only 30 days to go

[joggerjayne]

... to the Winter Olympics ... the greatest sporting event on Earth.

Here, especially for beejay, is a profile of Northern Ireland's Jenna McCorkell ...

... Team GB figure skater, and 7 times British National Champion.

http://www.olympics.o...hletebio.aspx?at=7123

[joggerjayne]

How did my nice Winter Olympics thread turn smutty ???????

[Ankou]

you started it.
i was talking about tourism in ireland.

[joggerjayne]

Oh, yes ... sorry.

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[carrust]

It only gets interesting when people fall over or crash.

[joggerjayne]

carrust ... how can you say that?

It is THE greatest sporting festival on the planet !!

And the blue ribbon event - the downhill skiing - is breathtaking.

[carrust]

As a spectator sport, I put it just above swimming but below horse racing. Will you be glued to the curling?

[joggerjayne]

The curling? ... of course, carrust.

Team GB won the Women's Gold in Salt Lake City.

[carrust]

Did they use special rollers?:-)

[joggerjayne]

LOL ... who'd have thought ... a "curling" gag !

I'll be glued to the telly for every minute of the Winter Games.

One good thing is, Vancouver is a few hours behind, so we will get live coverage in the evening.

I might watch some of it with the BF in Switzerland, so I will have to cheer for Swiss competitors (when they are not up against Team GB, of course).

[carrust]

I'll be supporting the Jamaican bobsleigh team:-) BTW, don't hold your breath waiting for any British success:-)

[joggerjayne]

Success or not - my support comes without conditions ...

(trust me on that ... I support Brighton).

When British winter sportsmen take on rivals from Switzerland, Austria, Norway, etc ...

... they deserve all the support we can give them.

[Slapshot]

John and Sinead Kerr are our only very outside chance of a gong on the rink, Jenna will be lucky to scrape top ten, just being honest. My daughter used to compete at national level in ice dance and being around the scene you see what we have. if ice Skating wants to get back to the Torvill and Dean days, Robin Cousins and John Curry replacements NISA must create an excellence package the same as the GB Cycling team have, Success in any sport is a long term thing. don't get me wrong, i'll cheers them all on (specially john & sinead) but i'm too much of a realist. you want to talk about how bad the GB Hockey team is???