Olympics, anyone??
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Olympics, anyone??
Who watches and what do you watch?
I LOVE the winter olympics. Figure skating is my absolute fav! And ice dancing, the luge, speed skating, bobsled, ski jumping.......
Count me in to watch with ya! I watch as much as life will let me lol
Same here, Jewlz. I love it all!
We LOVE the Winter Olympics Karen!! My DH is a real fanatic about it. He will spend the whole evening watching the opening ceremonies tonight. (He was an athlete, too.) There's really not much in the winter olympics that we *don't* like!
Go Bode!!!
We're watching now! My kids get sooooo excited about any Olympics! It will be tough to get school done for the next couple of weeks! LOL
I used to Alpine Ski Race in the Junior Olympics from when I was 9-18yrs of age while I lived in Colorado. So, of course, I love the Olympics. I haven't raced since college, but I *really* miss it. I even skied when I was 4 months pregnant.
I just wished they would show the WHOLE team and not just highlight the medal winners. It's VERY hard to even make the team, let alone be in the top 3 of the world!! I'll never forget competing against Kristina Koznic in Nationals and getting our butts kicked by 5 seconds (which is a LOT) by her. She ended up making the Olympic team, yet never quite obtained a medal.
So...all in all...ALL of these athletes deserve a major KUDOS for just making the team!!! 
Ditto Heidi! My DH complains about that every Olympics. You only see the very top and not enough coverage of most events.
I LOVE the Olympics. We're getting ready to watch the opening ceremonies. My favorite sport is speed skating but I also love luge, bobsled, snowboarding, downhill skiing, and figure skating. Did I miss any sports???
I watched the last hour of the opening ceremonies. I like the figure skating. Emily said she likes speed skating! (It's so exciting!)
She mentioned something else, but I can't remember what it was.
Cori you and I like a lot of the same events! I watched the opening ceremony too, but fell asleep before the end.
Did you guys read this morning about Michelle Kwan having to cut her first practice short???
Kwan Struggles, Cuts Short First Practice in Turin. American Star Ponders Dropping Out of Games if She's Not Healthy
By BARRY WILNER, AP Sports
TURIN, Italy (Feb. 11) - Michelle Kwan might be out of the Olympics before she ever starts.
Kwan cut short her first practice because of a sore groin Saturday and left open the possibility of withdrawing from the Winter Games if she's not 100 percent healthy.
The five-time world champion stopped short of saying she was considering dropping off the U.S. team. But asked directly, she replied:
"I really have to pay attention to how I am feeling these days. Dropping out, it's not something I want to do, but I have to listen to what my feelings are."
The 25-year-old skater said a long plane ride and marching in the opening ceremony caused enough problems for her to skip a run-through one day after arriving in Turin. She planned to practice Sunday after getting treatment for the groin injury, which kept her out of last month's U.S. championships and forced her to get a medical bye into her third Olympics.
"Physically, if I'm not able to skate, I would give my spot up," she said.
If she drops out before the Feb. 19 draw for the women's event, Emily Hughes would take her place. Hughes is the third-place finisher at the national championships and younger sister of 2002 Olympic champion Sarah Hughes.
A silver medalist in 1998 and a bronze winner in 2002, Kwan is a five-time world champion, but nothing about her truncated workout indicated she's ready for another shot at gold.
"Concerns? Yes, of course I would love to do my best," she said. "I would love to do a triple-triple combination, everything. Practice this morning wasn't as easy-flowing as I wanted it to be. I am going to have to gather myself together, gather my thoughts and practice better than I did this morning."
The nine-time U.S. champion quit the 40-minute workout session with about 15 minutes remaining and smiled at assistant team leader Taffy Holiday when she left the ice. When she skated, though, she looked serious, even dour, and missing three triple flips couldn't have helped her mood.
When she stood by the sideboards and chatted with team leader Roger Glenn, he could be seen holding Kwan's hand or arm several times as if comforting her.
"Waking up stiff, it's like, `Is it coming back? What's going on?' " she said. "At practice this morning, I didn't have my coach (Rafael Arutunian), I didn't have feedback, I didn't have anything."
After Kwan got the medical bye, she had to pass a Jan. 27 monitoring session conducted by U.S. Figure Skating. Saturday was her first public practice this year.
Her first jump, a smooth triple toe loop, came 13 minutes into the workout. She then landed on two feet on her first triple flip, and fell hard on her next attempt at the jump. Kwan also cut another try into a double flip.
Most of the practice was spent on footwork and spins. At one point, Kwan did her footwork from her free skate and Glenn and U.S. judge Charlie Cyr seemed to be checking the levels of difficulty.
Kwan didn't have her program music at the rink, but she often does run-throughs without it. Her early departure was unexpected - and unlike her.
"I was debating whether or not to rest today," she said. "I just wanted to get out, get my legs under me and feel the ice. Sometimes you don't need to do run-throughs."
As for Hughes, Kwan knows what it's like to be an alternate. In 1994, after Nancy Kerrigan received a medical bye onto the team, Kwan was sent to Norway by U.S. officials and practiced in Oslo. She didn't skate in the Lillehammer Games and Kerrigan won a silver medal.
"You always have options in everything," Kwan said. "Right now, it's like I have to get myself better, I have to know what I can do and what I am capable of doing."
02/11/06 09:50 EST
SOOOOO disappointed. 
Michelle Kwan has withdrawn.
Kwan Pulls Out of Olympics
What an amazing woman! It certainly takes class and character to do what is best for the team and not for her. In reality she could have tried a bit longer, she still had another week before she HAD to withdraw. It just shows that she loves the sport and loves the team enough to put herself aside. She gets the Gold for personality in my book!
She made her decision after being advised by a doctor who examined her. I agree Kaye, she has integrity!
I love the Olympics. It's almost like Christmas but I don't have to do anything. I love it from the week before when the Today show started showing all the parts of Italy to the closing ceremonies. I love all the sports except curling. Glad they don't show much of that. I love to ski and ice skate. Got to see the downhill trials in Park City, Utah a few years back.
Just love it.
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