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

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  • AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    If Ron Wilson breaks up the Staal-Crosby-Iginla line again I'm going to personally hunt him down. It's only been shown in the 1st and 3rd game now that that line should stay the fuck together, but no, he changes it during the USA game and we lose.

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  • TomantaTomanta Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Just saw a replay of the speed skating disqualification. The skater is PISSED (rightfully so). Bob Costas: "I hope they have some version of witness protection for the coach."

    I think the coach needs to seek political asylum in Canada.

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  • arcticmonkeysfanarcticmonkeysfan Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Aegis wrote: »
    If Ron Wilson breaks up the Staal-Crosby-Iginla line again I'm going to personally hunt him down. It's only been shown in the 1st and 3rd game now that that line should stay the fuck together, but no, he changes it during the USA game and we lose.

    Uh Ron Wilson is coach of Team USA. I think you mean Mike Babcock.

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  • AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    arcticmonkeysfan wrote: »
    Aegis wrote: »
    If Ron Wilson breaks up the Staal-Crosby-Iginla line again I'm going to personally hunt him down. It's only been shown in the 1st and 3rd game now that that line should stay the fuck together, but no, he changes it during the USA game and we lose.

    Uh Ron Wilson is coach of Team USA. I think you mean Mike Babcock.

    ...

    I've been yelling at the wrong coach the entire games. Bloody hell.

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  • KetBraKetBra Dressed Ridiculously Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Aegis wrote: »
    arcticmonkeysfan wrote: »
    Aegis wrote: »
    If Ron Wilson breaks up the Staal-Crosby-Iginla line again I'm going to personally hunt him down. It's only been shown in the 1st and 3rd game now that that line should stay the fuck together, but no, he changes it during the USA game and we lose.

    Uh Ron Wilson is coach of Team USA. I think you mean Mike Babcock.

    ...

    I've been yelling at the wrong coach the entire games. Bloody hell.

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  • hippofanthippofant ティンク Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Where's mah curling bitches?! You can't get me hooked on curling and then not show me CAN-RUS!

    Edit: Also, really, CTV website? You're showing curling AND figure skating simultaneously on Sportsnet?

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  • PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Japanese advertising will never get not-weird.

    After the hype of these two favorites it'd be funny if they both fell (ed figure skating)

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  • Andrew_JayAndrew_Jay Registered User regular
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  • saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Andrew_Jay wrote: »
    So . . . should we be happy about Luongo's performance or worry that he still let in two goals on barely 20+ shots?

    How are the Russians in goal?

    2 goals where his defense really let him down. He was pretty solid, otherwise. I'm not too concerned. Marty just... wasn't fitting. He looked off.

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  • CorvusCorvus . VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Andrew_Jay wrote: »
    So . . . should we be happy about Luongo's performance or worry that he still let in two goals on barely 20+ shots?

    How are the Russians in goal?

    Nabokov and Bryzgalov are two of the best in the game. I think goal tending is basically a wash between Canada and Russia. Our defencemen and over all forward depth is probably better, but the Russians have more game-breakers.

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  • enlightenedbumenlightenedbum Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Russia's defense is a weak link (KHL politics or something?). Of course, Canada's isn't great with the bizarre inclusion of Niedermeyer and Pronger.

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  • quovadis13quovadis13 Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    The Canadian Figure Skater whose mother died shortly after arriving in Canada has just placed herself in medal contention after her short program. She broke down into tears after her skate today. Needless to say, she is the crowd favourite.

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  • PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    quovadis13 wrote: »
    The Canadian Figure Skater whose mother died shortly after arriving in Canada has just placed herself in medal contention after her short program. She broke down into tears after her skate today. Needless to say, she is the crowd favourite.

    I don't like how they've set 3 skaters up as the medal winners after half the competition. They did the same thing in men's, where there's a huge gap between 3 and 4. I mean maybe its legit, even in figure skating, but it seems awful convenient.

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  • quovadis13quovadis13 Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Latvia is making a game out of this.

    Edit: Oh man, some Slovak just got taken out by an elbow and is laying on the ice bleeding now from the back of his head

    Edit: x2 AND LATVIA TIES IT

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  • Andrew_JayAndrew_Jay Registered User regular
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  • Junior YankJunior Yank Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    quovadis13 wrote: »
    Latvia is making a game out of this.

    Tied up! The Czechs were up 2-0 pretty early in the 1st, and I was expecting it to snowball from there.

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  • quovadis13quovadis13 Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Overtime!

    Holy crap, how did the Czechs not score there???

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  • AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Latvia tied? Holy shit.

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  • AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    wait what happened to Jagr?

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  • PantsBPantsB Fake Thomas Jefferson Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Czech-mate (get it?)

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  • quovadis13quovadis13 Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Aegis wrote: »
    wait what happened to Jagr?

    He's an old man in case you haven't noticed.

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  • quovadis13quovadis13 Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Do you believe in miracles?

    NYET!

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  • AegisAegis Fear My Dance Overshot Toronto, Landed in OttawaRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Damn, Czechs won it :(

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  • Andrew_JayAndrew_Jay Registered User regular
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  • hippofanthippofant ティンク Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Slovakia-Norway game's getting a little dirty...

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  • JHunzJHunz Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    PantsB wrote: »
    quovadis13 wrote: »
    The Canadian Figure Skater whose mother died shortly after arriving in Canada has just placed herself in medal contention after her short program. She broke down into tears after her skate today. Needless to say, she is the crowd favourite.

    I don't like how they've set 3 skaters up as the medal winners after half the competition. They did the same thing in men's, where there's a huge gap between 3 and 4. I mean maybe its legit, even in figure skating, but it seems awful convenient.
    The scoring system this time around is arcane and mysterious, but the results seem pretty fair for the most part. I'm no expert, but I was guessing scores tonight and I got within 3 points of their final score on all but 2 skaters shown.
    The only score of the competition that I've seriously disagreed with was Johnny Weir's long program. I think he got screwed.

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  • blakeblake Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I feel bad for Kazuhiro Kokubo. The entire government of Japan and press seems to fucking hate him for just wearing baggy clothing getting off his flight to Vancouver. I sorta wish he got a gold in the half pipe event as a fuck you to all the haters.

    edit: or better yet, get USA citizenship and join the USA team.

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  • CorvusCorvus . VancouverRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Holy shit Norway.

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  • AridholAridhol Daddliest Catch Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Woo Norway!

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  • hippofanthippofant ティンク Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Corvus wrote: »
    Holy shit Norway.

    0.1 left? Geez.

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  • Jagged WafflesJagged Waffles Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Buzzer beater right there. Thought they were going to get the tying goal a few seconds earlier when they were all alone in front of the Slovak net though.

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  • KongoKongo Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Canadian female figure skater breaks down into tears after her skate and the camera shows a man in the audience standing and crying. This man is identified as her father by the announce team and the camera cuts to him a few times for his reaction. You feel doubly sad to see this woman who lost her mother suddenly, and her newly widower father as tears stream down their faces. Later, at the top of the NBC late night show, we're told that man wasn't her father, and a quick apology for the confusion. Oh well, better luck next time, NBC...

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  • GoslingGosling Looking Up Soccer In Mongolia Right Now, Probably Watertown, WIRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I've made the call to include in the timeline the results of the three athletes from Uzbekistan. You might recall them as the country NBC snipped out of the Parade of Nations.

    Two of them competed today; one, Oleg Shamaev, came in 77th in the men's giant slalom (but finished, which is more than can be said for the 20 people Whistler ate), and the other, Anastasia Gimazetdinova, claimed the 24th and final qualification spot in the ladies' free skate. The third is a women's slalom skier; she's yet to compete.

    28 were eaten today; the grand total of victims has risen to 159.

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  • ahavaahava Call me Ahava ~~She/Her~~ Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Who the hell else got eaten?


    I mean,Whistler looks bad, but really?

    I'd like to see data from like Torino (Turin) for comparison.

    No, that's not an actual request of you Gos.

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  • SirUltimosSirUltimos Don't talk, Rusty. Just paint. Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    After seeing him on Colbert last night, I can see why all you Americans hate Bob Costas so much.

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  • General_WinGeneral_Win Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Just to be clear, they weren't booing Luongo. It was like buongo right?

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  • saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    "Loooooooooooooooo" is the chant for Luongo. Commonly confused as boos.

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  • General_WinGeneral_Win Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    Ya the TSN guy's mentioned it but then my gf distracted me by asking: why are they booing the goalie.

    PS Pierre is my favorite. He's like a less retarded Don Cherry.

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  • EbfanEbfan Wimmy Wam Wam Wozzle! Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I was disappointed that the Czechs ended up winning that game, but I was happy that Krejci was the one to score the winning goal.

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  • saint2esaint2e Registered User regular
    edited February 2010
    I normally hate Pierre McGuire. He's a smarmy bastard. Sometimes I agree with him though. And that scares me.

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