Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics

[Capetan Mihali]

Our snowboarders have disgraced our country on the half pipe.

[PRC]

I'm ready for Men's hockey to start. Little bored with all this ski.

I'm enjoying all the sports so far but i'm definitely ready for the puck to drop!

[alfred russel]

There is a poll on ESPN asking who will win the mens hockey gold. All 50 states answered USA. We got this.

[DGuller]

There is a poll on ESPN asking who will win the mens hockey gold. All 50 states answered USA. We got this.

The law of large numbers is definitely on our side. 

[Capetan Mihali]

There is a poll on ESPN asking who will win the mens hockey gold. All 50 states answered USA. We got this.

The law of large numbers is definitely on our side. 

Waiting for The Brain's fat-Americans joke... or is this his fat-Americans joke preempted? 

[PRC]

There is a poll on ESPN asking who will win the mens hockey gold. All 50 states answered USA. We got this.

USA will take home the Silver.

[viper37]

There is a poll on ESPN asking who will win the mens hockey gold. All 50 states answered USA. We got this.

USA will take home the Silver.

It's a shame CC doesn't like hockey, he'll have to take a week off from this thread and olympic covering

[Barrister]

Holy shit - Great Britain put up a 7 ender against the US in women's curling.

Just a quick recap - in curling you get one point in an end for each rock that you have that is closer to the middle of the rings than any of your opponent's rocks.  And each side only gets 8 rocks.  So in that one end, Britain wound up with 7 rocks in the rings (out of a total of 8), while the US had none in the rings.

It's actually almost as remarkable because it means the US just curled really, really badly in that one end.  No team at that level should be giving up a 7 ender.  But still interesting to see.

[alfred russel]

There is a poll on ESPN asking who will win the mens hockey gold. All 50 states answered USA. We got this.

USA will take home the Silver.

The difference last time was a Sidney Crosby goal. That won't happen again--not now that we know all we need to do is hit him high a couple times in the preliminaries.

[alfred russel]

Holy shit - Great Britain put up a 7 ender against the US in women's curling.

Just a quick recap - in curling you get one point in an end for each rock that you have that is closer to the middle of the rings than any of your opponent's rocks.  And each side only gets 8 rocks.  So in that one end, Britain wound up with 7 rocks in the rings (out of a total of 8), while the US had none in the rings.

It's actually almost as remarkable because it means the US just curled really, really badly in that one end.  No team at that level should be giving up a 7 ender.  But still interesting to see.

Fuck.

I have this dream that we dominate the medal count and Russia sucks and when it is all over Obama says "I want to thank my good friend Vlad for spending $50 billion on all those great facilities so we could kick his ass in style."

[DGuller]

There is a poll on ESPN asking who will win the mens hockey gold. All 50 states answered USA. We got this.

The law of large numbers is definitely on our side. 

Waiting for The Brain's fat-Americans joke... or is this his fat-Americans joke preempted? 

My jokes are works of art.  You see in them what you want to see. 

[Barrister]

Holy shit - Great Britain put up a 7 ender against the US in women's curling.

Just a quick recap - in curling you get one point in an end for each rock that you have that is closer to the middle of the rings than any of your opponent's rocks.  And each side only gets 8 rocks.  So in that one end, Britain wound up with 7 rocks in the rings (out of a total of 8), while the US had none in the rings.

It's actually almost as remarkable because it means the US just curled really, really badly in that one end.  No team at that level should be giving up a 7 ender.  But still interesting to see.

Fuck.

I have this dream that we dominate the medal count and Russia sucks and when it is all over Obama says "I want to thank my good friend Vlad for spending $50 billion on all those great facilities so we could kick his ass in style."

At the moment, USA and Russia are tied with 7 medals.

Norway is in the lead with 11, with is hugely surprising unless you've watched the winter Olympics before.

What is surprising, shocking even, is Canada is in second with 9 medals, including 4 gold.

[fhdz]

Norway is in the lead with 11, with is hugely surprising unless you've watched the winter Olympics before.

[alfred russel]

Canada and Norway. You never know what they are doing up there. You figure they are trying to stay warm,  and probably digging to find their driveways and fossil fuels. But they never really do anything notable, so you forget about them most of the time.

And then the Winter Olympics come, and you realize while you were ignoring them, they were probably practicing winter sports. And now you are behind both of them in the medals, even though their combined populations are like 1/8th of yours. And you are supposed to be the world superpower.

[Barrister]

Canada and Norway. You never know what they are doing up there. You figure they are trying to stay warm,  and probably digging to find their driveways and fossil fuels. But they never really do anything notable, so you forget about them most of the time.

And then the Winter Olympics come, and you realize while you were ignoring them, they were probably practicing winter sports. And now you are behind both of them in the medals, even though their combined populations are like 1/8th of yours. And you are supposed to be the world superpower.

In Norway's defence, their population is more like 1/50th of yours.

When it comes to Canada... In 2010, we had the 3rd most medals.  But before that in 2006 we were 5th, 1998 and 2002 we were 4th, 1994 we were 7th, 1992 we were 9th, 1988 (in Calgary!) we were 13th, with no golds.

It's just remarkable how we've been climbing up those standings in the last 20 years.

Of course though, all that really matters to any red-blooded Canadian is winning gold in hockey and curling.