2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Thread [February 12 - 28, 2010.]...

[sandorski]

The website is restricted for Russian athletes only.

😀😀

 

[CanOWorms]

Great logical extension there. Bravo. Your teachers must be proud.

Yes.

What major transportation problems? I live here. I used the transportation system extensively during the past two weeks. Car traffic was DOWN 30%. It's never been so easy to get around town. There were some lines to get on the trains, but nothing insane.

What world do you live in?

Olympic transit system hit with bumps, glitches
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/15/AR2010021502641.html

Vancouver 2010 - Cancellations, Food, Transport Problems
http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/other_news/1216135010.html

The weather was absolutely fantastic other than the first 2-3 days. It was clear, sunny, cold on the mountains, and warm in the city for the middle 10 days of the games. It got a little cloudy at the end, but other than the first and last 2-3 days, you couldn't have asked for better weather.

I guess that day when officials had to run 2 skiiers at a time because of horrific fog was imaginary. All bad weather must be imaginary.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011212557_olyweather28.html

The next-to-last day of competition in Vancouver on Saturday was symbolic for some of the havoc weather conditions have played during the Games.

Sleet and fog obscured ski runs for the men's slalom at the higher altitude of Whistler. At the lower elevation at Cypress, site of the men's snowboard parallel giant slalom, Canadian gold medalist Jasey Jay Anderson said conditions made it feel like "you're swimming all day. You can't see anything."

Swedish skier Anja Paerson said after the women's slalom competition on Friday, "This Olympics has been all about the weather."

Imaginary, all imaginary!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/28/AR2010022802271.html

Yet it was the sheer number of contests hit in Vancouver and Whistler that drew attention. Virtually every event held outdoors suffered at one stage or another.

In some sports, training sessions were canceled and races postponed or restarted. In others, damp athletes fought their way across soggy skiing courses, slid downhill through slushy snow and squinted through rain-streaked rifle sights

It must be a media conspiracy!

 

[Dominato3r]

Yes CanOWorms. When the IOC gives the go for an olympic games, they also hand to us a godhand which lets us control the weather.

 

[Firsttime]

Yes CanOWorms. When the IOC gives the go for an olympic games, they also hand to us a godhand which lets us control the weather.

The Russians will probably do something like that. They already stop the snow in Moscow.

 

[DVad3r]

Yeah, but Toronto is a shit city. Everyone knows this. 😀

KT

It is a shit city, no arguement there. The only good thing about Toronto is the Lakeshore areas where I can ride my bike/walk/rollerblade along the waterfront and see nice sights.

 

[KeithTalent]

Yes.

What world do you live in?

Olympic transit system hit with bumps, glitches
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/15/AR2010021502641.html

Vancouver 2010 - Cancellations, Food, Transport Problems
http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/other_news/1216135010.html

I guess that day when officials had to run 2 skiiers at a time because of horrific fog was imaginary. All bad weather must be imaginary.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011212557_olyweather28.html



Imaginary, all imaginary!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/28/AR2010022802271.html


It must be a media conspiracy!

Look up Turin Olympics, many of the same problems. Happens every time. All things considered, and this is coming from a guy that had no desire to have the Olympics here and did not go to a single event, it seemed to be in line with previous Olympics as far as the smoothness and preparedness goes. Transportation was much better than I expected, that's for sure.

KT

 

[Dominato3r]

AWWWW. Looking forward to London.

Oh whats this neil young lol

 

[CanOWorms]

I wasn't really talking about him anymore but whatever. He, after his 26 runs, should have been able to look at the course and be like, "you know what turn 6 is really fast, maybe I should be extra careful going around that one." The Olympic planners didn't have it out for anyone. The course was super fast, the lugers all knew it and chose to go all out on it anyway. It's part of the sport, the acceptance of risk. It sucks he died, but he did, and you know what, I know you hate this, but it's been pretty much universally accepted that there was some serious driver error involved. No one else had died on the course over its hundreds of runs. Was it super fast? You bet, it pushed the sport to it's limits and they all knew it. If they thought it was too fast they could have dropped out like that one bobsled team did.

Are you joking? Because this is the type of attitude which the international community is so shocked about.

 

[KeithTalent]

Neil Young! :awe:

KT

 

[silverpig]

Yes.

What world do you live in?

Olympic transit system hit with bumps, glitches
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/15/AR2010021502641.html

Vancouver 2010 - Cancellations, Food, Transport Problems
http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/other_news/1216135010.html

I guess that day when officials had to run 2 skiiers at a time because of horrific fog was imaginary. All bad weather must be imaginary.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011212557_olyweather28.html



Imaginary, all imaginary!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/28/AR2010022802271.html


It must be a media conspiracy!

You realize you just bitched about TWO (2) buses breaking down right? And you also realize that while the people got there late, they did get there right? So a few hundred people arrived 50 minutes late during the first two days. The transit system here has carried about 1.4 million people a day, every day for the past 17 days, and you're calling 2 broken down buses "major transportation issues"?

What event did they have to run two skiers at a time? Horrific fog? Really? It was that scary? Maybe you should let Stephen King know about it. He can write a book about it.

 

[sandorski]

Look up Turin Olympics, many of the same problems. Happens every time. All things considered, and this is coming from a guy that had no desire to have the Olympics here and did not go to a single event, it seemed to be in line with previous Olympics as far as the smoothness and preparedness goes. Transportation was much better than I expected, that's for sure.

KT

Facts are impervious to CoW. Guys been a non-stop Canada Basher for years now. Facts didn't stop him then, don't stop him now, and won't stop him in the future.

 

[silverpig]

Neil Young! :awe:

KT

w00t!!!

 

[CanOWorms]

Yes CanOWorms. When the IOC gives the go for an olympic games, they also hand to us a godhand which lets us control the weather.

I'm not claiming that they can control the weather. However, I'm claiming that weather most definitely affects the reputation of an Olympics. Or do you think that having a Winter Olympics in Houston, Texas means that you can't complain about the weather? Weather is obviously a factor into the reputation of the Olympic Games.

 

[Dominato3r]

what if the arms dont go in!

 

[lupi]

Pretty women singing the Russian Federation anthem. ^_^

"restored at the request of putin" lulz.

 

[dennilfloss]

Facts are impervious to CoW. Guys been a non-stop Canada Basher for years now. Facts didn't stop him then, don't stop him now, and won't stop him in the future.

Almost every CoW statement reminds me of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MRmxfLuNto&feature=player_embedded

 

[CanOWorms]

You realize you just bitched about TWO (2) buses breaking down right? And you also realize that while the people got there late, they did get there right? So a few hundred people arrived 50 minutes late during the first two days. The transit system here has carried about 1.4 million people a day, every day for the past 17 days, and you're calling 2 broken down buses "major transportation issues"?

No.

What event did they have to run two skiers at a time? Horrific fog? Really? It was that scary? Maybe you should let Stephen King know about it. He can write a book about it.

Women's Giant Slalom.

 

[sandorski]

Shatner!!!

 

[Dominato3r]

william shatner lol

CAPN

 

[sdifox]

lol Kirk is on!

 

[silverpig]

Captain Kirk!!!!

 

[lupi]

I lived in seattle for several years, I could have told you this late in the season this would not be a preferential spot for the games.

 

[KeithTalent]

I lived in seattle for several years, I could have told you this late in the season this would not be a preferential spot for the games.

Agreed. That's why we barely won the vote against Korea.

KT

 

[Locut0s]

Would the mods be ok with me posting pics and video of the celebration on the streets here in a seperate thread or would they lock it?

 

[CanOWorms]

Facts are impervious to CoW. Guys been a non-stop Canada Basher for years now. Facts didn't stop him then, don't stop him now, and won't stop him in the future.

The international media has a conspiracy against Canada because the world is jealous of Canada's banking system, huh? Facts? Hmm...