Aksel Svindal.
On a run that might have been even more suicidal
(seemingly) than the Women's Downhill on Wednesday
(15 skiers crashed), Norwegian Aksel Svindal managed
an impressive run yesterday in the men's Super-G
downhill that put him on top for the Gold at the end
of the day.
"You have to be born on top of a mountain to be able
to ski" Svindal told a journalist.
Uh, okay.
Americans Bode Miller and Andy Weibrecht took Silver
and Bronze, respectively.
Too fast! Jon Montgomery rides the Skeleton.
In a sport I wouldn't try if you paid me a million
dollars, Jon Montgomery of Canada and Amy Williams
of Great Britain took Gold in the Men's and Women's
Skeleton.
I don't have any problems with the luge, but the
skeleton scares the hell out of me. I think it's
the whole head-first aspect of it.
Montgomery's win gave Canada its 4th Gold medal of
the games. And of course all our Canuk friends were
quite ecstatic.
Some might consider me unpatriotic, but I don't
necessarily root for the Americans. What I want
to see is the best competition possible and then,
whoever manages to emerge from the fray, that person
or team gets my admiration. I suppose that's why
I hate it when I see crashes during an event. I
want to see everyone succeed. To me it is more
significant if an American emerges on top overcoming
stiff competition than if they simply win almost
by default. And all of this rather nationalistic
bullshit they constantly talk about in terms of
the "medal count" I personally think is juvenile.
As for these posts, they are biased toward America
only to the extent that NBC ( the network here which
is broadcasting them) is biased. My main go-to place
as far as all this though has been the Vancouver
Official Olympics site.
You know it's interesting, but in the Olympics
we are once again talking about boundaries and
borders. We are stuck in the past. But the average
internet user or blogger is used to thinking with-
out boundaries. Not that some walls do not still
exist in certain places/countries. But overall
in cyberspace we are really all in the "same
neighborhood" as our friend Allan here on this
site used to say. We might disagree. But we are
somehow on the same team.
Could there be a new type of Olympics? One that
goes beyond those borders to simply put competitor
against competitor as the individuals they are? I doubt
it. That's just too much Star Trek: Next Generation.
But who knows.
That being said, if the Americans win that is
certainly great. I do in fact have a certain
affinity for Americans. Somewhat.
Well other than those I spent most of the night
watching the ice dancing, which has not concluded
yet so I'll cover that one later. So I think I will
just end here with this.
Ice dancers Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin compete
in the Compulsory round of the Ice Dancing event. They
were top of the heap at the end of Friday night. The
medals will be decided on Monday night (Feb. 22nd).
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"You know it's interesting, but in the Olympics we are once again talking about boundaries and borders. We are stuck in the past. But the average internet user or blogger is used to thinking with- out boundaries. Not that some walls do not still exist in certain places/countries. But overall in cyberspace we are really all in the "same neighborhood" as our friend Allan here on this site used to say. We might disagree. But we are somehow on the same team." yes we are Eddie,and yes Allan was right,we are in the "same neighborhood!":heart:
Eddie I was trying to see the name of the redhead that was on the Ice Dancing last night! I had a phone call and I missed her Nationality and name! did you see her?http://www.merinews.com/article/vancouver-winter-olympics-2010-schedules-telecast-details-day-8/15798697.shtml
I haven't watched Olympics since the opening ceremonies, but I do love ice dancing. I think it is so beautiful, and every last one of these ice skaters (of all categories) have beautiful bodies.
Yeah, in terms of looks I certainly would give them a 9.0 out of 10.0.
I'll look it up. I remember her and I remember that like several of the skaters she was attending the University of Michigan. I know she is American — but some of those dancers compete for other countries.As soon as I get up from my nap I'll look it up for you and try for a photo too. :up:
It turns out that the pair with the redhead is Emily Samuelson and Evan Bates of USA.They were in 14th place as of last night.Couldn't find a photo of them from last night, but here's one from the World Nationals.And just for the record here's another one I found from the official site, Nora Hoffman and Maxim Zavozin of Hungary getting a little bit kinky on the ice.13th place after last night.Zowie! 🙂
PS. Sasha Fartina Gottataluvya of USA finished 1st in the bone-chewing competition. :p
I watched some of the Skeleton competition without knowing what it was called. Thanks for letting us know the name. Yeah, the head first thing bothers me too. Still the skiing, snowboarding and speed skating is my favorite. Haven't watched much of the ice dancing at all.
@ Angeliki. #1Thanks so much for the photos. It was so nice of you to take your time to put them up here. :up:I'll take one of Emily and one Maria from the other night. To go, please! :)#2Sasha thanks you so much for the medals! And she'll take the penny too!
🙂
@ Pam. Poor dog. I don't want to mention what I'd like to do to those type of people. It's against my recent vow. Sasha' "hot Mexican lover", a chihuahua named O.D. who lives upstairs, is moving to Hawaii. Poor Sasha! Her boyfriends always leave her! 😦
Emily Samuelson yes! that's her! I thought she was a beauty !!!:heart:Samuelson & Bates :love:
@ Star. :DHope you are having a good Saturday!:heart:
for Sasha Fartina Gottataluvya of USA:
😀 Got to love Gottataluvya! She loves her blankey I'll bet. Kiss for Sasha! :heart: My next door neighbor, who watches my dogs when I'm away, has a new dog. A rescued Deer Chihuahua, called that because the face, ears and fawn coloring look like a deer. She's been named Abbey. She'd been abused and was malnourished. My neighbor's only had her a couple of days and you can still see how skinny the poor dog was. She has a new life now.
speaking of searchingI always have a kick to see who is visiting my Blog :p one of the latest google searches was on a thong :lol:yes, my post gets weird visitors,and the numbers are mad!my posts and this link were in one group! :eyes:http://www.teensselfshot.com/fhgs/0028/TeensSelfShot14.jpgwhat about that?
You never can tell. It's crazy. I sometimes wonder why I get any outside visitors. And then I check the stats and I still wonder why I get visitors. :pCan't beat that self shot. At least not tonight! 🙂
Originally posted by edwardpiercy:
😮 it is a lucky penny for a future boyfriend search !
Edward, I forget which post we were on discussing the TV app. First, I have a YouTube toolbar which has feeds from the site and shows most popular videos, funniest, etc. And on that toolbar I have a button for TV. Online TV. As I am not sure which one it is because there are several apps with that name, I am placing here the link to Conduit Apps which has gadgets, widgets and apps for Firefox and IE. You might have fun checking out all the available apps. There are tons of them. While I was looking for my particular one, I found another that I added to the toolbar called Sci-Fi TV. I'm looking forward to exploring that one. Bet you'll find something you like.
YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE A VISA??!!!!Uh oh. :p :p :p
"But the average internet user or blogger is used to thinking with-out boundaries."I am glad I don`t need visa for entering posts in other countries 😆
Thank you very much! I'll check it out tomorrow as I am using IE for the Vancouver site for these posts (Opera running a little slow on it for some reason). :up:
@ Darko. You can hide in my attick if you want. :D@ Linda. Oh I love those. Yeah I definitely hope I can get that going.
:whistle:*walks away… very fast*:P
Oh, and you can watch a little 3 x 3 screen or watch it full screen.
Edward I have TV Center Toolbar. I just saw the tail end of a scifi movie that they dug out of the deepest, darkest reject bins! It was so hokey it was funny. Right now it is showing Flash Gordon, OLD Flash Gordon. I think I am going to like this
I don't know about you, but my Opera browser has been so slow all day long! IE8 was actually about 10 times faster tonight than Opera has been. Wonder what's going on?I'm off to bed. See you nice folks later today–after 2 p.m. I imagine.
Darko is hiding in Eddies' attic :doh: :sing: ……….. this is the end of the world.:lol:
PSremind me again of how high your attic is ???**** Darkos hight : 6" 3" tall! **** 😆
Okay, you are right. He can hide in my storage unit downstairs. His head would clear on that one — though he'd have to watch out for the hanging light bulb.
hahahaha not to mention the multiple wild women that you keep up there :p
:doh: that was my guess! Now I see there is more into it! Should I hope for a post on "beauties hidden in Eddie's attic" in the future?Darko might insist after these comments to squeeze himself in the "girls attic territory " 😆
😆 I need that attic!Speaking of which I had a dream this morning that my friends Sean and Ryan came over with a bunch of other people including Drew Barrymore. She was wearing red blue jeans and a red blouse and was reading some poetry somebody had pinned up in the hallway. And there was something about a big log. And of course I was jealous because I thought that "big log" was a referrence to her boyfriend and that I certainly couldn't compete with a big log. Well enough of my Drew fantasies. I should PM Darko and let him know that if he hides in my storage unit he will have to bring his own sleeping bag and ghetto blaster. 🙂
Maybe Darko is Drew's "big log". :p :p
ahahahaha I am not a witness but it could have been! 😀
*peaks out of storage unit*:left: :right:Ok, Drew, now you can go, seems nobody is watching…:P
Анонімний writes:If you're in a not good position and have got no money to move out from that point, you would need to receive the business loans . Because it would help you emphatically. I take auto loan every single year and feel myself OK just because of it.
Shouldn't the word 'emphatically' have an exclamtion point behind it? Seems like it would — Emphatically!
Anon, send me some of the money, actually take a huuuuge loan and give it to me. And feel free to feel yourself OK about it, for the sake doing that. I don`t mind 😛
Yes, I think you should send Darko some money — and I say that most emphatically!
😀