Yeeeeeesss!!

[TheEarl]

Shelley Rudman has just won Britain's first medal at the Olympic Games in the Skeleton Bob.

One slider to go and she's guaranteed of silver at least. Now to wait and see if she gets gold.

The Earl

 

[TheEarl]

Silver medal! What an utter heroine!

God I'm so made up for her. This girl's bouncing around on the podium like an utter maniac, completely unable to keep still from her excitement.

God bless her little cotton socks.

The Earl

 

[logophile]

Silver medal! What an utter heroine!

God I'm so made up for her. This girl's bouncing around on the podium like an utter maniac, completely unable to keep still from her excitement.

God bless her little cotton socks.

The Earl

I love you, Earl.
Thanks for the smiles today.

 

[bholderman]

Whats the skeleton bob?

 

[matriarch]

Fucking fantastic!
We Brits just don't win medals at the winter games, I'm so pumped for her.
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

 

[English Lady]

Aww, that's so cool! Yay!

 

[TheEarl]

Whats the skeleton bob?

Basically, sliding down a downhill course made entirely of ice on a small sled about the size of a tea tray. Headfirst.

Girl's got bigger balls than me and that's putting it mildly.

The Earl

 

[Liar]

Whats the skeleton bob?

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0689829876.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

or

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/images/0221_skeleton.jpg

 

[Guest]

Basically, sliding down a downhill course made entirely of ice on a small sled about the size of a tea tray. Headfirst.l

Ok, I'll be glad too but I don't see the 'sport' of it (unless there was a teapot on the tea tray thingy).

Now icy cobbles jogging, that'd be a sport .

always glad when you're glad,

Pear

 

[TheEarl]

Ok, I'll be glad too but I don't see the 'sport' of it (unless there was a teapot on the tea tray thingy).

Now icy cobbles jogging, that'd be a sport .

always glad when you're glad,

Pear

It's done at about 120km/hr. It's a challenge at the very least.

I move that icy cobble jogging be put into the next Winter Olympics.

The Earl

 

[fieryjen]

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0689829876.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

or

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/05/images/0221_skeleton.jpg

Bwahahahaha!

Anyway, congratulations to all the Brits here!

 

[oggbashan]

The British Winter Olympics Team are recording significant improvements on previous team performances even if not getting medals.

A 10th place was celebrated as the British best in that discipline since 1966. Unless our athetes live and work in snow-covered areas of the world we are unlikely to defeat the world's best.

However the men's curling team beat the Norwegians (the current Olympic holders). They still have a long way to go. Curling seems incredibly slow compared with downhill skiing...

Og

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

The British Winter Olympics Team are recording significant improvements on previous team performances even if not getting medals.

A 10th place was celebrated as the British best in that discipline since 1966. Unless our athetes live and work in snow-covered areas of the world we are unlikely to defeat the world's best.

However the men's curling team beat the Norwegians (the current Olympic holders). They still have a long way to go. Curling seems incredibly slow compared with downhill skiing...

Og

Curling is incredibly slow compared with tectonic plate shifts, but for some reason it's a hoot to watch.

Did Jamaica enter a bobsled team this year?

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Guest]

Silver medal! What an utter heroine!

God I'm so made up for her. This girl's bouncing around on the podium like an utter maniac, completely unable to keep still from her excitement.

God bless her little cotton socks.

The Earl

Lovely news, Earl.