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08-22-2004, 01:35 PM
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Ohlsson and Holm are being solid
Holm until 2.32 Ohlsson's last jump 17.79 |
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08-22-2004, 01:57 PM
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Norway have won another gold medal, as expected. In sailing, Siren Sundby was in the lead before todays race, and she won her race today in the women's Europe dinghy class.
 What I'm looking most forward to tonight is the men's 100m final. That's almost as good as watching gymnastics.
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08-22-2004, 03:49 PM
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Yeah! Sweden won two more gold medals today! Christian Olsson won the men's triple jump. He jumped a good 17.69 metres in his first jump and that would have been sufficient to win the gold. But in his second jump he broke the Swedish record with a phenomenal 17.79-metre-jump. He's the king
The men's high jump was really exciting. At first it looked like if Stefan Holm wouldn't win a medal at all, but he managed 2.34 on his third attempt and was the only one over 2.36. He's king as well Two gold medals in athletics on the same day for Sweden. That's decent 
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08-22-2004, 04:47 PM
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Congrats Sweden fot the medals in athletics. Both very impressive
Spain still has no gold medal: 6 silver and 1 bronze  I hoped today we could get gold in Tennis (women doubles), but Conchita & Ruano were defeated by the chinese pair.BTW, I'm impressed with the performance of China in these Games  EDIT: I've just checked the official site and have seen that they're again in the lead: 22 golden medals!!!
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08-22-2004, 05:21 PM
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Thanks FM
The US isn't far behind. They have 21 gold medals, but in total they have more medals than the Chinese. They have more than 50 medals while the Chinese have a few medals fewer. Sweden is on 16th place with our 3 golds and 1 bronze
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08-22-2004, 05:50 PM
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darn swedes!
 no, just joking. sweden has some great athletes. congratulations to jon and sweden! oh, and too bad for the uk in women's marathon. it was really interesting to watch!
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08-22-2004, 11:15 PM
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08-22-2004, 11:50 PM
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http://sports.chron.com/default.asp?...BON3445338.htm
Dissapointing--"American Matt Emmons was nearly assured of his second gold medal in shooting at the Olympics on Sunday, until he made a crucial mistake by firing at the wrong target in the 50-meter 3-position rifle event." He was in lane two but accidently fired into lane three, dropping him from 1st to 8th.
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08-23-2004, 02:16 AM
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NZ got another gold, thanks to Sarah Ulmer in the cycling, who broke the previous world record (also which was also hers). Two golds, not bad for a small lil' itty bitty piece of land.
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08-23-2004, 02:26 AM
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BoPper, does NZ still have good middle-distance runners? I remember they used to in the 1970's... uh, but I guess those guys'd be kinda on the old side now, eh?
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08-23-2004, 02:40 AM
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Congrats to Sweden!
Stefan Holm was impressive. And Olsson wasn't bad either.
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08-23-2004, 06:37 AM
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The bronze match in table tennis just ended. Swedish Jan-Ove Waldner won the first set but lost the four next ones. Congratulations to Chinese Wang Liqin for winning the bronze!
China can win the gold as well, if Wang Hao can beat South Korean Ryu Seung Min in the final. But I think China has enough gold medals already 
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08-23-2004, 07:34 AM
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08-23-2004, 07:57 AM
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08-23-2004, 12:15 PM
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I saw about a minute ( I wish they'd show more!) of women's archery. The last shooter (S. Korean?) really pulled out a clutch shot - she needed (IIRC) a 9 (outer bullseye) to win, an 8 to tie, 7 or below to lose the gold - she nailed a 10! (inner bullseye)
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08-23-2004, 12:34 PM
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We've won all 5 matches in Basketball. Today we've defeated NZ (sorry BoP  ) sending them home instead of the Serbs, who played very dirty against us and after that, we'll probably have to play quaterfinals with USA Unless Puerto Rico defeats that greeks tonight (I think they're not too motivated for that  )It's not fair. Even though the "Bad Dream" have lost two matches, I think that after finishing qualification in the lead we should have earned an easier match in quarters
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08-23-2004, 01:32 PM
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Well considering how poorly the US has played and how great Spain has been playing I dont know if I would really consider this a horrible draw. Spain is 5-0 and the US is 3-2. And Pau Gasol is playing out of his mind and has played all the guys on the US team so they will have their hands full with Spain. Dont be surprised if they beat them. Although I do think the US finally is showing its playing better as a team. Especially in their anihilation of Angola.
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08-23-2004, 01:32 PM
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Well I got it in the end.
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08-23-2004, 03:28 PM
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On behalf of Great Britain, I would like to gloat about the success of Kelly Holmes in the 800m!
Britain's 7th gold for women in track and field in 70 years... it doesn't happen often.
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08-23-2004, 04:26 PM
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Hey Gordy! Spain has won their first gold medal!
Gervasio Deferr won men's vault final, gymnastics. And Patricia Moreno got bronze medal in the women's floor exercise. Congrats! And who knows what the Spanish beach volley team can do, they've reached the final.
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