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Part II of the XXIst Winter Olympiad....and NBC still sucks.

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bigblue_dl said:
It seems like there should be some areas where this intersection occurs in the US. Places like Michigan-Wisconsin-Minnesota and even North Dakota and Montana seem like good candidates. Maybe the cross-country skiing side of it isn't there. Actually, my guess is that the group of people in the upper midwest that owns guns is the same group that has snowmobiles, ice shacks and ATV's, not cross country skis. While the group in the upper midwest that cross-country skis isn't very high on gun ownership.
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It's just like skating and hockey - the competitors mostly come from wealthy areas with the necessary practice venues and coaching staffs to make it happen. In the US, kids are mostly into <s>knuckledragging</s> snowboarding now.

Nostalgic note: My dad used to do a 25k classic-style XC race every winter for most of the 90s. One year (91 or 92, I think) it was brutally cold, but he bundled up and decided to race anyway. He showed up at the finish line a little over two hours later with icicles hanging from his beard and that was probably the last time I heard him complain about how cold it was. ;)
 
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The women won, Shuster benched.

Wow, it has been a good day for American curling.
 
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Pucky-Bucky Backer said:
There are some cuties on that team. Are you sure you are up to the task? ;)
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Somehow I'll manage. Gotta like that Katya Galkina's hobbies include "partying and meeting people." :)
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Nostalgic note: My dad used to do a 25k classic-style XC race every winter for most of the 90s. One year (91 or 92, I think) it was brutally cold, but he bundled up and decided to race anyway. He showed up at the finish line a little over two hours later with icicles hanging from his beard and that was probably the last time I heard him complain about how cold it was. ;)
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I grew up on ski vacations at Killington and Stowe in the late 60's, early 70's, and there used to be *huge* fields of skiers for night XC events running between ski areas. As the guys would collapse at the finish they'd all look like Yeti. They all tended to be "old hands" -- area employees or long time residents from VT/NH, who'd been skiing, drinking and passing out together for 50 years. Invariably they were all of Norwegian decent -- the chalk leaderboards in lodges had 90% of names ending in -son or -sen.

No idea whether that culture still exists or if it's been completely supplanted by the half-pipe stoner crowd.
 
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Not sure if this has been discussed yet.. but Shuster, the skip of the USA men's curling team, has been benched for the match against France today...

I feel kind of sorry for him.. but maybe we can win a game?! (The women did that today!)
 
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quiddlet said:
Not sure if this has been discussed yet.. but Shuster, the skip of the USA men's curling team, has been benched for the match against France today...

I feel kind of sorry for him.. but maybe we can win a game?! (The women did that today!)
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Yeah it was mentioned on the previous page.
 
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The drop-dead gorgeous Therese Johaug comes in sixth in the women's 15k pursuit. Who won? Marit Bjoergen, of course. She is a machine.
 
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Holy cow, Belarus just scored, now it 3-2 Sweden. Looks like a game.
 
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And now Belarus bangs one off the post. Final 7 minutes here should be good.
 
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Close game :eek:

Mezin should have just kept going to the bench for the extra attacker.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Michigamme - the restaurant/tourist trap is still standing.

That movie was on (I think) TCM a few weeks ago. I saw the last half of it.
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IIRC, IMDB says the scene where the judge pokes his head into the library and sees Jimmy Stewart looking for precedents, was actually filmed outside of the men's room. There was no library in the courthouse, so they just improvised. One of my favorite films.
 
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Is anyone keeping tabs on time spent showing actual curling vs commercial time?
 
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burgie12 said:
Is anyone keeping tabs on time spent showing actual curling vs commercial time?
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No, but basically it goes:
Commercials while the first two rocks are thrown.
Coverage of the next four rocks, then two minutes of commercials.
Coverage of the last five or six stones.
Repeat.

After 5 ends, there's a seven minute break, five of which are commercials (mainly for GEICO)
 
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They're typically skipping over the early rocks, where the stuff that happens isn't going to interest the casual observer all that much. My only real disappointment is that as a novice curler (two years doing it when I still lived in Houston), I'm interested in learning the strategy better. I generally have a pretty good idea of late-end strategy, because that's what we see on TV and we can play along on TV and have very good analysts to confirm or contradict our own opinions. However, I know much less about early-end strategy because they're almost always skipping over that; we only see the resulting rocks in play, without any discussion of what the skips were trying to do and whether that's something that Jones or the male analyst (don't remember offhand if it's Duguid or Chevrier) agrees with.
 
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