I love the Olympics, but I’m baffled by how we got “half-pipe” into the games! 
Is it just there to sell Mountain Dew?
we got half pipe in the olympics because the kids who will watch the games like snowboarding… so yeah, it sells mountain dew, and whatever else…
besides, tweaking out a pair of back to back rodeo 900s is medal worthy…
plus you don’t need a guy with a broom sweeping the snow in front of you…
-Imp
Everything changes…
I personally like the olympics, but I’m not as into them as I used to be.
2010 is another story though.
I’m gonna be smokin a cannon and watching the halfpipe. 
(Shyster and Satanical too)
Curling is oddly addictive, IMO. First time I saw it I got a laugh out of it, but I just couldn’t quit watching. I think this time the US women’s team is a couple of sisters that are pretty much hotties.
yeah I think curling is great too…
but I wonder which came first? curling or shuffleboard?
-Imp
Woah! Carrot Top just won a medal!
did they just show white’s medal run or was it only his qualifying run?
-Imp
They showed his medal run. Although I’m pretty baffled by how they decide which is “best.” It all looks like nonsense to my untrained eye.
Damn, I can’t get over how he’s a dead ringer for Carrot Top!
I must say that I enjoyed the typically surreal opening ceremony, though nothing will top the people at the World Cup in 2002 with plasmascreen TVs balanced on their heads…
yea cant’ wait for Vancouver Woot Woot! 
, but it’s not fair, stupid Beijing stole it from us for 2008 
, oh well, guess i’ll have to wait a couple more years. In the meantime Canada wooped Italian and Russian butt in women’s hockey 16-0 and 12-0 respectively so 
do you live in van city?
nope, at the center of the universe, or at least Canada, aka Toronto 
, but i plan to take a road trip with my buddies and catch the olympics when they hit Vancouver though
Used to love the olympics. When countries allowed professionals to compete thats when I stopped watching. That tainted it.
Alright I know I said I don’t watch the olympics. My son was surfing the channels yesterday when he landed on the olympics sporting a new speed skating race, its been in the games for 2 yrs., he made me sit down to watch.
Two teams, three on each team, skate around a circular track, one team starts on one side of the track and the other starts half a track a way from them, the teams race single file.
The team race so close together in single file that it really looks like they have their head in the front persons rearend most of the time.
Ok I like competition as much as the next person but, really I could not even picture myself being in such a position just to win a race. What if the person in front has a bad case of gas? or a rip in their suit at a crucial place? What if the 2 people in front of you have bad gas? Your nose is right there. One lady as she moved from the front to the end fell just as she got behind the first two. The announcers said she must have caught the leg or something from the person in front of her, I saw her face as she went down and after she got up, She didn’t get caught she got a nose full. It was the same face we all make when we catch a nose full of bad gas.
Nahh, noway, my dignity could not handle such a thing or is this a bigoted side of me? Not wanting my face in someones butt just to get a medal. What other weird olympic competions are out there that I have missed?
London 2012 will be a shambles, you heard it here first…
someoneisatthedoor:London 2012 will be a shambles, you heard it here first…"
K: And why should that be? Please explain it.
Kropotkin
Cause it’s London? ducks
- We can’t even get the new Wembley Stadium finished on time, hosting the Olympics would be a much larger and more complex event and therefore would involve more cock ups. I don’t hold out much hope of it being a rampaging success
And because it’s London. If it was Manchester then it’d be a different story but London is full of assholes and bureaucrats…
I"m hoping for Toronto 2012 
crosses fingers