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Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Caution, may contain results!

Who is the star of Beijing 08

  • Ben Ainslie - Gold Finn class - Sailing - 3rd consecutive gold

    Votes: 1 1.5%

  • China's Table Tennis team - 4 out of 4 golds

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Michael Phelps - 8 gold 7 world records 1 olympic record

    Votes: 47 71.2%

  • Usain Bolt - 3 golds 3 world records

    Votes: 11 16.7%

  • Tirunesh Dibaba - 2 golds - Women's 5,000 & 10,000 meters

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Chris Hoy - 3 golds - track cycling

    Votes: 7 10.6%

  • Kenenisa Bekele - 2 golds - Men's 5,000 & 10,000 meters

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    66
  • Poll closed .
Tilpots said:
Not the biggest fan of NBC sports, though. Hopefully they'll follow the storylines and not the headlines.
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I'm not a fan of NBC's monopoly of the Olympics either, but supposedly they are going to provide true live coverage this year plus every event online. We will see. Usually they call a 6 hour delay as live.🙄
 
I don't think this 2008's US Olympic basketball team looks any better than the 2004's, or 2000's, or any Olympics I've watched. I've seen them lose, and I'll likely see them lose again.

However, with regards to the gold medal, I'd put my money on the US. I don't know why so many people are writing them off. They have one every single basketball gold medal except 2 (maybe 3....not sure). Unless I missed something, I don't see what has changed really, other than a bit of anti-US basketball attitude, or a "cheer for the underdogs......all of them" attitude.
 
Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Caution, may contain results!

Damn, where are the results?? 😕

I wanna put down some bets in Vegas!! 😡
 
~Shard~ said:
This is something I've never quite understood - why is the MLB championship called the World Series and the winners of the SuperBowl are called the world champions? Who else from an international perspective did they compete against to gain these titles? 😕 I might as well coordinate some type of sports play-off tournament here in my city and who ever wins gets declared the world champion - no, better yet, Extreme Champion of the Universe! 😀 Seriously, shouldn't the Olympics be the proper venue for declaring true world championships? (Obviously there are other events as well, such as the World Cup...) Or is the above something we have to simply chalk up to the good old American ego? 😛 😉 😀
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i think you are confusing the "world series" which makes sense with your logic to the "world baseball classic" which is indeed an international tourney

but we all know that the super bowl champions are the best football team in the world lol
 
Abstract said:
I don't think this 2008's US Olympic basketball team looks any better than the 2004's, or 2000's, or any Olympics I've watched. I've seen them lose, and I'll likely see them lose again.

However, with regards to the gold medal, I'd put my money on the US. I don't know why so many people are writing them off. They have one every single basketball gold medal except 2 (maybe 3....not sure). Unless I missed something, I don't see what has changed really, other than a bit of anti-US basketball attitude, or a "cheer for the underdogs......all of them" attitude.
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i disagree, the makeup of this team has been playing for 3 years with the intent on teamwork. the 04 team was a bunch of superstars thrown together and hoped they would win. this years team has a lot of role players as the players were picked to fill the best team, not just the best individual players. i bet the us team rolls threw the olympics honestly
 
*ahem, ahem*
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http://olympics.thestar.com/2008/article/473044
 
Three words

Girls Beach Volleyball

🙂

(These are the only sports I really watch other than my Hockey, that and When Kournikova plays tennis, hell even Sharapova, I'm not that picky. 😛)
 
Misty and Kerri.😎

Women's Soccer started today
USA 0
Norway 2

New Zealand 2
Japan 2

Canada 2
Argentina 1

Brazil 0
Germany 0

Sweden 1
China 2

Nigeria 0
N Korea 1
BoyBach said:
Oh, and it's not smog, it's mist!
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one of the International Olympic Committee's most senior figures dismissed the yellow-grey haze that periodically hangs over the city as mist, and blamed the media for overstating pollution problems.
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I love that yellow mist in the morning.
 
alphaod said:
I've been a little unhappy with the Olympics this year and the politics around it; planning not to watch it …
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I've never liked the idea of politics entering into the Olympics.😡 It's not fair for the athletes who spent years training for a chance to compete. Imagine if you would, spending 4 years training 8 hours a day everyday to compete in the Olympics. Now that the Olympic Games arrive, you'll have to wait at least another 4 years just because the @--hole who runs your country doesn't like the @--holes in charge of the host country. Your country boycotts the Games. What would you do? I'd go postal. Postal, I tell you.😡😡😡

~Shard~ said:
This is something I've never quite understood - why is the MLB championship called the World Series and the winners of the SuperBowl are called the world champions? Who else from an international perspective did they compete against to gain these titles? 😕
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I agree about the World Series since other countries (Japan, most Latin American countries) field some impressive teams.
The winners of the Superbowl, OTOH, are world champs. No other country has fielded an american football team that match even the worst NFL team. Yes, I've seen the European Football League games -- the top players would probably be third stringers in the NFL. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.😀
 
Mousse said:
I agree about the World Series since other countries (Japan, most Latin American countries) field some impressive teams.
The winners of the Superbowl, OTOH, are world champs. No other country has fielded an american football team that match even the worst NFL team. Yes, I've seen the European Football League games -- the top players would probably be third stringer in the NFL. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.😀
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MLB is still a lot stronger than Japan ball.
 
Mousse said:
I agree about the World Series since other countries (Japan, most Latin American countries) field some impressive teams.
The winners of the Superbowl, OTOH, are world champs. No other country has fielded an american football team that match even the worst NFL team. Yes, I've seen the European Football League games -- the top players would probably be third stringers in the NFL. That's my opinion and I'm sticking to it.😀
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I totally understand that but it still seems a little presumptuous and arrogant in a way. 😛 😉
 
MacNut said:
MLB isn't going to stop the season for 3 weeks during the pennant race just to go to the Olympics. Plus I thought years ago athletes had to be amateur. That was what make it worth watching. Now it is full of over paid pros that don't even care.
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i would be disappointed if the season stopped for the olympics, we'll be stuck with just that for 3 weeks. that's why bud has his world baseball classic. it's like baseball's world cup (and fyi, the world cup is much bigger than olympic soccer). and besides, let the no names play and get known instead of the same stars over again.

MacNut said:
I'm not a fan of NBC's monopoly of the Olympics either, but supposedly they are going to provide true live coverage this year plus every event online. We will see. Usually they call a 6 hour delay as live.🙄
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the online thing...you have to see it on tv first (dumb), and they will do the same thing over again, show day old events as live and focus more on 'the child that had to raise herself in her own house' than on the athletic events. nbc's olympic coverage is overall bad.
 
Looks like the GB Boxing team has lost one of its medal hopes. BBC reporting Frankie Gavin has failed to make the weight for the lightweight class. Great shame, he's current world amateur champion.
 
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