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(Message started by: sandie99 on Feb 11^th, 2006, 10:36am)

Title: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by sandie99 on Feb 11^th, 2006, 10:36am

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... ;;D 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... ;;D
Not sure about that. I'll be watching ice hockey and figure skating for sure.

Enjoy the Olympics, everybody! :)

Sanna

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by marlinsfan on Feb 11^th, 2006, 6:58pm

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......

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by sandie99 on Feb 12^th, 2006, 10:25am

on 02/11/06 at 18:58:45, marlinsfan wrote:

The flying finns should do well! Good luck!

Thanks. I sure hope that they'll do well. :)

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by Lizzie2 on Feb 12^th, 2006, 11:04am

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!!

Carrie :)

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by Jonny on Feb 12^th, 2006, 11:09am

United States Jay Hakkinen shoots during the Men's 20 Km Biathlon race.http://www.azcentral.com/sshow/Sports/Other/3485_55332.jpg

Steven Nyman of the United States speeds past a gate during training for the Men's Downhill.http://www.azcentral.com/sshow/Sports/Other/3485_55319.jpg

Chad Hedrick of the United States celebrates after his gold medal winning race during the men's 5000 meter speedskating.http://www.azcentral.com/sshow/Sports/Other/3485_55329.jpg

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by chewy on Feb 12^th, 2006, 11:31am

U.S Mens team "Chewy" celebrates after winninmg the 2 yard sofa dash. No medal. Bucket of chicken.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v388/bgull2/dash.jpg

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by Charlie on Feb 12^th, 2006, 5:11pm

http://www.netsync.net/users/charlies/gifs/skiing.gif

I spent most of my time with the skiing events and skating. In my town, skating is a religion.

Charlie

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by Jonny on Feb 12^th, 2006, 7:20pm

Is curling really a sport?

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by Mr. Happy on Feb 12^th, 2006, 7:30pm

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.
Two words:

Kari Traa.
RJ

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by Kevin_M on Feb 12^th, 2006, 8:12pm

on 02/12/06 at 19:20:55, Jonny wrote:

Is curling really a sport?

Woman's Canadian curling team. Lots of close-ups. That's a sport. :)

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by Dragnlance on Feb 12^th, 2006, 8:25pm

Missed openers, but watching skijumping as I write this. Gotta love a laptop. ;;D

Dragn

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by Charlie on Feb 13^th, 2006, 12:11am

I like curling. I lived next to the real yuppie Utica Curling Club. Buncha snobs though

Charlie

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by sandie99 on Feb 13^th, 2006, 1:51am

Yahoo! We've got silver and pronze yesterday!!! ;;D

Charlie, some think of ice hockey bit of a religion in here... ;) We take it VERY seriously. ;;D

Sanna

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by marlinsfan on Feb 13^th, 2006, 8:54am

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).

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by Kevin_M on Feb 14^th, 2006, 5:14pm

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

Title: Re: Who watched Turin Opening Cermony?
Post by Lizzie2 on Feb 14^th, 2006, 5:18pm

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! :)