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Sochi.
Taking the most athletes we ever have, with, we are told the best chance of results. So far apart from snowboard slopestyle we don't seem to be living up to the hype. Is this going to be the worst return on medals versus entries?
I really hate to be negative....
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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given we are not particularly snowy I think its amazing we get anyone there in the first place - never mind win anything.
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bit early to declare that (to me at least) 
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Calm down, it's only been going for five minutes 
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skinutter, I agree. But we have already missed out on a couple of male and female slopestyle possible medals, a possible medal in the male short track speed skating... It is too early to say it's going to be rubbish, but.............
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The thing that's got my gears grinding is the inevitable slew of 'get involved!' 'grass roots' rhetoric, implying that having a few breathtakingly expensive indoor snowdomes might somehow produce a generation of olympic standard athletes. Truth is, our best hopes will still be the pampered/pushed kids of a handful of very rich parents, so it's nothing like a meritocracy, and some tiny percentage will - by complete chance - be half decent. And they'll still mostly be crap in the grand scheme of things. Millions of scutters from the projects who maybe had potential though, given the choice between spending a week's dole on 100 fags or two hours' snowboarding, they're another matter.
If there was an Olympics for eating microwaved fish fingers whilst idly masturbating in front of Terminator 2, we'd be unstoppable.
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ansta1, dont be shy - embrace your negativity
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DOOOOM! nah, it'll be fine.
All together now... CURLING! BOMAYE! CURLING! BOMAYE!... and so on.
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hobbiteater, as those that have had the (mis) fortune to meet me in person will testify to, I am hardly shy!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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There's been hardly any "hype" as such. All talk before the start was about security, Russian attitudes to homosexuality, a lack of snow and that the facilities wouldn't be ready. It was quite frustrating that there was no talk of the actual sport.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Richard_Sideways wrote: |
DOOOOM! nah, it'll be fine.
All together now... CURLING! BOMAYE! CURLING! BOMAYE!... and so on. |
Are you Swedish?
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You know it makes sense.
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Thornyhill, only on special occasions
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Agreed I have been swayed by the hype and assumed it was the biggest team, but team GB say it's one of the strongest.
Really want the boys and girls to have a great time and deliver and fully behind them all.
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Poster: A snowHead
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ansta1, Women's ski slope style tomorrow, Women's Ski Halfpipe, Sliding still has to start in full swing, curling boys slopestyle. Patience does not seem to be your virtue!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I was surprised to see they went ahead with the biathlon. I didn't think Russia would let in the bi-athletes
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Fattes13, wife and 2 children (girls) have worn down any patience I had, and many years of other stuff means I have no virtues left.
Here is hoping the other boys and girls do well. Bit if anyone wants to give me odds on team GB only getting 2 more medals I would be interested!
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I think we were slow starters in 2012? Not that that means anything for these games and not that Im bothered - Im happy with Jones' bronze if thats all we get. Girl did good. If we had Olympic medals in sandbagging Im sure we'd clean up 
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| ansta1 wrote: |
Agreed I have been swayed by the hype and assumed it was the biggest team, but team GB say it's one of the strongest.
Really want the boys and girls to have a great time and deliver and fully behind them all. |
It is one of the strongest.
We still have reasonable medal chances in the ski slopestyle (both men and women), several short track skating events, women's skeleton, curling, and outside chances in a couple of other events.
GB has never had more than 2 medals in any Winter Olympics since WW2, but there is a very good chance we will this time.
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| ansta1 wrote: |
Fattes13, wife and 2 children (girls) have worn down any patience I had, and many years of other stuff means I have no virtues left.
Here is hoping the other boys and girls do well. Bit if anyone wants to give me odds on team GB only getting 2 more medals I would be interested! |
"Only 2 more" would still mean we had one more than in any post-war Olympics.
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If only we had someone in ski cross.
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feef, its such a cool discipline to watch too
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Here is hoping the other boys and girls do well.
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They've already done better than any of you - they qualified to compete in the Olympics. Since when was sport about medals to the exclusion of everything else? 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Lizzard wrote: |
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Here is hoping the other boys and girls do well.
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They've already done better than any of you - they qualified to compete in the Olympics. Since when was sport about medals to the exclusion of everything else? |
Quite right, my comments and thoughts are not about the individuals who have worked hard and earned their place, more about the "management" who have said it's about credible performance and results despite excluding some.
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| Mr Pieholeo wrote: |
The thing that's got my gears grinding is the inevitable slew of 'get involved!' 'grass roots' rhetoric, implying that having a few breathtakingly expensive indoor snowdomes might somehow produce a generation of olympic standard athletes. Truth is, our best hopes will still be the pampered/pushed kids of a handful of very rich parents, so it's nothing like a meritocracy, and some tiny percentage will - by complete chance - be half decent. And they'll still mostly be crap in the grand scheme of things. Millions of scutters from the projects who maybe had potential though, given the choice between spending a week's dole on 100 fags or two hours' snowboarding, they're another matter.
If there was an Olympics for eating microwaved fish fingers whilst idly masturbating in front of Terminator 2, we'd be unstoppable. |
Not sure that snowdomea are ridiculously expensive compared with other sports but they are not cheap. In all honesty the demography of medallists at the summer Olympics indicates that privilege helps. Over a third of British medallists were privately educated, in Beijing it was 50%.
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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halfhand, +1
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Thinking back to previous winter games we have only really had a chance in maybe two events. Yes only one medal so far but I get the feeling we have other chances yet. We normally only win one medal per games remember
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The official target is 3 medals. If we do that we will have done okay - 4 we will have done amazingly well.
Great chance in Women's Skeleton (possibly 2 medals)
Good Chance in Women's Short Track
Good Chance in Both Curling
Mens Ski Slopestyle prob outside bet due to form/injury
Couple of other outside bets - And remember just because there is a chance does not mean it will happen.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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biddpyat,
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What are you talking about?
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Foreigners:
"All the world over you''ll find they're the same,
They've simply no notion of playing the game.
They argue with umpires,
They cheer when they've won
And they practise beforehand which ruins the fun"
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↑ Exactly!
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Great little ditty that!
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| biddpyat wrote: |
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As brits we should be content to have invented the world's sports and pastimes, and to be enthusiastic amateurs  . It's really quite unseemly to take it all too seriously.... . |
What are you talking about? |
According to the internet, we have already done our bit for sport, and everything else.
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Football
Cricket
Baseball
Tennis
Real Tennis
Table Tennis
Rugby
Rounders
Snooker
Cycling
Billiards
Barbilliards
Rowing(some forms)
Sailing(some forms)
Darts
Golf
Modern Boxing
Badminton
Squash
Fives
Skiing(some forms anyway)
Polo
Hockey
Ice Hockey
Bowls
Curling
Ten Pin Bowling
Tossing The Caber
Modern Motor Racing
Mountaineering
Aircraft Display Competitions
Modern Pentatlon
Eventing/Horse Trials
Shove Ha'penny
Coits
Yes Britain invented Baseball. Baseball is mentioned in the novel Northangar Abbey, written in 1807...long before the Americans claim to have invented it!
Edit ARDNAID - America did NOT invent Baseball, FACT. Also Britain invented the Steam Engine, FACT! Alexander Graham Bell invented the Telephone, he was a Scotsman!
Also, Britain invented the Bicycle, Jet Engine, Penicillin, Antseptic, Train, Underground Railway,Photography, Sonar, Radar, Power Loom, Matches, Television, World Wide Web, Computer, Chronometer, Test Tube Babies, Animal Cloning, Theories of Gravety and Evolution, Industrial Revolution, Portland Cement, Tarmac, Lathe, Miners Lamp, Gas Lighting, Vertical Take Off Aircraft, Jet Airliners, Air Forces, Industrial Mass Production, Stainless Steel, Hovercraft, the English Language....oh and British people also settled, colonised and created the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand too! lol.........be grateful yankees, you are our children, an ofshoot of the British, Historically, Ethnically, Culturally, Linguistically!
Oh we also invented Shrapnel Cannon Shells and the Battle Tank. |
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Chemmy's run to 19th place is quite creditable considering the results of some of the higher profile skiers:
From the BBC Sport website:
Germany's Maria Hoefl-Riesch, who won the super combined on Monday, struggled for pace on the sun-softened course above Rosa Khutor and finished 13th.
Austrian Anna Fenniger, another pre-race favourite in the absence of defending champion Lindsey Vonn, did not finish, while Austrian Nicole Hosp and American Julia Mancuso, second and third in the combined, came ninth and eighth respectively.
"I am disappointed with my skiing, I made some big mistakes," said Mancuso. It's tough and really difficult to stay focused on the whole run, but that's what separates the champions from the rest of us on race day."
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| JimboS wrote: |
According to the internet, we have already done our bit for sport, and everything else.
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Football
Cricket
Baseball
Tennis
Real Tennis
Table Tennis
Rugby
Rounders
Snooker
Cycling
Billiards
Barbilliards
Rowing(some forms)
Sailing(some forms)
Darts
Golf
Modern Boxing
Badminton
Squash
Fives
Skiing(some forms anyway)
Polo
Hockey
Ice Hockey
Bowls
Curling
Ten Pin Bowling
Tossing The Caber
Modern Motor Racing
Mountaineering
Aircraft Display Competitions
Modern Pentatlon
Eventing/Horse Trials
Shove Ha'penny
Coits
Yes Britain invented Baseball. Baseball is mentioned in the novel Northangar Abbey, written in 1807...long before the Americans claim to have invented it!
Edit ARDNAID - America did NOT invent Baseball, FACT. Also Britain invented the Steam Engine, FACT! Alexander Graham Bell invented the Telephone, he was a Scotsman!
Also, Britain invented the Bicycle, Jet Engine, Penicillin, Antseptic, Train, Underground Railway,Photography, Sonar, Radar, Power Loom, Matches, Television, World Wide Web, Computer, Chronometer, Test Tube Babies, Animal Cloning, Theories of Gravety and Evolution, Industrial Revolution, Portland Cement, Tarmac, Lathe, Miners Lamp, Gas Lighting, Vertical Take Off Aircraft, Jet Airliners, Air Forces, Industrial Mass Production, Stainless Steel, Hovercraft, the English Language....oh and British people also settled, colonised and created the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand too! lol.........be grateful yankees, you are our children, an ofshoot of the British, Historically, Ethnically, Culturally, Linguistically!
Oh we also invented Shrapnel Cannon Shells and the Battle Tank. |
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You seem to have omitted Britain's greatest contribution to civilisation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harington_(writer).
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