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Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 8:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cablejockey a private message Print Post    
When is mens figure skaing going to be broadcast? Do we have to wait until tonite?

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 8:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
I think so Cable. At the end of their broadcast last night (at least for the US) they said mens figure skating starts off prime time tonight.

Cablejockey
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12-27-2001

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 8:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Cablejockey a private message Print Post    
ok--thanks. Can;t wait.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
CBC is showing the men's short sometime between noon and 6 EST, probably early afternoon, considering they are 6 hours ahead over there.

Maris
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03-28-2002

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 10:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Maris a private message Print Post    
Cheek wins speedskating gold, donates bonus to charity
Posted: Tuesday Feb 14, 2006 12:20 AM

TURIN, Italy (AP) - Joey Cheek walked in with everyone expecting him to talk about winning an Olympic speedskating gold medal. Instead, he had something else on his mind.

The moderator immediately asked for questions. Cheek interrupted, explaining that he wanted to make a statement.

Did he ever.

The Olympic 500-meter champion declared that he was giving away his $25,000 U.S. Olympic Committee bonus for winning the event to help children in the war-torn region of Darfur in Sudan.

"I wanted to make it meaningful,'' he said. "It's empowering to think of someone else.''

Actually, Cheek came up with the idea long before he skated the two best races of his life Monday. His combined time was .65 seconds ahead of the silver medalist, Russia's Dmitry Dorofeyev - an amazing margin in a furious sprint usually decided by hundredths of a second. South Korea's Lee Kang Seok took the bronze.

"I've been plotting this a little bit in my head,'' the American said.

Cheek stopped by the athletes' village office of Johann Olav Koss' group, Right To Play, hours before his race to read up on the charity that helps impoverished children. Koss won three golds at the 1994 Lillehammer Games and inspired Cheek to take up speedskating.

"I thought maybe I could walk a little in his rather large shoes,'' said Cheek, who met with Koss a few days ago.

Cheek challenged his sponsors to match his donation. He plans to visit the Darfur region, where some 180,000 people have died and 2 million forced to flee in a bitter conflict, and see how his money is helping.

"I have been blessed with competing in the Olympics,'' said Cheek, who recalled something his mother Chris told her two sons: "Not to have good intentions, but to do good things.''

Before doing his best work off the ice, Cheek tore up the oval. He was the only skater to break 35 seconds - and he did it in both his races, giving him a combined time of 1 minute, 9.76 seconds.

"It's miraculous,'' he said. "I'm kind of shocked that I skated that fast.''

Cheek gave the United States its second speedskating gold medal of the Turin Games, adding to the one Chad Hedrick earned in the 5,000 on Saturday.

"That was awesome,'' teammate Casey FitzRandolph said. "He not only won, he blew everybody away.''

Cheek followed FitzRandolph as the second consecutive U.S. champion in the 500. FitzRandolph won four years ago, but this time he nearly fell in his first race and finished 12th.

The other Americans faltered, too. Tucker Fredricks was 25th and Kip Carpenter, the 2002 bronze medalist, was 26th.

By finishing his first race nearly a half-second ahead of everyone, Cheek left little suspense about the outcome.

"He's incredible,'' Carpenter said. "He's the only guy who brought his 'A' game to this competition.''

Cheek, a former inline skater from Greensboro, N.C., had greatly improved coming into the Olympics, winning his first major title at the world sprint championships last month.

"I knew I was in great shape, but there's so many amazing skaters here,'' he said. "I screwed up so many times over the years, but I've always tried to learn from what I did wrong.''

With a gold medal added to the bronze he won in the 1,000 four years ago, Cheek has done everything he ever wanted in speedskating. He'll retire at the end of the season and head to college, where he plans to study economics.

Maybe now Harvard will give him a second look. The Ivy League school turned down his application, but the 26-year-old Cheek was understanding.

"I've been out of school for 10 years,'' he said. "They're probably not sure I can still read and write.''

And don't be surprised to see Cheek's name on a political ballot down the road, either.

"He works harder than anyone,'' Fredricks said. "Everything he gets, he deserves

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Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 5:56 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
That is class!!!!!!! I used to love Koss too.

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 6:35 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
Amazing isn't it...that we have such a fine young man as this and we never heard one word about him...and all we heard was Bode Miller, Bode Miller, Bode Miller.

Today was a very difficult day for me. I come from an area of the country that was settled by a large majority of Finns. Growing up in my neck of the woods, if you were asked the question "Are you Bi-lingual?", it meant that you spoke Finnish and English.

So when these American commentators are reporting on events where the USA is playing Finland, and they continually slaughter the pronounciations of these names, it bugs me to death. Most people wouldn't notice, but for me it's like nails on blackboard. The names that they are messing up so terribly...are the names of my friends and classmates, my teachers, my neighbors, people that I know and care about.

Not only that, the Finnish language is a very musical language. It has a very definite cadence....almost like a waltz with the accent on the first sylable followed by two short beats. It pains me to hear this beautiful music reduced to sonic garbage.

Between the curling match this morning, and the hockey game this afternoon, I need something to sooth my frazzled nerves. It was just awful!

Most of you on the other hand...probably didn't notice thing! lol!

Jan
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 8:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
YOu are right, Mary. I am afraid I did not notice that. I guess we all notice that which affects us - for example I DID notice that US media often mentioned the TWO female skiers who fell on the downhill training run but isn't it good, they said, that neither was seriouly hurt!!! All the while, apparently unnoticed by American Media, there was a third woman skier who fell as well on the same training run. She was a Canadian medal hopeful who was badly hurt - torn ACL in her knee - has returned to Canada for operations and doesn't even know if she will be able to ski in 2010 in her hometown olympics!!!

I guess it just proves we each notice what affects our own lives :-( :-)

Rosie
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11-12-2003

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 11:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Rosie a private message Print Post    


Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 3:08 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
My favorite description of the Canadian top line of Simon Gagne, Joe Thorton, and Rick Nash..."Two Giants and a REALLY big guy."

WOW...the Candians sure had the Italians on size!

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 9:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
ROFLOL Marysafan!!!!!!!!!! Simon Gagne, Joe Thorton, and Rick Nash..."Two Giants and a REALLY big guy."

Jan
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08-01-2000

Friday, February 17, 2006 - 2:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
WOW I tended to agree with you guys on opening ceremony night when we were disappointed in the normally great Canadian suits (although I did somewhat like the hats I agreed that the team looked like snowmen - a disappointment to me since this is the first year we used HBC - hudson bay company- instead of Roots to design for our team)

but looks what is happening with those hats we gleefully disparaged :

Canada strikes gold with hats
Canadian jackets, scarves, gloves also flying off the shelves


TURIN, ITALY—Shear madness, it is. Eight years after that Roots newsboy hat became the fashion sensation of the Nagano Games, Canada has struck haberdashery gold again with the shearling trapper hats worn by our Olympians in the opening ceremonies.

They have — quite literally — flown off the shelves here.

At B.C. House — the rustic log cabin showcasing Vancouver 2010 and all things Canadian — the earflap hats can't be had, not for love nor euros, with pre-positioned warehouse stock already shipped in and sold out.

NBC wants to interview The Hat. Australian TV has asked if The Hat would be a guest in-studio.

<snip>

Canadian gear for sale at the HBC satellite store within B.C. House has been a magnet and a primary reason the queue for entry often stretches around the block with only a certain number of shoppers allowed inside at a time. The other night, it stayed open till midnight to accommodate eager patrons.

"We've replenished our stock twice already,'' said a frazzled Kristina Panko, a service manager for HBC in Sudbury brought to Turin to work the B.C. House branch. "The hat's so popular because it's such an obvious symbol of Canada. But even at home, when I called the other day, they told me the stores had sold out."

The trapper hat is the "it'' item of jock — and pseudo-jock — apparel in Turin.

"It's the trendy item of the Games,'<snip> also out of stock — not even halfway through these Winter Games — are the goofy but endearing snowboard-influenced braided toques, with the hanging braided tie-ups, sort of like Hasidic side curls.

Gone. Gone. Gone.

<snip>

At least as popular as the merchandise is the ceremonial-dress RCMP who's always on the premises as a promotional greeter and photo-op star.

"On weekends, I must get my picture taken with people maybe 2,000 times a day," said Constable Richard Couture, 44, who's with the RCMP detachment in Surrey, B.C. "Of course, they think that this is what we wear all the time and that we work on horseback."


Toronto Star


Here is the Hudson's bay designed hat (we did not use Roots this year)




Tishala
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08-01-2000

Friday, February 17, 2006 - 2:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tishala a private message Print Post    
They have — quite literally — flown off the shelves here.

"Quite literally"? Do they have propellers or wings I can't see? Or some other apparatus that makes them fly?

Gawd I hate when people use figurative language and say it's literal.

ok back into hiding. lol

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Friday, February 17, 2006 - 2:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Jan, sold out or not, I still think those HBC hats are butt ugly.
Carnival should be on soon in Europe; maybe ppl are buying for their costumes?

Marysafan
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08-07-2000

Friday, February 17, 2006 - 2:45 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Marysafan a private message Print Post    
One thing for sure...they look warm! If I lived in the north, I would wear one especially on a day like today!

Jan
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08-01-2000

Friday, February 17, 2006 - 3:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
we sure could use it here today since the wind chill was -30!! (which I think is about the same in F or C)

I suppose we should consider ourselves lucky since the wind chill in Saskatchewan is -50!!!!! On a day like today even PITA can't complain if you wear fur. It wouldn't be for cosmetics. IT would be to stay alive!

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Friday, February 17, 2006 - 5:15 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
I can't complain. It's 5 degrees Celsius here (41 degrees Fahrenheit). And sunny.

But even if it was a bazillion below, I still wouldn't wear that hat.


Tish - ITA. Literally.

Kinetic
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12-05-2005

Friday, February 17, 2006 - 9:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Kinetic a private message Print Post    
Over here in the province of Quebec, that kind of hat is very popular among teens and young adults this winter. Like you, I wouldn't wear it.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Saturday, February 18, 2006 - 7:44 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Eeyore, at a bazillion degrees (or even the -49 we had yesterday) I'd wear it no problem. At my age you go for comfort, butt ugly and all.LOL I just don't think it ever gets cold enough in western Europe to warrant that thing.
I loved the red paperboy hats of Nagano. Those were the best our team ever sported.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 7:56 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
The first major scandal of the Olympics has blown open this morrning and it involves the Austrian Ski team!!!!!!!!! They already showed the press conference this morning on the CBC.

Dipo
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04-23-2002

Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 4:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Dipo a private message Print Post    
So I am watching curling, I think it is a repeat of the US and Great Britain (Scots) and it is realy fun to listen to the Scots talking about their strategy!! I am loving listening to their accents!!

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 8:34 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
Here is an update on the Austrian Ski team scandal and it is bad.

Austrian coach banned from Olympics till 2010 seen in Torino and around Austrian Athletes then tries to evade Italian police near Austrian Border. At Salt Lake City they found blood doping equipment in a chalet used by Mayer and now they seem to have found more in the chalets outside the Athletes Village being used by the Austrian Nordic Ski Team!

Walter Mayer, the man whose appearance at the Torino Winter Olympic Games set off a raid by Italian police on the Austrian nordic ski team, has been taken into custody by Italian police after he allegedly took them on a chase through the mountains that ended with a crash into a police barrier.

Italian police took Mayer into protective custody after he allegedly tried to run a one-car road block while heading for the Austrian border.

Police earlier in the evening had approached a car in which a man was sleeping. The occupant, identified as Mayer by authorities, drove off, hitting and slightly injuring an officer, and authorities gave chase.

Mayer, himself, was reported to be slightly injured in the later incident, in which a car rammed an unoccupied police cruiser set up to block a road in the town of Paternion, in the province of Carinthia, about 24 kilometres from the Italian frontier, and 400 km from Turin.

He refused to take a sobriety test requested by the officers.

It was not known on Sunday evening if Mayer would face charges, or if a search was done of the vehicle. His license was provisionally suspended.

He was apparently returning to his home country, some hours after Italian authorities had launched their raid on the Austrian biathlon and cross-country team quarters, looking for banned substances and equipment.

Italian authorities said they had seized blood analysis equipment, as well as syringes, vials of distilled water, asthma medication and other substances, according to ANSA, the Italian news agency.

ANSA also reported that one athlete had thrown a bag out of a window of the residence during the raid that contained needles and medicines.

Mayer had been living in a house next door to the Austrian team's residence in the hamlet of San Sicario, said CBC News, on Sunday night. A BBC News report also said that Austrian officials had admitted Mayer was staying with the group.

Meanwhile, the Austrian Ski Federation said Sunday night it had ended its relationship with Mayer, giving the accident as the reason.

There was no indication as to why the Austrian federation had any kind of relationship in the first place with Mayer, who was on the the international ski federation's (FIS) banned list to 2015, and had been banned from the Torino and Vancouver 2010 Games by the IOC.

Jan
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08-01-2000

Monday, February 20, 2006 - 10:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
I also read that two Austrian Biathlon athletes have "disappeared" from the village , claiming they were afraid of the italian police. The two have been kicked off the Austrian team now.

I think it is really important to note that this scandal involves the biathlon athletes and possibly some cross country ski guys but has nothing to do with the downhill ski team or the ski jump team. They deserve any medals they may win as they were never under any suspicion!!

Landi
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07-29-2002

Monday, February 20, 2006 - 11:17 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
regarding the HBC hat that the canadians are wearing. all the kids down here think they're cool! everyone wants the trapper hats and the funky snowboard hats!

Jan
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08-01-2000

Monday, February 20, 2006 - 11:35 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
Yeah - me too Landi but I guess I am too old