifetime of hard work and dedication?

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_0FibfbNzlgI/St...jpg?imgmax=800

Congrats your medals were melted.

foil-wrapped chocolate candies?

Has anyone noticed in all of the interviews with the medal winners how FEW of them thank their country? I heard three so far, and not a single one said anything about their nation.

This is the Olympics. You are representing your country. You can at least mention them.