Kangaroo blood may spilt, but not before maple leaves are trampled and crushed!!\

Aww, damn it. The guy's gonna get silver. I already know the results What's the point of watching when you know what's gonna happen, sniff.

To answer Box's question about biggest losers...

Ok to make sense of this chart: here is what you need to know....

It is comparing the TOTAL medal count of 2004 Olympics to the PRESENT medal count of 2008...so some will go from negative to positive...but it is interesting to see how much some have fallen

So BLUE are countries that have 10 medals in the 2008 olympics and the YELLOW are countries that had 10 medals in the 2004 olympics but not in this one....

Rank	Country	Score
1	Mongolia	100%
2	New Zealand	60%
3	Finland	50%
4	Zimbabwe	33%
5	Indonesia	25%
6	Slovenia	25%
7	China	21%
8	North Korea	20%
9	Kenya	14%
10	Great Britain	10%
11	Canada	8%
12	Azerbaijan	0%
13	Cameroon	0%
14	Colombia	0%
15	India	0%
16	Jamaica	0%
17	Kazakhstan	0%
18	Lithuania	0%
19	Serbia	0%
20	Switzerland	0%
21	Trinidad and Tobago	0%
22	France	-12%
23	Norway	-17%
24	Poland	-20%
25	South Korea	-20%
26	Uzbekistan	-20%
27	United States	-23%
28	Denmark	-25%
29	Georgia	-25%
30	Ukraine	-26%
31	Belarus	-27%
32	Australia	-29%
33	Estonia	-33%
34	Slovakia	-33%
35	Czech Republic	-38%
36	Brazil	-40%
37	Japan	-41%
38	Italy	-41%
39	Netherlands	-41%
40	Germany	-43%
41	Spain	-53%
42	Russia	-54%
43	Austria	-57%
44	Ethiopia	-57%
45	Sweden	-57%
46	Romania	-58%
47	Cuba	-59%
48	Chinese Taipei	-60%
49	Croatia	-60%
50	Argentia	-67%
51	Bulgaria	-67%
52	Chile	-67%
53	Morocco	-67%
54	Portugal	-67%
55	Turkey	-70%
56	Hungary	-71%
57	Latvia	-75%
58	Mexico	-75%
59	Egypt	-80%
60	Greece	-81%
61	Iran	-83%
62	South Africa	-83%
63	Thailand	-88%
64	Armenia	NEW
65	Bahrain	NEW
66	Ecuador	NEW
67	Kyrgyzstan	NEW
68	Malaysia	NEW
69	Panama	NEW
70	Singapore	NEW
71	Tajikistan	NEW
72	Togo	NEW
73	Tunisia	NEW
74	Vietnam	NEW
75	Algeria	NEW
76	Bahamas	None
77	Belgium	None
78	Dominican Republic	None
79	Eritrea	None
80	Hong Kong	None
81	Israel	None
82	Nigeria	None
83	Paraguay	None
84	Syria	None
85	United Arab Emirates	None
86	Venezuela	None

here are the medal count differences: Russia is really down....wow.. (p.s. Go Armenia!!)

Rank	Country	Score
1	China	13
2	Armenia	5
3	Great Britain	3
4	New Zealand	3
5	Algeria	2
6	Kyrgyzstan	2
7	Bahrain	1
8	Canada	1
9	Ecuador	1
10	Finland	1
11	Indonesia	1
12	Kenya	1
13	Malaysia	1
14	Mongolia	1
15	North Korea	1
16	Panama	1
17	Singapore	1
18	Slovenia	1
19	Tajikistan	1
20	Togo	1
21	Tunisia	1
22	Vietnam	1
23	Zimbabwe	1
24	Azerbaijan	0
25	Cameroon	0
26	Colombia	0
27	India	0
28	Jamaica	0
29	Kazakhstan	0
30	Lithuania	0
31	Serbia	0
32	Switzerland	0
33	Trinidad and Tobago	0
34	Dominican Republic	-1
35	Eritrea	-1
36	Estonia	-1
37	Georgia	-1
38	Hong Kong	-1
39	Norway	-1
40	Paraguay	-1
41	Syria	-1
42	United Arab Emirates	-1
43	Uzbekistan	-1
44	Bahamas	-2
45	Chile	-2
46	Denmark	-2
47	Israel	-2
48	Morocco	-2
49	Nigeria	-2
50	Poland	-2
51	Portugal	-2
52	Slovakia	-2
53	Venezuela	-2
54	Belgium	-3
55	Chinese Taipei	-3
56	Croatia	-3
57	Czech Republic	-3
58	Latvia	-3
59	Mexico	-3
60	Argentia	-4
61	Austria	-4
62	Belarus	-4
63	Brazil	-4
64	Egypt	-4
65	Ethiopia	-4
66	France	-4
67	Sweden	-4
68	Iran	-5
69	South Africa	-5
70	South Korea	-6
71	Ukraine	-6
72	Thailand	-7
73	Turkey	-7
74	Bulgaria	-8
75	Netherlands	-9
76	Spain	-10
77	Romania	-11
78	Hungary	-12
79	Greece	-13
80	Italy	-13
81	Australia	-14
82	Japan	-15
83	Cuba	-16
84	Germany	-21
85	United States	-23
86	Russia	-50

You know what sport I find creepy?


Synchronized swimming.

I just saw Shawn Johnson's vault, and it was really good. She's really grown on me, so I'm happy for her gold.

i'm sooo happy Shawn finally got her gold.
3 silvers and a gold not bad.

have you noticed that she goes about so "showy"? like when they are walking in a line and everyone else is walking casually but Shawn walks so "proper"...lol has anyone else noticed?

Britain just got two more medals in the 10k swimming, silver and bronze. Damn...

She's such a ditz! I love her!

how can you not.

I tried...but she won me over....

Ok, so the Chinese gymnast who won bronze in that competition, she always looks angry/scared/sad. WHY???

i don't know...but she is always crying...but I think a lot has to do with her face. (no offense). it just isn't the happiest face.


EDIT: I just remembered that she cried a lot because of the floor routine...she bombed.

Silver would be removed in that case.

yup!

I still think they should have just given Liukin and He both gold medals and skipped Silver... Their tie breaker was the dumbest thing ever... it didn't really make sense..

Agreed.

Luckily for our team the canoe finals are still coming. I expect at least 5 medals, 3 of them gold

Heptathlon silvermedalist Blonska (Ukraine) caught with doping, that means silver instead of bronze for USA and bronze for Russia

Great. Thanks!

Australia doing well against the States in basketball.

Michael Johnson's record is no more. On 200m, Bolt with 19.3s.

that dude is as fast as a lighting BOLT!

Fascinating volleyball match between U.S. and Serbia.

Watched that and another great game, this time basketball between Argentina and Greece.