Men's Downhill (and other events)
Feb. 16th, 2010 04:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99So I'm not exactly happy with who won the downhill. I don't mind Didier Defargo per se, my dislike is nothing personal. It just means that an Austrian didn't win it and a Swiss skier did. Which is of the not good. I can only hope that either the women do better than expected or the Austrians get something in the Super-G.
Of course, having watched that in the lab (partly personal choice due to obnoxiousness of housemates), I get home in time to see the Swiss win another gold medal in the 15 k cross-country.
It's not good ;)
Anyway, the moment that was over, I was unceremoniously removed from the TV so my housemate, and his girlfriend, can watch their DVDs of Damage. I go and cook, and then eat my dinner upstairs while watching the snowboard cross which is by far my favourite of the new events (she says new, knowing that it's been there for 15 years). It was probably just as well I was watching it alone, given that I'd have to explain why I was killing myself laughing every time the BBC commentator was trying to pronounce Mario Fuchs's surname. They pronounced it to rhyme with Cuche, I think to avoid an unfortunate homophone that doesn't actually occur if you pronounce it properly.
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The man writing for the Times on the Winter Olympics is a fool who knows nothing. Apparently Didier Defargo was a skier of no note before this. The man has won at Wengen and Kitzbuehel, back to back. He is a known quantity and if I know that, why doesn't the man who is writing about him.
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However, the Times is temporarily forgiven, because they published this - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article7028242.ece
John Amechi writing much sense.
Of course, having watched that in the lab (partly personal choice due to obnoxiousness of housemates), I get home in time to see the Swiss win another gold medal in the 15 k cross-country.
It's not good ;)
Anyway, the moment that was over, I was unceremoniously removed from the TV so my housemate, and his girlfriend, can watch their DVDs of Damage. I go and cook, and then eat my dinner upstairs while watching the snowboard cross which is by far my favourite of the new events (she says new, knowing that it's been there for 15 years). It was probably just as well I was watching it alone, given that I'd have to explain why I was killing myself laughing every time the BBC commentator was trying to pronounce Mario Fuchs's surname. They pronounced it to rhyme with Cuche, I think to avoid an unfortunate homophone that doesn't actually occur if you pronounce it properly.
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The man writing for the Times on the Winter Olympics is a fool who knows nothing. Apparently Didier Defargo was a skier of no note before this. The man has won at Wengen and Kitzbuehel, back to back. He is a known quantity and if I know that, why doesn't the man who is writing about him.
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However, the Times is temporarily forgiven, because they published this - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article7028242.ece
John Amechi writing much sense.
