XXI Olympic Winter Olympics Games Thread

[Poohbear123]

I agree! My knees are hurting just watching this event! "Two ice packs please!" These ladies are amazing!

Your not the ONLY one!

 

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I'm having trouble tonight because I want to keep flipping channels to see what I'm missing, but the Blues are also playing tonight. I can't deal with 3 channels! Lol.

 

[imabrat]

Great feat by Kramer. It was awesome to see him trapeze up the walls. He's cute too.

Apolo Ohno never ceases to amaze me. He's awesome! And I agree, the just watching the mogul skiiers makes me hurt in my knees. I'm surprised they're able to walk after doing the run.

 

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Make it 13-0, Canada. Egad. I feel for the Slovakian goalie.

 

[OK!]

Whew! That was exciting. I was worried the refs might make a bad call against Ohno there, but no.

 

[bouldertcr]

Wow, what a past injury for JR! 60 stitches??

Ok, I can only imagine what is going through his parents minds right now. Hope he does well!

 

[declansdad]

Whew! That was exciting. I was worried the refs might make a bad call against Ohno there, but no.

I think he was saved because he backed off and let the skater by him.

 

[bouldertcr]

Oh Yeah!! JR in the finals!

 

[autumnpalm]

I just want to tell the Canadian women's hockey team to ease up a little on Slovakia. It's your game, girls... let them keep their dignity!

 

[Bay Hill]

18-0.

 

[crashbb]

I just want to tell the Canadian women's hockey team to ease up a little on Slovakia. It's your game, girls... let them keep their dignity!

Seriously. There comes a point where it is just mean.

Having said that. I realised that placings going into the medal rounds are sometimes based on the number of goals made in the preliminary round (as a tie breaker). I suppose then, that you do want as many goals as possible.

 

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Holy crap, scary moment a second ago on luge...one of the Americans hit the lip at the top of one of the turns on the course. He appears to be OK, though.

 

[Imzadi]

I just want to tell the Canadian women's hockey team to ease up a little on Slovakia. It's your game, girls... let them keep their dignity!

Seriously. There comes a point where it is just mean.

It's like that in the stock market. There's a certain strategy where people can "sell short" on a stock, meaning they can buy a stock they know is tanking, and make money off of it going downwards. The stock market won't let people buy a stock when it drops to it's last 5 points because a stock should be able to die with some dignity.

 

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The whole reason for them running up the score is, as someone mentioned, in the event they need a tiebreaker. Goals-for is one of the first (if not the first) tiebreaker that can be used to determine who wins.

 

[crashbb]

It's like that in the stock market. There's a certain strategy where people can "sell short" on a stock, meaning they can buy a stock they know is tanking, and make money off of it going downwards. The stock market won't let people buy a stock when it drops to it's last 5 points because a stock should be able to die with some dignity.

We used to have the "pity rule" in rec. sports.

If you got too many runs in one inning in baseball/softball, your inning was over.

If you got too far ahead in soccer/hockey, you were given the win, but the rest of the game was played by mixing up the teams.

 

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The Americans get 2nd and 3rd in whatever distance of speed skating just went.

 

[Shutterbug]

Watching these girls on the moguls reaaaally makes my knees hurt.
There was a time I was able to ski moguls but that was a lonnnng time ago.

 

[Ariel Wanna-be]

Watching these girls on the moguls reaaaally makes my knees hurt.
There was a time I was able to ski moguls but that was a lonnnng time ago.

That American skier's little pigtails remind me of Boo from Monsters Inc.

 

[Shutterbug]

You go Hannah and Shannon woot!

 

[robinb]

Those skiers remind me of Irish dancers. They legs are going 90 miles an hour and their upper body is motionless.