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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 4:13 pm
Get with the program, landilady!
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 4:45 pm
............................................ Yay! Seth Wescott just earned the first ever gold in a winter olympics for a Mainer! In fact, he's the first gold medalist in this new olympic sport. That snowboard cross(?), or whatever they call it, looks very exciting.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 5:50 pm
.............................................. Congratulations, Seth, Mak and Maine! I am not familiar with snowboard cross; must have missed that competition today. What do they do? It's a tough day for this rooting section today. Canada and Germany have been locking horns in speed skating and hockey today; and now I am watching the women's curling with Canada tackling Dordi Nordby, my favourite curler from Norway. Sometimes I wish for a second personality.LOL
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 6:10 pm
........................................ Lum, it's a crazy race on snowboards. They describe it like Nascar on snowboards. Four racers compete at the same time. There can be crashes. It's wild! I just heard on the local news that Seth's father coached Joan Benoit, the Maine girl who won the first Olympic women's marathon. Despite the craziness of the sport, Seth comes across as a very nice (and sane) person.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 9:01 pm
We won 4 medals today which I am thrilled about and one may go to a Silver in an appeal and if that does we will have also won the Bronze too in the event. Sandhu went down to 13th place!!!!!!! Now I really wish he would retire. Sunshyne4u it is a Salchow. Anyone see Jeffery Buttle's interview? Now that was a good interview compared with Sandhu!!!!!!!!
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 11:48 am
..................................... What a surprise. Women's Hockey. Sweden defeats the United States in a shoot-out. Score tied at 2-2 after overtime. Sweden scores on their last two shoot-out attempts 2-0 to move on to challenge for the Gold medal.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 11:50 am
Woooo hooooo!!!!!!
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 11:55 am
.................................. LOL Eeyore!!!! I was trying to be polite and not cheer too much. It should make things easier for our Canadian Women as long as they don't get distracted and over confident. The American's were very tough competition.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 12:01 pm
................................................. LOL Eeyore and Jimmer. The hooting and yelling was pretty loud around here, too. Poor dog is close to a nervous breakdown.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 12:13 pm
............................................... Skeleton gold and silver for Doug Gibson and Jeff Pain!!!!!!!
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 12:16 pm
.......................................... Wow! Are we ever having a good day! Did you see the way Jeff Pain came down - he was flying all over the place! And another Canadian (sorry can't remember the name) came in fourth so it was almost a medal sweep.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 12:17 pm
Are there more Canadians hanging out in here than Americans? I think the NBC coverage SUCKS! Poor Americans! They don't see any of this stuff live. Or at least not that I can see from the NBC channels I get.....
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 12:19 pm
..............................The fourth place guy was also Canadian. Would have been cool to have an all-Canadian podium.
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 12:21 pm
The NBC coverage is certainly different. They seem to think that if they don’t show it live during the day, they will get more viewers in the evening? Or maybe they are just saving money or don’t want to pre-empt their daytime schedule? I don’t love the CBC for everything but I love their Olympic coverage!
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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 12:36 pm
We do get some coverage during the day. CNBC or USA carry some around 11am during the week and NBC in the evening. On the weekends theres also another block around 2 or 3. I don't know if the daytime stuff is live. I don't turn the tv on during the daytime, habit of all those years working during the day. So all I'm watching is whats on in the evenings from 8-11:30, which last night was the mens figure skating, snowboarding, and I think mens moguls (that might have been Wed night though.
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Eeyoreslament
Member
07-20-2003
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 12:39 pm
I wonder if it is available to Americans, via a lesser channel, like CNBC. I know that my CNBC gets some kind of non-American programming. We never get repeats of the Apprentice, and foreign news shows usually run in its place. I think Olympic coverage was listed the other day on CNBC, but my CNBC had a show called Squawk Box. Oh well. I love the CBC Olympic coverage, and I am SO HAPPY that TSH was brought in for the curling coverage. It's be wreaking havoc on my sleep schedule, with games starting at midnight(PST) and going all night. LOL. University classes? Bah!!!
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 12:43 pm
I don't think the winter games have the following in the States that the summer games do. Canadians and Europeans are much bigger fans. I guess the advertisers see the soap opera audience as better customers.
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 1:54 pm
................................... Canada 2 Finland 0 after first period. I occasionally switch to the NBC coverage in the evenings – it gives you a different perspective.
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 2:08 pm
Well, we Americans are getting a lot of stuff in the middle of the night, that is if you are on the west coast. I have been watching the curling, I find it fascinating but it comes on somewhere between 2 am and 5 am!!! I know that we have one channel, I think it is cnbc or msnbc that is showing hockey almost exclusively. I don't watch hockey, but have noticed that there seem to be a lot of games. I wish I could get other coverage, I don't think our network shows all the stuff, they think we are only interested in the Americans!! I like seeing everyone, LOL. Congrats Canada!! Lots of medals today.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 2:23 pm
Mee, too, Jimmer. I checked out what the NBC crew had to say about the men's skating. Had to laugh when Peggy Fleming said she'd like to throttle Can'tDo for not focusing on the incredible talent he has been given soon after I posted my frustration with him here.LOL Obviously his lackluster training regimen is talked about in international skating circles, too. Mind you, I couldn't care less if he chose not to take skating seriously. Just don't expect so many ppl to support you with coaching, financially etc. Go ahead and do your thing and make all those resources available to someone else instead. There are plenty of skater hungry for titles, but struggling because there is only so much money around. Has anyone heard any attendance numbers for Turin? It looks to me like there often are oodles of empty seats.
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 2:30 pm
I usually find that the American commentators are quite supportive of Canadian athletes. Sometimes we tend to be harder on ourselves than others are. LOL about Peggy Fleming’s comments. I’d even describe her comments as supportive in the sense that she was clearly disappointed that he didn’t give a better performance.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 2:42 pm
I watch as much of the CBC coverage as I can during the day. It is, IMO, far better coverage than NBC's. The mens' figure skating final was disappointing to me. There was no one skater that really Wowed me. I miss the previous generation of skaters. Dh pointed out that he thinks the new scoring system has impacted the programs in a negative way. Last night, my favorite performance was Buttle's. Besides doing some great technical things, he looked like he was having fun!
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 3:46 pm
did you see his interview, Mak? He did not expect to win a medal (indeed was shocked when he did as he just assumed he would be bumped back into 5th or 6th place by the guys that followed him ). He said that , in the short he was skating for a medal but in the long he was just skating for himself and that made all the difference to him!!! PS thanks Dipo for the congrats ( and YAY today we got three more!)and yep, Wargod, I have seen on the internet that the USA has lots more coverage than just NBC - there is CNBC, USA and MSNBC as well . I understand , with all the cable carries, there will be well over 400 hours of coverage in the USA. But unfortuantely , in Canada, we can't get the cable coverage, only the netork NBC stuff. I really like the Candian coverage but I also like to watch the American coverage to get their perspective as well, especially with teh figure skating.
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Mak1
Member
08-12-2002
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 4:05 pm
No, I didn't see the interview, Jan. When he skated out on the ice, I said to dh that he certainly looked to be in the right frame of mind to do a great program. He looked so relaxed and just happy to be there. In contrast, USA's Weir skated out with his head down, serious expression, looking ill to me, and didn't show the exuberance he had in the short program. Even his teammate Lysacek beat him, after being treated all day with IV hydration. I was happy to see your boy win the medal. Don't you have to laugh sometimes at Dick Button's snippy commentary during the figure skating? I know he's a medal holder, but sheesh, he says such mean things sometimes! The other commentators can get the same points across without the nastiness.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Friday, February 17, 2006 - 4:22 pm
too true, Mak - but I have to admit that last night I loved him as he had only excessive praise to say about all things CANUCK!!!!
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