Charlie M. Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Lee Sang-Hwa is very fast. "Alex Gough will really have to rip one." - Poor choice of words, Canadian broadcaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesterCopperpot Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 How do you give up 7 in one end of curling? Wow – I’ve seriously never seen that before Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert S Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Women's ski slopestyle was shockingly sloppy. I say shockingly since it is the Olympics and all. I haven't read this thread enough to see if it is spoiler free, I'll just say at least 30% of the runs ended with someone falling/crashing/failing in some fashion. I only saw one or two runs before having to leave for work this morning but I would guess that slopestyle has the problem that many of the newer sports of these games have: their is hardly any depth of athletes as there are hardly any people on the world competing in them. For example there was an Austrian freestyle skier who would have qualified for the games because she managed to place twice in the top twenty of world cup events. The problem? Both times there were less than twenty competitors. Therefore I have problems taking most freestyle skiing and snowboarding events really serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 If you bother to watch Prime Time coverage: Costas down! The eye infection went to both eyes, and he's effectively shut down. The downside though, Lauer is taking over. They have Al Michaels on the daytime coverage, god forbid they let him do it. You can't have a guy who's *actively making bets* on the air, host the Olympics. (Well, I mean, I would, but... you know, the world sucks.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I'll put this in spoiler tags to be safe if you aren't watching live or if it's on time delay. Shaun White has it all to do in his second run in the Snowboard Halfpipe final. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 The wipeouts in women's ski slopestyle are some of the nastiest looking shit. Then again if you volunteer to jump off a mountain backwards, these things happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Shaun White should never have cut his hair. Lost all his magic power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirFozzie Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Shaun White finishes fourth. Haters having a big ole bowl of Schaden-Fruity Pebbles 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 All I know was people where losing their shit on Twitter because apparently the online stream went out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 The wipeouts in women's ski slopestyle are some of the nastiest looking shit. Then again if you volunteer to jump off a mountain backwards, these things happen. Yuki Tsubota's crash on her last run, when she was going all out to try and get on the podium, was scary as shit. It looked like she blew out her knee, while simultaneously smacking her skull into that same knee. Slopestyle on skis looks way more dangerous than snowboards. They don't seem to have near the control or are able to get as much height. It didn't help that the course got so choppy by the time it came down to the final runs. That Dara Howell put up 94 in that sludge is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I just saw the 7-point end in the US/GB curling match. It's really crazy.The US had two really bad stones. First, they accidentally bumped into their own guard. It wasn't deadly by any means but it was a wasted opportunity. The second was just a pure whiff when trying to knock a GB stone out of the scoring zone. It was sort of miraculous they missed, actually -- like managing to roll a bowling ball right down the middle of an 10-8 split. One centimeter in either direction and something gets bumped.GB, on the other hand, was just fantastic. They couldn't miss on any shot they wanted. A phalanx of US stones protected the target really well.The final two stones were great. The US skip has been brutal these Olympics. But her final rock was good and could have limited the damages to two. Unfortunately, too much of her stone was left unprotected and it was a fairly easy bump with the GB hammer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 11, 2014 Author Share Posted February 11, 2014 I was trying to watch this morning's curling and couldnt get it to work. I did watch the highlight of us/rus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSC Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 I swear I have never seen the US - men's or women's - win a single Curling match I'm just glad that, as every other countrys' curling team gets younger and more athletic, the US mens team still looks like a bunch of doughy freshman frat boys. I still have a chance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Ray Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 The US Men's skip reminds me of Michael O'Malley when he was on My Name Is Earl as the really lousy cop who wanted to become a bowler. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Our commentators are just terrible all around. The way they tried to sell White's final run there was laughable. We're not idiots. Anyone could have told you it wasn't a medal run. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonL21 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Shaun White needs to go ahead and pull the Ricky Vaughn in the last 10 minutes of Major League II. For him that would be letting the hair grow back. Seriously, he probably just had an off night. Can he come back and win gold at 32? I don't know. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 The figure skating announcers(?) really need to just shut up. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgundy LaRue Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I assume it's Hammond/Wilson/Hamilton? You'd be better watching it on mute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipGofern Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I'm just glad that, as every other countrys' curling team gets younger and more athletic, the US mens team still looks like a bunch of doughy freshman frat boys. That's not just a problem on the men's side. Every other country seemingly has a team of fit, young, hot women - okay, that last part is sorta irrelevant but obvious nonetheless - and our team continues to be a team of Marges from that curling episode of The Simpsons. Like, I'm sure Deb McCormick is a perfectly nice lady (she's part Canadian, after all) but she was the atrocious skip from our last place finish in Vancouver and here she is again whiffing on shots as the #2/vice-skip or whatever you call it. I watched both our ladies matches online when I got home from work today and, honestly, I'm starting to wonder how we even qualify for the Olympics. Okay, the game with the Russians was close through 5 ends but that was mostly due to the Russians messing up (nerves?). The game against GB was an utter debacle. And, sure, GB made some pretty insane shots - right after that ridiculous 7 spot, we were set up to get 3 back when EVE~! hit a crazy tap-draw that limited the damage to 1 - but how do you lose 12-3 after only 6 ends? About the Britain-US match, I dunno if this aired live but on the stream the British team got a full Roddy Piper Wrestlemania I entrance when they came out. Not sure why they got that but it was really cool. Oh and speaking of the Russian women, "adorable" really doesn't do them justice. It's like Russia decided to train a team of Maxim models to throw stones. I saw a couple people mention one of them posed in lingerie, I had to Google who you all were talking about because literally any one of them could pose for magazines. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I've never seen anyone score 7 in an end before. Scoring all 8 would seem almost inconceivable in any sort of legitimate match. I'm sure I've seen 6 very rarely. Can't remember 7 before though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I assume it's Hammond/Wilson/Hamilton? You'd be better watching it on mute. Yes, and I'm learning that really fast. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Norway's pants are definitely great, but it's the socks that make the ensemble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonL21 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 I assume it's Hammond/Wilson/Hamilton? You'd be better watching it on mute.Yes, and I'm learning that really fast. . . The day commentators are light years better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 It looks like the women's downhill skiing could end in a dead heat for dual golds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipGofern Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 YES! I hope Rippa has a DVR or bad insomnia because USA Curling finally gets off the schneid with the Frat Boyz pulling out a win over Denmark. It only took three days into the competition but we finally taste victory! As an aside, I kinda like that our team is a bunch of schlumpy looking joes instead of the Affliction-wearing muscleheads that Canada seems to employ. There's something oddly comforting about the fact the American skip still wears a Trucker Hat five years after they went out of style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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