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Regular CTV TV sucks donkey balls. Those 2 weeks flew by so quickly and I am having major withdrawals. Keep on lurking the channels hoping for replays.

^ same here.... and the "i believe" tune is stuck on replay in my head....

Yesterday when I saw "CSI:NY" after the Olympic Edition of CTV News and their were no "Winter Olympics" on for the duration..that really got me.. :( :(

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Originally Posted by halogodv2 (Post 6838626)

no, there is still 5 more weeks

Right - Mukmuk came out of his hole and saw his shadow :)

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Originally Posted by Spectre_Cdn (Post 6838651)

The cauldron will be re-lit for the Paralympics on the 12th, then extinguished on the 21st.

they said Terasen will consider lighting it up on special occasions after then..i hope it's true.

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Originally Posted by RRxtar (Post 6838620)

I just read on another forum that Canada had 24 4th and 5th place finishes. Like I've said a few times, if those finishes would have been one position higher, we would have been right there with the USA in the mid 30s for medals.

I would say the games were very very successfull

In fact, Canada had *72* top-8 finishes. The stated mission of the "Own the Podium" campaign was to elevate those finishes to podium status... if it's carried on for the next four years, imagine if only half of those resulted in podium appearances!

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Originally Posted by 7seven (Post 6838622)

Pretty good article which about sums up the general consensus of every one of my friends and clients that came in from the US for the Olympics, while there where some disasters relating to venues and transportation, the people made the Olympics awesome.

Aside from the luger's death, I don't think any of the issues could be considered more than "technical glitches" in the grand scheme of things.

total withdrawl, keep looking for standing updates and info on events online, and nothing
:(

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Originally Posted by Captain Picard (Post 6838333)

RS MEMBERS WERE IN THE SUIT?

SHIT DUDE, I WOULDA GAVE YOU GUYS A BIG HUG

You're talking about the red/white men? Nah, I'm the only ones on RS :lol

every club on granville ran out of canadian... we sold something like 40 cases during the hockey game.

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^ same here.... and the "i believe" tune is stuck on replay in my head....

That I believe tune really grew on me. I don't know how many times I watched sportsnet replay the Crosby goal over and over and over...

I practically knew the play by play breakdown by the panel

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Originally Posted by MajinHurricane (Post 6838742)

every club on granville ran out of canadian... we sold something like 40 cases during the hockey game.

How many are in a case? I'm sure they are those giant cases. :lol Or those normal 24?

I still want the champaign bottles

Still open during the paralympics

Canada House: Until March 21st
Canada’s Northern House: Until April 17th
Robson Square Ice Skating at GE Plaza: Until March 21st
CentrePlace Manitoba: Until March 21st
Olympic Line free streetcar: Until March 21st
Olympic cauldron in Coal Harbour
Cultural Olympiad: Until March 21st
Robson Square Zipline: Until March 21st
Royal Canadian Mint: Until March 21st (at a new location)

Maybe then I can try out the Zipline! Less lines!

vancouver seemed so dead today, no yelling or anything on the skytrain. no red or white. i feel so sad

http://inapcache.boston.com/universa...1_22390927.jpg

Vancouver 2010 - The Big Pictures - Boston.com Part 1

Vancouver 2010 - The Big Pictures - Boston.com Part 2

godamn thats a spectactular picture

I gotta avoid this thread for awhile. Its damn depressing knowing that its all over.

To those NBC idiots who finally decided to do smthing right.

This event has beaten every god damn NBA finals since 1998.

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Steve Lepore of Puck The Media passed along the first glimpse of the enormous ratings success in the U.S. for the gold medal game against Canada: 17.6/33 overnight rating, via Sports Business Daily, and 27.6 million viewers on average. Writes Lepore:

This is up 46% from the 2002 USA/Canada showdown, and will very likely be the highest-rated hockey game since 1980. The share means that 1 in every 3 Americans with a TV were watching the game. This is, to put it professionally, out of this world.

Sports Media Watch offers further perspective on the hockey numbers:

Sunday's game drew a higher overnight rating than every World Series game since 2004 (including every game of Yankees/Phillies last year), every NBA Finals telecast since 1998, and every NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four game since at least '98.

Excluding the NFL, the 17.6 overnight for the game is the second-highest of the year for any sporting event, behind only the Texas/Alabama BCS National Championship Game in January (18.2).

Even here in Vancouver, I could still sense how huge this game was playing back in the States. I didn't have non-hockey friends texting me about the USA/Canada smackdown -- I had non-sports fans talking to me about it. This really hit home when Lady Wysh touched base and said my hockey allergic mother-in-law was (a) watching the game, (b) kept mishearing Roberto Luongo's(notes) name as "Ulongo" which led to (c) her believing he was Samoan.

What a great day for hockey. Hopefully some of the newbies stick around to watch that level of pace and anxiety in the Stanley Cup playoffs. And, hopefully, the ratings and reviews don't create a new wave of "FIX THE NHL, FOR THE SAKE OF THE CHILDREN!!!" nonsensical pacifist arguments that Barry Petchesky of Deadspin anticipated in a great column last week.

UPDATE: From Puck The Media, the release from NBC regarding to the game's final audience, billed as "the most-watched hockey game in 30 years":

TOPS 2002 SALT LAKE GOLD MEDAL GAME BY 10.5 MILLION VIEWERS: The 27.6 million viewers for Sunday's gold medal game was 10.5 million more (up 61 percent) from the Canada-USA gold medal game from the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics (17.1 million viewers). The 15.2/30 rating for yesterday's game was four-and-a-half rating points higher than the 10.7/24 for the 2002 gold medal game and was the highest-rated hockey game of any kind since the USA vs. Finland 1980 gold medal game (23.2/61). The "Miracle on Ice" semifinal game between the USA and Russia had a household rating of a 23.9/37.

The audience peaked at 34.8 million viewers (18.6/34 hh rating) from 5:30-6 p.m. ET, when the USA's Zach Parise(notes) (New Jersey Devils) sent the game to overtime with the tying goal with just 24.4 seconds left in regulation.

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Originally Posted by twitchyzero (Post 6838714)

they said Terasen will consider lighting it up on special occasions after then..i hope it's true.

the cauldron on the water will still be around after the olympics, it's permanent. as for whether or not it's gonna be lit from time to time is beyond me though

Well this Vancouver Olympics was the most watched Olympic games out of all the others (including summer). Something like over 600 million watched the games.

Boston.com always has sick pictures.

Hopefully all the non-hockey fans on the USA that watched the gold medal game stick around to watch some NHL. and if that happens, you can guarantee Betman will change his mind about NHL players in 2014.

how is downtown today? are the streets such as robson or around BC place open?