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go USA!  I'm really excited.  Especially about the swimming and gymnastics, although gymnastics makes me nervous b/c you score is in someone else's hands.

grrr, i hate crocker, he ruined the US 4x100 relay :angry:  he went a 50 second split, ruining our chances of winning and we got bronze :hmmm:  but the next big match-up should be interesting, phelps goes up against thorpe in the 200 freestyle.  go Mike! :D

I was so happy when Phelps and Vendt went 1 & 2. :)

meh, but now phelps can only tie spitz :(

I know...that was messed.  Stupid South Africa w/ all the white people.

ussually id say somthing very anti american here, but heheheh i watched the american gymnasts yesturday and theyre very cute  :rolleyes:  

This maybe a stupid question, but who are you voting for mole?

good question, im not really watching it i just got hooked by that particular event ill deicde if i see any more but as ussual my original bets land with germany

did you see the swimming German lady?

unfortunatly not...actually that might be fortunatly not

EDIT

unfortunatly no pics but those can be found after (http://www.athens2004.com/en/ParticipantsAthletes/newParticipants)

(http://www.sport.nl/beeldbank/nationalesportweek/ns-inge-de-bruijn-ambassadrice.jpg)

whoops she's from the Netherlands; apparently if you search her name in google you get pr0n first.

that happens with all semi famour people *plows through the gymnasts*

That sounds kind of drrty.  Besides it wasn't even good pr0n.

thats always the really tacky stuff.

this looks way better on TV.
Gallery of yesturdays event (http://www.usa-gymnasticsolympics.com/2004/galleries/aug15women.html)

hehe as allways you forget the allmighty dutch!!! we beat you on the 4x100 and Pieter van den Hoogenband beat phelps again (also in the series) in the 200 freestyle

and Inge de Bruijn (the dutch swimming lady from the picture) isnt really that hot... her chin is too big and her ass to small she only got nice hair which you can't see in that picture (ow and she is in a toothpaste commercial over here :) )

stop making those names up  :P  

eh? hoogenband? never heard of him :P

he  may have beaten phelps, but Mike's still gonna do better overall so i don't care :D

Opper that was my point in mentioning her.  She's kind of ugly w/ her cap on.  Go Phelps :)

LOL vd Hoogenband won 4 gold medals last olympics i believe and he was the one that caused the US getting bronze at the 4x100, we (the Netherlands) were 4th before he started the last 100m and were 2nd when he finished  :)
for years he and Thorpe were recordholders on the mayor distances (free stroke), but of course you chauvinistic americans only watch the university swimming and don't realize you get pawned by the dutch <_<

you don't know Inge de Bruin either? cause i believe she won 7 (!) medals on the last olympics, she doesn't do that well until now this year tho

it wasn't necessarily hoogenband that caused us to lose the relay.  Ian Crocker wasn't feeling well for the race and he only went out a 50 second hundred, when he should have been able to go at least under 49.  and then the last person on the american relay went out way too fast on his first 50 and tired himself out and that's why the hoogie got ahead.  sorry opper :)

but still he got the fastest split (rest of the dutch team isn't that good) and has allways been the one of the best swimmers together with thorpe, he dominated all important championships so still it's weird you don't know the guy when you like to follow the swimming stuff
you should go find yourself a list of the world records and who got them when of the past 6 years or so, if i remember it right well he has been dominating the 100m freestyle for years

Phelps has 3 golds now!

turn on the TV what do i get? rythem gymnastics heat, america again, im really getting into the olympics now...damn why not last week.

USA beet greece at basketball too shame. by 6 points mind

I would like to be a rythmic gymnast, but I'm not as freakishly flexible as that.

i know i dont see how they do it, havent seen the mens gymnastics thats meant to be uncanny

hehe sharky, v/d Hoogenband strikes again!!! he won gold @ the most important swimming distance again (2 times in a row, which places him with the legends popov and weissmuller) :) 100m freestyle, no americans, no thorpedo :)

hm, i think i forgot to mention that the americans beat the aussies in their best relay, the 4x200 free relay.  austrailia hasn't lost that relay in 7 years, AND WE BEAT THEM!!! :D oh, and michael phelps won the 200 butterfly also :)

Australia didn't even medal in that O_O

...they got silver...:blink:


sorry if you misunderdstood me opper, but i have heard of the hoogie before :)

I'm talking about the women's o_O

but i was talking about the men's in that first comment :/

 

But I'm right if I'm talking about women's :P

fine then, look at it that way if you want :P

carly patterson won the womens all around, she's only 16 :D

oh, and michael phelps and ryan lochte went 1-2 in the 200 IM, YAY! :D

I was just watching the swimming and Aaron Peirsol won the gold, but the judge is being an ass and DQing him.  It turned out alright though :)

yeah, i saw that, there was absolutely nothing wrong with that turn :hmmm:

He was prolly racist.

well we went up the medals chart a bit this weekend but surprised we didnt win the marathon let lone get a medal

hehe, what do you think of gymnastics last night? never knew a crowd could be so powerful LOL  

Oh the Greek guy that won it?  I don't think he really deserved that b/c of the feet shuffle.

Did you hear about Paul Hamm though?

wtf do you get a greek guy from? :blink:

alexei nemov, a russian was given a low score for a horizontal bars routine and the crowd went crazy for 10 minutes until they changed the scores.  paul hamm was next up, and he couldn't go because of the crowd.  even after they raised the scores the crowd was still crazy until alexei went up and asked the crowd to calm down.  

that's what i'm talking about ^_^

I'm talking about when the Greek guy won the rings, and the whole crowd was singing...

eh nvm.

No I didn't see that :/

hehehehe looks like we're in the boxing finals then, great end to that match.

form 7- 5 down to 40 - 26 up

I hope China beat USA, as they are the only ones that stand a chance now.
GOOO CHINA!

In medal count?

I doubt that's going to happen, unless China can pull a miracle in track.

that's not gonna happen :)

i think the only thing that china's got good in track is the hurdles, that one guy did good i think

that chinese chick won gold on the 10k

Even if they win some medals, they aren't proficient enough in track to dominate like we can.

indeed :/

Still I don't think we're that good in track, sprinting maybe, but otherwise third world countries dominate in the long distant events.

thats certainly true, i don't know why though, its crazy :/

*shrugs*...they have good body types since they don't get a lot to eat.

oh yeah i forgot you got olympic coverage later than we do, but we won the 4 x 100 relay :P thanks to the shark for reminding me :)

I don't remember that....I thought we won that.  Although that might have been the 4x400

you probably did win the 4 x 400 relay, but we definitely won the 4 x 100 relay ^^

And that ladies and gentlemen, is the kind of stuck up attitude the world has come to expect from America.

*chuckles* high horses eh?

i'm pretty sure she means that china isn't exactly a track power...the US is.  The chinese did really good in diving though :)

but it's the truth.  America went 1, 2, and 3 in the 200M

well the chinese are stereotypically small so i dont imagine they have gd track athletes

Yea...they're small *everywhere*.

China just won their first medal in track.  I think in some hurdling event.

I'm kind of sad the whole thing is over; I was watching the closing ceremonies and all the athletes were in the stadium, and I wish I was there :/

and the 400 :)

we had the 800 and 1500

you didn't win the 1500 :hmmm:

mhm fems 1500 and 800 was won by kelly holmes