Official Torino 2006 thread

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Curling is watchable.

Hockey & Curling = 4 easy medals for Canada

I am hoping we can win more medals than the US like we did in 1998, but that isn't looking good so far.

So far we have two, with one gold:

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Canada's aim is a top 3 finish this year with a #1 finish in the medal standings for Vancouver 2010.

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I hope this has something to do with the fact we have never won a gold at home, (not in 1988 or 1976) and not some sort of brain fart on your part

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For the foreigners out there...are your networks showing the Games live? Everything except some curling and ice hockey is recorded for us.

Yeah, NBC's coverage sucks. CBC is showing things live and then tape delayed.

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I'd rather NBC cut out the non-Americans/non-good stuff for us. I'd rather not watch ten groups of Chinese guys go before the American kicks their asses.

I have the same feeling for the non-Canadians.

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The one Aussie gold medal is from a former Canadian Kind of reminds me of the Australian curling team, which is entirely made up of former Canadians. They aren't in these games, but I did have the luxury to practice next to them last year

That's why America rocks. We have a medal contender in pretty much everything.

Not true. Probably just for half the events.  This is true for the Summer Olympics, though.

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Ahhh! Switzerland beat Canada in hockey!!!

Hell has frozen over!!!

Hell froze over when Sweden beat the US in the semi-final of women's hockey

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Well, it's been an interesting games so far. 14 medals is very good, right on the heels of the US, although we dont have anywhere close to the amount of golds.

I am willing to answer any questions about curling, as I am an avid curler myself. Basically to score points, you have to get your rocks closer to the centre of the circles than the other teams rocks. It's really a lot of fun to play, but I can understand if it is boring to watch on TV.

And hugh, stop bashing  ice hockey, you don't see me whining about field hockey. Ice Hockey is a lot of fun, you should try it.

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Well, it's been an interesting games so far. 14 medals is very good, right on the heels of the US, although we dont have anywhere close to the amount of golds.

I am willing to answer any questions about curling, as I am an avid curler myself. Basically to score points, you have to get your rocks closer to the centre of the circles than the other teams rocks. It's really a lot of fun to play, but I can understand if it is boring to watch on TV.

And hugh, stop bashing  ice hockey, you don't see me whining about field hockey. Ice Hockey is a lot of fun, you should try it.

Ready for the big U.S.-Canada curling match (men's semifinals) on Wednesday?

Should be fun. I wonder what happened with the women's team. They were supposed to do very well. When I watched the Canada-USA game, Johnson was making some weird calls. Not enough experience I guess.

 

And hugh, stop bashing  ice hockey, you don't see me whining about field hockey. Ice Hockey is a lot of fun, you should try it.

1-Keep calling it Ice Hockey and I have no real problem with you.
2-Field Hockey is Hockey. The original and obviously the best.

Don't push me, Hugh. I'll call it ice hockey if you call it field hockey. Neither is "original" because they evolved separately from one another.

BTW Begg-Smith is a jackass. He left the Canadian program because it was too difficult for him   Oh well, two new Canadians won medals, so I can't complain. Jeff Pain won a silver in Skeleton (former American) and a former Jamaican bobsled teammate won a silver for us in bobsleigh

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Well, it's been an interesting games so far. 14 medals is very good, right on the heels of the US, although we dont have anywhere close to the amount of golds.

I am willing to answer any questions about curling, as I am an avid curler myself. Basically to score points, you have to get your rocks closer to the centre of the circles than the other teams rocks. It's really a lot of fun to play, but I can understand if it is boring to watch on TV.

And hugh, stop bashing  ice hockey, you don't see me whining about field hockey. Ice Hockey is a lot of fun, you should try it.

Ready for the big U.S.-Canada curling match (men's semifinals) on Wednesday?

Should be fun. I wonder what happened with the women's team. They were supposed to do very well. When I watched the Canada-USA game, Johnson was making some weird calls. Not enough experience I guess.

The women received a lot of attention in the States before the games, based in part on the looks of the Johnson sisters but also their silver at the last World Championships. I think a lot of people had the U.S. men doing poorly, with the women contending for a medal.

It appears the opposite has happened   It is quite strange, traditionaly American women have done well at the World Championships while the men not so much. However, I believe Pete Fenson was 8-3 last year at the Worlds, so they're still a good team.

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Bittersweet day. Lost semis in women's curling but won the men's semis. Lost in hockey WTF   Four medals today for us- two gold (take that Australia!) ties us with the US in medals (18) with at least one more on Friday. So far this is our best Winter Olympics ever

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Four medals today for us- two gold (take that Australia!)

Just wait for the Commonwealth Games-Australia's hoping for over 200 medals.

Pfft, if it doesn't have hockey or curling, it doesn't count

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Four medals today for us- two gold (take that Australia!)

Just wait for the Commonwealth Games-Australia's hoping for over 200 medals.

Pfft, if it doesn't have hockey or curling, it doesn't count

It has hockey and lawn bowls, instead.

Meh. I'd rather their more fast paced ice counterparts. Plus, there's no sweeping in lawn bowls.

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Awesome Olympics. Could have been better, had we not had 14 fourth place finishes (more than any other country), and instead had more medals as a result.

I love how Cindy Klassen had 2.5 times more medals than the entire country of Australia

I also enjoyed the closing ceremonies. I didn't realize they would devote the end to Canadiana. Good rendition of O Canada too. I liked  when they gave the Olympic flag to the mayor of Vancouver and he spun around in his wheelchair.

Didn't I see some crazy guy try to run to the microphone when the Torino guy was making a speech?


BRING ON VANCOUVER 2010!

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Most Memorable Event:
- Hedrick winning the 5000m on the first day

Least Memorable Event:
-Nordic Combined (only sport I didn't watch)

Top Five Stories:
1. American Mens Speed Skating Dominance (3-3-1)
2. Ohno, Ahn, and Lee battling on short track (9 of 12 medals)
3. Bode getting drunk and going 0 for 5 (Freedom Fighter)
4. US Snowboarding Dominance (3-3-1)
5. Ice Hockey let down (Though I had picked Finland in the final)

You're an idiot.

Obviously the biggest story is Cindy Klassen winning five medals.  That's almost as many medals as the entire "dominance" of the US men's speedskating team.

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Most Memorable Event:
- Hedrick winning the 5000m on the first day

Least Memorable Event:
-Nordic Combined (only sport I didn't watch)

Top Five Stories:
1. American Mens Speed Skating Dominance (3-3-1)
2. Ohno, Ahn, and Lee battling on short track (9 of 12 medals)
3. Bode getting drunk and going 0 for 5 (Freedom Fighter)
4. US Snowboarding Dominance (3-3-1)
5. Ice Hockey let down (Though I had picked Finland in the final)

You're an idiot.

Obviously the biggest story is Cindy Klassen winning five medals.  That's almost as many medals as the entire "dominance" of the US men's speedskating team.

Cindy who? She got very little coverage outside of her races on NBC here in the States. I'm sure your list of top five moments would be very different from mine and Jake's (Klassen, most medals ever for Canada, men's hockey failings, men's curling gold, etc). I'm also sure we could argue until we're blue in the face about the best Olympic moments, but it's a matter of perspective.

Klassen won more medals than anyone else at the 2006 Olympics. That spells out the biggest news story, I don't care what country you are.

But, you did mention the hockey and the curling which were big here. Women's hockey gold was big, also the 14 4th place finishes (grrr) and the fact that an overwhelmingly large majority of our medals went to women. There was also Chandra Crawford, Clara Hughes, and Duff Gibson. Also, the  Jamaican bobsledder who won a medal for Canada, and the former American who won us a medal in skeleton.

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Also, this was the most amount of medals Canada has won in an Olympics except for 1984 in Los Angeles.

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Like MHS said, Klassen got no news coverage here, as such, it certainly wasn't a big event for my view of the games. Women's sports at the Olympics are pitiful anyway, simply because they are so much worse than the men at pretty much everything but figure skating. As such, I didn't watch anything but the 1500m simply to see Friesinger skate.

I know you like to watch men Jake, but some of us like watching women. News coverage in the US does not properly indicated the most memorable events of a games. If they missed Klassen, that's their problem.

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Heh, I don't really care what the most memorable event for you was. Seeing how I hardly watched any of Klassen's races, I really cannot recall anything about them besides the fact that she medaled. Now, I can remember Hedrick's celebrations, Cheek's win and donation to charity of his winnings, the Davis-Hedrick fued and medal wins, Ohno, Ahn, and Lee battling for nine medals, and the Gold-Silver for men and women snowboarding. Plus, Bode's comments about not getting drunk "that much". Those are what I remember, from my perspective.

It's not *my* most memorable event, it is *the* most memorable event. Five medals tops anything else, I am sorry. Obviously if you didn't see it, you would not understand.

Ooh, speaking of memorable events, I think the US losing to Sweden in women's hockey has to be up there. I still can't believe that happened.

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To my mind. the most memorable event of Torino 2006 was the deadly glare from the Italian ice dancer after her parter dropped her.

That was pretty deadly; certainly a contended for the top five.

Re:Klassen-not enough of them were gold. She could have won 10 silver and it wouldn't have been all that memorable. It'd probably be more memorable because of the lack of gold, actually.

You're just jealous because she got more medals than Australia has in the last two Olympics.

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To my mind. the most memorable event of Torino 2006 was the deadly glare from the Italian ice dancer after her parter dropped her.

That was pretty deadly; certainly a contended for the top five.

Re:Klassen-not enough of them were gold. She could have won 10 silver and it wouldn't have been all that memorable. It'd probably be more memorable because of the lack of gold, actually.

You're just jealous because she got more medals than Australia has in the last two Olympics.

I certainly hope you've stocked up on enough renditions of "O, Canada" for the year; They will be few and far between whilst Australia's winning 90-odd golds in a couple of weeks.

BTW, the last two olympics are Torino and Athens. I wonder what the results would be if you considered just those two

Well, we won 36 medals if you combine the two Olympics. I am positive Aussie has as beat there. But, it's not like any of the Summer Olympic events really matter

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To my mind. the most memorable event of Torino 2006 was the deadly glare from the Italian ice dancer after her parter dropped her.

That was pretty deadly; certainly a contended for the top five.

Re:Klassen-not enough of them were gold. She could have won 10 silver and it wouldn't have been all that memorable. It'd probably be more memorable because of the lack of gold, actually.

You're just jealous because she got more medals than Australia has in the last two Olympics.

I certainly hope you've stocked up on enough renditions of "O, Canada" for the year; They will be few and far between whilst Australia's winning 90-odd golds in a couple of weeks.

BTW, the last two olympics are Torino and Athens. I wonder what the results would be if you considered just those two

Well, we won 36 medals if you combine the two Olympics. I am positive Aussie has as beat there. But, it's not like any of the Summer Olympic events really matter

Well, to make it a bit more even, we'll make it the last two winter games as well as Athens.

Athens:

CANADA
3 Gold
6 Silver
3 Bronze

21st Place; 12 medals total; 24 points.

AUSTRALIA
17 Gold
16 Silver
16 Bronze

4th Place; 49 medals total; 99 points.

Salt Lake City:

CANADA
7 Gold
3 Silver
7 Bronze

4th Place; 17 medals total; 34 points.

AUSTRALIA
2 Gold
0 Silver
0 Bronze

15th place; 2 medals total; 6 points.

Torino:

CANADA
7 Gold
10 Silver
7 Bronze

5th Place; 24 medals total; 48 points.

AUSTRALIA
1 Gold
0 Silver
1 Bronze

17th Place; 2 medals total; 4 points.


Total medals:

CANADA
17 Gold
19 Silver
17 Bronze

53 medals total; 106 points total.

AUSTRALIA
20 Gold
16 Silver
17 Bronze

53 medals total; 109 points total.

So really, if you give Canada the benefit of two winter games versus just the one summer games, it's pretty even. But we still win

Just wait until our funding for sports programs and athletes gets better. Then we can trully compete