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I was watching the paralympics online yesterday, and when I tuned in they were just finishing up the women's standing biathalon. They showed this lady taking off her skis, and both her arms ended just before where her elbows would be. Would someone care to explain how the hell you shoot a gun with no hands? The things these people are able to do just amazes me.

Had some friends up from Del Rio for the weekend. I went to high school with them, he's in the air force and is being relocated soon. Since they'd never been to Austin, I showed them around a little, and we went mini-golfing, which is always fun.

Also went out to dinner with a couple people I met recently at a Hope/Calvin event. Overall, a fun weekend.

Norway is playing for gold in men's curling starting...right now actually. Go Team Norway!

Seriously, how can you not root for a team with pants like these?

Lindsey Vonn = overrated. One crash can happen to anybody, but 3 DNFs?

Death threats for disqualifying a speed skating team? Ridiculous!

Hooray! My AIM works again!

Canada is owning the podium like they wanted. :) 12 golds so far. I love it when they win gold, because you can hear the whole stadium belting out Oh Canada!

We are kicking butt in bobsled. Woo! Apparently it doesn't matter if your sled crashes, as long as all 4 people are still in it at the finish line. Your time will suck, but it will count.

If the US beats Canada in the hockey final, I'd advise all Americans living within 100 miles of the border to catch the quickest plane to Florida. Lol.

I'm kind of amazed at Bob Kostas' ability to adlib with Colbert and Fallon. Sports and comedic talent.

Remember my post a few days ago wondering how the hell a biathalon works for the visually impaired? Well, I now have the answer. Thanks to wikipedia, I came across a blog of one such competitor, and one of her posts very nicely explains how shooting works.

Read it here
She has other interesting posts about the sport as well, if you're curious about such things.

I haz a TiVo! I had thought I would need a cable card (since that's what the people at Best Buy told me), but it turns out I didn't need one. Woo!


One of the skeleton competitors has a PhD in materials engineering. Builds his own sleds. So cool!

According to the announcers, ski jumping used to be insanely popular in Germany. That would explain the insane amount of ski jumping that I watched in 2006. They showed about every jumper in every round. I was so sick of ski jumping after a while. Lol.

I don't think they are going to show the women's 1000m speed skating event. :( That was the event I was at in Torino.

A snippet from the recap:
Nesbitt was serenaded by the band Kleintje Pils, which played "O Canada" and "We Are The Champions" while the crowd of more 7,000 rocked and rolled in a boisterous celebration the home fans had been waiting nearly a week to break out.

The Netherlands brought their band again! How crazy of fans do you have to be to bring your own brass band to a speed skating event? This is how nuts the Dutch are about speed skating.


Bjoerndalen won another medal today. Go him! That makes a whopping ten. Hell, he could tie Bjorn Dahle is he medals in the 2 remaining events.

Watch for the guy who shoots archery with his teeth.

I'm using a portion of my tax refund money, which should be here in a couple days, and bought myself a TiVo. I looked at DVR through my cable company, but they only offer it if you subscribe to digital cable...which is $70+ a month. TiVo? $12.
I'm kind of excited about it. One, because I should have it set up for week 2 of the Olympics (which, heh, is what prompted me to buy it. *sheepish*). Two, the service term is 1 year, is attached to me and not my cable company, and it will be GREAT for when I have roommates again, because it eliminates tv battles. And I'll be able to watch Jeopardy again for the first time since I moved to Texas!

The University of Virginia contacted me again, this time about an admitted students open house. And they'll reimburse me up to $400 for airfare! I'm working on getting the time off now.

Good god, more trouble with the ice at Richmond Oval? Someone needs to get their act together. A figure skating-less night, woot. Figure skating just doesn't hold my attenion anymore like it used to.

RAH! I can't watch event replays on nbcolympics.com because I don't get super deluxe cable and my provider won't let me. I tried my mom's cable provider and hers doesn't work either, because hers also requires some sort of premium service. *is mad*

I want to watch what I missed while at work!

What Valentine's Day? :D

Moguls has to be HELL on your knees. My knees hurt just watching it.

Hee. The women's moguls winner just wanted to be part of an Olympic montage.

There is a visually impaired Biathalon in the paralympics. Can someone explain to me how that would work? How do you shoot?

How anti-climatic was that men's sprint biathalon? The weather just ruined it for almost everyone. Nordic combined was pretty exciting, though, with that sprint to the finish.

As far as the Amazing Race, I won't be watching tonight or next Sunday. But there is a team from Round Rock, and I will be rooting for them. :D

Go Felix! He just blew everybody away.

One of my favorite sports of winter competition explained: