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Winter Games Day -11

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joggerjayne | 07:00 Mon 27th Jan 2014 | Sport
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Another week begins, and we are a day closer to the this year's biggest sporting spectacle, the Winter Olympics.

okay, so ...

CURLING

The sport which gave us of the most dramatic and unforgettable moments in British sporting history ... EVER!

Salt Lake City, 2002

Team Captain Rhona Martin has one stone left with which to win the Olympic Gold. And ...

Well, we all know what happened. I've just YouTubed it, and now I'm all tearful. Cripes, it just seems like yesterday. The single greatest, most dramatic, stone in the history of Curling.

Anyway, I'll post the clip below, because it's worth watching again. Watch Rhona in the small window. Before the stone hit it's target, she KNEW she'd done it.

You have to love the guy in the kilt, among the spectators.

The victory was so good, you can even forgive the team for holding the Union Flag upside down for the photo shoot.

Oh, hey, and note whose victory in the Heats put Team GB through to the final stages. Switzerland! You see, I told you the Swiss are lovely people.

So, I will also post our teams for 2014. Rhona Martin thinks we have a good chance of a medal. And Rhona is someone who would know!
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The Swiss do make a lovely chocolate. :-)

6 nations and the Winter Olympics, yay!!

where's the link though, please JJ? x
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Impossible to watch this without getting tearful ...

Thanks for that JJ twas a wonderful moment...
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It was a real "leaping around the room" moment.

And so great that it was Rhona herself who snatched the victory with "that" stone.
I really hope Team GB can do it!!
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There are lots of things that the Swiss do well, alba!

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running trains on time
making watches
meant to also say, thank you for the link!

Sweet memories :-)
Great moment indeed, but hard to believe it was 12 years ago now. Time flies.
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I know, twelve years ago!

:0o
interesting ski sunday - watching Amy Williams enthuse about hurtling head-first down an icy track at 70mph on little more than a tea tray.....

and that unconventional course on the hahnenkamm with the narrow traverse, where even the top guys were having to flick in a quick turn half way down.... scary stuff!
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There are some very scary events in the Winter Games.

The Downhill, the Bobsleigh, the Luge, the Skeleton, Ski Jumping.

As well as being supremely talented sportsmen, those guys are incredibly brave, and must have nerves of steel.

Compare and contrast with professional footballers (10 marks)
I was lucky enough to do the "Verte" world cup piste at Les Houches a few years ago. The final jump and descent is truly terrifying - I only managed one turn before snowballing most of the way down, but the top guys don't even bother turning.
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La Verte ... over 3km long, and the top skiers do it in two minutes.

Until you've skied down a World Cup piste, you never appreciate how steep some of the sections are, or how scary they look from the top. The telly gives you no idea.
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Quick reminder of the Team GB athletes mentioned on AB so far, and the threads on which they were mentioned ...

Downhill ... Chemmy Alcott (Day -18)
Slopestyle ... James Woods (Day -17)
Slopestyle ... Katie Summerhayes (Day -17)
Half Pipe ... James Machon (Day -16)
Biathlon ... Lee Jackson (Day -15)
Biathlon ... Amanda Lightfoot (Day -15)
Figure Skating ... Jenna McCorkell (Day -14)
Ice Dance ... Nick Buckland (Day -14)
Ice Dance ... Penny Coomes (Day -14)
Figure Skating Pairs ... David King (Day -14)
Figure Skating Pairs ... Stacey Kemp (Day -14)
Figure Skating ... Matthew Parr (Day -14)
Cross Country Skiing ... Andrew Musgrave (Day -13)
Cross Country Skiing ... Andrew Young (Day -13)
Cross Country Skiing ... Callum Smith (Day -13)
Cross Country Skiing ... Posy Cross Country Skiing (Day -13)
Curling ... Eve Muirhead (Day -11)
Curling ... Claire Hamilton (Day -11)
Curling ... Vicki Adams (Day -11)
Curling ... Anna Sloan (Day -11)
Curling ... Lauren Gray (Day -11)
Curling ... David Murdoch (Day -11)
Curling ... Tom Brewster (Day -11)
Curling ... Greg Drummond (Day -11)
Curling ... Scott Andrews (Day -11)
Curling ... Michael Goodfellow (Day -11)
quite liking jenny jones in the snowboarding......
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69820000/png/_69820488_jones1.png
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Hey, mushers, that was a well timed appearance by you, because ...

... here is today's "One For The Boys" ...

And it's Lindsey Vonn.

Lindsey is the reigning Olympic Downhill champion. She won Gold in Vancouver. She is Team US's top skier, and also their marquee big name attraction.

But ... she's had to pull out of Sochi, because of a knee injury. Which has left Team US in a bit of a flap. Okay, a LOT of a flap!

However, you can't do "One For The Boys" without Lindsey Vonn. So here she is ...

http://media.vogue.com/files/filecheck/2013/07/17/img-lindsayvonn2_140214574070.jpg_article_singleimage.jpg

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130205094443-01-lindsey-vonn-horizontal-gallery.jpg

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/wennpic/lindsey-vonn-2011-espy-awards-press-room-04.jpg

http://static.foxsports.com/content/fscom/img/2013/03/13/Lindsey-Vonn_20130313124440584_660_320.JPG

http://media.247sports.com/Uploads/Boards/527/19527/310317.jpg

And THIS is why Lindsey has withdrawn from the US Team for Sochi ...

http://cdn.newsoxy.com/2013/02/lindsey-vonn-leg-photo.jpg

Ouch !!!!!
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One For The Girls ...

The US Men's ski team is headed up by Bode Miller, who already has five Olympic medals. He's a bit of a skiing legend. And he lives a bit of a wild life, which is fun. And he's pretty hot ...

http://www.glamour.com/images/entertainment/2014/01/01-hot-olympic-athletes-bode-miller-main.jpg

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/.a/6a00d8341c630a53ef01310f8188c8970c-pi

http://i.usatoday.net/sports/gallery/2010/01/15/s100115_bode.jpg

Bode has five "minus" points ...

(1) He's called Bode!

(2) He's on the American team.

(3) These trousers ...

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/05/11/article-0-199F9F98000005DC-249_634x878.jpg

(4) Dating a girl who is taller than him (see photo above).

(5) He's called Bode !!!!!
Well worth watching again JJ Thanks.

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