Olympics

So what, no one likes organized sport? There has to be someone with whom to discuss the Olympics here. Ignoring the political side, it's pretty fun to watch. Too many records being broken, and Canada is doing horribly so far. I guess we pumped all our cash into the 2010 Winter Olympics.

How about an easy one, what's your favourite event to watch?

Man Phelps is clearing out the gold medals. Also Kazahkstan (spelling?) has more medals then Canada. haha

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Gymnastics, yay! ^.^ China won that, and the winners looked so happy, although they couldn't have been sixteen yet... ah well, yay! ^.^

And gosh, Phelps has won sooo many medals! It's like, not fair!!! Especially in the one team swimming thing - jeez louise, the US was so far ahead that it wasn't very interesting to watch at all! And Phelps looked rather worried from the sidelines, despite the fact that there was hardly any way that we could lose... COME ON!!

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Originally posted by Raymus
Man Phelps is clearing out the gold medals. Also Kazahkstan (spelling?) has more medals then Canada. haha

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So does Mongolia. And India (who famously do not care about the Olympics at all). And a bunch of other places.

Anyways, just wait till 2010...[/lame excuse]

Phelps is sweeping the medals...I admit I like watching his races

Swimming isn't very much fun to watch, in my opinion, and it's less fun now that the question isn't who will win, but whether or not he'll break five-hundred world records in the process. Women's swimming is much more entertaining, but it's still just people going back and forth.

Gymnastics is where it's at for me. It's thrilling, scary, exhilirating, and just plain fun to watch.

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Yup! ^.^ Gymnastics are the best!!!

I mean, it's amazing that people can even do all that stuff, yay!

mmm i like the gmynastics, swimming and the ping pong is epic,

australias population is only somthing like 20 - 21 million
and we're comming about 6th in medal tally

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Originally posted by Farren
mmm i like the gmynastics, swimming and the ping pong is epic,

australias population is only somthing like 20 - 21 million
and we're comming about 6th in medal tally

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i have very little interest in sports but im still always proud to have something to brag about at times like this Australia is a very sport oriented country of course.. as well as our own leagues we do well in most international sports too.

Yay Australia!

although... I'm not from Australia...

But ah well, I know people from Australia on the internet!! (Honestly, that's rather what I thought. I have a strange thought-process, proving that I spend a tad bit too much time on my computer. ah well, yay!)

Am I the only one who thinks gymnastics is stupid? I give props to the competitors as I'll believe that it takes a lot of work and training, I wont doubt that, but I hate the fact that it is judged, so it doesnt matter how you think you did, its still in the hands of a group of people. The old stopwatch is much more reliable IMO. Im not a big fan of any of the judged sports, be it winter or summer. Figure skating, Diving, Gymnastics, etc. They all do nothing for me, but hats off to the competitors anyways.

The stories so far really are Phelps. I would hate to be trying to win a swimming medal. China and the States are going to be dogfighting for the total count at the end. Speaking of which, how about China? They do pour money into their sports, but they are just good at everything. Should be interesting.

Oh yeah, and Canada is just pathetic at the summer olympics. If it wasnt for rowing, we might not win anything at all. Although I like our odds at baseball, I think we are still looking at 5 medals at best.

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Yesterday morning, I discovered that I really enjoy watching gymnastics. Especially horse and parallel bars.

Have they started on table tennis yet? I'm not terribly interested in a lot of Olympic events, but I like to watch that. Um... I also quite like long jump and things. Judo is surprisingly boring, and doesn't make any sense to me.

And I quite like the fact that China appear to be beating everybody at everything, after all the problems they had leading up to the games.

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Hm, haven't had a chance to watch much. I saw Mongolia winning the judo, which was great, they all got so happy. It's Mongolia's first gold isn't it?

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Originally posted by Miyrru
Am I the only one who thinks gymnastics is stupid? I give props to the competitors as I'll believe that it takes a lot of work and training, I wont doubt that, but I hate the fact that it is judged, so it doesnt matter how you think you did, its still in the hands of a group of people.

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Originally posted by Farren
australias population is only somthing like 20 - 21 million
and we're comming about 6th in medal tally

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You know, I recall hearing somewhere about all the new swimsuits - you know, how they go really far down the swimmer's legs, and then some of the guys where it over there chests too? Apparently it makes the swimmer's bodies sleeker or something, and the pool is very, very high tech. Wave free, or something. So anyway, I heard that the people winning may only have had the better technology, and you can't tell as well now who really had the most talent.

Yup.

Edit: Hey, do the commentators bother anybody else sometimes?

Like when someone does this amazing gymnastics stunt on the uneven bars, and like halfway through it, as she's still doing great, they say "Ooh! That's gonna cost her!" and you can't figure out what she did wrong?

Or just any time in particular when someone's doing amazing and they say that like "Oh! That toe wasn't pointed enough, that's gonna be a HUGE deduction from their score!" Yeah.

Post last edited by Yay! Kiki on 08.15.2008, 01:31 PM.

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And I quite like the fact that China appear to be beating everybody at everything, after all the problems they had leading up to the games.

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You're speaking as if the problems were not partly their own fault.

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Am I? I didn't specify.


@JRR: Olympics and SpongeBob sounds like a good combination.


Oh, today I finally saw some table tennis! It was the women's team (not doubles, which is completely different) semi final, and Singapore beat South Korea. It was quite exciting.

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Men's swimming hasn't been that exiting since phelps has been on a gold metal streek. I'm looking forward to seeing some ping-pong and fencing though.

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Am I the only one who thinks gymnastics is stupid? I give props to the competitors as I'll believe that it takes a lot of work and training, I wont doubt that, but I hate the fact that it is judged, so it doesnt matter how you think you did, its still in the hands of a group of people.

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Producers of the dazzling Olympic opening ceremony on August 8th acknowledged that an adorable nine-year-old girl in a red dress was miming her solo rather than singing, and that the actual singer had been removed at the last minute because of her round face and uneven teeth.

They also revealed that the impressive 29-step progression of firework “footprints” that on television appeared to lead across Beijing to the stadium was a computer-generated graphic.

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