XX Olympic Winter Games

[Not Afraid]

It was nice to see John Nicks so happy. He was the coach of my skater friends and he can be a very serious grump when he's not happy.

[scaeagles]

I'm freakin' sick of this Olympic crap and the largely spoiled brat athletes.

The US hockey team members are all sniping at each other because, well, they sucked. "If I had played more we would have done better, wah, wah, wah." Go screw yourself, crybaby whiners.

Our best speed skaters (mens) can't seem to shake hands and be happy for one another.

Our supposed hope in the alpine events, being Bode Miller, doesn't even seem to care that he hasn't performed anywhere near his potential. I honestly don't care that he didn't win. I just think if you're going to go to the Olympics you should damn well give it your best, and I'm not convinced he did.

Michelle Kwan whined her way into the Olympics and then quit.

I don't know....maybe I'm making too much of this, but there are more examples.

Anyone ever watch the X-games? What I love about the X-games is that the athletes genuinely love to watch each other and have tremendous respect for one another. There's none of the bickering and whining and jealousy.....those guys (and girls) participate in their sports because they love their sports.

I know many of the Olympic athletes do, and that the arguing and fighting makes a better news story than does the happy people all getting along. Sigh.

[Ghoulish Delight]

May I suggest getting a DVR. Much easier to ignore all that crap.

[Gemini Cricket]

What bugs me are the announcers that are just completely bashing what a particular athlete is doing.
"Oh, look so-in-so is having an off night. Not his best performance. That is such a shame. Terrible. And he knows it."

I'm like, 'Oh, yeah? Let's see you do it, fartypants.'

[Not Afraid]

YEah, NBC seems to be struggling to find what sells and grasping at straws. The only "controversy" that I even cared about was the Italian pairs skaters - and that was because it was so incredibally like a soap opera and hard to believe it was real.

Bodi is lame.

Chad and Shawnie need to screw each other. There's obviously some latent sexual tension there.

Oh, and when you've blown out BOTH knees doing arials wouldn't you think that was a sign from God to stop doing them?

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Oh, and when you've blown out BOTH knees doing arials wouldn't you think that was a sign from God to stop doing them?

I'd take it as such, but you've got to admire the guts of that Aussie girl (at least I think that's who you are speaking of). Major reconstructive surgery only 7 months ago and your are doing a sport that involves landing on your feet from a 50 foot fall? Guts....or stupidity. Whichever.

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Chad and Shawnie need to screw each other. There's obviously some latent sexual tension there.

Show of hands - who else watched that press conference and was expecting one of them to jump up and shout "Bitch, you did *not* just say that"?

[Not Afraid]

Yeah, at first I was admiring her guts and tenacity, then the more I thought about it, I just kept landing on stupid. But, hey, she got a bronze.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Yeah, at first I was admiring her guts and tenacity, then the more I thought about it, I just kept landing on stupid. But, hey, she got a bronze.

Oh, that one. She was only 4 months out of surgery (don't recall her nationality). The Aussie that was 7 months out of surgery actually did blow her knee out again in quals. They kept showing it over and over, including the audio of her shrieking in agony.

What bugs me are the announcers that are just completely bashing what a particular athlete is doing.

This is why I'm absolutely loathing Dick Button right now. I don't know if NBC decided that to compete with American Idol they had to have one person be the Simonesque asshole, but it's really getting old.

It was bad enough when Dick was criticizing the hell out of the lower-rung competitors, while being a total appologist for the top 5 contenders (suddenly his comments would go from, "That was just a terrible example of that move" to, "A small bobble, but it can be overlooked" for the more well known skaters). But he crossed the line for me the other night when he said of one skater, "She needs to not just go to the gym to work out, but she need to think when she's there." Scott Hamilton must have shot him a look or something becuase he pathetically followed it with, "I hope that's not being unkind."

[Stan4dSteph]

Yeah, those aerials athletes are nuts. However, since they keep opting for the allograft there's no shortage of ligaments to worry about, as long as people keep dying.