Saturday 02/23 Salt Lake Olympic Thread and ** SPOILERS**

DON'T LOOK if you DON'T WANT RESULTS

[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

Today's Events:

Mens Slalom 12 noon est.

Bobsleigh 4 men final runs 530 pm est.

Cross Country 50 k mens classic 1130 pm est.

Ice Hockey Mens bronze medal game Rus vs Belarus 215 pm est.

Speed Skating Ladies 5000m 3 pm est.

Short track Speedskating Mens 500, Ladies 1000, Mens 5000 m relay Live on NBC tonight.

Saturday, Feb. 23
NBC — (Men's hockey: bronze medal; Speedskating: women's 5000), 1:30-5:30 p.m.
NBC — (Alpine skiing: men's slalom; Short track speedskating: women's 1000 final, men's 500 and 5000 relay finals; Cross-country skiing: men's 50km; Bobsled: four-man final), 8-11:30 p.m.
NBC — (Late Night), Midnight-12:30 a.m.

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Sunday, Feb. 24
NBC — (Men's hockey gold medal game), 2:30-6 p.m.
NBC — (Closing Ceremony; Women's 30km Classical), 8-11 p.m.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Checkers is a professional sport?

[RummyChick]

Isn't there something odd about having only received 13 medals at most in the past and now we have 33. Maybe judging was more fair this time. Not sure what the deal is

[Naked Lunch]

I can't understand why the don't suffer cervical strains etc

Yeah, I know you used the word correctly, but I can't help snickering over a men's bobsled team suffering from cervical strain.

::pre-pubescent humor bump::

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Did you play tennis? I used to but never got that hi. Was ranked as a junior in grade school. But never did much. Soccer tho was different :)

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Some of it is more events, quite a few have been added in recent Olympiads (snowboard, aerial skiing, short track skating, women's hockey, skeleton). But some of it also is that the U.S. is improving dramatically in some sports that they simply weren't competitive in before (sliding sports like Bobsled and luge). We're even improving in the nordic sports of ski jumping, cross country and biathalon - sports we should be competitive in.

But I'm still bummed out by our performance in Alpine Skiing (my sport). To me these 10 events are the premier winter sports (I'm biased). And we could only get 2 medals (both silver by one guy). That just won't do. We should do better and be a deeper Alpine team than we showed this time.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Lack of perf. drugs used (as much)?

[DSH]

How about that medal ceremony, there's a cheerful and appreciative lot.

Frankly, I found the sight of three grown men showing a little dignity and reserve in such a situation somewhat refreshing. Moreover, after 30 miles and 2 hours+ of cross-country skiing, it may have been simply that they were tired as hell.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Soccer is my favorite, but enjoy most all sports. Even the odd ones. Well, except curling. I just don't get it.

[glock rocks]

NWS Wasatch Front Weather Statement as of 3:10 PM MST on February 23, 2002

Overview: winds will continue to shift to the northwest and temperatures will drop today with the passage of a cold front through Utah. Snow showers are possible tonight and tomorrow, especially in the mountains. Otherwise, Sunday will be mostly cloudy and cooler. Some clearing may occur later in the day.

	Tonight Cloudy with snow showers likely...a 60 percent probability. Accumulations generally an inch or less. Lows near 30. Northwest winds 10-15 mph.
	Sunday Partly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of snow or rain showers. Cooler with highs near 45. Northwest winds 15-25 mph.
	Sunday Night Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of evening snow showers. Lows near 25. Evening northwest winds 10-20 mph.

[RummyChick]

one of my favorite images is seeing that eagle helmet of Shea with his determined steely eyed look peering through the visor as he was going down the hill (or getting ready to go down)..just reminded me of the steely determination of the US to take down the terrorists..we will not falter... we will not tire..we will not fail

[Utah Girl]

Interesting results in the Olympics this evening. No gold for the US relay team in short track, Ohno shut out of gold this evening, and the bobsledders get two medals! Wow! And BYU beats Utah today (I was at the game.) Great day for sports her in the state of Utah.

[RummyChick]

i am shocked that nothing has come over the AP wire announcing that Korea is protesting the results and is boycotting the games because of the judging tonight ;-)

[RummyChick]

how much are they paying NSync to come out there and perform...Costas ask Hughes who she was more excited to see..costas and mckay or Nsync...she answered it very well though the true answer was probably Nysnc!

[RummyChick]

I love this photo

The only thing that would have made it better is if he had said, Osama Bin Laden, You can kiss my deirrere.

[nhoward14]

How about "Kiss this, Osama!" WRITTEN on his derierre? BWA HA HA HA!