That Chinese Gymnast is only 14!!!

[kranz]

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....

Originally Posted by joegrundman

Btw - has anyone noticed britain's unbelievable performance? Third place, with Russia catching up fast, but wow, how did that happen?

only because one guy can ride a bike...

[Jimbuna]

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]

update

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

[kranz]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

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.

PSh, my 100th post! I'm gonna spam here more!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Koondawg

update

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/bei...yhoo&type=lgns

I love it :rotfl: ......Overall medal counting system

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by kranz

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.

PSh, my 100th post! I'm gonna spam here more!

LOL

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by UnderseaLcpl

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.

Originally Posted by Stealth Hunter

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]

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]

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

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

Don't forget BMX bike riding:rotfl: The Olympics have come a long way, it's just in the wrong direction

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]

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]

Boxing is now in danger of being dropped as an olympic sport.

[Takeda Shingen]

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]

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]

[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).

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...

Is it that much different from an American Olympian?

Try asking one.