I'm gonna hit you all up with a plug, but it's not my own blog. I just wanted to share that I got published for my second Olympics-related article over at Mental Floss on the Dutch winning the speed skating competition: I got the idea from these discussion boards when we had that discussion a few days ago on why the…

OK, i'm gonna have to disagree. No one believes shuffleboard should be an Olympic sport, this is just shuffleboard on ice. It's mostly through a cultural resonance that curling has pull

He wasn't a favorite I'm pretty sure. Has not been leading the world ski rankings for some time.

48 hundredths of a second is pretty large. Short-track speedskating is thousandths, sprinting is usually within .1 and .2.

Not a big fan of him although he has a cool commercial. Bode Miller and Andrew Weinbrecht are guys who I'm much more pleased to see take medals. Ligety hasn't been that good in the off-season. And yes, what the heck is up with this review. It feels as if Myles is trying to force curling on us. Curling is what it is,…

Yeah, I'm pro-Italy in everything. That country should be dominating in something. They've done really well in short-track speedskating for a country that isn't Asian. It's wierd seeing a European medal in that sport, like watching a white guy win the marathon

absolutely agree. Chris Rock is awesome.

Oh don't get me wrong, I have MAJOR complaints about NBC but mostly in the website nbcolympics.com, I don't think they even want us to find the replays because they're so freaking hard to navigate and it's even more impossible to watch a replay without seeing a spoiler along the way

yeah, but Kenteris was still unexpected at the time. Him possibly testing for drugs in 2004 doesn't tarnish the moment

They did have a bit with Scott Hamilton and Billy Bush either getting some spa massage where they were seemingly tortured by little fish biting their feet.

I'm not a fan of Johnny's hair his outfits are ok, I guess

I love most of these sports, and bobsledding looks really fun, but I find bobsled kind of ridiculous and almost comical to watch. It looks like a sport stuck in the 1950's from like the adventures of flash Gordon or something. They're driving a car down this ice track. Luge and skeleton are a lot funner to watch…

yeah, even more pointless since she probably can't produce an interesting answer anyways

wow, amazing point. I've done my fair share of sports reporting and it is annoying to have to ask people questions you already know the answer to, but there's usually a slight bit of grey area where you can ask something interesting, like I once asked an Olympian whether he'd prefer a Gold in the World Championships…

I don't think there was any question that Bode breaking down and crying was an unintended and not the result the reporter was going for. It's so cool to see Bode on the podium again. Alpine skiing is such a random and haphazard sport where you can't see your competitors and winning and losing is microseconds, so it's…

I believe it's the top to some extent as well. The Austrian has a great coaching staff and development pipeline and they train in Chile in the off season.

oh, I'm sorry. I actually meant to see that Alien Jesus had the intelligent comment. Youre comment is ok too, I guess. Gold stickers for everyone

I think it was a good commentary too when the guy showed us exactly what the visibility was. Yeah, Super G is exciting as hell. Where I live in the mid-Atlantic, most ski resorts won't put on super-g races because insurers won't cover it, it's too dangerous, but there's one in early March in Seven Springs. I've never…

When Costa Rica won a medal in something in the 1990's (I think canoing), they had a welcome reception f some 1.5 million people which was half the country's population. I'm not sure how much of a media exaggeration that is but I was in Costa Rica a little after that point and it was insane

the Dutch speed skating development program seems to be the most productive thing I've ever seen. I've never seen any country dominate any sport as much as these guys are dominating speed skating (correct me if I'm wrong, I remember some winter Olympics when Austria dominated alpine), I wonder how much they'd do in…