Winter Olympics 2002

What a great surprise to see Alain Baxter on the podium of Alpine Skiing Olympics! Not really a traditional english sport, an historical Bronze Medal for Baxter but.... For the first 10 years of his career, he was ordinary ranked outside the top 50 scratching out a living on the World Cup circuit and in the sport's minor leagues. Last season Alain Baxter suddenly began to make some good impression and there were predictions he could land on the podium at the Winter Olympics. Alain Baxter's bronze medal triumph at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics has turned to a nightmare now. he was discovered guilty for taking ...  Read the complete review

I really enjoyed the Winter Olympics, and the highlights for me were definitely the figure skating events. It's not usually talked about much, probably due to the lack of British skaters, but with the scandal in the pairs event, it was propelled into the spotlight, even making it on to the news. It was great in a way, because skating will perhaps get more recognition now. But also I did feel very bad for the Canadian skaters. I was certain the gold medal was theirs, after their beautiful long program. I'm a fan of the Russians aswell, but Sale and Pelletier were definitely the winners. I was as shocked as everyone else when the results were announced, and I was ...  Read the complete review

Its over. The best Winter Olympics ever they are saying, I guess it is a success since the pothead snowtrash losers got to drink red bull and dance to AC/DC and Ozzy after watching the Americans win all the events that they managed to ban the Russians from. I just want to say this, if they want to check the red blood cell count of all the Russian skiers they ought to take a white blood cell count of all the North American "men's" skaters. That might be interesting. This was the worst Olympics ever. Of course the United States won a bunch of medals, like duh, if you keep on adding events someone is going to medal in them. But when as a nation we ...  Read the complete review

This may sound like a very negative opinion, but why do we need the Olympics? Many people argue it gives the chance for many countries to unite behind a single cause. But with much of the bad press about the Olympics for quite some years now. Isn't time we ditched it? It seems to have lost it's prestige with stories of drug taking and officials putting pressure on the Judges to fix results in another countries favour. Take for example when Alex Coomber was interviewed in the studio, she admitted that one of the officials had told her that she had won the only medal available to a Non American. What sort of spirit is this? Unfortunately, there ...  Read the complete review

Always feels somewhat muted when the timezones are so diff. to our own :o( - Advantages: We Got Some Medals - Disadvantages: Elitist!!! Well...we don't get enough snow to compete properly :oP~~