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The Official 2010 Winter Olympics Thread - "Angry Wayne Gretzky is Angry" Edition

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TheQueen'sOwn

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Poll on CTV Streaming Feed:
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God damn.
 
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DrEvil

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Hahahaha this closing drum beat u2 mashup is the same thing Nintendo used after their e3 press conference.

Dear god it haunts my soul.
 
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BladeWorker

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Kave_Man said:
I'm surprised they didn't have someone come out and sing that "I Believe" song...or did they?
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They played it eight times in the pre-closing ceremony bits. I've heard that song as many times in the past two weeks as I've heard dancing zorbas and duelling banjoes.
 
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Canova

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ScrabbleDude said:
That's it? Nickelback and Hedley were the best/most appropriate songs of the concert section.

But Neil Young had the best performance.
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yup Neil was badass. he held all on his own, no big fan-fare, just him, his guitar and two speakers
 
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Hitman

Edmonton's milkshake attracts no boys.
Fuck. Way to embarass us in front of the world Vancouver closing ceremonies. NICKELBACK!? SERIOUSLY?!

Fuck I hate that band so much.
 
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dem

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Hitman said:
Fuck. Way to embarass us in front of the world Vancouver closing ceremonies. NICKELBACK!? SERIOUSLY?!

Fuck I hate that band so much.
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Nickelback was like one of the highpoints of that closing ceremony.
They're just another rockband. I don't understand the hate.. At least the crowd was into it..


Its about 10000x better than avril lavigne singing "boyfriend"... or simple plan... or that god awful female comedian... or that Michael J Fox shit..
 
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Takao

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Vancouver is leaving the stage open for us to upstage them in 10-14 years.

The closing was pretty cool, for me the highlight would obviously be Buble's Stereotype-a-mania as that had me in stitches "WTF a giant beaver? Flying Moose! hahah". Oh gosh, :lol
 
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Takao

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Man this is getting me sad. CTV playing "I Believe" for the billionth time with some random blonde girl in a French/English double attack, with clips of the games.

Too bad I don't care for the Summer Olympics. See you guys in 2014! :(
 
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Firestorm

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neptunes said:
Well it was fun, I enjoyed it (the Events and some of the opening/closing ceremonies)

what now?....
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Well we had two weeks off during the Olympics and apparently my profs wanted us to do two weeks worth of work in that time. God this week is going to suck.
 
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Divvy

Canadians burned my passport
Does anyone still have a link to the ctv stream? Mine went down and when I refreshed, the link was disabled on the ctv site.
 
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Boogie

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Well, this was the experience of a lifetime. 'twas a pleasure keeping y'all safe in Whistler, and reading through this thread.

Best. Olympics. Ever.
 
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Canova

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Boogie said:
Well, this was the experience of a lifetime. 'twas a pleasure keeping y'all safe in Whistler, and reading through this thread.

Best. Olympics. Ever.
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Were these Winter Olympics the best ever?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/jamespearce/2010/02/worst_ever_these_olympics_may.html

Let me clarify that question a little. In many ways there are always two parallel Olympics which take place - the one that viewers around the world watch on TV, and the one that spectators come to a city to enjoy in person.

For example, the Beijing Olympics were considered to be a great success by the international television audience, whereas many people who witnessed the Games at first hand complained about the lack of atmosphere in the Chinese capital.


I was in Beijing, and I can assure you that you simply cannot compare the spectator experience there with the one here in Vancouver. Vancouver wins hands down.

In Beijing there was little buzz around the city. Yes, they were a fantastic Games in terms of quality of venues and competition, but not in terms of the amount of fun that people were having. Here the street party began on the opening night and it shows no signs of coming to an end just yet.

One senior official from London 2012, who's been in Vancouver, told me that she's learned more from five days in Canada than she had from three weeks in China. That's because, in terms of spectator experience, London will be looking to follow the Vancouver model.
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These have not, though, just been a Games for Canadians, they've been an all-embracing Games. The Canadian people could not have been more welcoming. All the athletes I've spoken to have said exactly the same.

Foreigners have been welcomed with open arms. It's almost impossible to travel on public transport here without a local coming over to speak to you (admittedly the BBC accreditation around my neck is a bit of a giveaway) and ask how you're enjoying the Olympics. There's a real pride here in Vancouver, as we saw from the strong response to the original articles which were so critical of the Games.

It's going to be interesting in London in 2012 to see if the British people get behind their Olympic team in quite the same way as the Canadians have here. Flags fly in every shop window, and are displayed on hundreds of thousands of shirts and jackets.
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I can only write about my personal experience in Vancouver, and, as you can see, I have little but praise for the way that this city has handled the Olympics. These are only my second Winter Olympics, so I'm in no position to say that they're the best ever, but in terms of spectator experience they definitely compare favourably with Turin four years ago.

And how about this for a compliment from a man who really should know what he's talking about? The IOC president Jacques Rogge told me in an interview (which you can watch here) that the people of Vancouver had "embraced the Olympic Games like no other city in the world before".

Many other seasoned Winter Olympic observers are also putting Vancouver right at the top of their list. Are they at the top of yours?
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