I wonder what the medal standings would look like if you threw out all of the rigged figure skating medals. It's such a liberal construct, mind you, that multiple countries can claim to have "won" the Olympics by either having the most gold, most total medals, most weighted value, blah blah blah. So deliberately vague it must have been designed by a Bettman.
howard wrote:Canada wins this Olympics.
This will be considered a medal sweep for Canada. There are only two sports Canadians care about; Curling and Hockey. Canada won gold in men's curling, women's curling, men's hockey and women's hockey. Nobody, and I mean nobody, gives a fuck about who won the cutesy snowboarding tricks. Canadians can't even tell you if Canada won a cutesy snowboarding medal in Vancouver 2010 let alone who would have won it.
Korea worked a "special needs" Black kid into their closing ceremonies spotlight? Just . . .
why? Pandering to 0% of the population? Political correctness was non-existent in South Korea even a couple of years ago. The idea of "embracing diversity" in a country that is 99.99999% ethnic Korean is more than a bit absurd. That excludes the (entirely White) disposable 25,000 non-citizens teaching English.
Very pleased to see that Sochi avoided anything close to terrorism during the games. Or, better put, there were no significant political activities disrupting the event; no Dubrovka Theater, no Beslan schoolhouse. Idiot "
pussy riot" doesn't count for anything other than giving a bored media something to do for a few minutes. Nobody gave a damn nor should they. Next time you see some asshole IQ-of-a-potato celeb praising those stupid bitches, bear in mind that "pussy riot" despises America and are hardcore Communists.
And, gee, wouldn't it be nice if ever-screeching socially inept activists could just shut the fuck up for a couple of weeks every four years or so.
The three Russian games mascots are the cutest olympic mascots ever. Possibly the best closing ceremonies (on the Russians' part) ever. Certainly puts Vancouver to shame as the laughingstock it was. The lighting on the exterior of the Bloshoy Ice Dome hockey rink, showing who is playing and what the score is, has to be one of the coolest venue features ever.
And now the "eternal flame" originating from a Bic cigarette lighter in 1976 Montreal gets passed to, for what it is worth, a very cool part of South Korea that is, contrary to what mediamorons tell you, not really anywhere close to the demilitarized zone separating North and South at all.
