02-24-2010, 12:05 PM
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#3601
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Why do they officially call it women's hockey, women's curling, women's biathalon, women's bobsleigh, women's skeleton, and women's luge, but call other events ladies' speedskating, ladies' figure skating, ladies' alpine skiing, ladies' snowboard, ladies' cross country skiing etc. Is any sport that involves extra equipment (sleds, guns, sticks, rocks) deemed to be less lady-like and more womanly?
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02-24-2010, 12:06 PM
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#3602
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sec 216
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Wow, I just watched Rochette skate. She did pretty well but I was more floored by the reaction after.
She cried, Moir cried, Virtue cried, her coach cried, the volunteers in the blue coats were crying. It was pretty emotional. I actually smiled and kind of laughed seeing all those people in tears.
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02-24-2010, 12:07 PM
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#3603
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jergreen
I believe womens bobsled has the final runs tonight. We currently sit in 1st and 4th I think. Not 100% sure.
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After 2 runs:
CAN 1: 1:46.20
USA 2: +0.13
GER 2: +0.40
CAN2: +0.42
Run 3 at 6:00 MT, run 4 at 7:15 MT
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02-24-2010, 12:08 PM
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#3604
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by octothorp
Why do they officially call it women's hockey, women's curling, women's biathalon, women's bobsleigh, women's skeleton, and women's luge, but call other events ladies' speedskating, ladies' figure skating, ladies' alpine skiing, ladies' snowboard, ladies' cross country skiing etc. Is any sport that involves extra equipment (sleds, guns, sticks, rocks) deemed to be less lady-like and more womanly?
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Ladies is an old term. So anything sport that's been in the olympics a long time.. say before 1980 is ladies' and anything new is women's!
My favourite is the Women's 2-man Bobsleigh.
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02-24-2010, 12:19 PM
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#3605
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Draft Pick
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Vonn crashed in women's GS, and the intervals were so short that Mancuso was on course after and had to be flagged and re-start her run 10-15 places later (worse course conditions, skis not fresh) beacuse they insist on running 100 people in the olympics even though the last half are +15-30 seconds off the pace. She looks PISSED.
Couple Canadians made it to second run, good considering we do not have any legit female GS skiers on the world cup.
Dumping hard in Whistler, lucky buggers who are skiing today since I'm sure the hills are empty.
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02-24-2010, 12:19 PM
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#3606
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Sec 216
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The ladies giant slolom has some crazy countries competing. Since when did people in Iran and Cyprus ski?
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02-24-2010, 12:20 PM
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#3607
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: not lurking
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GirlySports
Ladies is an old term. So anything sport that's been in the olympics a long time.. say before 1980 is ladies' and anything new is women's!
My favourite is the Women's 2-man Bobsleigh.
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Except that a lot of relatively new sports (aerials, snowboard, freestyle, short-track) still use 'ladies'.
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02-24-2010, 12:56 PM
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#3608
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by octothorp
Except that a lot of relatively new sports (aerials, snowboard, freestyle, short-track) still use 'ladies'.
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Then I don't know, you blew my made-up theory right out of the water 
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02-24-2010, 01:06 PM
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#3609
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Calgary, AB
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Is the US eliminated if they lose to the Swiss?
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02-24-2010, 01:07 PM
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#3610
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Section 222
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Originally Posted by Tyler
Is the US eliminated if they lose to the Swiss?
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Yup, the Swiss would then more onto the semi-finals and the States would be SOL.
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02-24-2010, 01:19 PM
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#3611
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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yeah BIG hockey games tonight. Win and you get 2 more games and 75% chance of getting a medal. Lose and go home with F-all.
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02-24-2010, 01:24 PM
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#3612
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Lethbridge
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Swiss hanging in versus the Americans so far. They've traded chances still 0-0.
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02-24-2010, 01:42 PM
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#3613
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GirlySports
yeah BIG hockey games tonight. Win and you get 2 more games and 75% chance of getting a medal. Lose and go home with F-all.
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If you win, why would you have 2 more games? what if you lose the next one?
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02-24-2010, 01:44 PM
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#3614
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
If you win, why would you have 2 more games? what if you lose the next one?
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Bronze medal game.
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02-24-2010, 01:58 PM
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#3615
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Market Mall Food Court
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Table 5
Bronze medal game.
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02-24-2010, 02:05 PM
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#3616
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CP Pontiff
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: A pasture out by Millarville
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jergreen
Swiss hanging in versus the Americans so far. They've traded chances still 0-0.
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The longer you let an inferior team know it has a chance, the more you energize them and the greater the chance of an upset.
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The ladies giant slolom has some crazy countries competing. Since when did people in Iran and Cyprus ski?
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Even whackadoodles like to ski and Iran has some great mountains. A first hand report from Iran.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/200...24/iran.skiing
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02-24-2010, 02:10 PM
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#3617
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: 110
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I guess I've never really watched any of the Olympics online before but I'm loving the lack of commentators on the CTV feed. It's great just to hear the arena sounds.
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02-24-2010, 02:12 PM
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#3618
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: 161 St. - Yankee Stadium
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Quote:
Originally Posted by flip
The ladies giant slolom has some crazy countries competing. Since when did people in Iran and Cyprus ski?
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Wait until this weekend, when the "Snow Leopard" from Ghana takes to the slopes in the men's slalom.
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02-24-2010, 02:14 PM
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#3619
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Franchise Player
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Klassen is skating right now in the 5000 m. She wins her pair and is in first but she's in the first pair so long way to go.
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02-24-2010, 02:19 PM
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#3620
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Likes Cartoons
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LockedOut
Klassen is skating right now in the 5000 m. She wins her pair and is in first but she's in the first pair so long way to go.
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Unfortunately, her time won't hold up. Most of the skaters that will skate later are in the 7:10s or better
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