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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 .
scotthayes said:
We already have a boxer in the weight above. Such a shame as he is a real talent.
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I'd question an athlete's commitment and discipline if they can't even cut weight. That's table stakes to begin with in boxing and other martial arts, and the fact that this is the Olympics, argubaly the biggest opportunity of an athlete's career, well, you'd think it would be taken more seriously.

A shame, sure, especially if he's a great athlete, but I don't feel sorry for him in the least.
 
Something you probably needed to know

The Olympic mascots are called Fuwa and match the colors of the Oympic rings.

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From left to right, they are Beibei the fish, Jingjing the panda, Huanhuan the Olympic flame, Yingying the Tibetan antelope, and Nini the swallow.
 
So I'm trying to watch a soccer game live on nbcolympics.com. I had to install Silverlight, now I can't figure out how to make the player go full screen or listen to commentary audio. Any thoughts?
 
~Shard~ said:
I'd question an athlete's commitment and discipline if they can't even cut weight. That's table stakes to begin with in boxing and other martial arts, and the fact that this is the Olympics, argubaly the biggest opportunity of an athlete's career, well, you'd think it would be taken more seriously.

A shame, sure, especially if he's a great athlete, but I don't feel sorry for him in the least.
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Reading an interview with his coach, it seems he's been struggling with keeping his weight down for the last 12 months, the reason his coach thinks is because he's been training like a pro boxer and not an amateur boxer thus he's started to bulk up and can't get (safely) down to 134lbs or 60kgs. So it's far far from a lack of commitment and more that he is maybe training to hard and taking it very seriously.
 
Well the opening ceremony's starting in less than an hour and we're getting live coverage here so I'll be watching it! Anyone else watching? I think they'll put on an amazing show.
 
Sat here watching it in High Definition :D

loved the countdown to the start of the opening ceremony.

I imagine there will be lots of fireworks, after all they invented them.
 
Ha Ha I could SWEAR i just saw one of those 3000 dancers with an iPod earphone in!!!

Did anyone else see...? It was definitely on BBC coverage?
 
scotthayes said:
Reading an interview with his coach, it seems he's been struggling with keeping his weight down for the last 12 months, the reason his coach thinks is because he's been training like a pro boxer and not an amateur boxer thus he's started to bulk up and can't get (safely) down to 134lbs or 60kgs. So it's far far from a lack of commitment and more that he is maybe training to hard and taking it very seriously.
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Then perhaps instead of trying to compete at the very top of the lighter weight class he should compete normally at the next highest weight class. It sounds like his body is perhaps better suited for it.
 
~Shard~ said:
Then perhaps instead of trying to compete at the very top of the lighter weight class he should compete normally at the next highest weight class. It sounds like his body is perhaps better suited for it.
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He has been boxing at the higher weights, in fact since he won the lightweight amateur world championship in November he has not boxed at that weight. The screw up is by the people who picked the boxers not Frankie Gavin's.


And loving the idea of them getting everyone to walk through the ink and onto the painting.
 
scotthayes said:
Reading an interview with his coach, it seems he's been struggling with keeping his weight down for the last 12 months, the reason his coach thinks is because he's been training like a pro boxer and not an amateur boxer thus he's started to bulk up and can't get (safely) down to 134lbs or 60kgs. So it's far far from a lack of commitment and more that he is maybe training to hard and taking it very seriously.
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Light weight cut off is 134lbs?! I am going out for it!!
 
The Olympic flag is up and the Olympic flame is on it's way...

Overall, a very impressive opening ceremony. Cool way to light the torch.

And the torch is lit
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and the games are on...
 
kretzy said:
The moving blocks in the centre look fantastic.
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I didn't really figure out how they were doing that for a few minutes. First I thought it was just the "scroll" screen and visual trickery, and then I thought it was machines. I was really really amazed when I came to the realization that humans were probably doing all of that, since humans doing things in sync is usually what makes a massive ceremony great.
 
Don't spoil it people, some off us have to wait. NBC thinks a 12 hour delay is a good idea.
 
http://www.nbcolympics.com/newscenter/news/newsid=148556.html
NBC Universal, broadcasting its record 11th Olympics and surpassing ABC for the most Olympics broadcast by any network, will present an unprecedented 3,600 hours of Beijing Olympic Games coverage, the most ambitious single media project in history. NBCU's unprecedented Olympics coverage features the most live coverage in the United States (75 percent in all), across the most platforms, of any Summer Olympics in history when the Games of the XXIX Olympiad commence on Aug. 8. The announcement was made today by Dick Ebersol, Chairman, NBC Universal Sports & Olympics and Executive Producer of NBCU's Olympic coverage.

The 3,600 total hours of coverage on seven NBC Universal networks: NBC, USA, MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, Telemundo and Universal HD, as well as NBCOlympics.com, is 1,000 hours more than the combined coverage for every televised Summer Olympics in U.S. history (Rome 1960 - Athens 2004, 2,562 hours). NBCOlympics.com will feature approximately 2,200 total hours of live streaming Olympic broadband video coverage, the first live online Olympic coverage in the United States.

"For the first time, the average American will be able to create their own unique Olympic experience whether at home, at the office or on-the-go," said Ebersol.

"With 25 sports streamed live at NBCOlympics.com and significant live coverage on our cable platforms and NBC, highlighted by all swimming finals, the biggest nights of gymnastics and beach volleyball live in primetime, the viewer has plenty of options for live coverage.
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The seven NBC Universal networks: NBC, USA, MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, Telemundo and Universal HD, as well as NBCOlympics.com, will offer the most in-depth Olympic coverage in history. The 3,600 hours is 1,000 hours more than the total coverage for every televised Summer Olympics in U.S. history. Note: Dating back nearly 50 years to CBS in Rome in 1960 (20 total hours) through NBCU in Athens in 2004 (1,210 total hours), the 12 Summer Olympics broadcasts have totaled 2,562 hours. Even the live hours of Beijing coverage surpass the total from those 12 Summer Games (Nearly 2,900 to 2,562).

Over the 17 days of the Beijing Games (Aug. 8-24), NBCU's coverage will average more than 212 hours per day - that's more coverage than was produced in total for each Summer Olympics through the 1996 Atlanta Games, which delivered 176.5 hours just 12 years ago.

The NBCU networks will offer more live coverage than any Olympics in history, domestic or foreign, despite the 12-hour time difference from the Eastern time zone to Beijing. Approximately 75 percent of NBCU's Beijing Olympics coverage will be live.

The 3,600 total hours of coverage from Beijing nearly triples the 1,210 total hours of coverage from Athens in 2004 and is more than eight times the 441.5 broadcast hours from Sydney on NBC in 2000.

For the first time by a U.S. broadcaster at a Summer Olympics, NBCU will broadcast the entire Olympic Games entirely in high definition.

The networks of NBCU will provide coverage of every one of the 34 Summer Olympic sports.

The 2008 Olympic Games from Beijing, China represent the 11th Olympics broadcast by NBC, surpassing ABC's 10 Olympics for the most Olympic broadcasts by any U.S. network.

In addition to the 3,600 hours, NBCU is also providing coverage of the entire men's and women's soccer and basketball tournaments through Soccer (58 games) and Basketball (76 games) NBC Olympics specialty channels.

Two foreign language channels in both Korean and Mandarin Chinese will feature a variety of Olympic events.
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