yay one more medal for good ole USA.

YES!!!! She stuck the landing. AWSOME VAULT for Nastia Liukin.
Shawn Johnson did not stick the landing.

Not that I really understood Gymnastics scores all that much before, but in this all around competition I'm really baffled by them.

Very nice for the u.s going 1-2 in gym finals.

earlier i was getting pissed off at the judges scores. but luckly the two americans pulled it out in the end.

i only wish they both gotten the gold medal.

The updated gymnastics scoring scheme is a lot more intuitive than the last one. It just takes some getting used to.

Thank God! That would have been a travesty if Nastia didn't win.

Do the North Koreans know something you don't? Though what was taken makes sense.

They could use the same drug that are given to snipers in the military, drugs that steadies them so they can shoot better, those drugs do exist.

Medal Count Update:

China 22-8-6 = 36
USA 14-12-17 = 43
Australia 5-6-8 = 19
S.Korea 6-7-3 = 16
Russia 3-8-4 = 15
France 2-7-6 = 15
Germany 8-2-3 = 13
Italy 6-4-3 = 13
Japan 5-3-3 = 11
Great Britain 2-2-3 = 7

Track and Field starts tomorrow

When would Liu Xiang go for gold?

finals is on 8/21

good day for America eh.

So, the first medalist got stripped today. Of course by a country who doesn't know how to mask their drugs opposing to China and the US.

No, it is called common sense. Chinese pharma industry is the biggest in the world, they have always been on the forefront of doping, they have nearly no controls in training. If one thing is sure that the chinese would do EVERYTHING to win.

And it is not unfair to say this. Officially Florence Griffith-Joyner was never tested positive, officially Lance Armstrong is Mr. Clean. But everyone knows they were on drugs. I like great human achievements like the next guy, but those are NOT human achievements, sorry

Michael Phelps Learning Mandarin



anybody here tried learning a language with Rosetta Stone software?

Congrats to Nastia !! (hehe a Russian won...) I don't like Shawn Johnson...she bothers me.

I want to buy it...but it's like 250 dollars per lesson....I've heard it is great.

The beautiful side of the games...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sp ... 558405.ece

lol Levy...great post!

I'm happy that Nastia won as well and that Shawn was able to secure the silver. I didn't mind the Chinese girl winning a medal but she was overmarked in the beam without question so that final battle was closer than it should have been. Even Shawn was undermarked on a couple of her routines and Liukin was undermarked on the vault. I've grown more comfortable with the scoring system as it's gone along because it really comes down to your start value and that really came in handy for Liukin to have two routines where she could score a 16 or better even though her vault skill level was pretty cheap. If she can bring that to a 6 or higher than this wouldn't have been close. Also, I really think if she had not stuck those landings, especially on the beam then she woudln't have won which would have shocked me. Overall, that was a perfect ending to a competitive competition even with the inflated marks that Yilin(?) got.

I've seen some go as low as $150.

I want the Spanish (Latin America) one.

China got 5 more medals (4 golds) today so far..

China 26-9-6 = 41
USA 14-13-19 = 46
Aussie 5-7-8 = 20

Roger Federer may yet get a gold medal in these Olympics. He and his doubles partner Stan Wawrinka beat the Bryan Brothers 7-6 6-4 to advance to the gold medal match...and then celebrated in a very weird fashion.