The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread- Page 7

[brdlwyr]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#150

Posted: 2/13/06 at 11:25pm

I loved it!!! That is the Olympics!!!!!

[NYadgal]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#151

Posted: 2/13/06 at 11:26pm

I am sitting here sobbing!

The courage of that woman! What a beautiful pair of skaters.

Actually... ALL of the stories tonight have really been something special!

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[ShbrtAlley44]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#152

Posted: 2/13/06 at 11:26pm

Wow, that's the first time I've cried in a looong time watching the Olympics. FABULOUS.

[Jane2]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#153

Posted: 2/13/06 at 11:27pm

That was a beautiful example of sportsmanship.

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[Mamie]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#154

Posted: 2/13/06 at 11:29pm

Wasn't that wonderful?! They deserved that medal for HEART if nothing else! BRAVO!!!

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[NYadgal]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#155

Posted: 2/13/06 at 11:30pm

oh I am SO glad I tivo'd that!

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[Kitzarina]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#156

Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:26am

Me too, Addy. They were phenomenal. I'm convinced that if she hadn't fallen on that throw, they would've won the gold. THAT'S why I watch figure skating. Just increadible.

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[NYadgal]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#157

Posted: 2/14/06 at 12:29am

Such courage! And such grace!

Honestly, I don't know HOW she got through that! I tripped and skinned my knee the other day and have been hobbling around. She fell on the ice, twisted her leg and landed on her knee and then went on to give a breathtaking Olympic performance!

Truly one for the books!

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[miss pennywise]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#158

Posted: 2/14/06 at 1:12am

I was so happy for them when they got the Silver Medal...The SILVER Medal! That's extraordinary considering what happened to her.

AND I actually found myself having RESPECT for the judges for the first time ever!

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[gettinhep]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#159

Posted: 2/17/06 at 11:10pm

I just have to look at ice and I fall over. These people have my everlasting respect.

As for luge and skeleton...Has anyone screamed all the way down the course, yet?

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[cturtle]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#160

Posted: 2/19/06 at 12:08am

i loved it when the skeleton announcer hollered "holy mackerel!"

RIP glebby <3

[cturtle]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#161

Posted: 2/19/06 at 12:58pm

what was up with SHANI DAVIS being so cold during the NBC interview after winning GOLD for the 1500 m speed skate? if he was "at a loss for words", why did he do the interview at all?

RIP glebby <3

[JLSatUD]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#162

Posted: 2/19/06 at 1:18pm

I thought that interview was bizarre too. I mean, I guess it's totally possible to be just stuck in your own little dream world, but it just came across as very odd.

[mabel]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#163

Posted: 2/19/06 at 1:25pm

I agree. I saw the race and his interview last night, and he gave off an odd vibe. The whole situation seems pretty screwy. I forget all of the specifics with the men's combined, but I just don't understand why he wasn't more up front with his intentions, as far as not participating. Didn't he say he never intended to skate as part of the team, but he didn't actually tell the team that until the day before or of?? Something like that?? While part of me can kind of see where he's coming from, wanting to focus on his own races, it does seem kind of iffy not wanting to contribute to the team. Then the real kicker was not being totally up front from the beginning, before they even got to Torino.

I don't know. He seems like a bit of an odd duck.

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[JLSatUD]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#164

Posted: 2/20/06 at 8:15pm

Anyone watching the men's ariels? This is awesome!

Ouch, until that guy fell.

[Glebb]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#165

Posted: 2/20/06 at 9:00pm

Too bad Raul doesn't skate.

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[NYadgal]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#166

Posted: 2/20/06 at 10:12pm

The hostility of the Italian Ice Dancing pair toward each other is rather frightening. And not terribly becoming.
How do they expect to perform together later if they can't even look at eachother?

The GLARE seen 'round the world!

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[bdwaygirl]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#167

Posted: 2/20/06 at 10:19pm

I'm sitting here in amazement at the two of them! Unbelievable.

I felt so bad for the Canadian couple last night and just a little bit ago when they were interviewed.

I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2.

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[Mamie]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#168

Posted: 2/20/06 at 10:20pm

Isn't that awful? Those two are really freezing each other out. (Some of that hot Latin emotion showing itself?)

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[NYadgal]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#169

Posted: 2/20/06 at 10:21pm

I think it's really unsportsmanlike. They should have points deducted for their behavior!

I feel SO badly for the Canadian couple. What an emotional interview!

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[Mamie]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#170

Posted: 2/20/06 at 10:23pm

Yes - that was heartbreaking. I couldn't believe how many of these ice dancers fell yesterday! It looked as bad as the figure skaters.

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[bdwaygirl]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#171

Posted: 2/20/06 at 10:23pm

Like the announcer just mentioned, is that something she's going to want her daughter to see 20 years from now? How badly her mother behaved in front of the world?

I hung out with Cheyenne Jackson in his dressing room waayyyyyy before he tickled D2.

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[Mamie]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#172

Posted: 2/20/06 at 10:24pm

I do like the way this couple is moving with the changes in tempo with the phantom music.

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[DayDreamer]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#173

Posted: 2/20/06 at 10:25pm

You should have seen what the canadian presenter said... something to the effect of grace and humility in sports, shown by the Canadian couple and missing from the Italian couple.

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[NYadgal]

re: The Official Torino Winter Olympics Thread#174

Posted: 2/20/06 at 10:26pm

I don't wish them ill, but I really think it's behavior that doesn't fit with the spirit of the Olympics.

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