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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Britain wins its first EVER medal on snow!!! Well done Jenny Jones on winning a bronze in the slopestyle snowboarding.

[image]local://upfiles/28156/96D708CFFE3044BA8FB056A4568C69C9.jpg[/image]

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ORIGINAL: Orm

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Britain wins its first EVER medal on snow!!! Well done Jenny Jones on winning a bronze in the slopestyle snowboarding.

[image]local://upfiles/28156/96D708CFFE3044BA8FB056A4568C69C9.jpg[/image]

Congratulations! [&o]

Well done. [:)]

Now I expect UK to challenge Norwegian supremacy in cross-country skiing in the near future. [:)]

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ORIGINAL: terje439

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ORIGINAL: Orm

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

Britain wins its first EVER medal on snow!!! Well done Jenny Jones on winning a bronze in the slopestyle snowboarding.

[image]local://upfiles/28156/96D708CFFE3044BA8FB056A4568C69C9.jpg[/image]

Congratulations! [&o]

Well done. [:)]

Now I expect UK to challenge Norwegian supremacy in cross-country skiing in the near future. [:)]

Should nor be too hard since "our" representative in the IOC have threathened to take away Marit
Bjørgen's medal since she and the other girls wore a black ribbon in honour of the death of one of
girls' brother...
In other words, now the IOC is not popular in Norway.

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ORIGINAL: terje439

The comercial issue is shut down, as it became clear that she had
nothing to do with it, and the comercial has been killed. The whole
thing started with the black ribbon.
Nah, the nation is not impressed now, and (gladly enough) the support
to try to get the Olympics to Oslo has taken a dive.

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: terje439

The comercial issue is shut down, as it became clear that she had
nothing to do with it, and the comercial has been killed. The whole
thing started with the black ribbon.
Nah, the nation is not impressed now, and (gladly enough) the support
to try to get the Olympics to Oslo has taken a dive.

warspite1

Not commenting on this case as I know nothing about it - but I can understand the IOC not wanting any unofficial symbols, displays, badges and whatnot. Remember 1968 [:(]

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ORIGINAL: Orm

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: terje439

The comercial issue is shut down, as it became clear that she had
nothing to do with it, and the comercial has been killed. The whole
thing started with the black ribbon.
Nah, the nation is not impressed now, and (gladly enough) the support
to try to get the Olympics to Oslo has taken a dive.

warspite1

Not commenting on this case as I know nothing about it - but I can understand the IOC not wanting any unofficial symbols, displays, badges and whatnot. Remember 1968 [:(]

I do not remember 1968 so I need to be enlightened. Or maybe I should look it up?

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: Orm

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ORIGINAL: warspite1

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ORIGINAL: terje439

The comercial issue is shut down, as it became clear that she had
nothing to do with it, and the comercial has been killed. The whole
thing started with the black ribbon.
Nah, the nation is not impressed now, and (gladly enough) the support
to try to get the Olympics to Oslo has taken a dive.

warspite1

Not commenting on this case as I know nothing about it - but I can understand the IOC not wanting any unofficial symbols, displays, badges and whatnot. Remember 1968 [:(]

I do not remember 1968 so I need to be enlightened. Or maybe I should look it up?

warspite1

No I shouldn't have mentioned it - it may be taken the wrong way. Suffice to say, the Olympic medal ceremony would be spoilt if it was a free for all to do whatever they wanted regardless of the cause.

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ORIGINAL: terje439

I would claim there is a large difference between a black
ribbon and something political/religious/whatnot motivated.
The UEFA for instance had allowed this numerous times.
But suppose the IOC feels the Golden Arches is more on
keeping with the Olympic tradition than allowing someone
to show grief and support... [:'(]

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ORIGINAL: Orm

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ORIGINAL: terje439

I would claim there is a large difference between a black
ribbon and something political/religious/whatnot motivated.
The UEFA for instance had allowed this numerous times.
But suppose the IOC feels the Golden Arches is more on
keeping with the Olympic tradition than allowing someone
to show grief and support... [:'(]

But if they allow that then it is difficult to stop people from showing grief and support for questionable characters.

I think they should allow a black ribbon but that it must be preapproved.

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ORIGINAL: Twotribes

Anyone else see the racy pictures of scantily clad Russian female Olympians the other day?

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ORIGINAL: Josh

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ORIGINAL: Twotribes

Anyone else see the racy pictures of scantily clad Russian female Olympians the other day?

Yep; http://www.dailyhiit.com/hiit-blog/hiit-life/fashion-lifestyle/russia-gets-gold-poor-pr/

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ORIGINAL: Orm

Current medal count.

[image]local://upfiles/29130/F66088468A334817AABC53587A9FCBEA.jpg[/image]
Table from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Winter_Olympics_medal_table

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ORIGINAL: Neilster

A inept performance in the Winter Olympics used to be authentically Australian but in recent games there has been a disturbing trend towards actual professionalism and genuinely earned medals.

This games had seen a return to traditional values, with plenty of our athletes not only losing, choking and generally spakking out but actually falling over on a regular basis. The Australian broadcaster, who as usual has ridiculously pumped up any remote medal chance, was really starting to freak out at the prospect of a bare cupboard. Fortunately for them we won a silver last night.

Comedians Roy & HG, who host a refreshingly satirical late night Olympics show on said broadcaster, were really starting to wind up on the lack of success, but they'll have to go back to bagging Sochi, Russia, Putin, the secret police and basically everybody else. If you're unfamiliar with their work, they're very hard to explain, very Australian and very funny. Their irreverent commentary of Olympic events is legendary here and they specialise in trivialising the serious and making the trivial serious.

Cheers, Neilster

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ORIGINAL: Arnir

Canada! Texas! Canada! Tex, uh Canada! I don't watch the Olympics much anymore because of the lousy tv coverage here in the US. I would prefer to have a live feed that let me pick events, etc. All they want to show is the current American "name" athlete. I want to see the games, not just the media darlings.

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Neilster

A inept performance in the Winter Olympics used to be authentically Australian but in recent games there has been a disturbing trend towards actual professionalism and genuinely earned medals.

This games had seen a return to traditional values, with plenty of our athletes not only losing, choking and generally spakking out but actually falling over on a regular basis. The Australian broadcaster, who as usual has ridiculously pumped up any remote medal chance, was really starting to freak out at the prospect of a bare cupboard. Fortunately for them we won a silver last night.

Comedians Roy & HG, who host a refreshingly satirical late night Olympics show on said broadcaster, were really starting to wind up on the lack of success, but they'll have to go back to bagging Sochi, Russia, Putin, the secret police and basically everybody else. If you're unfamiliar with their work, they're very hard to explain, very Australian and very funny. Their irreverent commentary of Olympic events is legendary here and they specialise in trivialising the serious and making the trivial serious.

Cheers, Neilster

I very much enjoyed "The Games", a comedy series that came out about the time of the Sydney olympics. Wish I could find it on American television again, as it was very well written and acted.

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ORIGINAL: Josh

Netherlands on fourth place yay! [&o]
It's coz we rule see?
[;)]