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Re: Official Summer Olympics 2008 Thread
Gold!!!!!!!!!!!!Gold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Wed Aug 13, 2008 5:16 am
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Re: Official Summer Olympics 2008 Thread
shawmanus wrote:
MadGez wrote:
shawmanus wrote:
200M medley he can win while having his lunch. 100M butterfly should be great. I hope he crushes crocker's WR and becomes 1st swimmer to go sub 50 seconds. medley relay is a lock as well. 4x200 should be interesting though Aussies aren't as good as last time.
Yeah the Aussie men are no competition anymore. Thank God for the women!
sullivan looks good. I am hoping bernard does not win 100M freestyle.
He does. He's probably Australias best hope for a gold out of the men (outside of the 1500m). BTW, Sullivan is Rice's boyfriend (they recently split but most believe thats a temporary Olympic thing).
Skip to 00:57 if you want to see the most incredible thing you've ever seen.
Wed Aug 13, 2008 7:21 am
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Re: Official Summer Olympics 2008 Thread
FILMO wrote:
Lol.....the voice of the little child singing during the opening ceremony was fake. The child who has the beautiful voice was to ugly found the political leadership and droped her. Though that didnt stop them to use the taped voice.
Fakery in show business! Will wonders ever cease?
Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:24 pm
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Re: Official Summer Olympics 2008 Thread
Neostorm wrote:
Alexandre Despatie is going ot be diving at 2:19.... I have total faith in him. TOTAL faith!
That exactly did not work as planned.
I still think burkina faso will win a medal before canada or russians.
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Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:34 pm
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Re: Official Summer Olympics 2008 Thread
do not group the canadians with the russians...the russians have actually won things...
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BEIJING – Pau Gasol sat courtside with his feet dunked in a bucket of ice as the irony of ironies unfolded around him.
The Los Angeles Lakers center had just finished training Wednesday at the Beijing Language and Culture University, where students from around the world gather to learn Mandarin and promote international understanding.
Four days into the most global of events, and surrounded by buildings which foster social harmony across all colors and creeds, Gasol had to apologize for the actions of a Spanish men’s basketball team that made Asian “slant eyes†at the camera for a sponsor’s advertisement and thinks it’s OK.
Around him, his teammates and coaches reacted to the criticism homing in on them from around the world with a mixture of embarrassment, confusion and some mild defiance. The ad in question was for a Spanish courier company, Seur, but the Spanish team also counts the athletic shoe and apparel company owned by Li Ning – the former Chinese Olympian who lit the torch at this summer’s Games – among its sponsors.
Jose Calderon of the Toronto Raptors has spent the last three years in North America, but he didn’t get it. He could still not understand how an action with such deep racial undertones had generated so much attention. In his mind a non-story became a story only when it was blown out of proportion by journalists with a mind for mischief.
“We did it because we thought it was going to be something nice, something with no problem,†Calderon told Yahoo! Sports. “But somebody wants to talk about it. It is too much of a big deal with you guys (the media) and everybody talking about that.â€Â
Head coach AÃÂto GarcÃÂa Reneses didn’t get it, either. Reneses comes from an older generation of Spanish society, one which has little time for the politically correct niceties of the modern world.
“If I go to play with a taller team and I put here (raising up on the tips of his toes) it is not an offense,†Reneses said. “I can’t understand anything more.â€Â
But Gasol got it. He didn’t get it when the Spanish courier company persuaded the players to pose with their index fingers stretching their eyes to a thin slit at a team media day, but he sure as heck gets it now.
“Some of us didn’t feel comfortable doing it just because to me it was a little clownish for our part to be doing that,†Gasol said. “But the sponsors insisted and insisted. I think it is just a bad idea I guess to do that, but it was never intended to be offensive or racist against anybody.
“I didn’t find it very funny. I didn’t find it offensive, either. I guess some guys didn’t mind. To me I don’t want to be that way, I guess, to be doing that stuff.
“If anybody feels offended by it we totally apologize for it. We never meant anything offensive by it.â€Â
The advertisement has regularly run as a full page in Spanish sports daily Marca soon after the picture was taken on July 1. However, it only came to prominence after it reached the attention of the Guardian newspaper in London this week.
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Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:45 pm
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Re: Official Summer Olympics 2008 Thread
Shack wrote:
Box wrote:
Aww, I feel so bad for that American gymnast who bombed and cost America the gold.
At least she's hotter than the rest. Like, much hotter.
No way, not over Nastia!
lol I hope that is a joke..
I felt very bad for Alicia..though it wasn't just her fault...the whole team wasn't as great as the chinese girls.
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Re: Official Summer Olympics 2008 Thread
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“We did it because we thought it was going to be something nice, something with no problem,†Calderon told Yahoo! Sports. “But somebody wants to talk about it. It is too much of a big deal with you guys (the media) and everybody talking about that.â€Â
WHAT THE HELL? Something nice? How in the world is that nice? What an idiot...
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“Some of us didn’t feel comfortable doing it just because to me it was a little clownish for our part to be doing that,†Gasol said. “But the sponsors insisted and insisted. I think it is just a bad idea I guess to do that, but it was never intended to be offensive or racist against anybody.
This is total bullshit. Gasol probably planned the whole thing, he looks like a demon.
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USA 10-8-11 = 29 China 17-5-5 = 27 South K. 6-6-1 = 13 Australia 4-2-6 = 12 Russia 2-7-3 = 12 Italy 4-4-3 = 11 France 1-7-3 = 11 Germany 6-1-2 = 9 Japan 4-2-3 = 9 Great Britain 2-2-3 = 7
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Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:52 pm
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Re: Official Summer Olympics 2008 Thread
How the hell did Germany win 6 medals in the last two days?? wow...
My supporting countries:
Latvia: 0 Belgium: 0 Armenia: 3 but they are all bronze Russia: 12 but very disappointing USA: 29 going strong
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but they are all bronze 
but very disappointing
going strong