I would rather see the video of it.

Yay, the James Bond event is starting!

It would be cooler if they shot each other with paintballs

Oh that's going to cost him some time.

wow, I guess the all-world heavy-favorite, everyone-else-is-going-for-silver guy from netherlands just shot himself completely out of the medals with 3 misses.

Crazy with all the misses. And it's huge with the guys with 3 misses because this seeds the pursuit event.

Also I think they only take the top 60 for that event, so if you are a favorite and have a horrible day today, you wont even get a chance to compete in the pursuit.

Thanks. Great run.

Well, that sucks. I had no idea that new snowfall would make that much of a difference. Apparently if you were not scheduled to be one of the first 15 competitors in the course, then you literally had no chance at all to get a medal even if you shoot cleanly and are a fast skier.

Some of the best biathlon competitors in the world who shot cleanly and ski'd fast are still a minute behind some random french scrub who started earlier. The NBC expert said the competition was over as soon as the snow started to fall, and it looks like he's right.

You would think they could come up with a way to remedy that. Kind of crappy that winner gets decided by the pecking order with the weather.

When you start 80 something people at 30 second intervals, there's not a whole lot you can do. Tis part of life.

Good news everybody! They're coming out with a US Women's Hockey Team Swimsuit Calendar!

Yeah, I know. Doesn't make it any better though. I guess if you are a lower tier competitor you are praying for a day like today.

Its probably kind of rare. The whole thing lasts only about an hour, if the weather goes to hell in the first 5 minutes or in the last 10 or so minutes, it doesnt mean much. If its light snow, its no big deal. If its rain, it actually helps the late competitors, but it was heavy snow, and it happened at exactly the wrong time to completely screw over most of the field.

This also sets up the seeding for the pursuit. All those strong heavily-favored guys are gonna start out 2 or 3 minutes behind that french dude. At least the USA got really lucky with one guy who went early and shot clean, we'll have one guy in 2 days who only starts a minute behind. The pursuit also has 4 shooting stages, with a potential for 20 penalties, so if those first 4 guys dont shoot clean, the guys 1-2 minutes back can still catch up.

Great. I just flip it on and hear we're going to talk figure skating with that Button's guy. Fantastic.

I'm looking to see if there's a Jenny Finch in hockey. Foud one cute one, but all her front teeth were missing.

cool. We had 3 inches of snow today and I need to shovel it sometime.

I'm fine with watching a little bit of figure skating when its a medal round, but they are just doing qualifications today.

speaking of figure skating, this is gonna be kind of a weird year, and it'll be interesting to see the US TV audience for it. We usually have a strong women's team and next to nothing for men. Apparently this year is bizarro-world olympics for the USA, our women's figure skating completely sucks and has almost no potential for a medal. For men's figure skating, I guess we have one of the strongest teams in US history with 2 or 3 having a strong chance to medal.

Some guys will put up with watching a few cute girls in skirts jumping around, but how many are going to watch a few (probably gay) men in tights? Will the women tune in for that?

I guess we also have a couple dominant teams for ice dancing, so it'll also be interesting to see how many tune in to watch a few couples grope and make out on the ice for medals.

Women's Hockey on USA.

Team USA 5
Team China 0

1st Intermission

Just looked at the scores for hockey. Apparently Canada's women set an olympic record, destroying Slovakia 18-0.

Who the hell was the goalkeeper? I've never skated in my life, and I think I might have allowed fewer goals than 18.

WTH are we now rubbing a gold medal into the noses of the Canadians when instead we could be watching real live action?

NBC sucks.

ABC, CBS, or Fox need to outbid NBC. This piece of crap network cant do anything right.

I can understand delays and some games with programming when its on the other side of the world, but there is no damned excuse for not showing more live events from Canada.

Yeah, women's hockey seems to be rather lopsided. Can't wait for the men's games. Should be very good.

Last winter olympics they showed figure skating practices. Really. No, really.

I don't understand for the life of me why NBC thinks people don't actually want to watch the live action.

Kind of like a major golf tournament in Britain.

There's not much a goalie can do without a competent defense. I played the position for a long time.

These Chinese women might be the worst hockey players I've ever seen.

That, and they seem to be significantly smaller than the Americans.

Couple of highlight reel goals from Team USA though.

game on, big chance for USA to get their first-ever nordic combined medal.

OMG the leader crashed.

I think the leader was a non-factor with or without the crash. He admitted he was good at jumping, but not so much in Cross-Country, so he might as well not even be in the race. He lost almost half his lead on the first of four laps before the crash.

This is really cool. Race is halfway done, the original leader is gone, USA is 1-2, and our best cross-country skiier who had a bad jump and had to start in the 20's, has already erased almost two minutes to catch up to the leaders at #8.

**** the Olympics, I don't know why they put this shit on TV.

NOOOOO

Still cool.

I can't imagine skiing that hard for 25 minutes.

What an ending.

Man, if Demong would have had a halfway-decent jump, he would have blown away the field. Started about 2 minutes back and finished 6th or 7th

guys walking like ducks in skies suddenly becomes exciting when it's the Olympics and the announcer is screaming like it's the Kentucky Derby...


too bad the american couldn't hold out one more sec for gold

eh, that half-French dude is ranked #1 in the world. There's no shame in barely losing to settle for silver in a sport where the USA has never done anything.

And this is why I don't get the people like SNR. It's once every 4 years for 2 weeks. I was honestly sitting there yelling at my TV screen for some XC skiers. It's ****ing awesome.

totally agree....i love it all

her last name? appropriate.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/van...ters&type=lgns

Most of the experts seem to think the luger that died was out of his element.

The end of that race, reminded me of one of my favorite films...

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Why isn't curling a coed sport? Like Homer Simpson said, it's got bowling for men and sweeping for women.
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It's figure skating time...bleh.

I like when they skate towards the camera with one leg held up high. Although it would be more entertaining if they had on a thong.

mens downhill freestyle is on

NBC is unbelievably horrible. They showed tape-delayed qualifying rounds for the men's moguls, while the finals are going on. They arent going to show it live to anyone, on any channel. The finals are taking place now, and what do we get? Pairs figure skating, no other options to see it live. Awesome.

Men's Moguls update: unbelievably horrible night for USA so far. We had 4 competitors qualify, two of them (the only two of the night) were disqualified for going off course, a 3rd is sitting at 9th place with a bad score.

Our last shot at a medal will go 3rd-to-last

Well of course. America only likes figure skating. Didn't you get the memo?

Damn, they are skiing completely out of control right now.

...and its now over. Our last guy managed to salvage a bronze. Canada finally got their precious home gold medal that they have been whining about. That dirtbag Australian who made millions off a malware/adware company got silver.

If you need a reason to keep watching this delayed stuff tonight, apparently I'm reading that the last guy to go was a Frenchie who put together a good run, didnt get the scores he thought he deserved, and is pissed about it.

What company is that?
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hell of a run for the bronze there.

Dale Begg-Smith was involved with (and made a ton of money off of) a company called "ValueAd". Here's an investigative report from an Australian paper: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/...191842651.html

The Canadian olympic committee basically told him to stop or he probably wouldnt be allowed to compete any longer. So he went to Australia, which allowed him to continue his business and compete for the Australian team.

You'd whine too if it took 33 goddamn years to win a gold medal at home. Let us have this, how 'bout?

Ahhh.. Interesting.
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Gold....now that was clutch.

now back to regularly scheduled boring programming

2 more hours of pairs figure skating?

That was one hell of a run...

So, wonder how long it'll be till Bilodeau tests positive for something and Canada loses another gold? :)

So I'm so not the guy who does this, generally speaking...

But **** you:grr:

Hey, nothing personal but this is like watching the Cubs take a 4-1 lead at game 7 of the World Series. Jokes speculating how they are gonna screw it up yet again are expected!

So how does that work? How do you fall on your ass and still manage to be in 3rd place??

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?