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kranz 08-22-08 01:18 AM
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Originally Posted by joegrundman
Michael Phelps is incredible

If he was a separate country, he'd be in the 9th ranking place in the world!
I see a ghost of Lance Armstrong and Marion Jones....

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Btw - has anyone noticed britain's unbelievable performance? Third place, with Russia catching up fast, but wow, how did that happen?:rock:
only because one guy can ride a bike...

Jimbuna 08-22-08 05:46 AM
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Originally Posted by kranz

only because one guy can ride a bike...
That's funny....my mathematics tells me that he wasn't involved in 5 of the 8 cycling golds :hmm:

Take away those 3 golds and we still have 15...now how many did poland get ? ;)

Koondawg 08-22-08 06:38 AM
update

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/gymnastics/news?slug=dw-iocprobe082208&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

kranz 08-22-08 07:30 AM
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That's funny....my mathematics tells me
that's why you are not a math teacher...

Yeah, ok-my country sux.Happy? I will invite you to Poland some day and you will have to find a 50m swimming pool. :rotfl: Or deep enough to jump from 10m platform. Didn't find any? We are famous for our sports "managers". One was found sleeping on a grass. How many of these UK or USA had? Only one guy stabbed.

PS:oh, my 100th post! I'm gonna spam here more!

Jimbuna 08-22-08 09:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Koondawg
I love it :rotfl: ......Overall medal counting system :lol:

:up:

Jimbuna 08-22-08 09:07 AM
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Originally Posted by kranz
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Originally Posted by jimbuna


That's funny....my mathematics tells me
that's why your are not a math teacher...

Yeah, ok-my country sux.Happy? I will invite you to Poland some day and you will have to find a 50m swimming pool. :rotfl: Or deep enough to jump from 10m platform. Didn't find any? We are famous for our sports "managers". One was found sleeping on a grass. How many of these UK or USA had? Only one guy stabbed.

PS:oh, my 100th post! I'm gonna spam here more!
LOL :lol: :up:

Digital_Trucker 08-22-08 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter
Not surprising the Chinese would lie about the ages of their athletes.

Once upon a time, Olympians had lives outside of the stadium. They had other jobs, they had other hobbies, and they went about these things as we common folk do. For some, this is still the case.

For a Chinese Olympian, life consists of training, lying, and discipline. That IS their job, their purpose: to make their country look all powerful and invincible...:nope:
Is it that much different from an American Olympian? I hope the lying part is the main difference....
Well, the lying part and the part where the government drags the child from their home at the age of three to become a showpiece for the country.:nope:

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Most American athletes in the Olympics do have other lives outside of competing. The fact of the matter is unless you're a superb Olympian, you'll have to get a regular job. It just won't pay for you.

Michael Phelps, for instance, has been a pro-athlete swimmer since 16 and became a millionaire at 18. He has never had a real job outside swimming (unless you count the jobs he did for his uncle, but family errands really don't mean much, IMO).

Phelp's job is to swim. He gets a ridiculous amount of money from companies and corporations like VISA, SPEEDO, etc.

If they can convince him to use their gear, then he'll get money... a sh**load of it. He can easily rake in $50 million by the end of the 2008 Olympics.
All true, but he made that choice, didn't he? And ask the Chinese parents why they won't let their child come home after they've been "conscripted" into the program. The differences are few, but they are major differences.

XabbaRus 08-22-08 09:54 AM
The whole meaning of the olympics has changed. It is supposed to be about amateur atheletes, those with regular jobs with some sponsorship to cover training costs but that is it.

Now they have the likes of Tennis and Football in the games. Fine if it was competitors from a local amateur team, but they have national teams and likes of Darya Safina and Williams playaing. That's professional is it not. They earn money playing.

We might as well have darts...and snooker. More golds for the UK then.

Digital_Trucker 08-22-08 10:01 AM
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Originally Posted by XabbaRus
The whole meaning of the olympics has changed. It is supposed to be about amateur atheletes, those with regular jobs with some sponsorship to cover training costs but that is it.

Now they have the likes of Tennis and Football in the games. Fine if it was competitors from a local amateur team, but they have national teams and likes of Darya Safina and Williams playaing. That's professional is it not. They earn money playing.

We might as well have darts...and snooker. More golds for the UK then.
Don't forget BMX bike riding:rotfl: The Olympics have come a long way, it's just in the wrong direction:o

Takeda Shingen 08-22-08 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker
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Originally Posted by XabbaRus
The whole meaning of the olympics has changed. It is supposed to be about amateur atheletes, those with regular jobs with some sponsorship to cover training costs but that is it.

Now they have the likes of Tennis and Football in the games. Fine if it was competitors from a local amateur team, but they have national teams and likes of Darya Safina and Williams playaing. That's professional is it not. They earn money playing.

We might as well have darts...and snooker. More golds for the UK then.
Don't forget BMX bike riding:rotfl: The Olympics have come a long way, it's just in the wrong direction:o
The 'modern' games have never been in the right direction, even from the roots of the 'gentlemanly' competitor. The original concept of the modern Olympic Games was deeply rooted in the biases of race and class. Today, while those distinctions are gone, the Olympics are little more than an international p*ssing contest, where nation states seek to assert their superiority over each other my pitting their state-funded, trained and [sometimes] chemically-altered 'athletes' against each other in the persuit of the all-important medal count. That nations with more questionable leadership would restort to underhanded methods should hardly be astounding.

kranz 08-22-08 12:46 PM
chess was meant to be on some Olympics but finally the decision was rejected-but I don't remember-was in 2008 or 2012 ?
There is a "game" in which you use small plastic "sticks" to move other plastic sticks-dunno the english name. I would put it into London's 2012 so that Jimbuna could boast more about GB medals.

Jimbuna 08-22-08 01:51 PM
Boxing is now in danger of being dropped as an olympic sport.

Takeda Shingen 08-22-08 03:55 PM
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Originally Posted by jimbuna
Boxing is now in danger of being dropped as an olympic sport.
The terrible irony is that boxing is one of the few events of the modern era to actually have roots in the ancient Olympics. They certainly didn't swim, nor play basketball.

Skybird 08-22-08 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by kranz
chess was meant to be on some Olympics but finally the decision was rejected-but I don't remember-was in 2008 or 2012 ?
There is a "game" in which you use small plastic "sticks" to move other plastic sticks-dunno the english name. I would put it into London's 2012 so that Jimbuna could boast more about GB medals.
Last time i checked, chess still held its own olympics, since the 20s, until today. they do so every two years, if i remember correctly. It is considered to be the most important chess team championship indeed.

There is also a new sports called chess-boxing (non-olympic). they box one round, then sit down for 5 minutes or so to play chess, then box a new round, and so forth.

ASWnut101 08-22-08 06:31 PM
[quote=SUBMAN1Looking at the transitions between the low and high bar - they are almost non-existant to start with.[/quote]

:-? Just curious, but you did watch the Olympics this year, particularly the Gymnastics (all of it)? I've seen plenty of Low-to-High transistions this year. Even the announcer guy was talking about it (and the whole size-related difficulties of the smaller gymnasts).


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The spring board is used once for mounting - that is it. Seems to have no effect as you describe either.
I'm not talking about mounting the bars. I'm talking about Vaulting, a totally different routine...


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Is it that much different from an American Olympian?
:-? Try asking one.


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