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Vancouver Olympic Games Live Thread (Day 2)
2-13-2010

Posted on 02/13/2010 7:03:31 AM PST by My Favorite Headache

aturday, Feb. 13

NBC 2-6 p.m. — Men's Speed Skating-5000 Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Ski Jumping-Individual K-90 Gold Medal Final; Women's Biathlon-7.5km Sprint Gold Medal Final.

8-11:30 p.m. — Men's Short Track-1500 Competition, Semifinals and Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Women's Freestyle Skiing-Moguls Competition and Gold Medal Final (LIVE); Men's Alpine Skiing-Downhill Gold Medal Final.

Midnight-1 a.m. — Men's Luge-Singles Competition; Women's Short Track-3000 Relay Semifinals and 500 Competition; Medals Plaza-Award Ceremonies.

1-4:30 a.m. — Primetime Replay.

CNBC 3-5:30 p.m. — Women's Ice Hockey-Sweden vs. Switzerland (LIVE).

8-10:30 p.m. — Women's Ice Hockey-Canada vs. Slovakia (LIVE).

MSNBC 3-5:30 a.m. — Women's Ice Hockey-Canada vs. Slovakia (replay).


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2010olympics; athletes; chat; day2; olympics; ongoing; sports; thread; vancouver
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Why isn’t cheese curling an Olympic event? .. and who wouldn’t love to see kegling in shallow and deep snow uphill without a pack mule, talk about a cardiac and kidney intensive sport.


61 posted on 02/13/2010 1:24:38 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
I agree with all of your critiques from the first thread, and I'll add that the cauldron as designed makes little sense to me. Four ice sticks and a flame in the middle, and the whole thing looks like it belongs in Jor-El's ice cave.


62 posted on 02/13/2010 1:26:03 PM PST by lainie (The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
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To: NormsRevenge

why- you think the lunatic left at NBC won’t try and stick in the global warming blame game every/any chance they get???


63 posted on 02/13/2010 1:31:40 PM PST by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: DollyCali; lainie; My Favorite Headache

Hi DollyCali and Lainie.
Did you want to be added to the Canada ping list? (I’m pinging The Olympic threads My Favorite Headache is posting only because the Olympics are here this winter.)


64 posted on 02/13/2010 2:05:43 PM PST by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: My Favorite Headache

You forgot hookers and hockey players. ;-)


65 posted on 02/13/2010 2:09:53 PM PST by fanfan (Why did they bury Barry's past?)
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To: fanfan

yes, I would love to be on the Canada ping list. I love Ontario! ... sure I would love other areas but that is the only province I have been to


66 posted on 02/13/2010 2:13:51 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell God how big your storm is...Tell the storm how big your God is!)
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To: NormsRevenge
What is this kegling you speak of. I think I might have missed my life's calling.
67 posted on 02/13/2010 2:30:22 PM PST by mickey finn
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To: mickey finn
Ya carry a full keg (or half keg or ponykeg based on experience-) to the top of a mountain course, drink it and then bring the keg back down as gracefully as possible.

It's an ol' Marine drill. Just finishing the keg is a real thrill all by its lone self. ya have to pace yurself tho.

68 posted on 02/13/2010 2:36:06 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: God luvs America

GE makes more money off Global Warming than anyone, even
Al Gore. :-}

I stumbled back here in time for the Normal ski jumping ..

Go Czechs!


69 posted on 02/13/2010 2:37:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: NormsRevenge
Is there anything our wonderful Marines can't do? I would have thought the movie Beerfest would have been more educational.
70 posted on 02/13/2010 2:47:38 PM PST by mickey finn
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To: napscoordinator
It does make you proud to be an American when you see how hard these athletes worked to get to their ultimate dream - the Olympics.

You know, in a sense it does and the majority of our athletes, win or lose, deserve our respect. But there have been a number of past alpine olympians who were ultimately not worthy of the support our country and people such as me gave them.

Current olympian Bode Miller being one. The guy had all the talent in the world but blew it on fame, fortune and partying......He's never lived up to his potential. He's trying to make a comeback now as a family dad because he now knows that with a win, the bucks will start flowing in........In my opinion, there will be no medals for Miller.

Another past olympian, Bill Johnson, had his brief day in the sun and blew it all on self indulgence. His history post olympic fame is nothing but tragedy.

I hate to say this but our male alpine skiers DO NOT even come close to the dedication to the sport as our females do..........Over the past number of years it has always been our women who have scored consistently better then the men on the World Cup circuit.......

71 posted on 02/13/2010 2:52:17 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (My boomerang won't come back.......)
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To: mickey finn

I was watching Marines winter training not too long ago on free Military channel.. keeping the beer fluid is the toughest part. just kidding. It reminded me of my yout’. ;-)


72 posted on 02/13/2010 2:52:28 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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Moldova's Bogdan Macovei speeds down the track during a training run for the men's singles luge in preparation for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, British Columbia, February 10, 2010. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski (CANADA)


73 posted on 02/13/2010 3:02:32 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Fireworks light the sky over BC Place stadium during the opening ceremony of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia February 12, 2010. REUTERS/Chris Helgren (CANADA - Tags: SPORT OLYMPICS CITYSCAPE)


74 posted on 02/13/2010 3:03:14 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: lainie

Wow, thanks for honoring my critique by “inviting” me to another thread! Cool!

BTW, from what are those cheesy “Superman” pix?


75 posted on 02/13/2010 3:16:31 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: spectre

Men’s downhill postponed today because of “slushy” conditions.

So we have had one person killed, the olympic torch lighting went wrong and now not enough snow? NOT A GOOD OMEN.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Their loss is curling’s gain :) !!!!!!


76 posted on 02/13/2010 3:36:43 PM PST by ak267
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To: the OlLine Rebel

From the 1979 movie Superman. The Vancouver cauldron looks like that movie set to me.


77 posted on 02/13/2010 4:16:18 PM PST by lainie (The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
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To: lainie

No, those pix are NOT from my beloved movie.

I don’t doubt the “Fortress” is a tourist trap somewhere in the southwest...


78 posted on 02/13/2010 4:21:31 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Oh, no, the one on the right is from the Superman ride at Magic Mountain (Six Flags). I thought the one on the left was, though.


79 posted on 02/13/2010 4:41:48 PM PST by lainie (The US congress is full to the brim of absolutely disgusting thieves who deserve humiliating ouster.)
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To: lainie

I guess no one’s here tonight, without all the show business like last night.


80 posted on 02/13/2010 5:20:59 PM PST by darkangel82 (I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
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