Winter Olympics 2006

by **Senta** » Sun 26 Feb 2006 13:58

I have a vacation here

Marcos father came to our place on thursday and on friday Marco took Taru and Sointu with him and they drove to Lappland to visit his fathers place

Yesterday they were looking reindeer and today they visited in Kemi where is a castle made of ice. They saw more reindeer and were on a reindeer-ride with sledge

Marco has vacation next week and they are coming back home on tuesday evening. I have been watching olympics whole weekend. I have to take back my words that I'm not interested :oops:

Now, when I have time and opportunity... I'm enjoying very much :!:

Go, Finland Go !!!!
I'm watching ice hockey Fin-Swe

by **David** » Mon 27 Feb 2006 05:11

thats good to know Senta

finally you turned into the 'good side'. its unfortunately that you started to watch it so late.

too bad Suomi lost against sweden

they were doing so well..but unfortunate mistake (broken stick thing) caused them 2nd place.

closing ceremony was so cool today. a bit boring at few moments but still cool to watch. i loved those flying people most, and the guys with flames on the heads

by **Senta** » Mon 27 Feb 2006 17:37

David wrote:thats good to know Senta finally you turned into the 'good side'. its unfortunately that you started to watch it so late.

Yeah

It was only matter of free time :lol:

I'm happy even if I did see only few days olympics

That was very exciting indeed!

You win if you get the bronze, but lose if you get the silver medal

Anyway, Finnish team played great games and lost only one game :evil:

In Helsinki here were thousands of people waiting for finnish team to come to a celebration party (party was outside btw.), it didn't matter if the medal was not gold.
Really, think about this... Here was -10 Celcius. FREEZING. Party started at 9pm. and team came here 3 am. Plane was 2 hours late and people were still waiting for them!!!! That is finnish SISU (guts :lol:

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by **Ante** » Mon 27 Feb 2006 19:01

Funny thing. Yesterday I was on my Sunday walk (it's like regular walking, but only on Sunday). I had no idea that Finland is in finals against Sweden, our dear enemy. So I was walking in downtown, wanted to adore the sea and sun and headed to the harbour and Kauppatori. I was supriced to see thousands of people watching the match on big screen and cheering. The PA was set very loud. The only people who were like "what the hell is going on" were the tourists. Othervice the city was deserted and it was not thanks the weather. During the day and the match it was close to zero and it didn't blow. Later I went to fast food joint to eat hamburger and yes, I could hear the match from the radio there. After that I went to shop some console games and the same channel was on there too, plus the TV's (about 10) were set to show the match and people were gathered to see how Finland was BEATEN BY SWEDEN - AGAIN!

I hate sports when we lose :)

by **gail** » Mon 27 Feb 2006 23:27

What a beautiful place to walk!

It's great that the Finnish people support their teams, even if they do lose sometimes.

by **Sunich** » Wed 1 Mar 2006 20:02

Pifou wrote:

Hey guys... --> it's a Girl !!!
(Miss Shaun White USA, half-pipe finalist)

Half pipe rules! i didn't really cared for this winter olympics... but that half-pipe made me interested for a while...

by **gail** » Wed 1 Mar 2006 23:51

I love watching that sport, Sunich and also the free style skiing.

by **David** » Thu 2 Mar 2006 04:58

yes half pipes is fun!!! those things they make there! mogulas, and freestile skiing is nice too

but still, nothing beats superg or downhill skiing

the speeds of over 120km/h

pure beauty!

by **Sunich** » Thu 2 Mar 2006 19:21

Tastes differ. How true.

by **Senta** » Sat 11 Mar 2006 10:03

Paraolympics started!!
I watched the opening seremony last night

I saw the speeches and then I felt myself so tired, I went to sleep.

Wish good luck to all those athletes there

by **David** » Sun 12 Mar 2006 01:16

oh nice, thanks for reminding me senta. i wll see if they show it on tv.

by **Vivie** » Sun 12 Mar 2006 08:00

Paralympics...

They're from disabled athletes, with the biggest source of energy and strength!

by **Pifou** » Sun 12 Mar 2006 15:19

Yes, congrats to all these courageous sportswomen & sportsmen...

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Pif

by **Sunich** » Tue 14 Mar 2006 14:19

I watched biathlon with blind sportsmen... they're following their trainer, shoot listening to some beeps... i simply can't figure out how the heck they do that. True sportsmen.
I can hardly walk more then several metres with my eyes closed...

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