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It's all good baby...Gold Hockey..Men and Women.
The most Gold Medals for a backwater, pink commie country! Universal Health Care, and #1. Sorry but a silver is .66 percent and a bronze .33 percent. Do the math. We have the most golds, and the best music software in a box.....
Time to celebrate!
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Congratulations to Vancouver for putting on a great Games and to Canada for your tremendous performance. While it would have been nice for the US to take gold in hockey, I am particularly happy that Canada took that one. It is being described as the greatest moment in Canadian sports history. I'm no kind of sports fan, and particularly not of hockey (just don't see much of it), but that was a great game.
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In a sport that historically has been dominated by European teams, all I can say is congrats to BOTH North American teams.
Canada's win was awesome! No doubt. But, US played pretty darn good for a young team to get the silver.
Awesome stuff!
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It's all good baby...Gold Hockey..Men and Women.
The most Gold Medals for a backwater, pink commie country! Universal Health Care, and #1. Sorry but a silver is .66 percent and a bronze .33 percent. Do the math. We have the most golds, and the best music software in a box.....
Time to celebrate!
Many of my favorite things come from Canada. PGMusic products are high in the list.
You also have the best cartoon software (ToonBoom Studio)
and IMHO the best MIDI guitars (Godin)
and one of my favorite musical genres developed in Canada, the Cape Breton style
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Congrats, John, it was a good game!
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Very exciting game, congrats. Enjoyed every minute.
I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
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Not to rain on your parade, John, but I've gotten to the point where I don't care. Yes, I am happy that Canada has done so well, and the most Gold is nice. I'm also happy that so many athletes from around the world get to come and participate.
However, I don't know what sports has done to cure disease, ease the world economic woes, make countries more friendly towards each other. It's kind of like all the 'sports hero's we have in the U.S. Gimme a break, they don't do anything IMPORTANT. Same with actors and actresses.
Bill Gates giving $10B to medical research, yeah, that's something. A few guys winning a gold medal, sorry, doesn't mean that much to me.
Maybe I'm old and senile.
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At least we went fast in that Bobsled.  Just some Nascar engineering behind it, no biggie. LOL Trax
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Congrats John. I'm sure we are all very proud of our athletes, as we should be.
One of the US athletes I'm most proud of is one who didn't even win a medal. She's only 16. Mirai Nagasu took 4th place in the women's figure skating. It was her first Qlympics. And the highest scores she's ever gotten. She was thrilled. You would have thought she had won gold by her reaction. She skated beautifully and flawlessly.
I don't like it when an Olympic athlete gets silver or bronze and they act as if they've failed! To be labeled as second or third best in the world must really suck! LOL.
All of them should be proud to get to represent their country in the greatest sports competition in the world. And we should all be proud of them, medals or not.
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If we had to lose to another country, I for one am happy that it was Canada. They are our closest like-minded, (sorta)  , and well developed country. Great competitors, and good sportsmen and sportswomen. Nice job.......... Rob
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Congrats to the Canadian Hockey Team and coaches.
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Pretty exciting Olympics! Many medals, all around... And that Curling thing.... I'm infatuated with Cheryl B... Love her concentrated lovely green eyed gaze, staring down the rocks almost 50 yards away, and her "I'm every woman, just another mom on the planet" attitude. But to beat all... any hosting nation that celebrates with Dudley Do-Right (Mounted Police in red jackets with a faux gunbelt across the chest...) costumes with cross-dressing skirts serving as back up singers at the closing ceremony, just beats all!
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However, I don't know what sports has done to cure disease, ease the world economic woes, make countries more friendly towards each other. It's kind of like all the 'sports hero's we have in the U.S. Gimme a break, they don't do anything IMPORTANT. Same with actors and actresses.
Gary, don't mix everything up. Because sports (or arts or literary) heroes cannot solve the world's problems, that does not mean we should like them any less.
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Sports Medicine, growing ligaments in petri dishes, repairing bodies, researching nutrition.
Hopefully the World Cup in South Africa will give them an economic boost.
I expect, after seeing the positive image of Canada shown by NBC and NPR perhaps there may be more visits, more understanding and better relationships.
To some people, the escape from the day to day drudgery is relieved by watching a sporting event, attending one, or participating in some activity where the inspiration might be a certain athlete.
In the downtown area of Toronto members of the professional teams visit the poorer areas encouraging kids to read, to play a game instead of hanging on a street corner.
Inspiration comes in all forms. My mother has a stash of CD's at my house (she's 82), because normally you will hear Bach, or Gabrielli. And I often sit and read the score, not the basketball score, the score for the music I'm listening to at the time.
Inspiration means something different to each of us. To Mom it's Vera Lynn. To John it's Gould playing Bach, or Rachmaninoff. And a nice glass of very dry red wine thanks.
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I'm not a hockey fan, but having said that, the gold game was one hell of a hockey exhibition. Two powerful teams slugging it out with a relentless drive and intensity...a great, great game. Too bad someone had to lose, but the best team on that night did win, and Canada certainly can be proud of the effort and rewards of the Winter Games. Not having the population of the US, Canada garnered the gold medal honors, and for that all Canadians can be extremely satisfied. Terrific acomplishment, and congratulations to all Canadians for a wonderful set of games.
Now...can anyone tell me how the sport of curling came about? And how it got the moniker of 'curling'? Is it shuffleboard on ice? It's just weird...
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Now...can anyone tell me how the sport of curling came about? And how it got the moniker of 'curling'? Is it shuffleboard on ice? It's just weird...
It's a Scottish thing. Search "Robin Williams golf" on youtube and you'll get the idea. (Warning: language.)
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John, Marc,
Sorry, I was in a pissy mood when I wrote that post.
I've been having some medical issues lately that we haven't been able to pin down a cause for, and it just aggravates me sometimes, and I let it slip out in response to other things.
My apologies to John, Canada, sports, actors, actresses, and everyone else whom I may have offended. I no longer can remove or edit the post.
Gary
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Congratulations to Vancouver for putting on a great Games and to Canada for your tremendous performance. While it would have been nice for the US to take gold in hockey, I am particularly happy that Canada took that one. It is being described as the greatest moment in Canadian sports history. I'm no kind of sports fan, and particularly not of hockey (just don't see much of it), but that was a great game.
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Dittos to 99% of that. Great job Canada!!....even if I wish the U.S. had won that spectacular hockey game. Canada, you put on the very best winter olympics that I have ever seen.
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Yes, congrats to the athletes and the many countries that they represent.
I attended several of the Olympic events, and they were all fantastic.
I saw...
- Bode Miller from USA win gold in the Super Combined at Whistler Creekside. I've been a Bode fan from way back, so seeing him win gold was a thrill.
- Simon Amman from Norway win gold in Ski Jumping.
- Torah Bright from Australia win gold in Ladies Half-Pipe in the sun (t-shirt weather) in Cypress. Awesome performance, her family was 2 rows in front of me. After her prelim and one hour before her final, Torah was up in the bleachers with them, nonchalantly posing for fan pictures. What a classy lady!
- Czech play Slovakia in hockey at GM place... wasn't for any medal, but given the history there, it seemed like I was in a gold medal game.
- Closing Ceremonies: Took an hour to walk there instead of the expected 10 minutes, walking the 5km from the Pan Pacific to BC Place, and getting through the ~200 thousand people in/around Robson was my Olympic event... seemed like "the 5 km mosh pit" ... no Gold medal, but they did give us souvenir (rubber) moose antlers at the show...
I'd never seen an Olympic event live before. Seeing them live was a great experience. The athletes' friends & families were often within a few rows of where I was sitting. Their enthusiasm was infectious, and I myself cheering along with all of them.
Congrats to our friends in the USA - winning the most medals ever!
Congrats to Canada - most golds ever!
Congrats to Vancouver/Whistler - what a great Olympics!
Have Fun!
Peter Gannon
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Curling is like chess on ice.
Winter is long. I worked in a lumber camp 500 men and 2 sheets of ice, no TV, played cribbage read books, and curled. Still have my trophy for 1st place. I had an actual house in the camp, 1 was the weekend supervisor and Fire Marshal.
A bonspiel is where a bunch of people, usually in the more remote areas travel to other towns and start playing Friday night, knockout until Sunday noon. Beers, a warm room with a view, and usually mixed, 2 couples on each team.
The ice is supposed to start out flat but sometimes has a flaw. You put warm water in a can and it has a head like an inverted watering can and splash pebbles on the ice.
As the rock travels and you let it go you turn you elbow in making the rock go clockwise. Not too fast. Or elbow out and turn counterclockwise. Depending on speed, the pebble, the sweepers a rock might curl laterally about 4 to 5 feet going down the ice, more curl as it slows down. The stones are different colours, 8 for each team. The first guy to throw is the lead, then the second, the third and the skip. The skip points where the stone goes and puts down his broom and you are in deep trouble if you don't trust the skip and don't aim at the broom. The sweepers take it from there.
A very social game, our city has about 8 locations where you an curl, and you can sign up as a spare in case someone is sick etc.
I quit playing when I moved south, but up north where it snowed and stayed in October and thawed about 24 of May it was a great way to spend weekends travelling. A lot of drinking ususally. Chess on ice. Get 3 or 4 stones closest to the button and you had a really good end. 10 of them in a game. Once in a blue moon someone gets an 8 ender, all 8 stones counted the other team shutout. Like a hole in one you talk about it for 40 years.
The Chinese team was chosen 3 years ago and spent 100 percent of their time in Canada curling year round with a Candian coach. How bad was that for wanting to win?
At one time 3 of my buddies and I wondered about moving to Mexico, getting citizenship, and entering the olympics as the Mexican Curling Team. LOL.
John Conley
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