Winter Olympics! - Spoilers possible inside

[Rev. Millertime]

 

Who's watching?

Was stoked to find out that NBC is streaming all Hockey live online.... glad I got my HTPC set up and working!

Too bad all the other sports will be tape delayed and crammed with athlete profiles which will leave us with probably 10 minutes of actual coverage of the events.  Hopefully whoever gets the contract for coverage after NBC goes back to the old day of all day and night coverage except for breaks for the local/national news.

[Slide Panda]

i will be. Big Olympics fan, more the winter than summer games.

[cyrus buelton]

Didn't get off to a great start 


RIP to the Luger from Georgia who died this afternoon during a practice run.

[NoisyDante]

Very unfortunate about Nodar Kumaritashvili.  Definitely opens the games on a low note.
http://sports.espn.go.com/olympics/winter/2010/luge/news/story?id=4909034

I also hear they are trucking in snow, BC isn't getting the snowfall they expected.

That said though I do enjoy the winter olympics far more than the summer olympics, I'm a huge hockey fan.

[ROBsS4R]

The article I have read are saying they made that track to fast and its near impossible to control your sled at 90 plus mph.

I need to search the internet and find out what the speeds of the previous tracks were.

Apparently there were two injury's because of the fast track right before Nodar Kumaritashvili death =( RIP

[muskrat]

everyone interviewed was concerned about the speeds on that track.  some say you could easily hit 90 mph.  supposedly it's the fastest track in the world.

[thejsnide]

I saw the clip of his wreck on NBC right when the coverage started... Brutal crash.  Sad thing was NBC kept showing it over and over... It's definitely a tragedy and an awful way to start the winter olympics. RIP Nodar Kumaritashvili, your life was too short at 22.

[erkishhorde]

There's no news like bad news.   

Missed the opening ceremony since I was working. Guess I'll be youtubing it.

[Kopfjäger]

Short track relay speedskating rocks.  

[mitt]

Short track relay speedskating rocks.  

+1 - that was some fun watching last night.

mitt

[Triple J]

Short track relay speedskating rocks.  

+2

I didn't see any relay events...but the 1500m short track races were awesome!  

edit: removed luge post since it's in that thread now.

[cyrus buelton]

Maybe we should add a spoiler alert to the title?

I am not sure if these are streamed at the same time from EST to PST.


I loved watching the moguls last night.

I think it sucks Apolo is getting more press than Hannah Kearney, the first US Gold Medal winner.

She kicked ass in the moguls.

I know Apolo tied the record for most US Medals, but Hannah got the first gold 

and

Apolo got lucky as make the beast with two backs those Koreans took each out.

[mitt]

Maybe we should add a spoiler alert to the title?

good call and done

mitt

[Triple J]

Apolo got lucky as make the beast with two backs those Koreans took each out.

I don't know...part of the reason they took each other out was because Apolo was on their asses pushing hard. Luck is often earned.

Agreed it sucks the girl isn't getting more press though.

[cyrus buelton]

I don't know...part of the reason they took each other out was because Apolo was on their asses pushing hard. Luck is often earned.

Agreed it sucks the girl isn't getting more press though.

Agreed he was on their ass, but still no reason to get taken out and how would they even know that?

I don't know.........I think the kid got incredibly lucky.

but again........that is all part of sports in general. Luck is well......luck. It can go either good or bad.

Definitely went good for this kid 



Yeah, Hannah got screwed. She threw down one hell of a make the beast with two backsing run.


I hear Shawn White is planning a new trick during the half pipe.

How could he do anything to possibly beat that 1260 flip whatever trick he does?