[MtnGoat]

[Ed the Biped]

On a related note, this was in today's Onion: Olympic Committee Announces Judging Panels For Men's, Women's Ice Hockey LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND—The International Olympic Committee announced Monday that final selections had been made for the panels that will judge ice-hockey teams in seven different categories, including technical achievement, overall impression, and artistic interpretation, during competition at the 2006 Turin Olympics. "It is an honor to be chosen to help usher in this exciting new era of international hockey, which finally takes its place alongside all other skating-based sports in using a more enlightened scoring system," said former Russian national team goalie Vladislav Tretiak, who will grade teams in the men's hockey events on their offensive and defensive performance in the crease and behind the net. "I look forward to working with the other 11 men and women on the panel, and urge viewers at home to enjoy judging the games themselves and comparing their results to ours." The new system is intended to be more fan-friendly, more intuitive, and less absolute than the old system, in which winners of hockey games were chosen based on points scored.

[MtnGoat]

the 'lympics rock! watching womens downhill, man those ladies is flyin! sometimes i think yah, i could do that, but on my best day as a ski bum i probably did only a fraction of their speeds really, and in the few times i remember really, really smoking, being on the edge of an exhilirating mix of confidence and terror i can't imagine having to maintain faster for 3000' vertical

[mgd]

[mgd]

So who is the Olympic announcer guy who looks like Jack Lord from Hawaii 5-0? Same eyes, similar hair, same chin, and similar manerisms. Uncanny.

[Tom]

Mmm, I can't wait for the ice dancing competition. Tanith Belbin is going to melt a few hearts.

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[MtnGoat]

womens BXC was pretty cool, too bad the trick cost a gold! i can picture myself making the same mistake, you get all that airtime in the board runs, you're feeling good, out in front, what a rush! but i guess it's important to stick the landing

[GeoHiker]

I can't wait for the Olympics at Whistler in 2010. I've skied several World Cup downhill courses after they were opened and they are ROCK hard ice!......They sound like jet fighters when they go by. How they can ski that is amazing. That sucks for Lindsey. I just saw her with Costas and he was very symphathetic, but she will go down in sports history as the biggest gaff of all time. That will be one event I won't miss at Whistler.

[MtnGoat]

i think the BXC course should be steeper, it would be nice to see some actual speed, but on the whole it's pretty entertaining.... especially seeing even olympians do the boarder bunny hop to get over a rise when they've lost speed. so dorky looking.

[Mtn Dog]

Any other day of the week she would have grabbed that board for a method trick, landed it, and it would have been the highlight of any sportscast for the remaining Olympics. No one would have thought twice about the risk. The say "Pride Comes Before a Fall" but I was quite impressed how gracious she was to be glad to have the Silver and not be in the hospital like her Canadian friend who was DNF. This sport is crazy enough that many mishaps could have come her way and she may not have even been in the finals. How many times do we wonder what might have been in other sports if not for our own stupidity? In golf it's "What if I sunk that one putt?" In bowling it's, "If I only closed that one frame...I would have broken 200!" The list goes on and on. Besides, the Seahawks outplayed their opponents and look what happened to them!

[touron]

[MtnGoat]

super G. love it!

[MtnGoat]

jumping on the BIG hill! what insanity the new camera trick is fantastic, follows the jumper from the side view down and off the jump, and all the way to touchdown in one unbroken take watching this crazy norwegian scream off the jump, then in the background you see the *tops* of large trees passing behind him. holy crap. that must be something

[tourinoron]

The arials they had tonight were pretty incredble too.