Crests Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 I'm okay :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluejay Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 hey hey :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMagpie Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 Hello fellow country peeps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldplay.obsessed Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 Well hellooo there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djibou Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 I haven't been on here in 38473214872634872634872369487619486401 days :p I hope all you Canadians are doing well! :D Well that's a long time :surprised: I'm fine, how are you? Hiya there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crests Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 hi brigzo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raphaele Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 Hi Canada! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djibou Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 Hello France! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raphaele Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 I was very busy those days and I couldn't connect. How are you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djibou Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Oh I see :confused: I am good :D How are you, other than busy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldplay.obsessed Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Does anyone else think that Saturdays without Leafs games just suck? :blank: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djibou Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 No. Cause then it is Sturday with the Habs! :D 100th page!:dance: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coldplay.obsessed Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Habs fans...:shifty: lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djibou Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Hehehe :smartass: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raphaele Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Does anyone else think that Saturdays without Leafs games just suck? :blank: please excuse an ignorant French girl, what are Leafs games? No. Cause then it is Sturday with the Habs! :D 100th page!:dance: and the Habs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hahna Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 ^^I don't know what they are either:uhoh: But, anyway, 100th page!!!!!!!!!! :awesome::awesome::awesome: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djibou Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 The Leafs and the Habs are both hockey teams :P Toronto's Maple Leafs and Montreal's Canadians (the 'Habs' being their nickname) :P Yes, indeed, we were being Canadian :laugh4: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Canadian Manuel Osborne-Paradis finishes second in men's World Cup downhill race By: THE CANADIAN PRESSManuel Osborne-Paradis of Canada reacts to taking second place in the men's World Cup downhill skiing competition at Wengen, Switzerland, on Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010. Switzerlands Carlo Janka was 0.66 seconds faster than Osborne-Paradis , and Marco Buechel of Liechtenstein was third. Janka's fourth victory of the season gave him the lead in the overall World Cup standings. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Armando Trovati)CAPTION 1 16/01/2010 2:42 PM | Comments: 0 Print E–mail Share This Report Error WENGEN, Switzerland - Going back to basics paid off huge for Canada's Manuel Osborne-Paradis. After a dismal week of poor training runs, Osborne-Paradis' expectations were low heading into a men's World Cup downhill event. But after spending the morning going through a mental checklist, the native of North Vancouver, B.C., finished second in the event. "It's been a tough week on me, it's been a tough week on the whole team," he said. "We just haven't been able to put any training runs together through the whole time. "Today was one of those days I just took the extra time this morning and kind of sat by myself and tried to figure out what was going wrong. I just needed to keep my hands forward and move forward on the ski and stay on the balls of my feet. That's what I mostly focused on." Carlo Janka of Switzerland won the race in two minutes 32.23 seconds over the classic 4.46-kilometre Lauberhorn course, the longest on the World Cup circuit. Osborne-Paradis finished 0.66 seconds behind, with Marco Buechel of Liechtenstein third. Erik Guay of Mont-Tremblant, Que., was 18th, Tyler Nella of Toronto was 39th and Jan Hudec of Calgary was 40th. Osborne-Paradis didn't see this result coming. "I did have a lot of doubt here," he said. "I just kind of wanted this weekend to be over after (Friday). "I thought I tried really hard in the combined and I couldn't even get top 30. I really didn't know what I had to do. I just watched video and it was just my skiing, it wasn't anything else . . . I just kind of sat back and figured out what I needed to do. "I didn't start freaking out about it. If you have a bad weekend you have a bad weekend and you go to the next weekend. It's not really a big deal. It's just racing. You go as hard as you can and whatever result happens at the end of it, that's what happens." Osborne-Paradis briefly held the lead after taking it from Buechel, who at age 38 was skiing his favourite Lauberhorn race for the last time in his farewell season. "I didn't feel any better, I didn't feel any faster the whole way down," Osborne-Paradis said. "I think it was me hitting the same bumps but instead of being in a backseat position I was hitting them at a faster speed and in a better position. "I really didn't know what to expect today. All I knew was that I was going to fast and obviously I believe in what my coaches tell me and my skiing . . . I just went for it. You can only think about what you need to do, you can't think about what happened in the past or what's going to happen, especially just before the race. I figured out what I needed to do and did it." The result certainly bodes well for Osborne-Paradis heading into next month's Vancouver Winter Games. But he says his goals aren't based solely on wanting to win a medal on home soil. "The team has goals for me and people have expectations of me," he said. "But my expectations are to ski a jump correctly or a turn correctly, have my shoulders and my elbows in. "Those are all my little goals and if I can get them all down then obviously I will have a good result and then everybody else's goals will be met. But those aren't my goals, I don't think you can set your goals on results at all." Janka's fourth victory of the season gave him the overall World Cup standings lead. "Winning in Wengen is the dream of any Swiss skier," said Janka, who was competing in the Lauberhorn race for only the second time. American Bode Miller was poised to take the lead from early pacesetter Buechel before he lost control and crashed. Miller was unhurt and said he hit a bump approaching a right-hand turn in the closing S-bend and his right hip hit the snow before he slid off course. "I couldn't see great and went a little bit too direct," Miller said. "I just missed the timing of it." Janka also won the Wengen super-combi last year and has six career World Cup victories, plus a world title in giant slalom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crests Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Page 1000! Also Mark, tl;dr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Page 1000! Also Mark, tl;dr What?:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crests Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tl%3Bdr :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc_squared Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tl%3Bdr :P Well you should, as it's about one of your best hopes for a medal in Vancouver next month!:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crests Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 *reads* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djibou Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 We shouldn't make that thread take a break when it's on its 100th page!! :bigcry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluejay Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 :curtain: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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