XXVIII Olympiad
 

I figured the Olympics deserved a thread, so here it is.

Go Michael Phelps, my Baltimorian homie!

Go Perdita Felicien... I think it's time someone who ISNT doping wins a medal in Track events

I think Mexico only has chance to get medal in:

- 400 mts women (Ana Guevara) -> Gold
- Men's soccer -> Silver (Argentina gets gold)
- Boxing -> 2 bronze medals
- Diving -> Silver

GO MEXICO!!!
:thumbsup:

I'm an Olympics junkie. It's on 24 hours a day so I figure I'll get about 4 hours sleep a night.

I'm watching Germany Vs. Cuba Volleyball, and boy, I'm riveted.

Damn, I gotta turn on the Olympics.

Brazillian swimmer....
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Russian water polo....
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Beach volleyball......
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One of the few sports events I watch. Along with Red Sox games and Pats Games.

It's kind of Olympics overload right now. To go along with the normal coverage on NBC, there's coverage on CNBC, MSNBC, Bravo, and Telemundo. At one point today I reluctantly admit to watching some preliminary women's table tennis match for a bit.

I expect a medal in boxing for Puerto Rico...i dont know if any other sport :(

USA Men's Basketball team lost to Peurto Rico by 19

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I hope they dont win a game

puñeta!!
Go Puerto Rico

it was a complete surprise to all.

Yup, US Men's Basketball sucks ballz so far.
Iverson, reportedly, doesn't even show up for practice.


In other news, US Women's Softball team kicked Australia's ass today with a 10-0 victory. (sorry, Aussies) :thumbsup:

From "The Houston Chronical":

I was suprised how well South Africa did in the Men's 4 x 100 Freestyle. While, also, being surprised how poorly Australia did finishing in sixth. I though they would atleast medal.

Go US rowing! 2 world records in the big boats - and I know most of em!

I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not, but i thought it was damn good :D

Australia's team wasn't as good/strong as last time, so it was expected that they'd weren't going to be as good. I am glad SA won though, and that the US didn't win :D

Australia have been going great so far. With a population of about 20 million, we're second on the list (by gold) and have equal amount of medals :)
- although swimming is probably our best event(s), so later on we'll probbaly slow down a bit. Anyway, i am hooked, watching all kinds of nonsensical events and always going for the underdog or the Australian :D

Dangit, the Canadians also beat the world record, but were still second in their heat to the US. Unbelievable standard of competition this year, can't wait to watch more!

I admit Im a junkie too....yesterday I watched the table tennis, the womens softball, the swimming, rowing and gymnastics, ordinarily the only thing I watch is gymnastics....Man that game between the womens US and Australia softball teams was awesome!!!

Nothing like international butt shots. Go get em swimmers!

For some reason this years Olympics doesn't interest me much. I guess I prefer the winter Olympics.

Men team gymnastics final is on tonight (If I read the schedule right). My prediction is that China will win gold. Japan will win Silver and either Romania or USA will win bronze.

I'm enjoying it so far, even though the only medal UK has got is for "syncronised diving" - Phelps vs Thorpe was pretty good. Paula Radcliffe has a good chance at the women's marathon, and we should pick up some medals in the sailing and rowing...

Just finished watching the Men's 3m synch final and I have to say it was more exciting than I thought it would be. In the third round America managed to pull from 7th place to 2nd, but all the action happened on the final dives. One of the divers on the Chinese team (who had a commanding lead toward gold) failed his dive dropping China out of gold contention. Then one guy on the Russian team hit his feet on the diving board. Greece came out and did a great diving putting them into first. Then the American team was up. All they needed to beat Greece was 8.0 and 8.5's, but they messed up their dives bad, under-rotating and making huge splashes, and ended up in 5th. Leaving Greece to win the gold.

i'm so stoked by my timing.
i wanted to watch the mens 200m freestyle final, which had Thorpe, Hackett, Van Den Hoogenband (sp?) and Phelps in it... but it was on at 2.43am this morning...

so what does my weirdo body do? it wakes me up at exactly 2.43am this morning.
watched the race. and what a frigging awesome race.

GO THORPIE!!! just too strong.

he's now the greatest olympian Australia has ever produced or something like that.

and go Japan... atm coming 3rd in the overall medal tally!!

Thorpie must have very wide gear ratios. It takes him a long time to hit top gear then he just burns the rest of the field. Go thorpie in the 100 tonight!

Been pretty entertaining so far. The aussies are kicking some arse in the pool. There has also been some great boxing aswell.

Heh, that's why it's good to be in Perth, cause it's only 12:43 for us :p

Womens 100m and womens 200 m breaststroke tonight - should go nicely in both :D

Funny i usually love the olympics, but this time havent really watched any of it. Still track and field starts tomorrow.

ah yes track and field soon, always my fav. the swimming this year as been awesome watching the thorpedo and phelps go for golds. baseball has been nice to see, love seeing the different arm angles of the japanese teams.

Misty May is hot.

That is all.

aaaaaand the usa mens basketball team loses again

horray!

I think I was going to say something about the Olympics until I saw that Brazilian ass and now I am speechless....

Way to go Grant Hackett....he took the 1500m for the second Olympics in a row, and broke Keiren Perkins' Olympic record. Perkins won the event for two Olympics running too, so now Aussies have dominated long distance swimming for four Olympics!

Look forward to Jana Pittman winning her hurdles run - that chick has been through hell to be there.

i think gail devers is faking it ,i think she`s just too old ..

US hoops just beat Spain to advance to the medal round. This never should have been in question, but for now, they seemed to have saved themselves from some embarrassment.

Did any of you see the bronze medal boxing match between Australia and Egypt (I think). The ozzie was kicking arse but everytime he hit the egyption the egyption got the point. So the ozzie lost like 24 points to 8. The crowd as well as the commentators were all booing the scorers because it was sooooo dodgy. If you hit the other guy then your meant to get the point. Not the other way around.