MrBigTime Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 Can anyone find the bobsled crash video?? They left the luge crash up there for days, but can only find pics of the bobsled and post interview where those juiced up guys feel no pain for screwing 4 years of training, get pissed!!!CTV Olympic website is damn messy and full of dead links IMO.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 Ski Cross is hellafun to watch ... as is short-track Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted February 21, 2010 Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 Ski Cross is hellafun to watch ... as is short-track and frustrating as fuck too There go a couple of more medals ... [color:purple]which podium do we own again?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badams Posted February 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 Here is a snap shot of Canada's Olympics so far...Ski Cross Final - 4 competitors including 1 Canadian. Canadian falls and finishes 4th.Short Track Speed Skating 1000M - 5 competitors including 2 Canadians. Canadians finish 4th and 5th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badams Posted February 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2010 I don't really blame the athletes. They are out there competing while I sit back, have a beer and complain. I do think the COC was idiotic with the whole "Own the Podium" and ridiculous medal predictions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wooly Mammoth Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 Here is a snap shot of Canada's Olympics so far...Ski Cross Final - 4 competitors including 1 Canadian. Canadian falls and finishes 4th.Short Track Speed Skating 1000M - 5 competitors including 2 Canadians. Canadians finish 4th and 5th.both of those were brutal to watch. it's like we're fucking jinxed. and in five years of training why did the Hamelin brothers not know that they shouldn't go all out from the start? (which is easy to say from my chair.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted February 22, 2010 Report Share Posted February 22, 2010 While I found the 4th in Ski Cross frustrating, it was also a bit refreshing to see a Canadian athlete have a bronze locked up and bail because he was passionate and going for the gold in cutting that last turn too close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wooly Mammoth Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 While I found the 4th in Ski Cross frustrating, it was also a bit refreshing to see a Canadian athlete have a bronze locked up and bail because he was passionate and going for the gold in cutting that last turn too close. that was probably the American in him dude was born and raised in the U.S. and is a dual citizen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted February 23, 2010 Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 (edited) CONGRATS! They were pretty f'in awesome ... and super classy individuals too. Happy for all Canadians successes, but there's something about these two, and Jon Montgomery, that make me extra proud and honoured to be a Canadian. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWgZkUcC9hM Edited February 23, 2010 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badams Posted February 23, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2010 Gold #6Womans SkiCross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 she's smokin hot too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Ashleigh McIvor: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wooly Mammoth Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 and very sweet and unassuming based on yesterday's interview with Brian Williams. I expect to be seeing a lot more of her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 and very sweet and unassuming based on yesterday's interview with Brian Williams. I thought the same thing till I saw these pictures.... She knows shes hot- but she plays coy and innocent very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Wednesday, February 24, 2010We're no longer used to losingYoung Canadians believe they are capable of moreDave Bidini, National Post Gary Hershorn, Reuters Losing is less complicated than winning, as failure is a lot easier than success. With winning comes greater expectations, while losing exists in a vacuum. For what seems like forever, Canadians were used to losing, but the expectations of 2010 have forced us to looked beyond. Whether this is entirely a good thing is another matter.In yesterday's Globe and Mail, Ian Brown wrote of the redundancy of the medal count, and how strong medal showings suffer because of our country's new lust for winning. He's right, of course, but the argument clouds reality. While people who remember the sweet singular triumphs of Kathy Kreiner or Gaetan Boucher understand that a small victory can be as nation-defining as Own the Podium excess, it's also the cry of an older generation.Young Canadians believe they are capable of more. Part of their job description is to reveal how inadequate their moms and dads were, and how cowering before the world is simply not an option. This was apparent in the sea of youth that coursed through Vancouver's streets, singing O Canada, waving their maple leaf mittens and, generally, not taking crap from anyone, at least not on their turf. They were good hosts. Still, there was no doubting which country they supported or who the hosts were.If this new sensibility was not easily revealed over the first week of competition, you could see it in parts of the Cultural Olympiad, especially at the Constantines' blistering show at Ontario Pavilion or at the Hal Wilner/Broken Social Scene Neil Young Tribute at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Even though these sorts of events often suffer from a Church-of-Hero preciousness -- a true Neil Young tribute, it says here, should consist of a bar band kicking their amplifiers down a set of stairs -- that the accomplished Wilnerites were drawn to BSS's reputation shows you how far a lot of new Canadian musicians have come, and how fearless they are.After the first evening -- there were two performances in total -- both Lou Reed and Elvis Costello pulled Metric's Emily Haines aside to tell her, in Jason Collett's words, that "when you sing, the light shines on you." In the past, this would have been treated the way Ms. Kreiner's gold medal run would have -- a rare and exceptional moment, a small triumph for an entire music scene. But, in the end, it wasn't really news. Emily Haines's gift didn't need confirming from two legendary figures, because these days Canadian bands are supposed to be great. The idea of success is different for these players than it was for me. And the music, I think, will be stronger -- or at least should be stronger --because of it.A few nights later it was the athletes' turn to sound the drum. I'd returned to Toronto after eight days in Vancouver -- scowling at the blizzard that was about to hit Southern Ontario -- and ended up watching Virtue-Moir's ice dancing long program from my couch, curled up with my nine-year-old daughter, gloriously awake past her bedtime.As a kid, I'd been allowed to stay up, too, but mostly for hockey games, because, really, hockey was the only thing that Canada had any chance of winning. Awaiting the skaters' routine, we shivered nervously, wondering whether the two young athletes -- 20 and 22, respectively, easily the greenest competitors in the field -- would rise to the challenge or fall prey to the pressures of the moment, as so many other Canadian athletes had in the past.We all know what happened. It was an athletic triumph unlike any other: two Canadian kids, filled with promise and expectation, performing the most accomplished routine of their lives at the most important time of their lives. The moment was different for my daughter than it was for me, because it symbolized her generation's identity and attitude as a Canadian. The skaters were closer to her age than mine, and she'll grow up in a time when our athletes will succeed more often than they fail.This sense of achievement may not be something that everyone can get behind -- it plays into the government's results-driven agenda and might shift the landscape of the country into something many of us will find dissatisfying -- but it's not going away. Some will not know how to navigate this new place. But I'm willing to let the kids show us how.© 2010 The National Post Company. All rights reserved. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badams Posted February 24, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Clara Hughes Bronze in the woman's 5000m.What a career...2 Bronze in Cycling 19961 Bronze 5000m Speed Skating 20021 Gold 5000m Speed Skating and 1 Silver Speed Skating Relay 20061 Bronze 5000m Speed Skating 2010She still has the relay to go this year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 Silver and Gold in Womens Bobsleigh!!Good day for Canada on the podium.....:chug: again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 Wonderful Women's Wednesday Women's Bobsled = GOLD and SILVER Women's 3000m Speed Skating Relay = SILVER Woman's 5000m Speed Skating = BRONZE Canadian women ROCK ! GO CANADA GO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 What a day!!! Our athletes kicked some serious ass yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 13 Eme Rue - Biathlon from Spy Films on Vimeo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badams Posted February 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 Canada now has 12 Gold Medals in 2010. We are one Gold away from tieing the record for one Winter Olympics which is 13.We still have Mens Curling and Hockey to go.Canada may not have won the most medals but this was one hell of a fantastic showing for our Country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted February 27, 2010 Report Share Posted February 27, 2010 and bobsled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Wish Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 What a day!!! Our athletes kicked some serious ass yesterday. And today too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted February 28, 2010 Report Share Posted February 28, 2010 Great day for the Canadian Olympic team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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