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Man, the Olympics were fun, weren't they? But they're gone now, there goes our time in the spotlight. Did you know that they showed all those British Columbia tourism commercials to British Columbians, too? I never like the California tourism commercials. It's always the Governator and his celebrity friends, mocking the unemployed.

The Indian Premier League T20 cricket tournament starts in like a day, so get ready to start seeing that. Remember you can watch it on YouTube for free. I've chosen the rags-to-riches Deccan Chargers as my team, almost at random. 

On with news! In this edition: Tony Hawk says he thinks it's time for skateboarding to be granted Olympic status, the next episode of the Iditablog podcast is ready, and is worth an hour of your time to say the very least, tie-breakers are in order at the Curling Nationals in Kalamazoo, and TooJay's is hosting the Corned Beef Eating Championship in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida next Wednesday, St. Patrick's Day.

Reminder: Survivor is tonight! 

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skateboarding should be part of the summer olympics. Also, they need to show a little more love to snowboarding during the winter olympics. I mean, we saw Shaun White do what, 2 runs!?! These guys are capable of so much more than just the superpipe. How bout some snowboarding big air and or slopestyle like the X games does?

by SoCalBoltFan on Mar 11, 2010 1:26 PM EST reply actions  

Other countries get mad because they think it’s just handing medals to the U.S.

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by Axion on Mar 11, 2010 2:40 PM EST up reply actions  

Well it should come down to

what is gonna keep peoples attention. I literally stopped watching the winter olympics after snowboarding was over. Skiing is just not that entertaining to me. It’s not like Canada was “handed a metal” in hockey this year, they just happen to be the best at it. Instead of other countries crying about U.S.A. being the best at snowboarding they should actually make an attempt to compete. Just my opinion.

by SoCalBoltFan on Mar 11, 2010 2:57 PM EST up reply actions  

Hockey is only slightly different

Because the two top teams are U.S. and Canada, who are way ahead of the pack. The women’s division was a joke in the preliminary rounds. Scores like 13-0 shouldn’t happen at the Olympic level.

Ski-cross is an X-games style event, that was a nice change.

There’s an atmosphere of arrogance to telling other countries they should just get good at snowboarding while the U.S. is not even close in some of the older events, and it’s a slippery slope when choosing events based on what’s popular for unnumbered other reasons.

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by Axion on Mar 11, 2010 11:20 PM EST up reply actions  

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