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Is that grey in his hair?
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Is that grey in his hair?
Canuck21t
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What?!? I never heard of this story before. It didn't come from any journalist I hope?
SirKillalot
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Since's his snowboarder-girlfriend went home on tuesday:
Alexander Bonsaksen had to settle with Mats Zuccarello on the back of his bicycle today.
Google translated version of some opinions from the Norwegian Team:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vg.no%2Fsport%2Fol-2014%2Fartikkel.php%3Fartid%3D10129360
Alexander Bonsaksen had to settle with Mats Zuccarello on the back of his bicycle today.
Google translated version of some opinions from the Norwegian Team:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vg.no%2Fsport%2Fol-2014%2Fartikkel.php%3Fartid%3D10129360
That Kurri-Selanne pic makes me feel old lol
He's been going grey for a few seasons now.
It came from a satire website that's tricked a few people before.
link
I'm guessing someone shared the link without explanation and it went from there. Anyone who read the whole story (it reads like something out of Hot Fuzz) and some of the other "news" articles would've figured it out
Is that grey in his hair?
He's been going grey for a few seasons now.
It came from a satire website that's tricked a few people before.
link
I'm guessing someone shared the link without explanation and it went from there. Anyone who read the whole story (it reads like something out of Hot Fuzz) and some of the other "news" articles would've figured it out
It was on the "Daily Currant" which is a satirical site. Another headline from them: "Russia to House Prison Inmates in Sochi Hotels". Just to put it in a perpective.
The thing is a lot of "serious journalists" jumped on that *** and started blowing it up like a real thing.
Canuck21t
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I see. In this case, we can't blame the media as it's satire. Somewhere along the line, someone forgot to share the note that this is a joke.
Since's his snowboarder-girlfriend went home on tuesday:
Alexander Bonsaksen had to settle with Mats Zuccarello on the back of his bicycle today.
Google translated version of some opinions from the Norwegian Team:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vg.no%2Fsport%2Fol-2014%2Fartikkel.php%3Fartid%3D10129360
Wow, Zuccarello is really a cutie!!!
Am I doing it right?
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Is that grey in his hair?
Not shocked. High pressure occupation. Know a guy with a full head of grey hair by the time he was 30.
Some Slovak players practicing together in the below link.
http://sport.sme.sk/galeria/3047/hokejisti-absolvovali-prvy-kompletny-trening/?list=1&bl
http://sport.sme.sk/galeria/3047/hokejisti-absolvovali-prvy-kompletny-trening/?list=1&bl
The experience of the journalists in off-site accommodations is not going to be the same as what athletes in the athletic village or in their competition venues experience. Maybe some of their criticism is overblown or their bringing attention to things forced Russia to get it together. However, I don't think there is some big conspiracy by random American sports reporters and blogs to make Russia look bad, and it is amusing that enough of a Cold War mentality still exists that some see one there.
Also, no matter what condition the athletes are experiencing (and I would imagine the NHL players get the very best accommodations and amenities this Olympics have to offer), I would think most NHL players are savvy enough to know they can't win by criticizing anything about the games.
Still, there have been a lot of problems with the alpine skiing and freestyle skiing/snowboard courses that some of those athletes have complained about and struggled with. And maybe you didn't see the US bobsled player who got trapped in his bathroom or the women's hockey goalie that had to be pushed on a luggage rack by Olympics workers from a place where she could change into her gear to the practice rink which had no locker room?
That said, as far as I know, no one has died as a result of any Olympic venues unlike in Vancouver so Sochi has that going for it, but I'd still probably rather vacation in the former after hearing what the reporters are experiencing in the hotels that are intended to host tourists after these games are done.
A bathroom door got stuck oh my dear lord. That possibly couldn't happen anywhere else on the planet. I've been stuck in a WC at a party and had to exit exactly like that
It was glorious!It was on a satire news site like the Onion etc. I saw a few idiots in facebook sharing it thinking it was real
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I didn't overblow anything. My post pretty clearly put things in perspective that the amenities being bad/inconvenient is one thing and people dying on athletic venues is another.
I also am a bit baffled at being accused of having an "obsession" with flaws in Sochi when I haven't posted in that other "beds" thread at all and only offered my post here in rebuttal to someone seemingly claiming nothing has gone wrong or been bad at all.
But I'll leave it there to not threadjack this further...
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^^
the Canadian players sitting right beside the usa players, i wonder if they're still buddy buddy and talking or all forms of communication is off
