Russia's 2014 Olympic mascot

The mascots for the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

And the winners after a countrywide voting contest have been announced. They are a snowboarding snow leopard, a little bunny and a chubby polar bear in a scarf.

These mascots might be super cute and not very tough. But at least they are better than the "one-eyed monsters" that London decided to use.




What do you think of the 2014 Russia Olympic mascots?

US-Canada Hockey game blog

Okay, I may be near death with the plague (seriously, I don't know what I have but I fully expect body parts to start falling off), but whatever, I am live blogging the US-Canada gold medal hockey game since it's going to be an absolute slugfest.

Hopes for today... "Blame Canada" gets played once. And Don Cherry does a duet with Prince. That's all I ask for.

SEE THE FULL GAME BLOG HERE.

I would do this for Lindsey Vonn as well

Lindsey Vonn's brother apparently did this haircut to support his sis. Fantastic idea (I think). Although I'm pretty sure that I would do a whole lot more for Lindsey Vonn. I mean have you seen her?

(For the record, she might be my favorite Olympic athlete of 2010. That and Shaun White, who it the one and only athletic ginger)

Now does the other side of his head have a V because that would be oh, so much cooler.

Good Morning NBC haters

Is this how you feel when you have to watch tape-delayed figure skating while a very important hockey game is also going on at the same time live? Yeah, sorry about that. You'll have to blame NBC for that.

It's been no secret that the Peacock Network has absolutely screwed the pooch when it comes to the Olympics. Horrible programing choices (why am I watching curling), the lack of any suspense (We knew that somebody won gold ten hours before it airs) and a hodge podge of channels (wait, this one is on CNBC not NBC?) has left people furious.

My thoughts? Yeah they're screwing things up. I don't mind the tape delay because the local affiliates still need to get their local programming in, and people aren't going to be able to watch these events at work anyways. But there is absolutely no available live stream on the internet or any other NBC cable channel. They should let the people that want it live, watch it live on the internet and then have the people that come home at 5pm be able to see it during primetime. Just a thought.

And here's an idea... focus on the main sports, Americans winning medals and stay away from crappy fluff news pieces on polar bears in Canada.

Good mid-day winter olympics watchers!

Having watched the Winter Olympics a fair amount, I have to say that it's certainly better than the summer olympics. Still bloated and overhyped but at least we get to see guys ski around and shoot guns.

I mean what's so exciting about track events (unless something on the right of this article happens)? All they do is run around in circles. In the Winter Olympics, people ski down a bumpy hill and fling themselves off a jump at the end. There's a slightly more exciting factor to the latter.

But what's with the French being good at a lot of events? It kills me I cant make any WWII references when they're winning gold instead of surrendering.

BBC Olympics promo

Our blogging friend, Paul, over at Washington Adventures got my attention the other day when he posted the BBC promo for the winter Olympics.

This promo was awesome.

According to official BBC site description the promo has a lot going on in it:

BBC Sport's Vancouver Winter Olympics coverage will feature the story of Akiak and his quest to find the missing head of Ilanaaq, a stack of rock in human form, which sits on the mountain above Whistler, where the skiiing and sliding events will take place.

So who is Akiak and what is Ilanaaq?

Akiak is a legendary Inuit, a member of the indigenous population who inhabit the Arctic regions of Canada, Greenland, Russia and the United States of America, whose name means "brave" in his native language.

Ilanaaq, the Inuit word for "friend", is the emblem of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games and is a contemporary interpretation of an inukshuk.

Inukshuk are land markers which started out as a single upright stone and have evolved into more elaborate stacks of rock built in the form of a human. They are normally built around good hunting places and have been extremely important for Inuit survival over many thousands of years.

Apparently in the promo, the head of Ilanaaq has been stolen by the monster in the ice. Therefore, the hero must perform different Olympic events to retrieve it.

Enough of my yakking, watch the promo yourself:

(The music is Cry Me A River by Michael Buble)

And in case you're wondering, this isn't the first kickass promo that BBC has made for the Olympics.

For the 2008 games in China, the promo was pretty sweet as well. It features a monkey and his sidekicks that must use various summer game events to make it there.

Check it out: