Just got back from teh olympics.
My sister managed to get a whole shit load of tickets, since she has the kind of job where you can sit around waiting for the sales to open, and I managed to get some days off work so I figured I should take the opportunity and go, especially since she'd give me the tickets at face value. Despite my general disagreement with holding it here, this is the only time I'll get this opportunity, so I figured I should go for the sake of going.
Saw 1500 m long track speed skating, which we totally choked in, and the Czech Republic vs Latvia hockey game. The latter was actually pretty cool. The Czech team had something like 16 NHL players, the Latvian team had...1, I think. They were completely outclassed. After the Czechs scored 3 goals in the first 15 minutes and the croud started to fear it would be a blowout (that's no fun), everyone except the most diehard Czech fans started cheering for Latvia. The whole stadium was chanting. It was insane. I imagine the Czechs in crowd were wondering why we apparently hated them so much. The Latvians ended up scoring two goals, and their goalie only let one more in for the rest of the game, stopping 25+ shots after that. At the end Latvia pulled their goalie and got scored on from across the ice for a 5-2 final, but they preformed admirably considering their stated goal was to not be the worst team in the tournament.
I also watched our gold metal winning mens skeleton run from inside an incredibly loud pub, and got my picture taken with Quatchi. Surprisingly fun time, for all my ragging on the Olympics.