Winter Olympics: Snowboard Cross

scratch · February 17, 2006, 05:52:33 PM

I just saw the Snowboard Cross last night and it was incredible!! It is so cool!! I guess I really enjoy racing and knitting!

SmartDrug · February 17, 2006, 11:56:05 PM

Yeah, did you see the stupid American who got bit in the ass trying to be a showoff. Makes us all look like cocky idiots.

pandy · February 17, 2006, 11:59:12 PM

What a shocking ending for the women's snowboard cross!!!

aaronstj · February 18, 2006, 02:06:51 AM

Quote from: SmartDrug on February 17, 2006, 11:56:05 PM
Makes us all look like cocky idiots.

Aren't we?

scratch · February 18, 2006, 09:04:28 AM

Quote from: SmartDrug on February 17, 2006, 11:56:05 PM
Yeah, did you see the stupid American who got bit in the ass trying to be a showoff. Makes us all look like cocky idiots.

Yes. My wife and I are certainly disappointed. But, not surprised.

scratch · February 18, 2006, 09:17:25 AM

Quote from: scratch on February 17, 2006, 05:52:33 PM
and knitting!

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Hey!!

pandy · February 18, 2006, 09:53:43 AM

Quote from: scratch on February 18, 2006, 09:17:25 AM
Quote from: scratch on February 17, 2006, 05:52:33 PM
and knitting!
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Hey!!

Where's that *innocent look* emoticon!!??

hhgsm31 · February 18, 2006, 10:42:03 AM

My problem with this is that if she hadn't fell it would have been a "great moment in sports"
yes she was celebrating, but we rever those who showboat with highlight reels and posters and cereal boxes and such.
This is just something that the media is having a field day with because nothing exciting happened in ice dancing. Snowingboarding is an extreme sport, where the popularit and prestige come from being a better showman than the next. No one is rasing hell over the way that the US women's downhill team dressed (a tiara and mardi gras beads) and then performend horribly. It's being taken way past where it show me IMO

pandy · February 18, 2006, 12:47:16 PM

Quote from: hhgsm31 on February 18, 2006, 10:42:03 AM
My problem with this is that if she hadn't fell it would have been a "great moment in sports"

Yup....would have been one of those photo moments that would be splashed all over the papers. But I'll bet that little stroke of bad luck taught her a good lesson (and perhaps a little humility). She's a great athlete, and I wouldn't be surprised at all if she takes the next olympic's gold in snowboard cross.

And...hey....that Italian couple in ice dancing who came in first last night...they were GREAT...that was exciting!

weaselnoze · February 18, 2006, 01:04:11 PM

Mr.7 · February 18, 2006, 07:22:26 PM

mmm...

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