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Closing Ceremony and farewell to Sochi [Winter Olympics]
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It's the 2014 Winter Olympics thread!
The XXII Olympic Winter Games will be held in Sochi, Russia
The Opening Ceremonies will be held later today, and the Games will run until Feb. 23.
There will be 98 events over 15 categories in 7 sports. Those categories include:
New events featured at these Games include:
Schedule and Results
This is what the Medals look like:
These are the Mascots:
The Sochi Olympics Torch looks amazing! Here's the first one being lit by the flame in Athens, beginning the record setting 39,000 mile relay which included a trip to the International Space Station and the North Pole!
[More info later. Sorry, I just slapped this together at 3am since the Opening Ceremonies start in like 5 hours... ]
The XXII Olympic Winter Games will be held in Sochi, Russia
The Opening Ceremonies will be held later today, and the Games will run until Feb. 23.
There will be 98 events over 15 categories in 7 sports. Those categories include:
- Alpine Skiing
- Biathlon
- Bobsled
- Cross-Country Skiing
- Curling
- Figure Skating
- Freestyle Skiing
- Ice Hockey
- Luge
- Nordic Combined
- Short-Track Speed Skating
- Skeleton
- Ski Jump
- Snowboarding
- Speed Skating
New events featured at these Games include:
- Mixed Relay Biathlon
- Ski Half-pipe
- Ski Slopestyle
- Snowboard Parallel Slalom
- Snowboard Slopestyle
- Team Figure Skating
- Team Relay Luge
- Womens Ski Jump
Schedule and Results
This is what the Medals look like:
These are the Mascots:
The Sochi Olympics Torch looks amazing! Here's the first one being lit by the flame in Athens, beginning the record setting 39,000 mile relay which included a trip to the International Space Station and the North Pole!
[More info later. Sorry, I just slapped this together at 3am since the Opening Ceremonies start in like 5 hours... ]
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Turn A's shield looks hilariously similar
Oh thank goodness
I was legitimately upset at the prospect of missing them
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Men's:
http://www.sochi2014.com/en/snowboard-men-s-sbs-qualification
Women's:
http://www.sochi2014.com/en/snowboard-ladies-sbs-qualification
Woo! Jamie Anderson!
Ty Walker took a 1, she got banged up during practice and is healing up for the semifinals on Sunday. She wrote about it in her blog - http://tywalkersnow.com/2014/02/05/practice/
Those scores are all over the place, they're really struggling with this course.
If you wanted to see Curling why not stream it?
And I am rather curious how they got the flame to the International Space Station and back
got my DVR ready to record the entire goddamn thing, gonna watch so MUCH olympics coverage
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If so I hope Putin added Shirtless Bear Wrestling and Ricin Tipped Umbrella Fencing to this thing to spice it up.
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And stray dogs on the courses too
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Coverage begins tonight at 8pm EST on NBC.
wow.
Everyone should watch lilyhamer on netflix, I want to go see that place, can't say I want to go to Sochi.
Would you want to spend thousands of dollars to go somewhere with a fairly high probability of getting killed in a terrorist attack?
Not a chance in hell, but I figured a fair amount of the people who would regularly take two weeks off and fly to watch the olympics would
If true, I doubt putin would learn a lesson from this
But maybe the ioc would.
Immmmm a architecture geek.
I'm just hoping for no massive loss of life.
http://trib.com/lifestyles/recreation/small-wyoming-town-sends-jamaican-bobsledders-to-olympics/article_a013e657-44fc-5724-ad31-98ac00a7fe69.html
Everyone can get in on the bathroom peeping!
i am, however, still going to watch.
because curling. and hockey. and the luge. basically i love the winter olympics.
Jesus freaking christ.
And lets not forget that the author of that horrible anti-gay bill has stated repeatedly that any one gay at the Olympics will be arrested, even after being told what Putin's been saying.
God, I hope this turns into the shitstorm it needs to be.
"“We have surveillance video from the hotels that shows people turn on the shower, direct the nozzle at the wall and then leave the room for the whole day,” he said. An aide then pulled a reporter away before Mr. Kozak could be questioned further on surveillance in hotel rooms. “We’re doing a tour of the media center,” the aide said."
Also with the right cable subscription you can stream pretty much everything.