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Whatever, I guess I'll just stay out of these altogether then. I'm having a hard enough time avoiding results on every frickin' web site I visit.
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02-12-2006, 09:54 PM | #152 |
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i think you almost have to embrace the results when the olympics are happening overseas. look and see who won, but then focus more on how they got there then the fact that they won. i've already had a couple events spoiled, but i try not to let that ruin my appreciation of their athletic achievements...
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Yep.. I mean sports sites like ESPN, CBS Sportsline, etc, have NO interest in keeping you in the dark until you can watch the Olympics on NBC that evening (though for some strange reason NBC's site reveals results before broadcast as well). They want to give you the sports news as soon as it happens.
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02-12-2006, 11:03 PM | #154 |
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I love the Flying Tomato's seemingly sincere emotion after the win. His attempts to pick up Sasha Cohen were rather humorous as well.
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02-13-2006, 12:12 AM | #155 |
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SI, that sounds like a great idea. that way we can have actual discussions about stuff that is happening like we did in the womens ice hockey thread, and everyone is warned not to read the thread if they are delayed by their TIVO (like i will be all week)
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02-13-2006, 09:19 AM | #158 |
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I have a hard time viewing snowboarding as an olympic sport.
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I have nothing against the activity but found myself saying "WTF is this doing in the Olympics." Do they have Olympic surfing?
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02-13-2006, 10:34 AM | #161 |
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I know everyone is going to find this incredibly dorky, but I'm actually excited to go home and fire up the curling from my DVR. It only comes once every 4 years, so I'm trying to enjoy as much of it as I can.
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If I go the rest of my life without hearing the term "fakey to fakey", that would be OK by me.
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Why? Is it because it hasn't been around as some of the other events? Is it because it has been popularized by the X-games? Or is there some other reason? I'm just curious as to what makes it less worthwhile than any of the other subjective sports in the Olympics. Edit: The 2nd question was supposed to be: Is it because it hasn't been around as long as some of the other events?
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It's probably irrational but it doesn't seem like there's much competition to it. Dunno, just didn't excite me last night between some of them looking like they were in their pajamas and one guy listening to the ear buds as he performed. I'm sure they are very talented but again to me it's like Olympic surfing. Nothing is dumber than syncronized swimming so snowboarders take solice in that.
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I think a strong case could be made for eliminating all "subjective" sports from the olympics. Any sport that requires judges to make an arbitrary call on something that just flies past them doesn't belong. Speed skating is in, figure skating out. Swimming is in, diving is out. Downhill racing is in, Nordic combined (where they get freakin' judged on their skijumping form instead of just how far they go?) is gone.
Just my personal opinion. Not saying the others are not fun to watch or worthy of competing in, just that they are too subjective for judges to decide who is "best".
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Now why isn't ski jumping just who goes farthest? See that would make sense.
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Opening thread post and thread title have been changed.
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Ooh! Curling is live on CNBC at 4.
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I'd be surprised if it's live, since Torino is something like 6-7 hours ahead of the East Coast.
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My bad, yeah, it's taped. Still...
Anyways, it's USA vs Finland in the Battle for Earth or somethin' SI
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Fred Rogin is covering Curling?
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I'm really beginning to not like this stocks guy.
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He seems like the Walton/Madden/Vitale of stocks
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A bit ironic you talking about spoilers, isn't it? I think the two threads should work well -- one for "live" spoilers, this one you can't talk about until it's happened in Eastern/Central TV.
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That curling match had a surprisingly compelling ending.
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That was disappointing... I thought we were positioned very well going into the last couple stones.
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I'm glad I worked the early end of my shift today (7:45am-4:45pm EST instead of 8:45-5:45) and got to see the majority of the match (even though I watched in the background). I think I'll plan on doing the same the rest of the week. Does anyone have a link to the men's hockey TV schedule without spoilers (you can't go to the NBC Olympics page without spoiling)?
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I'm pretty sure that http://www.nbcolympics.com/tv/index.html is spoiler-free.
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but that was exciting. Also, my wife said something about this being why she never worries about me having an affair- I was sitting in front of the tv, strangely compelled to watch curling for the past 3 hours.
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Freaking NBC
The only time they are showing curling so that people who actually have a normal workweek can see it is during the weekends!! Bastards! edit: WAIT! CNBC is showing it the next few days so I can at least catch a half hour or more! Woot!
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Yeah, that's what we were watching it on- it was the Finland/USA barn burner on CNBC.
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ah, relay short track speed skating.. otherwise known as Roller Derby with more folks on the ice then your average pond hockey game.
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My wife is loving the woman's half-pipe, because they do little dances when they finish.
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Like the Ickey Shuffle for Olympians
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Gah, I have six things of the WInter Games to watch on my Tivo.. if I get behind, I'll need my entire five day weekend to catch up with em!
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Joey Cheek was a huge surprise to me. That was cool
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I feel bad for that poor figure skater (not going to try to butcher her name.) That was a very nasty looking fall.
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Very courageous performance from the young figure skater to finish her routine after that terrible fall.
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Absolutely... that looked really bad when it happened. Impressive that they were still able to medal despite the lost points from the toss and the deduction for the fall.
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