Winter Olympics: Torino 2006
 

opening ceremonies starts in 18 days!

http://www.tuttohockey.com/A_img/Mac...ino%202006.jpg

i will be looking forward to the opening ceremonies, hockey, skeleton, snowboarding, bobsleigh, and skiing.

why are there only 15 sports?

they need to add ice climbing, broomball, snow dodge ball, and the polar bear plunge swimming/diving.

Dude, what's with the marshmallow headed mascots?

I'm looking forward to it...just fun all the way around.

I'm all about the figure skating and opening/closing ceremonies. Then there's hockey, snowboarding and weird ski jumping stuff. Heck, who am I kidding? I'll watch every minute possible during the Olympics, and probably DVR the stuff I can't actually watch.

DH had better be prepared to lose his HDTV during the Games!

I love watching Bobsledding


Go USA and Jamaica baby.


Todd Hayes is a Pike too :)

Whenever I see the "Torino 2006", I momentarily think that it says "Toronto 2006". :)

lol I think the same.

You say Torino...I say, Toronto! Torino, Toronto!

blah

:)

i can't wait!!

makes me wish i had tiVo! :(

I'll be watching figure skating and curling. Curling rocks!

When I see "Torino 2006", I think of Tom Earp in a powder blue suit with a big collar crusin to his fraternity formal in a 1960 Gran Torino.

those mascots faintly resemble those blockheads from gumby.

despite them, i can't wait for the olympics to begin. go usa!!!

I LOVE the Olympics...any kind!! I cannot wait for these games to start. I like ice skating, snowboarding, and speed skating. Plus, my college roomates, my husband, and I have a tradition to play a drinking game during any Olympic opening ceremonies. Everytime a country is named we take a shot...don't know if I will get through it though.

Please be careful. Drinking yourself to death is not an Olympic Sport.

Speaking of the Opening Ceremony -- a couple of my pals -- Bucky Gunts and Ron DeMoraes -- won best live director EMMYs for the last Opening Ceremonies. Talk about an abudance of great pictures!

opening ceremonies start tomorrow!

olympic gold medalist speedskater chris witty to carry U.S. flag.

I LOVE OLYMPIC OPENING CEREMONIES!

unfortunately I'm travelling to Miami tomorrow for a conference sometime after 5. There better be a rerun!

random:

i've decided i will attend the 2010 winter olympics in vancouver and the 2012 summer olympics in london.

the 2008 summer games in beijing are just not feasible at the moment.

that is all. ;)

PS: who are you [specifically] rooting for this year?

the venues for the 2008 games are amazing. the discovery channel was running an episode about beijing construction sites with focus on the 2008 olympics.

the olympic stadium: the birds nest - awesome

http://i1.tinypic.com/nfqgc3.jpg

the diving and swimming venue (made of bubbles): awesome

http://i1.tinypic.com/nfqgpc.jpg

my girlfriend michelle kwan and everyone in the U.S. uniforms except bode miller. he went and accused lance armstrong of using drugs.

glad i'm not the only one OBSESSED. :D
but that IS gonna be a GORGEOUS venue!!
i can't wait!!




ps: is it wrong to think bode is HOT? ;]

Are the opening ceremonies going to be live? Just been thinking that they are six hours ahead of us, so if so that means they are starting the ceremony at 2 am?

If not live, do they have agreements with other channels not to broadcast results?

I am looking forward to skeleton, luge and bobsled.

I think everything is on a delay, just as it was in Athens. I have to admit I cheated and looked at the Olympic website for results in 2004 for events such as the gymnastics. Watching on a tape delay is too suspensful.

We have to TiVo tonight. There is a hockey game, and I already missed three because of my fall. Not going to miss another one!

I did see that the Primetime will repeat in the early morning hours. I need to sit down and look at the schedule so I make sure if I don't see it, I TiVo it.


PS - I also cheated to look at the gymnastic scores...not only could I not wait, but they didn't show hardly any of the competition!

I'm already being bad. I looked online for the description of the opening ceremonies and saw some video of it. I don't like time delays :P

Me too.

i'm really excited!! i've always loved watching the olympics - i have even decided to not go to a v-day party tonight, just to watch the opening ceremony! (wow, i'm lame! hahaha)

All in all not a bad opening ceremony... loved Pavarotti's performance :cool: but Peter Gabriel wasn't looking all that well doing Imagine

Canada has a hard act to follow for the Opening Ceremonies for 2010.

I only that we take a lead from the Italians and for the Opening Ceremonies of 2010, use "cool" Canadian entertainment (which is, sadly, all too rare) such as Cirque du Soleil and don't embarrass ourselves with the likes such as those mugging fools, The Barenaked Ladies, etc.....oy.... :rolleyes:

I thought the opening ceremony was kind of weird in the beginning, but everything post-marching was neat. Was shocked to see Yoko, though. Gabriel looked okay to me, he's just getting older (like the rest of us). Pavarotti was awesome.

Best thing was the torch lighting. Now, THAT was cool.

That torch lighting was so cool, I had to watch it twice. This is the best thing about living in Detroit.. the CBC on Channel 9 and then NBC on our local channel 4. The Canadian channel was showing the opening ceremonies an hour prior to NBC. So, I watched it all in Canadian (even though the announcer didn't know how to pronounce Susan Sarandon) and then watched the last hour AGAIN on NBC :)

I liked the women presenting the Olympic flag. Those were some incredible role models involved in that. I think it's incredible to see some countries who sent one person to compete, like Grandma Luge. How amazing for that person to represent their country???

i enjoyed the opening ceremony. best dressed went to whichever country that was wearing the long baige corduroy-looking jackets. it was an "s" country, i think it was slovenia, not sure though. the people turning themselves on the floor to resemble a skier was pretty cool. also the dove. all in all, it was awesome.

the one thing i like about the olympics is when they take an athlete before a competition starts and do a little biography/tribute about them.

oh yeah, i am also rooting for countries with one-man athletes.

Come on, eveyone loves Avril and Celine!!! I so hope they perform in 2010!!! :rolleyes: :D


Today is Canada vs. Italy in women's hockey. I can't wait.

I will be watching hockey and speeding skating. Maybe some bobsleding.

i LOVED the ceremony.. HATED the commercial breaks.. i'm also a hardcore rooter of those countries with one or three delegates.. even though they probably have no chance of medaling.. you have to respect all the trouble they've gone through to get to that point... omg and i love how these EXTRA ordinary athletes leas such ordinary lives ( the venezuelan drexel professor!) i agree the torch lighting was phenomenal, and i loved luciano's performance although it seemed like he was lipsinging... but honestly i shed a tear [ok i balled] when they highlighted the kenyan athlete who named his firstborn after another competitor [ can't recall who ] who waited for him at the finish line at the last olympic games ...

i can't wait.. i have a schedule all planned out!!
i loveeeeeeeee the olympics!

:: i'm done gushing ::

btw: is Andrea Bocelli performing at the closing ceremonies?

OMG!!! This has to be my favourite Olympic moment (not the naming of the baby but the race). I cried at the last Olympic games when I saw this on TV. That was just great. Moments like that show the true spirit of the Olympics.

Normally I don't watch the opening/closing ceremonies (I think the commercial breaks typically get me all mad and not wanting to watch them), but I watched ALMOST to the end last night and was in amazement of everything! (I missed the flame coming into the stadium and the torch lighting)

I also love seeing the countries with a small delegation (I guess those who aren't athletes are something like coaches, judges, etc, right?) and you always hope they'll do well, even if they're not considered to be a threat to the medals (I was with you A Random DPhiE and Lady Pi Phi about the Kenyan competitor naming his first born son after the gold medalist in his event - I think he was from Finland/Norway?)

It's funny to be sitting here and listening to Matt Vasgersian (however you spell his last name :p) commenting on the Olympics and not Padres baseball! :D

I taped the opening ceremonies on NBC and then ended up watching them on CBC and I will say that it was much better on the Canadian station......

I always wanted to ride in a bobsled. I think that'd be so cool.

I knew a guy who was on the U.S. Olympic Bobsled team. He said it was hard work, but it was really cool.

So they gave out the first medals this morning.

I'm sorry, when I look at the different venues, how beautiful the opening ceremonies were...just the grand-ness of this year's host city...

WTF were they thinking when they decided to make the medals look like Compact Discs?

To the Olympic champion, we award you this gold CD.... :(

each medal was handcrafted by italian artisians and took over 10 hours to make... and from what i heard, they are all different- each one depicts the sport it represented, i havent seen them yet though...