**The Winter Olympics**

small town beck

Vedderfan10 wrote:

Fifthelement wrote:

Way to go Canada in the women's 2-man bobsleigh - Gold and Silver!!!!

EEEEEEEEE! OWN that podium!!!! We must be third in the medal standings now!! Yay!!

Only one more week of patriotism and then I can stop crying ever five minutes and return to laughing at us once again....

For gold medals we are tied with the USA and Germany...of course women's hockey will be adding a gold to our count tomorrow

Great day at the Olympics for Canada.

pineapplesandwaves.

intodeep wrote:

Great day for the US yesterday outside of the curling meltdown

Shaun White is a bad ass.

Yahoo sports had a great line today:
If Canada wants to “Own the Podium,” it might need to buy it from the United States



We own that shit this year

Canada has the most gold medals (albeit tied for the most, but we'll take it! ), so yeah, we're owning that podium.

Great day for Canada! The ladies were rockin' the podium!

It was really nice to see Clara Hughes get a medal in her final race.

And, of course, what a game against Russia. It was nice to see the offense really clicking, and I'm sure this game will boost the team's confidence heading into the semis.

GO CANADA!!

Fifthelement

pineapplesandwaves. wrote:

intodeep wrote:

Great day for the US yesterday outside of the curling meltdown

Shaun White is a bad ass.

Yahoo sports had a great line today:
If Canada wants to “Own the Podium,” it might need to buy it from the United States



We own that shit this year

Canada has the most gold medals (albeit tied for the most, but we'll take it! ), so yeah, we're owning that podium.

Great day for Canada! The ladies were rockin' the podium!

It was really nice to see Clara Hughes get a medal in her final race.

And, of course, what a game against Russia. It was nice to see the offense really clicking, and I'm sure this game will boost the team's confidence heading into the semis.

GO CANADA!!

Absolutely awesome for Hughes - what an athlete

The National Post wrote:

An athletic lifetime later -- and with a diversion into cycling -- she has the two bronze cycling medals she won at the summer Games in Atlanta, the speed-skating bronze from Salt Lake City, and the gold and silver she seized in Turin, and this. Nobody else has ever won medals in both seasons.

And she has her final bow, here. She is not the force she was in Turin; the heart still pumps, but there are younger legs out there. This was Clara Hughes' Gaetan Boucher moment, the last laps on home soil. Like Boucher, she has competed for all of Canada. Hell of a thing.

"There's nothing like this. There is nothing like this," she said. "It is a really special thing to be an Olympic athlete ... and I've never lost sight of what this is. And when it's over, it's over. And now it's actually over."

It feels like we should ask her for five more laps, for three, for one. It feels like we should ask her not to go away. But look at the legacy, the scope, the depth of what she has accomplished. Look at all that Clara Hughes has done. How could we ask for anything more?

intodeep

FenwayFaithful wrote:

I love the catfight between Mancuso and Linds. They hate each other.

I agree it is awesome.

I like Mancuso a bit better myself.

A little disapointed the US only has 28 to Canada's 15... I'd really like to double up their medal count

Rygar

pineapplesandwaves. wrote:

intodeep wrote:

Great day for the US yesterday outside of the curling meltdown

Shaun White is a bad ass.

Yahoo sports had a great line today:
If Canada wants to “Own the Podium,” it might need to buy it from the United States



We own that shit this year

Canada has the most gold medals (albeit tied for the most, but we'll take it! ), so yeah, we're owning that podium.

Great day for Canada! The ladies were rockin' the podium!

It was really nice to see Clara Hughes get a medal in her final race.

And, of course, what a game against Russia. It was nice to see the offense really clicking, and I'm sure this game will boost the team's confidence heading into the semis.

GO CANADA!!

We really do own the podiums. They are made in Canada. I think that's what they meant all along.

Rygar

intodeep wrote:

FenwayFaithful wrote:

I love the catfight between Mancuso and Linds. They hate each other.

I agree it is awesome.

I like Mancuso a bit better myself.

A little disapointed the US only has 28 to Canada's 15... I'd really like to double up their medal count

Ouch!

Fifthelement

What a night in short track speed skating. Two golds and a bronze for Canada.
Woo Hoo!


AA Ohno finishes the night with a bronze as well.

GO CANADA!!!! :P :P :P :P

Fifthelement

Woo Hoo! We reached double digits for the the gold: 10 :shock:


Awesome job to all the athletes, whether they won a medal or not. :ugeek: :P

pandora

I'm absolutely loving the winter olympics this year. I don't think we ever followed them this much. My fave is the bobsled- 4 man-love how all those big guys jump in that little car so fast- cool. It was exciting last eve when Russia tipped over went down the track upside down-they were all ok good thing but really pissed off.

norm

:thumbup:

Congratulations to all the athletes and to Canada for putting on a great Olympics!

thesewordselope

I think I'm going to go through Olympic's withdrawl :(

Congrats to all the athletes!!!

81

are they over yet?

Cliffy6745

Neil Young performing at the closing ceremony.

tvismyfriend

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Neil Young performing at the closing ceremony.

Does that mean he's already preformed or that he's going to preform later?

small town beck

tvismyfriend wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Neil Young performing at the closing ceremony.

Does that mean he's already preformed or that he's going to preform later?

Already played. We have reached the crappy part of the programming. Well no K-OS is usaully pretty good and I must apologize as a Canadian. We have MUCH more to offer than Nickelcrap and Avril :oops:

pineapplesandwaves.

small town beck wrote:

tvismyfriend wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Neil Young performing at the closing ceremony.

Does that mean he's already preformed or that he's going to preform later?

Already played. We have reached the crappy part of the programming. Well no K-OS is usaully pretty good and I must apologize as a Canadian. We have MUCH more to offer than Nickelcrap and Avril :oops:

After an otherwise fun closing ceremony, what an unfortunate way to end the ceremony. It's too bad it didn't end with Buble and "Made in Canada". Nickelback, Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan, Hedley. Ugh. Perhaps, I'm just getting old and this really is what the kids are listening to, but Canada has so much more to offer musically. Luckily, the NBC broadcast had ended by this point, so I think it ended on a high note for Americans.

small town beck

pineapplesandwaves. wrote:

small town beck wrote:

[quote="tvismyfriend

Already played. We have reached the crappy part of the programming. Well no K-OS is usaully pretty good and I must apologize as a Canadian. We have MUCH more to offer than Nickelcrap and Avril :oops:

After an otherwise fun closing ceremony, what an unfortunate way to end the ceremony. It's too bad it didn't end with Buble and "Made in Canada". Nickelback, Avril Lavigne, Simple Plan, Hedley. Ugh. Perhaps, I'm just getting old and this really is what the kids are listening to, but Canada has so much more to offer musically. Luckily, the NBC broadcast had ended by this point, so I think it ended on a high note for Americans.[/quote]

That is what I was thinking. We have much better music than was represented. What about The Hip? They did the Hey Rosetta song "red heart" what about them? I am not all about Nelly Furtado but she would have been better than Avril. Anyway still proud to be Canadian

mca47

Sorry, but this closing ceremony is retarded (sorry for not being PC there...)


It's just really, really bad.

thesewordselope

They were pretty sad, I'll admit that...

But Neil Young was there though, and Michael J. Fox looked pretty good...

thesewordselope

CanadasPearl wrote:

They were pretty sad, I'll admit that...

But Neil Young was there, and Michael J. Fox looked pretty good...

Quoting myself apparently... :?