2014 Winter Olympics

Damn you three for standing in my way of dead last place!

There are about 10 people within a few points of bronze medal position after the short program.

One of them is Denis Ten from Kazakhstan.

An Aussie got a silver in the women's snowboard halfpipe. It was close. So what did the pundits here want to talk about? Was the judging fair? Jesus christ. The fact we even have a team from a country that gets 3 months of decent ski snow in a good season is amazing enough. Why can't they just enjoy it. The medallist Torah Bright certainly did.

We are quite happy about Erin Hamlin getting Bronze. We consider her a local girl.

At the end of Day 6, the USA Men have a great day, sweeping the Slopestyle Skiing event. China gets two golds in long-track speed skating. Germany Men have a good day, and the Netherlands continues to perform in long-track speed skating, adding two more medals. Poland also got another gold (in Women's 10 km skiing).

As of today, the Netherlands (a Group C nation) is tied with Canada (a Group A nation) for the points lead (34). Germany Women have really made a comeback, and are tied with Russia at 29 points.

Things are starting to heat up in the standings too... Another day of competition brings us a different leader yet again: realjohnboy reclaims first place on the leaderboard by a slim margin, and tsarstepan takes over the coveted last-place position:

Rank Username Total
1 realjohnboy 167
2 wheel158 164
3 tgordon92 160
4 McGentrix 159
5 fbaezer 151
6 Jahiegel 149
7 ossobuco 144
8 sdelong 141
9 Skin Rip 136
10 Iautah 124
11 Ticomaya 123
12 wheel158_son#1 117
13 ehBeth 111
14 Ecartmill 103
15 olympics2014_Nick 103
16 olympics2014_Laura 102
17 jespah 100
18 tsarstepan 92


This is back-and-forth every day. Very good stuff. And sorry for the late posting today...

Elizabeth Yarnold gets gold for Great Britain in skeleton! That should help my team. Now I need some South Korean short track skaters to win tomorrow.

I also have Great Britain. So... check.

Bringing this forward...

I am crushing the competition with their own feet.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/rsultan/cat-curling-is-a-thing-you-need-to-see

Well. I'd have to say he's fully recovered.

Yup, realjohnboy, that's why I still need the South Koreans to pick up the pace. You and I only differ by South Korea/China, and Wheel and I only differ by Great Britain and Belarus. Unfortunately for both of us, Belarus got two golds and a bronze today, which will give Wheel a nice-sized lead in the next standings. I need some help from the GB curling teams to catch him.

I hope the next winter games is held somewhere that it's actually cold. The skiers have been skiing in sludge.

Don't you guys count me out yet!

(Now if only Italians could step out of their seemingly eternal 5th place in many competitions...)

On Sun The US will defeat the UK in curling. OHHH the excitement that is curling.

As I see it, the US is winning handily the X Games in Sochi.
As for traditional winter olympic sports they're waaaaay behind.

wait till 2018, we are gonna have OLYMPIC ICE FISHING!! and SYNCHRONIZED ICE SKATING

and they've given all the good non Russian skiers the end of the day runs when the snow gets more like tapioca pudding

At the end of Day 7, Switzerland (2 G, 1 S) and Belarus (2 G, 1 B) have great days. Great Britain gets a Gold in Skeleton, and Sweden performs well in Cross Country Skiing.

Canada reclaims its points lead (37), the Netherlands (34) are still in second, and Russia (30) is in third. Switzerland has really made a move the last couple days--they are tied with Germany Women (29) for fourth.

Yet again, we have a brand-new leader: fbaezer grabs first place on the leaderboard by a 2-point margin:

Rank Username Total
1 fbaezer 186
2 realjohnboy 184
2 wheel158 184
4 McGentrix 182
5 tgordon92 174
6 ossobuco 168
7 sdelong 166
8 Jahiegel 165
9 Skin Rip 164
10 Ticomaya 142
11 wheel158_son#1 132
12 Iautah 131
12 jespah 131
14 ehBeth 127
15 Ecartmill 123
16 olympics2014_Nick 117
17 olympics2014_Laura 111
18 tsarstepan 110


This competition has been great so far between the teams. Here's hoping for more excitement in the coming days!

realjohnboy, tgordon92, and anyone else who might be able to help with scoring:

I uploaded my scoring spreadsheet to Google Drive here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzBRzgc7V3MGOG9uUFlfX1BXV28/edit?usp=sharing

*However*, the spreadsheet has macros, so you have to download it, *and* use Excel 2010 (or newer) to run it.

The spreadsheet *should* refresh the tables automatically when you open it. Note that there are four automatic tables/worksheets: Import-Men, Import-Women, Import-Mixed, and the regular Import-Medals tables. If those sheets don't refresh by themselves, just go to the "Data" tab, then click "Refresh All".

For some reason, the refresh can sometimes takes 5-10 minutes, so just let it run until it completes.

Once it's done, you can then go to the first sheet named "Auto-Standings", to see the current scores. You'll need to highlight the "Username" and "Total" fields, then click "Sort" to sort the standings. Then you can post the results to the message board.

I *might* be able to post results Saturday and Sunday, but I'm not 100% sure. But from 2/17 - 2/21, I'll for sure need help posting the daily scores, as I won't have my computer with me. And I'm still not sure about 2/22 & 2/23.

Can someone please try downloading this spreadsheet tomorrow, and try running it?

Thanks!
wheel