Olympic Predictions Anyone?

Marty wrote:
Then they find out that just before the race he had a glass of
Sake and that he has a crush on Katie Couric.

Oh yuck. Please!
I can't stand that simpering thing.

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ant

Awe crap!

http://www.eurosport.com/alpineskiin...to834805.shtml
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Marty

Marty wrote:

Awe crap!

http://www.eurosport.com/alpineskiin...to834805.shtml

Janica Kostelic, Hermann Maier, Caroline Lalive, Carole Montillet,
Lindsey Kildow, Hilde Gerg, Kirsten Clark. Partial list. We hang an
awful lot on the Olympics, and always forget that these folks get hurt a
lot and get sick with surprising frequency. Still and all, I'm having a
hard time wrapping my mind around Kostelic not competing. Am I mistaken
in my metric conversions, or is 37.2C equal to 98.9F? Doesn't seem like
the kind of "fever" that would bench Kostelic.

I predict that one of you freaks will falsely accuse me of molesting
children within 24 hours.




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Marty wrote:
Then they find out that just before the race he had a glass of
Sake and that he has a crush on Katie Couric.

Oh yuck. Please!
I can't stand that simpering thing.

Speaking of simpering after losing a race.....




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Mary Malmros wrote:

Am I mistaken
in my metric conversions, or is 37.2C equal to 98.9F? Doesn't seem like
the kind of "fever" that would bench Kostelic.


37 C is "normal" body temperature rounded off to two significant
digits. When you convert it to Farenheit you get 98.6, but the
apparent three significant digit precision is an artifact of the
conversion. 37.2 is pretty normal; we humans vary around the mean in
most measurements.


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// Walt
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// There is no Volkl Conspiracy

Walt wrote:

Mary Malmros wrote:

Am I mistaken in my metric conversions, or is 37.2C equal to 98.9F?
Doesn't seem like the kind of "fever" that would bench Kostelic.



37 C is "normal" body temperature rounded off to two significant
digits. When you convert it to Farenheit you get 98.6, but the apparent
three significant digit precision is an artifact of the conversion.
37.2 is pretty normal; we humans vary around the mean in most measurements.

Right...so, to my point: this ain't a "fever". So what's the deal?

Mary Malmros wrote:
Walt wrote:
Mary Malmros wrote:

Am I mistaken in my metric conversions, or is 37.2C equal to 98.9F?
Doesn't seem like the kind of "fever" that would bench Kostelic.

37 C is "normal" body temperature rounded off to two significant
digits. When you convert it to Farenheit you get 98.6, but the
apparent three significant digit precision is an artifact of the
conversion. 37.2 is pretty normal; we humans vary around the mean in
most measurements.


Right...so, to my point: this ain't a "fever". So what's the deal?

No idea. Do you need any advice about making coffee?


I actually tried to watch the olympics tonight. BOOOOORRRRRING!
Three hours of bad-taste-on-ice on BOTH the CBC and NBC, intercut with
small doses of some moderately interesting other stuff.

Snowboard cross was interesting, until I realized that Simon
Whatshisname was obviously going to win it all. That's the problem
with NBC's coverage - you *know* the USA guy or gal is going to win
the Gold, otherwise they wouldn't show it. AND show seventeen minutes
of background biography leading up to the final run, which you know
they would have left in the can had he not won. Very very very
anticlimatic. Why bother watching if you know the ending?

Maybe the CBC will show some curling before the week is out. At least
that will be somewhat suspenseful.

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// Walt
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// There is no Curling Conspiracy

Walt wrote:

I actually tried to watch the olympics tonight. BOOOOORRRRRING!
Three hours of bad-taste-on-ice on BOTH the CBC and NBC, intercut with
small doses of some moderately interesting other stuff.

I watched ALL the men's skating! I wish the last 2 canadians and the
Japanese chap had got the medals.

Snowboard cross was interesting,

i like the crashes! the aussie guy was completely miffed at being knocked
off the course. I was going for the hard booters, but they had to lose speed
in the air as they had to stand to land. I was amazed they could jump those
monster boards at all.

And WHY do they have a race on the slowest snow equipment? It is almost as
silly as having Snollerblade races.
Why isn't there skiiercross in the lympics? That's really top stuff.


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ant

ant wrote:

And WHY do they have a race on the slowest snow equipment?

Why do people race horses or bicycles, or run for that matter, when cars
are so much faster?