Olympics! Vancouver, BC, Canada

[Taq]

I enjoy watching a variety of winter sports at the highest level, seeing countries and individuals contend for medals, and hearing the remarkable stories of athletes from all over the world, their trials and triumphs. I wasn't waiting with bated breath or anything, but yes, I'm excited the Olympics are here!

[Laura Ingalls]

Just about 10 hours from the start of the opening ceremony!

[Termite]

And I won't be here for the beginning of it.

That's ok. It gets repetitive watching them all march in... Aside from the African teams. Then you just have to cheer for those one or two people.

[Danielle Abigail Maxwell]

10 hours? 12 hours for me... and I'm in the timezone its happening in. 8) At least NBC says it starts at 7:30 PM. Hmm... How is it ET can have it start at 7:30 PM, and 3 hours later PT can have it start at 7:30 PM... and still have it be in real time? (Oh... now I get why timezones are so confusing) Oh well, the Olympics just start at 4:30 PT! LOL...

YEAH!

I hope I make it home in time...

(Now it says 6:00 PM... still, how does that work? I swear Vancouver is in PT. I just... darn...)

LOL... they're already having one event at 10 this morning... nice...

-- February 12th, 2010, 7:32 am --

http://www.nbcolympics.com/event-result ... index.html List for every event and when it happens...

[Catspaw]

I have to work tonight, or else I would be watching the opening ceremonies. My brother has been loudly cheering during every Olympic ad for the past week, so my eardrums are probably grateful to miss seeing Canada's athletes enter tonight! I'm sure the volume in Vancouver will be incredible, but it will be pretty loud at home, too! I wore my new Canada Olympic sweater in honour of the start of the Olympics, however!

[Boswell]

Cool, the Olympics are in Canada this year?

[The Top Crusader]

Some sled guy died.

[Termite]

Did he actually die? Last we heard he was in a coma.

EDIT: Oh man, that really stinks...

[American Eagle]

Indeed. What a tragic start...

[Bren]

After seeing some coverage, I keep thinking of AIO though.

[Taq]

Some sled guy died.

And a female luger was knocked unconscious.

I watched some minutes of the NBC Olympic coverage and I'm already becoming familiar with some of the stories, like the one female snowboarder who 4 years ago was impossibly far in the lead; she showboated on a jump and fell, getting silver instead of gold. Well, she's back and seems to have a great attitude!

[Bren]

I have watched since 6:30 but have gotten tired of watching.

[Catspaw]

I had to work tonight, but I made it home in time to see the finale, with the big Olympic flame being lit both in and outside of the stadium! We love you, Wayne Gretzky! The highlight clips that I saw at the end of the event were really great - I'm sorry that I missed seeing more of it, though watching all of it would have been a tad tedious.

It is really sad about the luge guy from Georgia. Apparently he was quite inexperienced and probably never should have been sent. The video that I saw on the news was a little disturbing, to say the least. Very tragic.

[Termite]

Yeah, he was only 21 or something...

Who else thought the "moving floor" was epic?

[Laura Ingalls]

Too bad the fourth flame thingie wouldn't rise up out of the floor. I bet everyone was panicking.


According to my newspaper's TV schedule, there was supposed to be ski jumping last night - but the opening ceremony took up all the time. Did I miss something?

[Bren]

I thought the walk through of Canada was great. I forgey what they called them but I really liked the wind one and the mountian one.

[The Top Crusader]

I remember one year someone skiied down a mountain and fired a flaming arrow to light the torch.

[Dr. Watson]

I liked the fiddler who had the punk mohawk and tribal tatoos!!\:D/



Yeah, and I fell asleep right before the Olympic Torch lighting so I missed it.

[ShadowSa1nt]

I loved the opening ceremony!!!! The moving floor and the torch. Awesome!
The poet guy that got to recite because of youtube

I will be watching hockey curling and skiing probably or i would like to anyway.
I am learning to curl in my phys ed class so it will be good to watch

[Kairi]

I'm looking forward to speed skating and figure skating the most. The opening ceremony was pretty cool, especially the part where the ice "broke apart". And I really liked the torch lighting, although it was kind of funny that one of the pillars refused to go up.

The story about the Georgian luger is so sad! And now with the Romanian luger being knocked unconscious...I wonder if they might discontinue the luge for the rest of the Olympics?