Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games!

[PottedMeat]

uh oh
http://www.npr.org/blogs/theedge/20...hi-winter-olympics-opening-ceremony-live-blog

 

[Zim Hosein]

Sochi 2014, Day 1: What’s on this Saturday?


It's Go Time!
The full lowdown on each winter discipline.

 

[Zim Hosein]

uh oh
http://www.npr.org/blogs/theedge/20...hi-winter-olympics-opening-ceremony-live-blog

Lol! :awe:

 

[Zim Hosein]

Has anyone been able to navigate stream.nbcolympics.com? Like a central location to access all the replays. The first thing it shows is the US v Canada hockey final from 2010.

Did you "Sign In" LevelSea?

 

[HN]

uh oh
http://www.npr.org/blogs/theedge/20...hi-winter-olympics-opening-ceremony-live-blog

Lol! :awe:

it represents the unique snowflake that we all are

 

[Zim Hosein]

The NY Times has live updates of the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games.

 

[sdifox]

uh oh
http://www.npr.org/blogs/theedge/20...hi-winter-olympics-opening-ceremony-live-blog

no worse than the Vancouver opening where one of the columns failed to make an appearance at all.

But then the fifth circle could be gay :whiste:

 

[OutHouse]

Russia fail

 

[uhohs]

uh oh
http://www.npr.org/blogs/theedge/20...hi-winter-olympics-opening-ceremony-live-blog

 

[destrekor]

uh oh
http://www.npr.org/blogs/theedge/20...hi-winter-olympics-opening-ceremony-live-blog

Being that this is Russia - who is the lucky one who winds up with some coffee spiked with ricin? Polonium?

 

[Ns1]

A highlight of the Opening Ceremony in Sochi is the Russian Army choir singing 'Get Lucky,' one of the biggest hits in the U.S.

http://www.latimes.com/#ixzz2sf5ASF2C

LOL

caps

 

[destrekor]

Did they say that one guy was a "cyber sportsman", one of the Olympic Flag bearers?

 

[Gooberlx2]

It's Go Time!
The full lowdown on each winter discipline.

"In Vancouver in 2010, hosts Canada enjoyed a fairy-tale ending to the men’s tournament as Sidney Crosby scored the gold medal-winning goal seven minutes and 40 seconds into overtime to secure a 3-2 win over the USA."

This was the most exciting hockey game I've ever watched*. What a huge release of anguish from everyone in the bar. It must have been amazing in Canada. A rivalry final of USA v Russia would be awesome in Sochi.

*I was only a few months old during Miracle on Ice.

 

[LevelSea]

Did you "Sign In" LevelSea?

Yes, but there doesn't seem to be any links on the streaming page. I managed to find some of the figure skating for my wife, but I had to go through the main figure skating page, but for example, the alpine skiing page doesn't have any links to the full training and qualifications.

 

[destrekor]

"In Vancouver in 2010, hosts Canada enjoyed a fairy-tale ending to the men’s tournament as Sidney Crosby scored the gold medal-winning goal seven minutes and 40 seconds into overtime to secure a 3-2 win over the USA."

This was the most exciting hockey game I've ever watched*. What a huge release of anguish from everyone in the bar. It must have been amazing in Canada. A rivalry final of USA v Russia would be awesome in Sochi.

*I was only a few months old during Miracle on Ice.

I am SO rooting for a USA v Russia final.


I gotta say, I'm getting sick of Canada.
But that's because our local NBC station, recently bought by Sinclair, is demanding a large amount of money (the local station blows, and NBC has barely any good national content ) from our local cable co. So, what did they put in place? CBC.
Still get our coverage, and it's nice that CBC is supposed to be covering a LOT of the Olympics... but dammit, these announcers are awfully pro-Canada.

 

[WelshBloke]

wow--Canada really likes the Olympics.

:hmm:

Its the frozen Olympics not the proper Olympics.

 

[lupi]

anyone in the mood to watch hunt for red october.

 

[lupi]

at least UK making sure US doesn't have oddest looking ceremony outfits.

 

[lupi]

canada looked pretty neat.

 

[Triumph]

so much techno in russia.

 

[lupi]

poland seemed to have different color scheme for male/female jackets.

 

[lupi]

wow, size of US group just dwarfs the rest of the field.

 

[Triumph]

hahaha, wtf usa? Ugly sweater party?

 

[lupi]

hahaha, wtf usa? Ugly sweater party?

hence the UK comment from earlier.

can't remember what I was watching earlier but their comment was something along the lines of I wonder how many hours the grandmothers put into knitting those.

 

[lupi]

turned to the TV as the czecks came on, at first thought I was watching an artic indian group with those fur caps and the checks painted.