Official Torino 2006 thread

[Jake]

I'd rather NBC cut out the non-Americans/non-good stuff for us. I'd rather not watch ten groups of Chinese guys go before the American kicks their asses.

[Hatman 🍁]

I'd rather NBC cut out the non-Americans/non-good stuff for us. I'd rather not watch ten groups of Chinese guys go before the American kicks their asses.

I have the same feeling for the non-Canadians.

[The Duke]

Is anyone else enjoying the repeated Bode Miller wipeouts?  This is the highlight of the games for me for some reason.  First, he skids around on the downhill.  Not only does Bode stink out the joint, he ruins the whole team when his complaints about the skis convince Daron Rhalves to switch to older, slower skis and Rhalves ddoes a perfect run but just isn't fast enough.  Bode has Terrell Owens potential here.  Then he gets DQd in the combined and some American no one has ever heard of wins the gold in combined!  Bode is on the cover of time, and no one will ever remember the name of Ted Ligety, even though Ligety is apparently better.

Olympic hero so far is Shaun White, the snowboarder who says he's going to use his Halfpipe gold medal to hit on figure skater Sasha Cohen.  That's what America is all about, my friends.  Greatest country on Earth.

[Platypus]

I'd rather NBC cut out the non-Americans/non-good stuff for us. I'd rather not watch ten groups of Chinese guys go before the American kicks their asses.

I have the same feeling for the non-Canadians.

Watching the winter games gives me the same feeling that I presume most countries get with the summer games. In the summer games, if there is only a maximum of about 6 people who have a chance of winning gold, usually at least one is an Aussie. If there isn't an aussie, there is another sport that will have one so they can cover that instead.

In the winter oolympics, there might be an aussie somewhere around 18th, but the realistic medal chances are very rarely Australian. It's still interesting, but not as interesting. I suppose the Canucks feel the same way about the summer games.

BTW, I feel kind of sorry for Norway-last I looked, they had 8 medals but only one of them was Gold.

[Jake]

That's why America rocks. We have a medal contender in pretty much everything.

[Platypus]

Yeah, but you have 300 million people. We have 20 million and still manage to get in the top 5 in the summer games. Although Norway is pretty impressive, considering they have 3, maybe 4 million people? In Sydney, The US won about 1 medal per 3 million people. Australia won about 1 per 300,000. So, you could say we're ten times better then the states

The best olympic nations would probably be the Bahamas, Australia, Norway, the USA, Germany and Russia. Maybe a couple of other little nations that win a few medals.

[??????????]

Yeah, but you have 300 million people. We have 20 million and still manage to get in the top 5 in the summer games. Although Norway is pretty impressive, considering they have 3, maybe 4 million people? In Sydney, The US won about 1 medal per 3 million people. Australia won about 1 per 300,000. So, you could say we're ten times better then the states

The best olympic nations would probably be the Bahamas, Australia, Norway, the USA, Germany and Russia. Maybe a couple of other little nations that win a few medals.

And Jamaica has a good bobsled team.

[Gabu]

Yeah, but you have 300 million people. We have 20 million and still manage to get in the top 5 in the summer games. Although Norway is pretty impressive, considering they have 3, maybe 4 million people? In Sydney, The US won about 1 medal per 3 million people. Australia won about 1 per 300,000. So, you could say we're ten times better then the states

The best olympic nations would probably be the Bahamas, Australia, Norway, the USA, Germany and Russia. Maybe a couple of other little nations that win a few medals.

And Jamaica has a good bobsled team.

Wow, someone else has seen Cool Runnings.

[??????????]

Yeah, but you have 300 million people. We have 20 million and still manage to get in the top 5 in the summer games. Although Norway is pretty impressive, considering they have 3, maybe 4 million people? In Sydney, The US won about 1 medal per 3 million people. Australia won about 1 per 300,000. So, you could say we're ten times better then the states

The best olympic nations would probably be the Bahamas, Australia, Norway, the USA, Germany and Russia. Maybe a couple of other little nations that win a few medals.

And Jamaica has a good bobsled team.

Wow, someone else has seen Cool Runnings.

Yeah, we were talking about how good a movie that was at work the other day. And we were messing with this big ole Jamacian guy we work with.

[freek]

The best olympic nations would probably be the Bahamas, Australia, Norway, the USA, Germany and Russia. Maybe a couple of other little nations that win a few medals.

When you consider the medals won on Winter Olympics only, Liechtenstein might have won the most medals per inhabitant. 4 or 5 medals in total on 30,000(?) inhabitants.

[MHS2002]

Australia is aiming for one medal, any colour. How depressing.

An Australian just won the gold medal in men's moguls.

[CO-OWL]

For the foreigners out there...are your networks showing the Games live? Everything except some curling and ice hockey is recorded for us.

If I wanted to, I could watch Olympic Games from 9am to 11pm (CET) on the public networks. When nothing else is avaible they even broadcast curling or ice hockey matches without the German team participating.

[Platypus]

Australia is aiming for one medal, any colour. How depressing.

An Australian just won the gold medal in men's moguls.

well, he was one of our 5 real medal chances, so that's good, but this is kinda irritating, because the tv coverage won't start for another 13 hours and 38 minutes

[© tweed]

F'ing Latvia.

We should whip on the Kazakhs, but still, we tied fricking Latvia.

[Jake]

The Russia-Slovakia and Germany-Czech Rep. matches were both great.

[riceowl]

Yeah, but you have 300 million people. We have 20 million and still manage to get in the top 5 in the summer games. Although Norway is pretty impressive, considering they have 3, maybe 4 million people? In Sydney, The US won about 1 medal per 3 million people. Australia won about 1 per 300,000. So, you could say we're ten times better then the states

The best olympic nations would probably be the Bahamas, Australia, Norway, the USA, Germany and Russia. Maybe a couple of other little nations that win a few medals.

And Jamaica has a good bobsled team.

Wow, someone else has seen Cool Runnings.

Um...who HASN'T seen Cool Runnings?!

And they're not a good team.  Just an inspiring one.  They didn't qualify this year.  One of my biggest disappointments in the opening ceremonies this year was realizing that Jamaica had no representation.

[Hatman 🍁]

The one Aussie gold medal is from a former Canadian Kind of reminds me of the Australian curling team, which is entirely made up of former Canadians. They aren't in these games, but I did have the luxury to practice next to them last year

That's why America rocks. We have a medal contender in pretty much everything.

Not true. Probably just for half the events.  This is true for the Summer Olympics, though.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Hey we actually won a medal!

[Flying Dog]

My home towns own Alex Izykowski is speed skating in the Olympics. He got to the semi-finals in the mens 500 but was then eliminated. Then on wednesday, he skated will apolo ohno in the 5000 relay and the finished first and are going to the finals. It would be nice to see him bring a medal back to Bay City.

[Jake]

Not true. Probably just for half the events.  This is true for the Summer Olympics, though.

No, the only sports we don't do well in are cross country skiing, ski jumping, and nordic combined.

[Platypus]

Hey we actually won a medal!

It's the only one you'll be winning in a multi-sport event this year...

[© tweed]

Bring on Slovakia

[Akno21]

The USA Women had a tough curling loss. Aside from the fact I have no clue what the hell is going on, I don't find curling to be that boring a sport.

[Platypus]

The USA Women had a tough curling loss. Aside from the fact I have no clue what the hell is going on, I don't find curling to be that boring a sport.

It's kinda like lawn bowls on ice. Not really anyone's favourite sport, but watchable.

[Jake]

For one of the rounds recently, I saw they just kept hitting each other's puck out of the circles. Senseless really.