Vancouver Olympics: Thread 3, Day 17 (Closing Ceremony)

quovadis13

The Dutch skater Sven Kramer (The energy bill saving skater who needs no introduction to American audiences) was DQ'd in the 10,000m event for taking the inner turn when he should have taken the outer turn! His coach led him in the wrong lane and he was DQ'd even though he had a better time.

Our bad luck is rubbing off on the Dutch!

toxk_02

NBC, twisting the knife.

Ready for some fresh NBC outrage? Just wait until tomorrow, when Oregon discovers that the broadcast for USA Hockey's quarterfinal doesn't start until three hours after the actual game does. I understand hockey really comes to life on the radio.

Many Americans were quite peeved when Sunday's game against Canada was assigned to MSNBC, denying folks without cable (or an MSNBC HD feed) a prime viewing experience. The network heard those cries, however, and will broadcast the USA's next game on the NBC mothership. Unfortunately ... none of NBC Classic's Olympic programming gets broadcast live on the West Coast. It appears that the game will be shown at 3:00 p.m. in the both Eastern and Pacific time zones.

Of course, if the match were moved back to MSNBC, showing it live across the entire country probably wouldn't be an issue. You can relish that irony while you're following the game on Twitter.

UPDATE: As of right now, the Gold Medal hockey game, the last event of the Olympics, taking place on a Sunday afternoon, when no other sports are being played anywhere in Vancouver, is scheduled to be shown on tape delay on the West Coast. Up yours.

Though I can't imagine NBC would keep the final on delay if the US is in the game. Well actually, I can imagine it. I just don't want to believe it.

quovadis13

ME wrote:

The Dutch skater Sven Kramer (The energy bill saving skater who needs no introduction to American audiences) was DQ'd in the 10,000m event for taking the inner turn when he should have taken the outer turn! His coach led him in the wrong lane and he was DQ'd even though he had a better time.

Our bad luck is rubbing off on the Dutch!

And was he ever pissed when he found out at the end of the race. That's insane for Holland.

Six

I don't get how they think tape delays make sense in this day and age.

I mean, I can understand MAYBE if the events are taking place on the other side of the world, but even then - show it live as well as delayed if you have to.

But to tape delay stuff without showing it that's taking place in the Pacific time zone is just asinine. Reminds me of when ABC used to tape delay Monday Night Football on the west coast.

Grim Squeaker

Correction: Sven Kramer's coach is a silly goose.

hippofant

Boy, China's men's curling team just isn't good. How did they whup the Americans?

Six

hippofant wrote: »

Boy, China's men's curling team just isn't good. How did they whup the Americans?

We're worse than just not good.

quovadis13

Eric Guay is the only member of the Canadian Alpine Team who actually bothered to show up at the Olympics so far. The only problem is he has left us with a serious case of the "What-ifs" again in the Giant Slalom. He had the 2nd fastest 2nd run. Had he had a better first run, he could have challenged for a medal again instead of finishing 16th.


Good job Eric Guay nonetheless.

Edit: Don't suck tonight Canada

Aegis

Heeeeeeeeerrrrreeeeee we go!

Senjutsu

fuckin' a, Thornton

Aegis

Woo!

Once again, Heatley scores.

We really should just make our entire international hockey team Danny Heatley clones.

quovadis13

Own the Podium 2014 consists entirely of funding cloning science.

Aegis

quovadis13 wrote: »

Own the Podium 2014 consists entirely of funding cloning science.

quovadis13

Getzlaf you knob

saint2e

What an absolutely boring game. This is our Team Canada? Pathetic.

Aegis

The Canadian ski-cross gold medallist that TSN guy is interviewing during the intermission is fucking hot

Senjutsu

Aegis wrote: »

The Canadian ski-cross gold medallist that TSN guy is interviewing during the intermission is fucking hot

seriously

quovadis13

saint2e wrote: »

What an absolutely boring game. This is our Team Canada? Pathetic.

If they can win their next 4 games playing this boring, then I welcome that.

Edit: Canada is leading the 2 women bobsled after the 1st run so far.

Aegis

holy fuck

The puck went right through the net and everyone missed it! Now the refs are reviewing it.

Aegis

GOAAAAAL!

By a defencemen no less.

Corvus

Aegis wrote: »

holy fuck

The puck went right through the net and everyone missed it! Now the refs are reviewing it.

This is why you feed Weber the puck.

And it's a good goal!

Senjutsu

what a weird goal

quovadis13

Shea Weber literally has a laser of a shot.

hippofant

Oh my God, could you imagine if Canada lost the game because of missing that goal? We'd try to invade Germany again, I swear.

quovadis13

Yeah!

Andrew_Jay

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Aegis

Canada, stop taking penalties.

Senjutsu

good to see Pronger's ass glued to the bench

sweet, 4-0

quovadis13

Senjutsu wrote: »

good to see Pronger's ass glued to the bench

Yeah, I have no problem with this whatsoever.

Jarome Iginla! Scoring at will against inferior opponents!

Aegis

(I can't believe I'm saying this) Crosby actually had some really smart plays on that move. He went straight to the net, bringing all the German defense with him, which allowed an unobstructed pass to Iginla.

Aegis

PENALTY SHOT!

PantsB

Spot kick! I mean penalty shot!

Lail

I've always felt that the person who busted their ass to draw a penalty shot should be the person who gets to take it.

quovadis13

Nash earned it, let him take it Babcock.

Aegis

Damnit, you could see that wraparound coming.

hippofant

That was Leaf-like in defensive execution.

AlejandroDaJ

Okay, I love whoever's in charge of licensing music for the NBC soundtracks. This past week I've heard Foo Fighters, The Roots, Lady Gaga... and tonight someone on the U.S. Nordic combined team described the team as a "band of brothers", so NBC played some of Michael Kamen's score for Band of Brothers miniseries.

Nova_C

So, gonna get rocked by Russia tomorrow? Yeah, probably.

PantsB

Go Demong!

ed
Good silver USA

Corvus

Nova_C wrote: »

So, gonna get rocked by Russia tomorrow? Yeah, probably.

I dunno. I think its a 50/50 pick.