Olympics!

Feb 12, 2010 06:19

So, the XXI Olympic Winter Games open tonight in about 15 hours (less by the time you read this) in Vancouver. Anyone else looking forward to watching it? For fun, it's being shown on 7 different channels up here, but unless you get satellite/digital cable, you'll only see three of them (four are alternate feeds or regional streams for other ( Read more... )

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haunter_uk February 13 2010, 01:36:42 UTC
What winter olympic sports do I like?

I'm not entirely sure what events there are in it. Though Bridge was a demonstration event one year, wasn't it? I'd quite like to see that in them (And, on that note, how do they differentiate 'olympic' and 'winter olympic' events for all weather events?)

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rkniner February 13 2010, 01:43:41 UTC
If it helps, winter sports involve at least one of snow and ice:

Ice: Bobsleigh, Curling, Figure skating, Hockey, Luge, Short-track speed skating, Skeleton, Speed skating

Snow: Alpine skiing, Biathlon, Cross-country skiing, Freestyle skiing, Nordic combined, Ski jumping, Snowboarding

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