The Winter Olmpics - Great or Shite ?.

[aftershavedave]

Wereas most of your online friends are evil foreigners out to destroy the UK.

are you suggesting that dimster is part of some international commie fifth column looney? even by your own wacky standards that's going a bit far ain't it?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

My parents used to live over the road (in Cheshire) from a bloke who represented Sri Lanka in the ski jump.

He used to practice using a metal frame that he had fitted on his garage roof.

Marvellous scenes.

 

[bhafc99]

Downhill is good. And ice-hockey I'll be cheering for Canada, my country of birth.

Like others I ended up watching curling at some stupid hour four years ago. There was even a vaguely shaggable one in that team I recall, though most of them looked Colin Hendrie with man boobs.

 

[Lady Bracknell]

What Lord B forgot to include in this surrealistic account was the fact that his parents (and of course the neighbour) lived in Hilltop Avenue!

 

[Man of Harveys]

There was even a vaguely shaggable one in that team I recall

The Swiss miss - she was gorgeous. I still have a photo of her somewhere from four years ago.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Mens Large Hill Ski Jump

J Ahonen ( Fin ) 11/4

J Janda ( Cze ) 4/1

R Ljoekelsoey ( Nor ) 6/1

M Hautamaeki ( Fin ) 6/1

T Morgenstern ( Aut ) 8/1

A Kuettel ( Sui ) 12/1

B E Romoeren ( Nor ) 16/1

M Uhrmann ( Ger ) 20/1

A Widhoelzl ( Aut ) 20/1

A Kofler ( Aut ) 20/1

A Malysz ( Pol ) 25/1

S Pettersen ( Nor ) 33/1

L Bystoel ( Nor ) 33/1

T Okabe ( Jpn ) 40/1

T Ingebrigtsen ( Nor ) 50/1

S Ammann ( Sui ) 50/1

R Kranjec ( Slo ) 50/1

R Benkovic ( Slo ) 50/1

N Kasai ( Jpn ) 50/1

M Koch ( Aut ) 50/1

G Spaeth ( Ger ) 50/1

W Loitzl ( Aut ) 66/1

M Hoellwarth ( Aut ) 66/1

D Ito ( Jpn ) 66/1

A Herr ( Ger ) 66/1

1/5 Odds Place 1, 2, 3

William hill

Noone from Sri Lanka this time, a few Oriental men though

 

[Man of Harveys]

I wonder, will the favourite Ahonen at any point in proceedings be described as "the flying Finn"? Or is David Vine not commentating anymore?

 

[Simster]

are you suggesting that dimster is part of some international commie fifth column looney? even by your own wacky standards that's going a bit far ain't it?

My chums are as follows:

Soccer Dog
Chimney
And of course, GARTH


Evil, every single one of them.

 

[looney]

are you suggesting that dimster is part of some international commie fifth column looney? even by your own wacky standards that's going a bit far ain't it?

No I haven't accused anyone here of being a reptoid.............yet.

 

[looney]

My chums are as follows:

Soccer Dog
Chimney
And of course, GARTH


Evil, every single one of them.

Some of Mine are,n

Projectile Vomit
Ruthless 1
Yellow Beard
BRA1N
DVLOS
Baileyhankins
Ladr.

More friends than you.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I am evil

 

[looney]

I am evil

Not as evil as uncle buck.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

True

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Anyway back to the subject.

Can we win again 14/1

Women's Curling

Sweden 11/8

Canada 2/1

Switzerland 13/2

U S A 8/1

Norway 8/1

Great Britain 14/1

Denmark 16/1

Italy 50/1

Russia 80/1

Japan 100/1

1/5 Odds Place 1, 2, 3

Willaim Hill

 

[Man of Harveys]

Mens Downhill

A Deneriaz ( Fra ) 33/1

Anyone pluck this fella out at 33-1? The man was, ow you zay, absolutely brilliant. What a run.

I even enjoyed watching the snowboarding antics in the halfpipe, daft names for their jumps and twists notwithstanding - McTwists, alley-oops, etc. How they don't bash their already-limited braincells to pieces on the ice is beyond me. Ditto the luge.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I had my money on the Hermanator and Strobl. I found it a bit dissapointing, the crowds were poor at the start and there wasn't a single cowbell to be heard let alone the HUP HUP HUP HUP HUP HUP HUP as they come down the slopes. The most exciting bit was when the last decent runner , no 30 came in and blew the field apart.

 

[Trigger]

Oh has it started?...

When is the curling?...

 

[Easy 10]

I switched over to watch the luge yesterday just in time to see the British bloke promptly tip over on the 2nd corner and travel about 300 yards on his arse, before eventually coming to a stop. He clambered back on his sled and meekly pushed himself round the remainder of the course, trundling over the finish line about a minute behind everyone elses time.

I sighed and turned back to the Simpsons.

 

[REDLAND]

The mens downhill yesterday was awesome 85mph flat out over ice !!

Can't wait for the Snowboarding

 

[Man of Harveys]

Garth, they don't all race together at the same time like in horseracing.

Just as I was musing during the luge that it's a shame they've never built a bobsleigh run here, the commentator mentioned that the one in Italy had cost 70 million Euros to construct - amazingly, there are only 13 top-level bobsleigh runs in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobsleigh.

Mind you, at £50 million, you could have built 15 bobsleigh runs for the cost of the Millennium Dome.