Beijing Olympics 2008

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Re: Beijing Olympics 2008

Postby thecursor » Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:47 pm

I looked up James Naismith, Basketball's inventor, and while the game was first played at Springfield College in Springfield, MA, technically Naismith himself was Canadian. ARRRRGH! Yet a another piece of American awesomness yanked away by the cruel Canadian hand of fate!
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Re: Beijing Olympics 2008

Postby Elessar » Sat Aug 16, 2008 10:46 pm

thecursor wrote:I looked up James Naismith, Basketball's inventor, and while the game was first played at Springfield College in Springfield, MA, technically Naismith himself was Canadian. ARRRRGH! Yet a another piece of American awesomness yanked away by the cruel Canadian hand of fate!


Bah, Canadians are just Americans who haven't been scared enough yet! :lol:
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Re: Beijing Olympics 2008

Postby leslina » Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:57 am

Escriba wrote:Sorry to tell you this, Elessar, but Tyson Gaye didn't even reach the final. And the final has been won by Bolt (incredible race, world record: 9'69).


Damn, at what time was the final? NBC is only showing the coverage now. And in Tyson's defense, he was dealing with that hamstring problem. :? Shame.

Marathon Enthusiasts: Paula Radcliffe has NOT collapsed and IS at the head of the pack... whatever happens... I'm just impressed she beat out David Beckham as BBC Sports Personality of the Year. :faint:
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Re: Beijing Olympics 2008

Postby Elessar » Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:45 am

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Escriba wrote:Sorry to tell you this, Elessar, but Tyson Gaye didn't even reach the final. And the final has been won by Bolt (incredible race, world record: 9'69).


Damn, at what time was the final? NBC is only showing the coverage now. And in Tyson's defense, he was dealing with that hamstring problem. :? Shame.

Marathon Enthusiasts: Paula Radcliffe has NOT collapsed and IS at the head of the pack... whatever happens... I'm just impressed she beat out David Beckham as BBC Sports Personality of the Year. :faint:


Yeah, she didn't make it though :( she must have had some bad muscle pain, she looked like she was hurting at the end there.

Man, how bout that Romanian chick though huh? Way ahead of everybody else and 38 years old! Woohoo!
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Re: Beijing Olympics 2008

Postby Escriba » Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:03 pm

Rafa has won! Rafa has won! :happyjump: :happyjump: :happyjump:

Sorry, Vero, but I'm happy, I can't help it.

PS: Alex Corretja has to stop his orgasmic exclamations. You are a commentator, Alex, you aren't Rafa's girlfriend.
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Re: Beijing Olympics 2008

Postby vero3110 » Sun Aug 17, 2008 4:51 pm

Escriba wrote:Rafa has won! Rafa has won! :happyjump: :happyjump: :happyjump:

Sorry, Vero, but I'm happy, I can't help it.

PS: Alex Corretja has to stop his orgasmic exclamations. You are a commentator, Alex, you aren't Rafa's girlfriend.


Grande Nadal!!

I watched the game and the guy went for every ball!! Gonzalez did his best and he lost honourably, so great silver for us and greater gold for you!!

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Re: Beijing Olympics 2008

Postby leslina » Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:03 pm

Escriba wrote:PS: Alex Corretja has to stop his orgasmic exclamations. You are a commentator, Alex, you aren't Rafa's girlfriend.


:guffaw:

RE: Michael Phelps. What was that special recognition he received at the Medal Ceremony of the Men's 4x100 Medley Relay?
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Re: Beijing Olympics 2008

Postby Asso » Sun Aug 17, 2008 6:20 pm

Phelps is a Vulcan!
Sure!
A Vulcan "incognito" who have found intriguing the swimming, and didn't want his Vulcan friends to know his passion.
And Nadal is an Andorian, who has hidden his feelers: only this can explain how he is capable of playing like this!
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Re: Beijing Olympics 2008

Postby Escriba » Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:23 pm

vero3110 wrote:Grande Nadal!!

I watched the game and the guy went for every ball!! Gonzalez did his best and he lost honourably, so great silver for us and greater gold for you!!

I think González has been uncomfortable all the match, he couldn't use his right as much as he wanted, but he has done everything he could and he never gave up (there was a moment in the third set when he looked beaten, but he recovered), so he has nothing to regret.

leslina wrote:RE: Michael Phelps. What was that special recognition he received at the Medal Ceremony of the Men's 4x100 Medley Relay?

I don't know, a country maybe? Wait, he has Atlantis.

Anyway, he's THE BEST.

Asso wrote:Phelps is a Vulcan!
Sure!
A Vulcan "incognito" who have found intriguing the swimming, and didn't want his Vulcan friends to know his passion.
And Nadal is an Andorian, who has hidden his feelers: only this can explain how he is capable of playing like this!
:shock: :shock:

:lol: :lol:
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Postby Elessar » Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:58 pm

They said that if the Person's Republic of Phelps were alone in the medal count - he's be 4th in Golds and 14th in overall medals :D
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Re: Beijing Olympics 2008

Postby Pitseleh » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:55 pm

Man, us Federer fans can't catch a break lately... :lol:

Is somebody watching the Jamaicans run the 100m and the 200m? They sure fly on that track! :o
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Re: Beijing Olympics 2008

Postby thecursor » Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:57 pm

Country? The King of Atlantis needs not your paltry country! He is Phelps, Lord of the Seven Seas!

Sadly, her ladyship Dara Torres did not win a gold but I get the feeling she took a look at the rest of the field and said "I'm in my forties and I've got a better body then all of you, I've already won."
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Re: Beijing Olympics 2008

Postby Escriba » Mon Aug 18, 2008 10:56 am

Liu Xiang (olimpic champion in 110m hurdles) is injured. He has broken his achilles tendon, and even so he has attempted to run. I cringed every time he grimaced. OUCH! An American athlete in the same event has injured himself too, in the middle of the race. Double OUCH!
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Re: Beijing Olympics 2008

Postby Asso » Mon Aug 18, 2008 11:33 am

I have seen that.
Threefold ouch!
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Re: Beijing Olympics 2008

Postby Escriba » Mon Aug 18, 2008 2:31 pm

"The Czarina" Isinbayeva has jumped 5,05 meters in Pole Vault and has gotten a new World Record. W-O-W :shock:
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