9 Thoughts to “The 2010 Olympic Open Thread”

  1. Moon-howler
    February 12, 2010 at 10:11 pm

    The opening is neat. I loved the downhill skiing in and also the first people opening. They have danced for over an hour.

  2. Red Dawn
    February 12, 2010 at 10:23 pm

    I became bored with it and turned on COPS. It was sad about the athlete who lost his life.

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/344562-vancouver-2010-whistler-run-claims-life-of-soviet-luger

  3. Rez
    February 12, 2010 at 10:30 pm

    I am really impressed about how Canada respects the Indian history to give them center stage. Would that we felt the same way about our own history.

  4. Moon-howler
    February 12, 2010 at 10:57 pm

    I agree. However, I have found that Indians are not particularly revered by the average person on the street and vice versa.

    I think we need to take a lesson from Canada about the Indians. When the Olympics were in SLC, I think they were given recognition, more so than usual.

    This regions of Canada is fabulous. I LOVED the whales.

  5. Slowpoke Rodriguez
    February 12, 2010 at 11:58 pm

    Very Very sad about the luge competitor from Georgia. My thoughts go to his family and his countrymen.

  6. Moon-howler
    February 13, 2010 at 12:41 am

    Yes, it really is very sad. The president of the luge competition has said the track is simply too fast. Not quite sure what that means. His team sure is to be commended. They came out with their game face attempting to mask their sorrow.

    You just don’t go off to the Olympics and expect to not come home.

  7. Gainesville Resident
    February 13, 2010 at 9:36 am

    I want to echo Slowpoke and MH. I heard it on the radio on the way home from work – they had just announced he had died at the hospital. Very sad indeed, and I’m sure very tough for his family and fellow countrymen and athletes.

    The track being too fast – we’ve seen that before – it means it is so fast that they can’t easily control the luge – human reflexes being what they are – split second timing is needed to control your luge and make those tight turns at high speeds without flying off the track. The same thing happens with the bobsleds and sometimes the track is too icy, or just maybe they made the turns on the track too agressive the way it was laid out. It may be built for fast speeds in hopes many Olympic records will be shattered. The designers of the track may have gone a little bit too far in designing it the way they did. Sometimes the same happens with ski slope designs for the downhill or the slalom. Or it is just the particular snow/ice on the track or slope.

    Whatever, it is a tragic way to start the Olympics.

    I will say, the opening ceremony – what I saw of it was fabulous. I have it on the DVR and will rewatch it today probably from start to finish – I didn’t see the start and didn’t see the end last night.

  8. Moon-howler
    February 13, 2010 at 10:09 am

    GR, does that leave the track designer culpable morally, financially or otherwise?

  9. Gainesville Resident
    February 13, 2010 at 7:27 pm

    Good question – but I have no idea.

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