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nomos

nomos

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streets everywhere are filled now, after the hockey game. it's like every city won the stanley cup.
 
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petergunn

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nomos said:
streets everywhere are filled now, after the hockey game. it's like every city won the stanley cup.
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which is cool... i feel like if we won and i went to the bar and said i was celebrating b/c of the hockey game, the bartender would say "what hockey game?"

i heard it was expected to be the most watched tv event in canadian history...

anyways, it was a hell of a game... the us did indeed seem quicker than the canadians and did not get smacked around like the europeans, but the canadians played up to their potetential for sure... to see a team full of superstars gel like the canadians did is rare... it def took a bit of line juggling, but these last three games, the canadian team has just been wicked...

both miller (tournament MVP!) and luongo played amazing and i think it really could have gone either way... a very nice moment for Crosby, as he was sorta MIA for a lot of this tournament...

i am bummed the US could not pull it out, but i am glad to see a gold medal game go down to the wire like that...
 
matt b

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Congratulations Canadia ((c)witless BBC commentator).

It was cringeworthy listening to Steve Cram, Matthew Pinsent and the Canadian skiier trying to sound like they knew what was going on. The BBC should have just got a feed from Canadian TV

Some Qs:

Why is Luongo so loved?

Is Crosby liked or loathed?



I thought the number 88 for USA was very good, but then I can't tell what's good and bad in this game. I have however, been to Wayne Gretsky's bar.
 
nomos

nomos

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keep in mind that i've barely watched the nhl in the last decade or so but...

i've found crosby to be a bit of a whiner in the past. i think that's a fairly common complaint. on the other hand, he might be the best player in a generation according to a lot of people.

luongo appeared on the scene when vancouver wasn't doing that well and he was something of a revelation. very skilled in net and seemingly a decent guy. during the olympics he was the underdog to the established brodeur, who had troubles, and he was also the hometown favourite in van.

on the game: very hard fought on both sides and i had a bad feeling going into overtime. but wow - that goal is likely to go down as the biggest since paul henderson against the soviets in 1972.

very encouraging for the US, though, going forward with such a young team.
 
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hucks

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Have registered for 2012 tickets. I will now come out of my £9.6bn closet and say - I am looking forward to the London Olympics. I like sport and I like large building projects.

I want to see the athletics, mainly. Like absolutely everyone else, I should think.
 
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The sport bit will be great. The rest is a swizz. Large building projects are fine if they don't displace people/destroy areas. Just very randomly:

http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/node/932
http://www.gamesmonitor.org.uk/node/930
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8556776.stm - typo there - 'taken' should read, 'stolen'.

I worked for a charity based in Newham (ie same borough as Stratford) from 2006-8, and there was no money available from the Olympics, either directly or indirectly, despite all the promises. Was pissed off with what they've done to Bow Back Rivers, too.

At least the World Cup sometimes (often?) uses stadia that are already there and being used...
 
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jenks

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Not sure if these are the official ones but I think they are really good - so much better than the official logo.

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/may/olympics-movement-posters

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yyaldrin

yyaldrin

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never really understood the crazy spectacle and media attention of the olympics, seem to be all fringe sports to me that nobody care about
 
william kent

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yyaldrin said:
never really understood the crazy spectacle and media attention of the olympics, seem to be all fringe sports to me that nobody care about
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Yeah, it can feel a bit like that. You just pick the ones you like. The basketball can be funny because it's often just the Americans with basically all the best players from the NBA on one team vs. the rest of the world. Mind you, there are a fair few stars from Europe now too.
 
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Michelin Red Star: The Insider reveals identity of arrested Russian chef-agent who planned “destabilizing” acts at Paris Olympic Games

On May 7, he was in Russia and due to fly from Moscow to Istanbul, where he’d catch a connecting flight back to Paris the next day. Except he couldn't. He got so fall-down drunk at Istanbul Airport that he was barred from boarding his plane. Instead Griaznov took a taxi to the Bulgarian border, where another car delivered him to St. Vlas, a resort town on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, where Griaznov owns property.

Griaznov stayed at his apartment for a few days before moving on to Varna, a Bulgarian city 60 miles north of St. Vlas. From there he flew on to Paris. During one of his beach-side dinners he got drunk again and let slip to the neighbors that he had a special assignment this summer in Paris to disrupt the opening ceremony of the Olympics. At first the neighbors were incredulous. That’s when Griaznov brandished his FSB ID, witnesses told The Insider. A few days later, Griaznov made his way to Varna and took a flight from there. Before flying to Paris, Griaznov made a call to his FSB boss and informed him that the operation was on track. Griaznov even said he’d recruited “one more Moldovan from Chisinau.”
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