5 says Lindsey Vonn is hooooooooot

2/18/2010 10:20:57 PM

I couldn't make it through this guy's routine.

2/18/2010 10:50:02 PM

SUCK IT ROOSKI!

2/19/2010 12:08:57 AM

lol at this goddamn canadian curler... eh? eh?

[Edited on February 19, 2010 at 4:21 AM. Reason : that's all i could hear from his discussion w/ teammate]

2/19/2010 4:16:41 AM

Not a big figure skater fan, so I didn't watch last night. I had a passing interest in who won gold though, so I went to espn this morning:

Quote :

"Then, the announcer introduced Russian silver medalist Evgeni Plushenko, who jokingly stepped onto the podium's upper-most level, where American Evan Lysacek was to receive his gold medal, before stepping to his rightful position. Or maybe it wasn't such a joke. "I was positive I had won," said Plushenko, the 2006 gold medalist. "But I suppose Evan needs a gold medal more than I do because I already have one.""

2/19/2010 7:04:25 AM

What a clown. His program was boring. USA USA USA!! #1!!

2/19/2010 7:32:18 AM

What a dick.

2/19/2010 7:59:16 AM

What else would you expect from a Russian figure skater?

2/19/2010 8:46:33 AM

apparently its all about the 'quad'

shits crazy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRsNziu4oEE

2/19/2010 11:51:32 AM

His rotational axis was bad on all of his jumps and he almost spun out of two of them. Evan didn't do a quad but he was much cleaner and his footwork was better.

AKA THE RUSSIAN IS BEING A BITCH

2/19/2010 5:53:20 PM

WTF is with more dancing? Are they going to show the men's Super-G tonight?

2/19/2010 8:43:24 PM

Ice dancing is worth way more advertising dollars than skiing.

2/19/2010 8:47:00 PM

svindal wins!

already knew the results, but it was great to watch.

2/19/2010 10:04:06 PM

Got to give Shuster and his team credit. They won again today with Shuster in and are trying to battle back!

2/20/2010 3:55:29 PM

but at third we no longer have to worry about him choking on crucial draws

and he totally bungled an important shot today as well, but got away with it

2/20/2010 7:59:23 PM

So can anybody tell the difference between the Swiss and the medics?

2/20/2010 11:06:13 PM

Why can't they actually show events? The down hill skiing events were in tape delay and they only showed a few runs on the bobsled track. Some how they did manage to spend an hour interviewing male figure skaters. Put the bobsleds on speed channel.

2/20/2010 11:47:30 PM

Figure skaters are worth much more money than skiers or bobsledders...and Speed Channel is owned by News Corp., not GE.

2/21/2010 5:22:12 AM

anyone know where i can stream the games for free? Thanks

2/22/2010 10:09:07 PM

as always try http://channelsurfing.net/

2/22/2010 11:20:22 PM

^hasn't worked for me yet. I want a live stream for curling tonight!

2/23/2010 5:09:52 PM

IMO, Korea got screwed out of a gold. Team USA backed into the bronze because of it!

2/24/2010 10:18:44 PM

Yeah...I'm gonna agree with South Korea getting screwed on that one. Wonder what there options are of protesting and actually getting that Gold back. Either way...I highly enjoy short track skating.

2/24/2010 10:20:52 PM

^ Nothing they can do at all, decision is final.

and they didn't get screwed, thats just how speed skating works.

Though Im sure that won't stop the inevetable national outrage and death threats mailed to the IOC

2/24/2010 10:23:56 PM

has carmen schaefer of swiss curling been spoken of yet????

2/25/2010 1:30:36 PM

not as hot as Cheryl Bernard

2/25/2010 2:03:16 PM

Back to Madeleine Dupont

http://multimedia.ekstrabladet.dk/eb/archive/00509/No_name_509651m.jpg

2/25/2010 8:47:00 PM

her and the swiss... very nice

2/25/2010 8:57:03 PM

I love the olympics but week 2 has been really weak..

Seems like all of the big time stuff was all within the first week.. now we are subjected to watch meaningless figures skaters and ice dancers for half of the coverage.

About the only things I care about the rest of the olympics is USA hockey and apolo tomorrow night


****SPOILER*****




































Just saw we won gold and silver in nordic combined.. that is freakin huge for our push to finally win the medal count


[Edited on February 25, 2010 at 9:04 PM. Reason : ]

2/25/2010 9:01:26 PM

women lost 2-0 to canada

still, it's a silver to put on the board

2/25/2010 9:05:11 PM

this canadian figure skater looks pretty good......shes prolly 15 or something, but she still looks pretty good

2/25/2010 11:38:51 PM

According to the website, she's actually 24.

I feel almost bad for Mirai Nagasu: as a young 16 year old, first time in an international competition, being forced to skate in the same group after world record breaking performances by the titans of your field. Then again, I suppose that leaves her with no pressure to perform.

2/25/2010 11:50:28 PM

I thought the Canadian tripped on one of her moves. It seems like Rochette got 3rd because her mom died. Nagasu was much more crisp. Whatever though. Thats why its figure skating and much more of an american idol/dancing with the stars rating getter than an actual competitive athletic event.

2/26/2010 12:01:26 AM

^^ don't feel bad for her

a lot of skaters don't do that well at the Olympics when they're so young

Tara Lipinski is probably the most obvious exception in recent history

but it's more common for them to be at least 17 or 18

Mirai will definitely have a chance at a medal in Soichi if she continues to skate well

2/26/2010 7:43:05 AM

fools floppin on short track. thats why its a gay sport. the referees literally pick who wins.

2/26/2010 10:43:29 PM

^ But the difference is, when our guy gets DQed, we don't send bomb/death threats to the referee and the referee's embassy.

2/26/2010 10:47:34 PM

that was bullshit, that guy dove cuz he knew he was getting passed. at least apollo called them out

2/26/2010 11:14:05 PM

it was bullshit. how they allow a ref from canada to judge that shit is beyond me. the replay showed it perfectly...apollo got DQ'ed for the same shit the guy who won gold got away with

2/26/2010 11:44:54 PM

Eh. It was pretty obvious ohno was going to get dqed.

Wow. Fuck Jimmy Fallon.

2/26/2010 11:47:16 PM

Quote :

"the replay showed it perfectly...apollo got DQ'ed for the same shit the guy who won gold got away with"

Thats the real kicker. If the guy who won wasn't canadian and didn't do something worse to keep the korean guy from winning, it wouldn't be as bad....but that was more of a "foul" than what Ohno did. There was clearly no intent to knock the canadian down and i've seen much worse allowed in that sport. Ohno was probably cost gold because of something worse against him earlier in these games and he's been taken out of medals in previous games for worse against him.

[Edited on February 27, 2010 at 10:32 AM. Reason : ]

2/27/2010 10:30:15 AM

that canadian guy, charles hamalamadingdong, looks like a tree hugging hippie

2/27/2010 10:41:04 AM

That pisses me off what happened last night to Apollo. There should at least be a panel of judges to make that call, not one guy who is biased towards his own country.

2/27/2010 11:06:09 AM