Official 'the olympics' thread

Well I trust olympic fever has gripped everybodies respective nation. Not supprisingly, the US is leading in the medal stakes again :smile: China seem to be doing pretty well too; I suppose in theory, they should win a fifth of all medals, what with them having a fifth of the worlds population. I wonder if they will win overall at the next olympics :heee:

Belgium is going to win the Female Tennis gold ! go Justine Henin !

England suck. We've got two golds, one from the rowing this morning. :sad:

Do many people take a lot of pride in the olympic results? It's quite nice to watch some of the events, but I don't see how who wins is all that important.

America always wins, but yeah it is nice.

the problem here is people dont say where they come from and its not in their profile

Actually it is.

what do u mean?

oh matt ur from England

One problem with the olympic TV coverage over here is that one station
is running the olympics about 23h a day and another channel running
them about 15h a day. The problem with that is we only have 5 free to
air networks :sad: so there is even less to watch than normal.

Allthough there has been some good stuff going on at the olympics I
have been enjoying quite a few things (more than I have in previous
games). the time zone difference is a bit annoying though, live
coverage is on between 3:30pm and 3:30am and during the rest of the
time they never seem to replay the events you want to see, or cut the
replay short (usually just before the result)

the problem here is people dont say where they come from and its not in their profile

what has that got to do with the olympics?

I've kind of had a passing interest for the Olympics. Sometimes it's
interesting, sometimes it's really not. Interesting tidbit: ESPN, when
displaying medal rankings, ignored Olympic regulation ranking and opted
to use their own weird system that ignored number of gold medals and
used total number instead(which surely enough, displayed the USA as 1st
several days ago). I wonder why... ? :smile:

Another problem is the time-zone's; most events are pre-recorded and
then replayed on primetime over here. You think you have it bad in
Britain? To see anything live, I'd have to stay up untl 3:00 AM. And
even then, it would be rowing, or some other rubbish event! :wink: As Jon
Stewart of the Daily Show
so eloquently put it, we're essentially watching re-runs and you can
find out the actual results at almost any time. Kind of diminishes the "intensity" and "olympic fever".

We've got about 3 or 4 medals we've got one for sailing, one for show
jumping, one foe some speed biking thing and one for rowing.

I dont really take much interest in the Summer Olympics I preffer the
Winter Olymics apart from clurling cos that just sends me to sleep and
then I miss all the good events damb those clurlers.

Why is there no smily shaking his fist damb those smily makers damb them all to hell.

I think the Olympics are important for:

1. National Pride
2. The Athletes
3. McDonald's (who plasters the Olympic Rings all over the place)
4. Our Viewing Pleasure

In that order.

lol,
true

matt said:
England suck. We've got two golds, one from the rowing this morning. :sad:

i didn't know they let england have their own team this time round.

Two of those golds come from Scottish athletes too...I think. Can't say I've been following it too well, not particularly my thing.

The Olympics are also meant to settle the petty disputes between the people of the countries over which country is better

I hate the coverage though, they never show archery or sumo wrestling, the hilarity sports!

http://www.athens2004.com/en/OlympicMedals/medals

Great Britain currently has 5 golds.

Japan are the masters of Judo, it looks like.

Think the text size is big enough on that link??

no.

lmao, best link text EVER

It deserves another cookie:



I have other cookie pics, but they have swearing on them, so I'll hold off.

A cookie pic collection... that's unusual. I've watched the olympics like 15 mins or something like that, not very fun imo.

yesrerday i watched track but only the high-jump
those guy where jumping 7' 4 1/4" over a pole

Watching the 800m woman's running was quite exciting, ultra close finish but a gold for Kelly Holmes for GB, so was all good :smile:

the other day i watch the men's 1500 meter swim
they were swimming 4 15 min hard

I haven't watched any of the olympic events. Not very interesting IMO. I hate watching sports of any kind. I'd much rather go out and play. Or map... Or do almost anything else really.

ReNo said:
Watching the 800m woman's running was quite exciting, ultra close finish but a gold for Kelly Holmes for GB, so was all good :smile:

**Warning: random thought**

It took me a few seconds to understand that GB was short for Great Britian rather than the code name for Sarin nerve agent.

Tracer Bullet said:
I haven't watched any of the olympic events. Not very interesting IMO. I hate watching sports of any kind. I'd much rather go out and play. Or map... Or do almost anything else really.

ReNo said:
Watching the 800m woman's running was quite exciting, ultra close finish but a gold for Kelly Holmes for GB, so was all good :smile:

**Warning: random thought**

It took me a few seconds to understand that GB was short for Great Britian rather than the code name for Sarin nerve agent.

you know, i had what would seem to be a completely different random thought, which happens when they're random i suppose.

I caught the end of the race walking or whatever the other night at like 2:30 AM. That was some creepy s**t.

Race walking?? The sad thing is I believe you.

I've been enjoying a bit of it. Walsh and May of the beach volleyball tournament were exciting to watch, as was the men's 400m where the US took all three medals. The coverage around here shows all too much diving though.