As a Canadian living in Australia at the moment it’s a little surreal to see how little Australia cares about the Olympics compared to Canada.
Obviously one could say there isn’t really a winter here. But regardless they still have a lot of athletes competing, especially in the downhill ski/snowboard sports.
Canada might be pretty average in the Summer Olympics but we still follow it avidly as well.
Oh and waking up at 3am to watch hockey is a bit of a pain.
Yeah, Alex “Chumpy” Pullin is carrying Australia’s Gold medal hopes now.
The AOC (Australian Olympic Committee) allocates some $10m to their winter athletes, which is probably low relative to other countries but I still think it’s overbite. That money could be shuttled to education and public services.
Shout out to Chumpy but he’s not worth $1m, Gold or not.
On another note, Torah Bright is a cute little minx but I don’t like how clumsy and noncompetitive she is. She’s definitely part of that enormous Sochi Olympic athlete contingency consuming the some 100,000 condoms made available by organizers through hook-ups via Tinder. A true player that doesn’t need social media could have a field day satisfying the horny clutter of female Olympians deprived of sexual attention from hours of monotonous training and constant, hawk-eye supervision from coaches and family.
[quote]MementoMori wrote:
As a Canadian living in Australia at the moment it’s a little surreal to see how little Australia cares about the Olympics compared to Canada.
Obviously one could say there isn’t really a winter here. But regardless they still have a lot of athletes competing, especially in the downhill ski/snowboard sports.
Canada might be pretty average in the Summer Olympics but we still follow it avidly as well.
Oh and waking up at 3am to watch hockey is a bit of a pain.[/quote]
How long have you been living in Oz for? Were you there in 2012 for the London Games? I just wonder if they had a lot more interest during the summer Olympics seeing as how good they are in them, especially the swimming. I’m surprised by your observation because Australia always struck me as having a really good sporting culture. However, I’ve never been there so maybe my impression isn’t accurate.
Also, you WON’T be disappointed if you Google the nude video that Lebanese female downhill skier made. Dat ass…
Definitely NSFW. You can all thank me later.
[quote]CMdad wrote:
Also, you WON’T be disappointed if you Google the nude video that Lebanese female downhill skier made. Dat ass…
Definitely NSFW. You can all thank me later.[/quote]
What’s funnier/cooler is the fact that there were a bunch of people who were pissed she got in trouble for it at home (Lebanon) and started the # stripforjackie feed to show solidarity.
I can’t decide whether that’s funny or cool, but regardless its kinda nice the Lebanese gov’t says they’re not going to take action against her.
Goodbye Russia!!! Not the biggest upset in hockey history but definitely a major one.
dem Finns
nvm
Damn that was a lot closer than I thought it would be. On to the US. I have a feeling whoever wins that semi will win the gold./
Very Happy that Russia is out.
The women get the Canada-US hockey going today followed by the men tomorrow. I think both are too close to call. I just wish the men’s game was for the gold and not in a semi.
Yeah same here they are the top teams. The americans are the team to beat they seem to be playing really well together. I think Canada steps it up they should be dressing Subban, he’s a game changer. He hits skates fast is one of the most entertaining defenceme that plays hockey. Weber diughty have been great as well. I’d put subban in for Hamhuis
We should be kissing Latvia’s ass for this. Big injury for Canada. If they play like they did yesterday the US is going to smoke them.
[quote]GrizzlyBerg wrote:
We should be kissing Latvia’s ass for this. Big injury for Canada. If they play like they did yesterday the US is going to smoke them. [/quote]
Who is that?
John Tavares, he was easily the best play maker for Canada thus far was on Getzlaf’s line. I also don’t like how this team has been building it around crosby, it’s a wrong way to build a team that has historically been built on more of a team effort or a sytsem. That being said there going to wake up so to speak, the weaker european teams were playing a collapsing boz trap style of hockey where the american’s won’t be. This will hands down be the best styled game because both teams don’t play a shitty collapsing box on 5 on 5 play.
[quote]Jlabs wrote:
John Tavares, he was easily the best play maker for Canada thus far was on Getzlaf’s line. I also don’t like how this team has been building it around crosby, it’s a wrong way to build a team that has historically been built on more of a team effort or a sytsem. That being said there going to wake up so to speak, the weaker european teams were playing a collapsing boz trap style of hockey where the american’s won’t be. This will hands down be the best styled game because both teams don’t play a shitty collapsing box on 5 on 5 play.[/quote]
Agree totally with this. It is mind-numbingly boring watching European teams play Canada. They know their only chance is to box out their net and hope it’s tied 0-0 in the third and hope for a mistake or bad penalty to put one in. The Swiss invented it and now every European team except the Russians play it. The Canada-US game should be a NHL style game. I’m looking forward to it. Losing Tavares sucks but this is where our depth comes in. Having a Duchene or St. Louis ready to step in is hardly taking a step back. Should be good.
Men’s hockey is always good, now we face the Czechs, should be epic all the way. Women’s skeleton was awsome and competitive as hell with medals won/lost by 4/100 of a second.
Curling has been interesting, there’s a lot of strategy in that. The men’s Canada team won last night.
Rob
[quote]Jlabs wrote:
fit brit with nice teeth[/quote]
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[quote]Jlabs wrote:
I also don’t like how this team has been building it around crosby[/quote]
The main reason y’all almost lost to a Latvia. He played worse than donkey dick.
I’m excited for this game. I am excited for Sweden vs Finland as well. They fucking hate each other and both have great teams. Tomorrow will be an awesome day of hockey.
