Author Topic: 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing THREAD [spoilers/results inside] (Read 49452 times)

JFC · « **Reply #100 on:** August 16, 2008, 10:16:25 PM »

Vegeta-Phelps!

And WTF, Canada suddenly has 3 medals? One of each color too.

bokunosonzai · « **Reply #101 on:** August 17, 2008, 05:23:42 AM »

MICHAEL PHELPS 8TH GOLD!!!!

Congratulations you freak

Tuffty · « **Reply #102 on:** August 17, 2008, 12:35:20 PM »

Damn, Phelps is a freak

Congratulations as well to Usain Bolt who yesterday broke the World Record in the 100m sprint, and he even slowed down towards the end. Crazy.

And what happened with Great Britain? Winning medals all over the show, I thought the poison fog or government officials killed them all?

Sev · « **Reply #103 on:** August 17, 2008, 06:44:02 PM »

China up to 35 gold now. the WTF doesn't end.

And yeah Bolt.. WTF.

Guo Jingjing got her golds in 3m Synchro and 3m. No big surprise. Also, she's hot:

claymore · « **Reply #104 on:** August 18, 2008, 03:02:13 AM »

[youtube=425,350]2QA6s7p-zU8[/youtube] American gymnast Alicia Sacramone

THUNDERDUCK · « **Reply #105 on:** August 18, 2008, 03:25:19 PM »

Synchronized Swimming....cool

Sev · « **Reply #106 on:** August 18, 2008, 03:51:50 PM »

Awshit! The Gymnastics final (Rings men, Uneven bars women and Vaults men) was fucking great. Super close for all the men in the rings, and close to flawless performances by all of them. And the uneven bars. Holy fucking tama!

It's an honor watching He Kexin on the uneven bars, such power in her techniques and completely fearless. Nastia was nothing but amazing aswell, and leaving it to the B-judges who scored it 3-2 Kexin (iirc) made it as fucking close as fucking can be.

Gymnastics epicness is seriously WOW!

Also musse was looking good in 3000m steeplechase but just gased out when the Kenyan's activated their hax.

SomethingWild · « **Reply #107 on:** August 18, 2008, 05:47:38 PM »

Phelps

Bolt

I'll have what he's smoking haha

and another gold for the Netherlands! Hooray Marianne Vos! You screwed up your other two races, but you finally brought home the gold!

Tuffty · « **Reply #108 on:** August 18, 2008, 06:41:05 PM »

The women's gymnastics was pretty epic. I like Nastia, I think she's an incredible gymnast so was a tad disappointed to see her not get gold. But it was just so close, I wouldn't have liked to have been one of the judges.

Nastia also looks a lot like Kristen Bell

China's dominating in Table Tennis, but it's like saying the sky is blue.

And a bit late but congratulations to Nadal for winning the Men's Gold.

redux · « **Reply #109 on:** August 19, 2008, 05:06:14 AM »

A bit late...but goddamn as impressive as Phelps has been Usain Bolt is the highlight of the olympics so far for me. The guy doesn't even look like he's running outt here! Come to think of it, he wasn't for some of it.

Reanimation · « **Reply #110 on:** August 19, 2008, 05:15:42 AM »

some people are complaining that when Usain Bolt was still running to the end, he was pumping his chest, and looking to see if anyone was near him, was abit of a disrespect to the other competitors, and that isnt how you represent yourself as an olympic champion.

Tuffty · « **Reply #111 on:** August 19, 2008, 01:38:40 PM »

^ hmm I can see where they're coming from, but I never really got that impression. He was celebrating, as we would all do when we succeed, to cut that out of any sport would kill the passion of it and many would lose interest.

The greater debate is who is the better athlete Usain Bolt, or Michael Phelps. IMO, humans are more adept at running than swimming, therefore swimming would take the greater level of skill, thereforfore Phelps is better. Usain still rocks though.

lollipopgirl · « **Reply #112 on:** August 19, 2008, 01:59:48 PM »

Damn, I really wanted another gold for the Chinese girls in Gymnastics

Damn you America

At least I really like Johnson... No comment on what i think of Liukin

Sev · « **Reply #113 on:** August 19, 2008, 03:07:12 PM »

I know what i think of Nastia! She has awesome long fine looking legs, and an ass that i'd kill for. I really wanted Shanshan Li to win, she had a great run, and beautiful techniqe. Not as powerful as Loli Johnson, not as calm as Nastia but something inbetween, something in harmony of the technique's she's performing. Too bad on the fall.

Some epic runs in the men's Horizontal Bar also. Did love it, but i'm surprised the yank didn't get it. To me he looked almost as sharp as Kai Zou but more exciting and with more difficult stuff.

Walsh and May.. Won. I've never been as bored in a beach volley game. They're just too good, lol. Hopefully Tian Jia and Wang Jie can put up a fight. They are the only team to beat Walsh/May in the last years.

Also amazing performance by the Nigerian's in their Semi Finale in the Men's soccer. They might be a threat to the winner of Brazil and Argentina.

Holm got eliminated in the High Jump. His dream of two consecutive Olymic Gold medals are over.

lollipopgirl · « **Reply #114 on:** August 19, 2008, 04:37:05 PM »

Holy Shit, 100m women's hurdles final was so close, great to watch!
I'm gonna cry from pride at Sally McLellan's reaction to her silver... sooo cute!

Australia sucks on the track so this is great... but give us water any day

Tuffty · « **Reply #115 on:** August 19, 2008, 07:01:39 PM »

Aw damn Nastia didn't get the gold, I really wanted her to.

But the other American did well to deserve it anyway, she kept getting silver until the final.

And I really thought the American should have won the High Bar final. Though Zou Kai didn't do that badly in his run either.

Is that the end of all gymnastic events now?

lollipopgirl · « **Reply #116 on:** August 19, 2008, 07:07:15 PM »

Its the end of Artistic gymnastics and the start of Rhythmic gymnastics... Or at least that's how its usually done.

Sev · « **Reply #117 on:** August 19, 2008, 08:07:43 PM »

^ Yep. Correct.

I don't know. I'm so not a big fan of Rhytmic Gymnastics, but that's what i said about fencing before this Olympics so.. Who knows.

frblckstr1 · « **Reply #118 on:** August 20, 2008, 12:20:43 PM »

To bad Leryn Franco didn't make it to the finals...

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/The-hot-Paraguayan-goes-cold-at-Olympics?urn=oly,101791

And one for the daigongs here

Tuffty · « **Reply #119 on:** August 20, 2008, 04:25:09 PM »

^ Damn I'm sorry too!

Congratulations once again to Usain Bolt who won Gold and broke the WR record for the 200m finals, one people thought could never be beaten, at 19.3 secs.

Also watched the best Basketball match thus far in Argentina v Greece. So close right to the last 30 secs.