02-19-2018, 10:11 AM
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#161
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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02-19-2018, 10:17 AM
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#162
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Voted for Kodos
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Originally Posted by transplant99
Canada now has more Gold than they did total medals in the 88 Calgary games.
We have come a LOOOONG way baby!
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To be fair, in events that existed in the 88 Olympics, we have only 2 golds, 1 silver, and 2 bronze in these games.
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02-19-2018, 10:34 AM
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#163
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dash_pinched
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Best part of that is he actually missed the end of the game when the Japanese conceded to go get those beers. He was walking back to his seat and the game was over.
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02-19-2018, 10:40 AM
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#164
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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he doesn't sit at all during the games, he just paces around the entire arena (looking for beer probably)
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02-19-2018, 10:46 AM
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#165
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Virginia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
To be fair, in events that existed in the 88 Olympics, we have only 2 golds, 1 silver, and 2 bronze in these games.
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True, but that's still a pretty substantial improvement over 88.
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02-19-2018, 10:51 AM
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#166
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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it was amateurs vs pros/cheats back then
Gaetan Boucher's 3 medals in 84 are probably the greatest Canadian Olympic achievement ever.
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02-19-2018, 11:03 AM
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#167
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Lifetime Suspension
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Yea, that was amazing. I remember the french CBC pulling out the champagne on air.
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02-19-2018, 12:20 PM
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#168
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Voted for Kodos
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Originally Posted by SebC
This hungarian skier just did a 180 and no other tricks on her halfpipe run. No hint of a fall and she scored a 30.
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Just reading about this. Basically, this is an American gaming her way into the Olympics.
The Olympics requires a certain number of top 30 finishes, so Elizabeth Swaney flew herself to a bunch of events where there was less than 30 competitors. She can’t do any tricks, but can essentially get down the half pipe without falling. At all the events, she would be near last (sometimes competitors would fall, and she’d finish ahead of them). She was 13th out of 15 in one event, where all of the worlds best were at a different event on the same day.
Obviously, she wouldn’t be one of the top 4 for the American team, so she tried to find a country that would send her to the Olympics. She’s competed for Venezuela, and now at the Olympics for Hungary - through some distant Hungarian lineage.
Here is video of her run:
https://twitter.com/tmortimerftbl/st...39277911285760
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02-19-2018, 12:34 PM
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#169
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tromboner
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: where the lattes are
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Root
And considering the precision of bobsleigh, not to mention the fact that only 5 one-hundreds separated first through third, I am shocked that they don't go to the thousandths
Five kilometers of sliding on ice and a hundredth of a second can't separate them
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Could be intentional - it is for swimming. Intentionally lowering precision allows ties where higher precision could be decided by things outside the athlete's control (like changing track conditions, perhaps).
http://olympstats.com/2014/02/12/tim...olympic-games/
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02-19-2018, 01:21 PM
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#170
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Just reading about this. Basically, this is an American gaming her way into the Olympics.
The Olympics requires a certain number of top 30 finishes, so Elizabeth Swaney flew herself to a bunch of events where there was less than 30 competitors. She can’t do any tricks, but can essentially get down the half pipe without falling. At all the events, she would be near last (sometimes competitors would fall, and she’d finish ahead of them). She was 13th out of 15 in one event, where all of the worlds best were at a different event on the same day.
Obviously, she wouldn’t be one of the top 4 for the American team, so she tried to find a country that would send her to the Olympics. She’s competed for Venezuela, and now at the Olympics for Hungary - through some distant Hungarian lineage.
Here is video of her run:
https://twitter.com/tmortimerftbl/st...39277911285760
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Wow. Have some respect for the competition. And yourself.
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