Winter Olympics Torino 2006

[the lancaster kicks ass]

doesn't look like our men's curlers are getting the bronze........

 

[Pisis]

Don't be sad, cause it looks like our Hockeyists are getting the Gold medal. After two periods of game Czech Rep - Sweden, it is 3-6...

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

the saddest part is our olympic games commision said their target for the entire games was one, yes just one medal, my they'll be glad we did fantastically well and have completed their target

 

[Pisis]

Hehe.

As I said, the little Czechians got kicked their arses by Swedes...

Czech Republic - Sweden 3:7 (1:2, 2:4, 0:1)

so they'll be playing for Bronze tomorrow from one of the pair Finland - Russia.

 

[pbfoot]

the sports guys over here said the Czechs played the Swedes like the Canadians with no desperation

 

[lesofprimus]

Swedes and Finns for the Gold Medal...

Who woulda thought.....

 

[pbfoot]

the saddest part is our olympic games commision said their target for the entire games was one, yes just one medal, my they'll be glad we did fantastically well and have completed their target

well maybe if you had mountains and snow and lakes or rivers that froze you could expect more medals after all the UK not known as very wintry place maybe you could get the British Olympic comission to get sheep shearing as an olympic event

 

[Gnomey]

We do have mountains and we do have snow, just not very much of it and it is normally shitty which is why all are winter athletes train abroad...

 

[pbfoot]

The Pennines aren't exactly the Alps and with the temperatures in the UK the snow is probably very wet(slush) and having to train abroad would probably mean you get a later start on the various disciplines it would be hard to catch up on somebody who has access to the resources close at hand on a day to day basis

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

and sheep sheering's more of a summer sport... although the aussies are the only ones that would even come close to us............

 

[Gnomey]

Ever heard of somewhere called the Scottish Highlands??? 4000ft High (small I know) and snow covered all winter... So I get at least a few days skiing on them each year...

 

[pbfoot]

4000 ft is higher than any point in the province of Ontario I was just stating that the UK is not a winter sport country if I'm incorrect I apologize.

 

[lesofprimus]

The Czechs look to get the Bronze over the sloppy looking Russians in Ice Hockey.... Any calls on the Gold game???

 

[pbfoot]

I like the Finns they play a more North American style unlike the canadian team

 

[lesofprimus]

Yea well North American style Hockey didnt get very far this year did it??? Sad state of affairs...

I agree on the Finns....

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i watched the Cz - Russia game, the fisrt time i've really watched a full match of ice hockey, one question just outta interest, are then any rules about what you or your oponents can do behind your own goal line? like behind the goal and backwards of that line?

 

[pbfoot]

no there are no special rules that i can recall . If you are thinking about the Russian guy getting a "red card" he leapt at the Czech guy and hit him from behind which are 2 infractions . You commented earlier about the lack of medals for the UK what you might try is getting the British Olympic Committee to lobby for new sports to be included some suggestions for these sports are Downhill Speed Skating or the Involuntary Luge

 

[cheddar cheese]

Swedes won 3-2...DAMN!

 

[the lancaster kicks ass]

i wanted the swedes to win... they had the better kits

and don't worry, we're gonna bias the London Olypics so heavily we're bound to get two or three medals with new sports such as queing, which team can form the straightest, most orderly que in the shortest space of time (kinda like a push start), and then sustain it for the longest, followed by tea making extreme.........

 

[cheddar cheese]

Nah the Finns are a far superior nation, in fact so superior that theyre second only to Italy.