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Curling and short track
Feb. 27th, 2010 01:50 pmCheryl Bernard broke my heart last night. Oh god. Oh my god. It hurts. I hurt for her, you know? Curling gold medal match against Sweden, just had to make one fairly easy shot at the end of the 10th end and she would have won. Just had to take out the Swedish stone. And it. . . man it's like a blur. Things bounced wrong and she took out her own stones instead and the Swedish one wasn't removed? Oh god. Then it had to go to 11 ends and Katie said they kept taking out Sweden's guards instead of putting up their own (it's the announcer Colleen, who we love, who suggested this strategy - not Katie herself). So they lost it. ::sigh::
They're a new team, they don't have the international experience, and they still did fantastically - silver medal, only lost two games the whole tournament. The thing is, they defeated what seems to be a defending champion, very popular team, and a lot of the supporters of that team have been bitter at the Bernard rink, and have been saying she shouldn't have been there and that her success is just because other teams messed up. WHATEVER. Obviously she was supposed to be there, SHE WON SILVER. I think it's their first international competition and they did great. I'm very proud of them. (Plus, Canada has won bronze the previous two Olympics so. . .)
Oh god, they're repeating it. Why are they repeating it? I CRIED THE FIRST TIME. I cried bitter, bitter tears.
But i see on the CTV website they have an interview where she eats cookies with the crew so I guess she's doing ok. I'm like. . . if I have so many regrets about it, how must she feel? But I also see people defending them in the CTV comments, too, so that's good - there was still negativity, but it's good that others realize that they played well and did a great job to get silver. And it's totally natural and understandable that she would get excited and not be able to make the exact shot needed at that point in the game - with gold so close! Of course, it's that closeness that KILLS ME!
Thank god for the Canadian 5000m men's relay team. The 500m was kind of weird with DQs and not DQs and questions. But the relay was a GREAT race. Canada got the lead, and they kept it, and just skated a great race. Giant Short Tracker was there (Olivier Jean) as was Brett from Flight of the Conchords (Charles Hamelin). There might have been shenanigans behind them - it looked like South Korea took out China but there was no call. . . oh, short track. I've decided that every single call or lack thereof is going to be questionable and ot just try not to let it get to me.
I love it, though. I hope Universal Sports shows it, shit. First off, I need to see more JR Celski. *_* I think he might be my hottest Olympian. I have a bigger crush on Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, but for sheer hottness, it's Celski. So pretty. So fucking pretty. I hope he does massively well in Sochi and becomes one of our Olympics celebrities because he is the most fun to look at. (Presumably he'll still be pretty at 23.)
Annnnyway, three short track medals yesterday for Canada, which is great because the men's speedskating has been really struggling - it's a pretty deep field. So now they've redeemed themselves. And I'm going to consider the torch to have been passed from the Canadian women to the Canadian men. The women have won most of the medals so far but I think almost all of the medals left in contention are up to the men. ::sigh:: NOT THAT I'M NERVOUS OR ANYTHING.
Sweden and Switzerland are playing the curling bronze medal game, btw - so much fun and so much more relaxing when I'm not incredibly concerned about who wins. Colleen and Don are hilarious, btw - the two Canadian announcers. There's also an American, Andrew, who's there to keep the audience informed about the basics and to elicit information from the more knowledgeable announcers. Anyway, I'm one of those people who will often misspeak with Swiss and Swedish so this is a very confusing game. I am glad I am not announcing it. God damn, that was a good shot!
So, right, short track relay. I am almost positive that someone came up with this sport as a prank on the athletes. It's the most ridiculous and hilarious thing. Like 20 guys on the ice skating around each other shoving on each other's butts. It's like a weird dance. But not a graceful dance. Like a dance that you would play goofy circus music for. (Katie thinks the race is too long for goofy circus music.) Sooo much fun to watch. I love short track. Even though the rules are unfathomable, and as far as I've been able to tell, the announcers for NBC really don't want to explain anything. They'll say "That might be a DQ" but don't let us know the rules that lead to one thing being off but not another.
All my love and all wishes of good luck to Kevin Martin tonight! You can do it, Old Bear!!
They're a new team, they don't have the international experience, and they still did fantastically - silver medal, only lost two games the whole tournament. The thing is, they defeated what seems to be a defending champion, very popular team, and a lot of the supporters of that team have been bitter at the Bernard rink, and have been saying she shouldn't have been there and that her success is just because other teams messed up. WHATEVER. Obviously she was supposed to be there, SHE WON SILVER. I think it's their first international competition and they did great. I'm very proud of them. (Plus, Canada has won bronze the previous two Olympics so. . .)
Oh god, they're repeating it. Why are they repeating it? I CRIED THE FIRST TIME. I cried bitter, bitter tears.
But i see on the CTV website they have an interview where she eats cookies with the crew so I guess she's doing ok. I'm like. . . if I have so many regrets about it, how must she feel? But I also see people defending them in the CTV comments, too, so that's good - there was still negativity, but it's good that others realize that they played well and did a great job to get silver. And it's totally natural and understandable that she would get excited and not be able to make the exact shot needed at that point in the game - with gold so close! Of course, it's that closeness that KILLS ME!
Thank god for the Canadian 5000m men's relay team. The 500m was kind of weird with DQs and not DQs and questions. But the relay was a GREAT race. Canada got the lead, and they kept it, and just skated a great race. Giant Short Tracker was there (Olivier Jean) as was Brett from Flight of the Conchords (Charles Hamelin). There might have been shenanigans behind them - it looked like South Korea took out China but there was no call. . . oh, short track. I've decided that every single call or lack thereof is going to be questionable and ot just try not to let it get to me.
I love it, though. I hope Universal Sports shows it, shit. First off, I need to see more JR Celski. *_* I think he might be my hottest Olympian. I have a bigger crush on Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir, but for sheer hottness, it's Celski. So pretty. So fucking pretty. I hope he does massively well in Sochi and becomes one of our Olympics celebrities because he is the most fun to look at. (Presumably he'll still be pretty at 23.)
Annnnyway, three short track medals yesterday for Canada, which is great because the men's speedskating has been really struggling - it's a pretty deep field. So now they've redeemed themselves. And I'm going to consider the torch to have been passed from the Canadian women to the Canadian men. The women have won most of the medals so far but I think almost all of the medals left in contention are up to the men. ::sigh:: NOT THAT I'M NERVOUS OR ANYTHING.
Sweden and Switzerland are playing the curling bronze medal game, btw - so much fun and so much more relaxing when I'm not incredibly concerned about who wins. Colleen and Don are hilarious, btw - the two Canadian announcers. There's also an American, Andrew, who's there to keep the audience informed about the basics and to elicit information from the more knowledgeable announcers. Anyway, I'm one of those people who will often misspeak with Swiss and Swedish so this is a very confusing game. I am glad I am not announcing it. God damn, that was a good shot!
So, right, short track relay. I am almost positive that someone came up with this sport as a prank on the athletes. It's the most ridiculous and hilarious thing. Like 20 guys on the ice skating around each other shoving on each other's butts. It's like a weird dance. But not a graceful dance. Like a dance that you would play goofy circus music for. (Katie thinks the race is too long for goofy circus music.) Sooo much fun to watch. I love short track. Even though the rules are unfathomable, and as far as I've been able to tell, the announcers for NBC really don't want to explain anything. They'll say "That might be a DQ" but don't let us know the rules that lead to one thing being off but not another.
All my love and all wishes of good luck to Kevin Martin tonight! You can do it, Old Bear!!
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Date: 2010-02-27 10:37 pm (UTC)In other news, I think I'm going to be in withdrawal once the Olympics END TOMORROW. (!!!)
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Date: 2010-02-27 11:32 pm (UTC)Aww, but we're not going to get a double. Crapsicles. I can't keep watching this game, too stressful! XD But John Morris!
Anyway, hahaha, that's awesome about Andrew!! XDD It's weird to think of Andrew having, I don't know. . . a life outside of curling. I'm glad he is American, though - I just guessed because I didn't catch an accent and he didn't know curling and it's NBC. Wow, and he has a face, and an entire body!
Seriously, I can't believe it's over tomorrow. D: On the one hand, I haven't been sleeping that much. So that's bad. On the other hand, OLYMPICS!! And in particular, short track and curling. I will miss them so much! (Figure skating I have access to.) Plus Bob Costas and Mary Carillo! ::sigh::