Vancouver Olympics 2010

Canada built the most difficult track possible to give their athletes an edge for having the most experience on it. If the course is harder, it takes more experience to be successful on it. This means more wipeouts for foreign athletes with less track time. Fast difficult track plus steel pillars equals dead Georgian.
 
Dan said:
The turn wasn't designed to kill, but it was designed to maximize the home turf advantage by making it faster and more likely to crash.
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How would you design a turn that would cause people to crash but not kill them since a crash will pretty much **** your body up. I doubt they would have left themselves open to the possibility of that getting out.
 
Robbo said:
How would you design a turn that would cause people to crash but not kill them since a crash will pretty much **** your body up. I doubt they would have left themselves open to the possibility of that getting out.
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Of course you can make a course that is difficult. And difficult courses create crashes.

I am sure nobody said "make a killer corner" But do you think that it is coincidence that the fastest and most difficult course ever constructed has been fenced off with home team restrictions on foreign training runs? Who paid for the track? Canada. What is Canada's motto? Own the Podium. How do you leverage the home field in a sport like luge in order to own the podium? Make it as difficult as possible and don't let anyone else practice on it. How do you make it difficult? Make it fast and make the turns sharp. What is another side effect of a fast course with sharp turns and limited practice runs for foreigners? You guessed it. Add the unfortunately placed steel pillars and lack of higher walls and you get a head cracked open like a soft pineapple.
 
Dan said:
Canada built the most difficult track possible to give their athletes an edge for having the most experience on it. If the course is harder, it takes more experience to be successful on it. This means more wipeouts for foreign athletes with less track time. Fast difficult track plus steel pillars equals dead Georgian.
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http://www.canada.com/sports/2010wi...ne+calls+luge+unfair+sport/2562254/story.html
Access rules haven't changed in about 40 years. They call for the course to be opened up to the foreign luge community for a test event and two training weeks in the year leading up to the Olympics. From there, it's up to the host country to decide who can and can't train on the track.
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The Whistler Sliding Centre was not only considered one of the fastest in the world, it was also viewed as one of the most dangerous. The corner Kumaritashvili flew out of, hitting unprotected steel support beams, had already been spotted as a danger area. After a test event in November, a barrier at the corner was built higher.
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Steps were taken to try and avoid this. Clearly they weren't taken far enough. But to try and tarnish the games and my country's participation by saying we purposely designed this track to boost ourselves and sabotage foreign athletes is hardly in the spirit of the games.

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Raziaar said:
Awesome. I was hoping Canada would be able to get a Home Gold.
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Oh man, just wait until you hear the backstory behind it too. Heartwarming.
 
No, it certainly is not in the spirit of the games.
 
Dan said:
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Hmm, I'm going to go with:

None of the Above. On Topic Please? No that's not it, is it... I should probably go.
 
Just watched that mogul skiiing which the Canadian won gold for just now. Really awesome event...although I don't really understand the skill involved in the 'turns' between the jumps. The judges score a lot based on them apparently.
 
During a practice session for the South Korean short-track speedskating women, a member of the Chinese delegation sat in the stands, taping the South Koreans. The South Korean coach, Choi-Guang Bok, was upset.

"Stop it, Don't do that," Choi yelled before hurling a couple of bottles that hit seats below the Chinese cameraman.

That's right. Choi threw water bottles. It's perfectly legal for the Chinese to tape the practices, no matter the South Korean protests.
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Lol..

Full story, bro.
 
Hectic Glenn said:
Just watched that mogul skiiing which the Canadian won gold for just now. Really awesome event...although I don't really understand the skill involved in the 'turns' between the jumps. The judges score a lot based on them apparently.
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They're scored on how clean they make their turns. Their knees should be touching together at all times. Only the legs should be moving side the side, and the upper body should be straight on the way down.
 
anyone watch the men's Boardercross? exciting stuff
Robertson must be a little disappointed since he was leading until the last leg of the race
at least he got a medal though! congrats to him
 
Indeed, a silver medal is great!

It is too bad though, he landed flat on one of the last jumps which slowed him down enough to be overtaken. Still, you can hardly be dissapointed with coming second in the Olympics... unless you are the damn media or that ungrateful section of our fanbase...
 
GOLD! GOLD! Speed Skating, 500m, Men's.


We didn't even know who the guy was. Everyone was like,

"who is that guy?"



"He is our son. A true son of Korea."
 
"He is our son. A true son of Korea. We can't remember his name at the moment, but he's totally our son. We've got his birth certificate and everything."
 
So far the games can't be said to be anything less than a distaste for the hosts. The security level at the skiing games have been a joke. One of the major female players fell into a ditch in the sprint, that should obviously been covered by a fence, and during the female downhill far too many players than usual fell and got injured. Most of them didn't have a single chance to try out the track before the games.
 
Yeah I'm not sure what the official party line is on that. The conditions were shit, and they didn't even bother pausing the runs to check out how much ice there was.
 
Yeah man it ****ed with the womens snowboard cross too. Something like 5 days of rain just wrecked the courses.
 
I watched a little bit of downhill skiing. It was pretty painful to watch that one woman (last or second to last to go, I think?) fall and hit one of the gates. I was happy for Lindsey Vonn though. Sounds like she's been cursed with injuries at lots of major competitions. Pretty impressive that she won in spite of having yet another injury.
 
I'll tell you who I've respect for, it's Majdic. Fell into a ditch during the warming up, then did four (?) sprint races, collapsing in pain after the first one, and grabbed the bronze.
 
Gold #100! Finally! Been a slow start to these olympic games for Norway but it looks like we've started to get some medals now.
 
Women's Half-Pipe = long series of people falling down, occasionally in painful-looking ways.

Men's figure skating is on. The guy skating now (don't know who/what country) is wearing probably the least sequiny/ruffled/floofy/"dramatic" costume of any male figure skater ever. No gloves, no skin-tight stretchy-wear. He's skating in what looks like a business-casual outfit (with a couple of lines of sequins down the back). Unfortunately he's not doing great, but I think he should get bonus points for costume.
 
So the Canadicks have to go through the playoffs to make it through in the hockey, how does that feel?
 
Raziaar said:
So I hear a Danish curler was brought to tears by Canadian fans trying to distract her in the event of curling.

Does anyone have the video?

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/va...ns-leave-Danish-player-in-tear?urn=oly,221320
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"I'm guessing 75 percent in there don't know the game that well and they're just there to cheer. You have to give them something for that, but I think we need to have it a little bit quieter for the opposition because it's uncomfortable for them."
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I still feel bad for her :(

The Monkey said:
So the Canadicks have to go through the playoffs to make it through in the hockey, how does that feel?
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It was pretty painful to watch, especially Brodeur (our goalie), but I have to blame Miller, he played a ****ing amazing game! :p
 
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