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« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2010, 08:10:26 AM » |
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The Norwegians, realizing that curling is totally lame, jazzed it up with some fashion sense:  |
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« Reply #16 on: February 20, 2010, 08:13:34 AM » |
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The Norwegians, realizing that curling is totally lame,  jazzed it up with some fashion sense:
[img ]http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2010/02/16/PH2010021604987.jpg[/img]
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« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2010, 08:22:24 AM » |
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As a Canadian, I am loving these games because the Canadians are actually getting to shine in winter sports, as we usually get overshadowed by other, more wintery countries (and US and China who often win by sheer volume of contestants)
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« Reply #18 on: February 20, 2010, 12:07:58 PM » |
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The Norwegians, realizing that curling is totally lame, psh curling is my crack of sports. IT'S SO AWESOME!!! but those pants... i need them. almost as much as i need the team usa opening ceremony hat |
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« Reply #19 on: February 20, 2010, 05:38:13 PM » |
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The Norwegians, realizing that curling is totally lame, jazzed it up with some fashion sense: Speaking as someone who is not good at most sports (most of us?) curling is actually surprising fun and easy to play. Sorry if that makes me not sound as manly as you haters.  |
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« Reply #20 on: February 20, 2010, 05:42:41 PM » |
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I work in downtown Vancouver, and I can peek outside my 5th story office to see street performers, parades, and cheering all day. It's kind of distracting to be honest, but the spirit in Vancouver right now is pretty incredible. :3 I'm pretty indifferent to the idea of the Olympics in general, but seeing everyone dressed up in Canadian flags and jerseys, getting high-fived and hugged by random strangers, and hearing the city erupt in cheering, yelling, and car-horn blowing whenever we win a medal or score a goal is pretty amazing, and has got me feeling all patriotic and stuff. ...GO CANADA GO!  |
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« Reply #21 on: February 21, 2010, 01:36:20 PM » |
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That's incredible. I watched a segment the other day saying the Canadian spirit is abnormally high, but from what you're saying this like being in Regina when the Riders won the Grey Cup... except this is everyday, and likely much bigger crowds of people.
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« Reply #22 on: February 21, 2010, 01:43:06 PM » |
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I always thought the categories that are basically mashups of different sports together were a bit silly, like the biathlon.
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« Reply #23 on: February 21, 2010, 01:46:24 PM » |
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I love how Shawn White dominated everyone in the halfpipe last night. His first run secured his gold medal and he topped it off in his second run with a triple-whammy 1260 McTwist or something like that (a move apparently only he can do). He was getting at least 6 feet of air over everyone else the whole time.
It's fun to watch someone kick so much ass like that. Why is there always exactly one person in every sport that's heads and tails better than everyone else?!
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« Reply #24 on: February 23, 2010, 10:35:29 AM » |
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Actually, the more I watch and study curling the cooler it looks, I merely say that because the immediate reaction of an American to curling is "why are these Canucks scrubbing the floor? LAME."
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« Reply #25 on: February 23, 2010, 11:35:44 AM » |
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They just need to introduce curling to a wider, global demographic.
I know, curling on motorcycles. Truly I am a genius.
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« Reply #26 on: February 23, 2010, 12:43:53 PM » |
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Actually, the more I watch and study curling the cooler it looks, I merely say that because the immediate reaction of an American to curling is "why are these Canucks scrubbing the floor? LAME."
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« Reply #27 on: February 23, 2010, 11:46:18 PM » |
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One of our skaters, Sven Kramer, got disqualified yesterday on the 10KM because his coach made a fuck up  He had the best time, too. Such a bummer |
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« Reply #28 on: February 25, 2010, 01:49:03 AM » |
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We just lost to Slovakia, now the only interesting thing left is womens curling.  |
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« Reply #29 on: February 25, 2010, 01:09:23 PM » |
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One of our skaters, Sven Kramer, got disqualified yesterday on the 10KM because his coach made a fuck up He had the best time, too. Such a bummer I saw that! His coach made him take the wrong lane. |
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