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Feb. 12th, 2010 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
diekahviEven LJ shows a fitting layout and I am taking my new olympic icon for a walk in the snow (that's the white stuff we have loads of but that is missing in Vancouver - weird).
So prepare for some LJ babbeling about sports in the next two weeks ^_^ Sadly I won't be able to watch much live because of the time difference and of course work. I miss uni on occasions like this *sigh* but I'm not such a hardcore fan that I am going to waste my holidays on it - although these are going to be Oles last games. That really really tempted me. (But I want to save days for the Fatasy Filmfest and the games fair.) *shakes fist at Ole* You and your damn country made me an addict of your sport and the winter olympics 16 years ago! Before that I only watched figure skating and 4-bobsleigh (because of the teams UK, Jamaica and Monaco).
EDIT: befor anyone jumps on it... I know about the controversies concerning forests and first nation protests - and of course the olympics being a very commercial event. Not every olympics is like the 1994 games in Norway (the "green games"), unfortunately.
And because of mentioning Europe and native tribal people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people btw there are 87 distinct people in Europe according to wikipedia. So much for "homogenous" Europeans :-) Well yes, I read too much meta discussions this week on LJ :-) *ups*
So prepare for some LJ babbeling about sports in the next two weeks ^_^ Sadly I won't be able to watch much live because of the time difference and of course work. I miss uni on occasions like this *sigh* but I'm not such a hardcore fan that I am going to waste my holidays on it - although these are going to be Oles last games. That really really tempted me. (But I want to save days for the Fatasy Filmfest and the games fair.) *shakes fist at Ole* You and your damn country made me an addict of your sport and the winter olympics 16 years ago! Before that I only watched figure skating and 4-bobsleigh (because of the teams UK, Jamaica and Monaco).
EDIT: befor anyone jumps on it... I know about the controversies concerning forests and first nation protests - and of course the olympics being a very commercial event. Not every olympics is like the 1994 games in Norway (the "green games"), unfortunately.
And because of mentioning Europe and native tribal people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_people btw there are 87 distinct people in Europe according to wikipedia. So much for "homogenous" Europeans :-) Well yes, I read too much meta discussions this week on LJ :-) *ups*
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