I've been meaning to write this for a while now - better late than never, I suppose.
UPDATE TUESDAY NIGHT: Maelle Ricker won! yay!
p-chigs , patrick chan, canada's best hope in figger skating, is on right now. Go, P-Chiggity!
Three days into the Five-Ring Circus, our home country (thats Canada for you out there in Cleveland) is settling nicely into its biennial routine of disappointment and racking up those fourth place finishes (Canadian Gold!) one after another (We had 13 in Turin, we already have three in Vancouver so far).
But, fear not, the exciting sports are to begin today.
After this morning's lackluster showing in Alpine, we get the event Sports Illustrated dubbed "Downhill Darwinism", SnowboardCross, the event in the olympics which closest resembles a video game. As i write this, there's four canadians in the final 16 spots, so that's at least a good sign.
UPDATE: we got silver, and fifth. so that's four medals, three fourths, and two fifths.
Anyway, the games look to be pretty exciting, with some skeleton (those crazy bastards) starting in a few days and hockey starting tomorrow.
I'm watching women's luge right now, and somehow, zee chermans are losing. For those who don't know, they're really damn good at it (Zip! Zip! Zip!)
In about ten minutes (8:35 PM Monday), Canadian Greatest-ever-at-his-sport Jeremy Wotherspoon will get his fourth and final chance at winning a gold medal. He's never won in three previous olympics, and at this point a beam from the roof or a bolt from the zamboni will probably fly through the air and knock him down.
UPDATE: He fucked it up again.
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I'm boycotting the Olympics; I was really rooting for the Slovakian chicks.
Noted. But, to all those who beat up on canada for beating slovakia by 18, remember: last year, slovakia won a hockey game 82-0.
NOW THAT'S RUNNING UP THE SCORE! HEYO
I really detest the ambiguity of a sentence like this:
"Canada claimed its first-ever Olympic gold medal on home soil Sunday"
For those of us who both read and understand sentences from left-to-right, the fact that Canada had never won a gold medal before - and happened to win its first in Vancouver - seemed erroneous, to say the least.
and Weatherspoon's retiring from speed skating after this season.
300th post, btw.
Predictions for the front page of every major Nova Scotian newspaper tomorrow: "Crosby saves millions from suicide; parents very proud".
Two things to add:
http://www.bestweekever.tv/2010-02-26/the-40-most-sexual-photos-from-the-olympics/
And:
"My name is Odd-Bjoern Hjelmeset. I skied the second lap and I fucked up today. I think I have seen too much porn in the last 14 days."
Do you think Odd-Bjoern will join DT if we email him? That quotation is a work of true and unrivalled genius.
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