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2008 Summer Olympic Games

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Today's medal events include

Athletics

Women's discus

Women's pole valut

Men's long jump

Men's 3000 steeplechase

Women's 800 metres

Men's 400 metre final

Cycling

Men's 4000 metre pursuit

Women's points race

Women's triathlon

Artistic Gymnastics

Men's rings

Women's uneven bars

Men's vault

Women's trampolining

Table Tennis

Men's team

Sailing - Apparently gold has already been decided here.

Men's 470

Women's 470

Equestrian

Team jumping

Weightlifting

Men's 105 kg

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Didn't post yesterday, so I'll post this now - woohoo for Phelps!!! I'm so glad to see history be made! I love witnessing achievements like this.

http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TV...Night/800045209

Phelps' Historic Night Gives NBC a Golden Boost

Nearly 40 million people tuned in Saturday night to watch Michael Phelps make Olympic history with his eighth gold medal. NBC's prime-time coverage, from 7:30 pm to midnight/ET, averaged 31.1 million viewers, making it the network's most watched Saturday night program in more than 18 years. (An episode of the sitcom Empty Nest averaged 31.4 million on Feb. 24, 1990). From 11 to 11:30 pm/ET — as Phelps and his teammates were winning the 4x100-meter medley relay — the audience peaked to 39.9 million.

Thanks in large part to Phelps, NBC is averaging 30.1 million prime-time viewers through the first nine days of the Beijing Games. Now that live swimming is over, and track and field will be almost entirely tape-delayed, it remains to be seen if NBC can sustain this momentum.

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Wow, those are impressive numbers for NBC. I just checked out last night's numbers. And they are way down to only a 14.9 rating. I guess people will be tuning in less now that the swimming and most of the gymnastics are over with. Everything seems to be tape delayed and not live.

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Today's medal events include

Athletic's

Men's high jump

Men's dicus

Women's 400 metres

Women's 100 metres hurdles (isn't this meant to be 100 metres?)

Men's 1500 metre final

Men's Triathlon

Cycling

Men's madison

Women's sprint

Men's sprint

Sailing

Laser medal race

Laser radial medal race

Diving

Men's 3 metre springboard

Equestrain

Individual dressage final grand prix freestyle

Artisic Gymnastic's

Men's parallel bars

Women's beams

Men's horizontal bars

Trampolining

Men's

Weightlifting

Men's 105+kg

Wrestling

Men's freestyle 55kg

Men's freestyle 60KG

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Wow, those are impressive numbers for NBC. I just checked out last night's numbers. And they are way down to only a 14.9 rating. I guess people will be tuning in less now that the swimming and most of the gymnastics are over with. Everything seems to be tape delayed and not live.

We get 14 - 15 hours of telecast a day from one channel and about the same on the 2nd channel that shows the Olympic's

Between the 2 channels they do try to cram in as much live stuff as they can. And the taped stuff usually isn't that old.

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Today's medal events include:

Athletic's

Women's hammer throw

Men's 200 metres

Women's 400 hurdles

Swimming

Women's open water 10 kilometres

Sailing

Men's windsurfing

Women's windsurfing

Taekwondo - hehe I remember that with the Sydney Olympic's McDonalds had this promotion going where every time you brought a burger you got this scratch card where you got a free Big Mac if Australia won a gold medal in all these different event's. They printed a lot of Taekwondo ones and we got the gold in that, and there was also anouther event that they didn't expect Aust to get gold in either. Funny enough was that they didn't print very many of the where we were expected to get the gold.

Men's under 58kg

Women's under 49kg

Synchronised Swimming

Duet free routine

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Today's medal events include.

Athletic's

Women's 20km walk.

Women's javelin

Men's triple jump

Men's 400 metre

Women's 200 metre

Men's 110 metre hurdles

Softball

USA v Japan

Sailing

Tornado medal race

Cycling

Men's BMX

Women's BMX

Swimming

Men's open water 10 km

Diving

Women's 10 metre platform

Water Polo

Women's bronze medal - Australia v Hungary

Women's gold medal - USA v Netherlands

Football

Women's bronze medal - Germany v Japan

Women's gold medal - Brazil v USA

Beach Volleyball

Women's bronze medal - China v Brazil

Women's gold medal - USA v China

Equestrian

Individual Jumping

Wrestling

Men's freestyle 120 kg

Men's freestyle 96 kg

Men's freestyle 84 kg

Pentathlon

Men's shooting/fencing/swimming/riding/running

Taekwondo

Women's under 57kg

Men's under 68kg

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Aww poor Lolo Jones! Doing sooo well and then hits a hurdle

Yeah and the announcer was a prick. Did you hear when he said, "and for Lolo Jones [pause] nothing." That delivery was so cold, but kinda unintentionally funny. Oh and Usain Bolt is my new track & field hero!

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