jeudi, février 16, 2006
Or!
Hurrah for gold medals!
In the literally five minutes I had the TV on yesterday, I managed to catch Australia winning a gold medal in the moguls! I wasn't even sure they had won it until checking the internet this morning, because they didn't show the medal ceremony, or dwell too much on it, so I thought it might have been a preliminary thing. But certainly good timing!
And checking the medal tally, Sweden has two golds already and a bronze, for cross country and alpine skiing, though I haven't seen any of these being won.
France has just the one gold so far, and that win I have seen many, many times, in replay after replay after replay. At least it isn't a curling win they have to replay.
The Olympics coverage here is disappointing. I was really looking forward to being in the right timezone for a change, but France is really not such a sports interested country, unfortunately. Some nights they have only a 30 minute round-up, others a couple of hours, but mostly they show it during the day, but even then, only for a couple of hours here and there, and it doesn't help me in any case!
Also makes me very itchy to find myself a mountain covered in cold, white stuff... Though I don't think it will be happening this winter, alas.
In the literally five minutes I had the TV on yesterday, I managed to catch Australia winning a gold medal in the moguls! I wasn't even sure they had won it until checking the internet this morning, because they didn't show the medal ceremony, or dwell too much on it, so I thought it might have been a preliminary thing. But certainly good timing!
And checking the medal tally, Sweden has two golds already and a bronze, for cross country and alpine skiing, though I haven't seen any of these being won.
France has just the one gold so far, and that win I have seen many, many times, in replay after replay after replay. At least it isn't a curling win they have to replay.
The Olympics coverage here is disappointing. I was really looking forward to being in the right timezone for a change, but France is really not such a sports interested country, unfortunately. Some nights they have only a 30 minute round-up, others a couple of hours, but mostly they show it during the day, but even then, only for a couple of hours here and there, and it doesn't help me in any case!
Also makes me very itchy to find myself a mountain covered in cold, white stuff... Though I don't think it will be happening this winter, alas.
# posted by Jenny @ 09:52 
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the curling is one of my fave winter spectator "sports". and that other thing, where they madly cross-country-ski for many kms only to reach points where they throw themselves down on their stomachs and start shooting at targets with a rifle that they have lugged on their backs the whole time! thrilling stuff.
but alas, as expected, TV coverage here is poor also.
ywah, we love our gold medal, and will claim it as 'our', even though he only became a citizen last tuesday and doesn't actually live here...
but alas, as expected, TV coverage here is poor also.
ywah, we love our gold medal, and will claim it as 'our', even though he only became a citizen last tuesday and doesn't actually live here...
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: 21:36
yeah, I think our moguls Gold fits well with the Bradbury Gold, that is to say technically we won it, but we can't really claim it.
good to see a new Post Jen, I was beginning to think you had fallen down a poorly marked Parisian well.
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good to see a new Post Jen, I was beginning to think you had fallen down a poorly marked Parisian well.
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