I'm looking forward to the skeleton sledding and long jump ski. What are you looking forward to? Yep. Just saw it:This is horrible...
Trying to get some tickets for switzerland vs hockey in mens hockey, but they are like 500 bucks a ticket.
yeah for the gold medal hockey its like 2400 for a seat, and if canada gets to play at gold, they will dramatically rise.
Your government is doing the same as most other contries did. The reason is that soccer is the most popular sports in the world where big $$$$ are made and funded by all the big sponsor companies. If you think Poland is suck at soccer, try a country like Malaysia. Yet they spent big $$$ every year inviting premier league soccer giants like Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United, etc to kick the ball around. Is that going to improve the standard of Malaysia soccer.... I don't think so.Poland has not won a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in over 30 years... So I hope, that our Justyna Kowalczyk will beat the snot out of everyone <img src="http://mantidforum.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="
Where the money goes in sports is a bemusing thing. Poland sucks at soccer, we really do. We have a horrible team - just ask Tier. Yet most money goes to fund new stadiums, most sponsors pay for our lousy soccer teams, and most sport-dedicated sites in Poland drool over soccer. Now, Tier could also say something about our track & field team, which excelled at the last Athletic World Championships (two golds, one world record, 8 medals in total) - and there's barely any money invested in that.
I really find it bemusing, that people would watch mediocrity, and reiterate "maybe next time" each time the team can't make it out of it's group, or even qualify for FIFA championships, rather than see successful athletes snatch gold medals at the Olympics and other major events.
BTW - Who is rooting for Evan Lysacek in men's figure skating?
Everybody was counting him out before the Olympics - everyone though that this would be between Ammann and Schlierenzauer, and one of the remaining Austrian jumpers would have to settle down for a bronze medal. Who cares about gold medals, when you have a champion of the old, coming out of being just a sentiment, and delivering such a performance Malysz is my hero, those two silver medals were sweeter than any gold medal performances I've witnessed.
That was pretty damn amazing...Yen - that's why I hope, that after winning more and more medals at the Olympics, more money will be invested in sports other that soccer.
Yesterday Adam Malysz, being 32 years old, claimed his second silver medal in Vancouver - I must say, I was extatic about it like never before! Who would have thought, that he would out-jump all those Austrian and Finnish stalwarts
