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Johnny Quinn posted:I was taking a shower and the door got locked/jammed.... Johnny Quinn posted:...With no phone to call for help, I used my bobsled push training to break out. #SochiJailBreak
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A Pale Horse posted:Also Kowalczyk is struggling which makes me sad. She's so clumsy all the time. Look at her. loving Hunchback of Warszawa.
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^^^She's never been the most technical skier but its really bad today because she has a twisted ankle.RandomPauI posted:I am, but I don't quite know what I'm actually watching. The most physically demanding sport in the world. Its really a shame that its not much of a spectator sport because cross country skiers are absolutely amazing specimens of human endurance.
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RandomPauI posted:I am, but I don't quite know what I'm actually watching. Scandanavians, mostly.
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looks like the Russians hired giant wasps to build their doors
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Well I don't know what to say, CBC used to have a complete archive up of the opening ceremonies, now it's gone. Hearing all the CBC commentators poo poo on the ceremonies, Putin, and the hotels really was something else, but it seems to have been eternally lost down a memory hole and erased. Appropriate. 
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A Pale Horse posted:looks like the Russians hired giant wasps to build their doors Haven't you ever broken down a door? The cheapest doors are generally built like that. don't malign the russian dog contractors by saying wasps did their glorious work
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Toad on a Hat posted:Poor Bermuda Typical Bermuda forming a triangle
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Holy poo poo he's lucky they made the door from balsa wood he's unlucky they are poo poo at making doors
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Most interior doors are made of particle board and spit. Generally its the doors that lead to the outside being made of real wood. Its not really an example of "russian construction" Fauxtool fucked around with this message at 11:58 on Feb 8, 2014 |
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Fool and the World posted:Cayman islands are officially my favorites Anyone got a pic? Was it just a dude covered in offshore money
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One of our two Brit entrants in the freestyle snowboarding just dropped the f-bomb in the live interview straight after the event. Something like, "I messed up the rail and thought, gently caress it. Just have some fun."
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spookygonk posted:One of our two Brit entrants: gently caress it. Just have some fun." I am just glad I am not a speed skater.
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Just saw the crash of the slovenian skier. Dude took the hill from the wrong angle, and wound up falling 5-6 metres. Best thing is though, no one bothered to help him and he had to pick up his skis and ski down. lol
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midnightclimax posted:Just saw the crash of the slovenian skier. Dude took the hill from the wrong angle, and wound up falling 5-6 metres. Best thing is though, no one bothered to help him and he had to pick up his skis and ski down. lol Same thing happened with the woman slopestyler who faceplanted thursday, it took well over a minute for someone to check up on her when she was limping of the track in obvious pain. If you're going to make overly dangerous venues at least put more than one doctor along the track.
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   Nice loving Olympics. Fauxtool posted:Most interior doors are made of particle board and spit. Generally its the doors that lead to the outside being made of real wood. No, but this particular door happens to be made of extremely cheap materials in an ongoing pattern of cheap and lovely materials with everything else. Spacedad fucked around with this message at 13:34 on Feb 8, 2014 |
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Spacedad posted:Nice loving Olympics. The seats were left empty for the athletes. I'm watching a replay of the opening right now after they had come in and been seated and the same camera angles showed those sections full.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ7bNeqdNgM Food is the last thing I am concerned about.
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VelociBacon posted:Assuming that some people in this thread are into sports/olympics etc has there been such a horrible debacle of an olympics before or is this the first and last time? The summer Olympics are going to be in Brazil, so not the last time.
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VelociBacon posted:Assuming that some people in this thread are into sports/olympics etc has there been such a horrible debacle of an olympics before or is this the first and last time?
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VelociBacon posted:Assuming that some people in this thread are into sports/olympics etc has there been such a horrible debacle of an olympics before or is this the first and last time? The only thing that's been really awful relative to other Olympics has been the price tag, especially relative to the quality of what we've been getting. If the running tally had been less than half what it was, none of this would be that big a deal. The Kins posted:Munich had a few issues. Well, that was well into the 2nd week of the Olympics.
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VelociBacon posted:Assuming that some people in this thread are into sports/olympics etc has there been such a horrible debacle of an olympics before or is this the first and last time? montreal had extreme debt that took 30 years to pay off about half the countries didn't show up in moscow atlanta had the bombing, plus the fact it was in atlanta
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Alan Smithee posted:Anyone got a pic? Was it just a dude covered in offshore money They came to the opening dressed in shorts and flip flops.
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Zeluth posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ7bNeqdNgM Whats going on in the video? I tried watching it but only made it 10 seconds into "chick tries way too hard to look like she's funny".
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Vertical Lime posted:about half the countries didn't show up in moscow To be fair, they had just launched a controversial unilateral intervention into Afghanistan. The Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact countries ended up doing a boycott of the next Olympics in Los Angeles in response to the 1980 Olympic boycott.
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VelociBacon posted:Assuming that some people in this thread are into sports/Olympics etc has there been such a horrible debacle of an Olympics before or is this the first and last time? One hangover has always been the cost. Quebec didn't pay off their 2bn debt from 1976 until 2006. Nagano burnt their accounting documents to cover the costs, reportedly around 10b that won't be paid off till 2015. Athens suffered as the failure to recoup costs helped it plunge into debt. Most Olympics nowadays try to upgrade existing arenas or develop infrastructure that can be reused. But the growing level of spectacle is seriously challenging these ideas, leading to commercial saturation. Germany in 1936 possibly has the closest parallels with Sochi such as the anti-semitic discrimination and Hitler having to promise that Jews from other nations would be allowed to compete, while banning some of their own countries top athletes. Owing to the massive discomfort in hosting the games in a fascist nation, Spain was close to running a People's Olympiad that was scuppered with the outbreak of the civil war. The boycotts over apartheid and Russian conflict during the 80's were one of the more notable issues during the Olympics history that had amusing repercussions, such as McDonalds having a promotional event where "If the US wins, you win" that cost them a fair bit when Russia boycotted and everyone loaded up on free food.
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Darkman Fanpage posted:isnt the only reason ford is in office because the suburbs of toronto were allowed to vote in the mayoral election? why can't they fly both, it seems like the obvious thing to do do they only have one flagpole
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ChocNitty posted:Am I the only one who watches the parade of nations just to see which country has the most fuckable women? its czech republic every time
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Whoa, wasn't there riots in 1988 Seoul Olympics? I recall they were still a military dictatorship at the time and part of the reason they transitioned to a democratic government was because of the public relations nightmare that was forming around the games.
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^ I just know it helped legitimize South Korea.Young Freud posted:To be fair, they had just launched a controversial unilateral intervention into Afghanistan. The Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact countries ended up doing a boycott of the next Olympics in Los Angeles in response to the 1980 Olympic boycott. Yeah, that's why. Then again, Los Angeles might have saved the Olympics from disarray given what happened in the previous few.
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MariusLecter posted:drat, the women's Canadian hockey team is slaughtering the Swiss on the ice right now. Don't worry the men's hockey team will get crushed by Russia and the United States to balance things out. Hockey really is the only thing interesting to watch, as a competitive sport, during the winter Olympics.
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Agrajag posted:Don't worry the men's hockey team will get crushed by Russia and the United States to balance things out. Hockey really is the only thing interesting to watch, as a competitive sport, during the winter Olympics. Curling, you loving monster.
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Cucktales Blogger posted:Curling, you loving monster. I CURL YOUR FACE INTO MY FIST! Then I'll force you to watch hockey like a normal person.
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