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rgG Wrote:
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> I was soooo afraid that you were going to say
> "curling".
Hey, now. There's are whole host of events you could have picked on:
Short track
Pursuit
Snowboard cross
Ice Dancing
but you had to go pick on poor, defenseless curling.
You're on notice, pal.
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and I'll also add that I was pleasantly surprised to see how good looking the sisters on the US Curling team are. ratings for that event should be up just due to that.
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I thought this thread was going to be about plumbing...damn : )
I dont know man, curling is a puzzle to me and last Olympics I got a bit fascinated by the whole thing. Pretty cool the way they control that, whatever its called, with the damn broom. speed and direction.
Biathalon, yeah those folks are in shape and it is intense.
I can't stand the show off sports...snowboarding, mogul skiing, and whatever else. They might as well be playing frisbee...making "fantastic" catches between the legs or behind the back and getting judged. The ice dancing and figure skating in general has me in a fit this time.
Man, the girl who pulled air and took a freking dive in the snowboarding cross ought to just fess up and say that she fk'd up big time and get on with it, she really comes off as sort of a loser when she tries to explain it away.
sorry, sort of a repeat post from a post I made last night. Womens Hockey is still GREAT....to bad for the american women, oh well...I think When Olympic hockey gets cranked up its one of the best of winter games.
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Wife and I have been watching all week and have developed a real liking for curling. Last night she had her iBook at hand so looked up the rules and she really got into it. It's a strange sport, but once we understood the scoring, etc. we liked it. However, I don't think it will ever catch on here in the Texas Hill Country. Nine pins played in the small social clubs on the rural back roads appears to be our equivalent to curling.
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vikm;
Guess you didn't READ the whole story...
Russian officials at the Olympics explained that a doctor treating Pyleva for an ankle injury in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk gave her an over-the-counter medication in January that did not list the banned substance.
"This was 100 percent the physician's mistake,'' Dr. Nikolai Durmanov, head of the Russian Anti-Doping Committee, told The Associated Press on Thursday.
And yes, she is extremely hot!
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uhhh, yeah. I suppose one could believe the convenience of that excuse. At that level, how can anything be given to an athlete without knowing what potential there is for fault or looking into it further before accepting treatment? hmmmm
