The one and only winter olympics thread

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Men's Figure Skating

 

GOLD - Alexei Yagudin (Russia)

SILVER - Evgeni Plushenko (Russia)

BRONZE - Timothy Goebel (USA)

 

Fantastic performance by Yagudin.  Four 6.0s and nothing below 5.9.

[Guest General Failure]

Yagudin is Russian, so I suppose it's ok for the commie judges to reward his performance accordingly.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Actually, Yagudin is not well-liked in Russia.  I believe they refer to him as 'that little shit' if my memory is correct.  The Russians like Plushenko a lot more.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Plushenko looked pissed that Yagudin won the gold.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Plushenko & Yagudin hate each other.

[Guest Kingpk]

Looks like the Canadian pair finally got the gold.  But you know what that means: no more press confrences to ogle Jamie Sale .

[Guest Vern Gagne]

What a pointless stupid story this figure skating thing was. It was really sad that all the stations interrupted their programming for  a damn press conference.

[Guest Kingpk]

Men's Hockey:

 

Czech Republic def. Germany 8-2

Sweden def. Canada 5-2

United States def. Finland 6-0

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Apollo Anton Ono got robbed of a Gold in the short track speed skating.

 

Russia vs USA hockey LIVE in 30 minutes.

[Guest treble charged]

The end to that short track race was awesome!  The Australian guy coming from way back was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.  He won a silver, anyways, plus Canada won a bronze, so that makes me happy.

[Guest Kingpk]

The US ties Russia 2-2 in a damn fine hockey game.

[Guest tim]

As a proud Aussie, I thought it was great to see Steve Bradbury get up for the win.

Remember the old addage: Slow and steady wins the race!!

[Guest The Vanilla Midget]

it was awesome!!!! i totally marked out for stephen bradbury winning australia's first ever gold medal!!!!

he won it fair and square, and kudos to him on an awesome way to finish his career.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Team K120 Ski Jumping

 

GOLD - Germany

SILVER - Finland

BRONZE - Slovenia

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Women's Aerials

 

GOLD - Alisa Camplin (Australia)

SILVER - Veronica Brenner (Canada)

BRONZE - Deidra Dionne (Canada)

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Women's 4x7.5 K Biathalon Relay

 

GOLD - Germany

SILVER - Norway

BRONZE - Russia

[Guest starvenger]

Switching to hockey:

Canada 3, Czech Republic 3.  Great game.

 

That means:

Sweden (1st Group C) vs. Belarus (4th Group D)

Czech Republic (2C) vs. Russia (3D)

Canada (3C) vs. Finland (2D)

Germany (4C) vs. United States (1D)

 

Thoughts

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Ice Dance

 

GOLD - Marina Anissina & Gwendal Peizerat (France)

SILVER - Irina Lobacheva & Ilia Averbuhk (Russia)

BRONZE - Barbara Fusar Poli & Maurizio Margaglio (Italy)

 

Of course the event isn't over for another 3 hours or so, but we all know that Ice Dance is predetermined.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Well, I was right.  Despite a bad fall by the Italians, the results stayed the same.  No surprise here.  At least this is the last Olympics for Ice Dance.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

The U.S. continues to impress in Men's hockey. They look like there playing with a purpose this time.

[Guest Kingpk]

Looks like Russia and Korea are in a huff about the officiating in this year's olympics.  So much that they are hinting at pulling out of Salt Lake and Athens in 2004.

 

I guess the US will have a better chance at men's hockey gold now.

[Guest CanadianChris]

Doubtful.  The Russian hockey players, pretty much to a man, hate the Russian hockey federation, and probably wouldn't pull out even if they were told to.

[Guest Kingpk]

An actual quote from a Russian official:

 

"Without Russia, the Olympic games are nothing."

 

Wow...and people say Americans are arrogant.

 

Now it seems they're protesting the women's figure skating finals too.

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Hmm.  SNL Rerun from 1994 when SNL was making fun of CBS' coverage of the 1994 Winter Olympics from Lilehammer Norway.  Funny...

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

FINAL RESULTS:

 

1. Germany (12 G  16 S  7 B)

2. USA (10 G  13 S  11 B)

3. Norway (11 G  7 S  6 B)

4. Canada (6 G  3 S  8 B)

5. Russia (6 G  6 S  4 B)

6. Austria (2 G  4 S  10 B)

7. Italy (4 G  4 S  4 B)

8. France (4 G  5 S  2 B)

9.  Switzerland (3 G  2 S  6 B)

10.  Netherlands (3 G  5 S)

11.  China (2 G  2 S  4 B)

12.  Finland (4 G  2 S  1 B)

13.  Sweden (2 S  4 B)

14.  Croatia (3 G  1 S)

15.  Korea (2 G  2 S)

16.  Estonia (1 G  1 S  1 B)

17.  Great Britain (1 G  2 B)

18.  Bulgaria (1 S  2 B)

19-T.  Australia (2 G)

19-T.  Spain (2 G)

21.  Czech Republic (1 G  1 B)

22-T.  Japan (1 S  1 B)

22-T.  Poland (1 S  1 B)

24-T.  Belarus (1 B)

24-T.  Slovenia (1 B)

 

Everyone else came up short.