winter olympics
 

so are any of you watching the olympics yet? i was pretty stoked about the winter olympics back in december, but a fair amount of time has passed since then and i'm having trouble getting interested again. but i watched recaps of a few events yesterday and today, and i'm sure i'll keep up with the results ever day online and in the newspaper.

what events do you like the best in the winter olympics? i think the bobsled and luge/skeleton runs are probably the most fun to watch. luge and skeleton especially, because they seem pretty scary. cross country skiing and biathlon races are cool too. and of course, i like to watch hockey. downhill skiing and the snowboard events are alright, but i'm more likely to change the channel to something else if they're on. oh and since i'm canadian, i have to watch at least a bit of curling--even though it's usually pretty boring, some matches can almost be, uhm.. exciting? well, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but you know..

and how do you think your country's team is going to do overall? (i guess we pretty much only represent canada and the usa? oh well, answer anyways!) and which country do you think is going to end up on top? norway seems to be doing quite well right now. but maybe the usa or russia will end up with the most medals overall? it certainly won't be the host country. too bad for italy, i guess.

as for canada, our olympic officials had promised at least 25 medals overall, and (i hate to say it but) they're bound to disappoint. i think that we're basically looking at torino as a warm up for when we host the winter olympics in vancouver (2010). so it won't be so bad if we have a poor showing at this winter's olympics, so long as the athletes can take what they are going to learn this winter to help themselves produce better results in vancouver.

so alright, start the olympic talk:

I love curling so much. I dont even know why.

cross country skiing is the worst. so boring!

the snowboarding was half decent though.

i really should watch more.

I like the snowboarding and the figure skating. I haven't watched anything this year though.

i'm starting to warm up to curling more. maybe i only like it during the olympics.

women's hockey today! no checking! woo!

the women's hockey is pretty weak, because it seems like canada and the usa are the only countries who actually care about it. i mean, we beat italy 16-0, russia.. 12- or 13-0. that's pretty embarrassing. if it doesn't get more competitive they should probably just get rid of the event. or only let the few teams who can actually play compete. it'd be a pretty short tournament.

yeah seriously, the scores are ridiculous. i'm wondering if some countries just put together some skaters just to say they tried or something.

it would be fun to make a film like cool runnings with hockey...say, France assembles this kick ass team and, like, kicks ass. well...it would go over well in france.

...

nevermind.

i think a movie that can be described as "like cool runnings" might be a bad idea

unless john candy came back from the dead to be in it :(

but they can see clearly now.......

sanka are ya dead mon

Johnny. I love you because you're on this site as much as I am. I can always count on you.

we can be "currently active users" buddies

Hurrah!!

So do I. And I'm not kidding. A lot of people pretend to like it, I think it's the only redeamable Winter olympics sport.

why would you pretend to like curling?

So you can fit in with all the badass curlers hanging out in the alleyway.

with their brooms.

the canadian mens hockey team seems to be going down in flames. maybe i'll cheer for finland now.. they're always my second choice, anyways.

skeleton luge = real shit

edit: when will my photo gallery pic be updated so I can not look like a freak

when i'm not a lazy ass!

edit: and that time is now. threw in a new picture of raub and myself, to boot.

Hey, anyone else think that cross country skiing would be the worst life-career ever? GAH.

In other news, my guy won the daytona 500!

hey does anyone else think the picture of me and mike next to eachother is creepy?

haha, i never saw that, your hand is totally on his shoulder!!

and USA beats Finland in curling...

Thanks, I still think I look creepy (though thats my self esteem for ya).

you don't look creepy.

Thanks. Time to hit the skeleton luge.

so the cross country skiing was stupid.
and so was the mens ice skating
and the ice dancing

Emily Hughes is amazing, the figure skater, as well as the russian lass, couldnt have been more amazing.

careful Jep, don't say things like "couldn't have been more..." around johnny

and dont use amazing twice in the same sentence!!

haha i missed that...
how utterly redundant!!

the linear nature of time certainly ensures that it could not have been more amazing at that time.

i find it pretty hard to believe that whatever it was jep was talking about could not have been even a bit more amazing

im about to shove the linear nature of time up y'ass!

So, I just aced the skeleton luge.

we won gold and silver in the skeleton.

i think canada did really well--way better than i had expected. 24 medals is fantastic.

I won the gold and silver.

wait, singlehandedly?!