The big and shiny all about the Olympics thread

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by ddthetide

Biathlon 10k sprint USA with a chance at a medal.

9th and 45th place finishes. 9th is the best finish ever. USA has never won any kind of medal in biathlon.

[brockguy]

Biathlon is a ridiculously tough event..

I see the USA are having a very eh competitive game in Women's Ice Hockey against China

[my miss storm cat]

Wow, they're strict!

http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstP...?photoid=43823

[ddthetide]

nordic combine, first ever medal of any color for the USA, 2nd, 4th, 6th.

[Bigsmc]

Originally Posted by ddthetide

nordic combine, first ever medal of any color for the USA, 2nd, 4th, 6th.

That was an exciting race. Kind of fun when guys get head starts (based on their ski jump) and others have to run them down from behind.

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by Bigsmc

That was an exciting race. Kind of fun when guys get head starts (based on their ski jump) and others have to run them down from behind.

yes, an original event to the winter olympics. the US skier ran out of gas in the last 20m.

[Princess Doreen]

Biathlon and Curling (not Curlin) leave me "cold". Not taking anything away from the sport or the athletes who compete in them or the fans who are die hard, but it's just... not interesting (in my opinion).

I used to be such a fan of figure skating but not so much anymore.

My Winter Olympic idol was and remains Peggy Fleming who won the Gold Medal for singles figure skating in the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, France. She wasn't an acrobat on ice - she was a ballerina. So graceful, a thing of great beauty. She just melted from one position into the next. Classic!

Her mother made her simple lime green costume for her USA Gold Medal performance.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw9XZAA72lw

Report that she was slightly injured in a Biden motorcade yesterday - apparently a U.S. delegation to the Olympics. Vonetta Flowers, another former Olympian (bobsled) was also slightly injured. Biden was not in the car that was in the accident.

I did like the German pair last night skating to Send in the Clowns. I didn't like the tinkling piano version of that song, but I do like the song and have ever since the great Judy Collins sang it. Actually, it's from the Broadway musical, "A Little Night Music", composed by Stephen Sondheim. Elizabeth Taylor appeared in the musical in 1977 and "sang" the song