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Someone please tell Lindsey Jacobellis .. queen of the method grab face plant .. her 15 minutes is long gone.

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Great story on HBO Sports this week about how badly the US Olympic Committee financially treats the majority of the athletes.

Most get only health care and at most a few thousand per year.

One agents said that 75% of all US athletes are living at or near the poverty line.

The USOC makes untold millions and has no one to account to.

Almost all foreign athletes are fully supported by their countries.
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Ledecka: What do you get when you get a snowboarder and borrow skis from your friend Shiffrin? A gold medal! Priceless! Best ski run of the olympics in my opinion even if she isn't an american. This is what the olympics are all about. Come out of nowhere while others are celebrating like the racing is over and the stupid network tunes out with several more racers left to go. I thought the race was over and Veith was the winner not realizing there was plenty left to go. Even after Ledecka was done there was more and they tuned out again? Idiots! NBC blows...
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It's not NBC's fault that our athletes aren't winning.
Many of these competitors have 1 shot to define their entire life history.
In Austria and Norway, these athletes are essentially Gods.

If not for Jake Burton, this Olympiad would be truly dismal.
.. except for the marvelous figure skating :P

At least OAR hasn't yet scored a gold :like

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brownman wrote:It's not NBC's fault that our athletes aren't winning.
Many of these competitors have 1 shot to define their entire life history.
In Austria and Norway, these athletes are essentially Gods.

If not for Jake Burton, this Olympiad would be truly dismal.
.. except for the marvelous figure skating :P

At least OAR hasn't yet scored a gold :like

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No complaints at all from me. Plenty of LIVE skiing and snowboarding in the primetime coverage, with some sliding and the occasional figure skating. Most of this has to do with the location and time difference, it's great.
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f.a.s.t. wrote:
brownman wrote:It's not NBC's fault that our athletes aren't winning.
Many of these competitors have 1 shot to define their entire life history.
In Austria and Norway, these athletes are essentially Gods.

If not for Jake Burton, this Olympiad would be truly dismal.
.. except for the marvelous figure skating :P

At least OAR hasn't yet scored a gold :like

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The USOC is a filthy dirty organization, a pathetic club of far left radical millionaires. I worked at the Lake Placid Games and the LA Games when I was in college and right after college. I was very interested is a career with the USOC. However, I soon learned that it wasn't what you know , but who you knew. Even worse, you had to bend down and kiss ass even if you knew the right people. I'm sure it's even 10 times worse now.

Is the USOC as filthy an organization as your forebarers who slaughtered all those innocent native American women and children.
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2 man bobsled tie for gold .. Canada & Germany :shock:
4 runs each .. exactly tied over 3 mins of total time 8)
That's pretty cool stuff if you're into sleds :like

Russia doping their curling participants :roll:

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Watching women throw 900's, 1080's and various inverts, 10ft+ out of a halfpipe........ON SKIS. In Hi-Def on my giant TV.

If you had told me about this in 1993, I would have flipped my sh*t.
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brownman wrote:2 man bobsled tie for gold .. Canada & Germany :shock:
4 runs each .. exactly tied over 3 mins of total time 8)
That's pretty cool stuff if you're into sleds :like

Russia doping their curling participants :roll:

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3rd time in history that has happened with the sleds.

Pretty amazing.
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Anyone else irked by ties for gold? It's the Olympics, it happens only every 4 years, its the competition to see who is the best. Olympic fail. Who is best? Tune in February 2222 to find out!
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Stormchaser wrote:Anyone else irked by ties for gold? It's the Olympics, it happens only every 4 years, its the competition to see who is the best. Olympic fail. Who is best? Tune in February 2222 to find out!
I think they should have a run-off in the case of a tie
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SkiDork wrote:
Stormchaser wrote:Anyone else irked by ties for gold? It's the Olympics, it happens only every 4 years, its the competition to see who is the best. Olympic fail. Who is best? Tune in February 2222 to find out!
I think they should have a run-off in the case of a tie
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SkiDork wrote:
Stormchaser wrote:Anyone else irked by ties for gold? It's the Olympics, it happens only every 4 years, its the competition to see who is the best. Olympic fail. Who is best? Tune in February 2222 to find out!
I think they should have a run-off in the case of a tie
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