Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

[NSXType-R]

So apparently DSLRs with large kits are not banned.

Interesting.

As long as you don't use flash, you should be fine.

[RacingManiac]

Yay...Canada got a gold in men's mogal.....

[wwgkd]

Yay...Canada got a gold in men's mogal.....

Sigh.

So what was with Canada's beatown of Slovakia in women's hockey? 18-0 is pretty crazy. Is Canada's team that good or is Slovakia that bad?

[Rockefella]

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[ZeTurbo]

Sigh.

So what was with Canada's beatown of Slovakia in women's hockey? 18-0 is pretty crazy. Is Canada's team that good or is Slovakia that bad?

In womens hockey, besides the Canadians and the USA there is not much contest.There is no contest at all actually, some of the countries competing in Vancouver don't even have Woman's hockey leagues, their players play mostly for universities and leagues in NA.

His world record (from Salt Lake) is about 10 seconds faster....

Correction: His world record was set in Calgary...not Salt Lake.

Why is it called an Olympic record then? Is is of THESE games only? I thought an Olympic record was the best time ever sat at the Olympic games.

[Sauc3]

Why is it called an Olympic record then? Is is of THESE games only? I thought an Olympic record was the best time ever sat at the Olympic games.

Because the world record set in Calgary was set in 2007, not at an Olympic event. Therefore, the Olympic Record was set at these games because they are indeed the fastest ever time at an Olympics.

Funnily enough, the 3000m split of that world record 5km time itself would have been a world record. The current record is 3:37.28 held by Eskil Ervik, whereas Kramer's 3000m split in the 5k skate was 3:37.15.

[RacingManiac]

Sigh.

So what was with Canada's beatown of Slovakia in women's hockey? 18-0 is pretty crazy. Is Canada's team that good or is Slovakia that bad?

I think they run up the score also to get a more favorable seeding when the elimination rounds begins.

[RacingManiac]

Are the Aussies so narrow minded?

Aussies claim Bilodeau's gold tainted | Vancouver 2010 News | Vancouver 2010 | Sports | Toronto Sun

I thought Olympics are all about rising to the occasion and excelling expectation...besides, I thought the good thing about the judging aspect of Mogul is that ultimate speed accounts for something. You can look more graceful and tidy in the turn but if you are slower, that becomes easier to do....

[IBrake4Rainbows]

I think we need to qualify this statement a little more.

Dale Begg-Smith, the Australian competitor who scored Silver, is originally a Canadian, and has copped a LOT of flak from the Canadian Media over his "defection".

As his coach Desovich has to keep his competitor happy, and is allowed to express an opinion. Winning gold is serious business and, if you looked at Begg-Smith's face on the podium, he doesn't look like someone who likes to lose. IE a bit of a sore loser.

By the article it seems like they acknowledged his own failure to be quicker, but was countered by their belief the canadian competitor was overscored on his ability. The olympics, however, can do strange things to a Competitors ability and self belief.

TL;DR - Begg-Smith is a sore loser, but Technically Canadian.

[RacingManiac]

The statement is made by Australian though.....

I still find the whole argument of "not capable of the scoring he was given" as "WTF is he smoking" when someone said that....

To be fair, most Aussie paper I dig up did not necessarily agreed with the Aussie Olympic officials...

[IBrake4Rainbows]

The Coach is entitled to his opinion.

As are we entitled to laugh at him.

[wwgkd]

Hey, the US is still leading the medal count. Maybe we'll beat germany this year. USA! USA!

[Kitdy]

Hey, the US is still leading the medal count. Maybe we'll beat germany this year. USA! USA!

The Swiss lead golds though - they have 3!

They are doing very well so far.

[ZeTurbo]

As his coach Desovich has to keep his competitor happy, and is allowed to express an opinion. Winning gold is serious business and, if you looked at Begg-Smith's face on the podium, he doesn't look like someone who likes to lose. IE a bit of a sore loser.

By the article it seems like they acknowledged his own failure to be quicker, but was countered by their belief the canadian competitor was overscored on his ability. The olympics, however, can do strange things to a Competitors ability and self belief.

TL;DR - Begg-Smith is a sore loser, but Technically Canadian.

That guy never looks happy about anything, i've never seen him smile on a podium lol

[RacingManiac]

He probably was smiling when his spyware makes him millions though...lol