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08-25-2004, 01:50 PM
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The Olympic committee is thinking about canning women's softball--The U.S. team has always extremely dominated that sport; hardly any other countries take it seriously/are interested in it.
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08-25-2004, 03:11 PM
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Gold to Israel in Sailing!!
 First medal that is more than Bronze, ever! It was Gal Friedman... in Mistral.  |
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08-25-2004, 04:40 PM
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Congrats RtB and Israel!
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08-25-2004, 04:49 PM
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Congrats RtB! That's great!
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08-25-2004, 04:51 PM
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 Is it a sort of Baseball for women? 
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08-25-2004, 05:10 PM
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Congrats to Katleen Smet for getting 4th in the women's triatlon!
And many congrats to Kim Gevaert on her 6th place in the 200m finale, first Belgian ever to get in a sprinting finale if I'm not mistaken! Woohoo! A pity that she had to run in lane 1, she had the overall 4th best time in the semifinales and she ran a new Belgian record. 
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08-25-2004, 05:22 PM
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From the dictionary: A game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger and softer.
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08-25-2004, 05:59 PM
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That's awesome Earniel
and cute smilies!
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08-25-2004, 06:01 PM
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Congrats to FM and Spain on winning the silver in the men's beach volleyball! Too bad you didn't get the gold. I was cheering on you, but the Brazilians played awfully well.
Beach volleyball hasn't been an Olympic sport for that long. I think they introduced it in Atlanta 1996. That year and 2000 in Sydney, the US won. But this time it was Brazil's turn to win. Beach volleyball is a very big sport there, you can see people play it on every Brazilian beach. Today Sweden had a chance to get a gold and a bronze medal in men's wrestling. We ended up winning a silver medal; Ara Abrahamian lost to the Russian Alexei Misjin in the final. Sweden also got a bronze medal in equestrian - team jumping. Sweden and the US were fighting hard over the silver medal but eventually the Swedish team decided to skip their last attempt to beat the Americans - they didn't want to push too much strain on their horse, they feared it could get hurt. But the team said they were happy with the bronze Our hope in the men's pole vault - Patrik Kristiansson (who happens to be the boyfriend of Carolina Klüft who won the gold in women's heptathlon ) didn't qualify for the finals.
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08-25-2004, 06:21 PM
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Softball bowls different as well - underarm as opposed to overarm, IIRC.
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08-25-2004, 06:57 PM
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watching men's wrestling is cool
 sweaty men who hug and sit on eachother..
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08-26-2004, 02:33 AM
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08-26-2004, 04:57 AM
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Woohoo! NZ got gold AND silver for the men's triathlon! Go Hamish & other guy.
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08-26-2004, 05:48 AM
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If only they knew how to play Rugby.
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08-26-2004, 07:09 AM
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I just wanted to sya that this is my first real Olympics I have watched and I am actually upset becaus eof some very very obviously bad jusging calls. Like the high bar for mens gymnastics. I was disgusted by that. How do they get aaway with something like that?
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08-26-2004, 03:38 PM
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Bah, rugby is such a gay sport anyway.
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Hey, is Rugby in the Olympics? Is Soccer? I know they're obviously sports, but I haven't heard of these events.
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