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>Jo, curling may be a lot of things, but exciting? Well it is quite simple - check out the medals table - any of the sports which gave us a gold medal are exciting all those which did not are less exciting - how many gold medals did New Zealand collect so far  ? Fully agree on the tea-tray - weird sport! Anyway, honest it may have been the late-night-jet-lagged-alcohol-inspired-stupor but it was exciting! You know we've just gone round inventing all these sports and international competitions over the years so that other countries can beat us. At least we managed to win once at one of the sports we invented (one day we'll win Wimbledon or the Rugby World Cup or The British Open ...drifts off muttering) - I'm going to make the most of it before we get thrashed in the Commonweath Games in Manchester in a couple of months, then we'll be back to watching the Kenyans zip past us as usual.  PS I'm gobsmacked! Won't trouble y'all with another post but I've just seen that Alain Baxter won our first ever medal in an alpine skiing event - the bronze in the slalom - now ... weren't we supposed to have invented the sport of downhill skiing .. or was it just the package ski holiday ... whatever - it is quite amazing ... http://www.olympics.com/x/f/frame.htm?u=http%3A//www.olympics.com/ats/as/as_history_origin.html&s=sloc
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Congratulations on Baxter's winning bronze in men's skiing! That was a shocker, I'm betting  .
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Oh no!  Ohno disqualified and the Korean champ did not advance in the 500, either.
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Hi bel! Hi Bean! We'll see ya on the ice on Sunday! 2:30 sharp! W'ON, I don't know what time zone you're in, b'y, but that would be 4:30 sharp in Newfoundland, or 1:00 sharp in Salt Lake City. But I don't think there's ANY time zone where the game starts at 2:30!  Good luck b'ys! To both teams!
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how many gold medals did New Zealand collect so far ? New Zealand just doesn't have the people participating to be able to foot it with anyone in winter sports. I think our best chance was at the last Winter Olympics when Annaliese Coburger got into one of the downhill skiing finals. My memories of curling on the Naseby and Ida Dams are from a long, long time ago, and it allus seemed to be very old men wearing tam o'shanters (sp?), woollen trousers and hob-nailed boots staggering and slithering around the ice after the stones with whisky bottle in one hand, broom in the other, completely bladdered. Personally, I've reduced that to its lowest common denominator. I just get bladdered, and that's a sport for all year round.
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Well, in addition to Saints-In-Waiting Steven Bradbury and Alisa Camplin (to strains of the Olynpic Fanfare), my nextest favourite is the US gal that won the skeleton.
She appeared as a special guest on The Ice Dream which, as Hev has mentioned, is a huge rating show here.
I'm entranced - great sense of (impish) humour, a ready smile and, above all, not on "the star trip".
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I really am trying hard not to be a Pooh Bah! I'd rather be a Yum Yum!
However many, Jo, you will always be be a Pritty Sing too.
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Ohhh W'ON, (hee,hee,hee,hee) We WON!!! 
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>We WON!!! May I be the first to congratulate you - well done!
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