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Wargod
Moderator
07-16-2001
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 1:32 am
Teach, I agree, they were both pretty sour. Someone asked Hendrick what he thought about the race, he said he was happy for Cheek. Why not put aside differences and say, congrats and good for Davis too? He skated a great race! In contrast, Joey Cheek earlier this week donated his $25,000 gold medal bonus to an organization to help children in Darfur (I believe the organization helps at risk kids by getting them involved in sports?) and has now donated his $15,000 silver medal bonus for the same cause. Several corporations have matched or added to his donation and have altogether donated $300,000, I think is what I heard. How cool is that? He's willing and able to use what he's gotten out of these Olympics to support a good cause.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 7:54 am
The first scandal of the Olympics has reared its ugly head that and it involves the Austrian Ski team. Watch the broadcast today. They already showed the press conference this morning on CBC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sunshyne4u
Member
06-17-2003
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 8:49 am
WOW considering the implications of doping and that man who is BANNED from SaltLake ...this sure puts a shadow on the Austrian team. Maybe I'm wrong in my opinion The first scandal was the people who were given suspensions due to their HIGH Hgb. levels. The second was that Russian skier who blew her drug tests and had to give the medal back. This "raid" on the Austrian team house sounds like it was for a legitimate reason. ***** I'm so disappointed. Slept for a few hours and got up to watch Women's Super G....which ended up cancelled!! Instead they are playing the Women's Curling. Canada against Italy. WHY do they YELL like that?? I seriously had to turn down my headphones as it is ridiculous!! After one blown shot the Canada girls are discussing the 'stone' stopping in the wrong spot. One lady says "I dont know why! I was yelling as hard as I can" ???????????? Is that why they yell like hogcallers? they think it helps the stone(rock) move?? Good lord! ROTFLMAO Its funny. I saw Curling called "Chess on Ice". It is nothing like Chess, it is just like crokonol a CHILD's game. Lots of fun- I used tp play it as a kid.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 9:00 am
As for the high Hemoglobin tests I believe all have been false positives due to the altitude in the Alps. They tested them 10 days ago and now they tested the athletes again and allowed them back in. .............................................. According to the CBC web site the Italian Police became involved with the raid on the Austrian Biathalon and Cross Country Team because of doping alledged by Canadian IOC Member Dick Pound. He thinks that the official banned after Salt Lake City was seen around the Athletes village and because he still works with the Austrian team although he was banned for 10 years they were suspicious. However, 10-12 athletes were tested and so far none have come out positive. Mind you they have only tested samples A for each one. They have yet to go to B. They had the conference this morning and they were not happy. Anyway the TV painted it all worse than the web site! So not sure what is going on now.
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Sunday, February 19, 2006 - 9:10 pm
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.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Monday, February 20, 2006 - 10:56 am
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. They deserve the golds they won today as they were never under any suspicion!!
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Monday, February 20, 2006 - 12:40 pm
.......................................... lots of disappointments for Canada today. The ice dancers had to pull out of the competion. they just handed in their papers. and in the Men's Aerials, where Canada has 4 of the the top 10 Aerialists in the world, 2 of them failed to qualify for the finals  and to add salt to the wound, in the Super G for women and the Giant Slalm for men, Canadian athletes came in that dreaded 4th position in each race!!
  Let's hope our women's hockey team and curling teams can come through ( as the men's curling team did)
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Monday, February 20, 2006 - 2:53 pm
......................... Congratulations, Canada, on the hockey gold.
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, February 20, 2006 - 2:55 pm
.................................. Yay!!!! That was a good game. Sweden should be proud as well. 
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Jimmer
Member
08-30-2000
| Monday, February 20, 2006 - 3:17 pm
.............................. I just wanted to add how impressed I am with the American woman and how classy they were at the medal ceremony. They could have easily been frustrated at not making the final and given up, but they kept at it and got the Bronze medal. They were smiling and happy and proud and I think that shows a great deal of class on their part.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Monday, February 20, 2006 - 4:14 pm
....................... ice dancing results spoiler russian gold /USA silver/ Ukranian bronze - top canadians forced to withdraw due to injuries
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, February 20, 2006 - 6:54 pm
.......................... I had the live results on my computer today, anxiously refreshing the results as they happened! I'm so happy for Ben and Tanith! Congrats on the Silver! Podium Pic
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Whoami
Member
08-03-2001
| Monday, February 20, 2006 - 7:07 pm
................................... Not sure if these next two podium pics will work. But I'll try.... Silver Medalists Ice Dance Podium
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Chaplin
Member
01-08-2006
| Monday, February 20, 2006 - 10:29 pm
Jan thanks for that disclaimer. That is true the downhillers have no connection to Mayer. Here is the latest on Mayer! They have Mayer in a Psychiactric ward now as they are afraid he will commit suicide and also when they took him into custody he apparently was quite psychotic. He had hit one of the Italian officer's with his car, it was not just an attempt. The officer will be okay, his leg was just badly bruised. Looks like he will be spending quite some time in Italy (unless they extradite him to Austria and try him there) in prison on drunk driving charges, assault on a police officer as well as possesion of drug and blood doping paraphanalia which was in his car.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 9:57 am
Yes Chaplin, I felt the disclaimer was necessary as Austria won, I think, three golds medals yesterday in downhill and ski jumping. While I couldn't spoil with the news, I wanted to make sure everyone knew they deserved them when NBC broadcast it!!! PS: All hail to Norway see my Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 5:56 am post HERE for an explanation as to why  
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 10:16 am
................... I just caught the tail end of men's 1500 speedskating event. I didn't see the race - I just saw them congratulating Italy for the Gold and the USA for the silver - and the silver went to Shani Davis not the other guy (can't remember his name. The one who thought he would get 5 medals and doesn't like Shani). Sorry - I don't know who got the bronze PS All hail to Norway
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Jenhavins
Member
08-23-2000
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 10:23 am
Jan, Chad Hedrick (the man you spoke of) got the Bronze.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 10:45 am
....................................... enrico fabris won the gold in the 1500! AWESOME JOB! i just love my italian boys! congratulazioni enrico!
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 10:58 am
................. thanks Jen - I can't help being glad that Shani beat Chad although I know nothing about either of them so I guess that is unfair Canada beat the Czech 3-2 in Hockey today( although I gather That the Canadians did not play well at all ) The commentators said it was not a well deserved win. All hail to Norway
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Kearie
Member
07-21-2005
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 10:59 am
I really dislike that Shani character. Not a good role model or a team player. I understand why hedrick has issues with him.
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Landi
Member
07-29-2002
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 11:05 am
i totally agree with you kearie. shani cares about shani. chad is much more personable, and he didn't want the "hope to tie eric heiden" thingie around his neck, but wanted to do his best for the USA.
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Jenhavins
Member
08-23-2000
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 11:33 am
After reading everything on the entire ChadShanigate, I tend to side with Shani. None of the US team are team players, and Chad has said some really nasty things. They asked Shani to skate the relay 10 days before, and he backed out 4 days before to give someone else the opportunity, and to concentrate on the event he was there for. He even said if they had asked him earlier instead of having short notice, he would have done the race. Now, Shani's mom might be bit on the nutty side, but after giving it a couple days, Eric Heiden's newest response (since he is now talking out of both sides of his mouth), post news interviews, I think Chad acted like a baby (and I really really wanted to like him, given he is from my home state). NBC focused on this Chad 5 gold win after the Ski Team started sucking wind. They built this entire drama around Chad and Shani, and Shani has been respectful in interviews about Chad. Chad... not so much. Example while on today's medal ceremony From the AP : The two aren't fond of each other and that was evident on the awards podium. Hedrick smiled and half-heartedly waved his bouquet. Davis raised both arms, smiled and waved to the crowd. Fabris jumped onto the top spot -- in the middle of the Americans -- and waved in all directions. After the bouquets were presented, Davis and Hedrick joined Fabris on the top spot. Davis tousled the Italian's hair and they talked to each other. Hedrick stared straight ahead. There was no traditional handshake between the medalists. And Eric Heiden's second take on things: Seems like he thinks Shani did the right thing. "Davis did the right thing by not skating in the pursuit. His goal was to skate the 1,000 and the 1,500. He was put in a unique position with team pursuit. It's a new race for the Olympics and the format was something that none of the teams were quite sure how to deal with. With four races over a two-day period, nobody knew how it was going to affect them in their later races. I talked with Germany's Anni Friesinger, who is one of the best in the world, and she told me that two days after she had skated three of the four pursuits she was still very tired. That may have cost her the gold medal Sunday in the 1,000, one of her best distances. She ended up third. Looking back, she may regret skating so much in pursuit. Another thing that people may be overlooking is that, in Salt Lake City, Davis was a member of the short-track team for a relay race, but didn't get to skate. So he's been in that situation before, where he didn't get to participate and he didn't want to do that to somebody here. It's tough to fault him for what he did. He may look selfish, but he was in that same position four years ago and didn't want anyone else to be in that position here." Mimicking Konamouse here. Squeak!
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 11:44 am
..................................................... Just listened to the Canada-Czechs hockey game, but from dh's grunts and grumbles I gather Canada got lucky with their win.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 11:45 am
Jimmer, ladies short is starting.
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Jan
Moderator
08-01-2000
| Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 12:05 pm
I hear that one of the members of the Canada 1 bobsled team is suffering from food poisoning (as are members from some of the other teams) I hope it doesn't hurt her chances today in the bobsled  ETA I just visited the BBC site which often has results before they are televised here in Canada. According to that site the USA won a silver in Boblsed - Canada won bupkus  "Germans Sandra Kiriasis and Anja Schneiderheinze took gold with a combined time of three minutes 49.98 seconds. They were 0.71 secs ahead of silver medallists Shauna Rohbock and Valerie Fleming of the United States, with Italians Gerda Weissensteiner and Jennifer Isacco in third. Which pushed Canada into 4th place. 4th place is becoming awfully familiar territory for our athletes  hopefully they can pull it up in 2010 all hail to Norway
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