Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games

Nicolas King

Nicolas King

"I am the hero who eats the lesser man..."
 
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How many people watched the opening ceremonies last night? Who are you looking out for in the games and what are your expectations for your country overall?

For myself, Canada winning gold on home turf for the first time in our history would be amazingly awesome. I think it will definitely happen this time. One gold should be no problem, especially considering the sheer number of athletes we have competing. Coming out on top of the medal count? There lies the challenge.

I think the opening ceremonies were amazing. It was unfortunate about the hydraulics problem at the end, though (when they were lighting the cauldron inside of the stadium). They made the best of that technical failure. Overall, I was quite impressed with the opening ceremonies - given how low the budget for opening and closing ceremonies was (especially as compared to the budget for the Beijing games).

I also enjoyed how much French I understood during there ceremony. ^_^ And here I thought I'd wasted ten years of my life. :tut:
My favourite part of the opening ceremony was likely the poem that was recited about Canada. It was a shortened version of We Are More. :)

Finally, I was quite impressed with the Georgian athletes and the fact that they marched in to the stadium in mourning, and that bit gave me chills as the stadium rose for them.
We had like ten times when the station cut for a "moment of silence" for Nodar Kumaritashvili, but it was, and is, a big deal - so I guess that was fair.
 
I didn't see much but I read about the death.
That happen just recently right? I was a little confused, but so far I've only witness the lightening of the torch.
Other than that, I don't think I will be watching much >_<;
 
Yes, Nodar Kumaritashvili died yesterday.
Wiki.
 
Poor guy. :(

I never stayed up long enough to watch the opening. Not fully sure when any of it starts time wise here. I may watch some of the games if I have the television on for something else during the week; but I won't be in a mad rush to cram every minute in to it.
 
I didn't get to watch the ceremony :( But I was in Vancouver recently, and the decorations are AMAZING!
They've shut down streets, and stuck all these cool statues, and art thingys around, some with input from elementry children ^_^
And the Sky train is awesome too, freaky, but cool :) I'm not sure if it was built for the Winter games or not though...
 
The death was so sad. I really feel for the family. The news warned you to look away when they played the footage the first time, but the second time they just played it. It was very gruesome, it would be a horrible way to die, not to mention the poor family probably saw him die. :(
 
Melodie Lowe said:
..The news warned you to look away when they played the footage the first time, but the second time they just played it..
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Oh wow. Shove it on television. "Have a look at this!". xD
 
I'm watching the woman's ski thingmabob right now. It'd be awesome if I could get my skiing to that level, but I haven't been in a few years.

It was so sad about the death, I went to hide and cry after I heard.

My thoughts go to the family.
Tony Alraur said:
Melodie Lowe said:
..The news warned you to look away when they played the footage the first time, but the second time they just played it..
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Oh wow. Shove it on television. "Have a look at this!". xD
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I was watching it too. Bwitty, was that 3 news? Coz we should send a complaint *nods*
 
@Tony I know, it was terrible, they shouldn't have shown it. What happened to privacy?
@Livi I'm not sure, might have been one, if they both did it, thats even worse!
 
@Livi Yeah they said the don't look stuff the first time, then on he updates bit they just played it and I had to quickly look away!
 
I thought it was so inappropriate for them to show the Luge accident on television. Here in the states, there was absolutely no warning the first time they showed it. I was watching with my two little sisters (they are 13 and 9) and the three of us were horrified when they showed everything :cry: . Last night, they said that they wouldn't show the accident again during the Olympics telecast.

On a side note, I'm looking forward to the Snowboarding. I was so thrilled when it was included in the Olympics because I'm a huge Winter X games fan ^_^ !! And, I can't wait to watch Apolo Ohno in the speed skating. He's always awesome to watch ;)
 
1. Shane Kozcay is amazing! His slam poetry is amazing, he once did one about a cow in my town, it was priceless.
2. I'm sad for Jenn Heil when she was beaten by the American skiier whose name currently escapes my mind. But the American did amazing, so it is a true shame that Jenn is retiring after these Olympics.
3. Of course Canada beat Slovac in Women's hockey, so I wasn't surprised there, I just hope theycan keep it up.
4. I am SOOO excited for figure skating and more skiing & snowboarding.
5. Canada just got bronze in women's speed skating, which is rather exciting.
6. I have already made it known to a fair few about the luge accident, but I'm sure that all of our prayers go to Georgia and I do hope that no other accident of the sort does happen to any other teams because that was a great loss.
 
Jennifer Wilkonson said:
1. Shane Kozcay is amazing! His slam poetry is amazing, he once did one about a cow in my town, it was priceless.
2. I'm sad for Jenn Heil when she was beaten by the American skiier whose name currently escapes my mind. But the American did amazing, so it is a true shame that Jenn is retiring after these Olympics.
3. Of course Canada beat Slovac in Women's hockey, so I wasn't surprised there, I just hope theycan keep it up.
4. I am SOOO excited for figure skating and more skiing & snowboarding.
5. Canada just got bronze in women's speed skating, which is rather exciting.
6. I have already made it known to a fair few about the luge accident, but I'm sure that all of our prayers go to Georgia and I do hope that no other accident of the sort does happen to any other teams because that was a great loss.
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They had better keep it up, and beat USA xD
Juniors was fail.
 

Britain isn't very good at winter sports.
We've done alright, in a few places. But As far as I know, we haven't won much. May be wrong.

I watched the Ski racing, where the 4 skiers were going down at the same time.
Goodness that scared me.
Winter sports are very dangerous.
 
The winter olympics are all done now, Soph is disappointed she didn't get a chance to perform in the ice skating! Keep in mind shes only 2! :lol:
 
Well I haven't had much chance to watch this at all this year I love it usually but just can't find the time. When I eventually did managed to see something it was to witness Ireland coming in 21st in the bobsleigh event out of 21 countries xD
It cracked me up, seriously wanted to ask where they trained =))
it was like Cool Runnings all over again but with major loss xD
 
Andromeda Fiorelli said:
it was like Cool Runnings all over again but with major loss xD
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And no slow clap at the end? :r
 
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