Posted on 02/24/2006 4:50:39 PM PST by Howlin
NBC - Friday Night Late Night
***This will be the COMBINED thread for Friday night, Saturday, and Saturday night.
***There will be a CLOSING CEREMONIES THREAD Sunday!
thanks, Howlin.
Aw, and here I barely got my antennae up and running. I had other priorities this week and haven't watched anything 'cept the one night with the short skate. Oh, well, 2010 is just around the corner, right?
Thanks Howlin
However, I am sticking with this, as I can't stand the stupidity of the port coverage on the news channels!
Hey! This Olympic thing is almost done .. wow!
Nascar Sunday ,, and Saturday and Tonight :-)
Olympics jump bump.
Thanks.
Thanks--I didn't know if it would end Saturday or Sunday. Didn't want to miss it :-D
Cheeks is going to carry the flag for America. He is the one who donated his Olympic prize money to the kids in Darfur.
Thank you
And it's going up against the Dancing with the Stars finale, dangit!
Oh, shoot!
What to do, what to do! FLIP!
Argggggghhhhhhhhhhh......the tacky Italians are back!
And if Dick Button says one more time that this music is appropriate for him, I'm getting my darts out!
That was truly gag inducing...
Someone needs to tell the Dick that heavy breathing while the male skaters are performing is very distracting..
Here's the live thread! Wow, some fabulous figure skating going on tonight...
I know... tape or TiVo one, watch the other... ;-)
Kinda lonely on this thread tonight, huh??
I've come to the conclusion that I enjoy pairs and dance pairs better than I do individual performances.
I guess I just like the male/female interaction and the classical symmetry of it all.
Leni
*crickets chirping*
Just saw the footage of Julia Mancuso winning the GS. The interviewer alluded to the fact that she had been disparaged by people on the Today show as not being serious enough. Julia handled it gracefully and didn't even take the opportunity to shove the gold medal in their faces.
I see your point....I think one of my favorite "moves" is when the couples are skating and the guy throws the woman...WOW...how scary, yet cool.
Man, what is the DEAL with Costas? His questions to Sasha was totally downers. Why'd you fall...how come you couldn't....how does it feel to not win....
If I was Sasha, i would have said, "Man, you are really short in person! And such small little fingers, too!"
Olympic Bump.
Been enjoying each day.
Great athletes.
I love Opening and Closing Ceremonies. They are, in my view, the higlights of each olympics.
My husband and I ended up walking alongside Bob Costas after a Red Sox game at Fenway Park last summer (we didn't say anything to him). He is a VERY small man... I was surprised! Sasha Cohen looked like a tall, leggy model sitting next to him.
So have I; more than I thought I would actually.
Learned a lot, too. Hope I remember it in 2010!
I was seriously wondering the same thing last night! Where was everyone during one of the most exciting Olympic nights of all? Oh well...
During the week, when I don't have time to keep up, I can't wait until Friday..and the weekend...
And then it just goes quiet.....
I know... doesn't it drive ya nuts?!
Costas has been like that the whole Olympics...I guess wanting tears or something...
I thought she "handled" him very well...and good for her.
The egos at NBC are just too much.
These kids are extraordinary athletes.
To win a gold medal means to be the best in the world.
About 5 years ago I had the privilege and honor of meeting and shaking the hand of a 4-gold medal lady swimmer at my alma mater. What a lady! And, what a swimmer! So humble and yet one of the greatest athletes of all times. Her name now escapes me, but if I see her picture I will recognize her.
Maybe I should go and search for her photo...
One time in high school when I was a junior, a buddy of mine and I were sitting in his car waiting for some other guys to show up to go running around. He looked at me and said one day he was going to win a gold medal. He ended up winning two in two different olympics.
You are really lucky to live up there where so many athletes train..
I would go over, if I were you.
Yeah, I will go over there ASAP. I don't know if you saw my post on another thread, but a few weeks ago, Ekaterina Gordeeva and her daughter Elizaveta (by skater Ilia Kulik, now her husband) were in front of me at the cashier stand at a small market I frequent across the street from that Simsbury, CT skating center. Apparently she and Ilia Kulik and their two daughters are living around here and training (or coaching?) over there. My husband used to see Viktor Petrenko at the gym he belonged to a few years ago. He trained at the Int'l Skating Center of CT for a long time (I think he has moved out of state).
We live "in the middle of nowhere" (IMO), I can't tell you how stunned I am to run into these figure skating stars out here! ;-)
I think Utah time is behind the rest of the nation. :) Wow on Evgeni Plushenko's exhibition skate. It was breathtaking with the live violinist and Plushenko's footwork. I loved the music. Shizuka Arakawa skated beautifully to "You raise me up." Sasha Cohen skated an excellent program as well. I didn't see all of Irina Slutskaya's program, so can't comment.
Face on Picabo Street. She was harsh on Julia Mancuso, who then went out and won a gold medal. I thought the tiara was funny and quirky. However I thought Street's comments on Bode Miller were spot on. Can Miller win a medal tomorrow??? 'Speedy Peterson' sent home and banned from the closing ceremonies. So sad.
And the American men took bronze in curling. :)
For being in the "middle of nowhere"...it sounds like you are in the mecca of Russian star skaters...
How lucky is that..if you can see them skate and train.
My how things have changed....I remember when a "Soviet Union" athlete would have to seek asylum to leave the country...
but now, they just move here and live their lives...
How wonderful.
I missed that...why did Peterson get banned from the closing ceremony?
Apparently he punched out an acquaintance in a bar fight. Between the lines, alcohol was probably involved. Too bad.
Hi OS and all,
My husband and I just heard Picabo Street call Mancuso "unprofessional".
She also told her to "take off the tiara". It was appalling. Apparently
it's fashionable for elitist liberals to not only bash our President, our country
and our military, but now our olympians.
Street is a typical liberal. Thinks she can decide who's hot and who's not.
This was VERY trailer trash.
I do believe that Ms. Mancuso earned the right to wear a tiara if she wants to...
I am kind of surprised about Picabo...I had always heard that she was kind of eclectic....but, I guess not.
She must have become an elitest sell-out.
Almost immediately after the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, a big group of them - headlined by Viktor Petrenko and his wife, his brother and mother-in-law (they are figure skating coaches), Oksana Baiul, Gordeeva & Grinkov, and a few others I can't remember - settled around Simsbury, CT because of the building of the Int'l Skating Center of Connecticut. I can't remember exactly how they were actually lured here from Russia and/or the Ukraine.
My how things have changed....I remember when a "Soviet Union" athlete would have to seek asylum to leave the country...
I do too. Everytime I watch any of the Olympic games, I marvel over how things have changed so much over the years. Remember the Russian and East German gymnasts and figure skaters with their awful, poor-looking costumes, terrible hairstyles and sullen faces? As a kid, I always felt sorry for these young athletes, forced to live behind the Iron Curtain. Yikes, I'm dating myself here... ;-)
Where did you hear that?
I'm glad she had the sense to take it off while our national anthem was playing though...
I'm up too late again... must call it a night. Nice talking to you, Txsleuth! I will most likely be here on the live thread tomorrow night. Good night... :o)
Mancuso's interview was straight forward and
yes, professional. She didn't act like a "Princess"
at all. Picabo is a Deva who can't accept the
idea there's a new kid in town. Ha Haaaa!
Good night, Howlin... thanks again for these great Olympic threads! I'll be back here tomorrow night.
I am watching NBC right now. The Street comment
came just before they showed the first GS heat.
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