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[undercover brother]

not long to go now!
looking forward to the biathlon, luge/skeleton, ski jumping, speed skating and maybe some halfpipe.
so can we win anything?
do australian's care?
and who is our best looking olympian?

[Bellthorpe]

Very keen on winter Olympics.

Speed skating (Olympic and short-track), hockey, figure skating, biathlon.

And of course there's a special place in my heart for curling.

[superflake]

Dale Begg-Smith for moguls should medal if not win.

Torah Bright is a good chance for a medal in the half pipe snowboard.

Lydia Lassalla in the aerials if her knee holds up.

[blair]

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can we win anything?

I think we've bought a Canadian to win medals for us

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does anyone care?

Not me but I'll probably watch it if it's on

[miners]

mate - these are better than the summer Olympics!!  Love the Games.  Love the Super G, luge, aerials, damn bl**dy everything.

especially love the ice hockey, but have been a hockey watcher for many years anyway.

Torah should have been on Weet-Bix boxes for years already

[Rock Doctor]

There is a coolrunning connection at the winter olympics. Redback's cousin Anthony Deane is competeing in the skeleton

Edited by Rock Doctor, 12 February 2010 - 07:44 AM.

[Rico]

Calling this the Olympics is like calling 10km a marathon.

[Colin]

If anyone cared, then Foxtel wouldn't have had dedicated 24/7 advertisement channels since October, nor would Ch 9 be promoting it so heaviliy for months.

[glenda]

I will watch all sport...I just hope they get enough snow soon.

[langswm]

I care. I love the Olympics, any Olympics. I even made sure that langswd "waited" to have our first bub until the opening ceremony of the Atlanta Olympics in 1996, so that I could take my paternity leave to "help out at home" (with the telly on of course).

As for the winter Olympics.....who could forget Torvill and Deane, the "Herminator", Alyssa Camplin and that magical moment that has entered the Australian local vernacular..."Doing a Bradbury".

I see Coooma girl, Torah Bright, has been chosen to carry the flag at the Opening Ceremony. All good. Bring it on.

[chookrunner]

I'm a fan. Love skiing and can watch the skating, speed and figure. Like to see Lydia win the aerials.

Edited by chookrunner, 12 February 2010 - 04:06 PM.

[slowaz]

what is it again ??? (so not interested).

AFL is getting closer every day however.

Edited by slowaz, 13 February 2010 - 09:39 AM.

[FreeDickland]

Can not escape them, living in Canada I have also learnt that these are THE OLYMPICSl, there is also something called the summer olympics which is a much more minor event - - -

[sunny1]

I get an endorphin surge listening to speed-skate blades cutting ice. I'll be watching!

[felisaffie]

Rico, on Feb 12 2010, 09:41 AM, said:

Calling this the Olympics is like calling 10km a marathon.

I would have thought it was harder to do things when it was wet and slippery

[vat]

langswm, on Feb 12 2010, 03:13 PM, said:

As for the winter Olympics.....who could forget Torvill and Deane, the "Herminator", Alyssa Camplin and that magical moment that has entered the Australian local vernacular..."Doing a Bradbury".

I feel a bit sorry for Steve Bradbury - he'll be remembered for that for the rest of his life (and to his credit, has taken it in good humour and used it to his advantage) but the guy's skating career prior to that makes for astonishing reading.  He was actually favourite for the 1000 metres back in '94 and got hit by a competitor, but was part of the relay team that won Australia's first ever winter Olympic's medal.  He nearly died from blood loss in a World Cup event in '95 after his thigh was cut through by another skater's blade, and broke his neck in a training accident in 2000 and was told he'd never skate again, recovering to win gold in 2002.

If a guy was ever due a big break, it was him.

[Jimboy]

I don't know how some people can say these competitors are not great athletes.What a thrill to see our 15yr old Britteny Cox winging down those slopes in her first Olympic Games.

[blair]

Jimboy, on Feb 14 2010, 03:24 PM, said:

I don't know how some people can say these competitors are not great athletes.What a thrill to see our 15yr old Britteny Cox winging down those slopes in her first Olympic Games.

That was good. I also enjoyed the speed skating heat and thought that Tatiana chick was unlucky to miss out. But I'm afraid the luge doesn't do much for me

[undercover brother]

pretty happy with the foxtel coverage.
saw some biathlon yesterday: nothing sexier than a well-thighed woman holding a gun.
speed skating is good too but i keep getting flashbacks of that infamous will ferrell 'chase seen' in "blades of glory" and chuckling.
bring on the halfpipe.

[walker1st]

undercover brother, on Feb 15 2010, 09:59 AM, said:

saw some biathlon yesterday: nothing sexier than a well-thighed woman holding a gun.

thanks to russian Anastasia, Slovakia takes gold

[Bellthorpe]

undercover brother, on Feb 15 2010, 08:59 AM, said:

saw some biathlon yesterday: nothing sexier than a well-thighed woman holding a gun.

You should watch 'Burn Notice'.

[Brick]

First medal for Australia - Silver Medal Dale in the freestyle skiing (or moguls)

Edited by Brick, 15 February 2010 - 12:30 PM.

[Jimboy]

Well,I am now awaiting an  email from my Canadian brother(we are a very Anglo/OZ/Canuck family ) gloating that their Canadian Canadian beat our Australian Canadian to the Gold.
Ain't international sport great?

[The Sloth]

vat, on Feb 14 2010, 10:07 AM, said:

I feel a bit sorry for Steve Bradbury - he'll be remembered for that for the rest of his life (and to his credit, has taken it in good humour and used it to his advantage) but the guy's skating career prior to that makes for astonishing reading.  He was actually favourite for the 1000 metres back in '94 and got hit by a competitor, but was part of the relay team that won Australia's first ever winter Olympic's medal.  He nearly died from blood loss in a World Cup event in '95 after his thigh was cut through by another skater's blade, and broke his neck in a training accident in 2000 and was told he'd never skate again, recovering to win gold in 2002.

If a guy was ever due a big break, it was him.

Agree completely - an amazing journey. Surely someone should be able to make a cracker of a movie out of this. The only thing it lacks is a Yoda figure - you know, like the stereotypical gnarled old coach, spat out by the system who takes on a young talent and teaches him the 'way of the blade' or some such.

[slowaz]

Even though I said I was not interested, its on at the moment. How porky does Eddie look ?? and they're winging about whether Dal Begg Smith who's at best an honorary Aussie was robbed. Luckily Barnaby Joyce is on the ABC, some tosser on Channel 10 and a couple of tits on SBS.

[Bellthorpe]

Eddie's suit is too small.

'Honorary Aussie'? What's that all about? He is an Australian citizen, as am I, and probably you.

[thomo]

Bellthorpe, on Feb 15 2010, 01:02 PM, said:

You should watch 'Burn Notice'.

Don't want to mess with Fiona.

Great show been renewed for 2010.

slowaz, on Feb 15 2010, 10:20 PM, said:

and they're winging about whether Dal Begg Smith who's at best an honorary Aussie was robbed. Luckily Barnaby Joyce is on the ABC, some tosser on Channel 10 and a couple of tits on SBS.

Bellthorpe, on Feb 15 2010, 11:14 PM, said:

'Honorary Aussie'? What's that all about? He is an Australian citizen, as am I, and probably you.

Agreed.

BTW slowaz Edwin Flack was born in England. He won our first gold medal for Australia at the Olympics.

History 101

Plenty of athletes pre / current / post prime have come to Australia and represented our Country and won medals for our Country.

[slowaz]

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BTW slowaz Edwin Flack was born in England. He won our first gold medal for Australia at the Olympics.

History 101

Plenty of athletes pre / current / post prime have come to Australia and represented our Country and won medals for our Country.

Can't resist thomo...

Edwin Flack actually won our first 2 gold medals. He also came out when he was 5 years old.

DBS has done a few training camps here and somehow wangled citizenship. Makes us look like the winter Olympics equivalent of Bahrain or Qatar in athletics, recruiting all the Kenyans and Moroccans.

[Bellthorpe]

He lives here.

His business is based here.

'Wangled'? He's better qualified than most immigrants on business grounds.

[thomo]

slowaz, on Feb 16 2010, 10:00 PM, said:

Can't resist thomo...

[Brick]

slowaz, on Feb 16 2010, 10:00 PM, said:

DBS has done a few training camps here and somehow wangled citizenship. Makes us look like the winter Olympics equivalent of Bahrain or Qatar in athletics, recruiting all the Kenyans and Moroccans.

Bellthorpe, on Feb 16 2010, 11:06 PM, said:

He lives here.

His business is based here.

'Wangled'? He's better qualified than most immigrants on business grounds.

DBS (born 18 January 1985 in Vancouver, Canada)
According to the news he still lives in Vancouver.
And what a nice business he has.

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Mr Begg-Smith's long and rewarding involvement in the distribution of "malicious software"

Edited by Brick, 17 February 2010 - 06:51 AM.

[Bellthorpe]

Which news? Here's a Canadian piece stating "for most of the past decade residing in Melbourne and competing for Australia".

He has an apartment in Vancouver as well. He's not the only athlete to spend a lot of time in another country in which his sport can more capably be practised. But others don't seem to receive this amount of criticism. I have friends who have represented Australia at Olympic speed-skating, and who have spent more than half of each year living in Europe. I've never heard a bad word said about that.

Comments on the nature of his business have absolutely nothing to do with the question of whether or not he lives in Australia. I find his business an unsavoury one ... although it's very hard to determine exactly what businesses he's involved in now.

[Brick]

Bellthorpe, on Feb 17 2010, 08:45 AM, said:

Which news?

Comments on the nature of his business have absolutely nothing to do with the question of whether or not he lives in Australia. I find his business an unsavoury one ... although it's very hard to determine exactly what businesses he's involved in now.

Channel Nine news.
And they also said the same thing when they showed him coming second in the Olympic telle cast.

You mentioned his buisness first.

I personally take everything all news outlets say with a very big pinch of salt.
I guess the truth is some place in the middle.

[Bandanna]

Do you have to live in Australia to represent Australia? Does it matter? Seems like tall poppy syndrome to me. When is the last time Greg Norman called Australia home?

A couple of journos - witness Peter FitzSimons in the Sydney Morning Herald- snidely denigrated DBS's performance just because he didn't smile, jump and down with unbridled joy or gushed tears at the annoucement he had just won silver.

Dale Begg-Smith was most gracious in acknowledging the Canadian who won gold, and never, unlike the cringeworthy Eddie Mcguire, suggested that the judges were biased. Onya Dale, you are a champ.

I am enjoying the Winter Olympics. Go Torah Torah Torah tomorrow!

[walker1st]

so the slaves were given the games to provide the ultimate distraction from slavery.
trading of the slaves and teh sporting slaves representatives is nothing new.
owners of the big scheme do not realycare, which subdomain gets how many medals.

somehow my hormons do not get elevated or mixed up,
by the fact that 1 slave is few miliseconds faster than the other

during some period of the Old Rome, the games were 150 day, current short versions repeated every 4 years only provide the pinacle and teh base focus in between.
Of course the long lasting games for slaves distraction is offered in the form of footy season, rugby season, cricketseason.

there is also AV winter season and AV summer season each year

and people create their own, like tripple crown, or 100milers grand slamm.

so let the games to continue, so the slaves would not wake up.

[chilliman]

walker1st, on Feb 18 2010, 07:56 AM, said:

somehow my hormons do not get elevated or mixed up,

Come on, the curling was riveting last night.

[undercover brother]

chilliman, on Feb 18 2010, 07:02 AM, said:

Come on, the curling was riveting last night.

curling is like a really shit version of lawn bowls.
hey do they still do the double luge thingy.
those 2 are definitely not my favourites.
if those guys get any closer to one another ... one spill and they'll snap it off!

anyone see the crash in practice for the womens XC sprint this morning?
one of the favs fell 3m off a bank into ?a tree by the looks of it.
got up holding her right lower chest and struggling to breathe they gave her a later start time and she made it through the first round.
tough girl.
hope the lung and liver are ok.

Edited by undercover brother, 18 February 2010 - 06:18 PM.

[walker1st]

undercover brother, on Feb 18 2010, 08:24 AM, said:

curling is like a really shit version of lawn bowls.

shit on lawn is natural as opose on the ice

[chilliman]

walker1st, on Feb 18 2010, 11:37 AM, said:

shit on lawn is natural as opose on the ice

Polarbears and penguins are toilet trained are they ?


Those guys must have the cleanest floors at home.

[chilliman]

undercover brother, on Feb 18 2010, 08:24 AM, said:

curling is like a really shit version of lawn bowls.

After the half pipe and short track last night I have moved on from the lawn bowls.

[undercover brother]

undercover brother, on Feb 18 2010, 07:24 AM, said:

anyone see the crash in practice for the womens XC sprint this morning?
one of the favs fell 3m off a bank into ?a tree by the looks of it.
got up holding her right lower chest and struggling to breathe they gave her a later start time and she made it through the first round.
tough girl.
hope the lung and liver are ok.

holy crap she won the bronze!
petra majdic that is.
saw it on the news last night and watched the replay after.
19th in 1st round qualifying just after the fall.
apparently got a chest xray then returned for the next round.
got thru to the final as the last lucky loser.
3rd in the final.
looked far from healthy at the finish.
the wonders of modern local anaesthesia?
very tough nevertheless.

Edited by undercover brother, 19 February 2010 - 08:12 AM.

[Bandanna]

How good was Shaun White yesterday! Man, that guy rocks. He is almost as good as the spins and tricks I get off his PS3 game.

Torah is on at 3 this afternoon.

Edited by Bandanna, 19 February 2010 - 09:40 AM.

[undercover brother]

cool.
aussie gold.
torah bright.

[Bandanna]

Gold!!

Well done Torah!

Glad we have a plasma TV here at work, and I didn't rely on the SMH saying the finals were starting at 3pm.

[Spud]

Torific!

[blair]

undercover brother, on Feb 19 2010, 01:02 PM, said:

cool.
aussie gold.
torah bright.

I have no interest in the snowboarding but I saw her run and have to admit it was pretty impressive.

[FreeDickland]

have to love the curling- - - where else would you see women shouting "Harder Harder Harder" - and in various languages as well - - - - http://www.coolrunni...icons/icon3.gif

[undercover brother]

balri, on Feb 19 2010, 01:58 PM, said:

I have no interest in the snowboarding but I saw her run and have to admit it was pretty impressive.

i have to admit i only tuned in after - when the second aussie (holly) was doing her run.
but yes i absolutely agree

and i am ashamed to say i think i am starting to understand curling.
nice one FD!

[Waverider12]

Torah rocked it, congrats on the gold.

Shaun was pretty insane last night.  His hair....oh my.  

[Maggot]

A bit disappointed to see the Winter Olympics is going the way of the Summer Games with 'X-Games' contrived sports to 'like, make it really gnarly, Dude'. But, if that's what the punters want.
And, thanks to Foxtel's 4 dedicated channels with expert foreign commentary, I am saved for the 1st time in my XC-ski-loving life, from having to sit through hour upon endless hour of ice-dancing. No more wait-ups until 3.30am in the morning just to see a 20 second summary of the biathlon, never again missing a blue-ribbon final because a higher rating event was on.
Please tell me it's not true ~ Eddie McGuire is not really part of any Winter Olympics broadcast is he?
Foxtel: I love you...