Beijing Olympics 2008 Discussion Thread (1 Viewer)

[stazi]

lol just found out my Year 10 PE Teacher is in Australia's mens eight rowing team. (The one that got a broken rudder)

lol i think a guy from my old CLAW lecture is in one of the rowing teams (he got interviewed and talked about uni + beer + rowing).

Did you see what happened to the Hungarian Weightlifter?

OMG!!!!!!

If you see the video in slo-mo, you can see the elbow come out of its socket.

it's only been posted three times already. fag.

 

[Laphonso-Ellis]

ohhh yeah! australia killed russia

About time Bogut started playing like an $70 mil NBA starter and not a bench scrub.

 

[Rafy]

Finally another Australian gold. Men's rowing pairs

 

[stazi]

wow finally a male gold medal

 

[Rafy]

Another gold! Back into 4th on the medal table.

 

[stazi]

a gold in what?? they're showing water polo now. looks to be an awesome game. can't believe how many goals there's been

 

[Rafy]

http://www.foxsports.com.au/beijing_olympics/story/0,,24191314-5014107,00.html

 

[goony]

holy shit those were awesome races.

drew ginn and duncan free pretty much rowed the perfect race (bit worrying near the end with the buoys though). The aussie double scull really held their composure well too when the brits started to make a move.

 

[stazi]

lol i didnt realise there was a difference between pairs and doubles yay for us.

 

[stazi]

bahahahah wait the water polo isn't on now. i forgot that i paused the tivo unit at one stage, so what i was watching was stuff from 20 mins ago time to fast forward

 

[goony]

haha aw, so close. those damn brits just flew home in the fours. good work though, 2 golds, 1 silver, bumps us up to 4th i think.


edit: on a completely unrelated note, they should replace the equestrian events with jousting

 

[stazi]

hahahahahah wtf. tamsyn completely broke down and looks like an idiot.

"i gave it my 100%"
"don't worry people know how hard it is to make the semis"
"people dont understand how hard it is. i gave it my 100%"
(5 secs later) "i didnt give my best"

 

[stazi]

id do the asian chick on the left in the bikini

 

[Silver Persian]

yay good job by the rowers!

What do ppl think about hackett tomorrow? It would be great if he won...first man to win three consecutive swimming events. And go libby in the 50m

 

[stazi]

I'm about 50/50 on hacket winning.

bookies have him as a giaaaant favourite to win the event, though

 

[Silver Persian]

hahahahahah wtf. tamsyn completely broke down and looks like an idiot.

"i gave it my 100%"
"don't worry people know how hard it is to make the semis"
"people dont understand how hard it is. i gave it my 100%"
(5 secs later) "i didnt give my best"

poor Tamsyn Probably shouldn't have run the 400m earlier in the day because it was always going to be difficult to get to the next round of the 800m

 

[stazi]

Yeah and prob shouldn't have called the other athletes dopers, regardless of what she meant

 

[stazi]

lol: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/25...squalified-after-throwing-away-his-medal.html

Swedish wrestler threw away his bronze medal in disgust at only coming third. The IOC stepped in, and DQd him, giving the medal to the 4th ranked contender.

 

[Silver Persian]

Its interesting the bookies favour Hackett...I'm kind of expecting him to lead for the first 700m and then collapse. Hope I'm wrong

British cyclists are pwning

 

[stazi]

the cameroon v brazil game has been funny. cameroon have earned themselves 8 yellows, and 1 send off.