2006 (ET/CT Time Zone) Torino Olympics Thread (Spoiler Rules in First Post) - Page 2

Airhog · 02-11-2006, 11:51 AM

Dammit!

Please don't post spoilers in this thread without warning. They will probably show that event during primetime, and its kinda ruined now

Eaglesfan27 · 02-11-2006, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Airhog

Dammit!

Please don't post spoilers in this thread without warning. They will probably show that event during primetime, and its kinda ruined now

Ditto. I'd rather not have to stop reading this thread.

Honolulu_Blue · 02-11-2006, 11:55 AM

I deleted it. Sorry, fellas. Didn't even think about possible spoilers and such. Won't happen again.

Airhog · 02-11-2006, 11:57 AM

Dont take my words the wrong way HB, Im sure you didnt mean it purposely. But feel free to create a thread with spoilers in it, if you'd like. I would just rather not know, since all of the good stuff will be time delayed

Honolulu_Blue · 02-11-2006, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Airhog

Dont take my words the wrong way HB, Im sure you didnt mean it purposely. But feel free to create a thread with spoilers in it, if you'd like. I would just rather not know, since all of the good stuff will be time delayed

Don't worry about it. I realized that I watched the event live on CBC and didn't even think about the time delay because I had just watched it. I am flipping around and often forget which event is on which channel.

I'll keep mum on all results in this thread. I'll keep 'em to threads dedicated to events, like the US/Swiss women's hockey thread.

Eaglesfan27 · 02-11-2006, 12:03 PM

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I deleted it. Sorry, fellas. Didn't even think about possible spoilers and such. Won't happen again.

Thanks for deleting it. We all make mistakes

ice4277 · 02-11-2006, 12:14 PM

I heard on CBC a little while ago that Canada's women's hockey team may beat the Italian team by 20-30 goals

Honolulu_Blue · 02-11-2006, 12:29 PM

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I heard on CBC a little while ago that Canada's women's hockey team may beat the Italian team by 20-30 goals

While I understand that goal differential matters, beating a team by 20-30 goals doesn't really seem to be in line with the Olympic spirit...

Johnny93g · 02-11-2006, 02:07 PM

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While I understand that goal differential matters, beating a team by 20-30 goals doesn't really seem to be in line with the Olympic spirit...

Unfortunatly, the home team for the gold medal game will be decided by goal differential. While noone wants to see a game like that, Canada can't afford to let up, because home ice in the final games will bring some important advantages

Right now, it's 5-0 Canada, so i dont think it will be 20 goals bad

Young Drachma · 02-11-2006, 02:18 PM

How do they determine home ice on a neutral site like the Olympics?

ISiddiqui · 02-11-2006, 02:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Honolulu_Blue

While I understand that goal differential matters, beating a team by 20-30 goals doesn't really seem to be in line with the Olympic spirit...

I watched the first period and Canada could have put their 3rd team out there and scored over 15 goals. The only way for them to stop scoring would be to go to the trap... and never go into the Italy offensive zone. Even then they'd score a couple

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Honolulu_Blue · 02-11-2006, 02:33 PM

They just noted that the combined age of the Italian defensive pairing on the power play was 30. They are each 15 years old. Wow.

SirFozzie · 02-11-2006, 02:35 PM

Wow. What a jump. It's alternatively scary and exhilerating to watch the ski jump... and these aren't the true ski jumpers (the nordic combined)

saldana · 02-11-2006, 02:48 PM

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Wow. What a jump. It's alternatively scary and exhilerating to watch the ski jump... and these aren't the true ski jumpers (the nordic combined)

i really liked the camera that goes down the chute with them and keeps going down along side the jumpers...that really gave a great sense of how far they are jumping.

saldana · 02-11-2006, 02:49 PM

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They just noted that the combined age of the Italian defensive pairing on the power play was 30. They are each 15 years old. Wow.

are you sure? just because i thought you have to be at least 16 to compete in the olympics

saldana · 02-11-2006, 02:55 PM

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Oh...I heard Yoko was lighting the flame befor the coverage started. WTF is right! I'm glad I went to bed.

i cant decide which was more utterly ridiculous...yoko ono who has never done anything except marry john lennon and obviously write really bad poetry, or the part when the olympic flag came in, carried by sophia loren (possibly the most famous italian woman alive right now), a nobel peace prize winner, a human rights activist from africa, an award winning author, several other not famous but noteworthy, accomplished women, and SUSAN SARANDON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF DOES SUSAN SARANDON HAVE TO DO WITH THE OLYMPICS. FINE SHE IS AN ANTI-WAR/ANTI-BUSH ACTIVIST, BUT THERE FREAKING WAY SHE SHOULD BE WITHIN 8000 MILES OF THE OLYMPICS WITHOUT A TICKET, imo.

Honolulu_Blue · 02-11-2006, 03:03 PM

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are you sure? just because i thought you have to be at least 16 to compete in the olympics

Well, it's what the folks on CBC said. Checking the website there is a player on Italy named Valentina Bettarini who was born in June 1990, which would make her 15 still. Not sure if that's one of the two players they were talking about, but I assume so.

RPI-Fan · 02-11-2006, 03:03 PM

I played open hockey with some Italian girl (maybe 15-16 years old at the time), about two years ago... I wonder if she made her way onto the team (she was quite good -- was holding her own with a girl who was regularly in Team USA camps, etc.).

SirFozzie · 02-11-2006, 03:07 PM

it's weird to watch folks ski as hard as they can for 90% of the course, and then at the end, deliberately slow down so they don't go near the end tommorrow.

Honolulu_Blue · 02-11-2006, 03:13 PM

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i cant decide which was more utterly ridiculous...yoko ono who has never done anything except marry john lennon and obviously write really bad poetry, or the part when the olympic flag came in, carried by sophia loren (possibly the most famous italian woman alive right now), a nobel peace prize winner, a human rights activist from africa, an award winning author, several other not famous but noteworthy, accomplished women, and SUSAN SARANDON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTF DOES SUSAN SARANDON HAVE TO DO WITH THE OLYMPICS. FINE SHE IS AN ANTI-WAR/ANTI-BUSH ACTIVIST, BUT THERE FREAKING WAY SHE SHOULD BE WITHIN 8000 MILES OF THE OLYMPICS WITHOUT A TICKET, imo.

Why not? Susan Sarandon is an Oscar winner. That's not bad. She is also of Italian and Welsh heritage. She's also a big time supporter/fan of hockey. That's A-Ok in my book. It's nice to have an actor/actress with some gavitas behind him/her support hockey instead of the usual fair: Alex Tribec, Alan Thicke, Dave Clouier, etc, etc. (Apparently she was also involved in an effort to get Dr. Laura's show off television. Now that is a noble goal worthy of the highest praise.)

If I had to choose an US actress to be at the Opening Ceramonies in Italy, I think an Oscar winner with Italian heritage who's a hockey fan is a pretty solid choice.

Go Susan. It was an inspired choice.

saldana · 02-11-2006, 03:21 PM

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Why not? Susan Sarandon is an Oscar winner. That's not bad. She is also of Italian and Welsh heritage. She's also a big time supporter/fan of hockey. That's A-Ok in my book. It's nice to have an actor/actress with some gavitas behind him/her support hockey instead of the usual fair: Alex Tribec, Alan Thicke, Dave Clouier, etc, etc. (Apparently she was also involved in an effort to get Dr. Laura's show off television. Now that is a noble goal worthy of the highest praise.)

If I had to choose an US actress to be at the Opening Ceramonies in Italy, I think an Oscar winner with Italian heritage who's a hockey fan is a pretty solid choice.

Go Susan. It was an inspired choice.

but why an actress....compared with the other people carrying the flag, it basically sent the message that we as americans value academy award winners more than anyone else in our society. I cant believe that there isnt someone of Italian heritage that has done a hell of a lot more for the world than make a bunch of movies that we could have sent.

SirFozzie · 02-11-2006, 03:22 PM

wow. Talk about a dream crushed at the beginning

SirFozzie · 02-11-2006, 03:22 PM

wow, what a dream crusher right at the beginning. nice fight back, if he had another ten seconds, he just might have done it

saldana · 02-11-2006, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by SirFozzie

it's weird to watch folks ski as hard as they can for 90% of the course, and then at the end, deliberately slow down so they don't go near the end tommorrow.

skiing at the end of a draw is sometime very hard, as the lines of all the other skiers have been cut in, and since it gets warmer as the day goes by the best line down the hill may change, so skiing outside the earlier cuts could be necessary and very difficult.

SirFozzie · 02-11-2006, 03:27 PM

btw, sorry to double post, but I'm getting errors (server reset) every now and then..

maybe they need to set up a system where the fastest run gets to choose where he goes in the draw instead.

saldana · 02-11-2006, 03:28 PM

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wow, what a dream crusher right at the beginning. nice fight back, if he had another ten seconds, he just might have done it

what were you refering to, i was watching the disaster that is the italian women hockey team for a few minutes.

Honolulu_Blue · 02-11-2006, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by saldana

but why an actress....compared with the other people carrying the flag, it basically sent the message that we as americans value academy award winners more than anyone else in our society. I cant believe that there isnt someone of Italian heritage that has done a hell of a lot more for the world than make a bunch of movies that we could have sent.

Culture is our biggest export! Maybe they asked Dinero or Pacino and they backed out or something... I have no idea who was asked or how it was chosen. The more highlights I see of Opening Ceramonies the more I regret missing it. It looked very sureal...

Eaglesfan27 · 02-11-2006, 03:33 PM

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btw, sorry to double post, but I'm getting errors (server reset) every now and then..

maybe they need to set up a system where the fastest run gets to choose where he goes in the draw instead.

I'm also getting errors on the board today.

That Bode Miller piece with Robert Redford just about made me turn off the coverage.

saldana · 02-11-2006, 03:34 PM

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I'm also getting errors on the board today.

That Bode Miller piece with Robert Redford just about made me turn off the coverage.

i did...i went back to the ridiculous hockey game again...16 goals on 65 shots for canada

General Mike · 02-11-2006, 03:36 PM

Canada-Italy is at 16-0, right now. 1:20 left in the 3rd

saldana · 02-11-2006, 03:47 PM

i feel really bad for the Italian girls. they didnt deserve that, but i cant decide what would have been worse, the canadians bringing it the whole game, or having them skate around between the circles in their own end for 2 periods.

ISiddiqui · 02-11-2006, 03:53 PM

This was Italy's first women's hockey team. They got an auto bid because they are the home squad. Ouch!

Eaglesfan27 · 02-11-2006, 07:53 PM

That was very cool

Celeval · 02-11-2006, 08:04 PM

Should we assume prime-time spoilers are okay?

Eaglesfan27 · 02-11-2006, 08:09 PM

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Should we assume prime-time spoilers are okay?

Good question. I wasn't sure if the West Coast might be getting it on even further tape delay than the East Coast and Central Time zones, which is why I stopped myself from posting specifics in my above post.

Honolulu_Blue · 02-11-2006, 08:13 PM

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Good question. I wasn't sure if the West Coast might be getting it on even further tape delay than the East Coast and Central Time zones, which is why I stopped myself from posting specifics in my above post.

I like this strategy. The thread will be filled with a bunch of random posts like:

Oh my god!

Unbelievable!

Did that just really happen?!?!

Good stuff!

digamma · 02-11-2006, 08:21 PM

We get everything on double tape delay out here.

Between all of the different time zones we have on the board and espn.com, yahoo and every news organization publishing and broadcasting results, I think it's pretty unrealistic to think this thread (and my olympic viewing) can be spoiler free.

saldana · 02-11-2006, 08:36 PM

for anyone else watching in HD, is your picture and sound cutting in and out? Craptacular said he had some problems earlier on Universal HD with the audio, but this entire primetime show is giving me all kinds of problems with both audio and visual.

also, anyone else noticing that the audio is out of sync with the video?

gstelmack · 02-11-2006, 08:40 PM

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btw, sorry to double post, but I'm getting errors (server reset) every now and then..

maybe they need to set up a system where the fastest run gets to choose where he goes in the draw instead.

I was thinking the same thing watching the downhill training runs. Any system that encourages people to not do their best needs fixing. As it is these guys are just guessing anyway about how much time to hold up on. You're almost getting a random seeding.

If you want fast times, reward them by letting them choose their position, rather than setting it by times. Especially in a sport where not everyone gets the same playing conditions.

Eaglesfan27 · 02-11-2006, 10:53 PM

I'm watching on a bit of a TIVO delay, but the German pairs figure skater is VERY hot.

Rizon · 02-11-2006, 11:11 PM

Beating Italians badly should be ok anytime, anyplace, and under any circumstances.

Rizon · 02-11-2006, 11:17 PM

I don't understand the scoring for pairs figure skating. I always thought if you fall you were pretty much toast.

DaddyTorgo · 02-11-2006, 11:24 PM

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I'm watching on a bit of a TIVO delay, but the German pairs figure skater is VERY hot.

i thought this too. well actually i just thought the girl was hot. i was rooting for them just because of her hotness! liked their routine too, just a shame she couldn't land that throw.

Eaglesfan27 · 02-11-2006, 11:30 PM

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i thought this too. well actually i just thought the girl was hot. i was rooting for them just because of her hotness! liked their routine too, just a shame she couldn't land that throw.

Heh. I thought it would be assumed I was talking about the girl

Yeah, I was rooting for them a bit too. Her partner just threw her with a bit too much force.

DaddyTorgo · 02-12-2006, 12:53 AM

catching some of the early stuff on the replay.

wow...that throw-triple-axle is BADASS.

ISiddiqui · 02-12-2006, 01:25 AM

This may be the only time I've heard a figure skating move described as "badass"

DaddyTorgo · 02-12-2006, 01:36 AM

did you watch it though? it totally was.

and is there anything better than GISing a random female athlete from another country and finding hot pictures?

kari traa

mmmm beautiful (and i'm not even talking the semi-naughty pictures, she just looks like a real pretty lady)

ISiddiqui · 02-12-2006, 02:10 AM

Yeah, I saw it... it's still figure skating.

DaddyTorgo · 02-12-2006, 02:21 AM

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Yeah, I saw it... it's still figure skating.

hater

dervack · 02-12-2006, 02:25 AM

You know, hearing that Kwan is withdrawing from the Olympics makes me irritated that she took a spot for someone else who had qualified for the team at the US championships.

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