Evan YEAH!!!! :bravo: :dance: :cloud9: :high: :woohoo: :cheer3:

Is anyone else getting annoying with all the sore losers? I really feel like giving them all some cheese to go with their whine.

Originally Posted by Shopaholic1204:
Is anyone else getting annoying with all the sore losers? I really feel like giving them all some cheese to go with their whine.

I don't know about *all* the sore losers, but Plushenko, I'm lookin' at you! Did you see how he went up on the top step of the podium first?

Ice dancing: Is that tight bun all the women were wearing for their compulsory dance the mandatory "tango style"? Even Tanith Belbin wore her hair tight and she's a real fox when she wears her hair big! Would the sky have fallen if one girl had gone out on the ice with a Dorothy Hamill haircut? Also didn't Belbin look like she was in dire danger of imminent wardrobe malfunction?

Did anyone read the article about South Korea's hate for Apolo? They really really hate him!! Someone said they wanted to see him fall while some ice skater does a triple axel on his face!!!! Apolo couldnt even go to South Korea to compete because there was death threats against him!!! And when he won silver the other day, the winner was so irate he couldnt even stand to be on the podium with him. He said something about how Apolo didnt deserve to be up there with him!!! And all this goes back to the 2002 Olympics, when a South Korean wad disqualified and Apolo won the gold. Can you believe that? Plus..they think he pushed one of the 2 Koreans that fell the other day just so he could win the silver!!!! That whole article ruined speed skating for me. I'm not even gonna watch it tonight.

Originally Posted by Shopaholic1204:
Did anyone read the article about South Korea's hate for Apolo? They really really hate him!! Someone said they wanted to see him fall while some ice skater does a triple axel on his face!!!!

Ok, I'd say that's a plenty sore loser

Halfpipe: Did anybody notice the PA system playing Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA"? Psst guys, this party is in Canada!

They played it during the men's short program too, lol!!

Originally Posted by Shopaholic1204:
They played it during the men's short program too, lol!!

I didn't notice, but I may not have seen all of it. Was somebody skating to it (although except in ice dancing you can't use a song with words) ?

Originally Posted by ANOther:
I didn't notice, but I may not have seen all of it. Was somebody skating to it (although except in ice dancing you can't use a song with words) ?

No, it was before they announced someone's score. My friends & I were laughing about it.

Sorry for my Canadian friends but what a great game for the USA last night!

Originally Posted by EZMONEY:
Sorry for my Canadian friends but what a great game for the USA last night!

Definitely. The USA outplayed us for sure! Way to go USA :)

Originally Posted by ANOther:
When did they start calling it "supercombined"? Even the current edition of David Wallechinsky's Olympic reference book still calls it "Alpine combined"

The commentators finally offered an explanation: a "regular" combined = downhill + 2 slalom runs; "supercombined" = downhill + 1 slalom run

Ice dancing: One move some of the teams should have avoided in their folk dances is that one where one of the members sticks her heel into the ice out to one side, as if to pivot around it, and flexes the other knee (the team that did the "Australian aboriginal" dance did that, and one other I saw but I forget who). The result looks comical, and if they were trying to keep it authentic (I realize the originals of these folk dances were not designed for ice skaters) it defeats the purpose. It reminds me of the number in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang where Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes pretend to be wind-up dolls

Originally Posted by nicollem:
Definitely. The USA outplayed us for sure! Way to go USA :)

Luongo's in goal tomorrow. yayyyyyy

Originally Posted by jenatgym:
Luongo's in goal tomorrow. yayyyyyy

Is it confirmed? If he isn't there could be riots... haha

Originally Posted by Shopaholic1204:
No, it was before they announced someone's score. My friends & I were laughing about it.

You and your friends must have ears like mass spectrometers, I made a point of listening to the background noises in the kiss-n-cry during the ice dancing final and couldn't hear any music. (Virtue & Moir 1, Davis & White 2 YEAH!)

Originally Posted by ANOther:
You and your friends must have ears like mass spectrometers, I made a point of listening to the background noises in the kiss-n-cry during the ice dancing final and couldn't hear any music. (Virtue & Moir 1, Davis & White 2 YEAH!)

I didn't hear any other music during the Ice Dancing final either. I'll be listening during the ladies short program tonight (Woohoo..excited for this one!!)


Has anyone read this? Plushenko awards himself new Olympic medal Can we say, arrogant?

Originally Posted by nicollem:
Is it confirmed? If he isn't there could be riots... haha

sorry i missed this thread, he's playing against russia too. Unconfirmed reports that he's playing the rest of the games.

Originally Posted by Shopaholic1204:
Has anyone read this? Plushenko awards himself new Olympic medal Can we say, arrogant?

In denial much, Plushy boy? You lost. Get over yourself

ETA: What, no comments yet on the ladies' short program?? Kim and Asada: outta this world! And Joannie Rochette: to skate like that through her tears and put herself in position for a medal: Awesome!

Major high school drama from the ski slopes!! http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-feat...nhomepage&cid= Really girls..come on now.

Originally Posted by ANOther:
In denial much, Plushy boy? You lost. Get over yourself

ETA: What, no comments yet on the ladies' short program?? Kim and Asada: outta this world! And Joannie Rochette: to skate like that through her tears and put herself in position for a medal: Awesome!

No comment on Kim. But Joannie Rochette..omg..I was bawling after her preformance. I just wanna give her a :hug:

Okay, I am late. That's what happens when I don't come to 3FC for a few months at a time. The next few days are going to be gooood. I was in Vancouver last weekend for some games, almost want to go back this weekend. But it is going to be soooo crazy.

I have never gotten into the Olympics before now, but being there was so amazing.

Here is one of my flame pics! Sorry for the tag on it, I don't have another copy handy right now. :(

http://countingmycalories.com/wp-con...0/02/flame.jpg

awesome pic!!!!!!!!

Yay Canada women's hockey!

Um ... hasn't ANYBODY been watching figure skating???

I've got my Luongo team Canada shirt on and I am ready for tonight. LETS GOO!

Originally Posted by ANOther:
Um ... hasn't ANYBODY been watching figure skating???

It makes me sleepy!

And yes YAY for Canada and a gold in Hockey last night. Will be interesting to see what comes of the "party" they had afterward.

I watched figure skating finals and cried like a baby. Though I think pretty universally that the expectations countries have for their figure skaters puts so much unreasonable pressure on them. Look at Rachael Flatt, who skated a good program and left with a smile on her face despite where she ended (because the US women were under zero pressure this year), and compare to the defeated, downtrodden face Mao Asada had, after winning the silver, doing something that had never been done in women's figure skating, and oh yes, losing to a record-shattering, once in a lifetime performance. It's just devastating.

Rochette made me cry, too. Especially on the podium.

I totally called it on who would win what in figure skating. So it was pretty boring for me. Joannie Rochette, Mirai Nagasu & Rachael Flatt were the only preformances I actually enjoyed. IMO they were the only ones skating with some heart. The other ones were skating because they knew they had already won a medal, so why put any heart into it. The silver medalist could've at least smiled!! Her & Plushenko should hang out sometime with their "platinum" medals.

Both the gold and silver winners knew that they were frontrunners for the medal, but I thought both skated with a LOT of heart (but that heart was somewhat obscured by the tremendous pressure put on them by their countries). You could see the pressure just LIFT off of Yu-Na after her performance was over. I really enjoyed her.

I loved watching the Americans skate, though - with nothing to lose and no national expectations, they looked like they were really enjoying themselves.

Of course, a lot of the heart of figure skating went out the window with the new scoring system.

When is the closing ceremony? Sunday?

I was sad watching Mao Asada after the performance as well - she skated a fantastic performance, accomplished those triple axels that had never been done by a woman and still looked like she had been beaten with a stick afterward. She looked like her life was over. Made me think of that "no one expects the Spanish Inquisition" line. Mao Asada couldn't possibly expect to come up behind a program like Kim Yu-Na. It made her achievement look minimal in comparison. I did appreciate the excitement that Scott Hamilton expressed over it, and hope that in time she will feel pleased about it as well.

The Americans did look like they were enjoying themselves. I was glad to see that.

DH and I were talking while we watched last night - the women's programs, while technically beautiful, didn't seem to have as much 'pop' as some of the men's. Like the women just weren't enjoying themselves as much. That pressure that Amanda was talking about.

Originally Posted by Shannon in ATL:
the women's programs, while technically beautiful, didn't seem to have as much 'pop' as some of the men's. Like the women just weren't enjoying themselves as much. That pressure that Amanda was talking about.

This time I thought the women were all really good. (<music snob hat> I liked Mao Asada's choice of music, Rachmaninov's Bells of Moscow, it showed a little originality. Also Kim Yu-na with Gershwin's Concerto in F. Rachael Flatt skated to Rach's Paganini Rhapsody: it's a nice piece of music but EVERYBODY skates to it! It's getting to be a cliche! Can we have a 4-year moratorium on the Pag Rhapsody, Carmen and Scheherazade, pretty please? Also do Spanish dancers ever wear any colors other than red and black? 99% of the time I see a skater in red and black -- Asada was the exception thank goodness -- and I think, she's going to skate to Spanish music! </music snob hat>) That said, I really do like the men much better, as a group they're technically stronger, show more personality and use a wider variety of musical choices. But except for the Olympics the women are the only ones who get much prime-time play. C'mon NBC, it's not all Kim v. Asada, let's see more Lysacek!

ETA 02.27: I just remembered I did hear some rock-n-roll in the kiss-n-cry on ladies final night (I think after Miki Ando). Not Party in the USA though

Omg..speed skating stresses me out so much, lol!! I can't handle the pressure. It's like watching Michael Phelps swim for a gold. I'm standing up screaming "GO GO GO" at the top of my lungs, LOL!!

I enjoyed the mens Curling today :D Martin is extreme!

I was so happy to see how the US and Canadian skating pairs hugged when on the podium, such good friends!

Now that was a good hockey game! Actually I was cheering for Slovakia but ... Awesome game.

We should be so lucky as to be able to see that calibre of play more often ... sigh ...

Watched curling last night. It was the first time I've watched it in 20 years. My Dad used to play it and I'd forgotten how much I liked it. Now I'm hooked!

Yessss!

Congrats to Canada's men's hockey team!!! And congrats all around for winning the most gold medals!!

It was a wonderful 2 weeks, thanks to all the athletes from all over the world who came and made this the best games ever.
I managed to get downtown today, what a great atmosphere, the Calderon, the flags, the Olympic ovals lit up, the red jerseys, the people dressed in their national colours. Amazing!!!!!!