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well, we can't help the fact that you can't read :)))))

The last boxing match in which I displayed any type of interest was watcihng Errol Flynn in the movie Gentleman Jim.

Sylvia IC you Canadian's do compute Boxing Day, don't you. I won't ask Janey, she has a comprehension problem.

By the way daftness returns.

Australian women's bobsled team. Are you up on the story.

We are hoping both Australia and Ireland are able to compete.

But then we don't matter in all this!!

Hmmm! LOL Australian bobsled team.........

is that like Eddie the Eagle,Skiing in the Sahara?

LOL

Bob
still as long as they dont go REALLY daft like Heading the shot and catching the Javelin, they should be ok.......

AuntyS


yes, we do Boxing Day :))


One of our TV stations reporting from Whistler yesterday said that Australia had the second-largest contingent up there, after Canada.


I don't know whether that means most of the Americans haven't yet arrived, or if there really are sooooooooooooooooooo many Australian competitors



Mind you ........................ Whistler is always populated by Aussies, especially in winter. They come over here, get jobs in the service sector, ski their little heads off, then return in following years and start working on the ski hills!



sylvia

Size of Aussie contingent. That is a really strange piece of information. I understood we were sending 38 bronzed Aussies to your shores. Did not think that 38 sounded like much of an invasion.

Perhaps my comprehension on the size of this undertaking is a little off.

A googling, I will go, a googling I will go, hey ho the merry o, a googling I will go!!

http://www.olympics.com.au/australian-team

I just know you are all a quiver with anticipation to know about our team. It is 38. Must say I have to wonder exactly how they managed to dig up that many people who have seen snow or know what to do in it, other than throw it.

Mt Kosciusko?

Such Olympic fever. You people must really believe.

Apparently Canada has never won gold on home turf. (Montreal, Calgary: zip.)

I'm boycotting, actually, because of the exclusion of women ski jumpers.

Imagine if they had a summer Olympics in Jamaica and decided that the marathon would be open to white runners only. Or if Australia were excluded from the bobsled competition because its bobsledders are the pits.

It's beyond me how the courts here could agree to a Canadian organization, VANOC or whatever it is, holding an event that plainly violates Canadian athletes' equality / non-discrimination rights.

$$$

I completely agree with you Janey


I think it is disgraceful that the courts could agree that not allowing women ski jumpers violated the Canaidan anti-discrimination law, but yet agree thatt VANOC had to bow to the rule of the IOC ............. which is still as much anti-women as it could be!

I also think it disgraceful that VANOC didn't insist on women ski jumpers being represented somehow, even as a demonstration sport.


'Course we all know that the IOC legislates the events that will be allowed in any Olympics, and sports come and go as backers can persuade the IOC.


Just a bunch of corrupt people, despite all the clean up that allegedly took place after Salt Lake City



I like to think of the athletes though, and hope that the majority of them, if not all, will be clean and honest in their events.



sylvia

I think the people/event that just typify doing it the right way, for me, were Shae-Lynn Bourne and her dance partner, what was it, two Olympics ago?

They finished their fine performance, they went into their final stance -- and they fell over. His fault I think it was, his support for her gave out. And she laughed. It's just the Canadian way. ;)

Drat, can't find any footage of it at youtube. It was Bourne and Kraatz, wasn't it?

That's right, in ice dance.


Then there was the Salt Lake City fiasco involving the pairs skaters, who ended up also being given the Gold medal and sharing it with the Russians, because a French woman judge had been bribed.


I thought Jamie Sale and partner (what was his name? David xxxxx) also handled that in the Canadian way ......... very dignified



s

Ah yes, I should have specified *ice* dance.

Like "ice hockey", as if there's some other kind. ;)

We've moved this scintillating conversation to the other thread haven't we??!!!

And well you might say, is there any other type of hockey than ice hockey.

We will say, "than field hockey."

I played field hockey at school :))



so around 30 athletes with Olympic hopes tried to cheat, have been caught out after drug testing by their own sports federations, and did not make it over here.

I played field hockey at school. I was forced to play sport so over the formative years I played hockey, basketball, softball, soccer, tennis, table tennis. badminton. About one game of each more or less. Was always the last to be picked for the team, was an expert in physical education evasion, and my three memorable moments on the sporting field were

(1) when I flung my softball bat over my shoulder and clonked the girl behind me right in the middle of the forehead, yes there was a lump

(2) when I fell heavily on my backside during a basketball match and hurt my tailbone so badly I couldn't sit down for a long time and

(3), when doing the hockey one hockey two bit at the start of a game I collected the opponents hockey stick fair across my shins.

After that I decided that I'd rather be intelligent than sporty and took to hiding in the library. I was into my dotage before I took up any type of physical exercise again!!

Yep, we had to play field hockey in winter, netball, tennis, track, javelin etc, table tennis if it was too wet (we had ONE table in the changing room) ... and once or twice cricket against the boys. Then there was one class in the gym every week.

At least we had a changing room AND hot showers ..................... except we were supposed to shower, dress and take away our gym clothes in about 3 minutes flat!

That went on into the 6th Form, but we got better and better at making excuses.

Finally came my last 2 terms at the school, age 19


..... the girls' gym teacher left suddenly, and the school didn't hire a new teacher

SO we prefects had to take gym class for the girls in the first 3 years (ages 11 to 14). We weren't allowed to take them into the gym, but we had to coach them in all those sports that we'd been skipping for years.

:)))


oh yes ................... I wasn't just a prefect.

I was Girls Vice-Captain :)))))))))

So you were one of the St Trinian's (Canadian version) leadership team. Hmmm I've heard all about you lot!!!

Do you know of the movies??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Trinian's_School#Films

AuntyS


I only live in Canada, been here since 1968, and have been a Canadian citizen since 1974

BUT


I was born in England.

Lancashire to be precise. Didn't leave until after we married in 1967.


so yes, I do know ST Trinians


and yes, there could be some comparisons :))))


I even had to wear a badge (a tie clip) that said "Girls Vice-Captain".

I had a male counterpart "Boys Vice-Captain", and we had to work together a lot of the time.


My dad nearly wet himself laughing when I came home from school and told him about my new "position".

I'd posted here about the death of the luger, but decided to remove it and open a new thread for that as this thread seemed too "light" for such bad news.

B***** H***


Google has changed the top of its page ............ the image is now of mountains, trees and the "l" of Google is an Olympic Flame


Only in Canada??????