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jezzwa
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Anybody watch the Opening ceromony?
Nice one Luca Badoer, loved the doughnuts :P
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Scuderia_Russ
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I read about this on Autosport. I would have made more of an effort to watch it if I had known before hand-D'oh.

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You can have a look at Badoer on the special podium at Turin Olympic Stadium, with the Olympic insignia on his Ferrari below. The whole show started with a very impressive Pit Stop, where the Ferrari pit crew mounted tyres on Badoer's car. Watch Eurosport for a replay...

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Where's the Marlboro sponsor
Bring back wider rear wings, V10s, and tobacco advertisements

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Dunno, but I was watching the womens freestyle mogul last night and I'm in luurve with Kari Traa! :twisted:

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padokf1 said

Watch Eurosport for a replay
Don't trust Eurosport for anything. I am sick of being messed around with WTCC and WRC coverage.
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What do you all think about the Ceremony, did you like it ?
Personally I thought that the part about the Renaissance and Baroque was too long and boring, besides that it was quite spectacular with Ferrari’s exhibition as a last minute surprise (apparently it wasn’t present in the general test the previous night).

Let’s hope we can enjoy fair and exciting games for the next couple of weeks !!

BTW, congratulations to Deneriaz for the gold in the Men’s Downhill, amazing performance ! After “poor” results by Mayer, Miller and particularly Rahlves (sp ??) I was a bit worried that it could be because of deteriorating conditions of the snow and that would have been a pity, but since the guy with number 30 won that wasn’t apparently the case.
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Speaking of Winter Olympics, Top Gear did a Winter Olymipcs Special at 9:10pm on Sunday here in the UK.

They basically ran some winter olympic events but with cars:

They showed their Mitsubishi Evo VI vs. Bobsleigh again
They played Ice Hockey with 10 new Suzuki Swifts
They speed-skated with a new Jaguar XK8
They tried ski-jumping....with a Rocket propelled Mini
Oh and Stig tried ski-jump with a Snow-Mobile!

Was great...anyone else see it?
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Spencifer_Murphy wrote:Speaking of Winter Olympics, Top Gear did a Winter Olymipcs Special at 9:10pm on Sunday here in the UK.

They basically ran some winter olympic events but with cars:

They showed their Mitsubishi Evo VI vs. Bobsleigh again
They played Ice Hockey with 10 new Suzuki Swifts
They speed-skated with a new Jaguar XK8
They tried ski-jumping....with a Rocket propelled Mini
Oh and Stig tried ski-jump with a Snow-Mobile!

Was great...anyone else see it?
"A" Stig DID a ski jump on a snow mobile - 8)

I sat through it with my son; both giggling like a couple of school-girls. Why is it that women just don't understand? :roll:

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Jennifer Heil :wink:

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Spencifer_Murphy
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"A" Stig DID a ski jump on a snow mobile -
True lol, A stig...not nessesarily THE stig. hehe. Still...looks good doesnt it, a snow mobile on a ski jump hehehehe.
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The best bit was the Shooting thing, poor tree never saw it coming

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LOL...that made me laugh...although you gotta admit...james May was a bit useful with the ol' rifle wasn't he?!
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yeah he was abit, was worried that captain Slow Maybe be some kinda Sniper (who was crap a ice hockey)
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was funny when captain Slow went too fast and ended up in a ditch. :D
The skijumping snowmobile was a very cool thing