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Which Olympic event is your favorite?

Ice Hockey
42
29%
Curling
29
20%
Speed Skating/Short Track
8
6%
Figure Skating
18
13%
Sledding (Luge/Skeleton/Bobsleigh)
12
8%
Alpine Skiing
14
10%
Cross Country Skiing/Biathlon
9
6%
Ski Jumping/Nordic Combined
4
3%
Freestyle Skiing/Snowboarding
8
6%
 
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Postby Shofercia » Fri Feb 07, 2014 11:53 am

Six Medals up for grabs: Men's 5000, Women's Skiathlon, Men's 10000, Men's Slopes, Ladies Moguls and Men's Normal Hill.

Russia's got a shot in three of them :D
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Postby Pope Joan » Fri Feb 07, 2014 11:57 am

Cannot think of a name wrote:So far it's just been the judgy sports. I'm not in until it's the 'hurling yourself very quickly downhill in various ways' sports.


Are you as negative about the "iudgy sports" as I am? All those years of Russians messing with the figure skating scores, and so on. It seems to political. And someone can do a perfect job on a routine that is supposed to be technical (this goes for gymnastic as well as figure skating; I think it can apply to diving as well) and still gets points deducted for "style". What?!?

So I like plain simple competition, you are either fastest or not, or jump furthest, whatever. No opinions allowed.
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Postby Neoconstantius » Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:20 pm

Men's hockey doesn't start till the 12th, right?
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Postby Shofercia » Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:37 pm

Neoconstantius wrote:Men's hockey doesn't start till the 12th, right?


Yep. Full schedule is available here: http://www.nhl.com/ice/schedulebymonth. ... sch-month#


Feb 12th:
 Czech Republic  Sweden
 Latvia  Switzerland

Feb 13th:
 Finland  Austria
 Russia  Slovenia
 Slovakia  United States
 Canada  Norway

Feb 14th:
 Czech Republic  Latvia
 Sweden  Switzerland
 Canada  Austria
 Norway  Finland

Feb 15th:
 Slovakia  Slovenia
 United States  Russia
 Switzerland  Czech Republic
 Sweden  Latvia

Feb 16th:
 Austria  Norway
 Russia  Slovakia
 Slovenia  United States
 Finland  Canada
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Postby Darwinish Brentsylvania » Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:43 pm

Is it just me or do I just know little about Russian geography, because I have no idea where Sochi is....

Anyway, good luck to all competing!!! ;)
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Postby Ainin » Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:44 pm

Darwinish Brentsylvania wrote:Is it just me or do I just know little about Russian geography, because I have no idea where Sochi is....

Anyway, good luck to all competing!!! ;)

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Postby Katyuscha » Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:45 pm

Figure skating, fo sho.

umg that Japanese figure skater. <3
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Postby Shofercia » Fri Feb 07, 2014 8:59 pm

Darwinish Brentsylvania wrote:Is it just me or do I just know little about Russian geography, because I have no idea where Sochi is....

Anyway, good luck to all competing!!! ;)


Let's start with Russia:

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Inside Russia there are several Federal Districts, we want the Southern one, the one between Green, Yellow and Purple:

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Inside that Federal District, there is the Krasnodar Krai, number five:

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Inside Krasnodar Krai there is Sochi and Krasnaya Polyana, (the black circle and blue square on the Krasnodar-Abkhaz border,) and all of the place between them is where the Olympics are!

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Postby Darwinish Brentsylvania » Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:22 pm

Ainin wrote:
Darwinish Brentsylvania wrote:Is it just me or do I just know little about Russian geography, because I have no idea where Sochi is....

Anyway, good luck to all competing!!! ;)

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Oh cool, thanks.....
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Postby Cannot think of a name » Fri Feb 07, 2014 10:02 pm

Pope Joan wrote:
Cannot think of a name wrote:So far it's just been the judgy sports. I'm not in until it's the 'hurling yourself very quickly downhill in various ways' sports.


Are you as negative about the "iudgy sports" as I am? All those years of Russians messing with the figure skating scores, and so on. It seems to political. And someone can do a perfect job on a routine that is supposed to be technical (this goes for gymnastic as well as figure skating; I think it can apply to diving as well) and still gets points deducted for "style". What?!?

So I like plain simple competition, you are either fastest or not, or jump furthest, whatever. No opinions allowed.

Gymnastics, figure skating and the like should just be amazing. That's it...because it is (I can't really watch figure skating with much interest, but it is fucking amazing), it shouldn't be "These three people decided that this was marginally more amazing than this" and call that sport. Fuck that. Fastest, farthest, most goals etc. I don't want to take anything away from what the athletes in judgy sports do...holy crap that looks hard and amazing. But then to go and put a score on it, that just seems arbitrary no matter how they justify scoring.
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Postby United Kingdom of Poland » Sat Feb 08, 2014 12:33 am

um how does hong kong have its own Olympians, isn't it part of china.
as always go US and go Poland
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Postby Katyuscha » Sat Feb 08, 2014 12:35 am

United Kingdom of Poland wrote:um how does hong kong have its own Olympians, isn't it part of china.
as always go US and go Poland

Not really, no.
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Postby Shofercia » Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:38 am

United Kingdom of Poland wrote:um how does hong kong have its own Olympians, isn't it part of china.


You don't have to compete with your government, as long as you have some autonomy, and the major nation approves, i.e. Puerto Rico competes separately from the United States. In terms of Hong Kong, China approves, so they can compete. That's also one of the reasons why Taiwan has to compete as Chinese Taipei, not Taiwan. Nations can join, or chop their delegations up, etc. The Olympics are very flexible, as long as:

1. You are a UN member
2. All other UN members agree with your proposal, or have agreed in the past
3. You're an IOC member

You just need one of those to get it done.
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Postby Shofercia » Sat Feb 08, 2014 1:43 am

Wow, the Olympic Ceremony was amazing. And they got the Olympic Rings to work the second time :D
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Postby Mkuki » Sat Feb 08, 2014 3:55 am

Hopefully NBC will re-air the Opening Ceremony.
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Postby Evil Lord Sauron » Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:15 am

Really enjoyed the Slopestyle today. Got up at 5am to see the Semi's which were awesome, slightly disappointed in the final as the judges seemed to be really harsh on everything. Not to mention the pressure definitely got to the competitors as a lot couldn't lay out a clean run, unlike the Semi's where they were all going big and pinning it.
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Postby Dyakovo » Sat Feb 08, 2014 5:55 am

Gallup wrote:Whose Who's seeing the Opening ceremony?

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Postby Respawn » Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:38 am

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/others ... ed-in.html

Yay, blatant vandalism and then bragging about it on Twitter. How fun. I mean, if the games were in the US, would he have acted in the same way?

With all the weird stuff that has already been going on, everyone seems to be in some bizarro-Cold War mindset. "Lol let's just fuck everything up cos it's only Russia and they are already a shithole lol i don't even care".
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Postby Ainin » Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:41 am

United Kingdom of Poland wrote:um how does hong kong have its own Olympians, isn't it part of china.
as always go US and go Poland

It's the same reason why the British Virgin Islands have their own Olympians.
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Postby Limborg » Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:46 am

Ainin wrote:The Venezuelan flagbearer guy was the best.


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Postby Maineiacs » Sat Feb 08, 2014 8:23 am

First gold for Team USA! Apparently, he wasn't expected to win?
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Postby Evil Lord Sauron » Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:25 am

Maineiacs wrote:First gold for Team USA! Apparently, he wasn't expected to win?


The Canadians were favourites in the slopestyle, with the Brit press putting our guy Billy Morgan as a real contender (but how real that was I don't know considering the British press like to build up our chances when really they aren't in with a shout). Norway riders were also expected to be strong contenders.
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Postby Exi1and » Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:53 am

Respawn wrote:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/winter-olympics/10625913/Sochi-2014-Winter-Olympics-Johnny-Quinn-smashes-through-toilet-door-after-being-locked-in.html

Yay, blatant vandalism and then bragging about it on Twitter. How fun. I mean, if the games were in the US, would he have acted in the same way?

With all the weird stuff that has already been going on, everyone seems to be in some bizarro-Cold War mindset. "Lol let's just fuck everything up cos it's only Russia and they are already a shithole lol i don't even care".


It's disgusting, he must be sent home in disgrace.
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Postby Gallup » Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:54 am

Shofercia wrote:
Darwinish Brentsylvania wrote:Is it just me or do I just know little about Russian geography, because I have no idea where Sochi is....

Anyway, good luck to all competing!!! ;)


Let's start with Russia:

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Inside Russia there are several Federal Districts, we want the Southern one, the one between Green, Yellow and Purple:

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Inside that Federal District, there is the Krasnodar Krai, number five:

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Inside Krasnodar Krai there is Sochi and Krasnaya Polyana, (the black circle and blue square on the Krasnodar-Abkhaz border,) and all of the place between them is where the Olympics are!

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Well, the Abkhaz border is still under debate. But wrong thread for that.
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Postby Gallup » Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:55 am

Shofercia wrote:Wow, the Olympic Ceremony was amazing. And they got the Olympic Rings to work the second time :D

I loved it.

But only thirty seconds for WWII? WTF?
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