<p>My D has been having fun with this because she is a freshman at a US college and joins everyone in the common area to watch the games and has converted them to watching CTV but whether the US or Canada wins she jojs in singing the National Anthem. In 2001 she learnt all 4 verses of the US anthem and knows all of the Canadian anthem in both French and English she belts it out regardless of which country wins. Dorm mates are trying to tease her when we lose but have commented that she know the US anthem better than they do and even sings when the US wins. She tells them she is Canadian by birth and love but is in the States for college so she chears them both on. Being a true Canadian though she apologized for knowing the anthems to both countries and not just her own. She is having a great time with the mostly American students.</p>
<p>I don’t know if I liked the way the Russians looked last night, so much. The woman’s costume may have been appropriate, but still looked too much like a circus costume to me; she wouldn’t have been out of place standing on the back of a horse or elephant. And the guy looked like he hadn’t washed his hair in a couple of weeks. At least that’s how he looked to me.</p>
<p>I really liked the Canadian’s costumes. Simple and elegant…and it placed the emphasis in the right place…the ice dancing. She reminded me of a swan. What a beautiful performance.</p>
<p>About the Russians - they looked hideous. They also looked very disgusted on the podium. Would it have killed them to be gracious and smile?
The Canadian couple was lovely - she is a beautiful girl and her costume was lovely. </p>
<p>percussiondad - the US National Anthem has 4 verses? Who knew? ;)</p>
<p>Poor speed skater!</p>
<p>I ended up home alone tonight - just me and the ladies’ short program. Bliss! (Don’t tell the folks on the diet and exercise thread that I’m skipping the gym to watch.)</p>
<p>The audience is so silent for the early skaters…just polite applause at the end. They need to import some of us CC cheer/dance/baseball/soccer, etc. moms to cheer loudly for everyone on every jump and spin.</p>
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<p>BUSTED!!</p>
<p>What, your gym doesn’t have TVs for you to watch while you’re there?!?</p>
<p>Tsk, tsk, tsk.</p>
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<p>Harvard vs. Dartmouth?</p>
<p>[Talk</a> of Vancouver: Dartmouth’s Big Green at head of Olympics class - USATODAY.com](<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/vancouver/2010-02-21-talk-of-vancouver-monday_N.htm]Talk”>http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olympics/vancouver/2010-02-21-talk-of-vancouver-monday_N.htm)</p>
<p>Excerpt:</p>
<p>"VANCOUVER — Cherie Piper and Gillian Apps, skating for the Canadian women’s hockey team, are medalists-in-waiting. The only question is color. Before skiing in Sunday’s men’s super combined, Andrew Weibrecht scored a surprise bronze in the super-G.
Once more, Dartmouth’s fingerprints are all over the Winter Olympics.</p>
<p>The highbrow Hanover, N.H., college counts seven current students and alums in the Vancouver Games, representing three different countries. That brings its all-time winter appearances to an Ivy League-high 110.</p>
<p>Are you paying attention down there in Cambridge?"</p>
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<p>LA Fitness must have a contract with certain networks. The TVs are set alternately to Fox News, CNN, and whatever channel shows poker all the time. You can’t change the channel. Last year I went during the Super Bowl and they still had the TVs set to Fox News, CNN and poker.</p>
<p>Well that’s just downright unAmuricun to not show the Super Bowl and the Olympics.</p>
<p>Why do I keep missing what I want to watch? I keep missing the FIVE SECONDS they seem to show the skating…I do love skiing, but it seems to go on for hours…</p>
<p>mimimomx3: ^^^ it’s all to keep the spectators glued to their seats. Figure skating brings in the audience, not the bobsleds, but they don’t have a whole evening for just figure skating.</p>
<p>Youdon’tsay: I agree. Poor speed skater, he hired the wrong coach.</p>
<p>Where is the biathlon? I want to see cross country skiing, too! &^%@ NBC. They just interviewed Torin Koos, but where is all the skiing???</p>
<p>wow, the korean skater was amazing.</p>
<p>We just finished watching the Australian girl dance. She did very well.</p>
<p>Both the Japanese and Korean skaters did extremely well, but I agree with the judges that Kim Yu Na was the better one. A huge load off her shoulder it must be, as all of Korea wants her–practically demands–to win, especially against a Japanese rival.</p>
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<p>It looks like Harvard + Dartmouth vs. Harvard +Dartmouth,doesn’t it?</p>
<p>Women’s ski cross - who came up with this crazy s**t? I want to try it!!!</p>
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<p>I hope it doesn’t become impossible for her to complete her triple jumps while carrying all of Korea on her shoulders.</p>
<p>She did not seem to be nervous. She put on a wonderful performance! But perhaps I should have used that particular image!:)</p>