2006 Winter Olympics - Turin, Italy

[Lee]

Oh yeah! The Hendricks/Davis drama.

I think in addition to coaching them how to skate faster, they need some coaching in putting your mask on and team spirit.

[TennisHack]

Hedricks, what an asshole! I'm glad he got beat in his two "main events".

I've been getting my news from the German news and MeFi, how sad is that. Apparently the gay blogosphere has totally embraced Johnny Weir, tho.

www.metafilter.com/mefi/49311

[cert. murse aphex]

www.hammerfall.net/main.html
Hevy metal + curling = two wrongs don't make a right :red:

[Lee]

Thanks to the US curling team, the awareness on curling increases in US. Hopefully, this means there may be curling tournaments show on ESPN

[Lee]

And of course, to the first gold medal in men's curling for Canada. After 2 silver medals, finally, finally......

Although I'm not a big fan of Russ Howard but he deserves to have a gold medal. Is this a record? An Olympic gold for a 50 years old man!!!!!!

[Lee]

Although I'm extremely happy for Canada's win but it's a very boring draw. After Canada win 6 in the 6th end And it should be 7 rocks if not because of the adrenaline of Gushue working overtime.

"We had played a very solid end. I thought we could score two or three, but when (the Finn) ticked that guard, I looked around and all of a sudden it was six," said Gushue, "and my heart absolutely started pounding in my chest.

"I started doing the math in my head. We were one up, and I thought to myself: ‘There’s no way we’re losing now.’ At that point, I knew we had the gold medal, and that draw that I had, there was so much adrenaline, I’m surprised I didn’t bang it off the (back) boards."

[Vera]

admin said:

Hedricks, what an asshole! .

I just thought this clown is the funniest story of the whole event that really deserved a recap ;D:

From MSNBC:
Shani and Chad
The two men who turned men’s speedskating into a running soap opera are unique in these Games for being both one of America’s best stories as well as one of its worst.

Chad Hedrick started the soap opera when he came in declaring himself to be in the hunt for five gold medals, the same number Eric Heiden won in 1980. But Heiden won five individual medals; Hedrick was going for four individual and one in a new event called the team pursuit. When Shani Davis said he wasn’t participating in the pursuit — an event he had never competed in before — to concentrate on his own races, Hedrick decided he’d been betrayed.

When Davis won the 1,000, becoming the first black to ever win an individual gold in the Winter Olympics, Hedrick didn’t even congratulate him. When Davis took silver and Hedrick bronze in the 1,500, Davis pouted about that snub and Hedrick whined again about the team pursuit medal he didn’t get.
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Still give me a smile when I recalled what Hendrick said on tv during his interview:
"I am the team leader... I felt we past on a medal"
It is an individual sports. And if you can't win without Shani, then you don't deserve a medal.

[Lee]

Let's say they both whined worse than little Lee