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Let OUR Games Begin... The 2010 Vancouver Olympics Thread (pg. 68)
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| urban_legend |
| Heard a buddy at work say he was going to dress his girlfriend in a Miller jersey so he can score on her all night. :haha: |
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by urban_legend
Heard a buddy at work say he was going to dress his girlfriend in a Miller jersey so he can score on her all night. :haha: |
I make my fiance wear a leafs jersey for the same reason. |
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| OkiDokie |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
I make my fiance wear a leafs jersey for the same reason. |
LMFAO!!!!:haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: |
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| Cro_Addict |
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In these Olympics, Canadians only paid attention to Canada
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- After a spirited torch relay ignited pride in every corner of the country, the Olympic Games began and quickly galvanized the nation.
Flags were everywhere. The country's national symbol hung from windows and was worn on nearly everyone's clothing.
Fervent crowds cheered every victory by the host nation.
But enough about the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
At the opening of these Olympic Winter Games more than two weeks ago, Vancouver organizers expressed the hope that they could show the world a truly "Canadian Games."
That they succeeded in that, there is little doubt.
For 17 days we were barraged with Canadian flags, rode buses and trains with people in sweatshirts and jerseys adorned with Canadian maple leafs, and were serenaded at venues by Canadian spectators, lustily cheering for Canadian athletes.
The first Olympics I ever attended were also in Canada, the 1976 Summer Games in Montreal. For a kid not long out of college, it was a profound experience, seeing Lasse Viren, Alberto Juantorena, Nadia Comaneci-- the athletes of the world -- on the sporting world's grandest stage.
One of the speakers at that Olympics used a phrase that lingers with me still: the family of man.
There is no earthly event that reinforces that notion as well as an Olympic Games. For all of the latter-day Games' inherent commercialism, that ideal persists. I truly believe that.
It persists, despite the overwhelming chauvinism of the past two weeks.
They showed us Canadian Games, all right. And in most cases, nothing but Canadian Games.
I'm not talking about TV coverage. I have no idea what Bob Costas and NBC were televising back in the States.
But from the opening ceremony to Sunday's closing, from the tragic death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili to Sunday's gold-medal hockey game, on the streets of Vancouver and at the Olympic venues, only a token nod was given to the rest of the world's athletes.
I was as surprised as I was disappointed.
Had the classic Canadian inferiority complex finally decided to bite back? Or was this a dark consequence of the Own the Podium program?
At the Games' outset, Canada's obsession with finally winning its first gold medal as a host nation was understandable -- quaint, almost.
But that story swiftly swept the luge tragedy off the front pages. There were no follow-up stories about investigations, memorials or retributions to the family.
Kumaritashvili himself was blamed for the fatal accident. The luge competition went on. Some Canadian lugers even callously complained about the shortening of the track.
And so the tone for these Games was set.
It was Canada's party, and no dead luger, no critical British tabloid and no visiting Americans were going to spoil it.
That attitude is regrettable, because a good, if not especially memorable, Olympics followed.
U.S. skier Lindsey Vonn won her cherished gold medal in the women's downhill, validating all the product endorsements and cover shoots she will have between now and 2014. |
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So now we're nazis?? It's not Canada that started the war of terror. Oh I'm sorry war ON terror...right :rolleyes:
Better spend your time figuring out what other country you want to occupy...or I mean liberate.
What a douche-bag this journalist is. Where is he from? Oh Texas! Well can't blame him then; that's what happens with all the inbreeding.
Man this pisses me off!!!! |
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| AnitA |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cro_Addict
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So now we're nazis?? It's not Canada that started the war of terror. Oh I'm sorry war ON terror...right :rolleyes:
Better spend your time figuring out what other country you want to occupy...or I mean liberate.
What a douche-bag this journalist is. Where is he from? Oh Texas! Well can't blame him then; that's what happens with all the inbreeding.
Man this pisses me off!!!! |
Whinge, whinge, bloody whinge, that's all they know how to do.
They need to harden the fk up seriously.
LOL| quote: | | There was embracing, all right, but then Canadians have always had the reputation for drinking a lot of beer. The loose marijuana laws only added to the nightly revelry in the downtown streets -- which, frankly, seemed to have little to do with the Olympics. |
Love it :haha: :haha: :haha: :haha: |
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cro_Addict
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So now we're nazis?? It's not Canada that started the war of terror. Oh I'm sorry war ON terror...right :rolleyes:
Better spend your time figuring out what other country you want to occupy...or I mean liberate.
What a douche-bag this journalist is. Where is he from? Oh Texas! Well can't blame him then; that's what happens with all the inbreeding.
Man this pisses me off!!!! |
He apologized in the National Post this morning |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cro_Addict
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So now we're nazis?? It's not Canada that started the war of terror. Oh I'm sorry war ON terror...right :rolleyes:
Better spend your time figuring out what other country you want to occupy...or I mean liberate.
What a douche-bag this journalist is. Where is he from? Oh Texas! Well can't blame him then; that's what happens with all the inbreeding.
Man this pisses me off!!!! |
this guys' a ing moron. i was watching Leno last night and Sean White was on and was saying how cool it was that Canadians would come up to him and tell him that even though they're Canadian, they're still gonna be cheering for him.
edit: and as if most americans are any better to begin with. they don't even know where 90% of the countries participating in the Olympics are :rolleyes: |
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| Spin Laden |
| quote: | Originally posted by Abercrombie
He apologized in the National Post this morning |
IDNUMBER 201003030005
PUBLICATION: National Post
PAGE: A2
DATE: 2010.03.03
SECTION: News
EDITION: National
SOURCE: National Post
NOTE: Shades of Vimy, A16.
ILLUSTRATION: Black & White Photo: Shaun Best, Reuters / Hockey fanscelebrate in Vancouver. Black & White Photo: Getty Images / The streets of Berlin during the 1936 Games.
WORD COUNT: 438
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So a Nazi analogy wasn't a good idea
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Gil LeBreton, a columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, wrote a widely read piece on Monday that compared the Canadian flag-waving of the Vancouver Olympics to the prevalence of swastikas at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. Yesterday, he apologized, excerpt below:
My intention in Monday morning's wrap-up column wasn't to offend Canada, the land of my ancestors, and my hosts of the past three weeks. On the contrary, I was trying to express my disappointment and surprise that, in my opinion, Canadians had failed to grasp the global mandate that being an Olympic host entails.
In doing so, I reached for a comparison -- and picked one in the 1936 Olympics that unintentionally may have offended the very people whose company I have enjoyed for these past days.
I apologize for offending them.
As I said in the wrap-up, I certainly implied no political analogies. But some comparisons are sensitive enough to be offensive just by their very mention.
I felt, in the rush to celebrate Canada's new patriotism, some of [the stories of other countries' athletes] were missed here.
That doesn't excuse me from making an insensitive comparison. But in 14 previous Olympic Games, never were the cheers for the visiting countries' athletes drowned out so ferociously. On the eve of the final day of these Games, I attended the team pursuit finals at the Richmond Olympic Oval. There were two medal ceremonies at the conclusion of the day's events.
In the first, the gold medal went to the Canadian men's team, and the Canadians in attendance cheered heartily and sang along with O Canada.
The women's medal ceremony was next. But as the gold medals were being placed around the necks of the Germans, much of the crowd was busy filing out.
That final scene prompted the column. The comparison I used prompts me to apologize to anyone who felt offended by it. |
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| Cro_Addict |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spin Laden
In the first, the gold medal went to the Canadian men's team, and the Canadians in attendance cheered heartily and sang along with O Canada.
The women's medal ceremony was next. But as the gold medals were being placed around the necks of the Germans, much of the crowd was busy filing out.
That final scene prompted the column. |
So what?? When I watch a sport I cheer for my own team/country. This is such a bizarre statement. Of course people cheer for their own. |
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| gummybear |
An American journalist scolding us for flag waving and nationalism.
Bahahahaha
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: |
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| OkiDokie |
The stupidest article regarding sports I've ever read.
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