2006 Winter Olympics

[lazyitus]

The opening ceremony is currently on BBC2.

Will anybody else be watching these games or as we're generally poor at snow fun in the UK, is anyone that interested?

Personally, I enjoy watching the bobsleigh and the luge as its fast and dangerous looking.

And the ski jumping can get me hooked.

[monkeyhanger]

The usual stuff, Skiing, Ski Jumping etc. I'm also a big fan of Ice Hockey

[JoolzB]

Yep I'll be taking a look. It makes it more interesting when there's a brit competing, the commentators bigging our guys up then watching them come last. Oh well, maybe our cleaners will do well in the curling again?

[paulhol]

i heard on the radio today the spanish might not be competing as the airline lost all their stuff

[fozzi]

Finlay Mikel and Alan Baxter can challenge on their day, and all the big ski countries are restricted to something like 4 starters, which should give the smaller teams a bit more of chance.

[lazyitus]

paulhol said:

i heard on the radio today the spanish might not be competing as the airline lost all their stuff

Is this for real?

[m1spw]

But far more importantly, tomorrow night Top Gear have their own Winter Olympics, pitting man against machine on snow...fun!

[pony power]

iam always ammazed by the figure skaters, how do they move like that...

>> Edited by pony power on Friday 10th February 21:22

[rico]

lazyitus said:

paulhol said: i heard on the radio today the spanish might not be competing as the airline lost all their stuff Is this for real?

Yep. Was in the Standard. Their boards got lost in Madrid

[paulhol]

lazyitus said:

paulhol said: i heard on the radio today the spanish might not be competing as the airline lost all their stuff Is this for real?

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?typ

[g_attrill]

We have Shelley Rudman who is worth watching (for more than good sport ;-) )
www.shave.com/shelley/

[simpo two]

I saw them all troop out country by country, and thought that if they sang a song as they did so, they could have got the Eurovision Song Contest out of the way fairly painlessly at the same time.

[tvrforever]

Wasn't that Peace Dove done amazingly well - very simple, very graeful and mezmorizing.... Very impressed by that...

[lazyitus]

tvrforever said:

Wasn't that Peace Dove done amazingly well - very simple, very graeful and mezmorizing.... Very impressed by that...

Did you see the ski jumper thingy majig when all those hundreds of people on the ice made the shapes...

[Jonna_Rex]

Wow I´m suprised you notice these winter olympics all together... Well here you can´t avoid it really because the tv is going to be full of that for weeks. Nice opening though in Torino.

[gemini]

and the way they lit the torch - WOW !

[Broccers]

I steer well clear of such items on tv but that was simply stunning !!!!

Loved the Ferrari donuts.

[killer2005]

Will be watching for Ice hockey, luge/bobsleigh, a bit of skiing, and Chemmy Alcott. British female skier who is quite fine

[mybrainhurts]

Is it true they've included Ice Dogging fir the first time...?

[fozzi]

killer2005 said:

and Chemmy Alcott. British female skier who is quite fine