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| Vancouver 2010 Olympics | ||||
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| 00:30:41 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Kayn: I found it pretty odd that there was really nothing on the Olympics. I don't know about anyone else, but Ive been glued to it. ======================================================= | ||||
| 00:31:25 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Arthur Dent: Canada/USA hockey game... wow what a show. | ||||
| 00:36:28 Mar 1st 10 - Lady Caoimhe: canada has 10 times more winter. | ||||
| 00:44:37 Mar 1st 10 - Sir Erunion Telcontar: Great job Canada! Yeah! | ||||
| 00:46:57 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Canucks: CANADA ALL THE WAY!!! To me the standings dont matter but the hockey matters the most! | ||||
| 00:52:44 Mar 1st 10 - Lord Stewie Griffin: CANADA GOLD !!!!!!! | ||||
| 01:06:21 Mar 1st 10 - Endless Wargasms:
wot? LMAO | ||||
| 01:22:57 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. And Ezzington: Winter Olympics are boring. Bring on the proper ones. | ||||
| 01:24:14 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Arthur Dent: Means you leaves have no summer and thus need the winter ;) <3 Canada they're awesome. Huge kudos for setting a gold standard. But didn't they lose to USA in curling? tsk tsk that's depressing. | ||||
| 02:05:35 Mar 1st 10 - Dark Prince Hemagyname: People are dying to play in the winter olympics! | ||||
| 02:14:49 Mar 1st 10 - Lord Stewie Griffin: Mr. Arthur Dent | ||||
| 04:26:22 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Arthur Dent: Weird, I might be thinking of women's? Oh idk, it seemed surprising. | ||||
| 04:46:46 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Basch: Australia sucks. But my god, Britain sucks even more!! even though they get sooooo much more snow than we do | ||||
| 04:50:04 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Arthur Dent: Britain was hilarious. They had some 60 competitors, no? 1 MEDAL?!?!?!? LOOOOOOOOOLL | ||||
| 06:45:57 Mar 1st 10 - Lady Caoimhe: only 14 medals? everyone on their hockey team got a medal. should be 34ish... | ||||
| 07:05:26 Mar 1st 10 - Lord Stewie Griffin: lol the team medals count as 1 unfortunately | ||||
| 11:01:21 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Apoll: Norway rocks, 4mil people living here, so if u calc like that... then norway pwns everyone.. And please, dont start by saying norway got more winter than other people... dont Ooo, and look on the stats for most golds. Not this OL, but the whole thing... norway pwns, we got 107 gold | ||||
| 11:27:58 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Basch: norway has 4.6 mil. Closer to 5 mil than 4 :P | ||||
| 11:29:57 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Apoll: bleh, the people after the 4mil dont count :D | ||||
17:17:06 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. And Ezzington:
Britain never gets snow. We get rain. And cloud. And sometimes sun. But never snow. It's only the past year we've got any, what with the radicalisation in the climate (well, everybody has because of it). Still don't have, and never have had the facilities for snow events though (besides say, indoor events like figure skating) Hence why Britain performs reasonably well in the Summer games (ahead of you Aussies and Canadians, eh), but not so well in an event that nobody really cares about. Britain finished 4th in the Summer Olympics. Australia 6th and Canada 19th. LOLOLOL
50 competitors. But, yeah, and Canada sent 332 athletes to the Beijing Summer Olympics, and only came 19th with 18 medals. LOLOLOLOL. | ||||
| 17:59:21 Mar 1st 10 - Sir Arkantos: canada ftw | ||||
| 18:04:45 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Orrises: There is a lot of Canucks in Vu =P | ||||
| 18:09:16 Mar 1st 10 - Dark Prince Hemagyname: RVL had 7 at one point i think | ||||
| 18:14:28 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Willumpietje: Netherlands 8 medals -.- | ||||
| 18:38:15 Mar 1st 10 - Dark Prince Hemagyname: Winter olympics is like the para olympics nobody really cares | ||||
| 18:57:15 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Orrises: In the end we are all human beings just in different parts of the world .. countries don't matter | ||||
| 19:43:22 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Might The God of Cows: Then there is USA which happens to be either 1st or 2nd in most Olympic games in any country :) | ||||
| 20:32:10 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Apoll: lol people.. noone expect alot of golds from countries that got no winter. And please, dont say that noone cares for the winter OL, people do. | ||||
| 20:42:12 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Zuall: USA USA USA don't be hatin' Canada | ||||
| 21:31:18 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Plokoon: The curling was amazing. | ||||
| 21:59:39 Mar 1st 10 - Mr. Apoll: ya, Curling was great :P Actually surprised over how big the game is in Canada, 1mil people playing it :o In norway its kinda rare. My dad have tried it once, thats teh only one I know personally that have tried teh game. Still we are ranked 3rd in the world and came second in this OL, not only that. The Curling team, and, all of the teams in norway is amateur. They dont get a cent from sponsors or anything... but hope that changes after the things with their pants xD that they get some sponsors or something :P | ||||
| 03:21:57 Mar 2nd 10 - Mr. Canucks: Mr. Arthur Dent | ||||
| 04:41:20 Mar 2nd 10 - Mr. Arthur Dent: "50 competitors. But, yeah, and Canada sent 332 athletes to the Beijing
Summer Olympics, and only came 19th with 18 medals. LOLOLOLOL." | ||||
| 08:05:17 Mar 2nd 10 - Mr. Basch: at least canada can still do summer sports. A country NEEDS snow to be able to compete in the winter olympics. | ||||
| 11:19:58 Mar 2nd 10 - Endless Wargasms: unless you are from Jamaica ;) | ||||
16:39:46 Mar 2nd 10 - Mr. And Ezzington:
Bingo | ||||
| 17:01:00 Mar 2nd 10 - Mr. Stamppot Boerenkool Met Worst: Mr. Basch | ||||
| 04:29:38 Mar 3rd 10 - Mr. Vuggy: Canada/USA hockey game... wow what a show. What if we put our REAL athletes there.. like lebron james with a hockey stick? :P That'd be a "show". xD | ||||
| 06:59:22 Mar 3rd 10 - Mr. Arthur Dent: Lol, and then Canada could send their rugby stars to beat him up, lol. | ||||
| 17:12:47 Mar 3rd 10 - Mr. Kayn: Basketball = Most boring sport ever... I'd rather watch curling. | ||||
19:11:56 Mar 3rd 10 - Grand Ape Kongdust:
haha i couldn't agree more :P | ||||
| 05:58:23 Mar 4th 10 - The Architect: Vug, are you seriously saying that hockey players are not athletes? Could you please tell me in what way a basketball player is more of an athlete than a hockey player? In my opinion, hockey is one of the more difficult sports to be able to play well. Think about it, what skills do you need for basketball? You need to be able to run, jump and throw a ball. Granted that's a bit dumbed down, but it makes the comparison easier. Every kid who has ever been on a playground has ran, jumped and thrown a ball. The degree with which they throw that ball varies, but none the less they've thrown a ball. Now compare that to hockey. For starters, you first have to learn how to stand up, unlike basketball where everyone already knows how to stand, walk and run. Then after you learn how to stand, you need to learn how to move, forwards backwards and side to side. Learning to skate well takes more skill than the sport of basketball itself, but I still call basketball a sport with "real" athletes. After you've learned to stand and move yourself, you've gotta learn how to use a hockey stick to move and shoot a puck accurately and quickly. Comparably, everyone already knows how to throw a ball, the technique in basketball must be learned, but in general, everyone knows how to throw a ball, and even people who have never played before can quickly figure it out. Then you throw in checking with combined hits up to ~45mph, a ton of gear that restricts movement and vision and the possibility of a game going non-stop for a full period (20 minutes), and you've got much more that goes into playing hockey than does basketball And yet, even through all of that, I still consider basketball just as much a sport with "real" athletes. What exactly is it that makes you say that Hockey is not a real sport with real athletes? | ||||
| 06:17:43 Mar 4th 10 - Mr. Canucks: Archtiect is right, hockey requires a lot more skill then b-ball and hockey is a lot more agressive | ||||
| 06:22:30 Mar 4th 10 - Endless Wargasms:
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| 09:59:37 Mar 4th 10 - Mr. Stamppot Boerenkool Met Worst: For starters, you first have to learn how to stand up, unlike
basketball where everyone already knows how to stand, walk and run.
Then after you learn how to stand, you need to learn how to move,
forwards backwards and side to side. Learning to skate well takes more
skill than the sport of basketball itself | ||||
| 10:31:29 Mar 4th 10 - The Architect: I didn't say that no one knows how to skate. My parents started teaching me at 3 years old, skating is second nature to walking for me. People who have never been on hockey skates before have an extremely hard time standing up, even those who can skate well with figure skates have lots of difficulty on hockey skates. I worked as a skate guard for like 4 years, I've seen many who were sure that they could skate fall flat on their face, I got to call the ambulance and clean up the blood. If you've not skated before, you do have to learn to stand up all over again and build up from there. There are a few people I've seen that have never skated before that can get on the ice and zip around without a problem, but those people are few and far between. | ||||
| 19:30:15 Mar 4th 10 - Sir Erunion Telcontar: I've skated for most of my life, but about once a year which isn't nearly enough. I've only just began skating in earnest, and while I can move quickly and turn well, I still can't stop without the boards or a lot of ice in front of me and I'm proud of myself if I manage to skate for an hour without falling down. Of all the major sports, hockey is one of the most difficult to play and requires probably the most skills and abilities. You need to be able to skate, shoot, block shots, use your stick, give a hit, take a hit and so much more. That's not even counting goalies! You also need stamina and cardiovascular endurance, great hand-eye coordination, a goodly amount of muscle and a head on your shoulders. | ||||
| 02:13:50 Mar 5th 10 - Mr. Vuggy: Vug, are you seriously saying that hockey players are not athletes? It was a joke xD. Sheesh you take every little thing seriously. I personally hate basketball, I find it retarded. Worst sport evar. I'd rather watch golf. I was just stating first person who came to mind, and lebron james seemed funny to say. I don't mind watching hocky, it's a mix of (american) football, soccer, and ice. :) I'd rather watch football though. ^^ | ||||
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