the province has announced that Robson Square and the Zip Line will stay open for the Paralympics!

Despite the games being nearly over, Global is reporting the Olympic Logo Nazis are still at it. Pursuing the owner of Heaterz (older article here):
http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/2...033/story.html
How does that logo infringe on their territory? You mean folks can't use a flame any longer, because of the torch? :koko:

looks like the Royal Canadian Mint Pavillion will stay open for the Paralympics too

It is ridiculous, but it is hardly a recent thing. Pretty old news.

i'm waiting for the fake shaun white story on CTV
lol

do people not pay attention? i was downtown on saturday and people were saying oh maybe its shaun white! expected to show up at some event

he was on oprah in chicago on friday and was on his way to new york after that

he had left town on thursday night

The scary thing is the Shaun White lookalike is a 43 year old WOMAN. Nightmares ensue!

^ Crazy resemblance:

http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/2...n?size=620x400

http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/2...n?size=620x400

Source: Vancouver Sun

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Some protest news :D

Source: Globe and Mail

just a little encounter i had on the gondola

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._3693292_n.jpg

my that looks a lot like shaun white...

and yes that's a flask.

Now, who do you think is more flattered. A 40 year old woman who looks like Shaun White, or a 23 year old guy who looks like a 40 year old woman?

anyone watching Colbert tonight?

saskatchawinners!

Oh, boy :P The IOC is investigating the Canadian Women's behavior after the game. Not sure what they could do.

Remember, kids, the IOC is that guy who will squeal on you and do no wrong himself!

http://www.foxnews.com/static/manage...ay_604x341.jpg

Shocking!

Scandalous!

Pretty soon they'll be wearing pants, wanting to vote, and be driving their own cars!


It's the 3rd Millenium folks, Let them party.

Hahaha:haha: I can't believe this is even a story. Someone made a comment about the "medals hanging from their necks", in the article. So where else would you like them to be wearing them? lol

Well, when the Canadian men lose because of a bad bounce created by a champagne spill, we'll know who to blame ;)

BTW, we joked about it, but they really will be auctioning off the podiums after the Olympics. I need to be an Olympic Champion :D!

they made that US snow boarder leave the city after "risque" pictures showed up on TMZ

the IOC is strict and trying to protect its elite image

Too bad the whole world can see through it. :rolleyes:

Edit: I almost forgot, there are pictures online of a certain Danish curler (from the women's team!) topless. :)

Emergency shipment of condoms headed to Olympic athletes

Actually it was his own decision to leave.

Yeah, but, as they said, he would have been asked to leave had he not.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/...94695001_b.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/syume/4390535844/

From Sweden vs. Slovakia game. Does the guy in the middle look familiar? I think I've seen him somewhere around Vancouver doing... something :P?

Probably something related to the flag lol

no idea who he is - who is he?

We should clarify with the snowboarder, it is the USOC not the IOC involved. Not that I am defending them but since the USOC and IOC are not really seeing eye to eye, I feel it is worth pointing out.

There is an open "casting call" for anyone in the general public to show up at 2AM tonight, at the Olympic Cauldron to film a new "I Believe" music video.

Hopefully the guy with the Investigate 9/11 sign doesn't show up..

:P The set will probably be more "closed" than it will look.

It will be the only chance people get to actually get CLOSE to the cauldron while it is lit.

Now come the "Lisa Simpson BJ" London 2012 logo hasn't been an issue?

Oh, right! Men have no objections to BJ.

Isn't Playboy up here shooting a "Women of Curling" pictorial for the next issue?

Silver in curling :( Cheryl Bernard had two chances to take the gold, once in the 10th and last shot in the 11th and missed both times.

Liquor store lockdown again tonight.

For anyone who wants an interesting perspective, Japan ( and I would think other Asian nations) counts medals a little differently:

Medal Count

I wonder how much culture plays a part in this? Do other nations tally up medals this way?

( Sidepoint... only one team brings home the Stanley Cup )

Thoughts? Opinions?

They do it by gold, then by the number of medals. Just a different way of counting.

A lot of Countries do count by Gold, Japan, Korea, and China included. It is kind of the most important.

I am surprised that we don't switch to a more balanced approach of 3pts for gold 2pts for silver and 1pt for bronze. That would make the top leaders:

usa: 63pts
germany: 56pts
canada: 48pts
norway: 42pts
austria: 28pts

:P Give 0.5 points for 4th and I'm sure we'll take it.

^ for many nations, it's the gold/winning medal that counts. I believe Canada and the United States are a few of the very rare number of countries that count by medal totals, they include silver and bronze counts so that the silver and bronze achievements are also acknowledged.

During Beijing 2008, the BOCOG website Beijing2008.org had a medal count according to the number of golds won while the CBC Olympics website counted totals.

oh thats what it is - i googled and couldn;t find any info i was passing a tv at best buy and i only caught be at teh cauldron at 2 am and thats all i heard

i think its only north america who does it by total count

the rest of the world does it by golds - my korean friend asked me the other night why they do it wrong in canada - lol

I agree, gold is the most important. Any non-country specific web site lists by gold. Notice when the medals are given they always say "Gold Medalist and Olympic Champion...." They are the best in the world!

Too bad the Women curlers choked. I hope the Men don't.

We need that Gold, AND the Hockey GOLD!

did they lose?

at least they lost to sweden and not china

it would have sucked to lose to a team that sets up shop in alberta and than wins for another country

Hmm, counting gold eh? Consider that podium owned.. :D

(I am proud of all of our athletes and I think that Own the Podium has been very successful in general despite the somewhat disappointing result in the overall medal count)

Been doing a bit more research on this. Apparently the IOC ranks gold medals first as well.

In reality, the best should be recognized as well as the top handful but where do you make the cut off. In some events the next 4 competitors are in the same league as the gild medal winner and sometimes only the silver medallist comes close. Think about how many times the 4th place competitor is microseconds away from third yet they get nothing.

How about top ten finishes?

If you saw asada mao's face after her silver medal win you'd think she didn't get a medal. She was disappointed with her performance. To her, silver was a loss.

she just saw millions $$$ go bye bye

female figure skating gold medalists are set for life

Especially in Japan and Korea. Kim Yu-Na is a rockstar.

If you come in first place in a contest or competition, you've won; if you come in second, you've lost. This is why counting only gold makes sense. If you're going to count the consolation prizes given to the losers, where to draw that line? Why should a 2nd place loser whose result that was 1% away from winning and far ahead of other losers gain the same recognition as a 2nd place loser whose result is 50% away from winning and a small margin ahead of other losers?


Only to her? We can congratulate her on her efforts, but at second place she still didn't win. I know it sounds harsh, but that's how it goes in the world of high-level competition.

This reminds me of a club in Salt Lake -sponsored by a beer company- that had a policy that gold medalists got the no-lineup VIP treatment and free anything & everything at the club. Silver and Bronze winners had to line up in the cold just like everyone else. Apparently there was a poster inside that said something like "Silver means you're the top of the heap of losers"

I had the exact same thought. Right now the US is only so far ahead because they seem to be skilled at coming in second and third :haha:

Actually, the REST of the world counts medals by gold (good for Canada) and not by overall medal total. Which is why the US was in such a tiff that China led the 2008 medal tables when the US had 10 more overall medals (China had like a dozen more golds).

The pirate protesters are currently at Canada Place and probably headed down to the cauldron it looks like. They have a megaphone and a flag!

The ships should leave without them on March 1st :P