USA came to play today. 5-1 with 16m left in the 3rd!
USA came to play today. 5-1 with 16m left in the 3rd!
The dude abides.
USA wins, 5-2. Canada survives, 2-1.
The Americans and the Hosers will play Friday.
Sad the USA v. Socialists is in the semi-final and not the gold medal game. From what I have seen they have by far been the two best teams in the tournament.Originally Posted by steelerfan
The fuck? Wearing diamond earrings while playing hockey?
Jesus this is fucking terrible to watch. How did our US women make it as far as overtime of the Gold Medal game? This has been pure shit played by the US this OT.
Yep, the US women absolutely deserved to lose that game. Absolutely fucking awful.
Last edited by SmoothPancakes; 02-20-2014 at 01:57 PM.
Yep. Canada was just on the attack a lot more than we were though we did get off 30 shots.
The dude abides.
Disappointing for the US. I'm rooting for Canada now. Hopefully the Americans can still get Bronze, though beating the Fins will be tough.
Holy Christ what an ass whooping Finland put on the US today. The US actually looked good in that first period, they definitely came out with more intensity than they showed in ALL of the game against Canada. Dear god.
And that just lost us the medal count. Russia now leads with 29 to the US' 27, with only 4-man bobsleigh and men's 50 KM cross country. Bobsleigh we could pick up a medal, but no way do we get on in cross country, and even then, best we could do is hope to tie Russia.
We suck at the olympics this year. If Bush was still in charge we could invade the Netherlands and just take their speed skaters.
Yeah, sure, "we suck".
2nd in medal count at the winter games where the US has only finished first in medal count twice ever.
CLW and Smooth need to quit acting like this is the Summer Olympics.
Except, yes, we did suck! The reason our medal count was as high as it was? The new events they added this year, the X-Games bullshit. Take away the medals that the US won in those events (since they were basically tailored for US medal wins) and we end up, at best, tied with Germany for 6th with 19 medals, probably a little worse.
Hockey, the men end up completely shut out of a medal.
Speedskating, supposedly our men and women were supposed to be medal favorites in multiple events, they didn't win a single fucking thing. Then they have the fucking audacity to blame the suits for them sucking so bad in speedskating. Guess what? They changed back to their OLD suits midway through the speedskating events and STILL didn't win a single goddamn medal. Hey dipshits, clearly it was NOT the suits that made you suck in those events!
Short Track speedskating, didn't win jackshit in that either until we somehow lucked into a silver in the very last final event with the team relays, thanks in part to China and Netherlands tripping and going into the pads on the very first turn of the event, leaving it just a duel between US and Russia for gold.
Alpine Skiing, Ted Ligety and Bode Miller were apparently supposed to do so good in multiple skiing events this time around. Miller sucked it up most of his events and only won a single bronze. Ligety, it took until the second to last event he competed in for him to finally win a medal. Nordic Combined, one of our guys won gold in Vancouver, ended up like 30th this year.
So sure, looking at the medal count, we did so great. Take away all the X-Games bullshit and we aren't anywhere near the top in medals. If our Olympians, who even themselves were touting their medal expectations (primarily the extremely disappointing speedskating athletes), did as great as they were widely expected to, we should have easily ended up with 35+ medals. Instead, well, outside of the X-Games shit, we didn't do a damn thing these Olympics.
So yes, we did suck. Sure, we're not that great in Winter Olympics. So what, if we're going to send a team to the Olympics, they goddamn well better be pushing 100% for gold every event. If they're not, then leave their asses home next time. Just like the people I saw on Facebook talking about the men's hockey team, saying that just being there was gold to them. Bullshit. That's loser talk. If you're happy just being there, then you don't deserve to be there at all. Second place may get a silver medal, but ultimately, second place is still just first loser. Enough of this "everyone gets a participation ribbon"/"be happy to just be there" bullshit. Either compete all out for that gold or sit your ass down. And all those people happy with not winning a medal in hockey, happy our team was just even there at all, well, I wouldn't be the least bit shocked to see them among the "we shouldn't keep score and we should give them all participation ribbons so we don't hurt their self-esteem" sheltering their kids crowd. Then their kid gets into the real world and life fucks them up at the ass.
You can go ahead and take over CLW. Go ahead and carry it down the home stretch.
Hello!?
EVERY event at the Winter Games is bullshit except for hockey. Half of the events (not just the X-Games crap) are "sports" that NO ONE plays.
Want your kid to go to the Olympics? Put them on one of those Luge sleds ONCE and they have more experience than 99.7% of America. And Curling? LMAO! Shuffleboard on ice! It's a bar game for old people!
It doesn't matter if the events are new, medals are medals. Apparently you put WAY too much stock into who the "experts" think will win. Being a favorite in a competition where the times are measured in thousandths of seconds, yeah. If you didn't fart enough that morning, you lose.
Anything with judges is dumb, open to interpretation, potentially flawed, and possibly rigged. Any "favorite" is subject to being screwed by any of those.
How many countries have like 1 medal? Those people will be HEROES in those countries. Here? We have a good showing and our athletes hear "we suck" and "we shouldn't go back".
Nice.
Looking at the passport and feeling pretty good right now. #3 overall for gold medals was respectable and 4th overall for medals in total felt pretty good. I'm glad Canada won the gold in hockey but I actually didn't watch the game. Had it been US-Can or Can-Russia (or even Rus-USA) it would have been must watch tv. No offense to the Swedes but they don't evoke much of a reaction as there is no real sense of rivalry.
Congrats to all of the athletes who competed and a special nod to the top 5 countries this year.
Gold Count
1. Russia (13)
2. Norway (11)
3. Canada (10)
4. USA (9)
5. Netherlands (8)
**Russia had their most medals ever at 33 while the US had a great performance at 28 followed by Norway at 26, Canada at 25 and the Netherlands at 24.
Overall I enjoyed a lot of the games primarily to CBC's ONLINE viewing availability. Had this not been available I would have seen nothing because of the time difference. As to the Olympics itself I agree that I am not a fan of the move to so many xgames-like sports but I guess the IOC see's this as a way to grow the brand.
Sorry, jaymo.
Canada did not win everything. It was a piss-poor performance. They should NEVER go back to the Olympics especially in the events where they didn't win despite being the favorite.
It's like the Denver Broncos. They were favored in the Super Bowl, failed to perform and lost badly. They should never be sent back to the Super Bowl.
Aren't you paying attention? Come on, Man!
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