Friday 2/15 Salt Lake Olympic Thread and ** SPOILERS**

DON'T LOOK if you DON'T WANT RESULTS | 02/15/2002

[alisasny]

The events for the day will be underway shortly.

GO TEAM USA and too all freedom loving nations...GOOD LUCK.

You can get live results online at this link

Live Results

Todays Events:

Cross Country Women's 5 k Classical 11 am est

Cross Country Women's 5 k Free Pursuit 130 pm est

Curling

Figure Skating Ice Dancing Rounds 1 and 2 745 pm est

Ice Hockey

Luge Doubles run 1 and 2 11 am est.

Snowboarding Mens and Women's Parallel Giant Slalom 12 noon est.

Photo of the day.... Norway's Thomas Alsgaard, bottom, thrusts his ski forward to tie with Norway's Frode Estil for the silver medal in the men's cross-country pursuit.

Are they freepers?? A couple of skating fans hold up signs protesting the outcome of Monday's pairs competion, during a break in the men's free skate program.

Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko competes in the men's free skate program doing his girlie spin.

[alisasny]

Luge doubles Fact:

Venezuelans Werner and Christopher Hoeger will make history whatever the outcome of the men's pairs luge on the seventh day of the Games.

Werner, 48, and Christopher, 17, will become the first father-and-son pair to compete in the discipline at the Winter Games. The pair, who took up the luge four years ago, hold Venezuelan nationality but live in Boise, Idaho.

[commish]

GOOD MORNING!!!!

WOW What a Men's final last night!!!!

Alexi Yagudin was absolutely fabulous! His performance was one of the most breathtaking I have ever seen. A well deserved and well earned GOLD MEDAL!!!

And we can't forget the gutsy performances of Yvgeny Plushenko, who shook off his short program disaster to skate a wonderful Long program to the SILVER.

And TOMOTHY GEOBELS technical expertise was awe inspiring -- while I feel he skated a much better technical program than Plushenko, I can't fault the judges scoring of PLushenko above him as Yvegny was light years better in presentation. BUT WATCH OUT, once Tim gets some artistic quality into his skating (IE MATURITY) he will be a force to contend with!!!

I do feel a little badly for Tekeshi Honda - he skated very good last night, but bless his heart he is just not on a plane technically or artistically (especially artistic) with the top three.

KUDO's to Todd Eldredge and Michael Weiss for gutsy comeback performances in the long. Watching Todd's unmatched style and grace one could not help but think he threw down a medal winning performance had it not been for his short program.

OF course - all my gushing aside - I am SURE that MIKAILOVICH will come in here, and even though Yagudin is Russian, Mikailovich will PAN HIS PERFORMANCE and say he DOES NOT DESERVE the Gold because he skated a WESTERN style program to GASP UGH EEK AMERICAN MOVIE MUSIC (the Man in the Iron Mask) ;-) LOL!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

heh heh heh you said girlie spin heh heh heh

[MinuteGal]

While adequate, nothing about the top echelon of men competitors thrilled or inspired me last night. I found my attention wandering.

Leni

[twyn1]

OOOOO--the girlie spin--my FAVORITE !

It really was an exciting competition last night--with all 3 medals well-deserved !
(...alltho' I do still wonder how Plushenko ended up in 4th after the short program--but ahhh well--he was very impressive last night)</FONT SIZE>

My teen-aged daughter is now in love with Timothy Goebels (and hoping he does not play for the "other" team) -- she thinks he looks a bit like "Elijah Woods" (the hobbit guy)

I watched most of Timothy's program through my fingers -- I was so nervous for him

oh yeah...and I watched the curling competition too--it's really kinda neat--lots of strategy !

[TontoKowalski]

I've always liked Yagudin. That Pleshenko character is a different matter, though. Just never warmed up to him for some reason. I appreciate the athleticism, but the programs are just boring.

Others in the same boat: Elvis Stoyko, Michael Weiss, any male French or Chinese skater (take your pick).

[dr.cookie]

I thank God that I did not brave airport terror from our government to go see effeminate male ice skaters judged by corrupt judges in a venue secured through bribery.

[twigs]

I personally felt that Plushenko's performance was one of the better ones I'd ever seen. I had never seen such passion and loved it! I would have like to see him get the gold. Didn't think Yagudin deserved the 6.0's, but he was certainly good. I see, however, that my husband and I are in the minority here! Goebel was great too!

[Tennessee_Bob]

heh heh heh heh....you said thrust...heh heh heh

[codebreaker]

bump

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Goebels practices at a rink about 10 minutes from where I'm typing this post :-).

[Styria]

NBC's "Skate Gate" headline sounds even stupider than when the media tried pushing the "Enrongate" term.

[areafiftyone]

[areafiftyone]

NBC's "Skate Gate" headline sounds even stupider than when the media tried pushing the "Enrongate" term.

[MindBender26]

There are no male French skaters. :~)

[nfldgirl]

Re: No male French Skaters...YES, there was one, although I don't recall his name at the moment. He was ranked 11th going into last night's competition.

[Naked Lunch]

Um... pardon me but your tag is showing...

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ps: I don't think any of the male skaters are on the home team.

[Jaded]

From what the commentator (I think it was Scott Hamilton) said almost all of the male skaters CANNOT do the girlie spin it's to painful.

[alisasny]

Many female skaters cant do it either.