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Well, I was not paying much attention about the Olympics, but now I'm getting excited. The torch is coming to town!

It will be running past my Dad's place, and I'm going to take my kids to see it this afternoon. My daughter is very excited! And also, my brother found out he will get to escort the torch to the cauldon lighting on Friday. He'll be in "Red Serge".

If anyone is curious, there is a live feed as the torch makes it way into Vancouver.

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/torch/follow-torch/index.html

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Hockey tournament will be interesting.

Canada and Russia are the favorites, but I think Finland, Sweden, Czech Rep. and USA will all have a chance. You never know about these short tournaments.

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Really looking forward to the Olympics.. Especially the hockey tournament..

My aim is to head over to Vancouver on a business trip on the 24th. I truly hope I am able to reschedule som things in my calender, because my Canadian business partners has sourced a couple VIP box seats for the hockey gold game on the 28th! :thumbsupsmileyanim:

Btw, any BC members up for a quick GTG during that period? I might be able to squeeze in a beer or two along with some eye candy! ;)

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No... the hockey final is going to be a rematch of 2006 Olympics: Sweden - Finland. All Scandinavian one again. :D

Canada and USA can play for the bronze. Russian team has too many big egos... Ovechkin is bigger than the team... anything can happen (at least I hope so).

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There's NOTHING like going to the Olympics...if anyone ever has the chance to do so, don't miss it...

I spent 2 days in Lake Placid in 1980 and it was a lifetime memory...I played hockey in college...My left wing lived in Lake Placid...As a resident, he had a special pass that allowed us to drive into the village - which was not open to anyone but local residents...Everyone else was bused in...A couple of us piled in a car and went - armed with limited cash and no tix...we were able to score hockey tix - seeing Canada play Russia and USA play W. Germany...we had an absolute blast...

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You know, I was 8 years old but I remember 1980 Lake Placid and the "Miracle on Ice". It was a worldwide sensation. Soviet Union team was "unbeatable". It was even bigger thing because it happened in the middle of "Cold War"... total embarrassment for the Soviets for sure. Still... I think they could have won 999 games out of 1000... but they completely under estimated the passion of this US team.

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Well, we saw the torch today! I don't know if it is just me, but I now feel the town is buzzing now that it made it to Vancouver. More of the bigger formal ceremonies are tomorrow, but it sure was exciting to see it today. There were thousands and thousands of people cheering and lining the streets, and waving Canadian flags. Made me very proud.

The one thing I don't get is why was Arnold Swartzenager invited to carry the torch? One of his election platforms was how evil Vancouver was for having a film industry. WTF? He isn't even Canadian, and only 1/2 American.

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No... the hockey final is going to be a rematch of 2006 Olympics: Sweden - Finland. All Scandinavian one again. :D

Canada and USA can play for the bronze. Russian team has too many big egos... Ovechkin is bigger than the team... anything can happen (at least I hope so).

I was simply referring to Canada in general...not Hockey specifically...but we'll see about the Hockey game :thumbsupsmileyanim:

Cheers :drinks:

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I live in an Winter Olympic city. Lucky me.

I can tell you that the experience is unequaled.

If you love winter sports, I guess.

I love winter... and sports.

So for me it's all good.

Now if it could just quit raining in Whistler we could run a few events.

Go USA...for that matter...go Everybody!!!!!

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What a tragic start to the Olympics.. man they need to rethink the luge track.. I would rather see technical skill than a crash course for speed..

they talked about padding the pillars.. no amount of padding is going to stop bodies from breaking in half at those speeds..

12 crashes today in practice runs alone.

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What a tragic start to the Olympics.. man they need to rethink the luge track.. I would rather see technical skill than a crash course for speed..

they talked about padding the pillars.. no amount of padding is going to stop bodies from breaking in half at those speeds..

12 crashes today in practice runs alone.

very sad. a simple solution would be to extend the height of each side by a few feet. that way in the event of an accident, at least the athletes will not fly off the track! i mean, who designs these [censored] things? i feel so bad for the poor kids family. rip nodar kumaritashvili.

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