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  • mookeywrench
    mookeywrench Posts: 6,085
    The Nordsky curler's:

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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,374
    lukin2006 said:

    Jason P said:

    Sidney Crosby = A-Rod

    How do you figure?
    lukin2006 said:

    Jason P said:

    Sidney Crosby = A-Rod

    How do you figure?
    Must have been drunk when I posted that ...
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  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    Ryan Miller's Olympic Mask

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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,923
    lukin2006 said:

    Ryan Miller's Olympic Mask

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    Wow. That is awesome. Can't wait for some olympic hockey
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    read a headline that said sochi olympics cost more than all the other ones combined ... brutal
  • Leezestarr313
    Leezestarr313 Temple of the cat Posts: 14,451
    Well, if the Russian toilets are like American toilets, maybe the second one is there just in case the first one becomes clogged. Athletes eat tons of fiber after all...



    I hope nobody will get harmed in these Olympics.

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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,374
    The attached link is to a facinating interactive map that documents the corruption in Sochi. The contract to build a new road to the mountain events cost almost as much as the entire Vancouver Olympics ... and get this ... it was awarded to a childhood friend of Putin. What are the odds of that happening???

    sochi.fbk.info/en/place/19/
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,863
    mookeywrench said:

    The Nordsky curler's:

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    Wowee.
    @-)
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,863
    Jason P said:

    The attached link is to a facinating interactive map that documents the corruption in Sochi. The contract to build a new road to the mountain events cost almost as much as the entire Vancouver Olympics ... and get this ... it was awarded to a childhood friend of Putin. What are the odds of that happening???

    sochi.fbk.info/en/place/19/

    Is anyone surprised? I think the most scandalous thing is how ths IOC is trying to pretend shit's okay, and like somehow Putin runs a legitimate government.
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  • Drowned Out
    Drowned Out Posts: 6,056
    Jason P said:

    Good grief! It looks like the US won a bad sweater contest! Is this really the image we want to project to the Soviets???

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  • lukin2006
    lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    edited January 2014
    NHL will reevaluate sending players to Sochi if issues arise

    http://www.thescore.com/home/articles/2878310-nhl-will-reevaluate-sending-players-to-sochi-if-issues-arise

    The NHL will reevaluate sending its players to the Sochi Olympics next month if something "significant" happens before Feb. 9.
    NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly says in an email to The Associated Press that he doesn't expect it will be become necessary to keep NHL players home because of the steps taken by the Sochi Organizing Committee, the Russian government and the International Olympic Committee. But he says the league will re-assess if it appears to be "an unreasonably dangerous situation" in Russia.
    Russian security has been looking for three potential female suicide bombers, one of whom is believed to be in Sochi. The country has assembled what is believed to be the biggest security operation ever for an Olympics with more than 50,000 police and soldiers.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,374
    Could the NHL really stop them from coming? I really hope nothing happens. Putin really seems to have security efforts into 6th gear but it is a country known for corruption and they are located next to hornets nest of crazy people who don't seem to have any issues with strapping explosives to themselves.
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,863
    Sounds like a really nice vacation for people to take with their families... Going to a lovely police state under threat of terrorism. Let's go kids! It'll be fun!
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  • FrankieG
    FrankieG Abingdon MD Posts: 9,100
    Jason P said:

    Could the NHL really stop them from coming? I really hope nothing happens. Putin really seems to have security efforts into 6th gear but it is a country known for corruption and they are located next to hornets nest of crazy people who don't seem to have any issues with strapping explosives to themselves.

    What happened?! I didn't hear about this.
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  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    Jason P said:

    Could the NHL really stop them from coming? I really hope nothing happens. Putin really seems to have security efforts into 6th gear but it is a country known for corruption and they are located next to hornets nest of crazy people who don't seem to have any issues with strapping explosives to themselves.

    (me too)

    But We can hope all we want, sadly something many just happen, and Russia should shoulder quite a bit of the blame themselves, for all the destruction is has caused in Chechnya and human rights violations, and the IOC should also shoulder blame for having the games in Russia, and of course blame falls on anyone who takes the life of an innocent person.

    Russia's often brutal campaigns in that area breeds the same terrorism its trying to stop.

    bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18188085

    crimesofwar.org/a-z-guide/chechnya/

    (CBC Documentary)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AFYYckhN5w

    (and of course lets not forget all the oil that's involved)


    Having said all that, I'm super excited about the Hockey, (as I always am), GO CANADA!
  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    Idris said:

    (me too)

    But We can hope all we want, sadly something many just happen, and Russia should shoulder quite a bit of the blame themselves, for all the destruction is has caused in Chechnya and human rights violations, and the IOC should also shoulder blame for having the games in Russia, and of course blame falls on anyone who takes the life of an innocent person.

    Russia's often brutal campaigns in that area breeds the same terrorism its trying to stop.

    bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18188085

    crimesofwar.org/a-z-guide/chechnya/

    (CBC Documentary)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AFYYckhN5w

    (and of course lets not forget all the oil that's involved)


    Having said all that, I'm super excited about the Hockey, (as I always am), GO CANADA!

    dude the olympics is a huge fraud ... how rich people entertain themselves while getting more rich ...

    if you want proof of how shallow the olympic ideal really is ... just look at the IOC stance on the anti-gay legislation ... crickets ... what a joke ...
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,374
    The IOC may be a fraud but the competition is awesome.
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  • Idris
    Idris Posts: 2,317
    Yep, I know Polaris.
    -
    I Tend to (as Jason P mentioned) enjoy the awesome competition, but perhaps I should be paying more attention to the negatives.

    (I'll check out this anti gay-legislation you speak of)



  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,374
    The same could be said about FIFA in regards to overall fraudness. And Formula One. And the NFL. And so on and so on.
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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    oh yeah ... don't get me wrong ... i will watch ... and i will cheer ... but fuck the IOC ... i was offered the opportunity to carry the torch in the cross canada portion of the relay for Vancouver 2010 (ironically while standing atop Whistler mtn) but said no ... bunch of crooks ...

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