Winter Olympics

Cookie-Monster · 16 Feb 2006 at 18:01

Britain are guaranteed their first medal this time around from the Women's Skeleton Bob, 2 left to slide and we are in 1st.

Shelley Rudman

cheets64 · 16 Feb 2006 at 18:03

Yup, watching it live on bbc 2 now.

Silver

Cookie-Monster · 16 Feb 2006 at 18:05

make that a Silver.

Congratulations for a vastly inexperienced competitor achieving our first medal of these games.

Gooner14 · 16 Feb 2006 at 18:07

She has to be mental to do that. How on earth do you start a sport like that!!

cheets64 · 16 Feb 2006 at 18:10

They said her sleigh was paid for by fund raising in her village, no wonder we never win any medals, great goverment funding.

Big Kev · 16 Feb 2006 at 18:15

I haven't seen this, but a great achievement and we're not finishing with the pot empty.

Antx777 · 16 Feb 2006 at 18:34

Yes, good run, but didn't actually look that clean to me (just seen it once). good mind

mysticsniper · 16 Feb 2006 at 18:44

A big congrats to Shelley Rudman, for gaining an impressive silver medal. :cool:

Cookie-Monster · 16 Feb 2006 at 19:15

cheets64 said:
They said her sleigh was paid for by fund raising in her village, no wonder we never win any medals, great goverment funding.

yes but perhaps with a bit more national interest inminority sports and we wouldnt need massive government spending, look at the aussies, i dont think that they get massive spending in all the sports that they are competetive in they just get out there and do them.,

malfunkshun · 16 Feb 2006 at 21:32

she did a sterling job, regardless of anything else, she competed and was very competetive!
We have two fellas in the skeleton tomorrow, first run at 1630 and second at about 1800 GMT iirc. They havent been doing to badly at all in training.

Btw, anyone see Plushenko's free skate? a case of omfg if ever i saw one. I thought his short programme was excellent (as reflected in his scores) but this was something special.

Nedved11 · 16 Feb 2006 at 23:35

Well done. Shes a bit of a hottie too

Zip · 17 Feb 2006 at 10:20

Cookie-Monster said:
yes but perhaps with a bit more national interest inminority sports and we wouldnt need massive government spending, look at the aussies, i dont think that they get massive spending in all the sports that they are competetive in they just get out there and do them.,

The guy that one the gold meddal for Australia in the mogals was infact a millionair

Some sports get funding, some much much more then others though.

Winter sports are only just starting to catch on here and become popular because of the golds we have got in the winter olympics and this one. Could have something to do with we dont get snow here apart from some mountains

theleg · 17 Feb 2006 at 11:39

UK doing absymally in the olympics again? what a shock.

Nismo · 17 Feb 2006 at 11:56

Balddog said:
UK doing absymally in the olympics again? what a shock.

Not surprising really. Facilities are bad enough for people to train for the Summer games, but facilities for Winter events are a joke.

Royality · 17 Feb 2006 at 13:58

Wow! Did anyone just watch the snowboard-cross or something... was a great final.

Firstly one competitor landed a jump poorly and fell over, that left 3 competitors well ahead with the leader about 3 seconds ahead (thats a lot).

The other 2 competitors were fighting for second and whilst going round a bank one of them lost grip and flew of the course and through a fence, looked painful but she is probably fine.

That meant the leader was about 4 seconds ahead with the last jump to go, as she jumped she tried showboating, did a grab of some sort and totalled! Other competitor flew past and won! Lol, she must have felt a right plank!

Was brilliant! I was applauding to myself by the end!

Gooner14 · 17 Feb 2006 at 14:04

Yep.

Great entertainment, loved the showboat and fall! I was laughing and clapping

InsomniaCalls · 17 Feb 2006 at 14:06

Nismo said:
Not surprising really. Facilities are bad enough for people to train for the Summer games, but facilities for Winter events are a joke.

Agreed.
The lack of funding for athletes or members of minority sports in the uk is appalling.
The GB Ice Hockey team couldn't even afford to try out for the olympics.
Not that they're good enough for the olympics due to the lack of a well funded/structured junior development program in the uk. :rolleyes:

Gooner14 · 17 Feb 2006 at 14:13

I'd also add a lack of snow possibly doesn't help

(heck there isn't even a hill near me for at least 30 miles)

Nismo · 17 Feb 2006 at 14:52

Gooner14 said:
I'd also add a lack of snow possibly doesn't help (heck there isn't even a hill near me for at least 30 miles)

Dry slopes

Ok so not ideal, but if there were more of them and to a higher standard then it would help.

theleg · 17 Feb 2006 at 20:14

Nismo said:
Not surprising really. Facilities are bad enough for people to train for the Summer games, but facilities for Winter events are a joke.

Sadly its not just that..It seems like the UK has lost all sense of competitiveness...

If one of our people does badly we always make up excuses and say 'ah well, they tried their best' and then write it off as yet another failure. Weve become a nation of losers...Its ingrained in our national psyche now.