The one and only winter olympics thread

[Guest Choken One]

I'd say it was quite dangerous.

[Guest Robert S]

Women's Biathlon (15 km):

 

GOLD - Andrea Henkel (GER)

SILVER - Liv Grete Poiree

BRONZE - Magdalena Forsberg (SWE)

 

Forsberg lost the race at the last shooting, where she missed two targets.

 

Men's Luge:

 

GOLD - Armin Zöggeler (ITA)

SILVER - Georg Hackl (GER)

BRONZE - Markus Prock (AUT)

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

So King Hackl falls.

[Guest Robert S]

So King Hackl falls.

I think Hackl was lucky to win the silver medal (he was about 0.015 seconds faster than Prock and about .350 seconds slower than Zöggeler).

 

Men's Biathlon (20 km):

 

GOLD - Ole Einar Björndalen (NOR)

SILVER - Frank Luck (GER)

BRONZE - Victor Maigurov (RUS)

 

Frode Andresen (NOR) lost the race at the last shooting. He would have won if he had missed one target, would have been 2nd if he had missed two targets. But he missed three of the five targets because he risked too much.

[Guest Kingpk]

Men's Snowboard Halfpipe

 

G: Ross Powers (USA)

S: Danny Kass (USA)

B: Jarrett Thomas (USA)

 

 

And the US advances in curling, to face Canada.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

I thought that curling was round robin?

[Guest CanadianChris]

It is.  US is 1-0, same as Canada.

[Guest CanadianChris]

Excuse my language, but the judging in the pairs free skate was a CROCK OF SHIT.  Sale and Pelletier clearly had the better program, and they got screwed.

[Guest tbiii]

I agree. Canada just got totally screwed. Their routine was amazing, and they didn't make any mistakes like the Russians.  Damn Soviet block voting.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

What a fucking crock of shit.  I hope they take this goddamned 'sport' out of the games.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Canada beat the U.S. 8-3.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

I would like to apologize to anyone I offended with my comments.  I was really pissed last night.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Men's 15 K Classical Cross Country

 

GOLD - Andrus Veerpalu (Estonia)

SILVER - Frode Estil (Norway)

BRONZE - Jaak Mae (Estonia)

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Women's 10 K Classical Cross Country

 

GOLD - Bente Skari (Norway)

SILVER - Olga Danilova (Russia)

BRONZE - Julija Tchepalova (Russia)

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Men's Moguls

 

GOLD - Janne Lahtela (Finland)

SILVER - Travis Mayer (USA)

BRONZE - Richard Gay (France)

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Women's Downhill

 

GOLD - Carole Montillet (France)

SILVER - Isolde Kostner (Italy)

BRONZE - Renate Goetshl (Austria)

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Men's 500 M Long Track

 

GOLD - Casey Fitzrandolph (USA)

SILVER - Hiroyasu Shimizu (Japan)

BRONZE - Kip Carpenter (USA)

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Men's K120 Ski Jumping

 

GOLD - Simon Ammann (Switzerland)

SILVER - Adam Malysz (Poland)

BRONZE - Matti Hautamaeki (Finland)

[Guest Robert S]

Men's Biathlon Sprint:

 

GOLD - Ole Einar Björndalen (NOR)

SILVER - Sven Fischer (GER)

BRONZE - Wolfgang Perner (AUT)

[Guest Robert S]

Men's Alpine Combination:

 

GOLD - Kjetil A. Aamodt (NOR)

SILVER - Bode Miller (USA)

BRONZE - Benjamin Raich (AUT)

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Men's Alpine Combined

 

GOLD - Kjetil Andre Aamodt (Norway)

SILVER - Bode Miller (USA)

BRONZE - Benjamin Raich (Austria)

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Germany and the U.S. are tied at 8-8, in extra ends.

 

A curling classic.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Women's 7.5 K Sprint Biathalon

 

GOLD - Kati Wilhelm (Germany)

SILVER - Uschi Disl (Germany)

BRONZE - Magdalene Forsberg (Sweden)

[Guest the Goon]

anyone think that the medal standings thing is a bad way to tally olympics? they should keep a "per capita" board running... the US always wins the most medals, but when you look at the amount of people in the US, and the amount of people they send, and you compare that to the amount of medals other countries win compared to teh amount of people in their countries, per capita, Canada and the US rank about 30th - 35th in the world.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Women's Luge

 

GOLD - Sylke Otto (Germany)

SILVER - Barbara Niedernhuber (Germany)

BRONZE - Silke Kraushaar (Germany)

[Guest Robert S]

Just for the Goon: the medals per citizen rankings (women's luge included):

 

1. Norway (1.8527 medals per million citizens)

2. Estonia (1.2979)

3. Austria (1.1208)

4. Finland (0.7869)

5. Switzerland (0.4274)

6. Sweden (0.2290)

7. Germany (0.1472)

8. Nederlands (0.1299)

9. Czech Republic (0.0971)

10. Canada (0.0687)

11. Italy (0.0525)

12. Poland (0.0522)

13. France (0.0520)

14. USA (0.0384)

15. Russia (0.0337)

16. Spain (0.0253)

17. Japan (0.0160)

18. China (0.0008)

 

Women's Luge:

 

GOLD - Sylke Otto (GER)

SILVER - Barbara Niedernhuber (GER)

BRONZE - Silke Kraushaar (GER)

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Women's 1500 M Short Track

 

GOLD - Gi-Hyun Ko (Korea)

SILVER - Eun-Kyung Choi (Korea)

BRONZE - Evgenia Radanova (Bulgaria)

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Men's 10 K Free Pursuit

 

GOLD - Johann Muehlegg (Spain)

SILVER - Thomas Alsgaard (Norway)

SILVER - Frode Estil (Norway)

 

The Norwegians tie for second.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Women's Alpine Combined

 

GOLD - Janica Kostelic (Croatia)

SILVER - Renate Goestchl (Austria)

BRONZE - Martina Ertl (Germany)

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Women's 500 M Long Track

 

GOLD - Catriona LeMay Doan (Canada)

SILVER - Monique Garbrecht-Enfeldt (Germany)

BRONZE - Sabine Voelker (Germany)