I love the Olympics, especially The Winter Games. It was Olympic Hockey that got me into the sport in the first place. GO TEAM USA!!!



As a side note Florida Atlantic Alumni Brittany Bowe is a speedskater with the world record time in the women’s 1,000 meters competing in Sochi. Hope she flashes up some "owl fingers."

GO OWLS!!


***As a request from others, do not talk about or post any results until after the primetime showing, thank you!***

If you're going to have an Olympics thread, it needs to be decided NOW if results can be posted here as it happens, OR as it happens on NBC.

Might as well go ahead and get his out there.

30 Sexiest Women of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics

(02-07-2014 10:31 AM)VA49er Wrote:  Might as well go ahead and get his out there.

30 Sexiest Women of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics

nice!

but they left off Amanda Kessel

I say no results until after it is shown on TV.

(02-07-2014 10:53 AM)wh49er Wrote:  I say no results until after it is shown on TV.

Agreed!

Already got my plans set up... goin to a friend's place to do some with a fun drinking game I found

No results until after primetime! If people want to know the results, look them up and then keep them to yourself!
OP, could you post 'NO RESULTS" or something along those lines on the title.
Can't wait for hockey and curling! Go USA!!

No more sports that require judges arbitrary numbers!! If it can't be timed or scored by legitimate scores, it's not a sport!!!

Heck, they had some snowboarding on TV yesterday.... and that's one thing I hate. We haven't even had opening ceremonies and we're already having events?

So which Winter Olympic sports will i have interest in? Downhill Skiing and Slaloms, Ski Jump (although that breaks my "arbitrary number" rule.. but at least they still have to manage distance and stuff :) ) , Ice hockey, curling, Luge, Bobsled. I think that's about it.

Did anyone see the chick faceplant last night in the slopestyle....can't believe she got up.....can't find a vid

(02-07-2014 11:44 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  So which Winter Olympic sports will i have interest in? Downhill Skiing and Slaloms, Ski Jump (although that breaks my "arbitrary number" rule.. but at least they still have to manage distance and stuff :) ) , Ice hockey, curling, Luge, Bobsled. I think that's about it.

What about snowboard cross, that's just racing and speed skating?

(02-07-2014 11:44 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  No more sports that require judges arbitrary numbers!! If it can't be timed or scored by legitimate scores, it's not a sport!!!

Heck, they had some snowboarding on TV yesterday.... and that's one thing I hate. We haven't even had opening ceremonies and we're already having events?
So which Winter Olympic sports will i have interest in? Downhill Skiing and Slaloms, Ski Jump (although that breaks my "arbitrary number" rule.. but at least they still have to manage distance and stuff :) ) , Ice hockey, curling, Luge, Bobsled. I think that's about it.

They added like 9 new events, so they had to start earlier than usual to fit all of the new events in....Women and Men Slopestyle are new, Team FIgure Skating is new, Womens Ski Jumping is new and I am sure forgetting a few others......

Having primetime taped seems pointless as anyone can watch live events on their phone or online as they are happening...Unless you live in a cave it will be hard to not know results of something that happened 9 hours prior.....I guess you could watch soap operas all day or LIfetime to not see any results scrolling across the screen, but if you are college basketball fan it willl be hard to watch college basketball on a Saturday without seeing the results ...So good luck to those who are actually watching Primetime Olympics on NBC without knowing any results...

(02-07-2014 12:47 PM)WKUFan518 Wrote:  

(02-07-2014 11:44 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  No more sports that require judges arbitrary numbers!! If it can't be timed or scored by legitimate scores, it's not a sport!!!

Heck, they had some snowboarding on TV yesterday.... and that's one thing I hate. We haven't even had opening ceremonies and we're already having events?
So which Winter Olympic sports will i have interest in? Downhill Skiing and Slaloms, Ski Jump (although that breaks my "arbitrary number" rule.. but at least they still have to manage distance and stuff :) ) , Ice hockey, curling, Luge, Bobsled. I think that's about it.

They added like 9 new events, so they had to start earlier than usual to fit all of the new events in....Women and Men Slopestyle are new, Team FIgure Skating is new, Womens Ski Jumping is new and I am sure forgetting a few others......

Having primetime taped seems pointless as anyone can watch live events on their phone or online as they are happening...Unless you live in a cave it will be hard to not know results of something that happened 9 hours prior.....I guess you could watch soap operas all day or LIfetime to not see any results scrolling across the screen, but if you are college basketball fan it willl be hard to watch college basketball on a Saturday without seeing the results ...So good luck to those who are actually watching Primetime Olympics on NBC without knowing any results...

or post on a bbs and hope for the best.....

This may have already been asked but are there any current or former C-USA athletes in the winter olympics ?

(02-07-2014 11:44 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  No more sports that require judges arbitrary numbers!! If it can't be timed or scored by legitimate scores, it's not a sport!!!

Heck, they had some snowboarding on TV yesterday.... and that's one thing I hate. We haven't even had opening ceremonies and we're already having events?

So which Winter Olympic sports will i have interest in? Downhill Skiing and Slaloms, Ski Jump (although that breaks my "arbitrary number" rule.. but at least they still have to manage distance and stuff :) ) , Ice hockey, curling, Luge, Bobsled. I think that's about it.

So no more CFB rankings?

(02-07-2014 01:30 PM)PGPirate Wrote:  

(02-07-2014 11:44 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  No more sports that require judges arbitrary numbers!! If it can't be timed or scored by legitimate scores, it's not a sport!!!

Heck, they had some snowboarding on TV yesterday.... and that's one thing I hate. We haven't even had opening ceremonies and we're already having events?

So which Winter Olympic sports will i have interest in? Downhill Skiing and Slaloms, Ski Jump (although that breaks my "arbitrary number" rule.. but at least they still have to manage distance and stuff :) ) , Ice hockey, curling, Luge, Bobsled. I think that's about it.

So no more CFB rankings?

or bracketology, preseason, recruiting, etc.....

(02-07-2014 01:30 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  This may have already been asked but are there any current or former C-USA athletes in the winter olympics ?

I forgot her name, Brittany Bowman? SHe is a former PG from FAU now on the US Speedskating Team....

(02-07-2014 01:30 PM)TOPSTRAIGHT Wrote:  This may have already been asked but are there any current or former C-USA athletes in the winter olympics ?

johnny quinn is part of the 4 man bobsled team...he played wr at north texas...

(02-07-2014 01:30 PM)PGPirate Wrote:  

(02-07-2014 11:44 AM)DaSaintFan Wrote:  No more sports that require judges arbitrary numbers!! If it can't be timed or scored by legitimate scores, it's not a sport!!!

Heck, they had some snowboarding on TV yesterday.... and that's one thing I hate. We haven't even had opening ceremonies and we're already having events?

So which Winter Olympic sports will i have interest in? Downhill Skiing and Slaloms, Ski Jump (although that breaks my "arbitrary number" rule.. but at least they still have to manage distance and stuff :) ) , Ice hockey, curling, Luge, Bobsled. I think that's about it.

So no more CFB rankings?

works for me... set up a playoff for conference champions...

Uhoh did i open that can of worms again? :)

I like:

Hockey
Ski Jump
Moguls
Snowboarding events
Luge / Bobsled / Skeleton

And I will watch the ice skating stuff.

I can get into some of the speed skating stuff.

Speed skating and hockey are my favorites