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Guest Kahran Ramsus
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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
Posted

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

Guest Kahran Ramsus
Posted

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
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Plushenko looked pissed that Yagudin won the gold.

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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
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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.

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Men's Hockey:

 

Czech Republic def. Germany 8-2

Sweden def. Canada 5-2

United States def. Finland 6-0

Guest MarvinisaLunatic
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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
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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.

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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
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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
Posted

Team K120 Ski Jumping

 

GOLD - Germany

SILVER - Finland

BRONZE - Slovenia

Guest Kahran Ramsus
Posted

Women's Aerials

 

GOLD - Alisa Camplin (Australia)

SILVER - Veronica Brenner (Canada)

BRONZE - Deidra Dionne (Canada)

Guest Kahran Ramsus
Posted

Women's 4x7.5 K Biathalon Relay

 

GOLD - Germany

SILVER - Norway

BRONZE - Russia

Guest starvenger
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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
Posted

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
Posted

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

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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
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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.

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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
Posted

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
Posted

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.

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