Winter Olympic Games Torino 2006

teajay · Post by **teajay** » 22 Feb 2006, 00:54

Was that norwegian guy really 1 min faster on his leg? I didn't see much of norway in the biathlon today, they were too much behind I guess.

Jake · Post by **Jake** » 22 Feb 2006, 01:22

SveinR wrote:
Rex wrote:sweden should do tactical lose againts slovakia so ez match against swisses
They did. But easy match against the Swiss? They can't be that bad when they beat Czech Republic and Canada...

..and OMG what a leg Ole Einar BjÃ¸rndalen did in the biathlon relay today. It should not be possible to be 1 minute faster than the rest of the field over 7,5km. Too bad the rest of the team failed. And too bad about Sweden not getting that Bronze..

shud be ez if finns beat teh 5-0

Post by **SveinR** » 22 Feb 2006, 01:33

tijsjoris wrote:Was that norwegian guy really 1 min faster on his leg? I didn't see much of norway in the biathlon today, they were too much behind I guess.

Yeah, he was that much faster. It's BjÃ¸rndalen though, so for him anything is possible =)

Jake · Post by **Jake** » 22 Feb 2006, 01:52

only myllylÃ¤ was tough opponent to him :/

Lepton · Post by **Lepton** » 22 Feb 2006, 09:38

SveinR wrote:
Lepton wrote: And Norway is doing bad.
9 more medals and we equal our record from Lillehammer of 26 medals altogether..

Maybe-but should a wintersports nation like Norway not have more than only two gold medals?

Especially at biathlon and ski touring (I hope that's the correct word, had to look it up.) they performed badly.
Germany has already 21 medals-nice.

Let's see if Anni Friesinger and Claudia KÃ¼nzel can even improve the statistics today...

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 23 Feb 2006, 00:18

Wednesday was sach MAX day for Sweden!! \o/

teajay · Post by **teajay** » 23 Feb 2006, 00:33

Germany is doing max to the maximum. Tomorrow even more gold medals?

Raven · Post by **Raven** » 23 Feb 2006, 07:39

zworqy wrote:Wednesday was sach MAX day for Sweden!! \o/

Same for Finland. They won USA 4-3 in ice hockey and in curling, our team made it to teh finals

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » 23 Feb 2006, 20:48

Gold in Curling =)

Switzerland was really good, especially Miriam Ott. Exciting through the whole match.

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 23 Feb 2006, 21:07

Just face it - Sweden rules!!

petsen · Post by **petsen** » 23 Feb 2006, 21:16

denmark kicked out of the curling thingie :////

Lepton · Post by **Lepton** » 25 Feb 2006, 11:21

tijsjoris wrote:Germany is doing max to the maximum. Tomorrow even more gold medals?

Now already 10x Gold, 10x Silver, 5x Bronze. Really good, did not expect this.

And Michael Greis is really incredible-3.Gold today and BjÃ¶rndalen only Bronze.

teajay · Post by **teajay** » 25 Feb 2006, 12:38

Yees, germany rocks big time =)

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » 25 Feb 2006, 12:42

Gold in Biathlon =)

...silver and bronze for Germany.

dz · Post by dz » 25 Feb 2006, 12:44

Yay for Fin-Swe ice hockey finals! That means a lot of cola and chips in front of tv tomorrow.

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 26 Feb 2006, 17:23

1) Goooooooooold!!
2) Ahahaahahaha @ goal after 10 secs in 3rd period
3) Haha at Finland not getting any golds in torino... but seriously it's too bad, Ahonen and some other finns are good.

Boomer · Post by **Boomer** » 26 Feb 2006, 17:40

Gold again! o/

Juzam · Post by **Juzam** » 26 Feb 2006, 17:44

Yey Finland! We havent done as badly for 12 years =o 1994 - no gold medals, we rock! Grats swedes, you were better, i suppose...

teajay · Post by **teajay** » 26 Feb 2006, 18:24

Germany won.

Lepton · Post by **Lepton** » 26 Feb 2006, 20:30

tijsjoris wrote:Germany won.

Yeah!

11x Gold, 12x Silver and 6x Bronze-this is more than I expected.

And Norway and Finland really performed badly.

teajay · Post by **teajay** » 26 Feb 2006, 22:35

I liked everything about the games, except for tonight's show. The broadcast mentioned that the athletes were leaving the stadium during the show.

zworqy · Post by **zworqy** » 26 Feb 2006, 23:01

Yeah it was max olympics.

Kopaka · Post by **Kopaka** » 27 Feb 2006, 13:53

Already over :'(

But MAX ending ceremony with Avril Lavgine :p~

Post by **SveinR** » 27 Feb 2006, 15:54

Rex wrote:only myllylÃ¤ was tough opponent to him :/

Erhm, what? Mika MyllylÃ¤ and BjÃ¸rndalen weren't even competing in the same sport. And MyllylÃ¤ was doped ;(

Lepton wrote:but should a wintersports nation like Norway not have more than only two gold medals? Especially at biathlon and ski touring (I hope that's the correct word, had to look it up.) they performed badly.

Yes, we should have more than two Gold medals. If this was held last winter we would have had. And in men's biathlon Norway has not performed badly at all - we have taken 6 medals there (Germany has 5). And in a sport where the margins are so small, where a few milli meters are the deciding factor, one can't really expect any Gold medals.
It's mainly in cross country skiing where Norway has underperformed - their goal was to take 7 Gold medals, and they have ended up with 3 Silver and one Bronze.

Post by **SveinR** » 27 Feb 2006, 16:19

The final medal table (top10 + Norway and Finland):

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Pos		Country		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	
1	 Germany				  11  12	   6	     29		
2	 United States			9	9		7		  25
3	 Austria					9   7	   7	     23		
4	 Russian Federation	 8	6	   8	     22	
5	 Canada					 7  10		7	     24
6	 Sweden					 7	2		5	     14
7	 South Korea			  6	3	   2	     11
8	 Switzerland			  5	4	   5	     14
9	 Italy	 	 	 	  5	0	   6	     11
10	France					 3	2		4	      9
10	Netherlands			  3	2	   4	      9
13	Norway					 2	8		9	     19
19	Finland					0   6	   3	      9

Germany the top country again, as they were in 1998 and 1992.
Main grats goes to Sweden who has done its best Winter Olympics ever, which is very impressive. At least Norway is better than Sweden in Summer Olympics

I see some people saying it was a max olympics, however, I've found the other to be better ('94, '98 and '02, i don't much remember '92). There wasn't too much of the promised "Passion" among the locals and the audience, as compared to what it was been in the previous olympics. Seeing some of the stadiums not even half filled with people is not very good.

And Norway has more Bronze medals than ever before \o/

teajay · Post by **teajay** » 27 Feb 2006, 21:04

I don't agree with what you say about the medal thing. Maybe with the bobsleigh it only differed 13 hundreds, but let's take a look at the differences at the other sports. De Jong beat Hedrick with 4 secs, Sweden won a gold medal in the biathlon with quite some seconds to spare, and so on.

Post by **SveinR** » 27 Feb 2006, 21:20

tijsjoris wrote:I don't agree with what you say about the medal thing. Maybe with the bobsleigh it only differed 13 hundreds, but let's take a look at the differences at the other sports. De Jong beat Hedrick with 4 secs, Sweden won a gold medal in the biathlon with quite some seconds to spare, and so on.

If this was a reply to me:

I was strictly talking about biathlon, and there the margins are indeed a few millimeters. For example, BjÃ¸rndalen's three medals could all easily have been Gold medals with one miss less in each event. And the difference between a hit and a miss on a biathlon target is not large, and a few milli meters can be decisive.

teajay · Post by **teajay** » 27 Feb 2006, 22:33

OK, that makes some more sense.

But although those few millimetres are indeed a relevance, I find it the charm of the biathlon that the chances can change a lot during the game.

Post by **SveinR** » 28 Feb 2006, 00:46

tijsjoris wrote:But although those few millimetres are indeed a relevance, I find it the charm of the biathlon that the chances can change a lot during the game.

I agree. That's why the suspense is always there, and the winner can never be given out beforehand, or even 3/4 into the race.

Lepton · Post by **Lepton** » 28 Feb 2006, 09:45

SveinR wrote:And in a sport where the margins are so small, where a few milli meters are the deciding factor, one can't really expect any Gold medals.

Well, that sounds as if you must be lucky to win at Biathlon and that only fortune caused the Germans to win so many Gold medals. But this is not true. This is a sport about precision and concentration, and about good tactics. And the Germans, especially Michael Greis and Kati Wilhelm proved to be the best-Wilhelm is dominating the whole winter, not only the Olympic Games.

their goal was to take 7 Gold medals, and they have ended up with 3 Silver and one Bronze.

How can someone have the goal to take 7 Gold medals?

Sure it is possible to do that if everything works fine, but to take this as goal is rather arrogant, I think. As if only the Norwegians were good at that...

Anyway, it was a nice Olympics. Nothing special (like Lillehammer), but still nice.

Post by **SveinR** » 1 Mar 2006, 15:03

Lepton wrote:
SveinR wrote:And in a sport where the margins are so small, where a few milli meters are the deciding factor, one can't really expect any Gold medals.
Well, that sounds as if you must be lucky to win at Biathlon and that only fortune caused the Germans to win so many Gold medals. But this is not true. This is a sport about precision and concentration, and about good tactics.

Of course. I just meant that you can't "count on" your country or some athletes to win since one tiny error can be fatal. Like in ski jumping or slalom. Whereas in for instance cross country 15km individual start, tiny errors aren't that fatal and you can be much more certain that a certain athlete will do well (unless the country's ski waxers puts on a completely wrong wax and destroys all that country's athletes chances of doing well.... ;S)

Winter Olympic Games Torino 2006

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