turk128 Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 It's gotta be on purpose, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipGofern Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Besides hockey, curling is my Winter Olympics must follow sport. I've watched as many matches as I could for three Olympics now and I gotta admit when I saw Shuster back again my initial reaction was, "This bum again? Can't we find anyone better?" I've never been happier to eat my words. It's one thing to pull off a miracle run but sticking it to all us naysayers has to make it all the more sweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Death From Above Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 Rob Klinkhammer: Olympic medallist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 21 hours ago, sabremike said: The league specifically told the players they would allow them to compete in the Olympics if they made labor concession. They used it as a bargaining chip. A lot of people sure like to forget completely available knowledge like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Man, Germany got so close. That 2-1 goal is probably it though. EDIT: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA RUCK FUSSIA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Germany is gonna do this.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 WTF... batshit.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Man Known as Dan Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 What the fuck is this game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Why did they take a shot on that PP? Just possess the puck and the game is over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyWhioux Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 too many ex-Sharks on Team Germany for it to be that easy to close out a win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Russians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 I despise existence, it is a prison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyWhioux Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 that 4 on 3 power play looked like a 5 on 3. Game Winning Goal felt inevitable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipGofern Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 The Russian team and fans attempting to sing the Russian National Anthem over the Olympic one would make Nikolai Volkoff proud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilwaldo Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Both Gold Medal hockey games were classics. Pavel Datsyuk gets to put a capstone on the career of a generational player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted March 4, 2018 Share Posted March 4, 2018 I miss the Olympics already. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 4, 2018 Author Share Posted March 4, 2018 Seems like best place for this ... RIP Sir Roger Bannister, first runner to break the 4 minute mile Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted May 16, 2018 Share Posted May 16, 2018 Debating on splitting this off into its own thread, but... East Lansing should probably be nuked from orbit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted October 16, 2018 Share Posted October 16, 2018 (edited) Fifty years ago today, October 16th 1968. Tommie Smith (Gold medal, with a then World record time of 19.83 seconds) and John Carlos (Bronze medal, 20.10 seconds) raised a gloved fist during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner. It wasn't a time of great change. It was a time of great resistance to change. Lyndon Baines Johnson had been President for five years, following the JFK assassination in 1963. Robert F Kennedy had only died five months earlier, and Martin Luther King two months before that. Muhammed Ali was banned from boxing. In that moment both men (all three men, if you include Peter Norman) threw a great deal away to take a stand for what they believed in. Both were vilified, castigated, both of their families received death threats. It took a decade before popular opinion began to shift and regard them as the heroes they were (and still are). This statue stands in the grounds of San Jose State University. Peter Norman specifically requested that he not be represented, as he wanted other people to stand in his place, and feel as he felt: When Norman died in 2006, Tommie Smith and John Carlos served as pallbearers at his funeral. In 2012, he received a posthumous apology from the Australian government for the treatment he received on his return to his home country. His silver medal time is still the Australian 200 metre record. EDIT TO ADD: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's column this week is about this: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/oct/17/smith-and-carlos-embodied-many-african-americans-summer-of-love-and-reckoning Edited October 17, 2018 by AxB 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 Calgary held a public plebicite and voted 56% no to pursue a 2026 winter olympics bid. That joins basically every other city that has actually put this issue to a vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted November 14, 2018 Author Share Posted November 14, 2018 It's weird. It seemed like the buzz was positive until maybe a month ago and then abruptly turned. But that's only getting it second hand and from a cross the 49th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 I never really got the impression the yes side had the momentum. People are very big on watching the Olympics on TV and very lukewarm on spending to actually host one. Even a lot of sports fans have really turned on the cost of new facilities, which is the same reason Calgary has no real current plan for a new NHL arena; they looked at the sweetheart deal the government gave Katz in Edmonton and said "we do not want this". Olympics spending is exponentially worse, so it seems in recent times. Even if we discount the utter, total gong show of costs in Sochi, it just isn't pretty. The Yes plan involved basically the idea that "if we pay $400 million another $4 billion in provincial and federal money will appear through Space Magic" and it was never really explained well how that would happen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted November 14, 2018 Author Share Posted November 14, 2018 Do you think Canada hosting part of the World Cup in 26 was also a factor? Is Alberta going to host any of those games? Didnt Edmonton host womens world cup matches? (I've forgotten already) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted November 14, 2018 Share Posted November 14, 2018 I don't think it was a big factor though I think "pay a few hundred million dollars to host a couple group stage matches" probably isn't helping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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