Olympic Excitement

[Jacob]

Last night my wife bought some tickets for us to watch a live competition.  I can't believe she got the tickets as it was a very high profile event, but somehow she prevailed.

We're going to watch Denmark versus China in the preliminary round of curling.  I expect emotions will run high, but I pray that our relationship is able to withstand the nationalistic fervour that is sure to grip us.

[Jacob]

I hope it's women's curling, but I just realize that I don't know if it is.  Fuck, it better be women's curling.

[The Brain]

Why do you hate your sex?

[Barrister]

Last night my wife bought some tickets for us to watch a live competition.  I can't believe she got the tickets as it was a very high profile event, but somehow she prevailed.

We're going to watch Denmark versus China in the preliminary round of curling.  I expect emotions will run high, but I pray that our relationship is able to withstand the nationalistic fervour that is sure to grip us.

Good for you.  Perhaps you will be inspired to start curling yourself.

[Malthus]

I was expecting artisticly unclothed female athletes. 

[Grey Fox]

Go Canada go!

[derspiess]

I always like the Winter Olympics more than Summer, though I still haven't figured out wtf curling is.

[Eddie Teach]

Go Denmark!

[alfred russel]

I always like the Winter Olympics more than Summer, though I still haven't figured out wtf curling is.

They started ruining the winter olympics with the x-games crap. Olympic hockey is my favorite olympic competition though, summer or winter.

[DGuller]

My favorite Olympics in recent memory were 1998 games in Nagano.  I think the biggest reason is that NBC wasn't showing them. 

I can say without any exaggeration at all that Soviet television, as awful as it was in almost every way, did a much better job covering the sport.  They showed more sports, they let you understand WTF was going on, and they didn't pacakge it to showcase just their own athletes (ironically enough, given how important politically the Olympic games were).

[derspiess]

I can say without any exaggeration at all that Soviet television, as awful as it was in almost every way, did a much better job covering the sport.

I would hope so, given how much resources they had invested in it.

and LOL did they: complain about the West German judges?

[Barrister]

I always like the Winter Olympics more than Summer, though I still haven't figured out wtf curling is.

What do you want to know about curling?

[Barrister]

My favorite Olympics in recent memory were 1998 games in Nagano.  I think the biggest reason is that NBC wasn't showing them. 

I can say without any exaggeration at all that Soviet television, as awful as it was in almost every way, did a much better job covering the sport.  They showed more sports, they let you understand WTF was going on, and they didn't pacakge it to showcase just their own athletes (ironically enough, given how important politically the Olympic games were).

Yeah, I don't really like how the US networks cover olympics.  Edited to sharply, focuses too much on only US athletes.  CBC usually did a much better job IMO.

I'm curious how CTV/TSN will handle it this year...

[derspiess]

I always like the Winter Olympics more than Summer, though I still haven't figured out wtf curling is.

What do you want to know about curling?

Why is it called "curling" in the first place.

[The Brain]

I always like the Winter Olympics more than Summer, though I still haven't figured out wtf curling is.

What do you want to know about curling?

Why is it called "curling" in the first place.

To separate it from other sports.