Re: Winter Olympics 2006 Torino, Italy
I hope the americans loose to their semifinal opponents. I'm scared that the Canadians will be too over-confident with the Finnish and AMericans, over confidence can hurt alot.
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I hope the americans loose to their semifinal opponents. I'm scared that the Canadians will be too over-confident with the Finnish and AMericans, over confidence can hurt alot.
Oh, come now.
You'd begrudge us the Gold? :P
Re: Winter Olympics 2006 Torino, Italy
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begrudge = To envy the possession or enjoyment of
yes, I would :snooty:
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This is subjective bullshit.
The USA had a flawless performance in the figure skating pairs and did some quadruple throw shit never done in the history of the Winter Games then...
Two Chinese pairs skate. Neither were together with their spins (out of sync) and the female of one pair even made a mistake on her landing and had to brace her hands against the ground so as not to fall.
Both Chinese pairs got better scores.
Bullshit.:dry:
I'm glad wifey went back upstairs. Now I can watch BSG.
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Try not to point out that something's not really a sport if a pseudoathlete waits in what's called a kiss and cry area while some panel of subjective judges decides who won.
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Okay, let me offer up last night's Olympic Paisrs Free Skate as exhibit A in the case against figure skating as a real sport. Half of the pair of Zhang and Zhang suffered a nasty spill while attempted an unprecedented throw quad salka (sp?). Zhang struggled off the ice, they took a few minutes, probably had a frappucino, talked with the coaches, then asked to resume. Not only did the referee allow all this junk but Zhang and Zhang then won the silver medal. Tony, how fraudulent can you get?
So I would say it's a Zhang Thang that you wouldn't understand. There are certain sports that where they build in downtime, rest time or injury time like in tennis.
Like golf, between rounds...not in the same skate.
Yes, it does seem to me that if you are out on the ice and you suffer this kind of injury..THAT'S IT...the program is over. You get up right away, you keep skating or you quit.
That's what's happened before. We've seen people have to end their programs before.
Yes, I don't think you can leave the field of play and uh come back when you want.....and then get a silver medal.
Have and ice tea. Have a nap. I mean come on. It's fixed. It's exhibition. It is not sport, Tony. It's just scandalous. The whole thing is a fraud.
It's athletics but it's a performance.
Excellent we agree.
Re: Winter Olympics 2006 Torino, Italy
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yes, I would :snooty:
begrudge = hatin'
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Wow!
Plushenko's (of Russia) single figure skating performance was brilliant.
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Wow!
Plushenko's (of Russia) single figure skating performance was brilliant.
You're a better man than Bryant Gumbel.
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Wow!
Plushenko's (of Russia) single figure skating performance was brilliant.
You're a better man than Bryant Gumbel.
How so?
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Wow!
Plushenko's (of Russia) single figure skating performance was brilliant.
I missed it, but I saw the emmanuel and the american guy.
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You're a better man than Bryant Gumbel.
How so?
You're willing to feign interest.
