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[jmoore]

I like getting to see stuff I don't normally see. I love the long track speed skating. Bobsled/luge/skeleton is cool. So is biathlon.

I don't really care about the X-games type stuff - freestyle snowboarding, short track speed skating. Instant channel change. As is any figure skating.

[cloudguy]

Originally Posted by jmoore

As is any figure skating.

Remember the ski ballet competitions of the late 80's? So gey and perfect for that era.

[MattTuck]

Originally Posted by jmoore

I like getting to see stuff I don't normally see. I love the long track speed skating. Bobsled/luge/skeleton is cool. So is biathlon.

I don't really care about the X-games type stuff - freestyle snowboarding, short track speed skating. Instant channel change. As is any figure skating.

Yeah, at some level you have sports where the judge is the clock or a finish line camera, and others where it is a set of so called 'experts' that judge stuff on a bunch of quasi-subjective points.

I sort of feel the same way about basketball sometimes. Traveling and some fouls seem to be officiated on a selective basis.

[tuscanyswe]

Like to look at skating, hockey and of course cross country skiing as well as the alpine skiing. For you americans Diggins is looking great this year and the entire us team seem upgraded to years past at least the way i remember them. Biathlon is always a favorite but the swedish team is pretty week the last years unfortunately.

[Red Tornado]

Originally Posted by jmoore

I like getting to see stuff I don't normally see. I love the long track speed skating. Bobsled/luge/skeleton is cool. So is biathlon.

I don't really care about the X-games type stuff - freestyle snowboarding, short track speed skating. Instant channel change. As is any figure skating.

Right there with you on the first paragraph + regular xc & dh skiing. Also agree on the 2nd paragraph, except figure skating gets watched to keep the wife happy.
Nice to see some different sports occasionally.

[charliedid]

Shani!

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[charliedid]

Originally Posted by cadence90

Shameful when a Swedish guy knows who "Diggins" is, and I have to look her up.

She does seem really good, and fwiw I did already know the name Kikkan Randall...but this is her 5th Games so I guess I should.

I have never x-c skied in my life, but I do enjoy watching it, and would love to actually do it one day.



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Watching the trials right now....he's in the lead! :-)

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[charliedid]

Originally Posted by cadence90

I watched the replays yesterday. It was pretty cool when the announcers stated that the Pettit track record for the Men's 1,000m was set way back in 2005 by...Shani Davis!
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"Big kid at heart"

What a career and what a great guy!

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[charliedid]

Originally Posted by cadence90

Have you met him? I have not. Pretty tough life, it seems, but he has stuck with it all, and apparently really matured through it as well. Good for him.

The crowd-love throughout these Trials was great.
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Yes as a matter of fact. I live in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago where he lived for a time as a early teen I believe. Not sure where he lives now but I'm pretty sure he still trains in Wisconsin some of the time. I have a friend who really follows skating who talks about him still.

We took a bunch of kids from the neighborhood to watch him skate in Northbrook back in 2001 I think. Just before the Olympics (2002 right?)

He was a big inspiration for those kids to see someone who "looked like them" doing what he was doing. None of them had ever been on skates.

You probably know his career much better than I. I just have a soft spot for the guy and what he has accomplished.

And I love the winter games!

[bironi]

It's the curling and the Danish men's team wear. Everything else is filler.

[72gmc]

Thumbs up for long track speed skating and skiing events. I've come to really like the nordic sports.

Some late nights of work-with-the-tv-on during the Vancouver games turned me into a curling fan. I'd put on loud pants and drink beer at that competition.