Winter Olympics on TV

robinph · 25-02-2010 6:31pm

I thought they were going to completely restart the womens GS today, seems it's just run 2 they are doing now. On Eurosport and the eurovision links no doubt.

kmart6 · 26-02-2010 2:40am

I really don't know how the Canadian women didn't score more than two there, and I know peole are going to say there were similar shot totals but the Americans were just hitting with hope a lot of the time in the last period!

Spaceman Spiff · 26-02-2010 6:19pm

The Canadian women's hockey team is getting in some "trouble" for their post-game celebrations from the IOC. It seems celebrating a gold medal victory in an empty arena with (non-Olympic sponsor donated) champagne, beer and cigars isn't befitting of an Olympic athlete.

So while this is cool (in fact, this is the coolest Olympic moment ever)
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This requires an investigation
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And perhaps most reprehensible of all, the girl on the left, Marie-Philip Polin, who scored both Canada's goals, is only 18 and thus not old enough to drink in BC. (Won't somebody think of the children?!)

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rainbow kirby · 26-02-2010 6:32pm

^ The really silly thing there is that Marie-Philip Poulin is actually legally old enough to drink in her home province of Québec!

Seriously though, the girl scored the two goals to win a gold medal in the Olympics, who the hell is petty enough to kick up a fuss about having a drink in an empty ice hockey stadium...

Also, this man just gave the best excuse of the games. "I ****ed up because I watched too much porn over the last 2 weeks"

Spaceman Spiff · 26-02-2010 6:55pm

rainbow kirby wrote: »

^ The really silly thing there is that Marie-Philip Poulin is actually legally old enough to drink in her home province of Québec!

She can also drink in Calgary, where she was living for the 8 months in the leadup to the Olympics. The other provinces in Canada are full of prudes.

Seriously though, the girl scored the two goals to win a gold medal in the Olympics, who the hell is petty enough to kick up a fuss about having a drink in an empty ice hockey stadium...

I wouldn't put it past the IOC, but they probably saw the "underage girl" and made a statement about it to protect their own asses. Most media outlets are just covering the fact something like this is even a story, but regardless of what happens, the team just got a whole lot more popular because of this.

Fattes · 27-02-2010 12:36am

Go team Canada just wait till you see what will happen when the men win on Sunday

robinph · 27-02-2010 1:08am

Was skiing in Fernie, which is just in BC, last year and thought it was 18 for drinking there but 21 in whatever state Calgary was in a couple of miles east of where we were.

cena · 27-02-2010 2:48am

hk797 wrote: »

If you enjoy the Winter Olympics checkout a recently released movie on iTunes called Truth in Motion. It follows the US ski teams buildup to Vancouver. Runtime is 43 mins with a regular (628mb) and HD (1.38gb) download for free.

is this on itunes ireland

robinph · 27-02-2010 3:14am

:eek:

Canada threw away two easy shots of getting the gold in the Womens curling there. That "sport" really shouldn't be quite as exciting as that.

rainbow kirby · 27-02-2010 3:18am

The Canadian skip ****ed up bigtime. She messed up matchwinning shots in the 10th and 11th ends and pretty much handed Sweden the win. Pity, because she'd been playing great until then...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL9mlqbG5CU

tunguska · 27-02-2010 11:00am

4 man bob sleigh really is the business, so exciting. Those dudes are absolute monsters, built like tanks the lot of them. Cant wait for the last two runs.
So its Canada vs USA in the hockey final. Who do you think will come out on top this time? Should be a classic.
Cant believe its almost over though:(

metaoblivia · 27-02-2010 1:47pm

Canada will win, no doubt! As much as I'd love an American win, Canada will not allow the Americans to beat them twice on home soil. Hopefully, it will be a good game.

cnocbui · 27-02-2010 1:57pm

I have been watching some of the action on the BBC HD satellite channel on a 50" plasma. The picture quality, when it isn't snowing, is fabulous and makes it such a joy to watch.

Thank you BBC.

Fattes · 27-02-2010 6:43pm

Shane O Connor is going in the mens Slalom tonight

Bib Athlete
1 SUI ZURBRIGGEN Silvan
2 CRO KOSTELIC Ivica
3 AUT RAICH Benjamin
4 FRA LIZEROUX Julien
5 AUT PRANGER Manfred
6 AUT HIRSCHER Marcel
7 AUT HERBST Reinfried
8 ITA MOELGG Manfred
9 SLO VALENCIC Mitja
10 SWE HARGIN Mattias
11 FRA MISSILLIER Steve
12 SWE MYHRER Andre
13 ITA RAZZOLI Giuliano
14 CAN JANYK Michael
15 GER NEUREUTHER Felix
16 USA LIGETY Ted
17 USA MILLER Bode
18 NOR MYHRE Lars Elton
19 CAN COUSINEAU Julien
20 SWE BAECK Axel
21 MDA IMBODEN Urs
22 USA COCHRAN Jimmy
23 SUI GINI Marc
24 ITA THALER Patrick
25 SLO VAJDIC Bernard
26 ITA DEVILLE Cristian
27 JPN SASAKI Akira
28 CAN SPENCE Brad
29 CZE TREJBAL Filip
30 SWE BYGGMARK Jens
31 NOR JANSRUD Kjetil
32 SUI BERTHOD Marc
33 BUL ALBRECHT Kilian
34 CZE KRYZL Krystof
35 CAN WHITE Trevor
36 SLO SKUBE Matic
37 CZE BANK Ondrej
38 FRA MERMILLOD BLONDIN Thomas
39 JPN MINAGAWA Kentaro
40 NOR KARLSEN Truls Ove
41 FRA TISSOT Maxime
42 NOR HAUGEN Leif
43 CRO ZRNCIC-DIM Natko
44 CRO SAMSAL Dalibor
45 SLO DRAGSIC Mitja
46 USA KASPER Nolan
47 SUI VILETTA Sandro
48 CZE VRABLIK Martin
49 ISL BJOERGVINSSON Bjoergvin
50 RUS HOROSHILOV Alexandr
51 KOR JUNG Dong-Hyun
52 FIN ROMAR Andreas
53 GBR RYDING David
54 RUS MAITAKOV Sergei
55 KOR KIM Woo-Sung
56 BUL GEORGIEV Stefan
57 BEL MOLLIN Bart
58 MDA ROUX Christophe
59 ISL SIGURGEIRSSON Stefan Jon
60 RUS ZUEV Stepan
61 CRO MARINELLI Danko
62 GRE DIMITRIADIS Vassilis
63 BEL VAN DEN BOGAERT Jeroen
64 GEO ABRAMASHVILI Iason
65 ARG SIMARI BIRKNER Cristian Javier
66 SVK BABUSIAK Jaroslav
67 IRI SAVEH SHEMSHAKI Porya
68 AND VIDOSA Roger
69 IRI SAVEH SHEMSHAKI Hossein
70 ROU NAN Ioan-Gabriel
71 GBR NOBLE Andrew
72 GRE TSIMIKALIS Stephanos
73 MKD RISTEVSKI Antonio
74 ISR RENZHIN Mykhaylo
75 BIH RUDIC Marko
76 LAT ZVEJNIEKS Kristaps
77 ARG TORRES Agustin
78 BRA LONGHI Jhonatan
79 MNE KOSIC Bojan
80 HUN BENE Marton
81 EST OPRJA Deyvid
82 LIB ACHI Ghassan
83 UKR FESHCHUK Rostyslav
84 TUR TURKSEVER Erdinc
85 LTU RUMIANCEV Vitalij
86 GEO GELASHVILI Jaba
87 ARM NERSISYAN Arsen
88 KAZ ZAKURDAEV Igor
89 IRL O CONNOR Shane
90 UZB SHAMAEV Oleg
91 CYP PAPAMICHALOPOULOS Christopher
92 TJK DRYGIN Andrey
93 DEN KILSGAARD Markus
94 AZE NOTZ Cedric
95 ALBTOLA Erjon
96 SEN SECK Leyti
97 PER OETTL REYES Manfred
98 MAR AZZIMANI Samir
99 MEX VON HOHENLOHE Hubertus
100 KGZ TRELEVSKI Dmitry
101 CHN LI Lei
102 GHA NKRUMAH-ACHEAMPONG Kwame

opinion guy · 27-02-2010 8:49pm

Your man from Ghana's a legend!
"Do you mind being compared to Eddie The Eagle ?"
"Yes I mind it a lot!!"

sarsfield06 · 27-02-2010 10:40pm

I saw the snow leopard's run, I reckon Eddie the Eagle with his big boards would have been faster!

SlickRic · 27-02-2010 11:09pm

that was one of the most farcical things i've ever seen.

that poor Russian, though he's taking it brilliantly.

robinph · 28-02-2010 12:05am

He did take it very well, although the replay of him falling over the gate was very funny.

Fattes · 28-02-2010 12:13am

Well done to Shane O Connor 46th out of 108 Starters in the Olympic Slalom.

A great result for a home grown Skier

Correction 45th one was Disqualified

PeakOutput · 28-02-2010 12:19am

did anyone see the race for i think it was 5th/6th one racer pulled out as it was pointless and they made the other guy start if he wanted an official place instead of a dns classiffication

he just went threw the gate held onto the wall and took off his board funny stuff

felt bad for the russian pretty unfair but seriously good run from anderson to take it even with the no sound start

robinph · 28-02-2010 12:26am

In the womens snowboard cross, I think it was, there was someone that was injured and just left the gate for the small final and then walked off before the first jump. It was just because of the places counting for world cup points that made it worth ensuring the lower places, not sure if they counted for the PGS so that could be why they didn't even bother turning up at the gate to start.

opinion guy · 28-02-2010 1:09am

Good God what is with the bbc show presenter not wearing any make up and a woolly fleece?

Edit: oh i just heard her cough as they cut out - I reckon she has a cold or something. Fair enough

Aidric · 28-02-2010 7:54pm

This mens 50k cross country is a beast of a discipline. Hopefully Lukas Bauer can take it.

stackerman · 28-02-2010 9:13pm

If you love sport dont miss this !!
Canada v US in ice hockey final
Going to be fantastic and brutal, real sport played by hard men.
Dont miss it, you've been warned

On BBC 2

kmart6 · 28-02-2010 9:19pm

How come three of the four officials are Canadian?!

robinph · 28-02-2010 9:24pm

Aidric wrote: »

This mens 50k cross country is a beast of a discipline. Hopefully Lukas Bauer can take it.

I'm guessing he's Jacks long lost brother?

kmart6 · 28-02-2010 9:31pm

Nah....cousin!

kmart6 · 28-02-2010 9:36pm

God that puck just stopped dead on the line!:eek:

Skid · 28-02-2010 11:31pm

The Ice Hockey final was a bit disappointing until now, glad the USA scored to send it into overtime - might get more interesting.

robinph · 28-02-2010 11:42pm

Although I know less than nothing about Ice Hockey, something feels wrong about watching a 1500m runner, a downhill skier and a rower chat about it.

Skid · 28-02-2010 11:52pm

robinph wrote: »

Although I know less than nothing about Ice Hockey, something feels wrong about watching a 1500m runner, a downhill skier and a rower chat about it.

Very true, you would think The BBC could have found someone who has played a bit of Ice Hockey to drop in.

Almost as odd as having Paula Radcliffe share her thoughts on Curling with us a few nights ago.

445279.ie · 28-02-2010 11:59pm

Well done Canada. It's their national sport and I'd say if they were only to get one gold in the whole Olympics, this would be the one they'd have wanted.

kmart6 · 01-03-2010 12:05am

What a finish to the games!!!!

I don't think the final could have been scripted any better than the game going to overtime in the last 30 seconds, and then the poster boy of Canadian Ice Hockey steps up for the first time in three games....wow!

Great games, really got into it, shame its only kind of every 4 years its possible to follow all different disciplines in one place!

Congrats to all involved, and thanks for the memories!

Caprica · 01-03-2010 12:30am

Exciting end to the Ice Hockey. Well done Canada, I thought the States were going to take it after equalising in the dying seconds of the 3rd quarter. Liked the Eurosport commentators, really knew there stuff, even gave a shout out to a few Irish viewers who emailed them.

It looks like Canadas own the podium came true though, 14 golds and 26 in total. The States won the most with 37 (9-15-13) followed by Germany with 30 (10-13-7) and the Canadians 3rd with 14-7-5.

On the whole really enjoyed the Games, highlights for me were the Cross Country, Biathlon, Bobsleigh, Luge and Alpine events. Who was the athlete of the games?

Bjoergen with her 3 golds in Cross Country? Neuner in the Biathlon, Amman with his two golds in the Ski Jumping. Tonnes of great performances. Maybe Madic in the cross country, medaling with broken ribs or the Canadian skater medaling 3 days after her mothers death?

robinph · 01-03-2010 12:49am

^ Madjic from the cross country gets my vote.

Although special mention for the Canadian skater, and the Georgians for just turning up at the opening.

Skid · 01-03-2010 2:18am

Shaun White was probably the Star of the Games for me.

He took his Sport to new levels, truely an epic performance.

rainbow kirby · 01-03-2010 2:23am

Meng Wang needs to get a mention there... won everything except the 1,500m in short-track speed skating. Also Peter Northug in cross-country skiing, and that's partly due to the fact that he's absolutely nuts.

robinph · 01-03-2010 6:30am

A degree of nuttiness is needed for pretty much all sports in the winter games. You don't need to have the same number of loose screws to do most sports in the summer games.

opinion guy · 01-03-2010 12:20pm

PErhaps Bode Miller deserves mention ?

robinph wrote: »

A degree of nuttiness is needed for pretty much all sports in the winter games. You don't need to have the same number of loose screws to do most sports in the summer games.

Lol. Let me at it !! Love to do it.

PeakOutput · 01-03-2010 1:15pm

does anyone know how/when they will decide if ski cross will be kept?

and does anyone think if it is that it is something countries like us could get decent at? as far as the ski events go i think its structure could definitely allow a country like ours to compete

opinion guy · 01-03-2010 1:22pm

PeakOutput wrote: »

does anyone know how/when they will decide if ski cross will be kept?

and does anyone think if it is that it is something countries like us could get decent at? as far as the ski events go i think its structure could definitely allow a country like ours to compete

I think they would be mad not to keep it!!

robinph · 01-03-2010 1:34pm

The skicross was a full event this year so my understanding is that it will be kept by default. Before becoming a full event though it would have been a demo last time round which is where they get to decide if they keep it or not. The short track was a demo event in Calgary which that commentator Willf O'reilly one one of the events but didn't get an official medal, but then has been a full medal event since then for instance.

Curling and Skeleton have only been back in the games for a few years, but they may not have been demo events before rejoining as they had been in the Olympics before, all of the board events are relatively new as well.

PeakOutput · 01-03-2010 1:37pm

ok so if its a demo there are no medals handed out? cause i could have sworn they said these were the first gold medals for ski cross

and ye i think they would be mad to not keep it

robinph · 01-03-2010 1:38pm

I think it was demoed at the last games.

Edit: Seems that they didn't feel the need to demo the ski cross before making it a full medal event, they usually do though:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freestyle_skiing_at_the_Winter_Olympics#Events

opinion guy · 01-03-2010 1:47pm

Curling took up too much TV coverage IMHO

Aidric · 01-03-2010 2:01pm

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Also Peter Northug in cross-country skiing, and that's partly due to the fact that he's absolutely nuts.

Northug is some class of an animal, that sprint he put in at the end of the 50k yesterday was super-human. I'd also nominate Martina Sablikova for taking two golds and a bronze in the speed skating.

LiamMc · 01-03-2010 3:17pm

robinph wrote: »

The skicross was a full event this year so my understanding is that it will be kept by default. Before becoming a full event though it would have been a demo last time round which is where they get to decide if they keep it or not. The short track was a demo event in Calgary which that commentator Willf O'reilly one one of the events but didn't get an official medal, but then has been a full medal event since then for instance.

Curling and Skeleton have only been back in the games for a few years, but they may not have been demo events before rejoining as they had been in the Olympics before, all of the board events are relatively new as well.

Whatever happened to the 'Moguls' event. It was a ski or board event where the athelete negotiated a large number of small bumps down a hill. It may have been one of the first board event in an Olympics. (Maybe Calgary).

robinph · 01-03-2010 3:23pm

LiamMc wrote: »

Whatever happened to the 'Moguls' event. It was a ski or board event where the athelete negotiated a large number of small bumps down a hill. It may have been one of the first board event in an Olympics. (Maybe Calgary).

The moguls event was certainly there this year, it was where Canada got their first Gold at a home Olympics, but it is only for skiers.

Aidric · 01-03-2010 4:21pm

opinion guy wrote: »

Curling took up too much TV coverage IMHO

Completely agree. Mind numbing drivel.

robinph · 01-03-2010 4:28pm

Aidric wrote: »

Completely agree. Mind numbing drivel.

Nah, the curling was great. You do have to work to understand their tactics, but whilst they might not be throwing themselves down a mountain at high speed I found it great to watch. Rhona Martin explaining what was going on helped.

Winter Olympics on TV

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