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Re: Moguls
« Reply #30 on: February 16, 2010, 04:30:55 pm »
Quote from: side_show on February 16, 2010, 04:26:38 pm
Alexandre Bilodeau won the first Canadian gold on Canadian soil for the Mogul on Saturday.  There was a beautiful post-win clip on, where they interspliced him skiing with his special-needs brother watching him in the stands.  That dude's bro was experiencing full-out, total joy, and it was so beautiful that it brought a tear to my eye.

I enjoyed that story too, although I wish NBC had let us know that the brother was speaking French instead of English.  It made him seem more incapable of understandable speech than was accurate.
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Re: Moguls
« Reply #31 on: February 16, 2010, 05:05:59 pm »
Look, I'm not trying to denigrate the sport of Moguls per se.  I'm just calling bullshit on the whole Xtreme hype which presents it as being wilder, more dangerous, crazy.  Which in my opinion it's not.  It also tries to come across as counter culture.  Which now that it's a part of the Olympics seems pretty silly.

Same goes for snowboarding.
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Re: Moguls
« Reply #32 on: February 16, 2010, 05:15:41 pm »
sub-cultures have a way of becoming mainstream.
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Re: Moguls
« Reply #33 on: February 16, 2010, 06:25:07 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on February 16, 2010, 05:05:59 pm
Look, I'm not trying to denigrate the sport of Moguls per se.  I'm just calling bullshit on the whole Xtreme hype which presents it as being wilder, more dangerous, crazy.  Which in my opinion it's not.  It also tries to come across as counter culture.  Which now that it's a part of the Olympics seems pretty silly.

Same goes for snowboarding.

Yeah, I basically don't consider any type of skiing to be in the Xtreme catagory, and certainly most of the competative skiers I've met seem to hold a lot of disdain toward the whole Xtreme sports world.  Skiing is old skool.
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Re: Moguls
« Reply #34 on: February 16, 2010, 10:44:16 pm »
In my mind, anything where you go airborne is terrifying to a normal person and therefore "Xtreme".

Skiing where you just go down the hill? Non-extreme.

Skiing where you go flying and do flips and shit? Xtreme.

Even though skiing where you do flips and shit has been around for a long long time.
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« Reply #35 on: February 16, 2010, 11:41:11 pm »
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Re: Moguls
« Reply #36 on: February 16, 2010, 11:45:19 pm »
I am watching curling. It is only extreme in goofiness.
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Re: Moguls
« Reply #37 on: February 16, 2010, 11:53:36 pm »
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Re: Moguls
« Reply #38 on: February 17, 2010, 12:02:17 am »
Quote from: Asherdan on February 16, 2010, 11:09:04 pm
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Re: Moguls
« Reply #39 on: February 17, 2010, 01:09:19 am »
Quote from: wombat on February 16, 2010, 11:45:19 pm
I am watching curling. It is only extreme in goofiness.

The schedule online says it should be on now, but it's not. It's Hockey. fuck*ng bullshit. I want my curling!
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« Reply #40 on: February 17, 2010, 01:45:21 am »
A friend of mine went to Vancouver for the Olympics and got ticket to 8 events. 5 of them are curling, including the men's gold medal round.
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« Reply #41 on: February 17, 2010, 02:38:29 am »
I'll admit that probably the primary reason I like curling is because it was the only event I attended during the 2002 Olympics in SLC. It was one of the few events left that still had tickets available, and I believe it was the cheapest. But there is something captivating about it.
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« Reply #42 on: February 17, 2010, 02:50:24 am »
Curling is the funniest winter Olympic sport. It used to be two man luge, but luge isn't funny since it started killing people.
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Re: Moguls
« Reply #43 on: February 17, 2010, 03:00:54 am »
luge should give skeleton its image back
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Re: Moguls
« Reply #44 on: February 17, 2010, 05:20:46 am »
Why are there Mens and Womens curling?  Are the stones different weights?  If they were the same weight, would men have a quantifiable advantage? 
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