Olympics Thread

kenjilina wrote:and gb are still third in the medal table. did i mention that before? :hehe:

Third?

Russia's third.

Or are you deducting judged events as well? :hehe:

kenjilina wrote:

just glad cricket isn't on the olympic menu. :beaten:

Cricket, Britain's most potent WMD, boring everyone forced to watch it to death. :sweat:

thtl wrote:

Cricket, Britain's most potent WMD, boring everyone forced to watch it to death. :sweat:

LOL!

Have you seen Twenty/Twenty cricket? I think they are trying to get that into the Olympics ;)

bmwracer wrote:
A 20-point spread? :beaten:

Hmm, where you come up with that? :headscratch:

Anime Dad wrote:It's gonna be interesting: I remember in one Olympic match (Athens I think) Australia's Lauren Jackson accidentally grabbed Lisa Leslie's hair while falling and pulled off a hair extension she was wearing :bonk: Who wears hair extensions to the Olympics?

There's a lot of rivalry there, partly because a lot of the Aussie girls play (or have played) in the WNBA.

Anime Dad, I take it you're a big basketball fan from Australia, no?

I'm just curious ... is Lauren Jackson the most famous basketball player (men and women) from Australia? Is she looked as a goddess down there? :bow:

adub2adub wrote:

Anime Dad, I take it you're a big basketball fan from Australia, no?

Nope, not really ;)

I'm just curious ... is Lauren Jackson the most famous basketball player (men and women) from Australia? Is she looked as a goddess down there? :bow:

No, she's not the most famous Aussie basketball player, although she's probably the best-known of the women. Probably the best-known current player would be Andrew Bogut, who plays in the NBA. The best-known of all time would probably be Luc Longley, who played with the Chicago Bulls when Michael Jordan was king.

Lauren Jackson is regarded as probably the best female basketball player ever to come from Australia. Next would probably be Michelle Timbs, who also played in the WNBA but is now assistant coach of the Chinese women's team.

I say "probably" to all those because basketball has a very low profile in Australia compared to other team sports - much less than in the USA. And women's basketball is much lower profile than mens. You rarely ever hear womens basketball scores on TV sports (Unless they televise them on pay TV, which I don't have). The only real coverage that basketball gets is when the Olympics are on, moreso now because our mens team are competitive and our women are definite gold medal chances.

I'm not a big basketball fan, i've never been to a game (men or women) and like I said, it's not on TV much. But I do like watching our women play.

And is Lauren Jackson regarded as a goddess? Not as much as the likes of Stephanie Rice (swimmer), although being tall, blonde, attractive and having a nude photo shoot done definitely doesn't hurt ;)

adub2adub wrote:Hmm, where you come up with that? :headscratch:

If you read any of the posts before that, you'd get the joke...

Or not. :sweat:

hope 1 day there will be squasy for olympic :fingerscrossed:
go nicol david!! :dancing:

Squasy?? :headscratch:

bmwracer wrote:Squasy?? :headscratch:

sorry..
squash :doh:
i think it's time to cut my fingernails :hehe:

yon wrote:sorry..
squash :doh:
i think it's time to cut my fingernails :hehe:

LOL, maybe. :victory: :hehe:

Once again, I must look to Universal HD for exciting Olympic coverage. Currently I have no desire to see NBC's pointless showing of the gymnastics exhibition.

Universal HD is showing the women's 20 km walk. Now, that's exciting. At least their competing for something. I should have trained to be a competitive race walker. I could have been on Olympian.

Super No. 1 wrote:Once again, I must look to Universal HD for exciting Olympic coverage. Currently I have no desire to see NBC's pointless showing of the gymnastics exhibition.

Universal HD is showing the women's 20 km walk. Now, that's exciting. At least their competing for something. I should have trained to be a competitive race walker. I could have been on Olympian.

LOL.

Oh yeah, the "Gymnastics Gala"... One last gasp to blow the U.S. gymnastics team horn... It's like the Ice Skating Gala they have in the Winter Olympics.

bmwracer wrote:
Third?

Russia's third.

Or are you deducting judged events as well? :hehe:

with 16 golds i make gb third.
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/olympics/2008/medals/

our most successful games for a century. :applaud:

U.S. women's softball team is upset by Japan in the gold medal match, 3-1.

Sugoi...! :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

bmwracer wrote:U.S. women's softball team is upset by Japan in the gold medal match, 3-1.

Sugoi...! :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

US men's and women's 4x100m relay teams both drop batons. Sugoi! :applaud:


:hehe:

See what happens when you don't take performance enhancing drugs...you go through withdrawal symptoms, your hands shake, and you drop the baton.

U.S. track and field athletes, particularly the supposed favorites, are not having a good Olympics:

Allyson Felix wins silver for the second straight Olympics in the 200m.

Jeremy Wariner takes silver in the 400m after winning gold in Athens.

Men's and women's 400m relay teams both drop their batons during the race and are eliminated from competition.

bmwracer wrote:
Men's and women's 400m relay teams both drop their batons during the race and are eliminated from competition.

When it was realized there was no money inside the baton, it was dropped.

bmwracer wrote:U.S. women's softball team is upset by Japan in the gold medal match, 3-1.

Sugoi...! :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

thats an upset and a half, being that the women's US team has been shutting out opponents left and right.

Tu_triky wrote:US men's and women's 4x100m relay teams both drop batons. Sugoi! :applaud:

:hehe:

See what happens when you don't take performance enhancing drugs...you go through withdrawal symptoms, your hands shake, and you drop the baton.

i didn't know choking was a symptom. if thats the case, then you'll have to count Lolo Jones of the US 100M hurdles and sanya richards (Women's 400 Meters) as well. Both heavy favorites but ultimately didn't get the gold.

niko2x wrote:i didn't know choking was a symptom.

Maybe it's a disease, 'cause the U.S. track and field team has got a major case of it. :sweat: