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Archive through February 16, 2006

The TVClubHouse: General Discussion ARCHIVES: 2006 Mar. ~ 2006 May: Winter Olympics: 2006 Olympic Spoiler Thread: Archive through February 16, 2006 users admin

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Jan
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08-01-2000

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 3:40 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
ain't that the truth, Lumbele :-( he reminds me of Jose Chouinard

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 3:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Except that he ain't that cute, Jan.

Chaplin
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01-08-2006

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 5:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Chaplin a private message Print Post    
Sandhu has always been a skater that can't seem to come through when he is really needed and he still will not get over that he was not asked to the Olympics a few years ago like it was a rascist thing or something. His interview drove me nuts. I wanted to shout you did not make it because you do not perform that well when in International circles and you were too young back then!!!!!!!!!! I am wondering if he really ought to just retire. He is also consistantly injured when he is needed too. I think he may truly need a sports psychologist because he seems bitter and it can't help. I miss Elvis Stoijko!!!!!!!!

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 6:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Ditto, Chaplin. Elvis never made excuses for his flubs. He owned up to them. No sad childhood, no somebody done me wrong songs.
Grow up, Buddy or get out of the others' way. Did Sandhu keep up with his ballet? Maybe he could go back to that.

Jan
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08-01-2000

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 8:08 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
Maybe our next best hope is Jeffrey Buttle - he is young - maybe 2010??? Well I can hope anyway since he is from Sudbury where I live!!

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 - 8:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Yep, let's hope Buttle can nail the quad by then. He seems to have everything else down quite well; very musical. A little more maturity and he could put that wow-factor together.
I really liked the Yank, forgot his name, the bird guy.

Watching the men's doubles luge, quite a few wipe-outs here, too. This track is dangerous!

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 4:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
His interview drove me nuts

i agree Chaplin. I saw an hour long special on ICe Skating a while ago. In it His Coach was really interrogating him as to WHAT does he want to do??!!! Evidently he has been working as a model and the Skating is secondary.

That is why he is kind of distracted and inconsistant.

SIGH!! I hated watching him crap out completely on that SowKow (sp!) He didnt even TRY to do it. Just that faltering jump and one turn (no twists)

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No kidding Lumbele. I just saw a blurb on the Luge track. Evidently it was considered too dangerous to use and was shut down prior to the Olympics. It was supposed to be fixed and made safe...according to the interviewee I saw, many consider that the job wasnt done properly.


I have never seen so many people injured in variable sports in ANY other olympics!!

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I'd love to know the blood values of the people supposedly accused of Doping. IF a person has had a recent transfusion it is quite easy to tell.....by microscopic exam AND by chemical testing. I dont understand Why there is a question? Dehydration will affect the other blood chemistries....so It can be proven if that is the defence.


I cant believe that they have let them wait six days and now have cleared them. ANYONE can overdrink water to falsely lower their hemoglobin.

However, that can also be proven if a full blood test panel is done.

Sunshyne4u
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06-17-2003

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 4:55 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sunshyne4u a private message Print Post    
Even if you donate your own blood (have it frozen or stored ) then have it pumped back into your body...(autologous transfusion) it contains anticoagulants and other chemicals.

((we used to do autologous transfusions for surgeries))

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 11:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
....................................speed skating

well, the Canadian team pursuiters, women's and men's will collect silvers, not bad.
You gotta love those Italians celebrating their unexpected gold.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 12:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
....................... GOTTA LOVE THOSE ITALIANS!! YAHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Fratelli d'Italia
L'Italia s'è desta
Dell'elmo di Scipio
S'è cinta la testa.
Dove'è la Vittoria?.
Le porga la chioma;
Chè schiava di Roma
Iddio la creò.
Stringiamoci a coorte,
Siam pronti alla morte:
Italia chiamò!

Noi siamo da secoli
Calpesti e derisi,
Perchè non siam popolo,
Perchè siam divisi;
Raccolgaci un'unica
Bandiera, un speme;
Di fonderci insieme;
Già l'ora suonò.
Stringiamoci a coorte,
Siam pronti alla morte:
Italia chiamò!

Uniamoci, amiamoci;
L'unione e l'amore
Rivelano ai popoli
Le vie del Signore:
Giuriamo far libero
Il suolo natío;
Uniti per Dio
Chi vincer ci può?.
Stringiamoci a coorte,
Siam pronti alla morte:
Italia chiamò!

Dall'Alpi a Sicilia
Dovunque è Legnano
Ogni uom di Ferruccio:
Ha il cuor e la mano.
I bimbi d'Italia
Si chiamano Balilla:
Il suon d'ogni squilla
I vespri suonò.
Stringiamoci a coorte,
Siam pronti alla morte:
Italia chiamò!

Son giunchi che piegano
Le spade vendute:
Già l'Aquila d'Austria
Le penne ha perdute.
Il sangue d'Italia
E il sangue polacco
Bevè col Cosacco
Ma il cor le bruciò
Stringiamoci a coorte
Siam pronti alla morte:
Italia chiamò!


Jan
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08-01-2000

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 12:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
yeah Lumbele & Landi,it made the silver much easier to accept, didn't it - just watching the Italian men celebrate was so heart warming!!

ETA: A nice haul for Canada today - 2 silvers in speedskating, a bronze in skeleton and another possible (but not likely) speedskating bronze if a short track protest goes through.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 1:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Did that hockey announcer just say "Jeffrey Boodle", twice? He's not a skating fan, I gather.LMBO

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 1:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Jimmer, men's finals, Can'tDo up next.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 1:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Never mind.....................................it's too painful to watch.

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 2:03 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
.....................................
Wow ... I missed seeing him but I saw his score. He must have done pretty badly to say the least.

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 2:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
...............................................
Yeah, he really came unglued. Same o, same o.

Sawyer didn't do too badly for his first Olympics. I always liked Toller Cranston, but this kid still needs to do a lot of work to get there.

Landi
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07-29-2002

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 2:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
SILVER MEDAL?? i thought we got the gold!
viva gli uomini italiani mighty!

battiamo molto fortemente il tamburo grande!


Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 2:59 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
Who's "we" today, landi, U.S. or Italy?

The Italian men got the gold in team pursuit speed skating, Canada silver. Who got the bronze anyway?

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:23 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
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Well, I'll be darned, the kid pulled it off....Boodle got the bronze!!!!!!!!1

This competition wasn't exactly exciting. Way too many falls and goofs for the Olympics.

Jan
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08-01-2000

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:28 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
yay!!! that's 4 medals today for us!!!!!

Landi
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07-29-2002

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
lum, i'm speaking in italian, isn't that a giveaway???? as i said up above "viva the mighty italian men!" "we bang the drum loudly for them!"

Lumbele
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07-12-2002

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Lumbele a private message Print Post    
So, what made you think the Italians got silver, landi?

Yeah, Jan, you don't suppose they may actually reel in all those medals the bureaucrats are expecting of them, do ya?

Landi
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07-29-2002

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:39 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    

quote:

yeah Lumbele & Landi,it made the silver much easier to accept, didn't it - just watching the Italian men celebrate was so heart warming!!


that!

okay folks... this little italian/american is rooting for USA/Italy (i always do!) i still got family there! and turin is not that far from milan.


Jan
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08-01-2000

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 3:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jan a private message Print Post    
landi , I (and Lumbele too)am Canadian and I was talking about Canada getting the silver while Italy took the gold - the USA wasn't in it

Landi
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07-29-2002

Thursday, February 16, 2006 - 4:02 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Landi a private message Print Post    
so confusing have to speak in "spoiler-eze" that i got confused! and i hate being on pacific time so that i don't get to see anything good until too late!