Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics

[Queequeg]

Has anyone mentioned that the skip of the Russian women's curling team is hot as hell?

Warning - slightly NSFW pic:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2545392/From-Russia-love-Curling-ace-Anna-Sidorova-sets-pulses-raking-ahead-Winter-Olympics.html

Oh my God, she's physically perfect.

[Pedrito]

Lovely Olympic Odometer, courtesy of the NYTimes

http://sochi2014.nytimes.com/odometer

L.

[katmai]

4am and struggling to stay awake watching the mouth sugars vs dgullers.
Fuck it, TiVo it is.

[Maladict]

Russia is not doing well against the Finns.

[Grey Fox]

Moscow will burn tonite.

[Neil]

America sucks.  I expect a bronze.

It's possible.  Team USA does have a bunch of Maple Leafs on the team, and those guys are known for being choke artists.

[derspiess]

Russia is not doing well against the Finns.

Teemu!!! 

[Malthus]

Curling used to be a game for overweight old people to play. 

We were laughing about that around here just yesterday.   How times have changed.

edit:

Here is a funny photo from a 1968 Brier - notice the sweeper with the smoke hanging out of his mouth.  Now thats an athletic move!

http://blindrivercc.blogspot.ca/2013/03/wednesday-open-8-ender.html

I'm nostalgic for the olden days, when smokers could be Olympians. 

[derspiess]

Russians are on the ropes, down 3-1 with about four minutes remaining in the third period.

[FunkMonk]

SOCHI, Russia – Meryl Davis and Charlie White's triumph in the Winter Olympics ice dance competition on Monday has sparked outrage over the treatment of silver medalists Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada and divided the figure skating community.

Accusations on social media and in the Canadian press that Virtue and Moir had been "robbed" started appearing as soon as their final scores flashed up at the Iceberg Skating Palace and quickly gathered steam.

"I personally do," said Canadian ice dancer Kaitlyn Weaver when asked if she believed that Virtue and Moir were better overall than Davis and White. "For me Tessa and Scott have rewritten the rules of ice dance. They are the best team since [Jayne] Torvill and [Christopher] Dean."

Canadian writer Rosie DiManno raised the murky subject of a possible "fix" that was suggested in French newspaper L'Equipe early in the competition. According to the story, judges at the Games were planning to conspire to give Russia gold in the team competition, with Davis and White securing victory for the United States in return.

"The villainy of ice dancing knows no bounds," wrote DiManno in the Toronto Star. "If the fix is not in against Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, then I'm the Princess of Wales."

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/angry-fans--canadian-press-fired-up-over-ice-dance-judging-142853172.html

[Grey Fox]

That's sport is more rottent than Cycling.

[Valmy]

Russians are on the ropes, down 3-1 with about four minutes remaining in the third period.

It's over.  Further displaying the great Alexander Ovechkin's playoff magic.

[Valmy]

That's sport is more rottent than Cycling.

Rottent to the core.

[Grey Fox]

It's really hard for me to not press t after en. Sometimes I miss it.

[crazy canuck]

Thing is the Russians outshot and outplayed the Finns.  The Finns however had a much better starting goalie.  Three goals on 15 shots isnt going to cut it.  I forget the name of the Russian starter but if I was him I would get out of the country asap.

I was hoping for a classic Russian Canadian showdown in the gold medal game.