Official 2008 Olympics Thread (FINAL:USA most medals, China most golds)

Just watched the Chinese woman's beach volleyball team take out the USA team. Kinda sucks.... though one of those Chinese woman is really hot.
 
So...I just waited through an hour of mens beach volleyball cuz I wanted to see hammer throw as it was scheduled right after, and instead got only a 1-2 minute recap of what happened and who won. WTF is that bull shite?
 
So about that marathon yesterday, do we know what the winner was sniffing?

It seems kinda wild for her to be so old, sniffing some mystery substance and finishing so far ahead of everyone else (what, like a full minute before second and third who were 1s apart)... if it's some sort of energy-enhancer should it be legal?
 
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[quote name='billyrox']Just watched the Chinese woman's beach volleyball team take out the USA team. Kinda sucks.... though one of those Chinese woman is really hot.[/quote]

May and Walsh lost? Whoa...
 
I was at hockey and they had Gymnastics playing on the tvs. They were showing the German girl gymnast. That was sooooooo NOT a FEMALE.
 
I happened to catch the vault last night and am still puzzled how the scoring works. The girl that got gold landed one of her vaults on her knees and the girl that got the bronze land on her hands and knees once. The American that finished fourth landed on her feet both times and the small jumps she made seemed less important than landing on your knees. It must not have been the first time those two were on their knees yesterday.

I realize that degree of difficulty comes into play, but there is a big difference between landing on your feet and landing on your knees.
 
[quote name='billyrox']Just watched the Chinese woman's beach volleyball team take out the USA team. Kinda sucks.... though one of those Chinese woman is really hot.[/quote]

yeah the american team got rocked, i was pretty shocked. and she was hot and very tall

i read about teh women's bars final... the judging in gymnastics is messed up. they need to reform it again.
 
[quote name='tehweezner']yeah the american team got rocked, i was pretty shocked. and she was hot and very tall[/quote]In the interest of the free world and world peace, I kindly ask that any future posts referring to hot female Olympic athletes be accompanied with a picture of said athletes. With this small contribution, you'll be sure to put a smile on an orphan boy's face somewhere in the world.
 
[quote name='pitfallharry219']The 4th grader in me laughed aloud when I read that Canada has an athlete named Cockburn.[/quote]

What was the one some posted earlier? A Chinese athlete named Dong Dong? He's one vowel away from being a snack cake.
 
I would like to request that women's Greco-Roman wrestling be performed as it was originally envisioned, with the athletes garbed only in their own skin.

If this could be enacted for volleyball as well - given all those little hugs where they seem to grab each other in wondrous places - that would be icing on the cake.
 
[quote name='Strell']I would like to request that women's Greco-Roman wrestling be performed as it was originally envisioned, with the athletes garbed only in their own skin.

If this could be enacted for volleyball as well - given all those little hugs where they seem to grab each other in wondrous places - that would be icing on the cake.[/QUOTE]

Let's face it, ALL women's athletics would benefit from it. I can just imagine that trampoline event I just saw...
 
Gymnastics has some ganked scoring and judging.

Some of the Chinese ceremony girls and country name card holders are pretty hot.
 
[quote name='cdietschrun']fuck, Liuken on the uneven bars robbed by China.[/QUOTE]

Wrong, Yang Yilin was robbed by He Kexin and Nastia Liukin. I heard that Nastia Liukin even said Yang Yilin was underscored.
 
Did you see her look throughout the event? She was dumbfounded how she was tied and lost. I doubt she would have said, based on her reaction to the events. She was pissed.
 
haha... naked woman's weightlifthing


anyway, they seriously need to stop all the complaining... its not going to make a difference

if the tie break had gone the other way, no one would have said a thing
 
Right, no one should be complaining because Liuken's routine was BETTER than the Chinese athletes and all the commentators/experts agree. Robbed.
 
I don't know whether to be amazed or have him checked, but I don't think Bolt has been trying all that much... which would be scary.

[quote name='SteveMcQ']Gymnastics has some ganked scoring and judging.

Some of the Chinese ceremony girls and country name card holders are pretty hot.[/quote]

Quoted for the truth on both accounts!
 
[quote name='VipFREAK']I don't know whether to be amazed or have him checked, but I don't think Bolt has been trying all that much... which would be scary.
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Obviously, the man isn't trying. A) He looked left and right during his last 30 meters of the 100m final. B) He CHEST PUMPED in the last 15m C) He threw his arms up in the last 5 meters. D) He said "I don't care about my time, I just want everyone to know I am Olympic Champ."

He wanted to crush the field. And that he did.
 
[quote name='cdietschrun']Right, no one should be complaining because Liuken's routine was BETTER than the Chinese athletes and all the commentators/experts agree. Robbed.[/quote]


we are only bitching and moaning because the American lost... if it had been the opposite and after a tied first place, the Tie Break had gone to the American, we wouldn't have said a thing.

I want USA to win as much as anyone else, but the constant whining after every gymnatics competition is becoming annoying. The Tie break rules was set in place by an international committee.

Secondly.... its subjective that Liuken's routine was better... all the commentators/experts are American, so you can't forget there's always a bias viewpoint when we watch the tv.
 
No, it really isn't just that all commentators are American. Any other EXPERTS you can find are all in agreement. The panel of judges for an American/Chinese/Russian gymnast consists of countries that have NEVER medaled in these events.

I wouldn't give two shits more if the Chinese girl won outright AND performed better. But she seriously did not. It's just true.
 
There's a story of....either two pole vaulters or two high jumpers...

And they both cleared the same height, but it was getting late so the Olympic coordinators stopped the event and ended for the day with (I think) the intention of continuing it the next day. But they never did do that, and so they awarded one of the athletes with gold and the other with silver.

Both of them knew they had cleared the same height, so when they got back to their home country (I want to say this was two Americans, so the USA), they went to a metal shop and had them cut each medal in half and then weld them together, so each man had a gold/silver medal hybrid.

I guess they could do the same thing here, but it's not quite the same thing since gymnastics isn't based on one pure factor, and instead has to take a lot of things into consideration.

Just a thought.
 
[quote name='cdietschrun']No, it really isn't just that all commentators are American. Any other EXPERTS you can find are all in agreement. The panel of judges for an American/Chinese/Russian gymnast consists of countries that have NEVER medaled in these events.

I wouldn't give two shits more if the Chinese girl won outright AND performed better. But she seriously did not. It's just true.[/quote]


I'm sure that the EXPERTS on the Chinese media are saying now that their gymnast was so much better and the metal was awarded correctly. They are just as biased as ours.


Obviously the panel of judges are EXPERTS as well... and even if they are from countries that have few metals in these events, they still know how to judge better a hell of a lot better than you or me. And they came to the conclusion that the girls were the same.

Secondly, I didn't think Chinese girl did worse than ours. I think we need to be aware of the bias from our announcers (conscious or subconsciously). I've noticed that on other nights the US commentators failed to announce problems in our gymnasts (such as balance checks, etc) and were very critical of other teams.
 
[quote name='billyrox']Obviously the panel of judges are EXPERTS as well... and even if they are from countries that have few metals in these events, they still know how to judge better a hell of a lot better than you or me. And they came to the conclusion that the girls were the same.[/quote]
Actually, even before any of the girls performed there was some good commentary on how the judging panel is a problem.

You're not going to tell me that Chinese girl on vault deserved to beat Alicia Sacramone, are you? I guess she did, since the Americans said otherwise.
 
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You're not going to tell me that Chinese girl on vault deserved to beat Alicia Sacramone, are you? I guess she did, since the Americans said otherwise.[/quote]


Just because there are some bias from commentator doesn't mean I don't always agree with them.
 
[quote name='cdietschrun']No, it really isn't just that all commentators are American. Any other EXPERTS you can find are all in agreement.[/QUOTE]

I don't believe you, I think you're making shit up.

Support that claim. Link? Show me experts without ties to USA that think Nastia was clearly superior.
 
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[quote name='Koggit']I don't believe you, I think you're making shit up.

Support that claim. Link? Show me experts without ties to USA that think Alicia was clearly superior.[/quote]


I hope you mean Nastia, because you don't need any expertise to tell that Alicia deserved the bronze medal and there was a huge fuck up.
 
The chinese girl landed on her fucking knees. You don't have to be an expert to realize you don't deserve a bronze for that when the 4th place person landed both her vaults.
 
[quote name='Rocko']I hope you mean Nastia, because you don't need any expertise to tell that Alicia deserved the bronze medal and there was a huge fuck up.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, my bad, I meant Nastia.

I didn't even see Alicia compete, other than the team finals... what was Alicia robbed of? Vault? Vault's the only one I missed, I believe.
 
Alicia got 4th, and the bronze medalist was a Chinese girl who landed one of her vaults on her knees and still, somehow, got a 15 point something to beat Alicia.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']The chinese girl landed on her fucking knees. You don't have to be an expert to realize you don't deserve a bronze for that when the 4th place person landed both her vaults.[/QUOTE]

This. Right. Here.

If you land on your knees I don't care HOW good the other part of your performance is, you don't deserve a medal.

Unless you're a call-girl.
 
[quote name='keithp']This. Right. Here.

If you land on your knees I don't care HOW good the other part of your performance is, you don't deserve a medal.

Unless you're a call-girl.[/QUOTE]

"And oral sex should be an olympic sport! Because it's harder than curling and if you're any good at it, you deserve a medal."

Oh Lewis Black.
 
[quote name='Rocko']Alicia got 4th, and the bronze medalist was a Chinese girl who landed one of her vaults on her knees and still, somehow, got a 15 point something to beat Alicia.[/QUOTE]

That sucks.. the post I quoted was referencing Nastia though.
 
Either way, I have 2 co workers from Brazil, and they were laughing at us about the "unfairness in gymnastics judging" saying that Americans always complain when we don't win. We just enjoy the games for what it is.

And after seeing the last few nights on gymnastics... I think we do. I highly doubt the rest of the world is saying... oh yeah... Americans so got shafted in gymnastics
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All I'm saying is just watch the games and enjoy it. Stop whining about every little problem. Those Asians worked just as hard as our girls.

Thats all i'm going to say.
 
[quote name='Rocko']Alicia got 4th, and the bronze medalist was a Chinese girl who landed one of her vaults on her knees and still, somehow, got a 15 point something to beat Alicia.[/quote]

First of all from what I recall, there were two jumps and the Chinese girl's first jump was a hell of a lot more difficult and much better than either of Alicias. The one that she fell, was lower, but overall the Asian girl's average will still higher.


Anyway I have 2 co workers from Brazil, and they were laughing at us about the "unfairness in gymnastics judging" saying that Americans always complain when we don't win. We should just enjoy the games for what it is.

And after seeing the last few nights on gymnastics... I think we do. Every single night, there's a new complaint that we have been cheated out of gold. I highly doubt the rest of the world is saying... oh yeah... Americans so got shafted in gymnastics
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All I'm saying is just watch the games and enjoy it. Stop whining about every little problem. Those Asians worked just as hard as our girls.

Thats all i'm going to say.
 
[quote name='billyrox']First of all from what I recall, there were two jumps and the Chinese girl's first jump was a hell of a lot more difficult and much better than either of Alicias. The one that she fell, was lower, but overall the Asian girl's average will still higher.


Anyway I have 2 co workers from Brazil, and they were laughing at us about the "unfairness in gymnastics judging" saying that Americans always complain when we don't win. We should just enjoy the games for what it is.

And after seeing the last few nights on gymnastics... I think we do. I highly doubt the rest of the world is saying... oh yeah... Americans so got shafted in gymnastics
.

All I'm saying is just watch the games and enjoy it. Stop whining about every little problem. Those Asians worked just as hard as our girls.

Thats all i'm going to say.[/QUOTE]
Hey, at least we didn't throw our medals down and say we were quitting the sport.
 
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Yeah, well let's just see what happens tonight!! Let's see how they shaft us!!

...oh, wait, we win...

SEE , it's a pity medal they give us because the judges know they were wrong in the other events!! :fridge:
 
[quote name='billyrox']First of all from what I recall, there were two jumps and the Chinese girl's first jump was a hell of a lot more difficult and much better than either of Alicias. The one that she fell, was lower, but overall the Asian girl's average will still higher.


Anyway I have 2 co workers from Brazil, and they were laughing at us about the "unfairness in gymnastics judging" saying that Americans always complain when we don't win. We should just enjoy the games for what it is.[/quote]

Sure, but she got way too high of a score for failing her second jump. She didn't complete it. She fell. She did one successful jump. That does not deserve a medal.

Also, I like how you think two random people from another country speak for the rest of the world. Alicia Sacramone was wronged, plain and simple.
 
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