Who's watching?
Opening ceremony at 8 tonight.
http://www.torino2006.org/ENG/OlympicGames/home/index.html





Lighting of the Cauldron

I'm only watching figure skating, I couldn't care less about the rest.

I love how they fly thrugh the air and flip and twirl...

Wow...

That's simply amazing...

Since this is sports related, I'll put this in Entertainment.

Topic moved.

And I had no clue the opening ceremonies were tonight I'm missing them! I love the Winter Olympics, much more than I like the Summer Olympics. Figure skating =

^Since it's about sports, it's in Entertainment? I don't get it. But I'll move it to Sports, if that's okay.
Never mind :)

I only got to catch a little bit, but amazing =]

Hmm, I missed it. Ahh, for the Winter Olympics, I only really watch/care about the opening ceremony and the figure skating.

Beautiful, i dont watch olympic though.

i missed the opening today...

im rooting for michelle kwan like always

ah, i only want to watch figure skating

i saw the last 30 mins but it was very awesome..

can't wait to watch some events...

i prefer summer olympics tho.. SWIMMING ALL THE WAY! lol.

It looked more like Cirque du Soleil than an opening for the Olymipics.

I watched it!!! Ohh the chills.

I loved the lighting of the Olympic flame! It was a great design =] . Didn't think the ceremony was as good as Athens, though.


Feel sorry for Torino, it's at a $1 million deficit from the Olympics, Beijing08 is taking all the sponsorships leaving Torino in the dust.


Oh but the Chinese can't afford to screw up their Olympics, so their opening ceremony will just have to be one of the most spectacular.

yea..the only thing im watching would be the luge, figure skating, and maybe speed skating.


michelle kwan is in it right? cause i watched the figure skaters compete for a spot on the olympic team and kwan didnt compete. sasha cohen..is absolutely beautiful while shes skating.

I didn't watch it, but does anyone know who that 16-year old guy from Georgia is? He's in the speed skating thing... and I want to know who it is. Hmmmmm.

I should watch it.

There's actually people n Georgia who can skate? Whoa. I wonder where he's from.

Man...I don't even watch the olympics anymore. I used to watch it everytime. I do like the opening ceremonies though. VERY NICE! (Like the World Cup's) If there is one thing I watch, it's soccer (Summer olympics). That's like the only thing that interests me. And maybe baskteball.

Results so far during day two:

yay canada :) i love watchign the olympics. i was a tad upset that i missed the opening ceremonies though in a few years my sister could be in the summer olympics! beijing 2008 summer olympics for gymnastics...i really hope she makes it that far!

I only saw part of it. I fell asleep halfway through the Parade of Nations.

But, so far this was cool. A lot better than the opening ceremony in Athens.

Agreed, cant wait until Beijing2008

Opening ceremony was still beautiful though

Well, it's sort of unfair to compare the summer Olympics opening ceremony to a winter Olympics opening ceremony. Just think about how much bigger the summer Olympics are.

Yeah, go Canada! Anyone watch women's hockey? 16 - freaking 0. Crazy cakes.

I missed the opening ceremony. Not that it was on TV here anyway. The fireworks look fabulous.

i missed the ceromony as well but i saw recaps today. i just finished watching mens speed skating..and usa got gold. yay. hes from texas.

I wasn't really impressed with the american pair figure skaters tonight, but the chinese were amazing.

figure skating is up next for me
whooooooo

QUOTE(Gypsy Eyes @ Feb 12 2006, 12:14 AM)

I wasn't really impressed with the american pair figure skaters tonight, but the chinese were amazing.

usually, the chinese are really great during ice skating..but today, most of the pairs were going really slow with some bad techniques.

saw that triple axes between the 2 u.s. pairs tonight ....thats crazy shnitzel. edit*

I couldn't pinpoint when figure skating was going to be. I only seemed to hit NBC during luge..and then skiing. argh!

word on the street is that michelle kwan might not be able to compete, she ended her practice short today after groin problems

I saw a bit of the short program too. The second Chinese pair, Zhang and Zhang were great!

It was right after mens luge

Chinese did well, I'm proud
How disappointing how the second Chinese pair didn't win, but I guess it was hard for the guy. Geez, he only had two weeks of practice because of his torn achilles.

Look at google:

i miss to olympics.....i used to be a junior olympian....in bowling....o well....

michelle kwan dropped out due to her groin injury.





i was rooting for her.

Yeah, same here. She was really the only reason that I was going to watch the Olympics. Ah well.

QUOTE(yanners @ Feb 12 2006, 9:59 AM)

michelle kwan dropped out due to her groin injury.
  i was rooting for her.

are you serious... wtf. k, im pretty pissed now. i wanted to watch the olympics only because of her. didnt she say that this is her last olympics or something? or was it 2008?

2008 is summer olympics. And yeah, I believe that this was her last chance. Blah. I don't care about the olympics now.

Oo, google looks good..lol :)

Awww, Michelle Kwan I'm really sad, but she obviously couldn't do it because of injury..aw.

I know! I was watching the speed skating, and he's from Houston, so when he won, we were pret-ty excited. I think it's crazy that he hasn't been ice skating for long, though.

Day 4 so far:


USA rocks at snowboarding

I can't believe Bode placed 5th..it's okay though, because that guy from France was amazing! And I'm sad for Apollo Anton Ohno (doncha just love saying his name?) because he didn't need to be first, but he tried anyway. GR. Oh well, he'll have chances later to get a medal.

Dude, the only reason I was going to watch the Olympics was because of Michelle Kwan. I watchered her performances growing up so it's hard that she's not going to be able to compete anymore. It's like your hero's gone to do other things.

Well, I guess I'll still watch the Olympics cause of Sasha Cohen. But I still say I liked Michelle Kwan better.

^psh yah they do!!! The womens snowboarding competition was great :)

You know what made me happy?
lol just now the Chinese skaters, skating to Phantom of The Opera.
Oh yah

For some reason, Michelle Kwan never appealed to me. I didn't have a reaction to her dropping out of the Olympics. *shrugs*

EDIT// Did anyone watch figure skating today? WOW. Did you see Zhang and Zhang's fall?! That was freaking amazing how they got back up and kept skating...and won silver, too!

i read about Zhang and Zhang's fall. it sounded really bad, but i'm proud of how they picked themselves up and got second :D. i'm sure they really deserved it.

Me too, but I'm definitely not surprised. I mean really, she's past her prime. There aren't many figure skaters who skate competitively at 25. That and as much as I like Michelle, she shouldn't've gone in the first place. It's time to give the young'ins a chance, which she did after dropping out.

does anyone happen to know a video link to the chinese skaters performance??

ah, the chinese...i dont know what their names are but theyre the best chinese pair. the guy messed up his foot which made me feel bad and they had a short story abour their coach when he was young. he was parterned up with a 12 yr old when he himself was 29 or something..the guy would always throw her too hard and everytime, the 12 yr old skater would fall during jumps. they ended up getting last place and the audience laughed. it was pretty sad.

Erm when do they start again?

I don't think they have video yet on specific highlights from the competitions. Although, the official site does have other video clips:
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/torino2006


What do you mean? The Olympics are going on non-stop until the 26th :) You can check out the full schedule here:
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/torino200...hedule?day=grid