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2008 Summer Olympics

Postby Yahshua » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:02 am

2008 Summer Olympics Medals - Totals by Country
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Postby Ashley » Mon Aug 11, 2008 11:41 am

I love the Olympics. I've been watching snatches of it here and there. I've been trying to watch the opening ceremonies that I recorded, but I just haven't had 2.5 hours to sit down and watch it. XD
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Postby mechana2015 » Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:42 pm

I've been watching a lot of it, including the full opening ceremonies.
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Postby LadyRushia » Mon Aug 11, 2008 3:36 pm

I've been watching them A LOT lately. I love them, XD. I've seen gymnastics, swimming, trap shooting, water polo, soccer, tennis, weight lifting, rowing, and cycling, but I really wanna see taekwondo (or however you spell it) and fencing.

Also, the opening ceremony was amazing. It made me want to go back to China.
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Postby Lilac#18 » Mon Aug 11, 2008 5:48 pm

I watch the summer olympics everytime it starts. I watched the in door women's volley ball, one of the syncronize divings, one of the badmiton matches and the women's gymnastics. Gymnastics is my most favorite olympic sport. I wonder when judo starts. Oh, and I watched the opening ceromony too.
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Postby blkmage » Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:42 pm

I managed to catch a good chunk of the opening ceremonies, which was absolutely stunning and made me wonder just how Canada can compete with that once everyone's looking our way in Vancouver come 2010.
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Postby Nate » Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:23 pm

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WASHINGTON—President George W. Bush delivered an encouraging motivational message to Beijing-bound Olympians Monday, urging them to "compete swifter, higher, and stronger in their pursuit of gold" so that they may achieve not just the glory of victory but the hard cash value of the much-needed commodity. "Truly, victory and pride are beyond price, but gold is currently going for $916.78 a troy ounce," Bush said in the Rose Garden speech, delivered just hours after he was unable to secure an agreement with the Chinese ambassador to forge the Olympic medals out of debt-relief certificates. "In striving, you uplift the hearts of all Americans, but in victory alone will you actually get something that can help us out of the current economic slump. I mean, silver is barely over 17 bucks. Might as well drop out at that rate." Bush later held a closed-door Oval Office meeting with swimmer Michael Phelps, whose possible eight gold medals could potentially help the Olympic team break even on travel costs.
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Postby ChristianKitsune » Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:32 pm

blkmage (post: 1252407) wrote:I managed to catch a good chunk of the opening ceremonies, which was absolutely stunning and made me wonder just how Canada can compete with that once everyone's looking our way in Vancouver come 2010.


So far, I haven't really paid attention to the games much...although I love hearing about how the US is doing XD.
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Postby Tsukuyomi » Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:07 am

I've started watching them recently 8D Although, I've missed the opening ceremony due to that blasted thing called the STOMACH FLU D:<

I'm liking what I'm seeing 8D To tell you the truth.. I'm not really concerned about who wins ^ ^ Just as long as I gets to see a good show \o.o/

My heart kinda dropped when that one Chinese guy stumbled tonight 8( I had the tv volume down pretty low, so I didn't get a chance to catch his name, but I was like,"OH NO, HE STUMBLED D:<" He was on the.. parallel bars.. I think o.o
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Postby blkmage » Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:18 am

Okay, Canada, honestly, where are our medals?
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Postby Puguni » Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:48 am

I feel like once other events start rolling, the ranks will shift drastically.

Until that happens, go Korea for being 3rd! :dizzy:
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Postby ChristianKitsune » Tue Aug 12, 2008 10:44 am

XD most the USA medals are from Swimming...
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Postby Danderson » Wed Aug 13, 2008 2:55 pm

ARG!!! Why do the fighting sports have to be on cable?!!! Curse u network tv for providing options for the rest of us....wait, I could probably just find some matches on the internet........never mind.....

Anywhoo, congrats to Phelps for becoming the winniest athlete ever.....And yeah, he really does make swiming all those different strokes easy......200 Butterfly by no means is easy....Heck, I find 100 butterfly difficult to do at the speeds he went......But then again, it's my least favourite stroke....
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Postby Tsukuyomi » Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:06 pm

I can't even float let alone swim.. >_>

So big ups to the swimmerz \o.o/
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Postby Midou » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:30 pm

At least your country has some medals. :( Canada doesn't have a single one yet.

However I am immensely Enjoying what Events Armed Forces Network is picking up of NBC!
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Postby LadyRushia » Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:56 pm

Danderson wrote:ARG!!! Why do the fighting sports have to be on cable?!!! Curse u network tv for providing options for the rest of us....wait, I could probably just find some matches on the internet........never mind.....

I have cable and I haven't seen any fighting events. I know that Tae Kwon Do starts next week, though.
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Postby Doe Johnson » Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:04 am

Does anybody else get to go to the Olympics right now? I got to watch Women's Basketball yesterday, Australia vs Korea and USA vs Mali. Australia and the USA won. I was on the big screen during the Australia game!!! Woot! Tomorrow I'm going at 9 AM for another match. Don't remember who will be playing, but I think it might include Australia and China...and...I've really forgotten who's going to play.

Over here, the Olympics are on about 5 channels 24 hours a day. (arg...non-spell-checking computers!)
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Postby MBlight » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:14 am

YAY! My ex-swimming coach Gerhard Zandberg is swimming Backstroke for the South African team!!! >dances<

Our freestyle relay was ever so slightly pathetically scary though >sniff sniff< well done to the Americans on that one though, they really deserved to win...
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Postby EricTheFred » Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:21 am

LadyRushia (post: 1252740) wrote:I have cable and I haven't seen any fighting events. I know that Tae Kwon Do starts next week, though.


Mostly watched boxing last night (the wife was glued to gymnastics out in the living room). Can't remember which channel it was on.

Judo, Fencing and G-R Wrestling are also going now. Taekwondo starts on the 20th.

Anyone happen to know why it is Taekwondo specifically for hand and foot fighting? Why not Kung Fu/Karate/Arnis/whatever? What brought the Korean form specifically into the Olympics?

Nothing against it, just curious.
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Postby GeneD » Thu Aug 14, 2008 1:15 pm

I love the Olympics. Yay, go China, go USA, go us! I never really mind who wins. I caught some synchronized diving and gymnastics yesterday, two of my favourite. China won both events I think.Unfortunately I really haven't been able to watch as much as I would like to.
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Postby Warrior4Christ » Fri Aug 15, 2008 12:02 am

Hehe... the above olympic site has the medal tally ranked by total, and a local site has the tally ranked by golds. I prefer the above olympic site, because it means Australia's coming third. XD

Doe Johnson (post: 1252808) wrote:Does anybody else get to go to the Olympics right now? I got to watch Women's Basketball yesterday, Australia vs Korea and USA vs Mali. Australia and the USA won. I was on the big screen during the Australia game!!! Woot! Tomorrow I'm going at 9 AM for another match. Don't remember who will be playing, but I think it might include Australia and China...and...I've really forgotten who's going to play.

Over here, the Olympics are on about 5 channels 24 hours a day. (arg...non-spell-checking computers!)

Lucky you! Does big screen = TV broadcast? Did you get someone to tape it? XD I would've.
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Postby minakichan » Fri Aug 15, 2008 5:25 am

Yay Olympics... China seems to be pwning the US as of now. Don't really know who to cheer for.

Anyone happen to know why it is Taekwondo specifically for hand and foot fighting? Why not Kung Fu/Karate/Arnis/whatever? What brought the Korean form specifically into the Olympics?


My rather baseless guess would be that while there are a lot of people who practice all kinds of martial arts, Sport Taekwondo seems to be more prominent than, say, Sport Kung Fu. I'm sure that if they had a category that did real martials arts, the number of competitors and the level of competition would be awesome.
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Postby EricTheFred » Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:29 am

minakichan (post: 1253135) wrote:Yay Olympics... China seems to be pwning the US as of now. Don't really know who to cheer for.


Unfortunately for China, their traditionally strongest events are mostly done. But, they've pushed really hard to develop in a wider range of sports, so maybe that won't matter.

I only occasionally have to choose between Norway and the U.S., of course. (It happens a lot more in the Winter Olympics) but I'll cheer for Norway when there isn't an American contending. Unfortunately for my wife, she only gets to cheer for the Philippines in extreme rarity (but Natalie Coughlin of the U.S. is one-quarter Filipino, so she could be happy about that.).
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Postby Roy Mustang » Fri Aug 15, 2008 10:21 am

The boxing has been showed on CNBC channel. Mostly from 5 pm to 8 pm and they start to covering events from 12 am to 4:30 am on weekday nights and about 12 to 2 am on weekends.


So far, its been boxing and softball that has aired on CNBC.

USA Network Channel is airing lineup is like NBC's line up, as its mostly multiple sports and mostly the ones that a lot of people really sit down to watch.

MSNBC is covering the women's wrestling starting Saturday, so I guess that will the channel that will air the men's wrestling as well.

MSNBC is the only channel that I don't go out of their lineup.

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Postby mechana2015 » Fri Aug 15, 2008 8:47 pm

Thanks for the info roy, I'll have to keep an eye on MSNBC for the next few days to see how the person I know does.
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Postby Nate » Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:05 pm

[SIZE="5"]Green-Clad Olympic Archer Steals Gold Medals From Rich, Gives Them To Poor[/SIZE]

BEIJING—Chinese Olympic officials say they are no closer to catching the swashbuckling, green-uniformed archery competitor who has disrupted every single medal ceremony of the Games by bursting in, stealing the gold medal or medals in the name of the poor in an archery-related fashion, striking a triumphant pose, and then disappearing without a trace.

"Good people of the world, take heart!" the mysterious figure said in his most recent appearance, when he burst into the medal ceremony for the Men's 200 Meter Freestyle. "Truly, these are good men, doughty and true; and their swimming has won the day. First place in the very world may they rightly claim, but in the name of the poor, the sickly, the lonely old, and the weak without voice, I hereby claim this gold that with it I may do greater good!"

The archer then shot a goose-feathered arrow through the ribbons holding the gold medals around the necks of the U.S. team, causing their medals to fall to the ground. The archer himself proceeded to leap from the rafters, alight on the podium's top step, collect his prize, and disappear through a nearby window.
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Postby Tsukuyomi » Sat Aug 16, 2008 1:21 pm

Don't know why, but I can picture "Friend" doing such a thing o_o;
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Postby CephasWhite » Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:37 pm

I just saw the men's 1500 meter race for swimming. Exhilarating! It was great watching those guys push through 20+ laps through water, and it was a CLOSE race! Moulonni(?) from Tuscanna got first, Grant Hackett from Australia got second and Ryan Cochrane from Canada got third followed by a Russian for forth, I didn't catch his name though.

It was amazing.

I'm still waiting for Micheal Phelps attempt for his 8th gold. It is going to be a good one. ^__^

Edit: HE WON!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! 8 GOLDS!!!!!
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Postby LadyRushia » Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:03 pm

CephasWhite wrote:Edit: HE WON!!!! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! 8 GOLDS!!!!!

YESSSS!!! One more cool thing for Baltimore to be known for. 8D
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Postby CephasWhite » Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:36 pm

Phelps will be known as the greatest Olympian in History! He beat the 36 year record of 7 Medals at once by another swimming Olympian back in 1972
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