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I like everything where people shoot down a tube of ice at dangerous speeds. Curling amazes me, too. If LSD was a sport, it'd be Curling.

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Speaking of cold weather sports, I was watching this sports atrocity show the other day, and they showed footage of this dumb fucker trying to ski down this enormous mountain. Dude slipped, and tumbled end over end for more than an entire minute, bouncing off of rocks and crags of ice. It was fuckin' FAR, too. Several hundred feet, doing somersaults and cartwheels down an icy slope before coming to rest on his gourd among a heap of stones. Ouch.

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Honestly is there anyone on this board besides the cunt Princes Leena who cares about any other winter olympic sport besides hockey?

 

Alpine Skiing

Biathlon

Bobsleigh

Cross-country Skiing

Curling

Figure Skating

Freestyle Skiing

Ice Hockey

Luge

Nordic Combined

Short Track Speed Skating

Skeleton

Ski Jumping

Snowboard

Speed Skating

 

 

I'm intrigued by all of the events, 'cept for figure skating. Curling is fucking great to watch, as is the trio of bobsled, luge and skeleton.

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I'll watch hockey, curling, and any of the races. Which now that I think of it, is everything but figure skating.

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I liked watching the Women's Ice Hockey today and they cut to the crowd to show the fans enjoyment. Only one person was actually watching the game, some guy was looking at his watch, another was napping, one looked like he wanted to hang himself with his USA flag and tons of empty seats.

 

I felt bad for the ladies after that. Talk about an enjoyment killer.

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To be fair though, the USA game wasn't very close in terms of level of competition even though they didn't start to blow the Swiss out until the 3rd period. Wendell had some highly impressive moves though.

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There's not really much need for a tournament in Women's hockey as Canada and the States are the only 2 teams that are any good at this point. I mean, the Italians have 15 year-olds on their team, what's the point of them playing one of the big teams when they're just going to get their asses kicked. It's 3-0 already for Canada barely 4 minutes in.

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Women's hockey is such a joke of a sport, they really should just eliminate it to save us the embarassment. What does it tell you about the quality level of this "sport" when the supposedly great teams Canada and the USA lose exhibition games to high school boys teams?

 

Oh, and the Chinese pairs team doing their short program to Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" makes them my favorite athletes of the winter games so far.

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Curling is fucking great to watch,

 

No

 

Curling > Hockey.

 

 

There I fucking said it.

 

I'll make it a triple. Curling is awesome.

And I'd rather see the Bobsledding start to finish instead of that "watch four sleds then cut away to a stupid story". That pissed me off so much the last Olympics.

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Michelle Kwan Pulls Out of the Olympics

 

TURIN, Italy - Michelle Kwan dropped out of the Turin Games on Sunday morning because of a groin injury, bringing her decade-long quest for gold to a humbling end.

 

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The U.S. Olympic Committee asked to replace Kwan with Emily Hughes, the third-place finisher at last month's national championships and younger sister of 2002 Olympic champion Sarah Hughes. A response was expected later this week, and Hughes was to travel to Turin shortly.

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There went my interest in the figure skating. The Kwan quest was the only interesting thing coming into this for me. Well that and hoping Bode Miller finishes like 10 or worst in every event. But he won't, he'll probably win shit.

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