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Countdown 33 days! Who's excited?!

(I am, can you tell?!)

http://www.vancouver2010.com/

I love the Winter Olympics - but being a resident of the host province that has so royally screwed up so many things to do with this - many of which we'll end up paying for in some fashion for years to come - has kind of soured me. When I lived in Calgary, the '88 games there were magical. Different times, I guess - but the organizers of those games knew how to manage things perfectly. The VANOC guys and the province of BC - not so much.

Having said that - I'll still watch, of course .

Fact Finder wrote:I can't wait for the Curling Competition. The drama, the excitement, the intrigue, the game planning and the sweeping of the ice. Televised sports at it's best I tell ya.

Yeah. That's why they air that one at 3 am.

bluejeangirl76 wrote:Countdown 33 days! Who's excited?!

(I am, can you tell?!)

http://www.vancouver2010.com/

Who's excited?

..... ME! ME! ME!.....

Speed Skating ..... Luge ...... Skeleton, but mostly I can't wait for the Figure Skating & Ice Dancing.
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JasonD wrote:

bluejeangirl76 wrote:Countdown 33 days! Who's excited?!

(I am, can you tell?!)

http://www.vancouver2010.com/

Who's excited?

..... ME! ME! ME!.....

Speed Skating ..... Luge ...... Skeleton, but mostly I can't wait for the Figure Skating & Ice Dancing.

Speed skating! This will be my avatar next month:

Winter olympics = BOOOOORING.

StocktontoMalone wrote:Winter olympics = BOOOOORING.

STOP THE PRESSES IMMEDIATELY


S2M and I agree on something

In all seriousness, the Olympics, particularly the Winter Olympics, are heavily geared towards a female demographic. Most of the men I know just aren't into them, even the ones who enjoy skiing and other winter sports that are featured in the games.

I am excited......looking forward to it all!!

Ehwmatt wrote:

StocktontoMalone wrote:Winter olympics = BOOOOORING.

STOP THE PRESSES IMMEDIATELY


S2M and I agree on something

In all seriousness, the Olympics, particularly the Winter Olympics, are heavily geared towards a SHemale demographic. Most of the men I know just aren't into them, even the ones who enjoy skiing and other winter sports that are featured in the games.

There.....I fixed it for ya!

Ehwmatt wrote:

StocktontoMalone wrote:Winter olympics = BOOOOORING.

STOP THE PRESSES IMMEDIATELY


S2M and I agree on something

In all seriousness, the Olympics, particularly the Winter Olympics, are heavily geared towards a female demographic. Most of the men I know just aren't into them, even the ones who enjoy skiing and other winter sports that are featured in the games.

They have a phrase for that, it's called poor taste

You & S2M may not be excited to watch men in tights figure skating but c'mon!!! -- You guys gotta admit watching luge & skeleton offer up a couple of thrills on a cold, snowed-in February day. Just think: Someone might go hurling right off that platform & bust their head wide open & if you guys aren't watching you & S2M wouldn't be there to witness all the manliness.

Ehwmatt wrote:

StocktontoMalone wrote:Winter olympics = BOOOOORING.

STOP THE PRESSES IMMEDIATELY


S2M and I agree on something

In all seriousness, the Olympics, particularly the Winter Olympics, are heavily geared towards a female demographic. Most of the men I know just aren't into them, even the ones who enjoy skiing and other winter sports that are featured in the games.

Typical input noted on both counts. Please go back to your football (can we say booooorring?) and fuck off out of my Olympic discourse. Thx.

bluejeangirl76 wrote:

Ehwmatt wrote:

StocktontoMalone wrote:Winter olympics = BOOOOORING.

STOP THE PRESSES IMMEDIATELY


S2M and I agree on something

In all seriousness, the Olympics, particularly the Winter Olympics, are heavily geared towards a female demographic. Most of the men I know just aren't into them, even the ones who enjoy skiing and other winter sports that are featured in the games.

Typical input noted on both counts. Please go back to your football (can we say booooorring?) and fuck off out of my Olympic discourse. Thx.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH........

JasonD wrote: Just think: Someone might go hurling right off that platform

Hold on... I'm a fan of that too, as long as it's isn't one of our U.S. guys.
Olympic Ass-Busting and Face Breaking - Russia for the gold.

bluejeangirl76 wrote:

JasonD wrote: Just think: Someone might go hurling right off that platform

Hold on... I'm a fan of that too, as long as it's isn't one of our U.S. guys.
Olympic Ass-Busting and Face Breaking - Russia for the gold.

So then I take it you like it rough?

(Sorry. I'll go stand in the corner now. I apologize for my thoughtless "guy side" that came creeping to the surface.)

bluejeangirl76 wrote:

Ehwmatt wrote:

StocktontoMalone wrote:Winter olympics = BOOOOORING.

STOP THE PRESSES IMMEDIATELY


S2M and I agree on something

In all seriousness, the Olympics, particularly the Winter Olympics, are heavily geared towards a female demographic. Most of the men I know just aren't into them, even the ones who enjoy skiing and other winter sports that are featured in the games.

Typical input noted on both counts. Please go back to your football (can we say booooorring?) and fuck off out of my Olympic discourse. Thx.

Hey, I wasn't trying to be a dick, just observing a trend.

Lest you think I'm talking out of my ass, observe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/sport ... 9adco.html

Notable quotes:

“I don’t typically follow sports at all,” said one member, Josselyn Simpson, an editor at a consulting company in New York, explaining in an e-mail message that her interest lies in “the sense of occasion.”

^^^ Poser Garbage

That is why there are so many spots for the likes of Evista, a prescription drug approved for treating osteoporosis and reducing the risk of breast cancer; L’Oréal Bare Naturale mascara; the Venus Embrace razor (“Reveal the goddess in you”); the Match.com dating service; and the movie “Mamma Mia!”

It is also why myriad spots during the Games feature women athletes past and present, like Cheri Blauwet, Nadia Comaneci, Shawn Johnson, Nastia Liukin, Kerri Strug and Dara Torres.

For the entire 2004 Summer Games, 50 percent of the audience on NBC was composed of women ages 18 and older, according to the data, followed by their male counterparts, at 40 percent.

The Olympics “has sort of been the anti-sports sport for quite a while,” said Peter Gardiner, chief media officer at Deutsch in New York, part of the Interpublic Group of Companies. “That’s why you see so many female-oriented products advertised there.”

bluejeangirl76 wrote:

JasonD wrote:

bluejeangirl76 wrote:Countdown 33 days! Who's excited?!

(I am, can you tell?!)

http://www.vancouver2010.com/

Who's excited?

..... ME! ME! ME!.....

Speed Skating ..... Luge ...... Skeleton, but mostly I can't wait for the Figure Skating & Ice Dancing.

Speed skating! This will be my avatar next month:

I can't wait either BJG nice AV for next month He is still so cool

Babyblue wrote:

bluejeangirl76 wrote:Speed skating! This will be my avatar next month:

I can't wait either BJG nice AV for next month He is still so cool

I know! You all are gonna get SICK of my Apolo flag waving.

Anton Apolo HOMO

bluejeangirl76 wrote:

Babyblue wrote:

bluejeangirl76 wrote:Speed skating! This will be my avatar next month:

I can't wait either BJG nice AV for next month He is still so cool

I know! You all are gonna get SICK of my Apolo flag waving.

No way......GO USA!!!

bluejeangirl76 wrote:

Babyblue wrote:

bluejeangirl76 wrote:Speed skating! This will be my avatar next month:

I can't wait either BJG nice AV for next month He is still so cool

I know! You all are gonna get SICK of my Apolo fag waving.

There. I fixed it for ya!!!!

not a huge Olympics guy anymore but for some reason...like the Winter Olympics a LOT more than the Summer...

some fucking hater wrote:Anton Apolo HOMO

HOT!!!! Omg. Nom.

But this is about the SPORT, not about how fast I'd hit that. Don't derail my Olympic joy!

Maui Tom wrote:not a huge Olympics guy anymore but for some reason...like the Winter Olympics a LOT more than the Summer...

that's why I wasn't too bummed that Chi-town lost 2016 (we got MRF so, I'm good)... i don't care all that much about the summer olympics.

bluejeangirl76 wrote:

some fucking hater wrote:Anton Apolo HOMO

HOT!!!! Omg. Nom.

But this is about the SPORT, not about how fast I'd hit that. Don't derail my Olympic joy!

Not a bad dancer either .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSXj95yNNTM

Triple S wrote:

bluejeangirl76 wrote:But this is about the SPORT, not about how fast I'd hit that. Don't derail my Olympic joy!

Not a bad dancer either .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSXj95yNNTM

He won that season! (I voted. Alot. )

ANYWAY...

I am looking on Team USA's page...

http://www.teamusa.org/?cmpid=2&keyword=Team%20USA

I see Shaun White is back in snowboarding. He was fun as hell to watch in '06

And of course, our young Blackhawk Patrick Kane made the hockey team!
(damn canadians got three of our guys though. bah!)

I'm in the middle of something right now so I ain't sticking around after I post this. I just popped in b/c I saw your (BJG's) link to the team & I wanted to expand on that. Here's another really nice page of all the USA athletes listed in alphabetical order. I can't wait to watch Ben Agosto & Tanith Belbin skate.


http://www.nbcolympics.com/teamusa/athletes/index.html

Okay-----------I'm outta here.

I think winter olympics kick butt over the summer olympics. I look foward to ice skating but also the hockey games mostly, but there are several other things that can be fun to watch. Cross country skiing and curling would NOT be two of them

StevePerryHair wrote:I think winter olympics kick butt over the summer olympics. I look foward to ice skating but also the hockey games mostly, but there are several other things that can be fun to watch. Cross country skiing and curling would NOT be two of them

the individual stories on the Winter folks are more interesting too....

StevePerryHair wrote:I think winter olympics kick butt over the summer olympics. I look foward to ice skating but also the hockey games mostly, but there are several other things that can be fun to watch. Cross country skiing and curling would NOT be two of them

During the '02 olympics, I had never seen curling and wanted to know what it looked like to play... but no one cares so they air that one in the middle of the night, and I swear, I stayed up to see it. And I swear... don't do that. *yawwwwwnnn* What in heck kind of sport is that? Sweeping the ice with a push broom so some round flat thing can travel reeeeeeallllly slowwwwly across an ice rink? Get bent, I want skates and pucks and action, man.