Official Thread of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games (August 8-24)...

[lupi]

Originally posted by: NFS4
OK, no need to watch the Olympics anymore this year 😉

Isn't the closing ceremony tomorrow 😉


OK OK, there is still the beach volleyball 😀

 

[bigrash]

Hell yeah Phelps!!

 

[Sylvanas]

Just thought I'd pop in and say good swim 🙂 was a nail biter!

<--- Australian

 

[GrimmRimmer]

Congrats Phelps!!

 

[Shooks]

NBC already taking orders on a Phelps DVD...lmao

HAHA @ Ian Thorpe

 

[lupi]

lol, and now the ads for buy the Phelps greatest ever CD collection 🙂

 

[Led Zeppelin]

It's official: Phelps is Aquaman

 

[AmberClad]

haha, I saw that...didn't take NBC long to start marketing that stuff, did it

 

[caivoma]

Man, I feel it for west coast people. They have to watch this with 3 hours tape delay.
Awesome race, the US men swim team is kicking everyone asses

 

[StevenYoo]

PHELPS YOU F'ING MONSTER!

 

[AmberClad]

Wow, Bob Costas is greying at the temples. Still baby-faced as ever though.

 

[lokiju]

That was a great race.

 

[GoingUp]

Tom Hammond looks like hes in drag

 

[Drakkon]

Originally posted by: caivoma
Man, I feel it for west coast people. They have to watch this with 3 hours tape delay.
Awesome race, the US men swim team is kicking everyone asses

Yes this is bullshit. This whole Olympics for the most part has been ruined for those of us on the west coast. Whoever at NBC decided we should be on a 3 hour tape delay needs to be shot. Who cares if its not in "prime time" - espn bottom ticker and everything updates us LIVE - not the fake LIVE that NBC puts in the corner.

 

[JujuFish]

Originally posted by: Led Zeppelin
It's official: Phelps is Aquaman

Don't insult Phelps.

 

[lupi]

So they are now doing the 100m mens track race, and when talking about one of the americans they say he waited till completed his FSU degree to sign his lucrative pro contract....contract for what? There some pro track and field league I haven't seen advertised for?

 

[lupi]

Damn that guy was fast in the 100m. He started sticking his hands out with like 10m left to gloat and still made a WR with the run.

Speaking of that FSU guy, he takes bronze for the US.

 

[Balt]

Usain Bolt is ridiculously fast and at the same time he makes it look effortless.

 

[Shooks]

Originally posted by: lupi
So they are now doing the 100m mens track race, and when talking about one of the americans they say he waited till completed his FSU degree to sign his lucrative pro contract....contract for what? There some pro track and field league I haven't seen advertised for?

Endorsements?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: lupi
So they are now doing the 100m mens track race, and when talking about one of the americans they say he waited till completed his FSU degree to sign his lucrative pro contract....contract for what? There some pro track and field league I haven't seen advertised for?

Endorsements probably

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: lupi
So they are now doing the 100m mens track race, and when talking about one of the americans they say he waited till completed his FSU degree to sign his lucrative pro contract....contract for what? There some pro track and field league I haven't seen advertised for?

Probably sponsorship/marketing contracts.

 

[MotF Bane]

Wow, that guy didn't even try.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: Atomic Playboy

Originally posted by: Barack Obama

Originally posted by: AmberClad
That Cavic guy that Phelps beat seems like a class act:

He said he was not behind the protest of the race, that it came from the Serbian Olympic Committee:

"Yes, as you all saw, I almost won the Gold, and if you ask me, the clock does not lie. I had nothing to do with this filing, and neither did my coach Mike Bottom.... I've accepted defeat, and there's nothing wrong with losing to the greatest swimmer there has ever been."

Born in the US with dual Serbian citizenship.

I feel sorry for the guy. He should've won if he'd made more of an attempt to finish better. He thought he had it in the bag.

And he didn't. I don't feel even remotely sorry for him. Don't assume you've won, especially if you're competing against the single best person who has ever competed in the event you're competing in (he was competing against both the favorite, Phelps, and the world record holder, Ian Crocker). If Tyson Gay takes an early lead and assumes he's won the 100m only to have Usain Bolt beat him, I'm not going to feel sorry for Gay.

how ironic, because bolt was so much faster than the field that he did assume that he had it won, coasted and STILL broke the world record. he could have hit a 9.59. that's just flat out scary.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
how ironic, because bolt was so much faster than the field that he did assume that he had it won, coasted and STILL broke the world record. he could have hit a 9.59. that's just flat out scary.

Bolt is scary. His acceleration from 30 - 60 meters is unbelieveable.

btw, did anyone else notice that an inordinate amount of the runners in the 100M finals were from the Caribbean islands area? Must be something in the water there.

 

[Tangerines]

I like Walter Dix's comment on Usain Bolt: "He can run" :laugh: