hey, come on, no spoilers! Maybe Norway won't top the medal stand after all. They were in the lead a couple days ago, they haven't gotten a medal in the last two days. Can you believe Netherlands is in the lead? That should be more of a story, they are f—-ing dominating the speed skating. It would be impossible for…

I think the OP is referring to the 2000 Olympic Lithuania-US game where the Lithuanian team ALMOST upset the US. In what I think was the 2002 World Championships, Puerto Rico beat US for the first time and that was the end of their dominance. When Puerto Rico beat them in the Olympics that was some serious underdog…

the guy who beat el guerrouj in 2000 and dave wottle in the 800 were also pretty big. Does the Greek 200 meter wommer Keredis count?

I feel like nearly every short track victory is an underdog, do you know how many times Apollo Antohn Onno lost? The only one who won short-track consistently was Victor Ahn in 06.

Did NBC expose the game too much? I think that it was a highlight of the Olympics, people were cheering about it on the streets where I live and I saw people discussing it at the 7-eleven, the sports bar, just everywhere. Even my mom who doesn't watch hockey at all and thought it was a sports bluff thought this was a…

what are some of the other Olympic upsets? Off the top of my head, Rulon Gardener, Dave Wottle, Billy Mills and Yuri Borzhikovsky winning in the 800 m, 10000 m and 800 m respectively along with Hachim El Garrouj losing in track. Chris Witty was a big surprise in speed skating. Nigeria and Cameroon winning soccer in …

I'm moderately convinced that luge and skeleton should be coed as well, because it's based on your ability to use miniscule body movements to make turns which doesn't require a male or female advantage. Bobsled requires strength as you push the sled.

I think that's an intelligent comment that you shouldn't be afraid to say. I think it's cool that Johnny Weir is out and gets to be himself, but I don't think someone should have to dress in drag to be a successful figure skater

it wasn't melting snow, it was the angles at which the walls were constructed

Manusco used to wear like a tiara on the podium and was even worse. I think seeing anyone happy with a bronze is uplifting considering the moral I seem to get from most athletes in the big 4 sports, is you're practically obligated to sulk and get depressed if your season ends in anything but a championship

I've seen NBC cover their fair share of foreign athletes this go around which people agree makes for better coverage. They had Tina Maze and Anna Fenninger along with Victor Ahn. On a sidenote, why anyone would want to move from South Korea to Russia is beyond me

It is pretty cool when Britain wins a medal since they have no snow or ice-conducive weather and never hosted a winter olympics so don't have the track, but they mentioned that when Great Britain won their first Gold on snow

Totally. But, I got that one ruined by clicking on replay and having some dumb tweet spoll the results. I really think the NBCOlympics web site is an epic fail. I don't even know how to get most of the replays and I have to jump around to multiple pages which will liekly contain spoilers to get what I'm looking for. I…

Slopestyle is not that dangerous at all. they do it on most ski resorts in America and Canada and it's one that nearly everyone does. in slopestyle, you have a high forward velocity that sort of minimizes the impact. I'm not a physics major and can't explain it but it's the same reason that falling 14 stories in the…

absolutely. the best men were getting between 9.50 and 9.56 and Usain's world record is 9.58. Keep in mind though that Usain has only gotten under 9.7 four or five times ever ever. To me, it's more of a law of averages whereas the best speedskater will consistently get under 9.7 more often than Usain Bolt.

I heard he seriously assaulted and threatened journalist at Sundance (c. 2006ish) and flipped off Chris Rock when he made that joke at the Oscars "when he's not acting, he's boring us to death with his politics, please welcome….". I love Tim Robbins the actor tremendously. I feel like one Oscar nomination is not…

I've been skiing in Whistler and it is the most incredible mountain N. America: One mile vertical drop which if you know how Denver makes a big deal of being the mile high city puts it in perspective. And besides, the coldest places in Canada are Manitoba and Saskatchewan which are flat. Olympics require mountians

yeah, there's a bit of predictability taken out of the equation when you know they're not showing everyone.

I would have assumed Thorpe was working for an Australian station. I didn't know we were in the habit of poaching foreign talent when there's a substantial broadcasting industry in Australia

I'd like to see a grad student in gender studies write their thesis on Weir's outfits. I'm confused, it says on wikipedia Wier came out in 2011. Wasn't he extremely out of the closet in both Olympics?