Source: Yahoo! Sports
NHLSarok, a hockey blog based in Slovakia, has posted three videos on YouTube from the now-legendary women's ice hockey Olympic qualifier that saw Slovakia squeak out an 82-0 victory over Bulgaria. (With an enormous thanks to our friends at The Two-Line Pass for the tip.)
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I just found the Vancouver mascots for the 2010 winter Olympics. The mascots include Sumi, a thunder eagle, Miga, a sea bear, and Quatichi - a sasquatch.....
Source: Yahoo! Sports
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said Thursday that allowing women ski jumpers into the 2010 Winter Olympics would dilute the medals given to others.
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Thanks to our Earth Hugs on 7.7.07 and 7/17, "the Earth temperature slightly lowered, and the oceans were re-energized, which will continue if we continue," say many Saints / Holy Ones / Ascended Masters / Seers / Star Nations, depending on your faith, backed by our intuition.
Source: Reuters
Putin attends IOC meeting in Guatamala to help push Russia's bid for the Winter 2014 olympics into the Winners Circle.
Despite play that elicits passionate screams of "Hurry Hard…h-a-r-der!….harder!…faster!," it has taken almost an ice age for curling to get traditional sports fans' rocks off.
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If you're a hockey fan, you might know that the NHL All-Star Game is being played tonight. If you're a hockey fan with DirecTV and knew to purchase the extra channel, VS, in its selective lineup, you get to watch the game, so long as you're not an American Idol fan as well.
Source: Reuters
North and South Korea are joining forces to secure the 2014 Winter Olympics after both sides reached an unprecedented joint agreement to back the bid of South Korean city Pyeongchang, officials said on Friday.
Source: The Globe and Mail
When Stephen Webber and his wife put their Vancouver-area townhouse up for sale in September, they expected to close a deal within a month. After several open houses, nearly a dozen private showings and two price cuts, they're still waiting.
Source: ESPN.com
Bode Miller didn't win any medals at the Olympics - and didn't seem too upset about this. As Chuck Klosterman writes, Bode's almost adversial relationship with winning made us all angry; he became easy to dislike.
Source: The Washington Post
The 2006 Winter Olympics are closed. It was a carnival with tight security although one protester managed to break his way onto the stage. For full coverage see the BBC's article
Source: Reuters
For the first time in olympic history, the U.S.A. mens curling team won a metal in curling!
Every Olympics I get excited when I read about the athletes who are Americas best shot at winning medals. It was around the opening ceremonies when I started to see news about Bode Miller and I thought he would be the Michael Phelps of the winter games.
Source: www.shortflip.com
Overview of the technology and logistics that goes into making the winter olympics happen. Very interesting and well written.
Chilling With Clara Hughes
Source: National Nine News
Games or big business?
"And Jacques Jock finishes a respectable eighth place … a valiant effort and Jock's time is a new personal best. He's got to be pleased about this!" a CBC sportscaster exclaims. We hear this time and time again during the Olympics.
PAIN By Mike Dojc Abbreviated Version Published in the February Issue of Bell T.V. Magazine
Call me closed-minded. Call me un-American. Call me anything, but please don't call me an Olympics fan.
Source: BBC News
Slider Shelley Rudman raced to a silver medal - Britain's first at the 2006 Winter Olympics - in the women's Olympic skeleton on Thursday.
Source: Bloomberg.com
Dale Begg-Smith, a 21 year old multi-millionaire native of Vancouver (founder of a web pop-up ad company - hence his nickname), has become Australia's third gold-medal winner at the Winter Olympics.
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There were some eye-opening remarks from Bryant Gumbel on the most recent episode of HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel. According to a transcript posted by a television columnist named Seth Frelich, Gumbel said the following in his closing monologue last week (emphasis mine):
"In a recent SportsNation poll, 47 percent of voters said they didn't watch any Olympics coverage this past weekend. Not even the opening ceremony!"