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Vancouver Winter Olympics - News and Views
Aloysius J. Gleek:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 03, 2010, 08:28:39 pm ---I just can't relate to this at all. Medals are won by athletes, not countries.
--- End quote ---
Unfortunately, some people have a very unsportsmanlike attitude!
(And--see the photo: which fellow looks nervous and which one does not!)
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/35687205/ns/sports-olympic_sports/
Russian Olympic boss quits after worst showing
Tyagachev steps down after nation won only 15 medals in Vancouver
A picture taken on November 4, 2004 shows then
Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and
Leonid Tyagachev, left
By David Nowak
updated 9:30 a.m. ET, Thurs., March. 4, 2010
MOSCOW - The head of the Russian Olympic Committee says he resigned in the wake of Russia's worst performance at the Winter Games.
Leonid Tyagachev said in televised remarks Thursday that his decision followed the "unexpectedly" poor results of the team at Vancouver.
Russian news agencies reported his resignation Wednesday, but the Olympic Committee denied it.
Russia placed 11th with three golds and sixth in the overall medal count with just 15 medals. That total was two fewer than its previous low in Salt Lake City in 2002.
The results proved particularly embarrassing as the country takes the torch for the next Winter Olympics in its Black Sea resort of Sochi in 2014.
CellarDweller:
One of the biggest blows to Russia's medal count was the figure skating results.
Russian pairs have dominated this sport, and these past games, their pairs didn't even medal.
No Russian women were even considered a threat these games.
Evgeni Plushenko was favored for gold, and got silver.
Russian's have almost always won Ice dancing, except for when Torvill & Dean (UK) and Anissina & Peizerat (France) won. This Olympics, the best they could do was bronze.
Sheriff Roland:
For those who don't know, hockey is big in Canada. They say that 80% of the country (man, woman and child) watched the gold medal game between Canada & the U.S. (the States had beaten the home team in the round robin match up).
BTW, Canada ended up with the gold medal, even though the U.S. tied up the match with only 24 seconds remain to play. The game was won in overtime when Sydney Crosby scored.
Anyways, back to the fact that Canadians are crazy for hockey.
The city of Edmonton (Alberta) has released a graph indicating water usage (ie, toilet flushing) during the game, compared to the previous day's water usage.
BTW, if you're going to watch just one paralympics event, make sure it's a sledge hockey match.
Front-Ranger:
That graph is very funny and telling, friend!! I wonder what it would look like if Labatt's issued a graph of beer consumption that could be overlaid on it!
I finally got to see k.d. laing's performance of Hallelujah, my friend Chuck had taped it. Wow, can that woman sing!!
Sheriff Roland:
CTV hasn't allow the live feed of k. d. lang's performance of 'Hallelujah' be released onto youtube, but someone's managed to post an audio of the performance ... for the time being anyways.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPJkiB2o0sw[/youtube]
Today, (13-03-04) I found this slightly trunkated, but live version of the original performance from the Vancouver games. Still worth it.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKrkEOlyJo8[/youtube]
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