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Thread: The XXII Olympic Winter Games
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02-07-2014, 12:32 PM #51
Course prep for skiing from course workers and favourable comparison of Sochi with respect to 2010 Whistler
http://bcalpine.com/news/article/?2665
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02-07-2014, 12:33 PM #52spook Guest
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02-07-2014, 12:34 PM #53
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02-07-2014, 12:34 PM #54It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.
I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
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02-07-2014, 12:36 PM #55spook Guest
Skier Shreds Knee In Practice, Asks Dad, "Am I Still An Olympian?"
American moguls skiier Heidi Kloser, touted as a legitimate medal contender, ripped up her knee on a crash during warm-ups, just minutes before she was to begin her qualification run. Her ACL is completely torn, and her first Olympic games are over before they began.
The fall looked innocuous, but Kloser couldn't get up and had to be pulled down the mountain on a stretcher. Her parents were there, and joined her in an ambulance for the ride to a hospital. Father Mike revealed on Facebook what Heidi said them:
When she was in the ambulance, she asked Emily and me if she was still an Olympian.... We said of course she is!Kloser, 21, stood fourth in the World Cup standings entering these games, and second among U.S. skiers, behind presumptive gold medal favorite Hannah Kearney. Depite Kloser's hopes that the injury was minor and she might return for tomorrow's finals, the Vail native was treated by Tom Hackett, the U.S. Olympic Team's physician, who diagnosed a completely torn ACL, a partially torn MCL, and a fractured femur.
"She's in good hands right now," said her father, Mike Kloser. "But she's so sad."Olympic sports are especially cruel. Yes, there are annual world championships, but at least in terms of international attention and acclaim, athletes get but once chance every four years to reach the sport's pinnacle. It's not an exaggeration to say Kloser's entire life was building to these games—and now, without even competing, she has to wait until 2018.
But, yes, she is an Olympian. She earned her way to Sochi as much as anyone else, bad luck and bad timing be damned. And, according to her father, she still hopes to walk with her teammates in today's opening ceremony.
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02-07-2014, 12:58 PM #56
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02-07-2014, 01:24 PM #57www.apriliaforum.com
"If the road You followed brought you to this,of what use was the road"?
"I have no idea what I am talking about but would be happy to share my biased opinions as fact on the matter. "
Ottime
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02-07-2014, 01:26 PM #58
Putin just arrived, lots of empty seats at the opening ceremony. Stadium is kinda cool in a Close Encounters way.
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"If the road You followed brought you to this,of what use was the road"?
"I have no idea what I am talking about but would be happy to share my biased opinions as fact on the matter. "
Ottime
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02-07-2014, 01:38 PM #59
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02-07-2014, 01:45 PM #60
Am I alone or does anyone else think that Putin had a fit about the new event, Mens Pairs Team figure skating, until it was explained?
Last edited by wooley12; 02-07-2014 at 01:57 PM.
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02-07-2014, 04:00 PM #61Registered User
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thought the judging in men's snowboard slopestyle was confusing..... we'll see if it improves. doesn't seem like they care if your spins are corked or stylish looking, but a higher score based on number of rotations
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02-07-2014, 04:17 PM #62
I'm waiting for the first snowboarder to un-clip from his bindings and do a superman-type trick like the snowmobilers... because until then, all the corks, spins, and grabs look really fucking similar and it's getting pretty boring to watch.
Now get off my lawn.
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02-07-2014, 06:31 PM #63trenchman
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progression will have them in non binding foot hold in the future.
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02-07-2014, 07:19 PM #64
Fuck. Not Collinsworth again.
Did the last unsatisfied fat soccer mom you took to your mom's basement call you a fascist? -irul&ublo
Don't Taze me bro.
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02-07-2014, 07:40 PM #65
um?
the 'rings', not working, holy shit.
Putin is losing his shit, right now.
Obama just said, oh fuck yeah!crab in my shoe mouth
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02-07-2014, 07:43 PM #66trenchman
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costas just looks stupid. serious case of old fuckers still deeply under contract at that tv station.
so many young hot chicks that would be soooo much better to look at and hear talk.
fuck get hope solo to read the tele prompter, her and any of the jessicas.
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02-07-2014, 07:43 PM #67
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02-07-2014, 07:45 PM #68trenchman
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02-07-2014, 07:49 PM #69
no one, back here, gives a fuck, about, out there.
eat me.crab in my shoe mouth
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02-07-2014, 07:53 PM #70trenchman
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well then, i will, expect, nothing, guy.
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02-07-2014, 07:55 PM #71
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02-07-2014, 07:56 PM #72
That was too bad, because up until then the art direction was cool as shit.
I really wish the US Broadcast would just STFU about the Political overtones. It's now about these kids walking in, their work to get there and competing, not fucking Putin's Shit Show anymore. Fucking drop it.
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02-07-2014, 07:57 PM #73trenchman
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exactly, the snow skaters will be the next progression.
you got it
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02-07-2014, 08:02 PM #74
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02-07-2014, 08:09 PM #75
They love their techno
Did the last unsatisfied fat soccer mom you took to your mom's basement call you a fascist? -irul&ublo
Don't Taze me bro.
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