OT: Winter Olympics

trwi7 · Post #1 » by **trwi7** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 7:22 am

It starts tonight. We should probably talk about it.

And the list of athletes with Wisconsin ties

Jez2983 · Post #2 » by **Jez2983** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 7:31 am

trwi7 · Post #3 » by **trwi7** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 7:38 am

^jealous his country has no chance to win anything

blazza18 · Post #4 » by **blazza18** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 8:17 am

Lies. We have a chance to medal in a few events.

Whiteman · Post #5 » by **Whiteman** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 8:32 am

That Shani Davis fellow is pretty decent. Wouldn't mind if he wins a few more silver medals.

bizarro · Post #6 » by **bizarro** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 8:38 am

trwi7 · Post #7 » by **trwi7** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 9:09 am

Not sure if David Bowie or Vladimir Putin.

AussieBuck · Post #8 » by **AussieBuck** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 9:12 am

I do admire the sentiment but that pic IMO doesn't really capture the true macho sexuality that closet Putin possesses. It think we need a Chuck/Sigra combo workshop here.

beyond_the_arc · Post #9 » by **beyond_the_arc** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 9:12 am

trwi7 wrote:Not sure if David Bowie or Vladimir Putin.

Looks more like Billary.

stellation · Post #10 » by **stellation** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 10:54 am

trwi7 wrote:^jealous his country has no chance to win anything

Google Steven Bradbury. We've got chilly games game.

Post #11 » by **MickeyDavis** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 11:01 am

There is an Olympics forum now on Realgm. It looks like not much is happening there yet. If it picks up I'll have to close this down and redirect to that board. For now this thread will work.

trwi7 · Post #12 » by **trwi7** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 11:02 am

MickeyDavis wrote:There is an Olympics forum now on Realgm. It looks like not much is happening there yet. If it picks up I'll have to close this down and redirect to that board. For now this thread will work.

I'm pretty sure there was last time and we still had a thread. It's nice to have a thread for just us, no Canadians or any of those people.

cinematographer · Post #13 » by **cinematographer** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 11:12 am

trwi7 wrote:
MickeyDavis wrote:There is an Olympics forum now on Realgm. It looks like not much is happening there yet. If it picks up I'll have to close this down and redirect to that board. For now this thread will work.

I'm pretty sure there was last time and we still had a thread. It's nice to have a thread for just us, no Canadians or any of those people.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLCVCoEy0AA[/youtube]

paul · Post #14 » by **paul** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 11:24 am

I f'ing love the Winter Olympics, well everything except the figure skating

Can't wait.

Thunder Muscle · Post #15 » by **Thunder Muscle** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 12:51 pm

I just hope it concludes without a major incident. There seems to be a ton of security concerns.

FireStreetlifeNow · Post #16 » by **FireStreetlifeNow** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 3:15 pm

paul wrote:I f'ing love the Winter Olympics, well everything except the figure skating

Can't wait.

Same here, I love it all but figure skating and some of the really long races. It's nice to have something to look forward to where I can cheer for someone to win for the next few weeks (and probably months since DVR everything).

Mags FTW · Post #17 » by **Mags FTW** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 3:17 pm

Thunder Muscle wrote:I just hope it concludes without a major incident. There seems to be a ton of security concerns.

My girlfriend works in PR, and went to the Vancouver games. I was very relieved when she told me her company wasn't sending her to Russia this time around. Part of it was money, and the other part was security concerns. She was kind of bummed at first, but as more and more reports come in like these of the shoddy living conditions she's glad she stayed home.
http://imgur.com/a/AN3gi#0

Thunder Muscle · Post #18 » by **Thunder Muscle** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 3:44 pm

Mags FTW wrote:
Thunder Muscle wrote:I just hope it concludes without a major incident. There seems to be a ton of security concerns.

My girlfriend works in PR, and went to the Vancouver games. I was very relieved when she told me her company wasn't sending her to Russia this time around. Part of it was money, and the other part was security concerns. She was kind of bummed at first, but as more and more reports come in like these of the shoddy living conditions she's glad she stayed home.
http://imgur.com/a/AN3gi#0

Yeah I don't blame you. I see Budweiser pulled all of their plans to go there.

JayMKE · Post #19 » by **JayMKE** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 3:49 pm

I feel like a lot of these concerns are being played up for political reasons and that there is an active effort to sabotage the Sochi Olympics for Russia. I was watching the local news last night and they had a reporter over in Sochi and they asked her about all these horror stories and she didn't experience any of them. Said the security was actually fairly lax, compared it to the TSA which I had snort at.

PkrsBcksGphsMqt · Post #20 » by **PkrsBcksGphsMqt** » Thu Feb 6, 2014 3:51 pm

Between not being ready to host the games and the fact that there are very, very few tourists going to the games, this is going to be a massive embarrassment for Russia and more specifically Putin. Should be entertaining to see how he tries to spin this.