Nice, nice!!

But it is nothing like the true legend of Serbia, Dragan Stojkovic, who could kick like a horse.

Now, he is a coach in Japan, and recently did this, when the ball landed next to him (he was sent off by the ref. for what can only be called a severe foul )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QUINdfStzc&NR=1


Please watch it not only twice, but thrice or more

Enjoy!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcYPxrKB6ck&feature=relat ed


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQPR43v64e4&feature=relat ed

And with those shoes. That guy is legend

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Håvard Bøkko 4th place (4.20 behind the superior Sven Kramer) on 5000 metres. That SUCKS!!!!!!!!!

4th place is the worst place of them all

And no medals in todays ski jumping either. Sucks, sucks, sucks!!!

We were supposed to have two medals today. One gold/silver and one silver, but now, none.

Hmm, this looks bad right now.

Oh well, as long as we get more medals than our Arch Enemy Sweden, I`ll be moderatly pleased, even though this allready looks grim from the perspective of a nordic nation...

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Our best woman in Biatlon on a dissapointing 10th place (good for her actually), while our medal hope Tora Berger shot herself out of the competition and ended up on a truly dissapointing 33th place....
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Fortunatly, the Swedish girls ended up outside the podium, so that is a real comfort

Unfortunatly, I have now been watching the Swedish Ice Hockey team (for women actually, which is a strange sport, where the IOC, in their male chauvenistic fashion, denies them the right to actually make a tackle, so there is little action, but a lot of "swinging around on the ice without touching") beat the Swiss, so the night is now officially ruined! Hopefully, they will not reach the finals...

What a start on the Olympics... Moderate Swedish success and Norwegian Desolation. It could only get worse if the Swedes had actually won medals and not only a hockey game...

Anything less than 7 Norwegian gold medals are utterly dissapointing, but I don`t know right now. The first day has been...not so nice...

The Swedes are going to become totally unbearable if they actually end up with as many medals as us. But they won`t. Russia and Canada will end up crushing their males in hockey, and then they only have so many who can take a medal anyway...

I love the Olympics!

I get to be an ultra nationalist for fun!

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whodey wrote on Sun, 14 February 2010 06:58

I am learning quite a few things I didn't know around here - like that there is female ice hockey??? And in the Olympics? My God, I must have been stuck under a rock somewhere On of my sons played ice hockey in high school and became a big fan of the Vancouver Canucks in their glory days with Pavel Bure. And since we are a vary close-knit family and always try to do stuff together, we all became addicted to watching ice hockey. Although the Canucks ended up losing the Stanley Cup to New York that year, they were a fun team to watch and we regularly drove down to Vancouver when on ski vacations in Whistler to watch them play. But I had honestly never heard of a women's hockey team. Dont worry, I am sure Norway will get a nice amount of Olympic Medals, they always do. It's a shame that athletes are no longer competing as "amateurs" as it was strictly required before, it gives big and rich countries an advantage, because they more easily provide money so that athletes dont have to have a time-consuming job and can train and state of the art training facilities. And dont even get me started on professional players ( of various sports) in the Olympics. I liked it better when it was just amateurs, it seemed more fair. I will of course be rooting for Austria in the downhill, super G and slalom - but since you dont like Alpine Skiing anyway, you wont be upset if Austria comes out ahead, right? I also love ski-jumping, btw, Austria got a bronze medal yesterday ( also a bit disappointing). How about you - like ski-jumping? I remember standing on the ramp in Kitzbuehl, Austria after the Olympics - the view was quite scary from up there. Good luck, Norway, in all the Nordic disciplines - and enjoy the Olympics, Magnus.

I always love the Olympics! With love, and...with fury

Don\t make me start on todays competitions. We were supposed to have 1 gold and 1gold/silver at least today, but ended up with only one silver in biathlon.

Seriously, the biathlon competition and the combined (ski jump and crosscountry) should have both been canceled. What happened today would NOT have been allowed to happen in the World Cup!

The Vancuover Olympics truly suck in many ways. The Canadians seemingly don`t know anything about ski jumping and they certainly don`t know shit about biathlon.

Firstly, they prepped the biathlon tracks with salt. And then, 10 min after the race started, it started to snow heavilly, and then the sun suddenly came up. Everyone with ANY sort of skiing knowledge knows that would make for a very UNFAIR competition. Thsoe with the 10 first starting numbers had a ridiculous advantage, with the result being that a Frenchman that is FAR FROM ONE OF THE BEST, won with a Norwegian favorite on second place (the king of biathlon, Ole Einar Bjørndalen actually fucked up his shooting and can`t owe it on the weather, and this is true for most of the good Norwegians except two. The Germans and the Russians were FUCKED OVER by the Canadian idiot people arranging this parody). They had start number 1 and 3, i think. Most of the best, started later, and they told horror stories about skiing on asphalt.

Everyone missed a lot in the shootings, including the Germans, Russians, norwegians, and the French favorites. This was because their tighs were full of acid of course...

And the combined competition. They banned the new system (new points system which was created so that it would be "fairer"), the result? Many of the favorites jumped with red arrows in their asses, while others jumped with very, very green arrows. The new system would have added/subtracted points due to speed, wind directions etc., but the IDIOT CANADIANS refused to use the new improved system, with the result that some of the very best had to jump with ABHORRENT wind conditions (getting NO points in compensation!!!), and thus had to start their cross country race 2.30 min behind the leaders...

Yes, some of these people were Norwegian favorites, and yes, I am probably whining. The Canadians truly owe us a medal though...

Yeah, and the Slovenian winner in Biathlon (for women) yesterday was clearly DOPED (not surprisingly, she is Russian but competes for Slovenia).
She had one good result in last years series, adn surprise, surprise, that was in the world Championships, while the rest of her season was relativly crap. Now, she broke her hand a coupple of months ago (no good results this year), and couldn\t train for over a months. She`s been like 16 at her best. And now she suddenly skiies (not schoots) faster than everyone else,and she is suddenly faster than the German, Russian (some Russians are actually good without drugs, be we who follow this sport know who they are, and they are mostly men and ex-Spetsnaz), French and Norwegian and Swedish favorites....

That Russia will even be allowed to arrange the next Winter Olympics is a disgrace, considering how many of their athletes are known cheaters...

The Swede Bjørn Ferry (biathlon) incidently proposed shooting cheaters to the death. He probably exaggerated, but it is clear that the penalties are not grave enough. Among some nations, being a cheater (doping) is seen not as something horrible, instead, some countries (like Russia) have cultures where they reward them and tell them "bad luck that you got caught". That is a VERY different mentallity...

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Hi Magnus,

looks like Norway and Austria are equal in the medals count for the time being -
2 Silver, 1 Bronze. Quite disappointing for either of us

You have made it pretty clear that you dont think much of Alpine Skiing, but I love it. I was very disappointed that Austria didn't get any medal in the Men's Downhill. Bummer.

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Jordan's Prince Faisal ( younger brother of King Abdullah) was recently elected to the IOC. Since Jordan is not participating in the Winter Olympics ( I am not sure, but I dont think it ever has) I would imagine that if he is handing out medals, it is in his capacity as IOC member rather than due to his "royal blood".

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whodey wrote on Wed, 17 February 2010 06:49

Hi Magnus, looks like Norway and Austria are equal in the medals count for the time being - 2 Silver, 1 Bronze. Quite disappointing for either of us You have made it pretty clear that you dont think much of Alpine Skiing, but I love it. I was very disappointed that Austria didn't get any medal in the Men's Downhill. Bummer. -------- Jordan's Prince Faisal ( younger brother of King Abdullah) was recently elected to the IOC. Since Jordan is not participating in the Winter Olympics ( I am not sure, but I dont think it ever has) I would imagine that if he is handing out medals, it is in his capacity as IOC member rather than due to his "royal blood".

Yeah, not good for you, but HORRIBLE AND UFORGIVABLE for us (I am almost inclined to start another agressive rant about the Canadian "hosts", thought as that rant would have a lot to do with everything else than NOrwegian atlethes (the hosts have ruined 1000K Ice skating, and so many other competitions, and they also ruined for some Swedes in biathlon and for BOTH males and women). The entire arrangement in Canada suck Big Time, but I think the Canadians know what we Europeans think of their shitty Olympics by now anyway, so no need for me to explain or give another rant. They get bad press anyway.

Then to your point.

Whodey, dear Whodey, please, please consider what you say. Why do you think your Prince was elected by the IOC? My point earlier was that the IOC had elected our prince as well, (but our king didn`t want to Haakon Magnus to be ON the IOC and be used for medal ceremonies and the like) just like they have elected almost every prince in the world. And you tell me that this has nothing to do with royal blood? Come on!!!

We have got 1 gold and 1 bronze today. That sucked. Two russians won the male sprint, and out of 64 sprint competitions, Norway has not won 8 of those. And all we got was 1 bronze, even though our best were in the final (3 of them, albeit one fell horribly). Of course, I am not going to mention what I think might have been in the blood of those russians who suddenly sprinted like daemons on skii...

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whodey wrote on Fri, 19 February 2010 22:52

Congratulations on Svindal winning Gold in the Super-G. If anyone but Austria ( they are having a terrible time in the Olympics this year) had to win it , I am glad it was this nice guy from Norway.

Thanks! axel was and is, great (it looked like he was going to win today as well, but he drove out in the late part of the slope, which sucked big time)!

And yes, I agree. He is a nice guy, or so I think.

Ausstria is looking thin in alpine skiining (only two or three good skiiers these days), so it is time to do something to get up new blood there.

Our usually totally dominant Cross country team doesn`t like Canada at all , thogh our women do GREAT!!!!!!!


Marit Bjørgen is COMPETLY dominant and is crushing all opposition in the slope. She is totally the strongest, and she so deserves her two gold (se has a history of ups and ugly sad downs, and seeing her cry after ahving to abort a run after stomach problems were not that uncommon). When in form, she is the Queen of skiis though. And right now, she ahs 1 Bronze and 2 Golds in this Olympic.

I just want to say. I actually like alpine skiing and I have watched everything, but yes, Cross Country is higher up there for me.

I think most Norwegians are like that. We rate medals after not necessarilly colour, but rather how cruel and athletic the sport is.

Cross country is THE most athletic sport and thus, such medals counts more than, say, a gold in curling.

Norwegians athletes training cross country, and for the most part, biathlon, train ALL THE TIME, and DAMN hard. It is not like...golf. It is pain, blood, agony and train, train, train, train and TRAIN HARD and learn to ignore muscles screaming in agony.

It is the essence of Olympic arts, and the only true athletic sport in the Winter Olympic. Thus, a bronze medal in such, true, atletich arts, have much, much more hard and grueling work behind them than ice hockey, whatever...


Also, of course, it is our national identity, much more than hockey is Canadian, and so, we must always win, or an olympic is failed, no matter how many other, in our eyes, inferior medals, we eventually grab, in less athletic arts.

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Mark of Lewiston wrote on Mon, 01 March 2010 05:02

I guess they are finishing up tonight. Too bad they had so little snow. I really got a kick out of the scandal - Canadian women hockey players drink beer! Horrors!!! And it looks like the Canadian NHL All-Stars outplayed the American NHL All-Stars for the Hockey Gold.

The Olympics is old fashioned in that alcohol and (sports, especially the Olympics) the olympics is supposed to be very, very apart.

However, it was not the alcohol and the cigars (on the olympic arena) that was the problem, but the fact that one of those drinking on the ice was a minor in regards to Canadian law.


Though honestly, I couldn\t care less. Still, it is not something they are "supposed" to do, you know.

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whodey wrote on Mon, 01 March 2010 07:16

Congratulations, Magnus I am sure you would have wanted Norway to finish in the first three maybe, but I think Norway did very well in the Olympics. Plus, where individual athletes are concerned, the first two athletes with the most medals are Norwegians ( Bjorgen and Northug). I am rather disappointed for Austria, fifth place is barely respectable in the Winter Olympics. Even if just taking the Alpine Skiing disciplines, where we ranked third, we still come in AFTER Norway - and you guys dont even have Alps Oh well, maybe I am still around in 2014 and we'll do better.

I am more than moderatly pleased, allthough we should have had more like 30 medals given how strong Norwegian nordic teams are in the world cups. 9 golds is nice, but we have way too few silver and bronze to be really happy about this.

It betrays for instance that behind Petter Northug, we do not have a truly competitive team in cross country (non-sprint, as we have a terrific sprint team). The women team is better than ever (or since the 80s), but considering our resources and lay of land, we expect a lot more from our cross country skiiers. Some of them seemed unwilling to bleed and vomit for a medal, and then, there is something wrong.

In Nordic combined, we sucked big time, and this does not reflect the team, which is usually a lt better (Moan has won the last world cup races). But then again, nordic combined was among the races that the Canadian "hosts" some what ruined, as the wind conditions were the most unfavorable I have ever seen (from excellent to outright horrible), and yet, they went through with the races.

Ice skating. Dissapointing. But we never expected great sucess, though perhaps a bit more than an individual bronze for Bøkko.

Alpine. Fantastic, as even kjetil jansrud got a silver in giant slalom, and Axel was the king of course (though the foreign media focuses on that american woman who won a lot less, for some strange reason). We only had one girl (Løseth) in among the women and she got a ninth place and 13 place, which was much, much better than expected. she is not even 19 yet, so she will grow.

Lol, curling Silver is excellent. The Canadians have the beter team. Fancy pants did very, very well though

Ski Cross. New sport in Norway, and we got one silver and one bronze. That is excellent.

Snowboard. we have been left behind. Only one pipe in norway and it is no longer good enough to train on (the pipes re bigger nowadays). we must build a lot more, or else, we can only compete in snowboard cross. Long gone are the days of Terje Håkonsen and Daniel Franck.

Ski jumping. we suck, but it was worse than expected. One bronze for the team, no individual medals at all.

Hockey. I am amazed they did so well, considering the number of ice halls here. And still, their results look bad, though a closer than close loss against Slovakia is admirable, considering their NHL stars. Hockey means little for most Norwegians though, and so the results is okay. Sweden has reason to be a lot more grumpy than us, consider their loss to...slovakia...

I probabably forgot something, but...


Ausstria. Well, Whodey, the number of medals is not that horrible considering that Ausstria missed all medal chances in alpine skiing, type men. I am sorry about that though, Benjamin Reich really deserved a medal.

If this continues, the USA will have more total medals than us after a few Olympics (it will continue).

Untill that time, we still rank highest, though that is meagre confort. The US just pumps in too much money in too many obscure winter sports, and they have top competitors in all kinds of sports. We are barely holding on to being competitive in traditional winter sports.


Anyway, Northug did win the 50km, and that is the toughest event of the olympics, ice Hockey and bobsleights be damned

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