The Olympics

[dbk]

How about that US Men's victory in the 4 x 100 last night? That was incredibly exciting. I thought there was no way the anchor would make up that huge gap. What a win! And the added bonus of sticking it to the smack-talking French. :biggrin

:usa:usa:usa

 

[nthfinity]

was definitely the most impressive race I've ever seen... come from behind world record smashing, split world record smashing run. Amazing Especially after the French announced they'd win.

 

[dbtgt]

It doesn't get much better than that! :banana

 

[ChipBeck]

That was different.

Gentlemen,

That is the first French loss that I am aware of that was not the result of them surrendering.

Chip

 

[Hammer]

What a race! It was what the best of the Olympics is all about. Incredibly gutsy swim by Lezak on the last leg. I feel lucky I got a chance to see it.

 

[STUNTS]

the 4th leg of the relays are always the fastest of the 4 and the 3rd leg is usually the slowest.... while the 1st and 2nd fill up the 2nd and 3rd in the speed of the total 4..

I was usually the 3rd leg but mostly the 5th which meant... well... you know!!!
:lol

watching the hot beautiful women of beach volleyball now!!! Oh... boy!!

 

[Shelby#18]

Gentlemen,

That is the first French loss that I am aware of that was not the result of them surrendering.

Chip

Chip, thats classic! :thumbsup

 

[AtomicGT]

Most excellent event, and our boys were very cool, they did no hand gesturing to the Frogians, which is commendable. I, on the other hand, would have used a few arm, hand, or other demonstrative gestures

as an acknowledgement of what a little trash talk can do, once out of the pool towards our esteemed French colleagues!

zut alors

 

[dbk]

Congratulations to the greatest olympic athlete of all time, the United State's Michael Phelps :usa :usa :usa

10 GOLD MEDALS AND HE'S NOT EVEN DONE!

 

[dbk]

Absolutely no way these Chinese girls are 16 years old. Ridiculous.

It just goes to show how crazy the communists really are. State run media runs a story saying the one girl is 13, then the journalists point it out, the story disappears off a Chinese state media website.

It's just so obvious next to every other single team that these girls are barely teenage, if that.

 

[B O N Y]

Caught B Williams on the news this evening from Bejing!...

Last year we visited a training school full of 7 to 12 year olds....


USA better wake up!

 

[S592R]

Absolutely no way these Chinese girls are 16 years old. Ridiculous.

It just goes to show how crazy the communists really are. State run media runs a story saying the one girl is 13, then the journalists point it out, the story disappears off a Chinese state media website.

It's just so obvious next to every other single team that these girls are barely teenage, if that.

Really what is being missed here is that IF the girls are underage then the Chinese gov. is openly producing false passports. Since the IOC uses gov. passports as verification for athletes if the passports say they are of age then they are but at an International legal level .. I think this puts into question travel documents from said country on a large scale.

Every government either currently or at some time in the past has issued false papers. It has always been done in secret and the papers (usually) are done by a "third party" (think spy services here). But for a public high profile show if this is the case then ........ and I quote Keanu Reeves here "Whoa!".

 

[dbk]

Screw waking up. They were saying the Chinese government would take children from rural families beginning at age three and they would see their children roughly once a year for the next decade so they could train gymnastics. If that's the price of gold, the Chinese can keep it.

 

[S592R]

Screw waking up. They were saying the Chinese government would take children from rural families beginning at age three and they would see their children roughly once a year for the next decade so they could train gymnastics. If that's the price of gold, the Chinese can keep it.

They pulled a page from the Soviet training program manual. Remember the Soviet womens track team circa 1980 that needed to shave (their faces)?

Better living through chemistry.. :ack:ack

 

[Empty Pockets]

...And some wonder why I'm not too interested in the Olympics.:bored

(Remember a few years back when the only way a U.S. boxer could win was to knock out his opponent? I remember one case in particular where a U.S. boxer didn't have a mark on him and he left his opponent looking like he'd literally been run thru a meat grinder ... and yet the Soviet [I think] opponent WON! ALL "judged" events worked the same way. It was sooooooo crooked even Johnny Cochran was sayin', "Whoa!")

 

[BlackICE]

opponent WON! ALL "judged" events worked the same way. It was sooooooo crooked even Johnny Cochran was sayin', "Whoa!")

They must have played the race card!

 

[dbk]

Michael Phelps brings the glory to the good old :usa with his EIGHTH(!) gold medal of the games. Awesome!

I have to say, the craziest thing I've seen this Olympics is Usain Bolt. That guy is so fast it defies description. He crushed the world record in an event where every additional hundredth off is a lifetime, and he was screwing around showboating the last 15 meters. It's as if he could have dropped a tenth by just keeping pace. He knows what he could do if he went all out for a full 100. Unbelievable.

 

[THamonGT]

Michael Phelps, What a deserving young man of all the honors. God Bless The USA.

 

[ChipBeck]

Mission: Impossible

Gentlemen,

Perhaps I am exposing my advanced age here, but am I the only person who can't help but make the connection to this young man's last name, with that of another Mr. Phelps who was one of my boyhood heroes. "Good evening Mr. Phelps, your mission, should you decide to accept it..." is a phrase that is etched into the consciousness of all 50 plus year old American males. The television series "Mission: Impossible" with its undefeatable agent Mr. Phelps had us all dreaming of being a secret agent and accomplishing the impossible. And here, almost a half-century later, a new young Mr. Phelps has taken on a another Mission: Impossible. Something that has never been accomplished in well over 100 years of Olympic history. And he pulled it off. But there's one major difference this time. The tape of this American athletes accomplishments will not "self-destruct in five seconds". The video of Michael Phelps Olympic achievement will live on, most likely unsurpassed, forever. Bravo Mr. Phelps. :cheers

Chip

 

[fjpikul]

I'll bet you had impure thoughts about Barbara Bane.