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I don’t get this luge thing at all.
If they renamed it sledging, then the Australians would win the Gold medal.
Who said Americans don’t have a sense of humour.
Just seen them wearing checked lumberjack shirts.
Haven’t seen much of the Olympics, so I don’t know whether that was just for the snowboarding half-pipe, or generally.
Britain have an Olympic Winter champion in the Women’s head-sliding first on ice event. lol
Really?
Is that the event known as Skeleton Bob?
I’ve heard of it, but don’t know what it is.
Gosh, she really has won.
I was wondering for a bit whether I was slow on the uptake, and you meant she had slid down the course without her equipment.
Feel genuinely happy for her
From sledging on a bit of slush in the Mendips to beating those for whom sub-arctic pursuits are second nature
…the Olympic Ideal still flickers
It seems much more fun sliding head first on your tummy than lying on your back. Couldn’t stay up to watch all of it as I had an early start at work today, but she was in the lead when I went to sleep. They said one woman practices in front of the telly watching recordings of previous events, so perhaps snow and ice aren’t necessary. Didn’t understand what they meant about some people not adjusting their tobogan thing to suit the conditions, because it only looked like a tea tray.
Eve Muirhead of the Scottish curling team (come on, in this sport at least we might as well be honest about it) is absolutley gorgeous.
The Russian ladies have a couple of lookers too. I quite like watching the curling & a few pretty faces do no harm.The Skeleton bob was cracking, it looks much more exciting than luge & I can’t wait for the bobsleighing to start.
Does anyone dislike all that blue paint-stuff all over the ice – or is it just me?
It seems like a bit of a cheat to me. Surely the gates are for marking out the course, they shouldn’t need additional navigation!
Not to mention it makes the course look like a freshly Toilet Duck-ed toilet bowl!
Don’t like the blue painted lines but do like the Snow Cross event.
Apart from the commentators (one in particular) getting it wrong all the time.
Agree Corm, the Snow Cross was excellent and I thought it was just me getting irate at that commentator continually getting it wrong and mixing up the competitors.
Looking forwards to the woman’s event in a couple of days
Who said Americans don’t have a sense of humour.
Just seen them wearing checked lumberjack shirts.
Haven’t seen much of the Olympics, so I don’t know whether that was just for the snowboarding half-pipe, or generally.
Snowboarding was popularized in Seattle during the "grunge" era of the early 90s, so the plaid flannel is a throwback to that. Fortunately it isn’t the uniform for the other sports.
The joke regarding Great Britain and the Olympics is that you guys are only successful in sports where the athletes are sitting down
. Shooting, cycling, rowing, equestrian events, and so on. I think we can add "sports where the athletes are lying down
to the list.
Miss Woody
We could mention (in passing like) the track golds in 100m, 800m, 1500m…but oh no that would be the games when the Good ol’ US of A didn’t turn up ’cause someone invaded Afganistani or something….so I guess they don’t count – you know what Americans are like
Sitting down my arse….
Agree Corm, the Snow Cross was excellent and I thought it was just me getting irate at that commentator continually getting it wrong and mixing up the competitors.
Looking forwards to the woman’s event in a couple of days
Did either of you see the classic yesterday? One of those commentators called the Jamaican cross skiier Errol Flynn.
I thought the guy commentating on the Ski Jumping (Paul Dickinson I think his name is) was going to have a fit yesterday. The covering tv station kept showing the wrong scores, he kept apologising but it got to the point where he thought he was going to throw his headphones accross the room & leave us all to it.
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