Let the Games begin in Torino!

by **Jolly Roger** on Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:43 pm

Jay Wisnieski wrote: With this and the fact that he didn't want to compete in a team race because he wanted to rest himself for the individual race in which he eventually won the Gold Medal, a lot of people are upset with him.

Of course if he had competed in both the team and individual events and and failed to win a (gold) medal in one or both, there would be people vilifying him for competing in too many events.

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by **Brent Burns** on Tue Feb 21, 2006 1:53 pm

An interesting read about IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation) asking someone from Finland to monitor the game after the Swedish coach's suggestion that his team should lose.

http://sports.yahoo.com/oly/news?slug=ap-hkm-sweden-iihf&prov=ap&type=lgns

by **Wade** on Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:29 pm

mbuff wrote:I've actually done the biathlon or the Bundeswher version of it.

I stand corrected!

Yeah, a friend on mine was in the Corp and did the winter training up in Bridgeport. Now whenever I talk to him about going skiing for the day all he wants to do ir grab the telies and hike three days across the Sierras.

by **KnoxVegas** on Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:18 pm

USA Olympic men's hockey team: 1-4-1, no medals and out of the Games.

Wonder how much Chelios will have to pay this time after they trash the Olympic Village.

by **byualum** on Wed Feb 22, 2006 5:23 pm

And no repeat for Canada...shut-out 2-0 by Russia. Rough day for North America.

by **laxfan25** on Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:07 am

As impressive as the half-pipe snoboarding was, the ski aerial guys are just nuts! The stuff they do going 50 feet in the air makes snoboarding 1080's look pretty tame.
Also, aren't we doing so much better at sports like hockey and basketball since we started loading up the teams with pros? Very disappointing.

by **DanGenck** on Fri Feb 24, 2006 10:24 am

laxfan25 wrote:As impressive as the half-pipe snoboarding was, the ski aerial guys are just nuts! The stuff they do going 50 feet in the air makes snoboarding 1080's look pretty tame.
Also, aren't we doing so much better at sports like hockey and basketball since we started loading up the teams with pros? Very disappointing.

True, but we'd be hard pressed to convince college kids to give up a season of college hockey for olympic glory that has no monetary value (sigh...)

by **UofMLaxGoalie11** on Fri Feb 24, 2006 11:20 am

DanGenck wrote:True, but we'd be hard pressed to convince college kids to give up a season of college hockey for olympic glory that has no monetary value (sigh...)

I would do it if it meant i got to skip class.

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