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Originally posted by C-Dubs:

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Originally posted by bald1:
Given the cheap head shot by Poulin, I think the Canadians didn't deserve a win.

Mentioned it to a co-worker today, and he hadn't seen it. Found the video ( Here if you haven't seen it) and he watched it, and was as astonished as I was with no penalty call.
No body-checking rule be damned. That was an elbow to the noggin, and should have been a match penalty in my mind. Coach was wanting a major...refs called nothing

That was a penalty in any league. Definitely in a women's Olympic game. Right in front of the net on a scoring chance with the ref behind the net watching the play. Heck in the NHL that would likely be reviewed by player safety and a fine/suspension issued.

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Originally posted by C-Dubs:

No body-checking rule be damned. That was an elbow to the noggin, and should have been a match penalty in my mind. Coach was wanting a major...refs called nothing

I liked what Kenny Albert said in regards to that. "In the IIHF rulebook, there is no such thing as a clean hit to the head."

But the refs called nothing.

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Originally posted by Zecpull:
OKAY... What the hell is a Performance enhancing drug that would help you in Curling?? This is a sport where they drink beer and eat chicken wings between games. The stones are easily thrown by 100 pound women,
But a Russian was Banned for doping...

Yeah, it's retarded. I can't believe they actually waste money even testing these guys and gals.

By the way, the men's curling Gold medal match is tonight at 1am Eastern. That's 0100 on 2/24.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:


Yeah, it's retarded. I can't believe they actually waste money even testing these guys and gals.

By the way, the men's curling Gold medal match is tonight at 1am Eastern. That's 0100 on 2/24.

Crap, those things go on for a while too.

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Originally posted by Ackks:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:


Yeah, it's retarded. I can't believe they actually waste money even testing these guys and gals.

By the way, the men's curling Gold medal match is tonight at 1am Eastern. That's 0100 on 2/24.

Crap, those things go on for a while too.

Obviously that's live play. I'd love to watch it, but I'll have to settle for the re-airing sometime during the day tomorrow whenever that is.

1-4:45 a.m. -- Men's Curling (gold medal final), NBCSN (LIVE)

Yeah, I'm going to have to do the same thing.

Snowboarding giant slalom.

How did the South Korean (in the foreground) win this race? The other guy clearly crossed first.



Home field advantage I guess.

I'm not much into the Olympics, but I happened upon videos of the Canadian Ice Dancing team.

Hard not to be moved by the beauty and grace of this performance.

The Canadian pair started skating together when Virtue was seven and Moir was nine. Twenty years ago.

They are ending their skating careers.

This video is not the Olympics, but a performance leading up to Olympics.

https://youtu.be/hO2xBr5EmSo

They won gold at the Olympics

Team USA scored 5 in the 8th end! Leads 10-5

Team USA Men's Curling GOLD...10-7

Loved the spinneroo concession shot the Swedish skip threw to end the game.

This cracked me up.

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Originally posted by submoa:
Team USA Men's Curling GOLD...10-7

I saw an article calling it the...

MIRACURL ON ICE!!!

Watching the gold medal curling match, I swear I just saw Ivanka Trump watching from the stands.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Watching the gold medal curling match, I swear I just saw Ivanka Trump watching from the stands.

Yeah, they showed her twice.

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Originally posted by lbj:
In an overall sense, this is the worst television coverage of an Olympics in my entire lifetime.

Plus, South Korea has also done a terrible job IMO.

Worst Olympics ever!

I agree. The coverage of the games in the 80's was better. Now we've got it in HDTV but the creativity of the broadcast seems to be missing.