Olympics

[hyperwhite]

so what events are you guys gonna be watching?

[mo_virgin]

100m dash of course
50m Freestyle swim
As many basketball games as I can

[Melinda]

Hmm diving, swimming, basketball, boxing, and gymnastics for me :) looking forward to it, I love the olympics!

[hyperwhite]

anyone watching the ceremonies right now? they're using the greek alphabet so everything is out of order. canada will be the 73rd team to come in.

[Dirty_SOHC]

watching it right now!!!

[Gonthro]

haha, the cermonies havn't even flown and theres already controversy because 2 of greece's sprinters "got ina motorcycle accident" so they couldn't drug test :P


http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SPORT/08/13/greek.sprinters/index.html/

[hyperwhite]

here's canada!

[QuasarCav]

Wrestling (the real kind)

I'd love to see nordhagen and igali take home the gold.

[GTS Jeff]

haha wtf, dj tiesto is spinning live at the opening ceremonies.

[hyperwhite]

haha ya, i made a seperate thread about that in entertainment

[Melinda]

Originally posted by hyperwhite
here's canada!
Haha Canada makes me laugh, half of them have their video cameras and the other half are on their cell phones! LOL

I'm actually really shocked that north and south korea are walking together under the same flag..

[accordboi_02]

Originally posted by QuasarCav
Wrestling (the real kind)

I'd love to see nordhagen and igali take home the gold.

Yeah me too.
LOL Nordhagen was my PE teacher when I was in HS, so I'm definitely pulling for her! :thumbsup:

[hjr]

man, there are some hot outfits (german's) and some stupid outfits (americans) at the ceremonies. most were middle ground but damn...

[cloud7]

gonna watch all the exciting sports...
Track and Field (100m dash, 4x100 relays)
Basketball, Badminton, Volleyball
Swimming (50m and 100m events)
Diving
Gymnastic

[no_joke]

Originally posted by hjr
man, there are some hot outfits (german's) and some stupid outfits (americans) at the ceremonies. most were middle ground but damn...

Those Germans looked sharp alright. Alot better than the tracksuit or the hoodie.

[hyperwhite]

Originally posted by Melinda

I'm actually really shocked that north and south korea are walking together under the same flag..

it's a step in the right direction. very encouraging

[mwmhong]

Originally posted by QuasarCav
Wrestling (the real kind)

I'd love to see nordhagen and igali take home the gold.

:werd:

[Loose]

Did you guys see "The Fun Girls" at beach volleyball???


:love:

[k_dawg]

boxing
badminton
judo
basketball

[LUDELVR]

Judo, Tae Kwon Do and Wrestling for me...now if I can only figure out what time it's on here!!! haha, good thing about these is that it's a Korean Network so I don't have to worry about watching shitty fights! :thumbsup: hahaha :rofl:

[///M3]

Damnit why does canada suck so bad!:cry:

[hyperwhite]

do we have a medal yet????

[///M3]

Originally posted by hyperwhite
do we have a medal yet????

NADA:(

[GTS Jeff]

Originally posted by ///M3
Damnit why does canada suck so bad!:cry: cuz theyre dispirited by ppl who boo their own nations athletes?

[accordboi_02]

Originally posted by GTS Jeff
cuz theyre dispirited by ppl who boo their own nations athletes?

I disagree. You don't see the high medal count countries cheering on their athletes who finish 6th or 8th... countries like the US expect the best from their athletes and they get it.

What bothers me is a county like Australia comes in and wins a ton of medals, yet Canada does jack-all. It's not like Australia is some huge economic power with a huge population base to draw from, yet they manage to produce quite a few world class athletes. Why can't we do the same, for either the Summer or the Winter? (besides hockey of course)

[Gonthro]

so far china is kickin ass


China 7 gold 3 silver 1 bronze 11 total


full medal stats for all countries here


http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/results/


(canada isn't even on the list cos we got nuthin :cry: )

[mo_virgin]

Canada won a bronze!!! somewhere... i can't even find news on it. Finally a medal!

EDIT: It was in synchro diving... yehh

[Gonthro]

Blythe Hartley
Emilie Heymans


Women's Synchronised high board diving




holy crap japan is up to 15 now, and the us just jumpedfrom like 7th to 4th and now have 12


EDIT: story of canada's first medal

http://www.cbc.ca/story/olympics/national/2004/08/16/Sports/divers040816.html

[Melinda]

We watched the girls win the medal while I was on my lunch break...not bad, they didnt have many who could have taken them out of third when the last round came around. They were in contention for silver but I think russia took that, bumping us to bronze. China took gold, but they did really well for it

[hyperwhite]

Originally posted by accordboi_02


What bothers me is a county like Australia comes in and wins a ton of medals, yet Canada does jack-all. It's not like Australia is some huge economic power with a huge population base to draw from, yet they manage to produce quite a few world class athletes. Why can't we do the same, for either the Summer or the Winter? (besides hockey of course)

well we are a winter powerhouse even outide of hockey, and we focus too much on that. our summer athletes just don't get the same respect, which hurts sponsorships and funding. australia is the opposite. it's like bizzaro canada :nut:

[no_joke]

In fact, in Rand McNally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people!

Yep, Canada is very small population wise but there are athletes who train for the summer and winter sports, so funding has to be divided between them. Just no enough money to go around to facilitate high class training throughout. I'm pretty sure in communist countries like the old USSR, China, or maybe Cuba, the athletes essentially live to train and compete.

[GTS Jeff]

Originally posted by accordboi_02


I disagree. You don't see the high medal count countries cheering on their athletes who finish 6th or 8th... countries like the US expect the best from their athletes and they get it.

What bothers me is a county like Australia comes in and wins a ton of medals, yet Canada does jack-all. It's not like Australia is some huge economic power with a huge population base to draw from, yet they manage to produce quite a few world class athletes. Why can't we do the same, for either the Summer or the Winter? (besides hockey of course)

oh i know, i was just posing a rhetorical question to express my distaste at how we are so quick to critisize the athletes who probably worked pretty damned hard to represent us. why should they care to keep training for the next olympics when they know that ppl are gonna hate them if they dont get medals?

[iceburns288]

1 in every 5k people in San Marino is an Olympian... what a ratio!:rofl:

USA- 536 atheletes :eek:

[Gonthro]

Originally posted by iceburns288
1 in every 5k people in San Marino is an Olympian... what a ratio!:rofl:

USA- 536 atheletes :eek:

thats the usa, quantity over quality...


anyone know how many competitors we have?? and how many countries total are competing??

[Roadrage]

I think Canada is sending somewhere between 250-275 athletes to Athens. The fewest Canada has sent to the summer olympics since 1984 or something like that.

[hyperwhite]

canada sent only 231 :(

[davidI]

They only sent people who could finish in the top 12. So how does that give experience to the up and comers who will be competing in the next summer games?

I've been watching womens gymnastics and womens beach volleyball. yum.

[Gonthro]

Originally posted by davidI
They only sent people who could finish in the top 12. So how does that give experience to the up and comers who will be competing in the next summer games?

I've been watching womens gymnastics and womens beach volleyball. yum.

i saw the vollyball yesterday, i was like, DAMN this is almost like primtime porn :drool: :poosie:

[grocko]

It's too bad that we haven't won more medals by now, but hopefully Perdita Felicien (100 meter hurdles), will bring some joy to Canadians in the next week. I run track and field myself, and think it's the biggest joke in the world that in order to even go to Athens, I would have had to break the National Record by 3 seconds, even though I was only 1.34 seconds off the International qualifying standard. We should do something like Australia did in the 70's and start a huge national sports school.....maybe in 30 years we'll be where they are now........

[Gonthro]

canada scores another one, a silver this time


Trampoline
Karen Cockburn Women's Individual


that bumps us up to a tie for 16th with 10 other teams

[hyperwhite]

Originally posted by grocko
It's too bad that we haven't won more medals by now, but hopefully Perdita Felicien (100 meter hurdles), will bring some joy to Canadians in the next week. I run track and field myself, and think it's the biggest joke in the world that in order to even go to Athens, I would have had to break the National Record by 3 seconds, even though I was only 1.34 seconds off the International qualifying standard. We should do something like Australia did in the 70's and start a huge national sports school.....maybe in 30 years we'll be where they are now........

what did you run in and how fast did you run?

[FiveFreshFish]

Best pic of so far :D

http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/pictures/2004/08/25/sp_usa_vball03.jpg

[7thgenvic]

Originally posted by FiveFreshFish
Best pic of so far :D

http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/pictures/2004/08/25/sp_usa_vball03.jpg


ooo my god! well im spent! thats wicked hot! woot woot

[Ben]

Ah the olympics

[Ben]

:poosie:

[Ben]

:dunno:

[Gonthro]

Originally posted by Ben
:dunno:

that makes me happy in my pants :thumbsup: :poosie:

[Seanith]

Lets see some more beach volleyball pics! i haven't been watching :(

[Roaring G60]

Originally posted by hyperwhite
canada sent only 231 :( However Canada also sent 270 "support staff" otherwise know as lookers on. The great ironic point is that in track cycling we couldn't even afford to send the Coach for Lori-anne Munzer who inncidently won a gold.






We should do something like Australia did in the 70's and start a huge national sports school Ah but here you are wrong, we indeed have a National Sport School. National Sport school (http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b830/aboutus.htm#)

[Ben]

Scrap the fuckin gun registry and throw that money into the Olympic fund...it's bullshit that Autrailia with less people throws WAY more money into the games. They put more into their summer olympic program than we do with both summer and winter.:zzz:

[Hakkola]

Anybody been watching sprinting? Allyson Felix is a hottie!

Ben, I agree with you wholeheartedly.

[403Gemini]

oh man the usa vs brazil in beach volleyball... = :drool: :poosie:

[dasdin]

i dont know why olympics are so popular they are so gay cept for the "real" sports....basket ball and baseball and such....haha and makes u realize that canada has no talent, and the alent they do have fairly close immigrant heritage....

[inawiJ]

beach volleyball is the best sport ever invented oh and has anyone seen the usa's softball pitcher jenny finch shes dayummm sexy :poosie:

[dasdin]

Originally posted by inawiJ
beach volleyball is the best sport ever invented oh and has anyone seen the usa's softball pitcher jenny finch shes dayummm sexy :poosie:
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u idiot hahha u told me lauren bay was hot....finch was my idea

[B18C]

Does anyone have teh video of Liu Xiang 110m hurdles gold medal run (or a link to it)? I'm trying to find it for my dad thanks