KenzieB,
After wadeing thru all of the flack, I want to ask you if you are having fun? I have been looking for you in the pictures of the crowds, but I have not seen any tall thin ladies dressed in black, where are you?

Have fun
Pellinore

I haven't attended any events. (Who can afford the tickets?!?)

I haven't had a chance to go to any parties or shows connected with the Games yet (been working) but am off for the next three days so . . .

Side note: Anyone have tickets to the Hockey gold medal game? (It'll be Canada vs some also-ran.) :o)

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

I suddenly have an urge to take up snowboarding!

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Rick
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Finally, the real olympics have started: Hockey.

First game for my lads was last evening:

Canada 8, Norway 0 (Sorry Moon)

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

There were many dangerous falls and the track was rather bumpy, so safety was not up to the standard of World Cup racing. It is true that rain and snow do not mix well. Anja Paerson had a horrible fall and was lucky to stay with no serious injury. Anyway brava Lindsey but also Julie and Elisabeth.
Tullio

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In my basement I still have a 2.15 m Rossignol giant slalom ski pair, made of aluminium, and a 2.10 Kneissl made of wood and carbon fibers. But I am a cross country skier now.
Tullio

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Super combined ladies:
1 Maria Riesch
2 Julie Mancuso
3 Anja Paerson chapeau!

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Head first down an ice chute on not much more than a couple of planks of wood on round tubing runners! These guys are NUTS! You just gotta luv em!

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/video/index.html?assetid=39001719-39bc-4297-9c69-1acc4c3d4452&cid=rss

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Rick
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Jaerbyn (41 years old) made a horrible fall in the Super G. I hope he is getting better but he is still in hospital. The Super G is a folly which should be banned because racers are not allowed to do any test run. The number of falls in the women downhill was due of lack of test runs because of bad weather. Unfortunately, TV schedules dictate all of this sport and athletes pay the price.
Tullio

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Super G ladies:
1 Andrea Fischbaker,Austria
2 Tina Maze ,Slovenia
3 Lindsey Vonn ,USA
Julie Mancuse made a big mistake but reentered and finished.

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This year Italy is getting a number of fourth places. Yesterday young Johanna Schnarf was 11/100 s behind star Lindsey Vonn!
Tullio

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This year Italy is getting a number of fourth places. Yesterday young Johanna Schnarf was 11/100 s behind star Lindsey Vonn!
Tullio

Canada has a few of those, and they are real heartbreakers. A person can be the fourth or fifth best at their sport in the whole world, and nobody notices.

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Super combined men:
1 Bode Miller
2 Ivica Kostelic
2 Silvan Zurbriggen

Compliments to Miller.

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Finally a gold medal for Italy, after 5 fourth places, In slalom:
1 Giuliano Razzoli
2 Ivica Kostelic
3 Andre Myhrer

Razzoli is from Emilia, the region of Ferrari and Alberto Tomba.
Tullio

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gotta love curling. what other olympic sport can have some overweight guys tossing 44 pound granite rocks and still be considered an athlete

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In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face.
Diogenes Of Sinope

gotta love curling. what other olympic sport can have some overweight guys tossing 44 pound granite rocks and still be considered an athlete

Ever tried it? Some games are called 'games of inches'. A good curler can place a stone within a centimeter (1/2 inch) from 150 ft.

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

gotta love curling. what other olympic sport can have some overweight guys tossing 44 pound granite rocks and still be considered an athlete

Ever tried it? Some games are called 'games of inches'. A good curler can place a stone within a centimeter (1/2 inch) from 150 ft.

One good thing about Curling, And that is one doesn't need to know how to ice skate, Heck I couldn't even master roller skates, So an ice skate and Me wouldn't mix either, Even If I was in shape to do so, Besides I'm not Curly.

Was on ice skates about once in my life...some 40 years ago...
It was not pretty, and have not ventured there since. My ankles are far too weak for it.

I have, though, since then, always been amazed by those who have mastered the craft.
Pairs skating in particular. Two hearts that can do that together......wonderful.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Ouch.......

Best is not to smash your partner into the ice......
God, I think they almost killed one another.

Best skip the fancy lifts........
The one where her head smashes face down into the ice from a full lift is really scary.......
I hope she survived that one.

1:40 or so....

The bum skiffs are funny, this was not.

And the tragic thing is that these pairs' lives are so entwined, it almost does kill them when the other gets injured.

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"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

Canada 1, USA 0. End of the first period.

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Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

Canada 1, USA 0. End of the first period.

It's now Canada 2, USA 1, 2nd period(7:20).

It's now Canada 2, USA 2, End of 3rd period(0:00).

I believe that makes it a sudden death overtime.

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BOINC WIKI

Canada won 3-2 in the Hockey final.

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BOINC WIKI