I know people always say that but when Nigeria won the Olympic gold, I can't help but feel that was a humongous deal. I remember very clearly how celebratory I was, at least. Basketball had a period in 2002-2006 where it was indeed an even playing field but now, no one really thinks the US will lose.

Yeah, I imagine Charlotte Kalla would be a big hero over there.

I had no idea they were doing bidding for 2022 already. I don't think they'd possibly do a winter bid to a summer city and does anyone really want to give it to a dictatorial country all over again? Helsinki is a desolate winter spot and Oslo would make a great summer olympics city. Helsinki got the summer Olympics…

yes, you should own your national pride. If I were Canadian, I'd be proud as hell of it.

I was trying to make a list of memorable US Olympics heroes and I think that we have Mikaela Schiffrin in skiing, TJ Oshie (although the loss to Finland), White and Davis, and I think the bobsledding team deserves a lot of mention (it's supercool that these are track athletes from the summer games, Lauryn Williams…

I disagree with the way he won yesterday and think it's ridiculous that the maximum time for a spill is 1.12 seconds. That's more than enough time to recover. If there's going to be a maximum it needs to be something more like 2 or 3 seconds, because otherwise, it's just not fair. The announcers admitted that the blue…

Yeah, I saw that Russian snowboarder today and how is that guy not the biggest villain of the games? Defecting from Korea to the US because they're speedskating program snubbed you but Vic Wild likely would have had training support here and he elected to join a murderous regime? Why didn't he just get his wife to…

My assumption was if we won they would have replayed the game

yeah, that is puzzling and he seems to toe the company line very closely with regard to Russian patriotism. He's apparently learned Russian and and gives his press conferences in Russian with pride. He is a beast on skates, I gotta respect that.

that's too bad you didn't like my post (but then again you seem kind of like a jerk). I thought I had a thoughtful and winning post that added to the discourse, but I agree it's too bad you can't downvote someone. I'd rather have up and down votes than a cumulative vote

yes, but being funny never had anything to do with succeeding at 11:30. It's just about being mainstream enough and booking big enough celebrities.

I can testify to that. I watched slalom online today about 45 min. in. The replay feature wouldn't let me go back to the leaders so I watched the last 30 seeds or so and these were guys from Cyprus, the Cayman Islands, Mexico, Montenegro, Thailand, China, Ukraine, 2 skiers from Greece, Ireland, Indonesia, New Zealand,…

I'm glad you admitted that you don't know much about short-track speedskating but you should still include more disclaimers about your ignorance in winter sports in general.

I think you're thinking of the Italian luger who now has the distinction of medalling in six straight Olympics

Yeah, but don't you need an extremely well-rounded musical background to be a band leader? Having to arrange and rehearse musicians and learn songs fast and on the fly. I thought he was just a drummer who dabbled in other genres. I might be wrong

Totally agree, and it sounds like elevator music. I thought there was a keyboardist too. I think it's a good career move for Armisen, I think splitsider reported that it was only like a month or two ago that Armisen was offered the gig. I imagine it's gotta be longer than that.

oh I see what you're saying. I wonder if this band is gonna be like an avant-garde experiment since it's fronted by a comedian who it seems never took music that seriously. Didn't he rise to fame through a viral video making fun of the punk music scene in the late 90's?

It's hard to tell, he hardly ever let him speak. My thesis would be that it isn't just a coincidence that he picked the most foreign looking guy to be the whipping boy. Oh another example, Chelsea Handler and Chewie. Yes, he's a midget but he also speaks in broken English a la Guillermo

Most protests are filed by coaches and olympic delegation heads. If a protest is filed, she won't look like a complainer. The Russians have filed tons of protests so far anyway (cross-country on the second day of competition when the Russian was impeded from getting 4th, and luge comes to mind)

Isn't the stuff on Adult Swim usually new like Robot Chicken and Squid Billies (or whatever they have on there, I haven't watched in years. My peak watching period was 20-22 so I would believe Patrick when he notes 25 and up don't watch it)