OT: Winter Olympics

WEFFPIM · Post #181 » by **WEFFPIM** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 10:31 pm

Finn wrote:
WEFFPIM wrote:They'll finish in the top 3 of the medal count, but the hockey team, speedskating team, Shani Davis, Shaun White, Lindsey Vonn, Gracie Gold...all didn't come through.

Lindsey Vonn didn't compete.

Exactly

Finn · Post #182 » by **Finn** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 10:59 pm

Wut? She was injured & stayed in the U.S. Because of that she "didn't come through"?? Crazy.

WEFFPIM · Post #183 » by **WEFFPIM** » Sun Feb 23, 2014 11:31 pm

Arguably the biggest US name in the Winter Olympics and she can't even go. Of course you can put her in the mix of the overall failure that was Team USA in Sochi.

Finn · Post #184 » by **Finn** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 12:59 am

Nonsense.

Sherman Douglas · Post #185 » by **Sherman Douglas** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 1:28 am

WEFFPIM wrote:Arguably the biggest US name in the Winter Olympics and she can't even go. Of course you can put her in the mix of the overall failure that was Team USA in Sochi.

Ugh, god damn frail nature of the human body!

WEFFPIM · Post #186 » by **WEFFPIM** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 1:34 am

I'm not blaming Vonn for getting injured, and you'd be extremely foolish to believe that's the case. But she is one of the biggest names in US winter sport. And her not being a part of the Games at all is a HUGE disappointment for the US.

As it turned out, she was the first domino to fall in the failures that occurred by the biggest American names of these Games. If you can't understand that, I can't help ya.

Whiteman · Post #187 » by **Whiteman** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 1:05 pm

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.

*waves*

36 athletes competing, 24 medals won. Good times.

Finn · Post #188 » by **Finn** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 3:47 pm

WEFFPIM wrote:I'm not blaming Vonn for getting injured, and you'd be extremely foolish to believe that's the case. But she is one of the biggest names in US winter sport. And her not being a part of the Games at all is a HUGE disappointment for the US.

So is Bonnie Blair so I guess her lack of participation was also a HUGE disappointment. At least by your convoluted logic.

WEFFPIM · Post #189 » by **WEFFPIM** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 3:51 pm

Finn wrote:
WEFFPIM wrote:I'm not blaming Vonn for getting injured, and you'd be extremely foolish to believe that's the case. But she is one of the biggest names in US winter sport. And her not being a part of the Games at all is a HUGE disappointment for the US.

So is Bonnie Blair so I guess her lack of participation was also a HUGE disappointment. At least by your convoluted logic.

Uh what?

Finn · Post #190 » by **Finn** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 4:08 pm

Exactly.

WEFFPIM · Post #191 » by **WEFFPIM** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 6:27 pm

Finn wrote:Exactly.

You may continue to misconstrue my points all you'd like. You have my permission. I'm going to go shout from the rooftops how angry I am that US hockey decided to bring Ryan Miller instead of Jim Craig.

Carry on.

Post #192 » by **humanrefutation** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:12 pm

I watched 2 periods of the USA-Canada men's and women's matchups. I didn't watch anything else.

I didn't even realize it ended until I saw something referencing it this morning. This might've been the least interesting Olympics of my lifetime.

Finn · Post #193 » by **Finn** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:32 pm

WEFFPIM wrote:
Finn wrote:Exactly.

You may continue to misconstrue my points all you'd like. You have my permission. I'm going to go shout from the rooftops how angry I am that US hockey decided to bring Ryan Miller instead of Jim Craig.

Carry on.

Your point appears to be that someone who was injured & didn't travel to Sochi to compete in the Games somehow contributed to a poor showing by the U.S. Do I have that right? If not, please clarify.

Mags FTW · Post #194 » by **Mags FTW** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 7:55 pm

Having an Olympics on the other side of the globe really hurts interest here. Watching on a delay saps a lot of the drama out of it, and then you're at the mercy of NBC when they decide what to air in prime time. I expect ratings and interest to be better for Rio. It will be interesting to see if they air it live or do a 2 hour tape delay.

trwi7 · Post #195 » by **trwi7** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 8:05 pm

2018 and 2020 is going to suck even more with the time difference between here and South Korea and Japan.

WEFFPIM · Post #196 » by **WEFFPIM** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:24 pm

Finn wrote:Your point appears to be that someone who was injured & didn't travel to Sochi to compete in the Games somehow contributed to a poor showing by the U.S. Do I have that right? If not, please clarify.

The best athlete in her sport not being able to attend the biggest competition in her sport certainly contributes to a lesser showing by the team itself.

El Duderino · Post #197 » by **El Duderino** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:35 pm

Mags FTW wrote:Having an Olympics on the other side of the globe really hurts interest here. Watching on a delay saps a lot of the drama out of it, and then you're at the mercy of NBC when they decide what to air in prime time. I expect ratings and interest to be better for Rio. It will be interesting to see if they air it live or do a 2 hour tape delay.

I simply used the DVR to record whatever i wanted to watch without knowing ahead of time what the results were, especially the hockey games. Then i avoided things which would spoil knowing what happened.

I often do the same with other sporting events. Just record them and watch whenever i want, while also being able to zip right past all of the commercials.

tski1972 · Post #198 » by **tski1972** » Mon Feb 24, 2014 9:46 pm

forgive me if this has already been posted, but I haven't followed this thread at all and it keeps getting bumped. My thoughts on the Olympics....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GRfRh9kJzM&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]

paul · Post #199 » by **paul** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 12:27 am

trwi7 wrote:2018 and 2020 is going to suck even more with the time difference between here and South Korea and Japan.

Gonna be good for me though

Finn · Post #200 » by **Finn** » Tue Feb 25, 2014 2:21 am

WEFFPIM wrote:
Finn wrote:Your point appears to be that someone who was injured & didn't travel to Sochi to compete in the Games somehow contributed to a poor showing by the U.S. Do I have that right? If not, please clarify.

The best athlete in her sport not being able to attend the biggest competition in her sport certainly contributes to a lesser showing by the team itself.

You wrote "she didn't come through". You make it sound as though she wiped out in every event when she didn't have the opportunity to compete due to injury. I just think it's really an asinine comment.