Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics

[Sheilbh]

Hey now, I enjoy a round of golf.

Okay, I'm lying. I suck at it. Badly.

I used to play golf when I was a kid, because all the other kids did (we lived in a village with the furthest north golf course on the mainland). I hated it then.

I'll probably never enjoy it now I've Benjamin Buttoned it

Edit: Oh and on the Winter Olympics the BBC commentators today had to struggle with someone called Andreas Wank

[Syt]

Putin visited the Austrian house in the Olympic village. Officially to see if all is fine for the athletes. Inofficially to visit Karl Schranz. He met Putin in 2001 in the Alps and is one of the closest advisers for Putin on the Sochi Olympics and one of the strongest proponents of the games to be held there.

[Brazen]

Channel 4's Gay Mountain tribute to the Winter Olympics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6RID82Ru-k&feature=em-hot

[Liep]

Edit: Oh and on the Winter Olympics the BBC commentators today had to struggle with someone called Andreas Wank

During the skijump event our commentator had this quote: "a thought now for my BBC colleague who I can only imagine to be struggling with how to present this German jumper"

[Liep]

Are there any rules in short track? Didn't that American totally screw that Chinese fellow?

[Liep]

Are there any rules in short track? Didn't that American totally screw that Chinese fellow?

And the women short trackers don't have the overdimensioned thighs that their long track colleagues suffer from.

[Grey Fox]

Are there any rules in short track? Didn't that American totally screw that Chinese fellow?

Lots. Officials review after the race if you comitted any fouls & penalize you then.

[Tonitrus]

Are there any rules in short track? Didn't that American totally screw that Chinese fellow?

I've always wondered that if the real goal is to beat the clock, why they'd shove a bunch of racers onto a narrow track at one time, and not have them skate separately.

[Eddie Teach]

The goal is to beat each other.

[Grey Fox]

Are there any rules in short track? Didn't that American totally screw that Chinese fellow?

I've always wondered that if the real goal is to beat the clock, why they'd shove a bunch of racers onto a narrow track at one time, and not have them skate separately.

They have that, it's long track.

[Tonitrus]

The goal is to beat each other.

That's the goal of every sport...but they don't put the figure skaters or lugers all out at one time.

[Tonitrus]

Are there any rules in short track? Didn't that American totally screw that Chinese fellow?

I've always wondered that if the real goal is to beat the clock, why they'd shove a bunch of racers onto a narrow track at one time, and not have them skate separately.

They have that, it's long track.

I'm just saying, that the way it is, there is no point in having a clock at all, and might be better called "short track skate blocking". 

[Grey Fox]

Are there any rules in short track? Didn't that American totally screw that Chinese fellow?

I've always wondered that if the real goal is to beat the clock, why they'd shove a bunch of racers onto a narrow track at one time, and not have them skate separately.

They have that, it's long track.

I'm just saying, that the way it is, there is no point in having a clock at all, and might be better called "short track skate blocking". 

That's fair but time does provide an element of comparison between past, present & future events.

[Barrister]

Time for Olympic golf and bowling!

Is golf coming?

I don't think bowling is athletic enough to be a sport, and doesn't have the gravitas. The same reasons I don't think darts, croquet, and shuffleboard should be Olympic sports. I'd go on but I don't want to piss off BB.

A sport needs gravitas?  How about throwing around 40 pound hunks of granite - that enough gravitas for you?

[Grey Fox]

Curling is an awesome TV spectator sports.

Plus, hot chicks.