Cornellians in the Olympics, Winter 2014

Several Cornellian hockey players will compete in the Olympics this year, as has been noted in the hockey forum. Today the US bobsled and luge team was announced, including pilot Jamie Greubel '06. Chris Langton '07, featured with Jamie in the December "Ezra", did not make the team, though his older brother Steve is back.

Greubel has claimed five World Cup medals, including today’s win, and currently leads the U.S. women in points as the second ranked driver in the world.

Anyone else in other sports?

I was watching the replay of the US-Canada Women's match last evening and I found myself rooting for Canada because of our four players.

I guess I know where my allegiances lie.

Jeff Hopkins '82
I guess I know where my allegiances lie.

The best thing about the World Cup is it's fun to root for the US. In pretty much everything else that's the equivalent of rooting for Exxon.

There is no sweeter feeling than when the US men's basketball team loses.

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82
I guess I know where my allegiances lie.

The best thing about the World Cup is it's fun to root for the US. In pretty much everything else that's the equivalent of rooting for Exxon.

There is no sweeter feeling than when the US men's basketball team loses.

I disagree outside of the main sports, basketball, top few track and field athletes, etc many of the US athletes have to live very modestly to get to the olympics because they dont have much time to work and there is no government funding unlike other countries

phillysportsfan

Trotsky

Jeff Hopkins '82
I guess I know where my allegiances lie.

The best thing about the World Cup is it's fun to root for the US. In pretty much everything else that's the equivalent of rooting for Exxon.

There is no sweeter feeling than when the US men's basketball team loses.

I disagree outside of the main sports, basketball, top few track and field athletes, etc many of the US athletes have to live very modestly to get to the olympics because they dont have much time to work and there is no government funding unlike other countries

There's jingoism and then there's the completely natural feeling of being a part of something. I have my issues with the way we collectively run this country but unless there is a particular athlete or storyline pulling me in another direction, I root for the US teams even if we're playing someone we should beat handily.

ugarte
and then there's the completely natural feeling of being a part of something

Part of it is rooting for the underdog -- we are never the underdog -- we have hundred million dollar facilities and we're competing against countries that spend money on, oh I dunno, lowering infant mortality. Part of it is the hatred that network TV engenders. Anything that ruins Bob Costs' jingoistic day benefits humanity.

In about 20 years we'll be 70's Great Britain and I'll root for us again. At the moment we're the British Empire and any time we lose, in anything, I smile.

Trotsky

ugarte
and then there's the completely natural feeling of being a part of something

Part of it is rooting for the underdog -- we are never the underdog -- we have hundred million dollar facilities and we're competing against countries that spend money on, oh I dunno, lowering infant mortality. Part of it is the hatred that network TV engenders. Anything that ruins Bob Costs' jingoistic day benefits humanity.

In about 20 years we'll be 70's Great Britain and I'll root for us again. At the moment we're the British Empire and any time we lose, in anything, I smile.

Really? Bob Costas is the personification of your dislike for the current state of our society? And you call yourself a baseball fan?

KeithK

Trotsky

ugarte
and then there's the completely natural feeling of being a part of something

Part of it is rooting for the underdog -- we are never the underdog -- we have hundred million dollar facilities and we're competing against countries that spend money on, oh I dunno, lowering infant mortality. Part of it is the hatred that network TV engenders. Anything that ruins Bob Costs' jingoistic day benefits humanity.

In about 20 years we'll be 70's Great Britain and I'll root for us again. At the moment we're the British Empire and any time we lose, in anything, I smile.

Really? Bob Costas is the personification of your dislike for the current state of our society? And you call yourself a baseball fan?

Yeah, Costas I don't get. If he had said Brian Kilmeade, well, that I would understand.

Part of the fun of the Winter Olympics, however, is rooting for the US athletes who compete in sports in which we are underdogs, like biathlon, cross-country skiing, curling, luge, and ski jumping, or relative underdogs, like alpine, bobsled, and short-track speed skating; indeed, we are at least relative underdogs in most non-television-contrived (i.e., freestyle "skiing"; snowboarding) winter sports. (Vide some crowd-edited thing.)

And then there's nordic combined, the finest, most exciting discipline at the games, in which the US is suddenly competitive. What a great story, and partially an upstate New York one at that!

(Yes, I got into it all the way back in 2006, before the medals.)

My real ire regarding the Olympics, Winter and Summer, is reserved for NBC, which finds a way, with few exceptions, to ignore relatively or completely every sport in which US athletes are not super, duper dominant, including most of those I mentioned above.

Scersk '97
Part of the fun of the Winter Olympics, however, is rooting for the US athletes who compete in sports in which we are underdogs, like biathlon, cross-country skiing, curling, luge, and ski jumping, or relative underdogs, like alpine, bobsled, and short-track speed skating; indeed, we are at least relative underdogs in most non-television-contrived (i.e., freestyle "skiing"; snowboarding) winter sports. (Vide some crowd-edited thing.)

And then there's nordic combined, the finest, most exciting discipline at the games, in which the US is suddenly competitive. What a great story, and partially an upstate New York one at that!

(Yes, I got into it all the way back in 2006, before the medals.)

My real ire regarding the Olympics, Winter and Summer, is reserved for NBC, which finds a way, with few exceptions, to ignore relatively or completely every sport in which US athletes are not super, duper dominant, including most of those I mentioned above.

IIRC, NBC actually does a pretty good job with curling coverage. I think they turn CNBC into "the curling network". Which reminds me, I'll need to clear out some space on that DVR thingy.

And if you come across these dudes while channel surfing during the olympics, you have found the curling station (or lost footage featuring Project Runaway's runner-ups).

Scersk '97
Part of the fun of the Winter Olympics, however, is rooting for the US athletes who compete in sports in which we are underdogs, like biathlon, cross-country skiing, curling, luge, and ski jumping, or relative underdogs, like alpine, bobsled, and short-track speed skating;

Agree, except for the last one -- I thought we dominated that. Wasn't that what that Ohno jerk was in?

Rita
IIRC, NBC actually does a pretty good job with curling coverage. I think they turn CNBC into "the curling network". Which reminds me, I'll need to clear out some space on that DVR thingy.

And if you come across these dudes while channel surfing during the olympics, you have found the curling station (or lost footage featuring Project Runaway's runner-ups).

Yes all that coverage keeps curling clubs in the US afloat, we have gotten over 1000 people show up at open houses during the Olympics in the past

[www.curldc.org]

If anyone lives in the Baltimore/DC area there is a curling club in Laurel, MD. We are having 2 open houses during the Olympics: February 8, 2014 9:00am – 3:00pm and February 16, 2014 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Rita
IIRC, NBC actually does a pretty good job with curling coverage. I think they turn CNBC into "the curling network". Which reminds me, I'll need to clear out some space on that DVR thingy.

And if you come across these dudes while channel surfing during the olympics, you have found the curling station (or lost footage featuring Project Runaway's runner-ups).

There's always the undercurrent of the viewers thinking, "Curling is a sport? It's like bowling with a flat ball."

With 500 channels, there ought to to be room for a couple views of the Olympics beyond the main channel covering USA-centric sports preceded by the up close and personal stories. Did every athlete lose a father at an early age, or have a special needs sibling?

billhoward

Rita
IIRC, NBC actually does a pretty good job with curling coverage. I think they turn CNBC into "the curling network". Which reminds me, I'll need to clear out some space on that DVR thingy.

And if you come across these dudes while channel surfing during the olympics, you have found the curling station (or lost footage featuring Project Runaway's runner-ups).

There's always the undercurrent of the viewers thinking, "Curling is a sport? It's like bowling with a flat ball."

With 500 channels, there ought to to be room for a couple views of the Olympics beyond the main channel covering USA-centric sports preceded by the up close and personal stories. Did every athlete lose a father at an early age, or have a special needs sibling?

After you sweep rocks for a full game you'll think it is a sport or at least good exercise

billhoward
With 500 channels, there ought to to be room for a couple views of the Olympics beyond the main channel covering USA-centric sports preceded by the up close and personal stories. Did every athlete lose a father at an early age, or have a special needs sibling?

The rule of television is: whenever there is single piano, change the channel immediately. It's the international signal for "Weepy, Ham-fisted Manipulation Ahead."

It helps whenever they run their human interest stories to imagine the skater's mother was secretly a child murderer and richly deserved it.

Trotsky

billhoward
With 500 channels, there ought to to be room for a couple views of the Olympics beyond the main channel covering USA-centric sports preceded by the up close and personal stories. Did every athlete lose a father at an early age, or have a special needs sibling?

The rule of television is: whenever there is single piano, change the channel immediately. It's the international signal for "Weepy, Ham-fisted Manipulation Ahead."

It helps whenever they run their human interest stories to imagine the skater's mother was secretly a child murderer and richly deserved it.

Unless the skater was a poor African-American growing up in the ghetto. Then you'd be a racist.

phillysportsfan

Rita
IIRC, NBC actually does a pretty good job with curling coverage. I think they turn CNBC into "the curling network". Which reminds me, I'll need to clear out some space on that DVR thingy.

And if you come across these dudes while channel surfing during the olympics, you have found the curling station (or lost footage featuring Project Runaway's runner-ups).

Yes all that coverage keeps curling clubs in the US afloat, we have gotten over 1000 people show up at open houses during the Olympics in the past

[www.curldc.org]

If anyone lives in the Baltimore/DC area there is a curling club in Laurel, MD. We are having 2 open houses during the Olympics: February 8, 2014 9:00am – 3:00pm and February 16, 2014 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

More publicity for curling and your club via NPR. Let us know if "phillysportsfan" is one of the people pictured .

Chris Langton '12 Named Replacement Athlete For US Bobsled Team

After two of four runs, USA-2 piloted by Jamie Greubel sits third, 0.56 seconds behind USA-1 (and 0.33 behind CAN-1 in second). Heats three and four tomorrow, scheduled for 11:15 am and 12:25 pm EST respectively. Today's coverage led off the NBC prime time telecast.

both us teams had rough 3rd and 4th runs but hold on for silver bronze

Be thankful it was Cornell women representing Team Canada hockey, not Cornell men representing Team USA. Ouch. Finland 5, USA 0 for the bronze medal.

billhoward
not Cornell men representing Team USA. Ouch. Finland 5, USA 0 for the bronze medal.

Well obviously if Cornell men had been on the team, the US would have won gold.

Trotsky

billhoward
not Cornell men representing Team USA. Ouch. Finland 5, USA 0 for the bronze medal.

Well obviously if Cornell men had been on the team, the US would have won gold.

Patrick Kane certainly did a good impression of a male Cornell hockey player. Ouch. Two missed penalty shots. In one game.

Rita

Patrick Kane certainly did a good impression of a male Cornell hockey player. Ouch. Two missed penalty shots. In one game.

That must be why the staff rarely recruits Buffalo.

ithacat

Rita

Patrick Kane certainly did a good impression of a male Cornell hockey player. Ouch. Two missed penalty shots. In one game.

That must be why the staff rarely recruits Buffalo.

Or just that: Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

Roy 82

ithacat

Rita

Patrick Kane certainly did a good impression of a male Cornell hockey player. Ouch. Two missed penalty shots. In one game.

That must be why the staff rarely recruits Buffalo.

Or just that: Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

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I'm pretty sure that's the longest you can go with it still being a grammatically correct sentence.

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