A Sea Of Red

The Opening Ceremonies are this evening in BC. I'll be DVRing it since it the opening ceremonies usually provides some great visuals in HD.

I'm planning on catching as much hockey as possible as well as alpine skiing and snowboarding. Even though I play none of those sports, they are fun to watch.

As stated in my other post, I am a big time supporter of Chad Hedrick. He joined my church shortly before flying up to Vancouver last week. We have a missions team from our church reaching out to people in the streets up there and he reportedly will be helping them as well. I wrote a blog post about Chad the other day which repeats much of what I wrote here on the board.

There are few things in sports that I despise more than figure skating/ice dancing. Enough said.

What (if anything) will you be watching the next two and a half weeks?

ill be watching to see if they release video of the luger who was just killed in a practice run.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?s ... &type=lgns

I read someone just died...a Luger I believe.

When it comes to the Olympics, I'll basically watch whatever's on (except for figure-skating). I'm not real into the snow-boarding, just because all the x-games crap has oversaturated my television with it. I like to watch stuff that normally isn't available.

Curling all the way.

Oh, and NBC needs to stop showing the video of the luger hitting the pole. My gosh, that's aweful.

I would have expected a distance runner to be down with biathlon/nordic skiing and long track speedskating.

Sly Fox wrote:I would have expected a distance runner to be down with biathlon/nordic skiing and long track speedskating.

The biathlon is awesome. It's just so different from every other event.

Rocketfan wrote:ill be watching to see if they release video of the luger who was just killed in a practice run.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?s ... &type=lgns

http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/asseti ... rash+video

If I never see that again it will be too soon.

That track is being described as one of the fastest and most dangerous in the world...the defending men's luge gold medalist crashed on his training run but he walked away

Sly Fox wrote:If I never see that again it will be too soon.

brutal crash. At that speed, I will guarantee you he never knew what hit him/what he hit.

probably the only saving grace here.

I can't believe whomever designs these tracks felt placing structural beams that close was NOT a safety issue. For this very reason. Then again, I don't design luge runs.

Seriously, how could you not have those beams covered? They're right next to a track where people are going up to 95 mph. Bad design. Anyone know if they're doing the skeleton this year? I hope not.

That opening ceremony was brutal. Sure there were some cool visuals, but I'm glad I skipped most of it. It was basically three hours of telling us how great Canada is by showing us how boring Canada is, culminating in the event we've all been waiting three hours for, a mechanical failure. If I hear "welcome to Canada" or "Canada welcomes you" one more time...

ALUmnus wrote:Seriously, how could you not have those beams covered? They're right next to a track where people are going up to 95 mph. Bad design. Anyone know if they're doing the skeleton this year? I hope not.

That opening ceremony was brutal. Sure there were some cool visuals, but I'm glad I skipped most of it. It was basically three hours of telling us how great Canada is by showing us how boring Canada is, culminating in the event we've all been waiting three hours for, a mechanical failure. If I hear "welcome to Canada" or "Canada welcomes you" one more time...

Mens Luge starts today with the first two runs so they need to move REALLY fast if theyre going to go off at all

ALUmnus wrote:Seriously, how could you not have those beams covered? They're right next to a track where people are going up to 95 mph. Bad design.

Does the Olympics even have standards or regulations for the facilities? How the heck could this design be permissible to be constructed to begin with??

I had read somewhere that this was designed to be a very fast/difficult track. I'm not an ice track expert but I imagine those are one in the same. So much so that there a VERY good odds that you'll crash on your way down. That sounds like it would make for some very exciting competitions but given that fact, how do you not extend a flat wall all the way up the support structure? I mean you're assuming that there will be crashes, a corner is a pretty obvious spot for one. Sliding against a wall if you lose it sounds way better than being stopped instantly by a metal beam.

they built a wall in that spot now and they Men's luge will now be starting from the women's line, which drops speeds from the 93mph range down to 86mph. They said that's more what they're used to.

Just heard the first climate change comment. "Perhaps because of climate change, the ice hasn't cooperated in years"

LUconn wrote:Just heard the first climate change comment. "Perhaps because of climate change, the ice hasn't cooperated in years"

I heard that and lol'ed

has anyone ever heard shawnee Davis talk? wowwww thought i was listening to bj....no lie

Watching Speed Skating right now....I have always enjoyed watching this...always very entertaining.

yeah it's pretty good watching them play grabby grabby and then somebody wipe out. Did you see Apolo just crush everybody's hopes of beating him?

LUconn wrote:yeah it's pretty good watching them play grabby grabby and then somebody wipe out. Did you see Apolo just crush everybody's hopes of beating him?

Yea...he pretty much just dominated them in that race. To pass the entire field in 1 turn was pretty impressive to see.

You knew Apolo was going to make a move, but I didn't think it'd be that dominating. He basically taunted them the entire last lap.

Hold My Own wrote:has anyone ever heard shawnee Davis talk? wowwww thought i was listening to bj....no lie

He may talk like BJ, but can he coach like BJ?

The 1500 meter short track final was sick. The Koreans had 1-2-3 in the bag, but the guy in 3rd got greedy and tried to pass on the last turn and crashed himself and his teamate out. Apolo got the silver and the American kid Celski got the bronze.

US got gold and bronze in the women's moguls too.