2006 Winter Olympics

wanan · Post by **wanan** » 2/24/2006, 3:04 pm

My dad sent me this picture, Advice for the mens hockey team:

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 2/24/2006, 4:58 pm

Nice.

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 2/24/2006, 6:58 pm

Random Name wrote:They closed all the schools in the province just to watch that game. Haha. Curling roxx!!~`

Yay!

Sonya · Post by **Sonya** » 2/24/2006, 7:14 pm

^^^

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 2/24/2006, 8:18 pm

Those New Finlander's really take curling seriously.

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 2/24/2006, 8:48 pm

yes, yes they do.

Gimme_Shelter · Post by **Gimme_Shelter** » 2/25/2006, 2:53 am

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 2/25/2006, 5:52 am

You're 12 hours late Mr Shelter.

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 2/25/2006, 11:29 am

wow, wow, wow!!! I just watched the 5000m women's speedskating event.

And Clara Hughes from Canada got gold!

And Cindy Klassen got her 5th medal in Turin - a bronze in this event. From the CBC: "Klassen was, unquestionably, the story of the Games, departing Turin as Canada's most prolific Olympian ever. Klassen is the first Canadian athlete to win five medals in a single Olympics and the first with six overall. "

Yay Canada!!

I'm so amazed and proud at all the Canadian women who have done so well this year!!!

Random Name · Post by **Random Name** » 2/25/2006, 11:37 am

It was actually kind of cool. The whole town just like stopped to watch this game. In every workplace there was a television set up. And all the schools closed at 12 to send kids home to watch the game. No one was out. Everyone was just like obsessed with curling for that 2 hour period.

Sonya · Post by **Sonya** » 2/25/2006, 1:19 pm

actually, i was at the mall yesterday, and they had couches and wide screen tvs set up at every corner. :lol:

nikki4982 · Post by **nikki4982** » 2/25/2006, 3:27 pm

You guys get WAAAAAAAAAAY more into the Olympics than we do.

beautiful liar · Post by **beautiful liar** » 2/25/2006, 3:38 pm

the winter olympics, anyways :lol:

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 2/25/2006, 4:59 pm

my colleague's son won a bronze medal... it's pretty cool. It was posted on the company intranet with a profile about him, his past successes, information about the family, etc. So 300,000 people in the company are celebrating this as a win in "our family".

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 2/25/2006, 5:00 pm

I should clarify... those 300,000 employees are worldwide... only 10,000 of those are in Canada.

Hope · Post by **Hope** » 2/26/2006, 1:14 am

wooohoo!!! the 5000m men's speed skating was SUPER awesomie. canada got silver but s.korea got gold :nana:

it was a neck-in-neck race.

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 2/26/2006, 11:08 am

Just read this....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060225/en ... skatewomen

How great of her to do that!

Anyway, so final medel standings:

Country..........G.....S.....B.....T
Germany....... 11...12....6....29
United States...9.....9....7....25
Canada...........7....10...7.....24
Austria............9..... 7...7.....23
Russia.............8......6....8....22

This is a record accomplishment for Canada, so yay! :clap:

And Cindy Klassen will carry the flag in the closing ceremonies today. :dance:

I can't wait for 2010 in Vancouver - I definitely want to take a week of vacation to go! I've only been as far west as Calgary & Canmore so this is the perfect excuse to finally get to BC

Soozy · Post by **Soozy** » 2/26/2006, 11:45 am

Woo Great Britain came 24th in the medal table with our one silver medal

I'd love to go to Vancouver for the Olympics too.

CM meet up anybody?

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » 2/26/2006, 12:12 pm

Soozy wrote:CM meet up anybody?

yes!!!

We've got 4 years to plan it :lol:

Johnny · Post by **Johnny** » 2/26/2006, 1:01 pm

I'm going to Vancouver