LIVE THREAD: 2006 Torino Olympics - DAY 6 - Primetime TV THREAD

Free Republic ^ | February 16, 2006

[Howlin]

NBC OLYMPICS HOME PAGE

Complete Olympic Schedule (Presumably updated with Results)

TV SCHEDULES

usolympicteam.com

Canada's CTV Olympics website

CBC.CA - Torino 2006

[blu]

how many quads and triples

It's all Tonya's fault.

[small voice in the wilderness]

And the scores are randomly chosen by the computers. Then high and low are tossed. It just sounds so un-interactive. And they wonder why the audience isn't interacting with the skaters.

[lawnguy]

I would like to point out that the USA women's curling team is pretty hot, even though they are not winning, and I have no clue what they are doing.

I know it's not live, but what the hey, it had to be said.

[Timeout]

The judges are anonymous, which only emboldens them to cheat at a higher level

Who devised this new system~~~the U.N.?

[Purrcival]

At least before, we could all whine about the "Russian judge", or talk about how all of the Eastern Block countries seemed to vote together. Now it's a Black Box.

[Howlin]

What happened with Eddie Sutton?

And, yes, you can talk ANYTHING here -- well, almost anything.

[StarFan]

I thought Scott got a clean bill of health several years ago. Have we learned something new?

[Purrcival]

It's sort of like Campaign Finance "Reform" -- the money is still there, the politicians just figure out alternate avenues to get it!

[Howlin]

I would like to point out that the USA women's curling team is pretty hot, even though they are not winning, and I have no clue what they are doing.

ROFLMAO............Dog loves them, too!

[Purrcival]

On edit, that's "Eastern Bloc", not "Eastern Block". Sheesh!

[mass55th]

USA finished 4, 5 & 7. Maybe that's a good omen for the next Winter Olympics. They've got time now to practice and hopefully, mature.

[Txsleuth]

Did you hear Hamilton during the last guy's skate??

He said if he had waited 5 more seconds to do some big jump, he would have gotten more points...because it would have been in the second half of the program..

OH, puh-llllleeeze..you are right---they have screwed up the scoring system to where the audience is not involved..and when they FALL it should knock them out of a medal...

[Howlin]

I think we should all "heavily invest ourselves" in curling. I'm serious. It's nail biting tense!

[Accygirl]

And under the old system (judged fairly of course) he probably would have won the free skate; however, he didn't do a quad (the Canadian guy basically just "chucked" his and splatted to get the points) and that cost him. Also, he didn't go in the final flight of skaters and therefore probably received lower component scores than he should have... However, he's still young for a male figure skater and will most definitely be an Olympic gold medalist come Vancouver. :)

[Purrcival]

Could be. And maybe we can all hope that Weir gains some humility during that time. Tonight should help with that.

[lawnguy]

What happened with Eddie Sutton

I heard he was going to resign tonight.

[StarFan]

LOL and I'm sure you feel so much better getting that off your chest.

[mass55th]

OldFriend says that Hamilton recently had treatment for a brain tumor.

[Txsleuth]

I was noticing earlier...that there were empty seats within site range of the skater!!! Unbelieveable.

[j_tull]

(s)he is the first American athelete I have ever rooted against. Begone, bitch!