Winter Olympics

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 8:25 am

Is anyone watching this? Do you have a favourite sport? Or does no one really care?

It's quite popular here, especially the speed skating since that is where we get the medals from. Our boys used to win them all in the old days

, but now we just have won a few. We're not so good at all the ski-stuff because we have no hills.

And I like the skateboarding and the figure-skating.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:02 am

It's really popular in Sweden - and we have won a bunch of medals

I have watched every hockey game - but when it comes to the other sports I only watch the highlights.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:26 am

Olympics? That's like sport init? Bah...

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:12 am

Caught the figure skating couples a few times. Quite mesmerising.

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:20 am

Obfleur wrote:It's really popular in Sweden - and we have won a bunch of medals

I have watched every hockey game - but when it comes to the other sports I only watch the highlights.

I know... all these Swedes at my office are telling how much more medals Sweden has won than the Netherlands.

Good luck with the ice hockey today!

Figure skating is so cool! I saw it yesterday evening, and one lady did a jump I do for my martial arts class, the 'butterfly jump'. I can't believe you can do that on skates!

Legion: you don't have to do it yourself, you can sit in a nice compy chair and watch.

And have popcorn and drinks.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:50 am

Eline wrote:Legion: you don't have to do it yourself, you can sit in a nice compy chair and watch. And have popcorn and drinks.

but, but... it's sport!

Eline wrote:compy chair

egads! is that what happened to Computron?!

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:42 pm

Legion wrote:
Eline wrote:compy chair
egads! is that what happened to Computron?!

Impactor returns 2.0 · Post by **Impactor returns 2.0** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:04 pm

I always think the winter Olympics is a tad elitest for me to get to excited over.
For all I know I might be the best skier/bobsliegh/ski jumper in history but alas no snow etc... in Bournemouth

On the other hand i know I wasted my chance to become an olympic sprinter, U might laugh but I could run the 100 meters in 11secs flat at 15 from a standing start.
Muscle plus a good start would easily have got me 1 sec off that time.
10 secs is olympic standard...

what a waste...

Ozz · Post by **Ozz** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:18 pm

I watch ice hockey when I'm in a place that's got TV and it's on. Other than that, I take interest in Poles' results. We just won our first medal in Torino (and it's like seventh in the whole history of Winter Olympics). even better, that it was completely out of the blue.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:51 pm

http://img.aftonbladet.se/sport/0602/24/roberts.jpg

Some dude that was at a curling game.

Eline · Post by **Eline** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:14 pm

poor chicken

saysadie · Post by **saysadie** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 4:10 pm

Eline wrote:

poor chicken

What she said...

Watch the Olympics once in a bit. Though I'd kinda still like to know who it was that originally thought that hurtling yourself down a slick ramp of ice at upwards of 120/130ish kmh with nothing but a helmet to protect you was a good idea...

Y'know what should be an olympic sport? running from the police. They should set minor-offence criminals loose in a controlled area of a city [or whatever] and set the police out. Give the felons water cannons or something.

... and give the cops swimming flippers, it'll make it interesting...

IronHide · Post by **IronHide** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 6:18 pm

I watched every Hockey game....

I lost a lot of interest when both Canada and US got beat out though.....

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 7:35 pm

Impactor returns 2.0 wrote:I always think the winter Olympics is a tad elitest for me to get to excited over.
For all I know I might be the best skier/bobsliegh/ski jumper in history but alas no snow etc... in Bournemouth

And? Never seen Cool Runnings? Not much snow in Jamaica either.

On the other hand i know I wasted my chance to become an olympic sprinter, U might laugh but I could run the 100 meters in 11secs flat at 15 from a standing start.

Same here!

I think it was following a good showing in the sprints that I was moved from Full Back to Winger in Rugby.

Didn't pursue a career there either. Obviously. Met one of the RAF brothers, tho.

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:22 pm

Here in the States, people and the media spend more time grousing and lamenting the fact that we're not dominanting the Olympics, and how dare the other countries win medals when we were all set up to put Bode Miller on the Wheaties box than actually talking about or watching the Olympics itself.

Is Olympics singular? Hm.

People are like, "Why is skiing for a bit and then shooting a rifle a sport?" But just because I don't ski and then shoot a rifle doesn't mean I can't see living in a place like many of you ladies and gentlemen where, back in the day, skiing was a natural and essential way of getting around. And then you go out and you have to find something to eat, and then you're shooting and skiing.
From that point, it's just a hop, skip, and a jump to one bloke saying to another bloke that he bets he could ski out, kill something, and bring it back quicker than the other guy. Flash forward a lot of years, and boom, you're got a sport.

So yeah, the Olympics are cool with me.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 8:48 pm

Vancouver 2010, then.

No prizes for guessing they chose Avril "Sk8r Boi" Lavigne to sing out their presentation.

Olympics is singular, in that it is a group noun, and an abbreviation to boot - Olympic Games.

Obfleur · Post by **Obfleur** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 7:37 am

Holy crap. Sweden won the ice hockey.
Finally Forsberg, Sundin, Lidström and Alfredsson got to win something together.

This is the biggest sport moment in my life. When I'm 70 I'll be telling my grankids about this ****.