2006 Winter Olympics

[Tormod]

Originally Posted by Turtle

I actually missed watching the heat Hedrick skated for the Gold, but I saw the final heat with the Italian & Norwegian; good stuff! I cheered for the Norsk, but to no avail, & the Italians win was the first for their country.

Yeah, good for them! They also beat us in the 2x15k cross country...their first gold this time I think! Di Centa, who won, is the same guy who helped Italy beat our national team in a cross-country relay in the olympics at Nagano (IIRC).

Go Italy!

[TheBigDog]

I would like to see some of the Olympic sports that don't need summertime or wintertime be moved to a new Olympic games. Bowling, Chess, Indoor shooting, wrestling, boxing, weight lifting. It would be the "Indoor Olympics". Table tennis, badminton, judo, tai-kwan-do, gymnastics. Water sports would stay in the summer, and ice sports would stay in the winter, despit the fact that they happing mostly indoors anymore. You could even add indoor-track to the indoor games.

By doing this you could provide more thurough coverage to the featrue sports, while bringing the obscure sports to their own elevated position. Plus the host of the indoor games could be a much smaller city, allowing the wealth of the games to be spread around some more.

More Olympics is more fun for everyone!

Bill

[IrishEyes]

Originally Posted by TheBigDog

I would like to see some of the Olympic sports that don't need summertime or wintertime be moved to a new Olympic games. Bowling, Chess, Indoor shooting, wrestling, boxing, weight lifting. It would be the "Indoor Olympics". Table tennis, badminton, judo, tai-kwan-do, gymnastics.
Bill

Sacre bleu!

Methinks you've gone off your rocker!! I might go for the suggestion of an indoor Olympics, but you have just GOT to leave gymnastics in the summer games. I mean, would the '84's have been nearly as special without Mary lou? I THINK NOT.
To me, Gymnastics IS the Summer Games.
Yes, I enjoy the swimming events. I really get into the softball games. I watch many of the other events. But the main focus, and I mean the stay-up-until-all-hours-and-set-the-Tivo focus here, is the gymnastics events.
Sorry, BigDog, but don't touch my balance beam in July, thank you very much!

[TheBigDog]

Originally Posted by IrishEyes

Sacre bleu!

Methinks you've gone off your rocker!! I might go for the suggestion of an indoor Olympics, but you have just GOT to leave gymnastics in the summer games. I mean, would the '84's have been nearly as special without Mary lou? I THINK NOT.
To me, Gymnastics IS the Summer Games.
Yes, I enjoy the swimming events. I really get into the softball games. I watch many of the other events. But the main focus, and I mean the stay-up-until-all-hours-and-set-the-Tivo focus here, is the gymnastics events.
Sorry, BigDog, but don't touch my balance beam in July, thank you very much!

Me and my rocker have been apart for years.

I think there is plenty of room for negotiation here. Gymnastics are kinda like the Figure Skating of the summer games. At least their red-headed stepsister Rythmic Gymnastics could be an indoor sport.

While we are at it... Basketball, Indoor Soccer, Team Handball, Racketball, Squash, Volley Ball.

Bill