Tim Ellsworth

15 Responses to “Winter Olympics over; US second in medals”

1. Gordon Cloud says:
   February 27th, 2006 at 7:53 am
   

   Thanks, Bode Miller, for the medals (or lack thereof).

   Thanks, Emily Hughes, for being the bright spot.

2. Jeremy Jones says:
   February 27th, 2006 at 8:08 am
   

   Thanks, Gordon Cloud, for offending the entire Miller family and all of Bode’s partying buddies. If you have a problem with Bode’s Olympic performance, you should go to him in private. Just like I am doing right now with you.

   Please nobody read the preceding paragraph except for Gordon Cloud.

   Thanks, Pete Fenson, for inspiring me to take up curling.

   Thanks, Cassie Johnson, for inspiring me to watch curling.

   Thanks, Volkswagen, for helping me make friends with my fast. (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4121830683814062245&q=vw+fast)

3. Bob says:
   February 27th, 2006 at 8:15 am
   

   ?????

4. Jeremy Jones says:
   February 27th, 2006 at 8:24 am
   

   Oh, sorry Bob, my favorite moment was when the Flying Tomato took gold on the half-pipe. He knows his game.

5. Bob says:
   February 27th, 2006 at 8:47 am
   

   OK Jeremy.

   I think for me, it was Emily Hughes’ short program.
   The smile on her face said it all.

6. Jeremy Jones says:
   February 27th, 2006 at 8:54 am
   

   I also loved the VW fast commercials. Here is an example: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4121830683814062245&q=vw+fast

7. Joel Maners says:
   February 27th, 2006 at 8:56 am
   

   I got to agree with Jeremy (Jermy?) about Shaun White. He’s clearly the star of the American Olympic team.

   The thing I don’t understand is this whole obsession with the medal count. Who cares! Sure I want to see the Americans do well, but in the end I want to see great athletes perform. I really don’t care about the chest thumping as to who won the most medals. To me, it trivializes all of the events and athletes. These are athletes competing, not countries.

8. Tony Foeller says:
   February 27th, 2006 at 8:57 am
   

   My favorite part of watching the Olympics was flipping over to the NFL channel in between commercials on NBC to watch the combine. Man, I love that stuff.

9. Gordon Cloud says:
   February 27th, 2006 at 9:27 am
   

   Jeremy, thank you for your Christian rebuke. Next time I see Bode I will talk with him privately about the pitfalls of “doing it my way.”

10. Jeremy Jones says:
    February 27th, 2006 at 9:42 am
    

    Bless you.

11. Cameron Cloud says:
    February 27th, 2006 at 11:53 am
    

    For me the bright spot was last night, when the torch went out, and I knew that I won’t have to watch any more figure skating for four more years.

12. Jeremy Jones says:
    February 27th, 2006 at 11:57 am
    

    “For me the bright spot was last night, when the torch went out…”

    So, the dark spot was when they lit the torch?

13. Mark S says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
    

    Speaking of the torch. Did any of you watch the closing ceremonies. The five minutes I saw looked like a glorified - no, not even glorified, high school football half-time show. They were singing YMCA and doing the hand motions. Some were dressed up like clowns. I thought, “Well, maybe it’s an Italian thing.” Then I changed the channel.

14. Tim says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
    

    You’re not the only one, Mark. I read somewhere that the ratings were terrible. I watched very little of it myself.

15. David B says:
    February 28th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
    

    The Olympics are over??????