Vancouver XXI Olympic Winter Games - Page 2

danielf · 15-02-2010, 22:33

This snowboard cross stuff is brilliant!

Kymmy · 15-02-2010, 23:24

Yep just watched the QF/SF and both finals...Amazing!!!!

danielf · 15-02-2010, 23:40

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Yep just watched the QF/SF and both finals...Amazing!!!!

500m Speed skating now. The technique of these guys is just amazing. Try doing that on a 1mil blade, riding on the outside of the blade.

danielf · 20-02-2010, 22:50

Wow. Or rather not. Amy Williams wins the first individual gold in 30 years, and no-one seems to care?

Charlie_Bubble · 20-02-2010, 23:02

I do, stayed up to watch the 3rd and 4th round runs last night. Amazing to see a Brit start out in the lead and hold it. Well done to her, she deserves it.

I was kind of happy that the Canadian woman that was in 2nd after 3 rounds didn't get a medal, because their entrants had been down the course over 300 times each, whereas all the others entrants were lucky to get 30 training runs!

danielf · 20-02-2010, 23:14

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Originally Posted by Charlie_Bubble

I do, stayed up to watch the 3rd and 4th round runs last night. Amazing to see a Brit start out in the lead and hold it. Well done to her, she deserves it.

I was kind of happy that the Canadian woman that was in 2nd after 3 rounds didn't get a medal, because their entrants had been down the course over 300 times each, whereas all the others entrants were lucky to get 30 training runs!

Yes, It's a bloody disgrace. They've done this in pretty much all disciplines. Apparently, part of the 'own the podium' programme was to deny foreign athletes training opportunities

According to wiki, the massive problems with the ice resurfacing at the Richmond 'slow-val' may have been due to the machines not having been broken in properly as a result of this...

Anyway. Well done Amy Williams!

Kymmy · 21-02-2010, 09:24

Yep, well done Amy, pity the other teams had to have a couple of official moans about her helmet..sore losers???

Glad to see the 2 man GB bobsleigh team escape serious injury as they crashed out..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olym...gh/8526666.stm

danielf · 21-02-2010, 22:16

Just watched the ski cross. Downhill skiing with 4 competitors on the course battling for postion. Utter madness

Looking forward to the bobsleigh cross now

Charlie_Bubble · 21-02-2010, 22:22

I watched the ski-cross too. Great stuff. Gives skiing a bit of an edge that the traditional alpine events are missing.

I see our women curlers are rapidly kicking themselves out of the competition before the final stages. Threw it away against the USA last night on a couple of dodgy shot decisions and again today lost against the Swiss on a few more.

danielf · 21-02-2010, 22:33

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I watched the ski-cross too. Great stuff. Gives skiing a bit of an edge that the traditional alpine events are missing.

It's great to see how much fun the commentators are having. It's not often that you hear sports commentators laugh that much. It just goes to show how amazed they are at what's happening on the slope. Good stuff.

Charlie_Bubble · 22-02-2010, 00:07

The only commentator I've found to be bad was the woman that co-commentated on the snowboarding. It sounded like they were in a silent room and her voice was very quiet and her comments were just pointless and added nothing to the event. It was like she'd never seen snowboarding before.

At one point she said something about a snowboarder falling over, when none had in the event. Turns out she'd been looking out of the window of the box where they were sat and some random snowboarder had fallen over and she felt the need to comment on it.

danielf · 22-02-2010, 00:57

Was she the one with the weird accent?

If so, I agree, she seemed to be on another planet, though I did think she sounded rather sexy

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Woot!!!!!!

Third gold to Holland!

Charlie_Bubble · 22-02-2010, 01:50

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Was she the one with the weird accent?

Yeah, she was either canadian or american.

Charlie_Bubble · 23-02-2010, 00:37

Oh dear, UK womens curling team blowing up in the match v Denmark. Now they'll have to beat the hosts, Canada.

danielf · 24-02-2010, 00:34

Oh my god...

You really couldn't make this up. Sven Kramer, the red hot favourite for the mens 10k speed skating is disqualified after posting the top time, as he chooses the wrong lane.

Speed skating is done on a 400m oval, and riders change lanes once a lap as the outside lane is longer than the inside lane, thus making sure every lap is 400m. This is normally not problematic, but Kramer's coach Kemkers was somehow convinced that Kramer needed to go into the inner lane when Kramer was getting ready to take the outside lane. So he shouts to him to get into the inside lane. Kramer who is firmly on his way to Gold (with a 6 second lead over the fastest time at that point) starts to doubt, and goes for the inside lane, and gets rightly disqualified. I am so gutted. I've never seen anything like this. How can you lose an Olympic gold over such a freak misunderstanding?