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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 10:49 am
Hmm found the rest of last night's pundits and one is saying that Michelle actually didn't get to go to Lilliehammer (she was waiting in Oslo) because Tonya Harding had threatened to sue. I didn't remember that part of that mess. == So yes, it wasn't Nancy Kerrigan who kept Michelle from competing in 1994 in Lillehammer, it was Tonya Harding in some ways, competing. Found this: For better or worse, the Lillehammer games may be best evoked in most people's memories by two names. Tonya and Nancy. It was an ugly attack before the U.S. Figure Skating Championships on skater Nancy Kerrigan by cohorts of teammate and rival Tonya Harding that set up the most anticipated moment of the Games. Harding's goons were arrested following the Kerrigan clubbing and charged in a plot to improve Harding's chances of medaling by removing Kerrigan from competition. The plan failed and Kerrigan did compete, finishing with the silver medal. She actually tied 16-year-old Ukrainian orphan Oksana Baiul but missed the gold on the artistic merit tiebreaker. Harding, who had to threaten a lawsuit to avoid being barred from the Games by the USOC, ended up in eighth. The broadcast of the women's skating final was the sixth highest-rated program of any sort in U.S. television history.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 10:53 am
Hey, I'd watch Canadian coverage if it was offered here!! I remember one Olympics, probaly 1998, when there were pay packages offered on Cable where people could get fabulous coverage (or so I envisioned) of all coverage of chosen sports. A co-worker subscribed, but I didn't even HAVE cable then.. made me crazy. And since I've had cable, never had that sort of opportunity)
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 10:55 am
I don't know if you are all aware that this thread is a SUBFOLDER under the folder Winter Olympics. If you go to the top of the page and click on winter Olympics in the title, you will be taken to that folder and see the other subfolders that also exist - eg the spoiler thread, the figure skating thread, the curling thread , the LINKS thread etc. I have also started a links to Olympic internet sites that are helpful thread- eg TV schedules and medal standing etc. Feel free to add any links you feel the rest of us would love ETA: CURLING starts tomorrow. I started a thread devoted to this great sport and you can find it RIGHT HERE
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Halfunit
Moderator
09-02-2001
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 12:35 pm
YAY for Emily Hughes!!!!!!!!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 2:06 pm
OH yeah! I hope they are figuring a way to get out of NYC and fly there asap, but once she arrives I hope she has the time of her life and also the skate of her life. People will now turn to Sasha Cohen to carry the torch for the team and Emily isn't expected to medal, so it would be awfuly fun for her to pull it off. But simply the experience for her, priceless. And the closing ceremony is sure to be fantastic.
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Hukdonreality
Member
09-29-2003
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 4:10 pm
I haven't read through this thread, but I'm wondering if anyone else here thinks that Jim Lampley looks like he either has a hangover or he's aged horribly? Oh, by the way, they just announced that VP Dick Chaney apparently accidentally shot a member of a hunting party he was with this weekend. The friend is in the hospital and expected to recover.
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Twinkie
Member
09-24-2002
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 4:18 pm
I feel so bad for Michelle. She has worked so hard for so long and been plagued with injuries in the last couple of years. Poor baby. But I'm glad that Emily gets to go participate now.
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 6:07 pm
Just saw an interview with Emily and she's so excited! They have been working on adding to her difficulty. She says no way to leave today but they hadn't planned on that, so in the next couple of days...
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 7:14 pm
They're showing snowboarding on the coverage now..... Is it just me, or do the uniforms worn by the USA team (snowboarding) look like pajamas? 
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 7:24 pm
Hughes is getting her chance, and will in all likelihood get it again (unless she quits skating like her sister). I am not in the least bit sorry Michelle went to Turino. She felt she could compete, and she has certainly earned her place as others have mentioned above. Hughes missed the opening ceremony. As Michelle learned, four hours sitting in the cold, are not good for the athletic body. I am deeply saddened that Michelle will not get one last chance to get that Gold medal. Thank you Michelle for all the joy you have brought us over the years.
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 7:28 pm
OK, heres a few pics of the snowboarding team (half-pipe) to show you what I mean..... Caution...if it hasn't aired in your area, the captions on photos 2-4 contain spoilers on the results of the competition. PIC 1 PIC 2 PIC 3 PIC 4 They still look like jammies to me! LOL!
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Mamapors
Member
07-29-2004
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 7:30 pm
They look like PJammies to me too!!!
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 8:08 pm
I have always liked Michelle. She graciously backed out. I think she should be very proud of her outstanding career. She may not have gotten the gold medal, but she has accomplished more than many athletes in this world! Crossing my fingers for Emily. (She has the same name as my dd)
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Marysafan
Member
08-07-2000
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 9:28 pm
Not only do they look like pajamas, they look like their dad's pajamas.
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Kinetic
Member
12-05-2005
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 9:29 pm
Canada's women hockey team is kicking some a**** 12-0 and 16-0 over Russia and Italia
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Sunday, February 12, 2006 - 11:15 pm
WOW love watching the downhill skiers! It is unfortunate that 1/10th of a second can blow you out of the medals. IT just seems too flukey. Like they ALL are equal athletes and a few just luck into a good tailwind and NO ruts in the snow. ************ Luge scares me. you couldnt get me on one of those little skeleton/luge thingies whipping down the ice at 118 kilos an hour LOL That is like 90 MPH!! ************ I remember that they were predicting many Canadian Medals this Olympics. It is sad that many of our athletes arent making it to the medal rounds SIGH!
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Goddessatlaw
Member
07-19-2002
| Monday, February 13, 2006 - 8:19 am
Hee-larious interview with White winning the Gold Medal in Halfpipe and Propositioning Sasha Cohen This kid is kewt. I wish I'd actually seen his win.
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Monday, February 13, 2006 - 8:34 am
TURIN, Italy -- Michelle Kwan's 12-year Olympic odyssey ended early Sunday morning, about 2:15 a.m. Turin time, when the USOC's Dr. Jim Moeller determined she had re-injured her right groin during her first practice in Italy, less than twelve hours after she had marched in Opening Ceremonies. Within minutes Kwan made the difficult decision to take herself off the team. The five-time world champion and nine-time U.S. champion will be replaced by 17-year-old Emily Hughes, who was eating a Sarah Gold sushi roll at a Japanese restaurant when she got the news from USFSA executive director David Raith. Grounded by the blizzard that has blanketed the East Coast, it's unclear when Hughes will be able to get to Turin, though she promises it will be before the ladies competition begins nine days from now, on Feb. 21. The development is a sad ending to the 25-year-old Kwan's otherwise brilliant career. The one medal she'd never won was Olympic gold, having captured silver in 1998 and bronze in 2002. (In 1994 she was in Lillehammer as an alternate, waiting to see if the USOC would be successful in removing Tonya Harding from the Olympic team.) She's been gracious both in victory and defeat. She's been a great role model to younger skaters and an inspiration to her countless fans. Still, the question remains: Should Kwan's petition for an Olympic spot have been granted by the USFSA in the first place after she'd missed the entire Grand Prix season in the fall with a hip injury and the U.S. Nationals in January with the groin injury? Clearly not. Strained groins -- right hip adductor was the exact term used by Dr. Moeller -- are notoriously slow to heal and easily re-injured, which is exactly what happened to Kwan when she attempted a triple flip 15 minutes into her first Turin practice. While the late addition of Hughes -- who finished third at Nationals but was bumped to make room for Kwan -- might be viewed as a wrong righted, it is still a wrong and reflects badly on the USFSA and its petition process. Hughes has been given short shrift in what should have been the experience of a lifetime, missing the thrill of marching in Opening Ceremonies, of being able to spend the entire three weeks in the Olympic Village, of having the free time to see other Olympic events. Now she has to contend with hurried travel plans and a late adjustment to jet lag. Skaters do best when they're calm and relaxed, and whatever Hughes' Olympic experience might prove to be, it definitely won't be one that's relaxed. In granting Kwan's petition the USFSA forgot its most fundamental charge: To promote fair competition and to treat all its athletes equally. Only when that is done should it, or any organization, worry about bringing home Olympic medals for the good ol' USA -- which was its justification for adding Kwan over the inexperienced Hughes. What can only be guessed at is to what degree USFSA officials were influenced by the ratings boost Kwan's appearance would have given NBC's Olympic coverage. Or to what degree Kwan's lucrative endorsement deals with Coca-Cola and Visa played into their thinking. By withdrawing early -- as she'd promised to do when Kwan was originally granted her petition -- Kwan made the best of a bad situation. As usual, she handled herself with class. "I respect the Olympics too much to compete when I'm not at my best," she said. But the fact is Kwan shouldn't have been here at all. sports illustrated
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, February 13, 2006 - 11:28 am
Have you guys been watching the luge on CBC (maybe the American stations). The track is so bad, that MANY of the better athletes have been crashing, and one American was taken off the course in an ambulance, unclear if she was even conscious. Keep an eye out for this....
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Maris
Member
03-28-2002
| Monday, February 13, 2006 - 11:43 am
seems like this year they are plagued with injuries and crashes more than in other years. The woman skier who crashed and went to the hospital was something like the third crash of the day.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Monday, February 13, 2006 - 12:22 pm
Yup. One of our skiers, Alison Kraus (?) tore her ACL and will not even be able to step back on the ski hill for at least another 8 months. Will be coming back to Canada for surgery. It sucks that they have courses that have not been set up well. When these elite athletes consistently cannot handle the luge course, there is a problem! All these athletes are sort of being put in danger. The men seemed to do fine on the skiing, but looks like the women's course is not doing well. I wonder if it's on the upper part of the course where it differs from the men, that these women are getting hurt. Oh, as for Michelle Kwan, I don't think she should have been able to take someone else's spot away for the Olympics. She has totally jerked that person around. You need to be able to smoothly mentally prepare for these games. The roller coaster ride that Kwan put the other girl on, is not right.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Monday, February 13, 2006 - 3:28 pm
They are calling today crash Monday on the CBC Olympic coverage. So far I have only seen the Chinese pairs who had that awful fall and then incredibly got back up and skated!!!!!!! That was gutzy!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was so sure she had blown her knee out!
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Monday, February 13, 2006 - 4:26 pm
Chaplin, 3 Downhill skaters took bad falls in training runs including the USA medal fav and a Canadian who is injured and out of the games now. On the luge, at least 3 females had crashes and the American crash was spectacular. She was knocked unconscious and dragged down the track. In Speedskating they had one pair where both skaters fell and they said that was the first time that had happened.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Monday, February 13, 2006 - 6:04 pm
Downhill skaters???? LOL! I guess you mean Downhill skiers!!!!!!!! Well when I got home from work at 3 PM today all they were showing was the skating mainly so I had only seen that. Since then I have been watching all the other crashes.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Monday, February 13, 2006 - 6:27 pm
It's Friday the 13th alright.
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