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For all your Olympics related posting.
Who just watched the 4 X 100 Men's Swimming? What an amazing finish by Lezak!
Who just watched the 4 X 100 Men's Swimming? What an amazing finish by Lezak!
Cyrus said:I want to see the opening ceremony but NBC won't let anyone post it on youtube. I missed it.
Moonbear said:Why do you all want to watch it on YouTube? NBC is still a free channel to watch.
I've watched some of it while inside, but a lot of it has been events I'm not particularly interested in...water polo (what a strange sport to watch), and I think it was some sort of boxing (they were in a ring with head protection on, I didn't watch any more than that). I caught some swimming the other night, some of it while sitting in a bar (so, yeah, even if you don't have a TV, all the bars are playing the olympics on their TVs too), but I can only watch a little of that before I get bored. I missed the gymnastics, which I usually enjoy. Will they televise any equestrian events, and if so, does anyone know the schedule? Those along with gymnastics are my favorite summer events (I'm more of a fan of winter olympics).
That was truly an amazing race. I do believe the French were actually dumbfounded that they lost. One of them had boasted rather loudly that they were going to beat the USA and Phelps out of a gold in that event.Gokul43201 said:For all your Olympics related posting.
Who just watched the 4 X 100 Men's Swimming? What an amazing finish by Lezak!
tribdog said:I never understood the equestrian events. I could understand if everyone rode the same horse, but as it is doesn't the person with the best horse win? How much difference can the skill of the rider make?
Gokul43201 said:The most unexpected results of the day, however, belong arguably to the Women's 400m freestyle team from Britain. Adlington stunning Hoff with a great comeback finish was one thing, but Joanne Jackson claiming 3rd place (beating out Balmy, Pellegrini and Potec) must be pretty sweet too.
tribdog said:I never understood the equestrian events. I could understand if everyone rode the same horse, but as it is doesn't the person with the best horse win? How much difference can the skill of the rider make?
tribdog said:I never understood the equestrian events. I could understand if everyone rode the same horse, but as it is doesn't the person with the best horse win? How much difference can the skill of the rider make?
Moonbear said:The horse and rider train together, and the skill of the horse is a direct reflection of the skill of the rider in training that horse. Also, it does take a LOT of athletic skill to ride a horse at that level. You could not take a bad rider and put them on a good horse and get a good outcome. I also like it because it requires a true skill along with athletic ability to ask a horse to do what they do and get it to happen (especially events like dressage). Much better than people who win events by hundredths of seconds because they had a faster swimsuit.
BobG said:I agree. They should ban swimsuits so all of the swimmers are competing on a level playing field.
Maybe the field should be filled with water first.
Moonbear said:I dunno, some of the swimmers may naturally have more drag than others without suits. Though, hmm...I might be able to watch the swimming competition longer.
The entire schedule is available at www.nbcolympics.com and there is a also a lot of high quality online-only broadcasts - thousands of hours worth. No equestrian today, but there is some tomorrow morning (you were just going to sit at your desk and pretend to work anyway, right?).Moonbear said:Will they televise any equestrian events, and if so, does anyone know the schedule? Those along with gymnastics are my favorite summer events (I'm more of a fan of winter olympics).
russ_watters said:The entire schedule is available at www.nbcolympics.com and there is a also a lot of high quality online-only broadcasts - thousands of hours worth. No equestrian today, but there is some tomorrow morning (you were just going to sit at your desk and pretend to work anyway, right?).
Phelps said something like, "At the start of the race when I came to the top I noticed I was about half a body length ahead of anyone else." this was before he actually started swimming.Gokul43201 said:Phelps just took the 200 like he could do it in his sleep!
And Grevers shaved today! And it showed.
That can't be right. Unless I'm misremembering, Phelps trailed for the first three quarters, and then he just flipped a switch and passed everyone.tribdog said:Phelps said something like, "At the start of the race when I came to the top I noticed I was about half a body length ahead of anyone else." this was before he actually started swimming.
I read that some official thought the very talented 7 year old singer wasn't "cute enough" to represent the country. What an ugly thing to say...ZapperZ said:So who invited Milli Vanilli to perform in the opening ceremony? :)
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/news?slug=ap-china-lip-synchedsong&prov=ap&type=lgns
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yahoo said:Peiyi later told China Central Television that just having her voice used was an honor
isly ilwott said:I read that some official thought the very talented 7 year old singer wasn't "cute enough" to represent the country. What an ugly thing to say...
Gokul43201 said:Edit: No, I think you're right..
isly ilwott said:I read that some official thought the very talented 7 year old singer wasn't "cute enough" to represent the country. What an ugly thing to say...
tribdog said:I'm really quite an a$$!