Author Topic: Vancouver 2010  (Read 19949 times)

andygates

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Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #75 on: 20 February, 2010, 12:15:09 pm »
Outstanding!  Beautifully done - the two Germans were damn near flawless too. 

Did you see the journo go down with a cam?  Reduced to gibbering within seconds, and the footage looked like real-life Wipeout.  I wanna go!
It takes blood and guts to be this cool but I'm still just a cliché.
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Salvatore

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Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #76 on: 20 February, 2010, 12:20:00 pm »
Did you see the journo go down with a cam?  Reduced to gibbering within seconds, and the footage looked like real-life Wipeout.  I wanna go!
This one?
BBC Sport - Vancouver 2010 - Ed Leigh tries Skeleton
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Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #77 on: 20 February, 2010, 12:29:15 pm »
 ;D ;D ;D   :thumbsup:

 He's the guy that's a bit of a snowboarder too!
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Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #78 on: 20 February, 2010, 12:31:41 pm »
A gold medal winner in a downhill sport.

From Cambridge!

:thumbsup:

I think she hails from Bath.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is...

simonp

Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #79 on: 20 February, 2010, 12:36:19 pm »
A gold medal winner in a downhill sport.

From Cambridge!

:thumbsup:

We are very downhill, silly. :)

rogerzilla

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Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #80 on: 20 February, 2010, 12:38:13 pm »
Did you see the journo go down with a cam?  Reduced to gibbering within seconds, and the footage looked like real-life Wipeout.  I wanna go!
This one?
BBC Sport - Vancouver 2010 - Ed Leigh tries Skeleton
That actually looks like fun  :)
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #81 on: 20 February, 2010, 12:54:28 pm »
I loved the obvious camaraderie of the medallists at the end. And the unadulterated joy of the two germans when they
realised they both had medals. 

Jaded

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Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #82 on: 20 February, 2010, 02:05:08 pm »
:thumbsup: :-* :thumbsup:

It was more nerve wracking watching it live.  ;D
It is simpler than it looks.

clarion

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Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #83 on: 20 February, 2010, 02:35:36 pm »
A gold medal winner in a downhill sport.

From Cambridge!

:thumbsup:

I think she hails from Bath.

Born in Cambridge; attended Bath U according to Wikipedia.
Getting there...

Flying_Monkey

Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #84 on: 20 February, 2010, 03:44:03 pm »
When I was in Seattle I used to see WHL games, youngsters trying to be noticed to get a place in the big leagues.

The most fun hockey I've watched this year was the unofficial tournament we had on the island here, where two local teams challenge a coupe of teams from Toronto... and outdoors too. As it should be...

andygates

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Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #85 on: 20 February, 2010, 06:08:42 pm »
Okay, who else got a bit teary watching the skelly re-run?   :'( ;D :thumbsup:

Now Super G.  What's the difference between Super G and Downhill?  Looks like the same course?
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Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #86 on: 20 February, 2010, 06:19:54 pm »

Well done to Amy Williams.   :thumbsup:



Shame about all the moans and disquiet about her helmet. It's ribbed for her pleasure. Nothing more, nothing less.
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her_welshness

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Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #87 on: 20 February, 2010, 09:52:55 pm »
Okay, who else got a bit teary watching the skelly re-run?   :'( ;D :thumbsup:

Now Super G.  What's the difference between Super G and Downhill?  Looks like the same course?

I got teary too - I watched ALL the links to it this evening on the Beeb website.

Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #88 on: 20 February, 2010, 10:39:39 pm »
Now Super G.  What's the difference between Super G and Downhill?  Looks like the same course?

My understanding is that Downhill will follow the terrain faithfully, with gates to mark where the terrain mandates a turn and straight stretches where the terrain does not require a turn. Super G courses have a minimum of 35 gates for men, 30 for women, while Downhill does not have a minimum number of gates. So a course setter for a particular event has a fair bit of influence in determining what a Super G race will be like, whereas a Downhill course is fairly fixed once the trail has been built.

Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #89 on: 20 February, 2010, 10:57:05 pm »
... you'd still be skiing in 1-piece ski-suits if it wasn't for snowboarding.
That reads like a classic 'snowboarders sneering at the old fogies who use skis' comment. And as is the norm for such snobbery, it's a load of garbage. Apart from serious racers, who need them for obvious aerodynamic reasons, one-piece suits have always been a minority taste.

"A woman on a bicycle has all the world before her where to choose; she can go where she will, no man hindering." The Type-Writer Girl, 1897

andygates

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Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #90 on: 20 February, 2010, 11:00:36 pm »
... you'd still be skiing in 1-piece ski-suits if it wasn't for snowboarding.
That reads like a classic 'snowboarders sneering at the old fogies who use skis' comment. And as is the norm for such snobbery, it's a load of garbage. Apart from serious racers, who need them for obvious aerodynamic reasons, one-piece suits have always been a minority taste.

Will you two tribes get a room already? :)

And - XC skiing? OMG peloton chase drama!
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Chris S

Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #91 on: 21 February, 2010, 09:03:03 am »
OK, so  this is perhaps a little creepy - in that I'm a bald old middle aged has-been and she's a mere 19, but I reckon Eve Muirhead is well hawt...

simonp

Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #92 on: 21 February, 2010, 11:58:26 am »
xkcd: Dating Pools needs to be repeated.

Yes, way too young. Amy Williams however isn't. Just. 38/2 + 7 = 26. Woo hoo!  Though I suspect this rule is like BMI and breaks down once you're over 30.

I like the final segment. Unfortunately, I like graphs too.
 

andygates

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Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #93 on: 21 February, 2010, 12:26:13 pm »
Eve Muirhead has that steely gaze.   8)

What's happened with our boy skellybobber?  I haven't caught any footage of him sliding.
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fruitcake

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Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #94 on: 21 February, 2010, 12:51:53 pm »

Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #95 on: 21 February, 2010, 03:45:08 pm »
Superb metric mile at speedskating. Skobrev with a fabulous last lap, surprising performance by Fygind-Larsen and Tuitert performing the perfect mile at the best possible moment. The party afterwards looked great.

andygates

  • Peroxide Viking
Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #96 on: 21 February, 2010, 04:36:27 pm »






(I think that last one might be the Stig)
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rogerzilla

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Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #97 on: 21 February, 2010, 04:37:34 pm »
Did anyone else guffaw at Andreas Wank in the ski jumping?  I think that trumps Manuel Pfister.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #98 on: 21 February, 2010, 07:01:37 pm »
Great ski jumping last night and Bobsleigh (2) as well (repaly)!
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Chris S

Re: Vancouver 2010
« Reply #99 on: 21 February, 2010, 07:05:50 pm »
Mr Gates forgot one: