Olympic Winter Games thread !

[ger_mark]

Yes its true!

2 Gold Medals for Germany !

GERMANY WON EVERYTHING UNTIL NOW:)

[petty officer1]

The symbol is soooo gay!:rofl: they looks like they just got beat up by some gangster! lost 5 teeth! :rofl:
http://images.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/_photos/2004-09-28-mascots.jpg

[bd popeye]

The symbol is soooo gay!:rofl: they looks like they just got beat up by some gangster! lost 5 teeth! :rofl:
http://images.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/_photos/2004-09-28-mascots.jpg

Betcha if they lived in the USA they would have no lunch money!:rofl:

Personally I do not like the olympics at all. Haven't sice I was a child. Boring!!! The last Olympics I watched was the 1964 summer games from Toyko. I was 11 then ...Damn I'm old!!!

[petty officer1]

Age don't matter popeye, what matter is wisedom. ;)

[Gollevainen]

:mad: :mad: :mad: :nono: :nono:

...thats all i got to say about our todays succses!!

...guarantee medal day, my ass!!

[FuManChu]

Well the Winter Olympics is one of those oddities, because relatively few nations can compete. But there is a chance we will get some medals, a real achievements given that we have very little all-year-round snow in the UK!

[T-U-P]

canada's gonna get some of those medals soon. and probably defeat US in hockey again. (yep, only thing that canada's better than US)

[EternalVigil]

Canadian women won a gold today in the downhill ski mogul race. The US men won a gold in speed skating as well. Personally I really dont like the olympics but Im rooting for the US.

[drunkhomer]

y does china and hongkong hav a seperate olympic team??

[tphuang]

Betcha if they lived in the USA they would have no lunch money!:rofl:

Personally I do not like the olympics at all. Haven't sice I was a child. Boring!!! The last Olympics I watched was the 1964 summer games from Toyko. I was 11 then ...Damn I'm old!!!
I'm dissappointed Popeye. You don't watch Olympics or American Idol. lol, jk..

Anyhow, good to see Canada getting on the gold medal sheet this early. Last time, we were shut out until Catriona Lemay Doan won her event. I see better than a 6 gold performance from Canada this time.

[rommel]

Well, Canada is sure to have the Women Ice Hockey Gold, the Men's Ice Hockey contest will be good, but I think that Canada will win since we have so much talent home....

BTW, Canada beat Italy 16-0 in Women Hockey today, both Foward Hayley Wickenheiser (no22) and defensewomen Caroline Ouellette (no13) got a hat trick and 2 assist... Canada is dominating, shooting 66 times on goals while Italy only have 5 shots...

[bd popeye]

I'm dissappointed Popeye. You don't watch Olympics or American Idol. lol, jk..

No I don't. That's why I'm so wise. Mostly on Tv I watch news,real sports(American Football baseball, basketball, NASCAR),History channel, Discovery channel, learning channel..stuff like that.

[KYli]

y does china and hongkong hav a seperate olympic team??

yes, they do , but HK only has copy athletes.

[Gollevainen]

In ice-hockey, we surely comes from challenging part, Most of our NHL stars are either injured or unable to participate by their teams...NHL should honour the olympics and World championship games far better so the best players could participate...

But today, everybody remembers to watch the Normal size ski jumping contest...One of the three most waited events here in finland...

[EternalVigil]

US men won the gold and silver in the snowboarding halfpipe.

[Gollevainen]

...But in good number three came little but spicey finland...

...and Matti Hautamäki won silver in normal size ski-jumping so its two medal for finland,

[rommel]

In ice-hockey, we surely comes from challenging part, Most of our NHL stars are either injured or unable to participate by their teams...NHL should honour the olympics and World championship games far better so the best players could participate...



What do you mean by unable to participate by their team ?? Normally, there's a olympic break during which the NHL havn't schedule any match... That's why Team Canada and Team USA are only composed NHL players... Seriously,not to bash on you but Finland don't have some big star... Most of the Finish good player are injured like Joni Pitkanen (D), Mika Kiprusoff (G) and Sami Kapanen (F)

Well, Team Canada have suffer of some departure and injury, top defensemen Scott Niedermeyer and Ed Jovanoski are unable to play, superstar and leader Mario Lemieux have annouced that he didn't want to participate in the Olympic (he was the Team Captain back in 2002) and leader Steve Yzerman didn't wanted to participated either...

[PiSigma]

women's hockey
Canada-Italy 16-0
Canada-russia 12-0
ya.. we are going to get both hockey golds again!!

[drunkhomer]

hell yes...go team canada!!!....women's team is lookin hot wif those black third jerseys

[Mazepa]

Well.. We Swedes are as always sending 200 athletes that will completely fail to win any gold and we will all cheer when we finally at the end the olympics return with just a bronze in ladies Ice-boccia.

The NHL star filled ice-hockey team is destined to make the same worthless result as when they lost agains Belarus last time. My guess is that these NHL stars is a buch of primadonnas that just is not teamplayers at all. Its not enough with having talents in a team, they have to be able to play as a team!

So now i sit at the TV and watch the olympics just to make sure to cheer every time Norway doesent get a medal :)

[Gollevainen]

What do you mean by unable to participate by their team ?? Normally, there's a olympic break during which the NHL havn't schedule any match... That's why Team Canada and Team USA are only composed NHL players... Seriously,not to bash on you but Finland don't have some big star... Most of the Finish good player are injured like Joni Pitkanen (D), Mika Kiprusoff (G) and Sami Kapanen (F)

Thanks for correcting me, But they sure dont take that brake during the world championship games...and those are considerably bigger ice-hockey event in here, than the olympic turnament...And mostly we dont like that those 'stars' claim that they are injured and cannot participate in olympics, but still have played in their local teams, as they werent injured at all..

But still, we havent got in any case a winningteam here, but we see...

[drunkhomer]

yeah...those INJURED*** plyers...cough cough kipersoff
anyhoo..i think team canada by far has da nicest hockey jerseys dis olympic

http://www.icejerseys.com/images/olympics/canada_2006_jersey_white_big.jpg
http://www.icejerseys.com/images/olympics/canada_2006_jersey_red_big.jpg
http://www.icejerseys.com/images/olympics/canada_2006_jersey_black_big.jpg

[The_Zergling]

One thing I noticed about hockey is that it is a pretty diverse sport, which makes the Olympics interesting to watch since no one team has ALL the talent making it a pointless affair. You have players from Russia, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Germany, USA, Canada, etc as opposed to Basketball (for instance) in which nearly all the players are American...

I don't know who to root for (hockey) because I have so many favorite players on different teams...

I was surprised to learn that the World Championship is a bigger deal than the Olympics, though... but then again expecting the NHL to take time off every year to let players play in other tournaments would be unrealistic...

[swimmerXC]

Looks like we got a Bronze in speed skating
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/13/content_4172433.htm
:china:

[PiSigma]

hockey is such an canadian sport.. we have problems picking players for Team Canada not because we don't have enough good players like most other countries.. but because we have too many good players, and can't decide who should be on the team.

PiSigma's hockey prediction
women's hockey - Canada gold,
men's hockey - Canada gold,

[New2u]

Looks like we got a Bronze in speed skating
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/13/content_4172433.htm
:china:

we also got a silver and another bronze in Pairs Figure Skating:china: :china:

http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/IDF/MDL/MDL_Big.html
http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/IDF/MDL/MDL_NOC_CHN.html

[Mazepa]

12 years of waiting is at end!.. Sweden got 2 olympic goldmedals!!.. This calls for celebration this evening with a massive smörgåstårta.... Yahooo

[The_Zergling]

Canada's Women's Hockey team victory over Italy was just... embarassing...

They should've just stopped the game after a certain period and just play for fun afterwards...

[Gollevainen]

Hejaa Sverige!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But you took our gold right in front of us...we now have two bronzes and one silver...still missing the gold....

[tphuang]

Canada's Women's Hockey team victory over Italy was just... embarassing...

They should've just stopped the game after a certain period and just play for fun afterwards...
I don't even understand why such sports are in the games. (not counting men's version, just the women's version) If you add dumb sports like curling to it, it's pretty much in the game just for adding to canada's gold medal count. You might as well add shopping to the olympics, if they are so desperate to find events. They should eliminate it just like they are going to eliminate baseball from the olympics.

[ger_mark]

1. USA 4 2 0
2. Germany 4 1 2
3. Russia 3 3 2
4. Sweden 2 0 0
5. Norway 1 5 5
6. Netherlands 1 2 0
7. Canada 1 1 1
South-Korea 1 1 1
9. Italy 1 0 2
10. France 1 0 1
11. Estonia 1 0 0
12. Austria 0 2 0
13. China 0 1 2
Finland 0 1 2
15. Czech Republic 0 1 0
16. Latvia 0 0 1
Switzerland 0 0 1

[swimmerXC]

Canada's Women's Hockey team victory over Italy was just... embarassing...

They should've just stopped the game after a certain period and just play for fun afterwards...

What was the score? :confused:
LOOKS LIKE CHINA AND FINLAND ARE NECK TO NECK! :p
Oh well, just wait till 2008! :china:

[New2u]

What was the score? :confused:
LOOKS LIKE CHINA AND FINLAND ARE NECK TO NECK! :p
Oh well, just wait till 2008! :china:

nope, not anymore :china: :china:

http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/IDF/MDL/MDL_Big.html

[KYli]

:china:

Great acheivement for Chinese team.

Hope big Goll won't be mad about his finnish team is falling behide.:D

[PiSigma]

does african and south american nations even compete in the winter olympics??? because other than china and south korea.. all the other nations are european or canada or USA

[The_Zergling]

Well, I think that there is a certain reason why most of the countries competing in the Winter Olympics tend to be located in the northern hemisphere...

Because it's cold a lot of the time? You're not going to see country from a tropical climate participating in the Winter Olympics often...

[swimmerXC]

does african and south american nations even compete in the winter olympics??? because other than china and south korea.. all the other nations are european or canada or USA

I believe that Antarctica and Africa are the only two continents that didn't send a team

[T-U-P]

I believe that Antarctica and Africa are the only two continents that didn't send a team
well antarctica doesn't have many human beings... they could send in their team of penguins tho. first place in swimming.;)

and i know africa has at least one. Madagascar has a team in the olympics, i saw them in the athletes parade in the opening ceremony.

[The_Zergling]

Well technically Antarctica doesn't belong to any one country... several countries have drawn a few linese where their scientists and explorers do their work, but otherwise Antarctica's still "no man's land" for obvious reasons.

[swimmerXC]

:china:

Great acheivement for Chinese team.

Hope big Goll won't be mad about his finnish team is falling behide.:D

And we burn Finland now... :p
5 Medals
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/medals_table/default.stm
We got silver and bronze in Women's 500m speed skating
GOLD Svetlana Zhurova (Russia)
SILVER Wang Manli (China)
BRONZE Ren Hui (China)
If we total medals China's 5th
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9534792/
If we do the Olympics way we are ranked 12th :(
http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/IDF/MDL/MDL_Big.html
:china:

[T-U-P]

anyone watched the pair figure skating? china got silver and bronze. and the silver pair had some bad accidents. Zhang Dan fell during a 4-turn spin (first ever done in an international competition), and it was pretty serious. the judges gave the pair a 2 minute break and resumed their programme. what's surprising is that they ended in silver... of course, the credit goes to the new judging system. but still, it's amazing, completing their programme after she broke her knee (or something like that).

[Gollevainen]

And we burn Finland now...

Thats only becouse our best events haven't come yet:p
Today the nordic combination medley, tomorrow womens 10km trad., Skijumping in saturnday...don't worry i think we gonna get there...:nana:

[WEN?]

anyone watched the pair figure skating? china got silver and bronze. and the silver pair had some bad accidents. Zhang Dan fell during a 4-turn spin (first ever done in an international competition), and it was pretty serious. the judges gave the pair a 2 minute break and resumed their programme. what's surprising is that they ended in silver... of course, the credit goes to the new judging system. but still, it's amazing, completing their programme after she broke her knee (or something like that).

i saw the skating. how good was that, two medals with russia taking the gold. i wish i could even do one turn in the air considering i have trouble even skating. Zhang Dan injured the knee not broken, i don't think it would be possible to countiue (the pain), she injured it for she got ice on the knee and got the leg stapped with bandages afterward.

[Gollevainen]

another Silver from Freestyle...still missing that gold....

[ger_mark]

damn nordic combination ...

[Ender Wiggin]

GO CANADA! Vivre Le Canadiens! Vivre Le Canadiens! Aller Aller Aller! Allons-Nous!!! Descendre avec L'Américains canards!

[Vytautas]

16. Latvia 0 0 1
Nooooooooooooooooooooooo :mad: :mad: :mad:

[Gollevainen]

damn nordic combination ...

...Don't worry we will kick your asses tomorrow:p :p

But i liked the way our Hockey team managed the first game...I mean we have lost to Switzerland during last couple years...but now we took a acceptable 5-0 victory. Exspecially it was nice to see our old warhorses, Selänne and Koivu to be so positively active....

[KYli]

China got a gold medal:nana: .

:china: :china: :china:

Wang Meng won the gold medal in Short Track Speed Skating 500m.

[T-U-P]

...Don't worry we will kick your asses tomorrow:p :p

But i liked the way our Hockey team managed the first game...I mean we have lost to Switzerland during last couple years...but now we took a acceptable 5-0 victory. Exspecially it was nice to see our old warhorses, Selänne and Koivu to be so positively active....
i'll watch the finland vs. canada game if it gets down to that. and i'll watch how canada kick finland's ass.

[swimmerXC]

And we burn Finland now...

Thats only becouse our best events haven't come yet:p
Today the nordic combination medley, tomorrow womens 10km trad., Skijumping in saturnday...don't worry i think we gonna get there...:nana:

Get where? We beat you to the GOLD!!! :p
My money is on Liu Xianying (http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/5088719/detail.html) for the Biathlon after all she is a member of the PLA!!! :china:

[Gollevainen]

i'll watch the finland vs. canada game if it gets down to that. and i'll watch how canada kick finland's ass.

....or least you can dream...but aren't we in the same division? So i'm quessing we are playing against each others in weekend...

[drunkhomer]

GO BIG BERT!!!!....2 assists

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060215/i/r3642066507.jpg

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060215/i/r509410250.jpg

[Mazepa]

another Silver from Freestyle...still missing that gold....

Patience!.. they will come to you too. The finnish sisu will be victorious again, just like Mieto defeated Wassberg in the old days :)

[Gollevainen]

That loss wiht 0.01 secconds have become sort of legend in here....

But i think we still can win gold in the skijumping (two actually) and in the nordic combination....

[INVISIBLE]

Мы всех порвем и будем первыми! хрен америкосам!
Russia the champion! :D ;)

[Gollevainen]

We just won Italy 6-0....and Selänne&Koivu and Co. did all the goals....nice to see old mens rocking....

[FuManChu]

Yay, we won a medal! Shelley Rudman gets silver in the women's Olympic skeleton! :nana:

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41342000/jpg/_41342156_rudmannew203.jpg

[drunkhomer]

Canada beat germany 5-1

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/sp/getty/oly_full.56165400jm016_ice_hockey_ca.jpg

[ger_mark]

Canada beat germany 5-1

I hate Canada!
And Austria aswell!

[PiSigma]

don't hate us, just because we are superior in hockey. there's no shame in losing to canada in hockey... we are the best at it after all.. and we did invent the game.

[drunkhomer]

haha...yeah dont be hating...lol

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060216/i/r1754519093.jpg

[Gollevainen]

I'm pretty confident that canada will go down in sunday....

Anyway, we got yet another pronze...form nordic comp. Still seeking that gold....

[PiSigma]

on sunday we will go down in history as the BEST hockey team. too bad i can't watch the game.. these midterms are killing me.

[INVISIBLE]

ЕЕЕЕЕЕЕееееееееееуууууууу!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hockey
Russia 5:0 Sweden :nana: :D

[Gollevainen]

on sunday we will go down in history as the BEST hockey team.

You got it right in the going down thing....:p

[Mazepa]

ЕЕЕЕЕЕЕееееееееееуууууууу!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hockey
Russia 5:0 Sweden :nana: :D

Arrrggghhh.... I just HATE our Swedish team made up from old fat NHL professionals that seems to be more interested in counting their money then to play the game. My instinct tells me that sending the winners of the Swedish elite-series would be far better then this. Now they all say that when Peter Forsberg returns to the team we will be better, but if there is no teamspirit before, there will be no better spirit after yet a primadonna arrives...

Hockey way way better when they all were amateurs and played for the glory. These days they all play only for the money, so i´ll call them prostitutes!!..

[INVISIBLE]

Arrrggghhh.... I just HATE our Swedish team made up from old fat NHL professionals that seems to be more interested in counting their money then to play the game. My instinct tells me that sending the winners of the Swedish elite-series would be far better then this. Now they all say that when Peter Forsberg returns to the team we will be better, but if there is no teamspirit before, there will be no better spirit after yet a primadonna arrives...

Hockey way way better when they all were amateurs and played for the glory. These days they all play only for the money, so i´ll call them prostitutes!!..

Классно мы шведов всухую обыграли! :nana:

Whom do you name prostitutes? :confused:

[swimmerXC]

7 medals in total now
http://www.nbcolympics.com/countries/5056739/detail.html?qs=;t=99;tab=Medals

[bd popeye]

Arrrggghhh.... I just HATE our Swedish team made up from old fat NHL professionals that seems to be more interested in counting their money then to play the game. My instinct tells me that sending the winners of the Swedish elite-series would be far better then this. Now they all say that when Peter Forsberg returns to the team we will be better, but if there is no teamspirit before, there will be no better spirit after yet a primadonna arrives...

Hockey way way better when they all were amateurs and played for the glory. These days they all play only for the money, so i´ll call them prostitutes!!..

I'm no hockey fan. and I don't like the Olympics. I just don't. The NHL players are out of their element playing this sissified form of ice hockey. I saw a few minutes of a game this morning. No hitting. Board crashing checking. (I'm not talking about fighting.. that sucks) What kinda hockey is that? Sissified that's what. I say that the NHL should pull it's players from the Olympics from now on.

I would watch a team of NHL all stars play some European players with NHL rules. In stead of the sissified international rules. That would be intresting.

[T-U-P]

well, the canadian women's hockey game is off to the final game on monday versus sweden. cheers.

[The_Zergling]

Well I have to say I've been surprised, to say the least at the Men's Ice Hockey this year... Switzerland beating CANADA?!!!?

[FriedRiceNSpice]

I cant beleive those South Koreans stole 2 medals from us in the Men's 1000m short track. None of our guys medaled! Li Ye and Li Jiajun were both supposed to medal but the 2 Koreans and Apollo Ohno from the US gyped us!

[sumdud]

At least they didn't take the gold from the speed skating ring......
They came in second after us.

[Gollevainen]

Well I have to say I've been surprised, to say the least at the Men's Ice Hockey this year... Switzerland beating CANADA?!!!?


yeah, and just wait as tonigth they are going down with Finland...we are still the sole team that havent lost any game...

[INVISIBLE]

Russia 9 : 2 Latvia :nana: :D :D

The day after tomorrow
Russia vs USA

Отомстим за поражение в 2004 :nono:

[KYli]

I cant beleive those South Koreans stole 2 medals from us in the Men's 1000m short track. None of our guys medaled! Li Ye and Li Jiajun were both supposed to medal but the 2 Koreans and Apollo Ohno from the US gyped us!

Don't worry. We still have chances on short track skating.:)

[Vytautas]

Latvia
MUAHAHAHAHAHAH.:D

[INVISIBLE]

MUAHAHAHAHAHAH.:D

you are crazy?

[Gollevainen]

Well at this point i must say that these olympics games haven't gone so well for us finns. In Ski-jumping and nordic comp. there should have been gold preserved for us but....only good things are that our hockey team is on fire, we won Chzecks 2-4 and tonight is the big game against Canada....and as canada lost to swizerland 2-0, it makes me very cofincidence...

Also i've found myself following Curling, one of the oddest sports ever! First i hardly had any clue whats it all about but after following few games i finaly got hold on it. And as we made trough the semifinals i think i'm gonna wacht some more....

[Ender Wiggin]

Pfft! The Might Canadien will defeat the Fins!

[KYli]

Since Finland won.

Goll "We won, we won."
TUP"Damn finnish"
Ender Wiggin"You are just lucky, We are still the best. another time Goll"
Goll "We beat the Canadian, we beat the Canadian"
TUP"Stup up Goll"
Ender wiggin"Damn it, don't make me come after you"
Psigma"Claim Down everyone"
Goll "Yeah yeah yeah, Finnish is the best"
TUP":mad: "
Ender Wiggin':mad: "
Psigma"Goll please stop being a kid"
Goll":p "

:D

[ger_mark]

1. Germany 7 7 4
2. USA 7 4 2
3. Russia 6 2 5
4. Austria 4 5 1
5. South Korea 3 3 1
6. Italy 3 0 4
7. France 3 0 2
8. Estonis 3 0 0
9. Norway 2 7 7
10. Canada 2 6 5
11. Switzerland 2 2 4
12. Netherlands 2 2 2
13. Sweden 2 1 3
14. China 1 2 4
15. Croatia 1 1 0
16. Australia 1 0 0
17. Finland 0 2 3
18. Czech Rep. 0 2 0
19. Bulgaria 0 1 0
UK 0 1 0
Slowakia 0 1 0
22. Latvia 0 0 1
Ukraine 0 0 1

[The_Zergling]

Gotta say though, Gollevainen's got his reasons to gloat...

Canada just lost AGAIN... to Finland... in MEN'S Hockey!

2 to Nothing!

This Olympics is awesome! (Because I never like one-sided tournaments)

[Gollevainen]

2-0


....:D :D :D :D

Ok, i could go on and on...so i'll spare you canadians for it....but still...

IHANAA LEIJONAT, IHANAA

[FuManChu]

1. Germany 7 7 4
2. USA 7 4 2
3. Russia 6 2 5
4. Austria 4 5 1
5. South Korea 3 3 1
6. Italy 3 0 4
7. France 3 0 2
8. Estonis 3 0 0
9. Norway 2 7 7
10. Canada 2 6 5
11. Switzerland 2 2 4
12. Netherlands 2 2 2
13. Sweden 2 1 3
14. China 1 2 4
15. Croatia 1 1 0
16. Australia 1 0 0
17. Finland 0 2 3
18. Czech Rep. 0 2 0
19. Bulgaria 0 1 0
UK 0 1 0
Slowakia 0 1 0
22. Latvia 0 0 1
Ukraine 0 0 1

YAY!! We're on the table at all :nana: :nana: :nana:

Golle, congrats on the win :D

[KYli]

Don't mind me. I am not a canadian.:D

I have to say Finland have done very well in hockey so far. Keep up the good worK.:D

[Gollevainen]

Tanks for the compliments....This is first time since late 90's when our hockey team (nicknamed Leijonat=lions in here) really kicks in. The most amaizing part of it is that old farts like Teemu Selänne and Saku Koivu are in hyperspeed....perhaps they know that these gonna be their last olympics and so they give the best that they got....

[ger_mark]

Sory but tomorrow Finland will meet the allmighty german icehockey team :coffee:

[KYli]

My vote for Finland.:D

Finland will win tomorrow. The all mighty German will lose.:roll:

[T-U-P]

omg Goll, that goalie of yours, he's amazing, after all those shots, it's still 2-0. if it was CS, i'd think he was hacking.:mad: :nono:
now, Canada vs. Czech, gonna be interesting, let's hope Canada doesn't get its ass kicked again. but, before that, there's the women's hockey final and Sweden is going down.

[Mazepa]

Well well well... Sweden wins over USA with 2-1 in hockey! There is still hope!

[drunkhomer]

anybody see dat hit ruutu gave jagr???...shizaamm!!!!

[Gollevainen]

Sory but tomorrow Finland will meet the allmighty german icehockey team

;) you wanna bet?

omg Goll, that goalie of yours, he's amazing, after all those shots, it's still 2-0. if it was CS, i'd think he was hacking.

I know, Before these games there was big fuzz over our goalie situation and bit worry wheter Niittymäki can play in such hars conditions...bit i must say he is truly amaizing...real Lion....

anybody see dat hit ruutu gave jagr???...shizaamm!!!!

From all our players, it wasen't any suprise that Jarkko Ruuttu can pull something like that, but thats the main reason why he is onboard, to hasszle the opponent and forcing them to take penalties. That Jaeger incidence was just unfortuned accident, not deliparet however....

[Gollevainen]

Well a medal....but still not gold...damn those Austrian Dop...uhm..örhm...skijumpers. Those judges were extremely biased, they gave Morgi way too high points althoug he practically fall his jump...:mad: :nono:

Our gold hunt is going to get very difficoult. There are only three posspile event (in my obinion) were these can be, Curling, tomorrows Sprint in Nord. Comp. and womes sprint skiing. Althoug our hockeyteam has showed some spectacular moves, i still doupt wheter they gonna end up in the final, i mean Slovakia and Russia are frieghtingly good and Sweden is always a tough bite to us finns no matter how badly they have played...

[Sukhoi Freak]

Because I have chinese ancestry, i was born in Canada, and I live in the US, Im not sure who to root for.:confused: :confused: :confused:

[KYli]

Because I have chinese ancestry, i was born in Canada, and I live in the US, Im not sure who to root for.:confused: :confused:

No one can tell you what to do, or should do, it is really up to you to decide. I knew some chinese who are born in US but choose to root for china, and some chinese born in china but come here few years and decide to root for America. It really have to do with what you comfortable with. If you can't decide now, My suggestion will be root for all of them, and if they play each other. Just dont take side, and keep your month shut:D . Don't worry, when you get older you could solve your identity problem. For the time being, let have fun and be wise:) .:china:

[FuManChu]

Because I have chinese ancestry, i was born in Canada, and I live in the US, Im not sure who to root for.:confused: :confused: :confused:

Just encourage the athlete or athletes that you consider to be the best. You don't have to back just one country. During Athens 2004 I rooted for the Chinese female diver (forgotten her name) and I don't have a drop of Chinese blood in me!

To be honest, and this is just my view, if I never lived in my "country of ethnic origin" then I would give either my current home or birth-country preference, if there was competition. As I said it's up to you, but I personally would have primary allegiance to the place where I was born/raised.

[KYli]

Woman hockey.
Canadian won 4-1 sweden.

Congruduate The Candian members Here:) .

Hope Mazepa is not upset.:D

[ger_mark]

1. Germany 7 7 4
2. Austria 7 5 3
USA 7 5 3
4. Russis 7 2 5
5. Canada 3 6 5
6. South Korea 3 3 1
7. France 3 1 2
8. Italy 3 0 4
9. Estonia 3 0 0
10. Norway 2 7 8
11. Switzerland 2 2 4
12. Sweden 2 2 3
13. Netherlands 2 2 2
14. China 1 2 4
15. Croatia 1 2 0
16. Australia 1 0 0
17. Finland 0 3 3
18. Czech Rep. 0 2 0
19. Bulgaria 0 1 0
UK 0 1 0
Slowakia 0 1 0
22. Ukraine 0 0 2
23. Lettland 0 0 1

http://www.network54.com/Realm/SmilesWAFF/smilies0772.gif

[swimmerXC]

Yea... Austria dominated the SKi-jump..... i was rooting for that Finnish guy that they say never smiles... (Janne?)
Still I'm more surprised the Chinese has a team for ski-jumping
O well, China can just dominate ya'll at 2008 :p

[T-U-P]

Woman hockey.
Canadian won 4-1 sweden.

yea, let's hope the men are going to do as well as the womens. if im correct, the canadian women hockey team only lose 3 goals, right?

[drunkhomer]

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/sp/getty/oly_full.56165410tl148_ice_hockey_ol.jpg

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/sp/getty/oly_full.56165410tl149_ice_hockey_ol.jpg

[FuManChu]

Woman hockey.
Canadian won 4-1 sweden.

Congruduate The Candian members Here:) .

Hope Mazepa is not upset.:D

End of the dream for the Swedes. Bad luck! But congrats to the Canadians.

[Ender Wiggin]

Ahem....

" O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.

With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!

From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.

O Canada, we stand on guard for thee. "

[drunkhomer]

women's canadian team socred 46 goals and only let in 2 goals in the whole tournament :roll:

[Gollevainen]

Yea... Austria dominated the SKi-jump..... i was rooting for that Finnish guy that they say never smiles... (Janne?)

Yeah Janne Ahonen, althoug he once again failed to win personal olympic medals, he is without doupt the best skijumper since legendary Matti Nykänen...

Still I'm more surprised the Chinese has a team for ski-jumping
O well, China can just dominate ya'll at 2008

It's all down to good skijumphills...and basic ground work. Perhaps china should get some finnish coacht, like Japan, Russia, Italy and Norway has;)

[Gollevainen]

A update: We screwed up the nordic combination once again....
but our hockey team just won Germany 2-0 wiht this "couldn't care less" type of playing...but we are well prepared for tommorow when the "real" games starts, quarderfinals against USA....little payback behalf our womens...:nono: ;)

[KYli]

Finland won. Finland won. Finland won. :nana: :nana:

My prediction come true, Ger_mark will be:mad: .

:D

[WebMaster]

You can enjoy some pictures here:

http://www.globaltalknetworks.com/pictures/browseimages.php?c=53

[ger_mark]

:mad:

yES YOU ARE !!!

1. Germany 9 7 5
2. Austria 8 5 3
3. USA 7 7 4
4. Russia 7 3 5
5. Italy 4 0 5
6. Kanada 3 6 5
7. South korea 3 3 1
8. France 3 1 3
9. Estonia 3 0 0
10. Norway 2 8 8
11. Switzerland 2 2 4
12. Sweden 2 2 3
13. Nwtherlands 2 2 2
14. China 1 2 4
15. Croatia 1 2 0
16. Australia 1 0 0
17. Finland 0 3 3
18. Czech Rep. 0 2 0
19. Bulgaria 0 1 0
UK 0 1 0
Slovenia0 1 0
22. Ukraine 0 0 2
23. Latvia 0 0 1



:nana:

[FuManChu]

Ahem....

O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command."

Or as the Swedes will say:

Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
With all their hockey hubaloo and that b*tch Anne Murray too. Blame Canada!
Shame on Canada!

[Ender Wiggin]

Hey we died in Dieppe! I am damn proud to be Canadian and I'll take on a Swede in arm wreseling any day ;)

[T-U-P]

A update: We screwed up the nordic combination once again....
but our hockey team just won Germany 2-0 wiht this "couldn't care less" type of playing...but we are well prepared for tommorow when the "real" games starts, quarderfinals against USA....little payback behalf our womens...:nono: ;)
well canada won the czechs 3-2, it wasn't easy, but still, it's the result that matters. and i forgot who's opponent for the quarterfinal.

[INVISIBLE]

ЕЕЕЕЕЕУУУУууууууу!!!!

hockey

Russia 5:4 USA :nana: :nana: :nana: :D :D

[drunkhomer]

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060221/i/r2784713812.jpg

http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20060221/i/r4241327130.jpg

[Mazepa]

Woman hockey.
Canadian won 4-1 sweden.

Congruduate The Candian members Here:) .

Hope Mazepa is not upset.:D

We lost the the best without doubt.. Canadas ladies are unstoppable, but this olympics we won over USA:s ladies :)

[Gollevainen]

ANTERO NIITTYMÄKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

huh, what a game....and it followed quite familiar pattern. First we make goals but then (this time completly unfair) penaltyes mess ups our games and the opponent strikes back....we managed to keep our lead but then the last five minutes is just pure nightmare, USA makes their third goal and we are getting beaten up. If it had been Sweden, we would have lost but our goalie Antero niittymäki keeps up his phenomenal savings...so we WON!!!!!! 4-3 and here we go to the medalgames....:nana:

[tphuang]

US and Canada both loosing. What a disgrace for Gary Bettman and the NHL. Never cared much for the sport. All I can say is: Go Finland!

[swimmerXC]

Nina Li won Silver in Freestyle Skiing.. so that puts us to 8 medals
http://www.nbcolympics.com/medals/1599001/detail.html

[KYli]

We almost sweep all the gold, silver and bronze in skiing, but end up with only one silver. Well at least we have one more medal, better than nothing. :)

The sad thing is we lost the silver in short track skiing.:(

[T-U-P]

i can't believe canada lost to russia in hockey!!! 0-2, that's a disgrace! especially the last goal, only 23 more seconds and they scored again! :mad: :mad: :mad:

[INVISIBLE]

ЕЕЕЕЕЕЕЕЕЕЕееееууууууууууу!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Russia won!!!!!!!!!! :p :nana: :nana:

Russia 2:0 Canada

:D :D

US and Canada both loosing. What a disgrace for Gary Bettman and the NHL. Never cared much for the sport. All I can say is: Go Finland!

You can say is: GO RUSSIA!!!

[Mazepa]

Yesterday was a splendid day indeed!.. 2 gold and one bronze to the Swedes. And the failure of the Norwegians just makes things even better :) They were planning on at least 15 gold medals this Olympics. I guess they got a bit overconfident!

[WEN?]

how good was china in the freestyle alpine sking!! did you guys see that fall by that aussie woman?? she like tore the inside of her left knee or something. that must of been so bad for the team and her and at the most crutcial time. that orther aussie something copper did a huge score in the quilfiers but came eighth. anyone know how many medals australias got???

[KYli]

Chinese is pretty good at freestyle skiing. Li Nina who has the world cup title and undisputed favorite in Olympic.

Australia has one gold and one bronze.

Finally Chinese got another Gold.

In freestyle skiing, Han Xiaopeng won the Gold.:china: :china: :china:

:nana: :nana:

[Mazepa]

We won yet another gold!This time in curling. It´s the best winter olympics ever for Sweden! The second best was S:t Moritz 1948, so we have waited a long time for this :)

With this luck we might even be able to win the Eurovision Song contest this year!!!!

[Gollevainen]

With this luck we might even be able to win the Eurovision Song contest this year!!!!

well i can sure you that we wont challenge you in there...We finns always come last in those games:( :confused: ;) :p

But to real sport...We still lack the gold...and it's basicly to two events where it can be achived, mens Curling and Icehockey, so the upcoming weekend will be quite interesting.

By the way Mazepa, in here there have been lots of talk about your hockey team coathes statements before the last swedish premilary game against Slovakia. He said that Sweden doesen't need to win so that they would go against Switcherland instead of Checks....and they did exactly that....
.. Offcourse we jealosly finns now think that Sweden got to the semifinals practically free and unfairly...have there been any similar toughts?

[Mazepa]

well i can sure you that we wont challenge you in there...We finns always come last in those games:( :confused: ;) :p

But to real sport...We still lack the gold...and it's basicly to two events where it can be achived, mens Curling and Icehockey, so the upcoming weekend will be quite interesting.

By the way Mazepa, in here there have been lots of talk about your hockey team coathes statements before the last swedish premilary game against Slovakia. He said that Sweden doesen't need to win so that they would go against Switcherland instead of Checks....and they did exactly that....
.. Offcourse we jealosly finns now think that Sweden got to the semifinals practically free and unfairly...have there been any similar toughts?

There is indeed such thoughts. Its just strange to see a team full of NHL professionals play some kind of laid back hockey agains Slovakia and then the next day kick Swiss butt with a aggressive and contructive game. The reason for this is of course up for speculation, but it really feels like someone did want to avoid Canada. Sad indeed as its not the victory that is to be important, but to compete in a noble way... But i guess thats as obselete as not having sponsored games. Why does every dress in this olympics have a Nike brand on them? Why do they always remove one ski in slalom to show the logo of the manufacturer?...

Maby we will have Sweden against Finland in the finals!.. And then my bet is on Finland, because your team is like Canadas ladies! Unstoppable :)

[Gollevainen]

Yeah....what would be nicer than win olympic gold is 1995-World Championshiptunraments retake....:p Becouse now we are first time since then actually showing some signhs of actually being aple to do so....

[Gollevainen]

4-0

What a tournament....haven't lost a single game and now we are ready for the finals...and it cannot be better than a classic match between us and Sweden.

Today has been quite good overall, two silvermedals, from Slalom and curling....

[FuManChu]

Shizuka Arakawa won the gold medal in the women's figure skating. She was absolutely wonderful - congratulations to her! :)

[Ender Wiggin]

Go Canada! :nana:

We have well trained arm muscles from digging up snow :)

[PiSigma]

wow.. i haven't been here in days... can't believe our men's hockey got their ass kicked so hard.. must be painful just to sit down...

to Kyli:
i would probably say the exact same thing you think i would have said in that post you made a few days ago.

[FriedRiceNSpice]

I am still dissappointed at our failure to meet expectations at short track skating :(

Li Jiajun is doing horrible and so is Li Ye! The South Koreans are stealing our medals! :mad:

[KYli]

Hi FriedriceNspice

You sure are not active lately.

Chinawhite got banned.

Migleader got one week off.

It is much more quiet lately.

I don't post much until recently, so you don't know me.:D

Let hope for today in short track skate.:china:

[swimmerXC]

Just finished watching the Russia vs Czech game..
Wow Russia lost...
Czech:3
Russia:0
Good luck to Finland tomorrow

[Gollevainen]

Sweden is the one needing the luck tommorow....escaping away from hungry pack of lions...:D :D :D

[Mazepa]

Time for the mother of a battles! Sweden against Finland!!!.. I wish my Finnish brothers good luck and may the best men win :)

[Gollevainen]

yeah...few more hours....:D :D

[Mazepa]

Sweden wins gold in hockey! It is a joyful day today and now i am just waiting for HV71 to win the Swedish elite-series....

[SampanViking]

Oh Dear - Finland were 1 - Nil up last I saw.

My advice to you lot then is definately to mind your P's and Q's for the rest of the day, as I can see one very pi:mad: :mad: ed off Finn, with an angry bottle of Vodka, stalking the forums, just searching for a victim.......

[FriedRiceNSpice]

Chinawhite got banned.

I was around for that, though I kind of faded away too when Chinawhite got banned.

[Gollevainen]

yeah...life begun to win eventually...but beter not say anything about the last nigth after the game clock hit 60...better team won, thats all:( :(
...But it was the eigth time we lost in major tournament finale, and only once we have won...