> The best part about speed skating was when Australia's Stephen Bradbury won the gold medal for being the only one who didn't fall down. That was great! The only reason he qualified for the medal round was he didn't fall down in the earlier race, despite being five laps behind everyone else. Technically, he should have finished twelfth. That guy was fanastic. Australia should make a statue of that guy.

I wonder if this will be the reason why people will tune in to short-track speed skating in future Olympics. I've already assumed it's why some people watch auto racing.

> Never was it more evident that Second Place is really a nice way of saying First Loser than in the hockey competitions. Every other sport, when the silver medalists won, they were all "Yippee!" and "Yay!". Not in hockey. It's got to be because this was the only sport where two -- and only two -- sides were competing against each other. Every other sport had multiple athletes competing against a clock or were judged by people ranking things like "technical merit", "performance", and "air". Despite being from south of the border, I was glad to see Canada win the gold in both women's and men's ice hockey. Heck, I just happy to see Modano and Hull play for the same team again.

Ditto for me. Hooray for Canada.

> The closing ceremonies were pretty good except we should band together as a world and kill the NBC commentators. Hey, there's Savion Glover, the world's preeminent tap dancer. He's not actually singing, so let's talk over what he's doing. What the heck was going through the commentators' heads? "Millions of people have tuned into tonight's coverage of the closing ceremony for some reason. They must've tuned in to hear me talk. Yeah, that's it." Pinheads.
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> For those of you who watched the closing ceremony, did everyone else fall out of their seats when KISS came out? Man, that was the funniest thing I've seen in a long time. Gene Simmon's body armor covering that huge gut. Then he knocked over his microphone. Hilarious.

I didn't watch much of that. I'm still confused about 'N Sync being in it.

Adam "Closing ceremonies always depress me...the Olympics won't be on for another two years :(" Bomb