Olympic Open Thread: February 14th

Pittsburgh-area rink roof collapses
Crews search for unaccounted for people, Canada-U.S. youth teams in tourney
Last Updated: Sunday, February 14, 2010 | 7:02 PM ET Comments6Recommend18
The Associated Press
An emergency official said there are people unaccounted for after a partial roof collapse Sunday at a suburban Pittsburgh ice rink.

Mike Stangroom, director of operations for Rostraver West Newton Emergency Services, said everyone who got out of the Westmoreland County rink is OK, but crews are searching the building with cadaver dogs.

Stangroom said he doesn’t know how many people were in the Rostraver Ice Garden when a 30-by-60-metre section of it collapsed Sunday afternoon.

He said a youth hockey tournament between U.S. and Canadian teams was being held at the rink, about 50 kilometres southeast of Pittsburgh.

The cause of the collapse hasn’t been determined.



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Germans win Luge. Gold and Silver.

Womens US hockey team trounced China. Don’t know what the final score was but it was 8-0 last I checked.

The Chinese Short Pairs couple was really outstanding. They set a record high score in Short Pairs. Everyone else will have to catch up to something that special.

Women’s Hockey – Finland up 3-1 over Russia. Also, USA beat up on China 12-1. There was an amazing goal in that one, you guys should really check it out.

Really thought that Johnny Spillane had the gold in that one, but Lamy-Chappuis made the dash look easy over that last stretch

Alexandre Bilodeau wins Gold in Men’s Moguls skiing.

Despite being worried about having a “hockey lull” I have just printed out the schedule for all the hockey games throughout the Olympics. I think I’ll be busy! lol.

is there a link to the TV listings for mens hockey?

But I had to complain to people that would care. They are showing Slapshot on VS. With every tiny little controversial thing edited out with horrible voiceovers. Soooo wrong.

I’m totally fed up with NBC’s Olympic coverage, or lack of. We here in the Mountain Time Zone, one hour removed from the Vancouver Pacific time zone and home to the highest percentage of Olympic TV watchers, are forced to wait two hours for a re-broadcast of NBC’s Eastern-centric babble. In case you haven’t noticed, you can’t open a browser window, twitter feed, turn on the radio, or any number of other media without already hearing results. How much fun is it to sit through all the ads when you already know the results?

In 2008, over 2200 hours of Olympic coverage were available streaming. This year? Under 400! And the only things you can (legally) stream live in the US are curling and hockey (At least we get that, I guess). All the Alpine events, Nordic racing, and everything else that could be seen live during the day is shut out. NBC believes that the biggest audience for the Olympics is women, and they don’t care for anything except ice dancing and figure skating. Supposedly, this is a preview of the future, as NBC and Comcast (one of the largest internet providers) merge and NBC struggles to keep people in front of the boob tube, where they will be fed endless heart-tugging stories between advertisements.

In the interest of Sport, I refuse to have my Olympics sensored. I want my events live, and I want to know the results immediately, like the rest of the world. While it is not easy to find streams, they are out there. The CTV stream is blocked for US ip addresses, so you need to use a proxy to get around that. I found this stream, which has been great! Its from ESPN Europe. This is another good list of links. If you find any others out there, please post them for our enjoyment. As a German Backpacker would say, “Reason #37 why America sucks. No Streaming Olympic broadcast. What is this, the age of Charlemagne?”