Olympic Games 2008

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Didn't see a thread for this one. The olympic games got underway at Beijing, China recently. There's plenty of issues surrounding the games, such as the relationship between participating nations, the poor air quality in Beijing, and even the recent murder of a relative of the US volleyball coach by a chinese man wielding a knife. He stabbed two people before jumping two stories to his own death. What an uplifting start! But anywho, they do actually compete in sporting events there, soooo...

Any events/athletes that you'll be keeping your eye on? Predictions for the country that'll come out of the games with the most medals maybe? Or maybe you don't care about the Olympics. That's a distinct possibility.
 
I don't really watch the Olympic's but...I have to watch because of a damn english project. -__-

The opening ceremony was pretty cool.
 
I, for one, do not care about the olympics. It doesn't have any sports that I'd watch normally, with the exception of basketball. So just because in 1896 some frenchman decided to reinvent the olympics, I should want to watch it? No.
I feel a little bit of national pride when my country wins one of its very few gold medals, but that only lasts for a few seconds.

I just can't see the point in watching, or even really caring about the olympics.
 
I'm not a die-hard or veteran but I do enjoy watching the Olympics, if for nothing else but to amuse myself by trying to pronounce foreign names. :wacky:

I can't say I know any of the athletes but I suppose I'll just support Britain for the sake of patriotism.

Hahahah, on a small side-note, my neighbour came through to my party last night and asked if I'd been watching "that beautiful chinese program" :wacky:
 
I normally only ever watch the gymnastics, all those bendy people facinate me. I noticed we already had a boxer guy sent home because he was too fat to compete in the featherweight shizz & the most Ive heard on the olympics so far is all the kicking off that's been on the news with protestors and shit :rolleyes:
 
The opening ceremony was well good...we've gone something like 6x over budget at least on the 2012 Olympics and I bet our opening ceremony will be shite. :wacky:

Anyway, I don't really watch the Olympics live unless it's in the morning when I'm having my breakfast, I just go to BBC Sport and watch the highlights which sums up all the good parts; http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport/

At least we won the women's cycling road race, the cycling events are by far the hardest events in my opinion...take the men's road race for example, they were cycling for just over 6 straight hours.
 
I really like watching the Olympics; it brings out my patriotic side and my irrational hate for other countries. I do mostly focus on sailing as I am a sailor and luckily the UK is good at it (double w00t) and for some reason I’ve been focusing on the rowing as well even though I usually don’t like it.
 
I'm not patriotic in the least bit, but when it comes to sporting events, I like watching the United States win. The games don't really make me hate other countries, though...

Thoroughly enjoyed watching the US men's basketball team obliterate China.
 
VoN said:
I'm not patriotic in the least bit, but when it comes to sporting events, I like watching the United States win. The games don't really make me hate other countries, though...
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I am proud to be British (and Scottish) but that is as far as my patriotism generally goes, also at no other time do I irrationally hate other countries just when it comes to sports. I think sports are bad for me in that sense but it doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy it. :P I don’t even understand my logic on this one, and I’ve given up trying.:confused::P
 
I think I know what you mean. It's like my hatred of the Yankees and their players. I don't have any personal issues with them, but I "hate" them because of the times they've beaten up on the team I root for. I don't hate the players as people, but as sports figures, I do.

Yeaaah...sorta hard to explain, isn't it? Pretty twisted, too.
 
Jonny said:
I am proud to be British (and Scottish) but that is as far as my patriotism generally goes, also at no other time do I irrationally hate other countries just when it comes to sports. I think sports are bad for me in that sense but it doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy it. :P I don’t even understand my logic on this one, and I’ve given up trying.:confused::P
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Thats sad because the Olympics are supposed to unite the world and let people respect other countries rather than hate them!

I used to be an athlete, but I don't watch athletics or sport on TV, I dunno, it just never realy enjoyed watching it much. But I watch the opening ceremony for both wow-ness and for what it symbolises.
 
Go Malaysia, get ur 1st ever gold medal (although its gonna be tough)!

The opening ceremony was certainly spectacular, with a wonderful performance by the Beijing organizers and a truly amazing way to light the Olympic flame ("flying" guy runs the entire stadium diameter in the air and lights a massive torch)!

But the controversy about the little girl lip-synching the Olympic theme as well as the so-called CGI fireworks display has taken the shine off much of the opening... It came out on the front page of Malaysian newspapers actually!
 
Yeah I heard about the fake singing girl just this morning, apparently they did it because the actual singer was "too ugly", they wanted someone "with the right look to represent China" >.<

I've been watching some of the swimming and gymnastics because I like them, although I think it's hilarious what the Sports Minister for Australia said- "The British swimmers are good, to say there are no swimming pools in Britain and hardly a bar of soap" wtf?
 
I'm convinced there is a bias towards China, all you have to do is look at the synchronized springboard diving event the China won gold even though the Germans were equally as good at entering the water but BETTER than China at the actual synchronization...and then there was the boxing one where is was GB vs. China and when we were giving him full blows to the face and getting nothing whilst China were getting points for hardly touching him.

The GB vs. China game was unreal since we came down from 12-17 to win 21-19...and that man blaming his 14yr old partner for them losing was lulz. :wacky:
 
I don't really watch the Olympics or any sport for that matter, and couldn't care less how many Gold medals Britain wins, we've already proved that we're a failure of a country in the Eurovision Song Contest. :gasp:

I don't mind watching it if it's on mind you, I remember watching gymnastics a few years ago and being mesmerised by all the bendy people and how they seem to break the laws of gravity whenever they do a backflip.

I'm personally more interested as to how China are coping with having to let so many people in. :wacky:
 
Well, China is still at the top of the medal standings... They look set to dethrone the US of A as Olympic champions unless the Chinese suffer a serious meltdown in the coming days and the US thrashes everyone they compete against in the Track & Field! :D
 
Eurovision is politically rigged though, it's a case of vote for us or we'll cut off all your supplies and resources, the smaller countries are scared of the larger countries. Russia much? :wacky:

I only watch the highlights really, mainly because a lot of the events I'm interested in but if Britain are on TV then I'll probably watch the whole of that event just to see how well they do in it.
 
After hearing how they faked some of the fireworks, and how they made that girl mime, simply because the one who was "apparently" too ugly to actually be on stage singing, I'm not going to bother. They're more interested in a bloody perfection image. Pah.
 
I don't watch the Olympics too, but some information slightly interested me. My husband was telling me yesterday that Hannah Thompson will be on fencing and has been training for a few years now for the Olympics. She works at Home Depot with my husband and apparently, she only works three weeks out of the year at Home Depot AND still gets paid full-time even while she's not there working. o.o Meh, sponsorship and the likes, I suppose.

http://www.rnews.com/Sports/Story_2004.cfm?ID=63560&rnews_story_type=19

So yeah, I may watch it if it's on, but I doubt I'd stay tuned for it.
 
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