Being at the Super G in the snow, with the crowds and the families.
Lesly Beck, 43, Utah";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Seeing (Carolina) Costner, the Italian skater – she skated really beautifully.
Simona Fiore, 27, Parma, Italy";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "The crowded souvenir store, or the really good pizza that’s served in Torino.
Scott de Baldo, 29, originally from Ohio, lives in United Kingdom";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I don’t remember his name, but the Italian speedskater who won.
Karen Putsch, Florence, 45, Italy";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Canada losing hockey and the terrible food. The expectations ... you think it's going to be really great food and then you get here and it's terrible.
Mike Smith, 26, Canada, refused to have photo taken";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "We transport the anti-doping doctors around. We took the doctors around the mountains and in Turin so they could do their anti-doping work. For us it’s been amazing because we’ve done a very positive thing. All the doctors are very motivated to do this work and I’ve met Chinese, Japanese, Americans – there are people from everywhere. This is the opportunity of a lifetime.
Vicenzo Melacarme, originally from Puglia, lives in Turin, 60";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "For us Torinesi it’s a grand event, a unique moment. We are proud to have been chosen as the Olympic city. We want to help our city. We transport the Olympic family that stays at one of the four main hotels.
Franco Casalino, 55, from Alpignano, 14 kilometers outside Turin, Volunteer team leader for a transportation unit.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "It has been a very important experience for my professional future as I have learned about the habits and customs of people of many different nationalities.
Riccardo di Domenico, 34, Rome, Head Waiter";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Being two retired factory workers, we thought we’d donate our time to this important cause. We feel the need to do something good and have a new experience. For all of us it has been a beautiful, wonderful experience.
Carmelo Bonomo, 57, originally from Sicily, lives in Turin
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "It has been enthusiastic, fun, and at the same time has helped me understand foreign cultures. I hope this experience will act as the trampoline that launches Turin to a new life.
Antonio Castellano, 25, from Turin, Barman";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "It’s been a beautiful experience. I’m happy to have done it and to keep doing it. It seems like a dream to me. We’re all volunteers with this type of jacket. It’s been a beautiful experience.
Alberi Lore, 60, lives in Turin, Spectator Service Volunteer";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I want to get a pin of a figure skater spinning, but I haven’t been able to find it yet other than in the catalogue. They don’t have it in the store anymore. I went and saw the figure skating last night, so I’d like to have it. I just got here yesterday so I’m making my way around trying to figure out what there is.
Doug Prior, 44, Washington";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "We buy jewelry here. It’s my 13th time in Italy, and there’s a lady who makes beautiful jewelry for us with ribbons and stuff that nobody else makes. It’s just multi-ribbons and the way she strings them with the beads. I also make jewelry for my daughter with beads I buy in Venice but this is just magnificent.
Kathy McCade, doesn’t tell her age, New Jersey";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Most of the souvenir stores have run out of Olympic stuff. I just saw online that the only things they have left are the really high-end stuff like Torino leather jackets. But, pens, T-shirts, and that kind’ve stuff has all been sold out. What I’m probably going to take back with me is definitely going be the chocolate. I think I’m going to go back with about eight bags of chocolate, one for each of the people in my family.
Navid Khonsari, 36, New York";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I will be taking home chocolate, wine, and pins – lot’s of Torino, Olympic pins. The trading scene is huge here and it’s going to blow up.
Bessie Morris, 31, New York";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Gianduia, the chocolate. And the gadgets from the different houses – Holland, and of course Canada. The pins, and caps, and T-Shirts.
Roberto Giolitto, 37, born in Italy, lives in Ontario";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I had the best coffee of my life here. But, if I buy it it’d be cold by the time I get back home! I got a little T-Shirt from the next winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Luca Molteni, 39, Como, Italy";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "We are here just for the second day so we haven’t bought anything yet. But, I haven’t seen anything special.
Renazs Danelsons, 30, Latvia";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Clam sauce with spaghetti, and veal, and ravioli was really good. Everything I’ve had here has been really good.
Mary Weight, 57, Michigan";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "The veal. It’s flat and it’s breaded and it’s the real thing. It’s like chicken back at home. It’s good. And the wine. It’s good wine. I never drank wine before.
John Tkachuk, 58, Boston";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Hot dogs! The veal was awesome too. It was awesome. And the hot chocolate!
Brady Tkachuk, 6, Missouri";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Veal and the spaghetti and the gnocchi and freaky fries! At the hockey games they have freaky fries and they’re just like French fries but hard and like a chip, but they look like French fries.
Matthew Tkachuk, 8, Missouri";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "All the pasta has been amazing, and all the pastries, and the chocolate is to die for.
Chantal Tkachuk, 33, Missouri";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Spaghetti with vodka sauce and prosciutto. It’s a cream sauce.
Michael, \"old enough,\" from New Jersey, living in Finland";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "The veal was very good.
Sharon Carlisle, 37, Michigan";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I've been a student here since August so I've done a lot of stuff, but I like the Mole Antonelliana (cinema museum), also the Superga (Basilica) up on the hill has a great overview of the city. It's just amazing to see how the city’s changed. I didn't think it could be done, they had so many things going on. But, it's amazing what they've done. The Mole really stands out to me because it has so much history.
Andrew Huey, 21, Calif.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I'm very interested in the Asian drawings I saw the Galleria Sabauda. It's a very interesting museum with a lot of history of pictures. I have just been there.
Satoshi Kohara, Japan";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I like the Egyptian museum, but I just like that kind've stuff. So, we went there and walked around and did a tour that was really cool.
Amber Griswold, 20, Calif.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "We got chef's caps from our friend and when people ask us where we're from, we say Lichtenstein, which is a very small country. I think they only have three or four participants and people really believe that we are from Lichtenstein, which says something about the atmosphere that's very international and nobody really knows where anyone’s from. No one knows which country has these colors, but it's just a cook's cap. Anyway, the best thing we've done so far is ... uh ... we visited Cafe Torino, which is where Dutch television makes its daily program.
Peter Van den Brink, 42, Netherlands";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I just thought all the stuff was fun. It's a really beautiful city. They have a lot of really good statues and architecture here. The new fountains they put up for the Olympics are really nice too
Amy Hardy, 24, Calif.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "The whole city is beautiful. I like seeing it all.
Seiki Iwakura, 32, Japan";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "The snow was the best thing.
Brigitte Hoffmann, 56, Switzerland";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "A trip of the city. Touring the city has been very good.
Tino Signori, 69, Switzerland";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Freestyle aerials are my favorite although it got snowed out last night, but I'm looking forward to seeing it Thursday. I've just been to the men's 1,000, which was exciting -- USA got one-two. I'm going to see bobsled so that'll be exciting.
Amanda Streams, 33, Seattle, Washington";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "The best was speed skating. Obviously, I supported Marianne Timmer, the Dutch female skater who won the gold medal. And we go tomorrow to the skating again, the 1,500 meters. That's the best for us. We don't come for the skiing or anything, but specially for the speed skating.
Joseph Groot, 51, Netherlands";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I have only seen curling, and I enjoyed, and I will be seeing the biathlon.
Ada Ingvaldsen, Norway";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Women's figure skating is my favorite, but I will only be seeing it on TV. I am here to enjoy the city and the Olympic feel.
Miyuki Dohi, 33, Japan";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Women's figure skate is my favorite. I am Japanese so I want Shizuka Arakawa to win.
Emiko Dohi, Japan (right)";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "My favorite sport is ice skating and tonight is the couples finals, so I want France to win and Italy to come second, as I’m half French and half Greek but working in Italy. The Italians fell, but let’s hope the best for them.
Christina Zymbopoulos, Greece";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I like watching skiing, but I also have bad memories because when the skiers grow old they can’t move very well. All of the athletes who ski are in bad shape when they’re old. I lived in the mountains, and although skiing wasn’t my favorite thing my wife was very good at it, so I would accompany her. And now I watch it on TV.
Giuseppe Cordero, 84, Turin";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Amazing. I think Turin’s in the center, the heart of the world now. It’s the first time that I see a TV studio in a square in the middle of the snow. So for me it’s only amazing. There are no other words for it.
Daniele Tagliabue, 32, Como";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "The ideas of the Americans are a bit different from ours, but I think they’ve done it well. I think it would be nice if they didn’t make such a big show and instead showed more unity over the Games with all of the people. I think everyone should be together and it seems to me like a nation that does things for itself.
Giuseppe Tagliabue, 60, from Como";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "It’s good for Turin and it brings a positive image of Turin to the world. It pleases me too as I just retired a little while ago, so I come here every morning when the show’s on. Yesterday I saw the snowboarding champion and the other day I saw two women champions, one who got a gold and another with silver. I see my friends and have also gotten to meet Americans and trade pins and chat with them.
Giuseppe Stagliano, 61, Turin";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "It’s great. We cheer for the Americans too. Well, more for the Italians, but you know it’s in the Olympic spirit. We’re tourists too as we come from another part of Italy and Turin’s more festive to see now.
Ambrogio Castoldi, 38, Como";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I like this idea very much. I even come to this piazza just to see the show and what’s going on. In Turin, we’re not used to seeing so many people so it makes me happy to see people from all over the world and to see them so enthusiastic about the city.
Carmen Mallus, 44, Turin";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Turin’s a beautiful city and I think that if tourists see images of the city they will come. If they see the royal palace and all the historic sites on TV they’ll see it’s worth visiting here.
Federico Modena, 43, Turin";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I like it a lot. It’s informational, visible to everyone, and you can learn something watching it. It’ll be good for tourism as it’s bringing Turin to an international level even if it’s a really ugly city ... really ugly (laughing).
Puccio Bossi, 45, from Milan";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I was disappointed for her cause I was really hoping that was her shot -– especially after the first fall. We were all cheering for her and then went she went down it was kind've sad for us as Americans. It looked like her snowboard got away from her. I don't think she was showing off -– I think she was trying a little harder to prove that what happened the other day was just a fluke.
Kevin James, 39, California";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I don't think showboating has anyplace in the Games. There shouldn't be a whole lot of pride there -– it's embarrassing, I think.
Rob James, 31, Arizona";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "It was showboatin' -- it's typical American. You know, we're out in the lead, wanted to that little extra shot for sports line, whatever, did the jump, didn't make it. It was still close, though. But, she should still be proud of herself. If I could do it, I wouldn't care, you know you're in the top three. She did awesome throughout all the semifinals, in the time trials and stuff.
Becky Meadows, 25, snowboarder from Maryland, based with the U.S. military in Germany.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I thought Lindsey did really well yesterday. I think she truly is a snowboarder in the sense that she just got caught up in the moment doing what she would normally do on the slopes, enjoying herself. She was having such a good ride, she just thought: \"I'm gonna try something a little bit different this time.\" But, she should be proud she got the silver medal. That's the meaning of sportsmanship – just going out there and having a good time and enjoying it.
Andra Yanchenko, 45, American living in London";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Lindsey did really well -– she shouldn't be ashamed. The favorite who'd been the fastest all morning was the last one down the mountain because she had such a difficult fall that she couldn't even finish, so it just goes to show that stuff happens on the day and you can't control it.
Melissa West, 19, American living in London
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I feel really bad for her cause she really did think she had the gold, so I don't think it was bad for her to try to add in a little extra jump thing, but it really is sad that she lost it so closely. It was a really exciting race. You should just be proud to represent your country -– it’s an amazing achievement. I'm very proud of her. I think she was just trying to please the crowd.
Rebecca West, 16, American living in London
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "On every jump it seemed like she was grabbing her board, but it's hard to say cause she did have a big lead. It was coming down the last stretch, so you expected her to win, so silver medal was kind've a disappointment.
But, come on, a silver medal at the Olympics -– 2nd place in the Olympics is still pretty good.
Josh Freesler, 21, Ohio
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I don't know because I am studying so I can't go to see any events. I study music and I am too busy to go.
Chiara Peyrone, 23, Turin";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "They are too expensive. We have figure skating tickets and they cost 290 (euros) and that is really too expensive. We also have hockey tickets and they cost 40 (euros) and that was not too bad. Next time it will be even more expensive because it is in Vancouver (Canada).
Alexandra Suter, 22, Zurich, Switzerland";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I think they are fine. We just went to a hockey game between Italy and Finland. It's just so exciting to be here and whether you charge $50 or $100, if someone wants to go they are going to pay the price. The tickets were hard to get and there were a lot of empty seats in the stadium.
Suzanne Moncure, 50, Larchmont, N.Y.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "They are high, you are paying for a lot of different things. I've seen the downhill, slalom and two-man luge. Ice skating was just way out of our price range –- I can't afford them. And if you look at the venue it was more than half empty.
Lisa Galetto, Sonoma, Calif.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "They are incredibly reasonable. I'm a student from the States studying here for the year. I was surprised, I though the tickets would be more expensive. We got the tickets in December to four events and it's everything I wanted to see -– two hockey games, women’s snowboarding and freestyle aerials.
Sarah Kopp, 20, Columbia, Mo.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "The figure skating and opening ceremonies were very high. Figure skating we paid 220 (euros) and we thought we were in the B section which ended up way up high. It's worth it. It's great.
Donna Baldwin, San Diego, Calif.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "We just got here and we've only had two hours of spare time. We are going to go everywhere and especially watch Canada beat the U.S. in hockey. Right now, though, we're really just trying to get our bearings. Do you know where the center of the city is?
Mark Capern, Toronto, Canada";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I'm an amateur pin trader and I have a lot of friends here, so I am catching up with them. I just saw (Italian skier Alberto) Tombo at the sponsor village, then ran into Katie Couric and saw Nancy Kerrigan the other day, so it's a mix of people that you wouldn't see in the U.S. who are out there. The food's great, the wine's great – I'm just having a great time.
Tim Jameson, 58, Roanoke, Va.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Shopping. They have great shopping here. And the outdoor cafes are terrific, but really most of our time here has been spent at work.
Kamy Dawkins, Toronto, Canada";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Just walking around Turin, checking out the sites, eating the food, going to the museums. We had great hot chocolate – we had different flavors, fruit hot chocolate, chocolate nut. It was like pudding almost.
Igor Falatski, 21, Vancouver, Canada";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "We just got here and ate lunch. We decided to come only last week and are here only 24 hours. We are going to have chocolate and then go to a men's hockey game.
Tamie Belsh, New York City";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Alisa Camplin, the Australian freestyle skier is our favorite. She's Australia's gold medalist from the Salt Lake City. She just had a knee reconstruction, and we're hoping she can ski well and can compete well. The competition is next week and we've been planning on going for five years.
Chris Bray, 49, Adelaide, Australia";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I am from Estonia and we’ve got our first female medal – Kristina Smigun won in cross-country skiing and I really hope Andrus Veerpalu will do the same thing he did in Salt lake City – he won the 15 kilometer classical for men. He’s going to compete on Friday and I will be there.
Kalju Pluutus, 26, Tallinn, Estonia";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Ireen Wust she won the 3,000 meter in skating so I am proud of her because she is from Holland. But I was here one day too late to see her.
Silvia Abcouwer, 30, Zaandam, Holland";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I don’t really know any of the athletes here. We’ve just come to see some action, some sport – tomorrow night we are going to see the ice hockey.
Katherine Sellar, 25, London, Great Britain";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Hannah Teter because she won yesterday when we were there. We just come to see the events and don’t necessarily follow the American athletes.
Antje Spethmann, 35, Portland, Ore.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Audrey Robichaud, our daughter! She was one of the youngest in the [freestyle skiing] race and she came in eighth which is wonderful.
Real Robichaud, Quebec, Canada";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "We're hanging out with the ladies. Our family is back home. I got stuff in my luggage -– cards and that sort of thing.
Rebecca Anderson, 30, Minneapolis";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I'm taking my wife to Cambio –- it's supposed to be one of the most romantic restaurants in Italy, so we'll see tonight. It's not a surprise anymore, but I figured \"when in Rome,\": or \"when in Torino.\"
Delbert Bray, 44, Louisville, Kentucky";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "We celebrated yesterday –- we went to Milan and had a lovely dinner at the Four Seasons. Today we are going to go to a hockey game for Valentine's day.
Leslie and John Bari, 34, Philadelphia, Pa.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "We are walking around, maybe we will go to an event later on. I'm looking to get the new Olympics Valentine's pin; I've gotten them from all the other Olympics. We did cards and chocolate -– the whole thing this morning.
Mike and Sue Rose, Rochester";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "My husband works for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. so he's working today.
Anne Bernier, Canadian who lives in Paris";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Normally we give cards, but because we are here there was no time really to buy something special. We are just enjoying the time here in Torino, and that's the biggest gift really.
Claudia Grosser, 25, Vienna, Austria";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I feel very sorry for her -- she's done four years training for this moment. My son was in the luge and he's strained all sorts of muscles. It's just bad luck. I feel sorry for her.
Maureen Hatton, London, Great Britain";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "It was probably a good decision on her part because she's had a lot of chances to be here, and if she's not going to be 100 percent, then it's not fair to not let someone else have their turn.
Jamie Jones, 18, Steamboat Springs, Colo.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "It's a shame because she really worked hard to get back into it. She's a real competitor and I think she would have done really well. It’s too bad things didn't work out.
Karl Kowalewski, 52, Toronto, Canada";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "It's in a sense justice that the girl she bumped out is now able to compete. It's very unfortunate for her, but if she's not competing at 100 percent it's great to give another skater a chance.
Julie Lively, 34, Tennessee";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Michelle: If it's going to hurt her performance then she shouldn't compete.
Kimberly: Why doesn't she just go for it anyway? She doesn't have anything to lose. I mean it's her last chance.
Michelle and Kimberly Smith, Richmond, Va.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Bobbie: The food is fabulous. We’ve been eating lots of pasta. And the delis -– you go in and get the great sandwiches with the mozzarella, basil and tomato. It’s wonderful.
Brad: And the antipasti bars are like no other.
Bobbie: But they only like you to make one trip to the salad bar.
Brad: We found that out after a second trip. It was so good I went back for a second plate and they looked at me kind of funny.
-- Bobbie and Brad Whitmore, Sarasota, Fla.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "We are staying with my wife’s sister and she has cooked for us. It was amazing and Italian cuisine is magnificent. I’m sure the restaurants are just as good but I haven’t had the opportunity to eat there yet because we are eating at home.
-- Otto Eigen, Berlin, Germany";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "We just had sausage and it was good but we have only eaten in fast food restaurants so we cannot judge the other restaurants in Turin. But the quality of the food we ate was OK and the prices were not too high.
-- Sander Van Mersberten, 24, Rotterdam, Netherlands";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "The food in Turin is excellent as long as you stay out of the touristy spots. We walk down the side streets -- like we did today -- and order a pizza or something, which is great as long as you don’t get anchovies, which is what I got.
-- Jonathan Payne, 25, Nashville, Tennessee";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "We haven’t actually had that much food in Torino, we’ve been staying in Como and the meal we had last night was excellent. I had pasta, I forget what it was called.
-- Jill Schiferl, 35, Madison, Wis.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "You can eat ice cream, it’s very good. The best is in Turin. My favorite is Gianduja – it’s Turinese chocolate, very good.
-- Antonella Giahudo, 30, Turin";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Absolutely nothing, we came courtesy of Visa. We're on a trip -- some of our husbands are at a meeting. I work for a bank and we put out a competition for some of our staff and I got to come along.
--Wendy Shrap, 37, Derby, U.K.
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I came from Geneva and it was not very expensive -– about 40 euro one way. I will stay one day -– there are no rooms at the hotels, maybe I will go to Milan to sleep. Not going to any sports, it's too expensive and today is the opening ceremony and that is very expensive. I hope to find a big screen; do you know where I can find one?
--Yuri Abozny, 30, Geneva, Switzerland
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "The flight tickets were 60 pounds each, (about $104). We are going to see women's hockey! Canada-Russia, Canada-Italy. It should be really good. They were 20 and 40 euro and the moguls were 30.
--Elizabeth Anderson, 18, Queens International Study Center in East Sussex, originally from Canada
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "I live in Torino, I have my own home. For the opening ceremony I will watch on TV. But the rest of the time I will enjoy all the life in Torino, because it's a wonderful city to enjoy life. I have two tickets for ice hockey competition –- the semifinal, and one for figure skating because our first hope for the Olympics is Italian. The tickets were a lot but it's worth it because it is one time in a life in our city.
--Andre Parodi, 27, Turin";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "Nan Vaile: Probably about $5,000 and we are just here for the weekend. It cost $1,500 in travel each.
Nan: Opening tickets were about $1,200 apiece; that was face value. But that's American. When I was charged for the tickets I thought they made a mistake because I was quoted in euros and I thought it was dollars.
Ryan: We are also going to see pairs figure skating and then we are going to head back Sunday morning.
Nan: They were 280 euro. It's worth it –- this is out third Olympics. We've decided the most important is to come for the Opening Ceremony. The rest is really fun to watch on TV because you hear whose son that is and how his mother got up at 5 in the morning to drive him.
--Ryan Vaile, 30, and his mother Nan Vaile, Chicago, Ill.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "\"I am looking forward to the opening ceremony. I heard there are a lot of famous designers, and I am really interested in that kind of stuff. Actually I am only watching the opening ceremonies. I couldn't find a hotel to stay so I have to leave tonight for Milan. I am also going to some other cities in Italy.\"
--Zach Wong, 33, New York";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "\"I don’t really care so much about the Olympics, I don’t really like snow. Also I am not going to see anything because it is too difficult. It is far to see the events in the mountains. I don’t really like the games.\"
--Eliza Portinion, 24, Turin";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "\"The opening ceremonies -- we are very excited to see that. Usually when I know it's in Europe, I expect something kind of wild, avant-garde. But we're in Italy -- who knows, fireworks for sure.\"
--Tom Dixon, 43, Colorado Springs, Colo., choreographer for male skater Matt Savoy";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "\"I wish I could see the sports but I can’t and we don’t have a TV so we probably won’t even watch any. I’d like to see the figure skating of course because I’m a girl.\"
--Caitlyn Buckley, 20, architecture student in Urbana, Ill. Living in France for the year.";
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WinterOly_OnTheStreet[i-1].body = "\"Everything, opening, closing, everything. Here as a visitor from Australia. I am a great tourist of the region, I love the region, it’s my third time here. I’m going to see as much as I can. I love the skating and the hockey, the opening tonight and hopefully the closing. Maybe not as much out of the city but the city’s great, I love the people.\"
--Karen, \"near 60,\" Sydney, Australia";
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