Olympics Thread

y not japan host the olympics they sure got better economy than china :mrgreen:

Oh yeah, no doubt that there was TREMENDOUS significance historically and culturally for Greece to have the Olympics after in 108 years (1896, the start of the Olympics modern era)...

You'd think because of that historical significance that outside parties would've helped fund things, but maybe they have. I dunno. It seems to have turned into a business rather than a celebration, though. And that's sad. I'm sure the business side was the motivator in staggering the winter and summer Olympics, where before they were lock step in the same year...

bmwracer wrote:
You'd think because of that historical significance that outside parties would've helped fund things, but maybe they have. I dunno.

I think that pretty much called sponsorship. The winter olympics never drew the same interest as the summer so I don't think staggering it made a different. Perhaps they thought it would originally. Winter Olympics will become popular if we enter an ice age, other than that only select countries can really participate.

bmwracer wrote:
You'd think because of that historical significance that outside parties would've helped fund things, but maybe they have. I dunno.

I think that pretty much called sponsorship. The winter olympics never drew the same interest as the summer so I don't think staggering it made a different. Perhaps they thought it would originally. Winter Olympics will become popular if we enter an ice age, other than that only select countries can really participate.

koolaid wrote:The winter olympics never drew the same interest as the summer so I don't think staggering it made a different. Perhaps they thought it would originally. Winter Olympics will become popular if we enter an ice age, other than that only select countries can really participate.

I like the Winter Olympics. And that's saying something, since I'm so gung-ho about summer weather... :)

And the Winter Olympics doesn't have those fluff "sports" like synchronized swimming and rhythmic gymnastics... Although ice dancing comes mighty close....

Damn this is early. :beaten:

I didn't even know that it was gonna be in Beijing in 2008. :beaten:

Hopefully in 4 years, I'll have the time to watch it unlike this year.

ahochaude wrote:I didn't even know that it was gonna be in Beijing in 2008. :beaten:

Dude, wake up! :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:Dude, wake up! :hehe:

Can't..... too..tired.......from.....work :beaten: :beaten: :beaten:

Why are there two yes and two no selections for the poll?? Or am I so feverish I've got double vision??

Am I excited? Oh yeah.... I wanna see that Chinese guy with a majorly bad hair win the 110M hurdles again... :hehe:

bmwracer wrote:Why are there two yes and two no selections for the poll?? Or am I so feverish I've got double vision??

hatakekakashi081 had a similar problem when the political thread was created. That's why there was two, until I deleted one.

yep, same problem again. I edited the post after I had already made the poll, but then it was gone when I looked at the message. So, I created another poll, and of course, there's now two options. But that's exactly how I wanted it! So no problem. :mad: Could one of the admins or moderators possibly fix that so there's only one set of options, then people won't have to be seeing double anymore, and I won't be going twice as crazy with this board.

hatakekakashi081 wrote:yep, same problem again. I edited the post after I had already made the poll, but then it was gone when I looked at the message. So, I created another poll, and of course, there's now two options. But that's exactly how I wanted it! So no problem. :mad: Could one of the admins or moderators possibly fix that so there's only one set of options, then people won't have to be seeing double anymore, and I won't be going twice as crazy with this board.

I never created a thread with a poll before so I don't really know how it works. Even before I deleted the other political thread (the first one you made before the revised one), I tried to fool around with the poll edit options, but I just couldn't figure it out.

I think I'll try to create a test thread right now and I'll try to fool around with it. Of course, I'll delete it after. If it's a success, I'll fix this one for you too.

Got it!


If you're going to change the options in the poll in anyway, you have to click in the "Delete Poll" box. Then re do the poll all over again. If you edit the existing poll, it'll double up.

Did you not see the poll the first time around because you hit the "Preview" button rather than the "Submit" button? If so, then that explains why you didn't see the poll first time around.


I fixed it for you, but at the same time, all the previous votes had been erased. Sorry, that's something I couldn't control.

ahochaude wrote:Got it!

Good job, Aho... :applaud:

all the previous votes had been erased. Sorry, that's something I couldn't control.

Sounds like something from the last Presidential election.... :rolleyes:

:hehe:

Wow thanks for the photo's hatakekakashi081 looks pretty cool to me.

hatakekakashi081 wrote:[image]

I heard that Beijing might not build this one. The reason was the designer had another similiar building somewhere in Europe and it had collasped. :shocked:

Well i'm have mixed feeling for Beijing 2008

Of course we are sur that verything will be great, beautifull, perfect dance, millions of people in stadiums dancing together with beautifull colors...

But on the other hand, don't forget that China doesn't respect human rights.. killing people by thousand each year in stadium, and make the family pay the bullet !
They are not free to say what they want to say, they can't leave their country easily...
We'll see a beautifull face of China, and we'll forget the other face with people not leaving in Beijing or Shangai, or Hong Kong...

Your point is correct, but I think you have to keep the two things separate: the politics and the sport.

From a positive standpoint, having the games there might help the situation... It surely won't hurt it. :)

bmwracer wrote:Your point is correct, but I think you have to keep the two things separate: the politics and the sport.

From a positive standpoint, having the games there might help the situation... It surely won't hurt it. :)

I agree, I also think China is seriously trying to improve it's image to the world and that it does want to be the number 1 economic country in the world. To do that people have to feel they can invest in China and not be killed or held as a political prisoner. I expect China will greatly improve on it's human rights over the next several years.

Doramafan113 wrote:

I agree, I also think China is seriously trying to improve it's image to the world and that it does want to be the number 1 economic country in the world. To do that people have to feel they can invest in China and not be killed or held as a political prisoner. I expect China will greatly improve on it's human rights over the next several years.

From what I've read (other peoples' opinions, so I have no facts to back it up), I heard that China is like the "next Japan". Economy is booming and they are taking steps in the same direction as Japan had once did.
It'll be a slow process, but I think China will improve to become the next economic power.