Misty and Walsh take the Gold Medal! Congrats to them!!!!!!!!!!!

Yay for May and Walsh!!!

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!

Yeah I don't have a lot of love for the announcers. I have to mute them sometimes. lol

Edited August 21, 200817 yr by Laurie

Usain Bolt needs to stop acting so cocky even the IOC is telling him he needs to cool it.

^^^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.

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

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.

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.

That child looks 8!

OK, I'm concerned about volleyball.

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.

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.

Edited August 23, 200817 yr by SnCCorinthos4ever

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

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.

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.

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.

Edited August 23, 200817 yr by Huntress

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.

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.

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.

WHOOT WOOOOOO GO AUSTRALIA!!! Way to upset China and their quest for all the diving golds!

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.

WHOOT WOOOOOO GO AUSTRALIA!!! Way to upset China and their quest for all the diving golds!

Did you see how quiet it got when he got those 10's on a 3.8 difficultly dive? It was priceless!!