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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #190 on: August 24, 2008, 10:15:59 am »
To tell you the truth, I'm glad they are now over.

The TV broadcast was bloody awful, and I started losing interest through the middle of last week.

Congratulations to all the athletes from all over the world, you did well........now go get a proper job.


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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #191 on: August 24, 2008, 01:36:20 pm »
and you know he is out, right? NBC wouldn't show his family....you notice that? They showed a LOT of other athletes families, mates, and all. Matt's parents and his partner ?Lachlan? was there to see him win!

Woo hoo!!!!!!!!!  My gaydar is SPOT ON!!!  I was - ahem - admiring him as he came out of the pool and as he reacted to his dive scores, waved to the camera and moved back to the pool, my gaydar went off.  Actually it went off first when he was about to make his dive, standing with his back to the pool, he rubbed his palms on his swimsuit to dry them so he could do a handstand.  All of them do it.  My gaydar started going off when he did.  Strange.

As he hugged his coaches and teammates, I was getting the Greg Louganis vibe, too. 

No, I only saw Team Aussie cheering for him, but I didn't think no sign of family was unusual.  Lots of athletes don't have their families there or the media doesn't bother to spotlight them.  But yeah, that sucks if he is the gold-medal winner, cheated the host country of a sweep and they didn't highlight his family and SO.

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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #192 on: August 24, 2008, 01:41:53 pm »
To tell you the truth, I'm glad they are now over.

The TV broadcast was bloody awful, and I started losing interest through the middle of last week.

Congratulations to all the athletes from all over the world, you did well........now go get a proper job.

Trust me, at that level of competition, their bodies will give out soon enough.  They don't have a choice.  You heard Nastia the gymnast when asked if she will appear in London in 2012 (just 4 years away, she is only 20), she hedged and coughed and didn't really answer.

Chances are the answer is no.  I listen when the announcers say whether or not the person participating was involved in the last Olympics.  Some were, a lot aren't.

And since the amateur status rule was taken away, being a professional athlete is a job - see football/baseball/soccer/hockey, etc.  ;)

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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #193 on: August 24, 2008, 01:42:36 pm »
I saw that - pretty amazing.

Oh and ach well we'll have to agreed t disagree on the bmx-ing.. what do you think of the table tennis btw? I think thats more odd than the bmxing!

I agree with you on table tennis.  Bah. 

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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #194 on: August 24, 2008, 01:48:29 pm »
the trampoline is the one that made me roll my eyes...

They have Olympic trampoline?  :o

Yeah, that's a bit of an eyeroller.  My boy Matt Mitchum the diver though used to be like a junior competitor at trampoline.

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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #195 on: August 24, 2008, 02:18:08 pm »
They have Olympic trampoline?  :o

Yeah, that's a bit of an eyeroller.  My boy Matt Mitchum the diver though used to be like a junior competitor at trampoline.

Ive never seen it but the wii version of the olympic trampoline is hard!
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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #196 on: August 24, 2008, 10:32:25 pm »
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/track_field/news?slug=cr-somalirunners082408&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Somalia sent two athletes. Both came in last...but lort reading their story.


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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #197 on: August 24, 2008, 11:21:00 pm »
Can someone tell me why the best athlete in the Olympics who is American,Mr. Phelps esq. was in London for the closing ceremony ???

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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #198 on: August 25, 2008, 02:40:46 am »
Here are the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentators so far

during the Summer Olympics that they would like to take back:

1. Weightlifting commentator: 'This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw
her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.'

2. Dressage commentator: 'This is really a lovely horse and I speak from
personal experience since I once mounted her mother.'

3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: 'I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother
and father.'

4. Boxing Analyst: 'Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths
in boxing, but none of them really that serious.'

5. Softball announcer: 'If history repeats itself, I should think we can
expect the same thing again.'

6. Basketball analyst: 'He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn't
like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces.'

7. At the rowing medal ceremony: 'Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the
IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew.'

8. Soccer commentator: 'Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've
got eleven Dicks on the field.'

9. Tennis commentator: 'One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is
that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses
them... Oh my God, what have I just said?'
 



 



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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #199 on: August 25, 2008, 02:18:15 pm »
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/track_field/news?slug=cr-somalirunners082408&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Somalia sent two athletes. Both came in last...but lort reading their story.



wow... inspiring - I had a tear in my eye readin that - I hope they're there at 2012.
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