OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

14 posts ยท Feb 25 2002 to Feb 27 2002

From: Flak Magnet <flakmagnet@t...>

Date: 25 Feb 2002 08:33:39 -0500

Subject: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

Grumble grumle... *note unhappiness about losing for the first time in several
decades*

Way to go Canada, Congratulations. You started the game hard and never
let up.  That's a hard-earned Gold.

I have a question about the reported flag-stomping our women's team
supposedly did... did that REALLY happen? What is the NAME of the person(s)
who actually SAW it happen? Our Women's team denies it...

--Flak

> On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 16:02, Brian Burger wrote:

From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:35:49 +0100 (MET)

Subject: Re: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

Flak Magnet schrieb:
> Grumble grumle... *note unhappiness about losing for the

And the Germans collected medals by the dozen
:-)

Greetings

From: Derk Groeneveld <derk@c...>

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:06:32 +0100 (CET)

Subject: Re: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de wrote:

> Flak Magnet schrieb:

hey, the Dutch are still in the top 10, too! Which is not bad for a tiny
country with neither mountains nor arctic climate!

Cheers,

From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:16:25 +0100

Subject: Re: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

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From: Derk Groeneveld <derk@c...>

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:08:26 +0100 (CET)

Subject: Re: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

> On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----

*grin*

Cheers,

From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>

Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:17:50 +1100

Subject: RE: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

G'day,

> And the Germans collected medals by the dozen

I just love the fact we got our first winter gold by waiting for everyone else
to fall over... it just fits somehow;)

From: Derk Groeneveld <derk@c...>

Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 07:17:55 +0100 (CET)

Subject: RE: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

> G'day,

Okay, I'm curious. I don't get this one, please enlighten me?

Cheers,

From: <s666@f...>

Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:25:14 -0700 (MST)

Subject: RE: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Derk Groeneveld wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

In one of the men's short track speed skating events, 4 out of 5 skaters went
down in a spill on the last corner. The Aussie, who was dead last, calmly
skated in for gold.

Of course, Australia also won a gold in women's aerials too.

From: John Leary <john_t_leary@y...>

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:30:27 -0800 (PST)

Subject: RE: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

> --- Beth.Fulton@csiro.au wrote:

> I just love the fact we got our first winter gold by

Hi Beth, What little I understand of the sport indicates that this in NOT an
unusual occurance, as long as one falls over according to the rules.

Bye for now,

From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>

Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:34:39 +1100

Subject: RE: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

G'day,

> Of course, Australia also won a gold in women's aerials too.

Yeah won by a girl who took the sport up at 19 (used to be a gymnast mind),
she decided she liked jumping better than skiing after she'd taken out her
first 10 or so lift lines.... she gets to practice by leaping into a gungy
swimming pool or natural leach (and undoubtedly nematode) infested
spring....

We really care about our winter athletes... OK the fact we don't always get a
lot of snow doesn't help;)

From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>

Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:35:21 +1100

Subject: RE: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

G'day,

> What little I understand of the sport indicates

Sort of like beer drinking then?;P

Hell in that case I wonder what took us so long?;);)

From: KH.Ranitzsch@t... (K.H.Ranitzsch)

Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 07:32:38 +0100

Subject: Re: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

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From: Beth Fulton <beth.fulton@m...>

Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:40:46 +1100

Subject: RE: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

G'day,

> Awww... there those who don't let themselves be stopped by such minor

That'd be why our bob-sled (or luge or whatever) teams do some training
(or used to) in shopping trolleys down the driveways of multistory supermarket
parking lots;)

From: Tony Christney <tchristney@t...>

Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 08:46:49 -0800

Subject: Re: OT: On the topic of Gold Chinooks - Re: Space Nav

What I thought was great was that look of incredulous joy on the Aussie's
face.

I've seen that look before...

"SHE said YES?!?! To a DATE?!?! With ME!?!?! WOOHOO!"

Now that was priceless.

As for the other two, I just think that the American had slid into home plate
a few more times than the Canadian. Who would have thought that that skill
would come in useful in speed skating?

> On Tuesday, February 26, 2002, at 12:16 AM, Michael Llaneza wrote:

> And you have to applaud the American skater for scrambling to a
troop.
> John Leary wrote: