Sochi

[deezlee]

[media]//www.youtube.com/embed/aj2yI4vKP3Y[/media]








:endorse:

 

[volumen]

deezlee said:[media]//www.youtube.com/embed/aj2yI4vKP3Y[/media]








:endorse:




That guy was a crack up. Pants on the ground!

 

[Gibbo]

Just saw this... what a comeback... Yikes!








http://www.broadsheet.ie/2014/02/14/when-irish-ice-is-smiling

 

[Jimster]

Thought I'd embed it. Good catch from the lad.

 

[cove]

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[vintageinfants]

you guys are the best

 

[ppadilha]

SPOILER ALERT: weird people make weird faces

http://www.sadanduseless.com/2014/02/faces-of-olympic-figure-skating/

 

[vintageinfants]

here's a taste of a bit of the local flavour we've got going on over here:





[media]//www.youtube.com/embed/wh4kECZiXyM[/media]

 

[DOR]

vintageinfants said:here's a taste of a bit of the local flavour we've got going on over here:





[media]//www.youtube.com/embed/wh4kECZiXyM[/media]







Dude is next level. Made me laugh more than once.





That said. Sketchy stuff...

 

[james]

I just watched some Olympics, and for my trouble, I got to hear "podium" used as a verb and watch a Cadillac commercial whose off-the-meter jingoistic dickhead vibes were delivered atop portions of Terry Callier's otherwise imperial "You Goin' Miss Your Candyman."

 

[dukeofdelridge]

DOR said:vintageinfants said:here's a taste of a bit of the local flavour we've got going on over here:





[media]//www.youtube.com/embed/wh4kECZiXyM[/media]







Dude is next level. Made me laugh more than once.





That said. Sketchy stuff...




Can you link to the real newscaster this guy's imitating? No way is this dude real! He's a master. Holy shit!

 

[ppadilha]

[media]//www.youtube.com/embed/qagkIqCBqIg[/media]

 

[vintageinfants]

FEB 18, 2014


Here's why the US women's bobsled team has basically already won gold

Halfway through the women???s bobsled competition in Sochi, United States 1 leads Canada 1 by 0.23 seconds and third-place United States 2 by 0.56 seconds. With two of the four heats remaining and just a half-second separating three teams, the gold medal seems like it would be up for grabs. Not so fast, my friends.





A fascinating article in Slate suggests that because bobsled results tend to be highly predictable, USA 1 might as well receive their gold medals now. As Ben Blatt discovered, time variations in bobsled runs are so minuscule that the team winning after the second heat has gone on to win 85 percent of Olympic or World Cup competitions since 2006. The gold at each Olympic race in 2010 was already sewn up at the halfway point.

FEB 19, 2014

:game_over: :game_over: :game_over: :game_over: :game_over:

 

[Jimster]

So USA1, after two heats, put 0.23 seconds on the Cannucks? Their sled is .11 faster per run? Surely, if they get 2 clams or they faceplant the start, they could still theoretically drop the time?

 

[rootlesscosmo]

I think all the Americans in this funny/cold Olympics thread should back out and cede it to the Canadians.





least we can do for the little guys.





toodles.

 

[vintageinfants]

J i m s t e r said:So USA1, after two heats, put 0.23 seconds on the Cannucks? Their sled is .11 faster per run? Surely, if they get 2 clams or they faceplant the start, they could still theoretically drop the time?




they did. disastrous final runs and they gave it up.





counting chickens.....

 

[DB_Cooper]

Am I to understand that teh USA and teh Canada will be playing ice hockey against each other?

 

[vintageinfants]

DB_Cooper said:Am I to understand that teh USA and teh Canada will be playing ice hockey against each other?




tomorrow at noon. i'm pretty sure the entire country will be stopping for two hours.

 

[LazarusOblong]

vintageinfants saidB_Cooper said:Am I to understand that teh USA and teh Canada will be playing ice hockey against each other?




tomorrow at noon. i'm pretty sure the entire country will be stopping for two hours.




Not here. Just some guys in places named "Rochester" taking long lunches.

 

[DB_Cooper]

I have to admit, I am interested enough in the outcome of this match to allow myself to passively learn the result from someone else at some point after it's over. Which is more than I can say for anything that has happened at these Olympics thusfar.