2006 Winter Olympics
by Kathy » 2/26/2006, 8:20 pm
did you see the closing ceremonies? I really wanna fly like those guys in white suits 
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by closeyoureyes » 2/28/2006, 8:34 pm
At the closing ceremonies thing though, when they let Vancouver do their presentation, it was totally whack. Ok. You CANT icefish in vancouver. But you can SAIL, In vancouver, in February. Vancouver isn't a winter city by any stretch of the imagination, almost ALL the events will be in whistler, which is about 3 hours up the mountains. Seriously though, that presentation had nothing to do with Vancouver i'm sorta embarassed. Me along with All of B.C., they did segments on the news tonight: seems every paper in the province has been inundated with editorials about how humiliated they are by it.
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by closeyoureyes » 3/2/2006, 12:35 am
it was still a huge stereotypical look at Canada. And it had nothing at all do with the host city, it was completely unrelated.
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by Soozy » 3/2/2006, 4:38 am
I liked the bit where the kiddies on the sled started off on the east coast and went across the whole country and ended up in Vancouver.
Open your eyes to nights and days, you close them up and float away
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
and somehow inbetween you've got to master lying to yourself
you back the cause, get out of school, you get a job, the job gets you
and somehow every day you end up serving somebody else
now if that ain't panic that you're feeling, then you damn well better start
you can drive it into that head of yours with the hammer in your heart.
And it's alriiiiiiiight now, take the world and make it yours again.
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by Lando » 3/4/2006, 10:21 pm
Okay these have been over for a little while, but was there any talk about that Austrian guy who was banned from the Olympics because he'd perform blood transfusions on his athletes to help increase the oxygen in their blood (red blood cells?) to help the athletes perform better. Anyway he was hunted down in a high speed chase and crashed his car. It was crazy!
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by saman » 3/4/2006, 10:24 pm
crazy! that's not really that uncommon, though, is it? i'm not sure about blood doping, but lots of athletes train at high altitudes to increase their hemoglobin's oxygen carrying capacity, which really is the same thing as blood doping.
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by Lando » 3/4/2006, 10:28 pm
Yeah, but blood doping is illegal or not allowed in the Olympics. He was banned because of it, but was actually discovered staying next door to the Austrian athletes at the current Olympics. Olympic police actually raided the entire Austrian's living quarters in a surprise raid in the middle of the night just because of this guy. Then he tried to run from the cops and tried to get out of Italy, but ended up crashing his car while being chased, lol.
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by Kathy » 3/5/2006, 8:55 am
apparently he said when he saw the police barricade he was suicidal and decided to ram his car into it. After his arrest they put him in the psych ward on suicide watch. I haven't heard anything since
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by Bandalero » 3/5/2006, 11:33 pm
i dunno.
but i love that curling now.
there i was sitting at a sports bar.....watching curling. everything was alright till i was like......c'mon cmon cmon cmon cmon cmon *rocks clink* YEAH!!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!
it was like the whole bar was looking at me cheering like a mad man at a sport that i know nothing about. needless to say, a few frat boys joined in and every time a rock hit another one, we were all like YEAH!!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!! *high 5's a plenty.*\
honestly, it looks like fun.
but i love that curling now.
there i was sitting at a sports bar.....watching curling. everything was alright till i was like......c'mon cmon cmon cmon cmon cmon *rocks clink* YEAH!!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!
it was like the whole bar was looking at me cheering like a mad man at a sport that i know nothing about. needless to say, a few frat boys joined in and every time a rock hit another one, we were all like YEAH!!!!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!! *high 5's a plenty.*\
honestly, it looks like fun.
Whenever death may surprise us,
let it be welcome
if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear
and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Nobody's gonna miss me, no tears will fall, no ones gonna weap, when i hit that road.
my boots are broken my brain is sore, fer keepin' up with thier little world, i got a heavy load.
gonna leave 'em all just like before, i'm big city bound, your always 17 in your hometown
let it be welcome
if our battle cry has reached even one receptive ear
and another hand reaches out to take up our arms.
Nobody's gonna miss me, no tears will fall, no ones gonna weap, when i hit that road.
my boots are broken my brain is sore, fer keepin' up with thier little world, i got a heavy load.
gonna leave 'em all just like before, i'm big city bound, your always 17 in your hometown
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by Random Name » 3/6/2006, 8:30 pm
Apparently the guys who won are getting streets named after them.
People are really happy they won.
http://www.cbc.ca/nl/story/nf_gushue_road_20060306.html
People are really happy they won.
http://www.cbc.ca/nl/story/nf_gushue_road_20060306.html
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Then you think you will inspire
Take apart your head
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Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
Goodbye you liar,
Well you sipped from the cup but you don't own up to anything
Then you think you will inspire
Take apart your head
(and I wish I could inspire)
Take apart your demons, then you add it to the list.
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by Kathy » 3/6/2006, 8:31 pm
awww that's so nice. I totally want to have a street named after me!
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by AlyssWonders » 3/6/2006, 8:40 pm
On march 10th you all must watch the paraolympics which are the olympics for the physically disabled. My friend, Christopher Williamson, is an Alpin skiier who only has 6% of his vision, he won a gold medal in Salt Lake and he has won 4 world cups this year alone. Support Canada!
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