Official Olympics Thread.

[Hey Joe]

Official because I said so 'kay?

This is the thread for discussing all of the stories that will come out of Beijing 08, sporting or otherwise.

I'll start. The football got off to a start yesterday with Brazil and Argentina among the winners, while Australia played like they were being coached by Graham Arnold and were raped by Serbia. Yet, we still managed a draw.

Messi is going to toy with us....

Oh, and that $300M opening ceremony is on tonight, I'm actually looking forward to it which is a nice change.

 

[Birras]

Are people going to actually watch the Olympics or just the awesome looking opening cerimonies? If people do plan on watching it, put me down for $30 for England to win the 1000-meter dash.

 

[Mistah Kurtz]

I just hope we'll be able to see the athletes through all that smog

 

[SeaCalMaster]

I just hope we'll be able to see the athletes through all that smog

The Party insists that there is no smog!

 

[Lord Krunk]

Several of my schoolmates are performing in the Beijing 2008 Orchestra; as a result, I will not be watching the Opening Ceremony. It's being conducted by my school band conductor!

I should be proud, but at the moment, all I feel is mock enthusiasm.

 

[Larenxis]

I'm sticking with my guns and going with Kenya in the cross country, the 100 meter, the 400 meter, etc. .

This is me not making a reference to Power Thirst. Just making that clear.

 

[Xhumed]

I'm hoping the Aussie women's basketball team gives the USA a bit of a shoeing in the proper match, seeing as how the USA team decided that faceshots are the way to go with defending in the warm up...

 

[super_smash_jesus]

So, being Canadian, the opening ceremonies were early this morning. Does anyone know a place where I can re-watch them, or if they were good enough to watch at all?


Oh, and go canada...(summer sucks for us)

 

[Bretty]

@ Necroswanson

HUH? Futbol? What the hell is that? I guess you are an American. Football was a game invented in Scotland with a round ball. Americans call it soccer, for some unknown reason.

Futbol, LOLZ!

 

[kyouger]

Personally, I really don't watch the Olympics for anything but the opening ceremony, and even then I usually skip past all the speaches and just watch the explosions and syncronized dancing. I know that makes me kind of shallow, but the Olympics hav very little appeal to me.

 

[afrophysics]

The opening was awesome, super_smash_jesus, I'd recommend watching it somewhere, I'm sure parts of it will be on Youtube. much of it was very innovative and had a definite wow factor, and it showed China's cultural identity in a way I've never seen before. I thought it was very well planned and I don't know how we are going to equal, let alone better it, in 2012. And by the way it was speech-lite, only about 10-15 minutes compared to at least 1 and a half hour of spectacle.

 

[Rotating Bread]

Here's hoping team GB can have another successful olympics, some say we may even beat the Aussies in the medal table this year! With any luck the 37 non-Americans representing the USA (including a British canoeist) will get nothing.

With it's pollution and human rights record China should never have been given the games, but I do hope it all goes well. Luckily a proper country has it next time round.... I forget which one.

 

[wgreer25]

With it's pollution and human rights record China should never have been given the games, but I do hope it all goes well. Luckily a proper country has it next time round.... I forget which one.

You are right about China. They have broken most of their promises to the Olympic Committee. Like displacing hundreds of thousands of people for the games. They have unjustly imprisoned hundreds if not thousands of people on suspicion of protesting the games. And they have imposed huge restrictions on the media coverage of the games and the country.

Yeah, China was not a good chioce.

And I believe London is the site for the 2012 games.

 

[NinjaDwarf]

Yes, London is the site for the 2012 games. And I was laughing my ass off during the opening ceremony imagining the looks on the London 2012 organisers' faces. We're gonna need one hell of a marching band to beat that...

 

[SeaCalMaster]

With its pollution and human rights record, China should never have been given the games, but I do hope it all goes well. Luckily, a proper country has it next time round.... I forget which one.

The 2010 games are in Vancouver. Insert joke about Canada's status as a proper country here.

 

[Anarchemitis]

Oh, and that $300M opening ceremony is on tonight, I'm actually looking forward to it which is a nice change.

Saw it at 8am this morning, Live from Beijing at 12am Tomorrow. Every cent of those 300 millions looked to be worth it.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

You are right about China. They have broken most of their promises to the Olympic Committee. Like displacing hundreds of thousands of people for the games. They have unjustly imprisoned hundreds if not thousands of people on suspicion of protesting the games. And they have imposed huge restrictions on the media coverage of the games and the country.

Yeah, China was not a good chioce.

And I believe London is the site for the 2012 games.

yeah this year it COULD have been in toronto but they chose china for more of a "politically correct" choice

my beef is not with china, who's had a horrid record for human rights even before the communists took over. it's with the ppl who are protesting the olympics cause of china's track record and then going to shop at walmart and buying all the products made in china