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| 2010 Winter Olympics | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 8 2010, 04:47 PM (1,149 Views) | |
| Merengue | Feb 8 2010, 04:47 PM Post #1 |
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I will open this thread so those interested can discuss the 2010 Winter Olympic Games opening up next week in Vancouver. Edit: haha, I knew hobbes would be on this, practically simultaneously as I, he just opened a thread on the Olympic Hockey tournament, so this thread will be for a general discussion of the games, the hockey thread will be for discussion of that sport. |
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| hobbes | Feb 8 2010, 05:01 PM Post #2 |
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Great minds and all that Merengue. ![]() I will just add that I've been in Vancouver three times in the last month and it's ludicrous they're hosting a Winter Olympics there. The grass is green and lush, flowers are in bloom, it wasn't even raining. The temperature was about 55F (13C) the one day. It looks like May or June there. I'm sure the mountains will be fine with plenty of snow, but it's not very wintery in the city itself. cheers, hobbes |
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| raconteur | Feb 12 2010, 12:38 PM Post #3 |
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Tragic news as Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died after a training accident, Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili dies from crash
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| ursus arctos | Feb 12 2010, 12:43 PM Post #4 |
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Absolutely tragic. RIP Nodar. |
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| Mr. Pither | Feb 12 2010, 01:12 PM Post #5 |
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Terrible news, RIP. There of course was the murder of the Israeli athletes during the 1972 Games in Munich but can anyone recall a similar event as this with the Georgian luger where an athlete died just before the Olympics started in a training accident? |
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| ursus arctos | Feb 12 2010, 01:22 PM Post #6 |
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In the 1964 games at Innsbruck, a British luger and Australian skiier died in training (in separate incidents) before the games started. |
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| autogol | Feb 12 2010, 01:28 PM Post #7 |
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RIP, tragic news. That is why we from the tropics stay away from these kind of sports. We have enough risk in our lives living in our countries without engaging in extreme sports! ![]() Seeing sports like the luge and the sled where the riders lay on their stomach (skeleton?), ski jumping and now these new "X Games like" sports it is amazing there have not been more fatalities at the Winter Games. |
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| hobbes | Feb 12 2010, 02:26 PM Post #8 |
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I'm no luge expert, but when I think of the track in Calgary it's very open and on the side of a mountain, parts of this course looks like an underpass in a city. When I heard what happened it seemed like impossibly bad luck. Now seeing the accident and the course it's obvious anyone who flipped off of the track there would have hit one of those beams, there's no avoiding it. The fact that there have been three crashes there now in two days leads to some questions. RIP Nodar Kumaritashvilii What a horrible way to start the Games. I feel for the Georgian team and all of the lugers at the Games. cheers, hobbes |
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| Martin | Feb 12 2010, 02:42 PM Post #9 |
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Very tragic. I heard on the news that the track is considered very fast and difficult, apart from the dangerous obstacles hobbes noted. Plus the course apparently drops the equivalent of a 50 story building from start to finish! RIP Nodar Kumaritshvili. |
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| shelsoccer | Feb 13 2010, 09:49 AM Post #10 |
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I love Vancouver -- the most stunning city I've ever visited -- but it seems these games are off to a star-crossed start. Too warm, no snow, rain, fog, this tragic accident and the embarrassing glitch during the cauldron lighting at the opening ceremonies. Btw, I usually pay little attention to opening and closing ceremonies. That was my attention last night. I was watching what turned out to be a three-overtime college basketball game between Pitt and W. Virginia. I switched over a couple of times during timeouts to check out the ceremonies. Each time I did, I got more engrossed in the production, stagecraft, lighting, props and "storytelling." I finally foresook the hoops. Except for the culimating lighting of the cauldron, what I watched was brilliantly produced, performed and presented. |
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| Martin | Feb 13 2010, 03:10 PM Post #11 |
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I have only heard good things about Vancouver, would love to visit it one day. I am still trying to figure out what the tattooed guy in the kilt was all about in the opening ceremony. And hobbes where was the representation for the Newfies?
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| hobbes | Feb 13 2010, 03:20 PM Post #12 |
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I thought they did a really good job of the ceremonies. I'm a little jaded on things like that especially in this country where it seems you have to hit specific beats to be acceptible and appease everyone, but last night was great. Until the end. The snowboarder jumping through the rings, the fiddlers capped by Ashley MacIsaac’s return to the national spotlight after seeing his personal life spiral horribly out of control in the 90s (he even played the Devil In the Kitchen, you can youtube the original). kd lang covering Leonard Cohen in David Byrne’s suit was brilliant and I loved Shane Koyczan from Short Story Long dropping some poetry. It had won me over and then they picked a great group of Olympic flag bearers (Barbara Ann Scott looks amazing for 81, I can even forgive Anne Murray because I can think of so many worse options) and then they totally botched the rest of it. It was very Canadian to let everyone light the flame and there was a pretty good general feeling that they were hoping for someone other than Gretzky (Betty Fox or Rick Hansen seemed popular options). But then there was a rumour that a hologram of Terry Fox was going to light it and after some of the visuals (like the lights on the floor in Hallelujah turning into doves that then rose and flew up over invisible screens) that seemed possible. I think the whole country was hoping for hologram Terry Fox, but instead we got an awkward pause, a three-legged pillar and the greatest hockey player of all time tailgating on a pick up truck in the pouring rain apparently driving all the way across town. It was no Barcelona archer. Not by a kilometre. It really does feel like these Games could be a disaster. It doesn’t help that a huge portion of Vancouver doesn’t want them there and some of the things Vanoc did are pretty shocking. cheers, hobbes |
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| hobbes | Feb 13 2010, 03:29 PM Post #13 |
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Vancouver is amazing btw. I love that city to death. My understanding was that the idea was that the fiddle is a universal thing in Canada, which I had never thought about, but it felt true. Obviously in the maritimes fiddle music and Irish music are huge, but in rural Quebec and with the Metis (the french-aboriginal people) there's another traditional style. Add in the country style of the prairies and also with the eastern European influence and it's pretty ubiquitous coast-to-coast. They had a touch of each (and the dancers all had kind of a different look). Then you have sort of a modern celt-punk thing that's big on both costs (the tattooed guy). And Ashley MacIsaac was repping for Newfoundland (Cape Breton specifically). Plus he and kd also represented another section of Canadian life. cheers, hobbes |
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| Martin | Feb 13 2010, 03:29 PM Post #14 |
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haha, there goes that cynicism hobbes! The Games will be fine, don't worry. Although I will say after watching the gruesome pictures of the Georgian luger's fatal crash, I was shocked those metal pillars were not padded when they were so close to the final turn. Funny hobbes should mention Anne Murray, while watching the opening ceremonies and seeing all of the Canadian celebrities trotted out there, I said to my wife, "They have had practically every famous Canadian but Anne Murray" Lo and behold there she was carrying the Olympic flag in! :lol: |
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| Mr. Pither | Feb 15 2010, 11:14 PM Post #15 |
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I am not a real big fan of the Winter Olympics but I do enjoy watching speed skating and in the Netherlands where the sport is very closely followed, I would say it is along with cycling the joint #2 sport in the country behind football, there was a lot of joy with Sven Kremer's win in the 5000m. His best event is really the 10K, so that he won at the shorter distance already is a good sign he can double. The Dutch fans in their bright orange outfits, cowbells and horns give an almost football atmosphere to international speed skating events. |
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