2010 Vancouver Olympic & Paralympic Super-Thread

[ozonemania]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

brian williams on ctv just mentioned japadogs - he seems intrigued

anyway they are about to do a story on cTV about the new found Canadian Patriotism... tune in...

That mini documentary by Stephen Brunt on Canadian patriotism was a good watch, thanks for the tip.

[SpongeG]

lol i missed it tuned into global when they showed it

will have to watch the repeat

its true though i have never felt so much patriotism before - random outbreaks of people singing the anthem, everyone dressed in red and white

its kinda weird to see

[SpongeG]

they just showed deadmau5 on CTV looks cool sounded cool too

[SpongeG]

is this the mimosa that will be at live city?

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[GeeCee]

Another gold! Men's skeleton.

[SpongeG]

Lago heads home early after risque pictures on Web

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vanc...ug=ap-sbd-lago-picture&prov=ap&type=lgns

pics showed up on TMZ...

Lago, who was awarded his bronze medal Thursday night, was at a party, wearing a Team USA T-shirt when somebody snapped a photo of a woman kneeling below Lago’s waist to kiss his medal. That picture, and another showing him sticking the medal in the woman’s mouth while teammate Greg Bretz looks on,

[GeeCee]

classy as hell

[whatnext]

I can't believe people are dumb enough to wait 6 hours in line for 30 seconds on the zipline. You could be in LA and back in that time, add a few extra hours for Disneyland.

[SpongeG]

haha

NBC today show did it on their show this morning - i guess they went early and it was quite dead they went a couple times each

[whatnext]

Its like the huge line-ups to get into the Bay's Olympics store, just take the C-Line to Zellers at Oakridge for pity's sake!

[SpongeG]

or go to the 5th floor

they have a huge selection of the same stuff

[srperrycgy]

Had to go the Bay in DT Calgary to find Mukmuk. The Zellers I went to only had the red mittens, but had two huge bins of them.

[Prometheus]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

britain gets a gold - their first medal

British Media: Woops, I guess that sliding track is not so evil after all.

[ozonemania]

Originally Posted by Prometheus

British Media: Woops, I guess that sliding track is not so evil after all.

Actually, I think CTV interviewed Amy Williams (UK gold medallist) and she said she loved the track and it was her favourite, crediting that as part of the reason why she won.

[Yume-sama]

Well, the Olympics are officially big Oprah had red mittens on today, as she talked with Matt Lauer. CTV News was all over that.

[canucks23]

Originally Posted by Prometheus

British Media: Woops, I guess that sliding track is not so evil after all.

I was reading some British articles about her win and they still didn't stop the Canadian bashing, throwing in that the Canadians are poor loser's because our favorite to win ended up coming 5th place and because both the U.S and Canada were concerned about the helmet Amy Williams was using gave her an advantage. The British make me sick

[NetMapel]

London 2012 is in for a massive choke with these British presses around Who needs enemies when you got these friends ?

[Yume-sama]

Well, I'll hope 2012 goes well for them. I would LOVE to go to London to see them.

I have had such an amazing time in Vancouver, I just know London will be this x5. I mean, 1.8 million tickets available, compared to 9.5 million... that's a lot of extra partygoers

[canucks23]

Originally Posted by NetMapel

London 2012 is in for a massive choke with these British presses around Who needs enemies when you got these friends ?

Wont the British press just be biased though?

[NetMapel]

Originally Posted by canucks23

Wont the British press just be biased though?

Some of these tabloid newspapers just want to print crazy stories. Royal scandals, sex scandals, UFO scandals, you name it and they got a scandal. No beautiful weather and awesome atmosphere can really get them to print good news.