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Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« on: Feb 11th, 2006, 10:36am » |
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I sure did. I always do. I have lots of nice memories of the Olympic Opening Ceremonies, we used to watch them together as a family. 
And naturally our hopes are high...  Let's just see that how many medals Finland gets this time. There's a joke about us Finns and our sport craziness: if something is in Olympics, we'll watch it...
Not sure about that. I'll be watching ice hockey and figure skating for sure.
Enjoy the Olympics, everybody!
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #1 on: Feb 11th, 2006, 6:58pm » |
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I did!! I love the winter games!! I used to ski race competitively in college (slalom & giant slalom), was pretty good to, but as my wife says, the older I get, the faster I was..... Probably true. 
I loved the ceremony. 1980s music mostly, and lots of smiling people! Today I watched some races, the nordic combined. Tonight I'm going to tape the women's moguls and watch tomorrow morning as it's supposed to rain! I have all the alpine & freestyle skiing dates & times in my palm pilot, and got my TIVO programmed!
The flying finns should do well! Good luck! Only 1 venezuelan in the games, some 52 year old guy that lives in Idaho and races luge......
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #2 on: Feb 12th, 2006, 10:25am » |
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on Feb 11th, 2006, 6:58pm, marlinsfan wrote:| The flying finns should do well! Good luck! |
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Thanks. I sure hope that they'll do well.
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #3 on: Feb 12th, 2006, 11:04am » |
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I watched it, too! And also watched the games all day yesterday on tv. I enjoyed the pairs skating the most, but then...I'm biased....  Skating is SO awesome!!!
Do you know the name of the aria sung by Pavarotti at the opening ceremonies? I wanted to look for the translation because I remember it being a beautiful translation. It was also sung at the Pope's funeral, and at that time, they had the translation across the screen during the song. That song almost always makes me cry!!!
So I'll be watching it more as it's on today!! For the next two weeks, I'll be seeing rerun snatches on night shift breaks though...which isn't as fun, but it'll have to do!!
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #4 on: Feb 12th, 2006, 11:09am » |
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United States Jay Hakkinen shoots during the Men's 20 Km Biathlon race.
Steven Nyman of the United States speeds past a gate during training for the Men's Downhill.
Chad Hedrick of the United States celebrates after his gold medal winning race during the men's 5000 meter speedskating.
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #5 on: Feb 12th, 2006, 11:31am » |
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U.S Mens team "Chewy" celebrates after winninmg the 2 yard sofa dash. No medal. Bucket of chicken.
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #6 on: Feb 12th, 2006, 5:11pm » |
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I spent most of my time with the skiing events and skating. In my town, skating is a religion.
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #7 on: Feb 12th, 2006, 7:20pm » |
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Is curling really a sport?
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #8 on: Feb 12th, 2006, 7:30pm » |
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Dinna watch `em......hate fluff and pomp. Once the events cranked up, tho, the wimmen's Nordic teams began filling my four year anguished dirty dreams with devilsih beauty.
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #9 on: Feb 12th, 2006, 8:12pm » |
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on Feb 12th, 2006, 7:20pm, Jonny wrote:| Is curling really a sport? |
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Woman's Canadian curling team. Lots of close-ups. That's a sport.
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #10 on: Feb 12th, 2006, 8:25pm » |
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Missed openers, but watching skijumping as I write this. Gotta love a laptop.
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #11 on: Feb 13th, 2006, 12:11am » |
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I like curling. I lived next to the real yuppie Utica Curling Club. Buncha snobs though
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #12 on: Feb 13th, 2006, 1:51am » |
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Yahoo! We've got silver and pronze yesterday!!!
Charlie, some think of ice hockey bit of a religion in here... We take it VERY seriously.
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #13 on: Feb 13th, 2006, 8:54am » |
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Who watched the mens downhill yesterday!?! What a race! I can't believe Kjetl Andre Aamodt (spelling?) almost got a medal, he finished 4th. The guy is 34 or 35 years old, has 7 medals already. He's an old man by skiing standards, and yet he SMOKED down that hill and almost got one. and he kicked some serious butt of the supposed favorites. (no, I'm not norwegian). That first jump sent many flying, and we saw some unbelievable recoveries!!!
Wow!!
Another round of downhill tomorrow in the Men's Combined (downhill and slalom, times added, fastest combined time wins).
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #14 on: Feb 14th, 2006, 5:14pm » |
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This Friday (pretty sure), big semis which may bring two powerhouses head to head.
The women's hockey gold is going to be a rumbler. Canada today with a big blowout and the U.S. team scoring six straight.
Semis are: U.S. vs Sweden and Canada vs Finland
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Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
« Reply #15 on: Feb 14th, 2006, 5:18pm » |
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Men's Skating starts tonight....the women's skating starts on the 21st!!
Can't wait!!!! Too bad I have to work tonight...but maybe I'll see it on my break!
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