The Official GMHockey 2010 Winter Olympics Thread - All Talk Here!

yep the americains were the competition and we got 111.15 thats amazing

GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Youngest Ice Dance Olympic champions ever! First ever gold medallists in this event from North America.

marakh wrote:

hemlock wrote:Virtue and Moir? Not yet. Ice dance is a pretty neat event to watch....not that there's anything wrong with that.

It's neat and gets me nervous like Dung. Anytime they make a jump spin my heart stops beating

hehe

I can't even comprehend the amount of training it takes to perfect that stuff.

hemlock wrote:BOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Youngest Ice Dance Olympic champions ever! First ever gold medallists in this event from North America.

hemlock wrote:

marakh wrote:

hemlock wrote:Virtue and Moir? Not yet. Ice dance is a pretty neat event to watch....not that there's anything wrong with that.

It's neat and gets me nervous like Dung. Anytime they make a jump spin my heart stops beating

hehe

I can't even comprehend the amount of training it takes to perfect that stuff.

Well, that's the first Ice Dance I've seen, probably, since the Dushesnays. It's changed a bit, hasn't it? I don't remember lifts like these ones allowed back then.

Congratulations!

And did Oksana look pissed off or what?

hemlock wrote:

marakh wrote:

hemlock wrote:Virtue and Moir? Not yet. Ice dance is a pretty neat event to watch....not that there's anything wrong with that.

It's neat and gets me nervous like Dung. Anytime they make a jump spin my heart stops beating

hehe

I can't even comprehend the amount of training it takes to perfect that stuff.

Just after they won they ran a video of both of them ice dancing. They looked like they were 10 in the video. With the beautiful singing of Nikki Yanofsky in the background. Epic.

And half of Canada's medals continue to be Gold.

Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mikhail Grabovski, an injured member of the Belarusian Olympic team, was arrested and subsequently released after an altercation at a Vancouver bar: http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=310929

Finnish defenceman Joni Pitkanen received an automatic one-game suspension for a hit to the head on Sweden's Patric Hornqvist: http://www.ctvolympics.ca/hockey/news/newsid=49431.html?cid=rsstsn

Cap'n Clutch wrote:And half of Canada's medals continue to be Gold.

Our medal count is misleading. After the ice dance, the number of top 8 finishes between the U.S. and Canda is 33-27 in favour of the U.S.

Despite the low medal count, Canada has really shown it's knocking on the door to being a world power in the Winter Olympics.

marakh wrote:

hemlock wrote:

marakh wrote:

hemlock wrote:Virtue and Moir? Not yet. Ice dance is a pretty neat event to watch....not that there's anything wrong with that.

It's neat and gets me nervous like Dung. Anytime they make a jump spin my heart stops beating

hehe

I can't even comprehend the amount of training it takes to perfect that stuff.

Just after they won they ran a video of both of them ice dancing. They looked like they were 10 in the video. With the beautiful singing of Nikki Yanofsky in the background. Epic.

Virtue and Moir have been a team since she was 7 years old. SEVEN!

This gold was a long time in the making. So awesome!

hemlock wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:And half of Canada's medals continue to be Gold.

Our medal count is misleading. After the ice dance, the number of top 8 finishes between the U.S. and Canda is 33-27 in favour of the U.S.

Despite the low medal count, Canada has really shown it's knocking on the door to being a world power in the Winter Olympics.

I'm not disputing that at all. From all I have been reading about the money and research they've been pouring into the Winter games I'm not surprised. I was also skeptical about owning the podium in 2010 and look more towards 2014 as Canada's truly legitimate shot at taking home first place in the medal standings.

Cap'n Clutch wrote:

hemlock wrote:

Cap'n Clutch wrote:And half of Canada's medals continue to be Gold.

Our medal count is misleading. After the ice dance, the number of top 8 finishes between the U.S. and Canda is 33-27 in favour of the U.S.

Despite the low medal count, Canada has really shown it's knocking on the door to being a world power in the Winter Olympics.

I'm not disputing that at all. From all I have been reading about the money and research they've been pouring into the Winter games I'm not surprised. I was also skeptical about owning the podium in 2010 and look more towards 2014 as Canada's truly legitimate shot at taking home first place in the medal standings.

It's a work in progress for sure. I'm worried about the knee jerk reaction towards the medal count - as in "Well, this didn't work so why pour money into these athletes?" 2014 should be better yes.

For me, I'm just glad to see a shift from the usual "just happy to compete" Canadian content to seeing our athletes with legitimate medal hopes. Canada has been remarkably competitive over a wide variety of events.

It's definitely far from a failure. We are a virtual lock for Gold or Silver in Womens Hockey, Womens Curling and Mens Curling. Should all those be Gold that's 8 Gold and 13 Medals right there. I'm not sure about our hopes in other events but we can probably expect a few more right? How many golds have we gotten in our most successful games?

Cap'n Clutch wrote:It's definitely far from a failure. We are a virtual lock for Gold or Silver in Womens Hockey, Womens Curling and Mens Curling. Should all those be Gold that's 8 Gold and 13 Medals right there. I'm not sure about our hopes in other events but we can probably expect a few more right? How many golds have we gotten in our most successful games?

7 Gold marks our most successful games at both Turin and Salt Lake City. There is also the 4 men bobsleigh that we could medal in, in addition to the sports you mentioned as well as Men's Aerials we've got 3 guys in the final, with Women's aerials still to come. 15 medals isn't out of the question.

I think 15 medals would be right around where we should finish, although the high watermark would be about 18-19 in my opinion.

stempniaksen wrote:I think 15 medals would be right around where we should finish, although the high watermark would be about 18-19 in my opinion.

18-19 sounds high. What events are you think of to reach that number?

We've accounted for 4 in Hockey/Curling and potential others in aerials and bobsleigh.

Oh Dung! I almost forgot about the long track team pursuits, and the Women's 5000M which Hughes could do really well in. There's also the relay in short track I believe.