Members MTSRocks Posted August 21, 2008 Members Share Posted August 21, 2008 Misty and Walsh take the Gold Medal! Congrats to them!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Laurie Posted August 21, 2008 Members Share Posted August 21, 2008 Yay for May and Walsh!!! Yeah I don't have a lot of love for the announcers. I have to mute them sometimes. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jcar03 Posted August 21, 2008 Members Share Posted August 21, 2008 Usain Bolt needs to stop acting so cocky even the IOC is telling him he needs to cool it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MTSRocks Posted August 21, 2008 Members Share Posted August 21, 2008 ^^^Yeah, I'm noticing the cockiness, but I think it's all just very overwhelming and new to him. It's not like he's a seasoned veteran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnCCorinthos4ever Posted August 21, 2008 Members Share Posted August 21, 2008 Today medal events include (20 gold up for grabs) Athletic's Men's 50 km walk Men's decathlon Women's long-jump Men's pole-vault Women's 5000 metres Women's 4 x 100 relay Men's 4 x 100 relay. Canoe/Kayak (flat water) Men's K1 1000 metres Men's C1 1000 metres Women's K4 500 metres Men's K2 1000 metres Men's C2 1000 metres Mwn's K4 1000 metres Men's Beach volleyball Bronze medal match - Georgia Brazil Gold medal match - USA v Brazil Taekwondo Women's 67kg Men's 80kg Synchronised Swimming Team technical routine Women's Hockey Bronze medal match - Germany - Argentina Gold medal match - China v Netherlands Table Tennis Women's singles Mountain Bike Women's cross-country Women's Pentathlon Shooting/fencing/swimming/riding/running Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jcar03 Posted August 22, 2008 Members Share Posted August 22, 2008 BIG NEWS - New information has come to light regarding the age scandel with China and the IOC has told the FIG (Gymnastics Governing Body) to investigate further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jess Posted August 22, 2008 Members Share Posted August 22, 2008 That child looks 8! OK, I'm concerned about volleyball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnCCorinthos4ever Posted August 23, 2008 Members Share Posted August 23, 2008 Yep in our daily paper it mentioned that the US team co-ordinator Martha Karolyi that one of the chinese girls had a missing baby tooth and I am sure that we would have lost them all by the time we are about 14 and have a full set of adult teeth by 16. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnCCorinthos4ever Posted August 23, 2008 Members Share Posted August 23, 2008 Today's medal event's include (32 gold up for grabs) Athletic's Men's javelin Women's high jump Men's 800 metre's Women's 1500 metre's Men's 5000 metre's Women's 4 x 400 metre's Men's 4 x 400 metre's Hockey Men's bronze medal match - Australia v Netherlands (boy this can be hard for me. I am Aussie now, but I was born in Rotterdam) Men's gold medal match - Spain v Germany Basketball Women's bronze medal match - China v Russia Women's gold medal match - Austalia v USA Canoe/Kayak - flat water Men's K1 500 metre's Men's C1 500 metre's Women's K1 500 metre's Men's K2 500 metre's Men's C2 500 metre's Women's K2 500 metre's Cycling Women's mountain bike Men's mountain bike Football Men's gold medal match - Nigeroa v Argentina Baseball Bronze medal match Gold medal match Diving Men's 10 metre platform Sychronised Swimming Team free routine Rhythmic Gymnastic's Individual all-round Boxing Flyweight (51kg) Featherweight (57kg) Light welterweight (64kg) Middleweight (75kg) Heavyweight (91kg) Table Tennis Men's singles bronze Men's singles gold Taekwondo Men's 80kg+ Women's 67kg+ Volleyball Women's bronze medal match - Cuba v China Women's gold medal match - USA v Brazil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jcar03 Posted August 23, 2008 Members Share Posted August 23, 2008 They wrapped the investiagations within hours I guess. They said the proof China have is fine in proving the girls ages. Though IMO the "proof" are items that are still easily forged so basically China will get away with cheating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Huntress Posted August 23, 2008 Members Share Posted August 23, 2008 Germany got 16 gold medals this time which is an improvement compared to Athens (we had 13 back then), but overall most of our so-called "top athletes" failed. Instead, we won medals where nobody thought we would, for example in men's triathlon and women's modern pentathlon. The best moment was when Britta Steffen won the 100m freestyle race. Nobody expected her to win, since all other German swimmers failed this time and only four even reached a final. Britta was so happy and she cried in front of the cameras, it was very touching. It was also heartbreaking when Matthias Steiner won the gold medal in weightlifting and held a picture of his dead wife during the medal ceremony. She died in a car accident a year ago. A very tragic moment was when Tomasz Wylenzek had a circulatory collapse after the C-2 1000 metres race where he finished second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnCCorinthos4ever Posted August 24, 2008 Members Share Posted August 24, 2008 Today's medal event's include (16 gold) Athletic's Men's marathon Basketball Men's bronze medal match - Argentina v Lithuania Men's gold medal match - USA v Spain Rhythmic Gymnastics Group all-round Boxing Light flywieght (48kg) Bantamweight (54kg) Lightweight (60kg) Welterwieght (69kg) Light heavyweight (81kg) Super heavyweight (91kg) Volleyball Men's bronze medal match - Russia v Italy Men's gold medal match - USA v Brazil Waterpolo Men's bronze medal match - Montenegro v Spain Men's gold medal match - Hungary v USA Handball Men's bronze medal match - Croatia v Spain Men's gold medal match - France Iceland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SnCCorinthos4ever Posted August 24, 2008 Members Share Posted August 24, 2008 ITA it is the medals that you don't expect your country to win that are the best. Steve Hooker winning the pole vault. Matthew Mitcham in the 10 metre platform ending China's hopes of a clean sweep in the diving. But my male athlete of the games would have to go to both Maarten Van Der Weijden from the Netherlands who won the 10 km marathon swim. He beat leukemia and won the gold. And Matthias Steiner who promised his gying wife that he would win gold. And my female athlete would go to Anna Meares from Australia. She had a fall in January while competing in a race in LA breaking her neck and came with in an inch of becoming a quadriplegic and there was also something saud about her losing her life. She ended up winning the silver in the women's sprint final. The one thing that I do hate about the Olympic or Commonwealth games and even the world championships is when someone from any of the teams competing don't win the gold that was expected of them. I mean I wonder what would have happened had Phelp's been beaten in one of his indvidual event's would people be calling him a failure. Or if the USA lost one of the relay's it would have been that his team mates let him down. Some people turned on Grant Hackett here in Australia after he won the silver medal. People were expecting him to win the gold. Upsets happen in all forms of sport. Just because you or a team happens to be the best in something doesn't mean that you or the team will be the best at the moment that it matters. I think that a lot of the pressure come's more from the offical's and even from TV commontator's who publicly announce that a certain person should win this or that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jcar03 Posted August 24, 2008 Members Share Posted August 24, 2008 WHOOT WOOOOOO GO AUSTRALIA!!! Way to upset China and their quest for all the diving golds! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted August 24, 2008 Members Share Posted August 24, 2008 I am so glad the Chinese men didnt win the gold in platform diving. Congrats to the Aussie diver for winning! He truly deserved to win. Did you see how quiet it got when he got those 10's on a 3.8 difficultly dive? It was priceless!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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