monk0nuggets Posted August 17, 2008 Share Posted August 17, 2008 Loved the chest pound before the race was even over. haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mediocore Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 The women's vault finals was a joke. I don't know how the scoring system works, but I'm pretty sure you shouldn't get a medal if you can't even land your attempt. Lame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesupervillain Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 Should I be embarrased that Michael Phelps has more gold medals than Canada has total medals? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesack18 Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 no, because he has so many oppotunities to win golds. a volleyballer only has one chance at a gold. theres so many variations of what he does, i dont think its fair to say he is the greatest olympian ever. anyone else feel the same? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riddle350 Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 you're just grummpy that the australians didn't win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtz Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 no, because he has so many oppotunities to win golds. a volleyballer only has one chance at a gold. theres so many variations of what he does, i dont think its fair to say he is the greatest olympian ever. anyone else feel the same? He still has to excel at four different styles of swimming. And a volleyballer could play beach volleyball and indoor team volleyball. So they could have two chances at gold. I get what your saying though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riddle350 Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 This is and example Phelps' schedule per day. 6:30am - Wake Up 6:45am - Breakfast 7:30am - Bus to Pool 7:45am - Arrive at Pool 8:00am - Stretch 8:30am - 2400M Warm Up 10:18am - 200 Fly Final 10:30am - Warm Down 1000M 10:59am - 200 Fly Medal Ceremony 11:16am -4×200 Free Relay Final 11:30am - Warm Down 300m 11:38am - 4×200 Free Medal Ceremony 11:55am - Warm down 800m 12:15pm - Press Conference 12:45pm - Doping Control Test 1:45pm - Bus to Olympic Village 2:00pm - Lunch 2:30pm - Rest 4:00pm - Team Meeting 5:00pm - Bus to Pool 5:15pm - Arrive at Pool 5:30pm - Stretch 5:45pm - Warm up 2400M 8:55pm - 200IM Prelim 9:10pm - Warm down 800M 9:45pm - Bus to Olympic Village 10:00pm - Dinner 11:00pm - Bed!! He did a total of 17 competitive swims in a weeks time. No other athlete has worked this hard at the games. Plus 3 of those gold medals he got in team relays so he had to rely on 3 other people being at the top of their game as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 I'm kind of sick of hearing about Phelps. On the Today show this morning they were interviewing one of the other swimmers, but EVERY question was about Phelps. What about this other guy's glory? The interviewer would say "So, how nervous were you for Phelps?" -- "Did you think about Michael while you were in there?" blah, blah, blah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riddle350 Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 I agree that that aspect of it is extremely lame. I was watching an interview with Lesak and they asked him something along the lines of "did you want to out swim the french so you didn't dissapoint phelps?" and he just looked at the guy and said "I didn't do this for phelps I did it cause I wanted to win". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggle Von Swift Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 I care more about Jason Lezak than Phelps, the races I saw him in, dude was unreal, so damn fast. Also, women's beach Volleyball, May/Walsh are incredible, 100+ win streak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickheitman Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 Does anyone else think Michael Phelps looks kinda like Dan Yemin? DUDE! i was talking to my girlfriend about this the other night. weird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonix Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 Does anyone else think Michael Phelps looks kinda like Dan Yemin? DUDE! i was talking to my girlfriend about this the other night. weird look at Eli Manning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggle Von Swift Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 USA just got screwed by the judges on women's uneven bars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonix Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 USA just got screwed by the judges on women's uneven bars. Yeah, I cant wait to hear the bs they spout out to justify their reasoning behind that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggle Von Swift Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 the judges scores seemed like shit from the start, Liukin's run looked better, and more clean, so it never should of gotten to a tie, but they just explained that: difficulty was the same on both (7.7) he kexin got: 9.3, 9.1, 9.1, 8.9, 9.0, 8.9 nastia liukin got: 9.0, 9.3, 9.0, 8.8, 9.0, 9.1 highest and lowest get thrown out (9.3 & 8.9 for kexin, 9.3, 8.8 for liukin) thet leaves them tied. tiebreaker, they throw out the next lowest score for each which is 8.9 for Kexin, 9.0 for Liukin leaving: Kexin - 9.1, 9.1, 9.0 Liukin - 9.1, 9.0, 9.0 ranking Kexin higher, giving her gold just seems like a total bullshit way of doing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonix Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 it basically gave the person who had a lower score the gold. makes sense...... /sarcasm. just give both of them the gold, I dont see the harm in that if they insist that He Kexin did 'as' good as Nastia which I dont think she did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattisr1984 Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 theres definitely some bullshit going on in womens gymnastics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benchwarmer Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 yea that whole scoring thing was pretty shitty, here are some guinea pigs to lighten the mood: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggle Von Swift Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 does anyone know.. if the USA volleyball & basketball teams win gold.. how does that effect the medal count? just one gold for the team win, or is it +1 for each person on the teams? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggle Von Swift Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 this baseball game was pretty crazy, 5 US batters hit by pitches. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/18/five-american-batters-hit_n_119733.html Our relations with China were nearly broken at the plate.A near-brawl with our Olympic hosts in a baseball game won 9-1 by the U.S. team Monday night resulted in an unexpected outbreak of tension for the international pastime. Three members of China's team were ejected from the game. Two collisions at home plate led to an injury to a Chinese catcher and a confrontation with another. An American player was then hit in the head with a pitch. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was diagnosed with a concussion. "That was the last straw," said U.S. center fielder Nate Schierholtz, another of the principals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonix Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 It counts as one medal per team. So a 2 person vollyball team winning gold (which they will) would count as one gold medal for the overall tally. That baseball game was pretty crazy, I think it all started when one of our guys was making a run for the plate and knocked over the catcher and he didnt play the rest of the game. I say grow a pair dude its what being a catcher is all about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 this baseball game was pretty crazy, 5 US batters hit by pitches.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/18/five-american-batters-hit_n_119733.html Our relations with China were nearly broken at the plate.A near-brawl with our Olympic hosts in a baseball game won 9-1 by the U.S. team Monday night resulted in an unexpected outbreak of tension for the international pastime. Three members of China's team were ejected from the game. Two collisions at home plate led to an injury to a Chinese catcher and a confrontation with another. An American player was then hit in the head with a pitch. He was rushed to a hospital, where he was diagnosed with a concussion. "That was the last straw," said U.S. center fielder Nate Schierholtz, another of the principals. Well, now I'm glad Andrew McCutcheon didn't go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirbypuckett Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 http://i38.tinypic.com/ipbimb.jpg NSFW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monk0nuggets Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 What country is that girl from? I love that Liukin is just chilling in the back as well. haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonix Posted August 19, 2008 Share Posted August 19, 2008 What country is that girl from? I love that Liukin is just chilling in the back as well. haha Russia. if you watch, they all pretty much kiss on the lips. I guess its like a handshake or my preferred high-five. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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