Olympic Winter Games thread !

[Gollevainen]

What do you mean by unable to participate by their team ?? Normally, there's a olympic break during which the NHL havn't schedule any match... That's why Team Canada and Team USA are only composed NHL players... Seriously,not to bash on you but Finland don't have some big star... Most of the Finish good player are injured like Joni Pitkanen (D), Mika Kiprusoff (G) and Sami Kapanen (F)

Thanks for correcting me, But they sure dont take that brake during the world championship games...and those are considerably bigger ice-hockey event in here, than the olympic turnament...And mostly we dont like that those 'stars' claim that they are injured and cannot participate in olympics, but still have played in their local teams, as they werent injured at all..

But still, we havent got in any case a winningteam here, but we see...

 

[drunkhomer]

yeah...those INJURED*** plyers...cough cough kipersoff
anyhoo..i think team canada by far has da nicest hockey jerseys dis olympic

 

[The_Zergling]

One thing I noticed about hockey is that it is a pretty diverse sport, which makes the Olympics interesting to watch since no one team has ALL the talent making it a pointless affair. You have players from Russia, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Germany, USA, Canada, etc as opposed to Basketball (for instance) in which nearly all the players are American...

I don't know who to root for (hockey) because I have so many favorite players on different teams...

I was surprised to learn that the World Championship is a bigger deal than the Olympics, though... but then again expecting the NHL to take time off every year to let players play in other tournaments would be unrealistic...

 

[swimmerXC]

Looks like we got a Bronze in speed skating

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:china:

 

[PiSigma]

hockey is such an canadian sport.. we have problems picking players for Team Canada not because we don't have enough good players like most other countries.. but because we have too many good players, and can't decide who should be on the team.

PiSigma's hockey prediction
women's hockey - Canada gold,
men's hockey - Canada gold,

 

[New2u]

Looks like we got a Bronze in speed skating

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:china:

we also got a silver and another bronze in Pairs Figure Skating:china: :china:

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[Mazepa]

12 years of waiting is at end!.. Sweden got 2 olympic goldmedals!!.. This calls for celebration this evening with a massive smörgåstårta.... Yahooo

 

[The_Zergling]

Canada's Women's Hockey team victory over Italy was just... embarassing...

They should've just stopped the game after a certain period and just play for fun afterwards...

 

[Gollevainen]

Hejaa Sverige!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But you took our gold right in front of us...we now have two bronzes and one silver...still missing the gold....

 

[tphuang]

Canada's Women's Hockey team victory over Italy was just... embarassing...

They should've just stopped the game after a certain period and just play for fun afterwards...

I don't even understand why such sports are in the games. (not counting men's version, just the women's version) If you add dumb sports like curling to it, it's pretty much in the game just for adding to canada's gold medal count. You might as well add shopping to the olympics, if they are so desperate to find events. They should eliminate it just like they are going to eliminate baseball from the olympics.