Vancouver Olympics Anyone?

VGurcu said:
All I know is that officials already cleared themselves off from any responsibility (quote from wiki): ...accident was caused by a steering error, and not a track error.
And that is outrageous; Errors should cause you to lose a race, or time, or medal etc; it shouldnt strip the life out of you. Yes there are risks involved in any sport, but the luger didnt die inside the track by an accident happened due to his error (inherent risks), he literally flew off the track(unanticipated risk) and hit the steel beams only few inches away from the race track.
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hopefully they will have to implement more safety features in the future. all they have to do is extend the walls coming out of turns and put up padded barriers so you don't go flying off the track. the solution is so obvious, i can't see why they didn't already have this in place.
 
Wow, what a weekend. Just missed Gretzky lighting the torch.

I went to the reharsal ceremonies on the Wednesday and they didn't practice lighting the cauldron. Looks like they should have, that was a bit of an embarressment.

Checked out Wilco on Saturday night at the Live City in Yaletown. Great concert, then walked around Granville and Robson Square. There were people everywhere.

Awesome that we got our first gold medal.

Hockey starts tomorrow which should be cool.
To be fair, the fact that one human being died during a training run is very small in comparison to the thousands of children living in poverty in this city. Thousands more call the streets home, many of which have debilitating mental illness which prevents them from ever getting a job or paying for the medicine they need. Over 9 billion dollars was spent on these Olympic games...That is enough money to end child poverty and feed those who need it for the rest of their lives. Instead, we spent it all on games. During the open ceremonies, over 2,000 people came together to bring up the issues of Homelessness in the city, child poverty and Native land rights, just to name a few. Along the way, there were a disgusting number of people who were actually booing the protestors. It left me with an emotion I have never before experienced in my life, an undescribeable sadness.
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I hear this all the time. And in way I do agree with you. If that money was spent on some of the major issues in the city it could go a long way to improving, the homeless situation for example. But there is no way in hell someone is going to put that money into the problem. (as terrible as that is, it's just the reality).

Regarding the protests on Friday apparently they were pretty peaceful. The people protesting against the protesters have just as much right to make their opinions known.

The protest on Saturday on the other hand were ridiculous. Smashing business windows and throwing ****. That's just asking for trouble.
 
In lighter news, Canada won against Norway 6 to nothing. Man, everyone here is watching Hockey like a hawk. Our own sport, on our own country, the most celebrated sport of this nation...
 
^when RedBull builds you a $500,000 private half pipe in a remote location you could come up with all kinds of stuff.:laugh: But of course you would have to the skill to pull it off. and he does.
 
The Olympics reminds me so much of what we do. There are people who just work harder. There are people who are more gifted. When those two things come together, amazing things happen.

It also reminds me that no matter how hard you work, no matter how skilled you are, there are some days that just don't go well. Anybody can make a mistake, and some things are beyond your control. Olympians don't just show us how high we can fly, they show us that we ALL fall at some point, sometimes at the worst possible time. It's what you do after the fall that matters most.
 
Jim Brennan said:
The Olympics reminds me so much of what we do. There are people who just work harder. There are people who are more gifted. When those two things come together, amazing things happen.

It also reminds me that no matter how hard you work, no matter how skilled you are, there are some days that just don't go well. Anybody can make a mistake, and some things are beyond your control. Olympians don't just show us how high we can fly, they show us that we ALL fall at some point, sometimes at the worst possible time. It's what you do after the fall that matters most.
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exactly! that's why I like olympic games.
 
Richard J. Johnson said:
Shaun White is just fun to watch. His tricks are ill.
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I've never watched Snowboarding, but i stayed up till 4 a.m (i'm in the U.K) just to watch Shaun White and discover what all this fuss was about. He was awesome. How the hell does he get so high and go so fast? I also quite liked the Japanese guy Kokubo (i think that's the right guy).

On the weird side what is the double luge all about? It looks really strange. Like a couple of blokes spooning each other down some ice.
 
Shaun White seems to be in another galaxy, light years ahead of his competition.
Like, I dunno... Kubrick vs me?

HUGE air (a couple board lengths higher?), his twists and flips, and his clean landings... incredible!
Even his "victory lap", after he had secured the gold, was better than anyone else!
And did you see the file footage of his chin slamming the top edge of the half pipe, knocking his helmet off his head? Yikes!

And let's not forget Lindsey Vonn. Injured shin on the bumpy course, on her men's skis, annihilating her competition, who were spectacularly crashing left and right.

Last night was just great, great drama.

Double luge? Spooning? Ice? Let's just not go there... :shocked:
 
That shot of whit hitting the edge with his face was painful to watch. The joys of being a fit 20-something...you recover a lot faster.
 
Richard J. Johnson said:
my a$$ would be in the ER somewhere.
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... soaking in a snowbank???
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