Official XXI Winter Olympic Games thread

[Premier Blah]

Current standings at the conclusion of the solar day of February 20, 2010.

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
United States	6	7	10	23
Germany	4	6	4	14
Norway	5	3	3	11
South Korea	4	4	1	9
Quebec Canada Quebec	4	3	1	8
Austria	2	2	3	7
France	2	1	4	7
Sweden	3	1	2	6
Switzerland	4	0	1	5
China	3	1	1	5
Markov Russia	1	2	2	5
Netherlands	2	1	1	4
Poland	0	3	1	4
Italy	0	1	3	4
Japan	0	1	2	3
Australia	1	1	0	2
Halak Slovakia	1	1	0	2
Czech Republic	1	0	1	2
Latvia	0	2	0	2
Belarus	0	1	1	2
Slovenia	0	1	1	2
Great Britain	1	0	0	1
Estonia	0	1	0	1
Finland	0	1	0	1
Borat Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
Croatia	0	0	1	1

Geez, what's with the US hogging all the bronze here?

[Johnny Flamingo]

Gonna be an awesome atmosphere at the US-Canada hockey game tomorrow. Can't wait for that one.....totally jacked up. Hope the USA boys can pull off what I would call a pretty huge upset as I predicted Canada to run the table in group play before this started.

Canada is very stacked against a young USA team.

[Shy Guy]

[Renslayer]

What time is tonight's US-Canada game and more importantly, what channel?

[Robbymac]

Feb 21, 2010 15:17:16 GMT -5 Renslayer said:

What time is tonight's US-Canada game and more importantly, what channel?

7:40 PM EST on MSNBC if you're in the US

if you're up North I would assume it is on the main channel (CTV?)

[Widow's Peak]

Another skiing related spoiler for later tonight:

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}Bode Miller won his first gold medal at super combined.

www.cnn.com/2010/SPORT/02/21/winter.olympics.day.ten.golds/index.html

[Lupin the Third]

Feb 21, 2010 13:43:28 GMT -5 Shy Guy said:

Don't forget one more important strategy:

Having your fans sing your national anthem before you win against the Brits. ;D

[pegasuswarrior]

Yes, I know there is a catch-all Winter Olympic Games thread, but I wonder if someone could take the time to ask a mod and then follow up to do a separate thread that's a poll of "Favorite Winter Olympic Event" and then list as many as humanly possible in the poll. I don't mean "Skiing," but Ski Cross, Super G, Slalom, etc. as independent choices on the poll. I suppose bobsledding and events like that could be generalized as "one event", thus 2-man and 4-man don't have to be distinct from each other. There are so many "skiing" events though that I don't think I could justifably vote "skiing" if that meant something I hate (like Moguls) was under than umbrella.

Also, MSNBC doesn't have the Olympics on. What the heck?

Oh, and as to why I'm not doing the aforementioned suggestion, it's because I'm too lazy/busy with other things to fire one up, but I'm interested to hear from the thread-followers on the subject.

[Premier Blah]

Current standings at the conclusion of the solar day of February 21, 2010.

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
United States	7	7	10	24
Germany	6	7	5	18
Norway	5	3	4	12
Quebec Canada Quebec	4	4	1	9
South Korea	4	4	1	9
Austria	2	3	3	8
Markov Russia	2	3	3	8
France	2	2	4	8
Weber Switzerland	5	0	2	7
Sweden	3	1	2	6
China	3	1	1	5
Netherlands	3	1	1	5
Poland	0	3	1	4
Italy	0	1	3	4
Halak Slovakia	1	1	1	3
Plekanec Czech Republic	1	0	2	3
Japan	0	1	2	3
Australia	1	1	0	2
Latvia	0	2	0	2
Kostitsyns' Belarus	0	1	1	2
Croatia	0	1	1	2
Slovenia	0	1	1	2
Great Britain	1	0	0	1
Estonia	0	1	0	1
Finland	0	1	0	1
Borat Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1

Huh, that's something - all winning countries have at least won more or better than a single bronze. The bottom three have a silver and the UK has their gold (and their stereotypical bad teeth, as to be expected. Although their winner sure has some sexy teeth though.)

[brettappedout (BLM)]

America's new theme song


;D

[Premier Blah]

TODAY: More Curling and some woman's ice hockey. Yippee.
Medalling today, all times Pacific:
11:00 Ski Jumping Team
13:00 Cross-Country Skiing Ladies' Team Sprint
13:30 Cross-Country Skiing Mens' Team Sprint
16:45 Figure Skating Free Dance

Not a medal, but at 17:00 Canada's women's hockey team plays against Finland to see who will play for Gold.

[Drillbit Taylor]

Feb 22, 2010 11:45:27 GMT -5 Premier Blah said:

TODAY: More Curling and some woman's ice hockey. Yippee.
Medalling today, all times Pacific:
11:00 Ski Jumping Team
13:00 Cross-Country Skiing Ladies' Team Sprint
13:30 Cross-Country Skiing Mens' Team Sprint
16:45 Figure Skating Free Dance

Not a medal, but at 17:00 Canada's women's hockey team plays against Finland to see who will play for Gold.

That should be a decent game. Great Goalie vs High scoring offense.

[livetowin]

www.theprovince.com/sudden+death+stop+skater/2595788/story.html

That's tragic. My thoughts are with her at this time.

[Premier Blah]

Germany has a Gold and two Silvers today.
Can someone find the Das Wunderkind music? I guess we all have to dance to it by day's end.

[Premier Blah]

The TRUE battle between US and Canada - NBC's Brian Williams meets CTV's Brian Williams.
sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Worlds-are-colliding-Battle-of-the-Brian-Willia?urn=oly,221421

[Widow's Peak]

Feb 22, 2010 16:33:18 GMT -5 livetowin said:

www.theprovince.com/sudden+death+stop+skater/2595788/story.html

That's tragic. My thoughts are with her at this time.

Very sad. I hope that the media can back off of her for a little while. I can only imagine how tough the next few days are going to be.

[Premier Blah]

USA Women's hockey is already in the final match, and if Canada gets through too...I sincerely hope to God CTV et al don't make it as revenge for yesterday's game if Canada wins. I like their women's team too much for them to have THAT much attention.

[Lupin the Third]

Here you go, Blah. You make a promo backstage about how you've had a change of heart, and are willing to go out and take your native land back.

Then, right before you head out.



SWERVE!! You come out decked in red, white, and blue.

[Premier Blah]

Ah! Exactly what I needed! I thank you Racer.

[Premier Blah]

And Canada has a 5th Gold, first in that discipline of figure skating. The US has another silver too.
Somewhere, Martin Brodeur mumbles that HE skates as good as them.