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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #220 on: August 26, 2008, 08:14:19 am »
Tell you what, speaking of suspicions and not showing significant people in athlete's lives, did I just miss something, or in all the coverage of Dara Torres and the repeated comments about her age and being the mother of a two-year-old child, was there ever any mention made of a father of her child or of a partner for Torres of either gender?

Granted, I'll gladly give even star athletes some privacy, but still, unless, as I said, I just missed it--repeatedly--I thought that was rather a strange omission.

I think I remember the story they did of her.  I want to say she has a husband who approved of her going back into swimming and helping out with childcare, etc.

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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #221 on: August 26, 2008, 01:18:35 pm »
Here are the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentators so far
during the Summer Olympics that they would like to take back:


Katie, where did you find these??

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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #222 on: August 26, 2008, 01:39:52 pm »
I think I remember the story they did of her.  I want to say she has a husband who approved of her going back into swimming and helping out with childcare, etc.

Thanks, Del. As I said, it's entirely possible I just missed that part of the story, but my memory is that every story I saw about her dwelt on her age and her being a mom, and I honestly don't remember any mention of a husband or partner.  :-\
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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #223 on: August 26, 2008, 09:39:01 pm »
I got this in an email today:

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 #224 on: August 29, 2008, 04:27:20 pm »
I'm using Firefox, so when I click on the link, it gives me the website, Matt's grinning mug and a big button that says "Video".  I click on it and I get "To play video on Firefox please install Silver something plug in".  There are no other options.  Maybe if I was in Explorer or Netscape...

Delalluvia, I am using Firefox on the Mac...I had to download Microsoft Silverlight from the NBC site in order to view the video. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that before. If you don't want to do that (I think its slowed down my Mac a bit), I would go to You Tube....

Well after searching You Tube, I only found one video of the medals ceremony and has been removed due to a third party copyright violation (I am assuming NBC here  >:(

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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #225 on: August 29, 2008, 04:29:05 pm »
Tell you what, speaking of suspicions and not showing significant people in athlete's lives, did I just miss something, or in all the coverage of Dara Torres and the repeated comments about her age and being the mother of a two-year-old child, was there ever any mention made of a father of her child or of a partner for Torres of either gender?

Granted, I'll gladly give even star athletes some privacy, but still, unless, as I said, I just missed it--repeatedly--I thought that was rather a strange omission.

I have noticed that too both during the Olympics and seeing her a couple of times on Jay Leno...I think I did see in a recent article in People a brief mention of her husband.

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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #226 on: August 29, 2008, 04:30:23 pm »
Matt was so sweet.  He's such a goober.  Looked like a little kid out there, bouncing around, singing Australia's anthem,  just thrilled.

Yes, it was refreshing to see someone so openly surprised and emotional about winning. :)

That is what I so loved about him :)

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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #227 on: September 06, 2008, 10:06:30 am »
I'm sitting here watching the paralympics opening ceremony - they did a whole ballet dance ensemble with a little girl who lost her leg in the May earthquakes in China - it was beautiful and it made me cry.

I'm sure it'll be on youtube soon enough.
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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #228 on: September 06, 2008, 11:50:37 am »

Over a thousand "cartoon marathon athletes" give an extraordinary performance ahead of the Paralympians' parade at the opening ceremony.

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Re: Are You Planning to Watch the Olympics?
« Reply #229 on: September 06, 2008, 02:03:08 pm »
The kids here were AMAZING!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBYLahldjD8[/youtube]

and this guy has the arms of a god.


He is f*cking amazing!


[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuvG6QviBtw&translated=1[/youtube]

and here is the little girl who made me cry. Who still holds a dream to be a ballet dancer

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqaCQw8ijSs&translated=1[/youtube]

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