Olympics Thread

kenjilina wrote:

well, when it was unveiled to the public everybody thought 'is this the best we can do?'
anyway, at least we got the games. it's our turn to fake the fireworks and get a pretty girl to mime! :hehe:

We can send you Nikki Webster if you like - she's not doing anything now :hehe:

kenjilina wrote:

well, when it was unveiled to the public everybody thought 'is this the best we can do?'
anyway, at least we got the games. it's our turn to fake the fireworks and get a pretty girl to mime! :hehe:

well thats right u all
have the games and kool :hehe:

Anime Dad wrote:

We can send you Nikki Webster if you like - she's not doing anything now :hehe:

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oh ok then. :mrgreen:

I should have added "except for posing for men's magazines" :hehe:

I don't know how many have of you have seen the photos featuring the Spanish basketball team ... stereotyping Asians, more specifically the host Chinese. Below is an article about it.

http://www.theimproper.com/Template_Article.aspx?IssueId=4&ArticleId=2146


I knew Gasol was a racist ...... Bad Pau, Very Bad Pau !!! :shakehead:

adub2adub wrote:I don't know how many have of you have seen the photos featuring the Spanish basketball team ... stereotyping Asians, more specifically the host Chinese. Below is an article about it.

http://www.theimproper.com/Template_Article.aspx?IssueId=4&ArticleId=2146


I knew Gasol was a racist ...... Bad Pau, Very Bad Pau !!! :shakehead:

I wish someone had shown, and explain, this article to the Chinese basketball team before their match with the Spaniards - it's one hell of a morale booster. :grumble:

thtl wrote:I wish someone had shown, and explain, this article to the Chinese basketball team before their match with the Spaniards - it's one hell of a moral booster. :grumble:

China did take Spain into OT...

Kitajima Kosuke takes gold in both breaststroke swimming events (100m and 200m) for the second straight Olympics. :victory: :applaud:

thtl wrote:

I wish someone had shown, and explain, this article to the Chinese basketball team before their match with the Spaniards - it's one hell of a moral booster. :grumble:

Seriously...that advertisement was totally ridiculous and idiotic.

bmwracer wrote:Kitajima Kosuke takes gold in both breaststroke swimming events (100m and 200m) for the second straight Olympics. :victory: :applaud:

Sugoi ne! He's a true champion.

Stephanie Rice picks up her third gold as part of the Women's 4 x 200m freestyle relay :bow:

And Eamon Sullivan gets beaten by the Frenchman for 100m Freestyle :(

Anime Dad wrote:And Eamon Sullivan gets beaten by the Frenchman for 100m Freestyle :(

I suppose the Frenchy let his swimming do the talking instead of his mouth. :beaten:

thtl wrote:I wish someone had shown, and explain, this article to the Chinese basketball team before their match with the Spaniards - it's one hell of a moral booster. :grumble:

I saw some of the China-Spain game online ... the Spanish players were actually booed and jeered every time they had the ball. Ironically, I don't think the Chinese knew of the photos beforehand.

Tu_triky wrote:Seriously...that advertisement was totally ridiculous and idiotic.

Yup, one Spanish player Calderon said: "We thought it would be interpreted as an affectionate gesture," ........ Fool !

I was particularly annoyed by it because I kinda liked some of the NBA players on the Spanish team ... I guess I change my mind. :shakehead:

adub2adub wrote:I was particularly annoyed by it because I kinda liked some of the NBA players on the Spanish team ... I guess I change my mind. :shakehead:

Not to makes excuses, but it's just ignorance on their part...

It's like those people outside of the U.S. who use the term "Jap."

perhaps one of the worst Olympics accident..

Hungary's Janos Baranyai's first try at Olympics' weightlifting division totally went wrong..itaiiiii!!
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/view/859121/#

From Yahoo! Sports ( http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080814/ap_on_sp_ol/oly_gym_underage_chinese ):

State-media story fuels questions on gymnast's age

By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer
Thu Aug 14, 8:54 AM ET

Just nine months before the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government's news agency, Xinhua, reported that gymnast He Kexin was 13, which would have made her ineligible to be on the team that won a gold medal this week.

In its report Nov. 3, Xinhua identified He as one of "10 big new stars" who made a splash at China's Cities Games. It gave her age as 13 and reported that she beat Yang Yilin on the uneven bars at those games. In the final, "this little girl" pulled off a difficult release move on the bars known as the Li Na, named for another Chinese gymnast, Xinhua said in the report, which appeared on one of its Web sites, http://www.hb.xinhuanet.com

The Associated Press found the Xinhua report on the site Thursday morning and saved a copy of the page. Later that afternoon, the Web site was still working but the page was no longer accessible. Sports editors at the state-run news agency would not comment for publication.

If the age reported by Xinhua was correct, that would have meant He was too young to be on the Chinese team that beat the United States on Wednesday and clinched China's first women's team Olympic gold in gymnastics. He is also a favorite for gold in Monday's uneven bars final.

Yang was also on Wednesday's winning team. Questions have also been raised about her age and that of a third team member, Jiang Yuyuan.

Gymnasts have to be 16 during the Olympic year to be eligible for the games. He's birthday is listed as Jan. 1, 1992.

Chinese authorities insist that all three are old enough to compete. He herself told reporters after Wednesday's final that "my real age is 16. I don't pay any attention to what everyone says."

Zhang Hongliang, an official with China's gymnastics delegation at the games, said Thursday the differing ages which have appeared in Chinese media reports had not been checked in advance with the gymnastics federation.

"It's definitely a mistake," Zhang said of the Xinhua report, speaking in a telephone interview. "Never has any media outlet called me to check the athletes' ages."

Asked whether the federation had changed their ages to make them eligible, Zhang said: "We are a sports department. How would we have the ability to do that?"

"We already explained this very clearly. There's no need to discuss this thing again."

The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has said repeatedly that a passport is the "accepted proof of a gymnast's eligibility," and that He and China's other gymnasts have presented ones that show they are age eligible. The IOC also checked the girls' passports and deemed them valid.

A May 23 story in the China Daily newspaper, the official English-language paper of the Chinese government, said He was 14. The story was later corrected to list her as 16.

"This is not a USAG issue," said Steve Penny, president of USA Gymnastics. "The FIG and the IOC are the proper bodies to handle this."

Whoopsy. I can't speak for Xinhua news, but I've definitely mistyped '3' when I really wanted '6'. Everyone knows they are next to each other in the numeric keypad. :hehe:

dochira wrote:Everyone knows they are next to each other in the numeric keypad. :hehe:

Only on an English keyboard, maybe? :beaten:

bmwracer wrote:Kitajima Kosuke takes gold in both breaststroke swimming events (100m and 200m) for the second straight Olympics. :victory: :applaud:

yea that was great
and man the races were awsome too
i was cheering the hold
time
:dancing: :dancing:

wow china has now 22 gold :woot: :dancing:
they were leading with 35 medals lets see hoes going to go in day 8