Are you watching the Olympics?

So far I have watched every night and am enjoying them very much. Was very happy for Evan Lysacek last night winning the gold in skating. Glad for Felix Loch winning gold in luge. I thought Lindsay Vonn's reaction at winning gold was very nice! It is fun to see all the different countries competing.

Sure! It´s not easy here to watch it during a night, but nevermind. I usually suckle my little boy (OMG, it sounds...) at that early early morning time

Martina Sablikova is our queen (speed skating) and we all are waiting how our hockey boys will rock the competition

FIGURE SCATING (THE RUSSIAN IS UNBEATABLE)AND SKI JUMBING.THE ONE I WATCHED MOST WAS THE CROSS SOMETHING(DONT KNOW WHAT IS NAMED BUT THEY COMPETED IN GROUPS OF 4 WITH SCATEBOARDS,AN AMERICAN WON). TRIED TO WATCH ANOTHER ONE WITH SOME GUNS AND SKIIS BUT I COULD NOT COMPREHEND THE AIM OF THAT GAME.MOSTLY AFTER 00:00,ITS A NICE WAY FOR US RELAXING BEFORE SLEEP.

Lucky wrote:Sure! It´s not easy here to watch it during a night, but nevermind. I usually suckle my little boy (OMG, it sounds...) at that early early morning time

Martina ablikova is our queen and we all are waiting how our hockey boys will rock the competition

BY THE WAY IN FIGURE SKATING: A CZECH CONTESTANT COMPETED WITH ZORBA THE GREEK....

Tidus wrote:FIGURE SCATING (THE RUSSIAN IS UNBEATABLE)AND SKI JUMBING.THE ONE I WATCHED MOST WAS THE CROSS SOMETHING(DONT KNOW WHAT IS NAMED BUT THEY COMPETED IN GROUPS OF 4 WITH SCATEBOARDS,AN AMERICAN WON). TRIED TO WATCH ANOTHER ONE WITH SOME GUNS AND SKIIS BUT I COULD NOT COMPREHEND THE AIM OF THAT GAME.MOSTLY AFTER 00:00,ITS A NICE WAY FOR US RELAXING BEFORE SLEEP.

The "4 in group" snowboarding is very funny! Mostly the last one is the winner, because all of 3 others fall down.

Tidus wrote:

Lucky wrote:Sure! It´s not easy here to watch it during a night, but nevermind. I usually suckle my little boy (OMG, it sounds...) at that early early morning time

Martina ablikova is our queen and we all are waiting how our hockey boys will rock the competition

BY THE WAY IN FIGURE SKATING: A CZECH CONTESTANT COMPETED WITH ZORBA THE GREEK....

Actually it is very popular music for FS, I heard it many times before

Lucky wrote:

Tidus wrote:FIGURE SCATING (THE RUSSIAN IS UNBEATABLE)AND SKI JUMBING.THE ONE I WATCHED MOST WAS THE CROSS SOMETHING(DONT KNOW WHAT IS NAMED BUT THEY COMPETED IN GROUPS OF 4 WITH SCATEBOARDS,AN AMERICAN WON). TRIED TO WATCH ANOTHER ONE WITH SOME GUNS AND SKIIS BUT I COULD NOT COMPREHEND THE AIM OF THAT GAME.MOSTLY AFTER 00:00,ITS A NICE WAY FOR US RELAXING BEFORE SLEEP.

The "4 in group" snowboarding is very funny! Mostly the last one is the winner, because all of 3 others fall down.

TRUE!THE AMERICAN WAS LAST PLACE AT FIRST TILL THE 2 INFRONT FELL.IT WAS FUN TO WATCH INDEED.UNFORTUNATELY WE DONT HAVE MUCH REPRESENTATION......NO SNOW=NO TRADITION IN THE WINTER SPORTS.

Lucky wrote:

Tidus wrote:

Lucky wrote:Sure! It´s not easy here to watch it during a night, but nevermind. I usually suckle my little boy (OMG, it sounds...) at that early early morning time

Martina ablikova is our queen and we all are waiting how our hockey boys will rock the competition

BY THE WAY IN FIGURE SKATING: A CZECH CONTESTANT COMPETED WITH ZORBA THE GREEK....

Actually it is very popular music for FS, I heard it many times before

YEAP,ALSO IN RHYTHMICS,THE GREEK TEAM HAS USED IT MANY TIMES

As a finn MY SPORTS ARE:

SKI JUMPING!!!
Our beloved JANNE AHONEN so would deserve an individual medal. He is the BEST SKI JUMPER ever, but lacks of an individual medal from the Olympic Games. He's always fourt And I'm afraid he won't get a medal in Long Hill, the competition is just too tough!!

CROSS COUNTRY SKIING
I hope one of our girls will bring a medal in some event. So far it's been a big dissapointment

ICE HOCKEY
Well DUH!!!! You can't be a finn unless you follow OUR LIONS!!! GO TEAM FINLAND!!!!! We made it to the finals in Torino, whose to say that could not happen again? NEVER EVER underestimate FINNISH LIONS, cause you just never know

Then of course we have medal hopes in NORDIC COMBINED and WOMENS ALPINE SKIING!! Keeping my fingers crossed

SO FAR we have ONE medal and it came from SNOWBOARD;MEN'S HALFPIPE. GO PEETU PIIROINEN!!!!



Then of course FIGURE SKATING
So far, so good. My favourites won in pairs. And MEN!! GO EVAN LYSACEK!!!! You showed that arrogant Plushenko that quad is not the only thing you have to do, to win.

It's not easy to watch these games. Last night MEN'S FREE started at 03.00 am and it was almost 07.00 am in the morning when we finally had out winner. It's tough, but who cares!

And what about OUR BEAUTIFUL Figure Skaters, KIIRA KORPI and LAURA LEPISTÖ

Kiira Korpi, EUROPEAN bronze medalist 2007



One of the most beautiful athlete's in VANCOUVER, no doubt!!! We love our Kiira here in Finland!

And then Laura Lepistö, EUROPEAN champion 2009, EUROPEAN silver medalist 2010, EUROPEAN bronze medalist 2008



If everything goes right, both of them have chances to top 10. But as for medal, don't think so!


GO GIRLS!!!

The young man from the Czech Republic that skated to Zorba the Greek was one of my favorites. I bet he will come back to the next Olympics and do really well. He had really good jumps. Very high in the air.

I saw the Czech speed skater win her gold and it was awesome!

Also saw the man from Finland take the silver in snowboarding and he was good!

So good to see that I am not alone in my Olympic fever, haha!

Great replies everyone! Good luck to all the countries, especially the ones represented here by the pageant-mania members.

Kiira is one of the most beautiful women i ve seen in my life.Especially when she has her haired pulled back....amazing....

Tidus wrote:Kiira is one of the most beautiful women i ve seen in my life.Especially when she has her haired pulled back....amazing....

I think one canadien magazine named Kiira the only reason to watch the Olympic Games!
She could easily be MISS FINLAND!

Too bad there always seems to be some kind of trustissue when she skates. She always does great in short, but then has troubles in free. Or then the other way around. Two clean programs seems to be an issue with her

Do not watch the Olympics, it's not interested , do not like the deadly tricks snowboarding and more.... The horror, the Georgians killed on the road... .

Milka, Kiira is stunning. I can't wait to see her on TV!

And I keep my fingers crossed for Justyna Kowalczyk tonight. We crave for gold soooooooooooo badly.
Good luck Justynka

Esther wrote:The horror, the Georgians killed on the road... .

That was very sad and unexpected, but the games have to go on!!

scotty2hotty wrote:Milka, Kiira is stunning. I can't wait to see her on TV!

I wish she would get her head together. Cause I KNOW she has the skill, but her head keeps messing her up.
I think some have to do with the enermous pressure she is under because of finnish media. The media tends to just focus on her beauty and is all over her. Somewhere along the line she just lost the plot and wasn't able to fully focus on practise.

Media can be so overwhelming sometimes. Like remember what happened to Carolina Kostner in Torino!!

Milka wrote:

Esther wrote:The horror, the Georgians killed on the road... .

That was very sad and unexpected, but the games have to go on!!

yeap,but to be honest i agree with some media saying that if that had happened in Oslo,Moscow or Helsinki(under the same circumstances) they would have been eaten alive with the critism and all.Anyway,it was really really really sad.

Anja wrote:And I keep my fingers crossed for Justyna Kowalczyk tonight. We crave for gold soooooooooooo badly.
Good luck Justynka

u have quite an extraordinary representation Anja,Good luck!

Well, Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk took the bronze home, but honestly I DON'T GET how she wasn't disqualified!!
She skied against the rules

It was 15 km Pursuit (7.5 Classic+7.5 Free). And before the FREE part, she skied freestyle to the change BEFORE the RED LINE! You are not allowed to ski freestyle during Classic part.That is against the rules. And she still got the keep her placing!!

Oh well, what do I know!!

no time waTCHING SCOT

ICE HOCKEY

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Finland 5 - Germany 0



And Teemu Selänne became the all-time points leader in Olympic hockey history

Vancouver (AFP)
Teemu Selanne became the all-time points leader in Olympic hockey history, collecting an assist on Finland's third goal Friday as the 2006 silver medallists trounced Germany 5-0.

The Finnish Flash assisted on Kimmo Timonen's second goal of the game for his Olympic-record 37th point, surpassing the previous mark held by Russian legend Valeri Kharlamov, Czechoslovakia's Vlastimil Bubnik and Canada's Harry 'Moose' Watson.

"It is a big honour," said Selanne, who is playing with a plastic face mask to protect a broken jaw.

"But it is one of those situations where you really enjoy it more when your career is done and over."

Selanne, who turns 40 in July, has a silver medal from Turin and bronze at the 1998 Nagano Olympics and would like nothing better than to end his Olympic career with a gold.

Selanne helped set up Timonen's goal on the powerplay late in the second for his 17th assist to go with 20 career goals. His wife and children were among the crowd at Canada Hockey Place to witness the event.

"If somebody had told me 30 years ago what's going to happen I would say you're crazy," Selanne said. "I played a long time with a lot of good players and that is what makes it all happen."

Selanne's teammate on the Anaheim Ducks Saku Koivu made sure he retrieved the historic puck from the referee and gave it to Selanne.

"Teemu has been the same for Finnish hockey as Jari Kurri," said defenceman Sami Salo who got the other assist on the Timonen goal. "He's a stable guy and the numbers he has put up are unbelievable."

Heading into the tournament Selanne needed two points to break the record. He tied it on Wednesday, getting another assist in a 5-1 Finland victory over Belarus.

CHEERS, TEEMU!!!!!

nice results milka

Congratulations Finland!