Olympics Thread

kosuke kitajima 's dolphin kick was brought up in the world championship by officials and was said to be illegel. There was a review by some on the tape of the 100m breaststoke just recently by some other swimmers includeing swimmers from other country and he did use a dolphin kick which is a violation in the breaststoke but as in the rules, you can't use the tape for appeal. It can only be brought up by officials who were at the event. At the World Championship some of the official gave kosuke kitajima's dolphin kick some attention but was never appealed by anyother swimmers or judge.

Rony Oka wrote:And that is just hating on someone :angry:

Hating on J-Pop males is just plain stupid, are mad because they look better than you. :crazy:

Rony, if you're referencing my posting, I think you may have me misunderstood... I never wrote that I was "hating" Jpop males nor did I say they weren't handsome or untalented or undeserving of legions of fans. My point is that from a strictly objective standpoint, they are rather skinny compared to American men, no matter of what ethnicity: american caucasian, american asian, et cetera. For example, Sorimachi Takashi, who I think is The Bomb, is about my height but weights over 20 pounds less and has a chest-size only equal to that of my exGF.

FYI, I am a nihonjin and and I am not mad or envious of anyone else's looks.
-PCM

Gomen Nasai

Sorry if I had over-reacted.
I didn't mean to offend n-e-1

See Ya'll later!

pcmodem wrote:Amen. WTF is it with the women here going ga-ga over all these skinny Jpop men? The nihonjin male actors... I don't think I've seen a single one that had a chest size over 40" (101.6 cm). Dudes couldn't bench press a box of Twinkies.

Are you talkin' about Girlie Men??? :hehe:

Japan won against Cuba in the baseball match earlier 6-3... hehe

http://www.athens2004.com/en/BaseballMen/results?rsc=BBM400912&frag=BBM400912_C73


Cuba got all their score in the 9th inning.

Matsuzaka was doing a great job at the mound.


:woot: :woot: :woot: :woot:

he hasn't played in any matches in the olympics yet

here's a pic of him


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gomen it's really big. I took it from Y!Japan sports navi

what do u think? he's cute ne?

Dang wrote:Japan won against Cuba in the baseball match earlier 6-3... hehe

http://www.athens2004.com/en/BaseballMen/results?rsc=BBM400912&frag=BBM400912_C73


Cuba got all their score in the 9th inning.

Matsuzaka was doing a great job at the mound.


:woot: :woot: :woot: :woot:

Wow. I am seriously biting my tongue right about now. I really thought Cuba woulda' kicked the bootay, you know? Needing to answer to Castro once the 'lympics are over. Nah, I understand Cuba's kinda' talented, no?

Looks like Japan's gonna' gold in some seriously major events this 'lympics (where it all started). But, the U.S. has too ;) thus far.

That having been said . . . they lucky the US didn't end up in the tournament!
USA! USA! USA!

cassius wrote:

well...in all fairness - he hasnt changed his technique since the world championships - and this was what? last year or something? he even says that in the 15 yrs of swimming he has never been cautioned or sanctioned for this?


so with all of that + the world championships + the qualifications and then the olympics itself - no one has EVER brought up this issue about the 'dolphin kick' until the american swim team this yr?

even the american coach has said there is nothing to it.

source: http://foxsports.news.com.au/olympics/story/0,9744,10471105-35135,00.html

well funny enough Qu Hui of China got DQ in the 100 breatstroke final yesterday for doing exactly the same thing, performing a slight underwater dolphin kick off the turn. Maybe they were cracking down after the accusation. I also watched the underwater camera for the 200 mens breatstroke semi-final today and Kitajima no longer does that slight dolphin kick anymore. I guess he's being careful now.

The US are still in an uproar about it http://www.swiminfo.com/lane9/news/7862.asp

WE should be in an uproar if this:

ruroshin wrote:

Qu Hui of China got DQ in the 100 breatstroke final yesterday for doing exactly the same thing . . . Kitajima no longer does that slight dolphin kick anymore.

is happening right now in these Olympics!!!!

Investigation, investigation, investigation.

Kitajima can keep laughing if that's what he's doing . . . IOC takes back medals even AFTER the games have ended, if the charge has enough evidence.

GANBARU!!!

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women basketball team

did they win??? :crazy:
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oh!! it hurts :beaten:
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Dang wrote:he hasn't played in any matches in the olympics yet
what do u think? he's cute ne?

kawaii...!! he is cute Dang.. i got a pic from the official website which didn't look as good as this one.. ^^

anyway, does anyone know what's the baseball situation in Athens now? i don't get anything from singapore tv at all.. :grumble:

The Man wrote:WE should be in an uproar if this:



is happening right now in these Olympics!!!!

Investigation, investigation, investigation.

Kitajima can keep laughing if that's what he's doing . . . IOC takes back medals even AFTER the games have ended, if the charge has enough evidence.

I doubt that they will take his gold medal away. if he had used illegal substances it would have been something different but the americans haven't handed in a protest so my guess is that he'll keep the gold.

zchendevlemh wrote:women basketball team

did they win??? :crazy:
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they got a surprising win against a fairly talented nigerian team! but they got slammed by the opals (aussie team)

The Man wrote:
Kitajima can keep laughing if that's what he's doing . . . IOC takes back medals even AFTER the games have ended, if the charge has enough evidence.

i dont know if he's laughing about it...but this could get interesting...not to mention ugly

Awww nuts.. Singapore's men's badminton challenger Ronald Susilo got knocked out of the tourney.... :shakehead: :(

DragonSpirit164 wrote:Awww nuts.. Singapore's men's badminton challenger Ronald Susilo got knocked out of the tourney.... :shakehead: :(

He's not even Singaporean...he's Indonesian..right?! :beaten:

yeah he doesn't look so good in the official site :shakehead:

I watched the latest game of Japan this afternoon, the one against Australia. The Japanese team lost 9-4.

team W-L as of Wed Aug 18, 2004 15:05
Can 3-0
Japan 3-1
Cuba 2-1
Taipei 2-1
Australia 2-2
Netherlands 2-2
Greece 0-3
Italy 0-4


btw, Iwakuma was the pitcher in the game against the Netherlands in which they won.

I hear [men's 800 freestyle relay] the CRASH!!!!! sound of CRASH!!!!! guitars SMASHING and CRASH!!!!! RECORDS CRASHING CRASH!!!!!!!!

U
CRASH!!!!!
S
CRASH!!!!! [guitar strings break apart]
A!!!!

USA! USA!
USA!

ahochaude wrote:Senior citizens, I tell ya....... :rolleyes:


:P :hehe: :hehe: :hehe: J/K! J/K! *LOL* :beaten: :beaten: :beaten:

Eltinator -->:beatyou:<--Us Old Folks

Senior citizen? I resemble, err, resent that remark! ;)
-PCM