EPT2014 Winter Olympics Sochi - Page 77
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xDaunt
United States17988 Posts
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Slaughter
United States20254 Posts
Dutch speed skating team coach talking some smack lol. Even trashes American Football. | ||
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musai
Canada552 Posts
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lamprey1
Canada919 Posts
the Dutch speed skating coach is bang on the money with this quote. some of the other comments were way off base. Unless the NHL starts to clean up its act in a real hurry then they are in the exact same position as the NFL. Canadian parents are steering their kids away from hockey because of how dangerous it has become. to me the above quoted comment applies to the NHL just as much as the NFL. | ||
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Shinokuki
United States923 Posts
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WolfintheSheep
Canada14127 Posts
On February 22 2014 03:54 Eventine wrote: if the official deemed it was okay, was okay in my book. sportsmanship comes after the race, during the race, you do what you can to win. Remind me to bring a baseball bat to all my races... | ||
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Titusmaster6
United States5937 Posts
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Myrkskog
Canada481 Posts
Number of narrow-minded American gold medals in Speed skating? 29 Number of Dutch gold medals in swimming? 19 Number of narrow-minded American gold medals in swimming? 230 | ||
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lamprey1
Canada919 Posts
On February 22 2014 14:50 Myrkskog wrote: Number of Dutch gold medals in Speed skating? 33 Number of narrow-minded American gold medals in Speed skating? 29 Number of Dutch gold medals in swimming? 19 Number of narrow-minded American gold medals in swimming? 230 amount of money several US athletes are suing the NFL owners due to brain damage? its on the scale of about $1 billion dollars. you can amputate a man's legs and you still have a human being. take away a man's ability to reason, think, and focus and you no longer have a human being. here is a cautionary tale: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/almost-10-years-later-steve-moore-now-helping-003445795--nhl.html | ||
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Scarecrow
Korea (South)9172 Posts
![[image loading]](http://sccdn.chosun.com/news/html/2014/02/22/2014022201002324200157871.jpg) lol | ||
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Sermokala
United States14073 Posts
I really liked watching the biathlon events this Olympics. That and watching kalla win the relay marathon in the sprint. | ||
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GwSC
United States1997 Posts
On February 22 2014 13:09 Slaughter wrote: http://espn.go.com/olympics/winter/2014/speedskating/story/_/id/10498174/2014-sochi-olympics-dutch-coach-jillert-anema-says-us-focus-more-speedskating-not-football Dutch speed skating team coach talking some smack lol. Even trashes American Football. LOL oh man the comments are killing me. People so ass-mad. I kind of agree with what he is saying (though not necessarily about speed skating). I wish we had more focus on and more of the top athletes going towards more global sports instead of the NFL and NBA. Global competition is so much more fun than "National Championships". | ||
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PaleMan
Russian Federation1953 Posts
On February 22 2014 14:18 Shinokuki wrote: do any russians like victor ahn? I'm happy for him as he left the shitty infrastrucurea nd shitty coach in korea. I'm korean btw. How is viktor viewed there? even after his bronze medal Victor become superpopular, now all love him like he is mother Russia native child ppl saying they will put their kids in short track sport sections because of Vitya (tender verstion of Victor) etc | ||
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DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
On February 22 2014 16:23 GwSC wrote: LOL oh man the comments are killing me. People so ass-mad. I kind of agree with what he is saying (though not necessarily about speed skating). I wish we had more focus on and more of the top athletes going towards more global sports instead of the NFL and NBA. Global competition is so much more fun than "National Championships". I'd think there's enough athletes to go around really. I'm sure tons of the rest of the world bests athletes focus on football/soccer and whatever else they play as well. Although I suppose it's a tad different because the rest of the world presumably has more interest in global/Olympic events considering, outside of the Olympics, America has essentially zero popular interest. Anyway that coaches argument is just dumb for the most part. That's like saying maybe the dutch should stop playing soccer so Michael Phelps won't single handedly win more gold medals in the summer olympics than their entire nation. | ||
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fLyiNgDroNe
Belgium4033 Posts
On February 22 2014 17:18 PaleMan wrote: even after his bronze medal Victor become superpopular, now all love him like he is mother Russia native child ppl saying they will put their kids in short track sport sections because of Vitya (tender verstion of Victor) etc I think there is no illusions, people understand and appreciate Ahn being a Korean, but be sure those who love sports and envy heroes - they are thankful to Ahn for his decision to work in Russia with the team and under same roof. He's a hero and partly the country's asset, so expect much more from him as an athlete and coach too! | ||
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fLyiNgDroNe
Belgium4033 Posts
On February 22 2014 15:37 Scarecrow wrote: lol http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/02/20/sports/olympics/womens-figure-skating.html?smid=fb-share&_r=4 | ||
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semantics
10040 Posts
On February 22 2014 17:32 DannyJ wrote: I'd think there's enough athletes to go around really. I'm sure tons of the rest of the world bests athletes focus on football/soccer and whatever else they play as well. Although I suppose it's a tad different because the rest of the world presumably has more interest in global/Olympic events considering, outside of the Olympics, America has essentially zero popular interest. Anyway that coaches argument is just dumb for the most part. That's like saying maybe the dutch should stop playing soccer so Michael Phelps won't single handedly win more gold medals in the summer olympics than their entire nation. We all know the winter olympics are there to help the northern european states feel sporty anyways  | ||
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Blix
Netherlands873 Posts
On February 22 2014 17:32 DannyJ wrote: I'd think there's enough athletes to go around really. I'm sure tons of the rest of the world bests athletes focus on football/soccer and whatever else they play as well. Although I suppose it's a tad different because the rest of the world presumably has more interest in global/Olympic events considering, outside of the Olympics, America has essentially zero popular interest. Anyway that coaches argument is just dumb for the most part. That's like saying maybe the dutch should stop playing soccer so Michael Phelps won't single handedly win more gold medals in the summer olympics than their entire nation. The main point is that you can't expect to be a top competitor in a sport, if you don't care about it (outside olympics), don't invest in it, and don't have a serious competition locally/nationally - and shouldnt blame bad results on the quality of a suit. Conversely, the us is quite good at sports that they do care about, such as football and basketball ;-). The way he worded it might be a bit erm controversial ig guess... | ||
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AlternativeEgo
Sweden17309 Posts
Edit: Hey they don't even change their skis! WADA test skis please. | ||
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AsnSensation
Germany24009 Posts
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