Orympic opening ceremonies...

[TK]

Grade: D

I'll start with what I liked:

The ski jumper made from people dressed in different color shirts was unreal. I laughed like a retard when I realized what it was.

The lighting of the flame was absolutely breathtaking, despite having to wait thru 1,2332344124 countries and afweets being named off.

The not-so-pretty-greta:

First and foremost - the plastic cows on wheeled platforms being tugged arounf the arena. WTF Moment #1.

At the same time, the couples dancing in cow print clothing. WTFM#2

Then, the idiots running arounf in tree costumes. WTFM#3

Then!!@# Then, the in-line skaters with flames shooting out their backsides. WTFM#4


There's more. I'm sure of it.

[brinett9]

Thank you for spelling 'Orympics' correctry. :bowdown:

[Gutter]

Hey TK, I was listening to the local sports radio last week, and Dick Eversol was on doing a promo for the opening ceremonies. He said there will be an old rock star, whose voice you may not like, who doesn't make many public appearances. Who was that?

[fricker66]

I thought the spider-like people were cool.:sadbanana:

[Autumn Wind]

I decided I don't care all that much about the Winter Olympics anymore, outside of hockey.

[TK]

Hey TK, I was listening to the local sports radio last week, and Dick Eversol was on doing a promo for the opening ceremonies. He said there will be an old rock star, whose voice you may not like, who doesn't make many public appearances. Who was that?

I have no earfly clue as to what you're talking about. hth. :D

[TK]

I decided I don't care all that much about the Winter Olympics anymore, outside of hockey.

The snowboarding halfpipe was surprisingly great.

[Gutter]

I have no earfly clue as to what you're talking about. hth. :D


crap. He wouldn't say who it was, but people started calling in and guessing, from Bono to Rod Stewart to David Hasselhoff. I guess nobody performed after all.:sadbanana:

[fricker66]

Hey TK, I was listening to the local sports radio last week, and Dick Eversol was on doing a promo for the opening ceremonies. He said there will be an old rock star, whose voice you may not like, who doesn't make many public appearances. Who was that?

Peter Gabriel singing "Imagine".

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

absolutely breathtaking

:gay2:

[Gutter]

I decided I don't care all that much about the Winter Olympics anymore, outside of hockey.

I was watching on Saturday, just cause it was in HD and looked cool, but they were still some mooks skiing down a big hill and flying in the air. :dunno:

[Gutter]

Peter Gabriel singing "Imagine".

thanks. This was on the FAN, someone actually guessed Peter Gabriel too.

[TK]

:gay2:

thut up.

[dolfan06]

The snowboarding halfpipe was surprisingly great.

When they were interviewing Shaun White after the run that he had to get right because he'd focked up his first run, my wife went on a 15 minute riff about how he's just not very attractive. I had to agree with her, Shaun White is not a very attractive guy.

[SigEp316]

I'm tryin' to pay more attention this year. I enjoyed the LUGE, snowboard halfpipe, men's downhill, and speedskating. So far so good.

However, figure skating will be here soon enough, and there are few things that I hate worse than figure skating.
:mad:

[fricker66]

When they were interviewing Shaun White after the run that he had to get right because he'd focked up his first run, my wife went on a 15 minute riff about how he's just not very attractive. I had to agree with her, Shaun White is not a very attractive guy.

I had to laugh at his Bob Costas interview last night. He was talking about meeting up with Sasha Cohen. That guy has about as much chance at nailing Sasha Cohen as I do.

[TK]

When they were interviewing Shaun White after the run that he had to get right because he'd focked up his first run, my wife went on a 15 minute riff about how he's just not very attractive. I had to agree with her, Shaun White is not a very attractive guy.

Still, name a better nickname than "The Flying Tomato".

You can't. You just can't do it.

[TK]

I'm tryin' to pay more attention this year. I enjoyed the LUGE, snowboard halfpipe, men's downhill, and speedskating. So far so good.

However, figure skating will be here soon enough, and there are few things that I hate worse than figure skating.
:mad:

I think they're separating all the finger painting coverage and showing it exclusively on USA. I applaud this.

[EMoney]

:mime:

[Autumn Wind]

I was watching on Saturday, just cause it was in HD and looked cool, but they were still some mooks skiing down a big hill and flying in the air. :dunno:

Yup. This and all those other shitty X-Games events are what is wrong with sports nowadays. 2 minutes of straight showboating. :no:

[fricker66]

I don't like many of the recently-invented sports. To me, if you're judging it rather than timing it or keeping score, it's a suspect sport. I watched men's and women's cross-country skiing yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it.

[Autumn Wind]

Agreed. Any sport that has its outcome determined by the subjective opinion of others is BS. Oh wait, there goes the NFL.

[TK]

I don't like many of the recently-invented sports. To me, if you're judging it rather than timing it or keeping score, it's a suspect sport. I watched men's and women's cross-country skiing yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Not that I'm a fan of it, but isn't figure skating pretty much left up to judges discretion?

Going into this Olympics, I felt the same way, but that snowboarding halfpipe kinda won me over. Pretty amazing to watch.

[fricker66]

Not that I'm a fan of it, but isn't figure skating pretty much left up to judges discretion?

Going into this Olympics, I felt the same way, but that snowboarding halfpipe kinda won me over. Pretty amazing to watch.

There is apparently a new scoring system in figure skating that makes it tougher for the judges to play favorites, but I really have no idea how it works as I have no interest in it.

I also was entertained by the halfpipe. Not knowing the technical skill points makes it tough for me to say that The Flying Tomato was the best, but he seemed to fly the highest and spin the fastest, so I guess they got it right.:dunno:

[torridjoe]

There is apparently a new scoring system in figure skating that makes it tougher for the judges to play favorites, but I really have no idea how it works as I have no interest in it.

I also was entertained by the halfpipe. Not knowing the technical skill points makes it tough for me to say that The Flying Tomato was the best, but he seemed to fly the highest and spin the fastest, so I guess they got it right.:dunno:


For figure skating, they got rid of a 6-pt best system, and now it's just total points from two categories--tech merit and artistic display.

Another thing they did was make the country of origin of the judges random and unknown.

[brinett9]

For figure skating, they got rid of a 6-pt best system, and now it's just total points from two categories--tech merit and artistic display.

Another thing they did was make the country of origin of the judges random and unknown.
Plus there are 12 judges, 9 of whom are randomly selected by computer to have their scores count.

Each judge scores each element seperately. The high and low score for each element are tossed out.

It's prolly a bit of an improvement in fairness.

[TK]

This is way more ice skating words than I was hoping to see here today.

[brinett9]

Right now I'm mostly enjoying:

- Ski jumping
- Speed skating (normal and short track)
- Women's hockey
- Curling

[Gutter]

Hey TK, great figure skating thread you got going here.

[torridjoe]

Right now I'm mostly enjoying:

- Ski jumping
- Speed skating (normal and short track)
- Women's hockey
- Curling

This just in--the Canuck chicks are good. It was 4-0 against Italy after 7 minutes, and one girl had a hat trick by then.

:eek:

[fricker66]

This just in--the Canuck chicks are good. It was 4-0 against Italy after 7 minutes, and one girl had a hat trick by then.

:eek:


I watched them smash the Russians...very impressive. :yes: