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I always thought I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't reach those lofty goals... see my post #28 in this thread, about Mark Spitz in the 1968 Olympics (four years before he won his seven).
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Shame, those poor Chinese synchronized divers...
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I cannot understand how can NBC do that to all you...
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Gymnastics is so cool!
Hamm & Hamm - how funny to have twins compete together in the gymnastics team. They both were great in the all-around competition, participating in 4 and 5 out of 6 events! When they did their vaults, they did exactly the same errors too! The Japanese Tomasi did a impressing performance on the high bar, being the last competitor to finish, and knowing that he had to do this well if his team were to win the gold medal. Fantastic.
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congrats australia! i'm happy for you aussies!
(now i spoiled it, didn't i? )
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i see no reason to use the spoiler code. too bad we get a very delayed feed - but the results are all over the internet, even up instaneously after the events on NBC's OWN WEBSITES.
They think they will get more ratings in the evening i suppose, but i think they would get more if they actually aired the stuff live. Oh well. It's not fair to the rest of the world to not be able to talk about results here :P ________________________ Who knows if Phelps actually wanted to break Spitz's record? His coach and others probably put that out there. Hmm all these good atheletes get paid so much from sponsors!! What happened to true amateurs not being able to accept any money??? On the TV, it said that Phelps has been getting MILLIONS from sponsors for a couple years now. And he was offered 1 million dollars if he tied or broke Spitz's record. He seems like he is otherwise a normal teenager and is in it for the love of swimming.
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A least you're getting a delayed feed. For some reason, we're not getting that much coverage. Only from around 7.30pm onwards, and we're only getting bits and pieces. I want the freakin' highlights like they've done at previous olympics. Stupid TVNZ.
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I was sure the Romanian are going to take it. But the two last grades ruined all the work... I also didn't know the US and Japan awere good in gymnastics. I was surprised to see them there - and taking the first 2 places. I thought the Russians and Chinese were better. Tomorrow is the women team in gymnastics, should be interesting. And about the swimming... As I said, Van Den Hoogenban got the silver. Phelps looked very happy with the bronze. And he would probably get some gold medals, from the 8 he announced he'd get. In my opinion he's a bit disappointing, I expected for more - he even didn't win the semi-final in the butterfly 200m, losing to a British guy - and now it's everyone in headlines. *sigh* The US seemed to be quite unsuccesful, with only 3 gold medals (China has 10!). Maybe when the Athletics start, they'd havwe more. |
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yes, although delayed - we are getting pretty extensive coverage
they have it on a great many channels here. im watching the badmitton now.
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too bad, the USA badmitton team got creamed.
LoL, NBC is now at 8:45 PM showing the Phelps VS Thorpe thing. And they are going on like they don't know whats going to happen.
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well it is when you compare it to AUSTRALIA!!! 10 golds baby. And Thorpy wooped the much vanted Phelps. Thorpe has therefore won FIVE GOLD MEDALS!! Ohhh, we are getting drunk tonight.
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BTW... the only Irish swimming gold medalist I can recall sort of 'got by with a little help from her friends' eh? *EDIT: in this case, IM is not 'Instant Messaging' - but 'Individual Medley' - in which the race is swum in 4 different strokes in turn: butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle.
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Wow did anyone see the men's gymnastics last night? Oh, it was soo close, too bad the Romanian fell .
But I'm happy for the Americans! They finally recieved a medal after so long. And the Japanese were great, they deserved the gold. Their last rotation at the high bar was awesome to watch.
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Congrats Thorpe! Nice swum, van den Hoogenband! Better luck next time Phelps!
The Swedes in the women's football came back after a 0-1 loss against the Japan earlier and beat Nigeria 2-1 today. We get to face Australia in the quarter finals. No Swedes are left in the tennis . But I guess it doesn't matter, Federer is in good shape and I think he'll beat anyone put up against him. Quote:
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I saw the gymnastics today too. The women teams - too bad for the US, got silver medal again. The Romanian won second time in a row, which is quite surpring I think... they had a total new team from 4 years ago. I though the judges were very harsh there, comparing to the men's team last night, where many got a 9.7 and some even 9.8, while today the most I've seen is 9.75, and it seemed like the usual was more like 9.3. I thought the Americans deserved more, I don't know... I was very surprised with the judges' decisions.
I think the Japanese were amazing in the high bar! They without doubt deserved this win, after 25 years not winning the gymnastics, or so I've heard. I saw the swimming today. The 200x4 was great, I was sure Thorpe would win it for Austrlia, they were so close... Still a good swim for them, but I think the US deserved it more, as they led most of the time, and much of it a few meters difference. Federer lost, IIRC. By someone from the Czech Republic I think.. a shock for him, I suppose - that guy is like 500 in the world. USA won Greece in basketball - but they still aren't very impressing, IMO. I assume it's because all the players who didn't show for the Olympics. Too bad... I barely recognised any names. Quote:
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