2012 Summer Olympics.
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Topic: 2012 Summer Olympics.
Posted By: agentwhale007
Subject: 2012 Summer Olympics.
Date Posted: 28 July 2012 at 12:40pm
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Anyone else watching sports in all of their free time? Because that's what I'm doing. I woke up and watched men's road cycling. Because why not.
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Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 28 July 2012 at 7:06pm
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watched some tennis, watched the mens 400im..good stuff.
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 28 July 2012 at 9:08pm
| Today I learned that Olympic badminton players are bulkier than bantamweight boxers. |
Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 28 July 2012 at 10:37pm
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Ryan Lochte flat out pwned Phelps in the IM. Good lord.
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 28 July 2012 at 11:17pm
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I will watch most sports featuring American teams/players, if it isn't swimming. I know that is cutting out a lot of sports, but I really can't get into it if I can't root for my country, and there is a godawful amount of swimming on TV. I will watch swimming finals, but that is about it. ------------- 
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 29 July 2012 at 4:05am
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I heard a short interview of the womens whatever silver medalist. I felt really bad for her. She won a silver medal in the freakin Olympics, and all the interviewer wanted to talk to her about was Phelps losing his race. ------------- 
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Posted By: impulse418
Date Posted: 29 July 2012 at 11:38am
| meh |
Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 29 July 2012 at 11:41am
| I'll watch whatever interests me after checking the 8 or so channels that are covering them. |
Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 29 July 2012 at 12:26pm
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Posted By: evillepaintball
Date Posted: 29 July 2012 at 12:38pm
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Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 29 July 2012 at 12:42pm
Dang, you look hot in white! ------------- Imagine there’s a picture of your favourite thing here. |
scotchyscotch wrote:Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 29 July 2012 at 9:46pm
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Posted By: FreeEnterprise
Date Posted: 29 July 2012 at 10:13pm
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I've been watching. I had a job to do and it would have normally taken me about 5 hours... It took about 12 because I kept watching the olympics... The guy that took a header in the cycling Saturday morning, man that would be the worst, he led for so long, and to go out like that... What a bummer. Glad for the "new" American Swimmer, he kicked phelps rear, and it was fun to watch. The women's double diving got scammed, the judges clearly didn't like them for some reason... Course they still got silver! Great dives. And the gymnastics. That ladies valuting was insane. That last girl went so stinking high! I used to mess around on the gymnast gear at woodward (where most of the US Olympians train) and that stuff is crazy hard to do. Good games so far, A friend worked on the opening ceremonies. Which were a little too "political" for me... He had tons of BMX guys who were training for it, and did all the preliminary stuff, only for them to drop them at the last minute... ------------- They tremble at my name... 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 29 July 2012 at 10:30pm
You mean Lochte? The guy who sank the Men's 4x100 relay team single-handedly? Looked like he expended all of his energy beating Phelps for a single medal and didn't save any of it for the team event. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 30 July 2012 at 1:00am
Bet I can guess why FE enjoyed him beating phelps.  ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 01 August 2012 at 2:39am
 D'oh. :p [<:o)]  [<:o)]  ------------- Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. H = 2 |
Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 01 August 2012 at 8:17am
I think the Chinese rightfully won that by the small fraction that they did. However, I don't understand how the Canadians came through with Bronze... all of their dives were quite noticeably out of sync at at least one point. ------------- 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 02 August 2012 at 2:16am
They got extra points because they don't get to practice in Canada with all the water being frozen. |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 02 August 2012 at 3:04pm
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Kayla Harrison won the USA's first gold in Judo today. http://www.cleveland.com/olympics/index.ssf/2012/08/ohio_native_kayla_harrison_rea.html" rel="nofollow - She's got a hell of a story. Her previous coach was convicted of sexually abusing his students, including her. Also, holy crap RSA out of nowhere in the lightweight men's 4.
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 02 August 2012 at 3:08pm
Well, if that wouldn't motivate you to beat the living crap out of people in the ring, I don't know what would. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 02 August 2012 at 4:27pm
 Because we have stuff like this chasing us. KBK ------------- Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. H = 2 |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 02 August 2012 at 4:57pm
By that logic, everyone in Australia should be able to run faster than Usain Bolt and swim faster than Phelps! Down there, they chase you on the land AND in the water. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 03 August 2012 at 12:40am
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Yeah but the Auzzies are a bunch of criminals. What would they know about doing hard work to get a result :p KBK ------------- Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. H = 2 |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 04 August 2012 at 12:20pm
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Pistorius qualified for the finals of the 400m. If he medals, I hope there is a rational conversation about his position at the Olympics, but I know that probably won't happen, and we'll end up with people screaming about unfair advantage/ableism.
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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 04 August 2012 at 2:32pm
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I don't expect him to place. I hope he does, I really do, but his start is absolutely critical and it is one place where he does have trouble. Today his start was bang on the money. And he even admitted he's done what he wanted to do, compete in the Olympics. KBK ------------- Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. H = 2 |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 04 August 2012 at 9:14pm
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Will someone Tell me why Michael phelps is known as the greatest swimmer when theres a crazy 1500m race? What's that like worth 7 of his medal races? ------------- Que pasa? 
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 04 August 2012 at 10:52pm
| If he were to race the 1500m, he wouldn't have any energy to compete in the other races. He chooses the races he can do as many as possible and have energy left in the tank for each one. He is the most decorated Olympian. That's big, but I do feel like swimming races are too similar and there are way too many races and chances for medals. |
Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 05 August 2012 at 2:18am
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I sorta agree. If you play table tennis for example, you get one medal per Games. In swimming you get 4 strokes over 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 and international medly as well. Jeesh. ------------- Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. H = 2 |
Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 05 August 2012 at 9:02am
Yeah but if Australians were good at running then they probably wouldn't be Australians to start with.
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Posted By: Kayback
Date Posted: 05 August 2012 at 3:56pm
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Oh. Well that was unexpected. I didn't think last. Well run anyway. ------------- Pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo. H = 2 |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 05 August 2012 at 7:30pm
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So remember when Usain Bolt won gold and broke the record for the 100m in Beijing? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/06/sports/olympics/usain-bolt-of-jamaica-defends-gold-in-100-meters.html" rel="nofollow - He did both of those again.
Good. Lord. He is a fast person. |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 05 August 2012 at 7:41pm
For the first time in my life, I actively cheered against a US team to win. Here's the reason why: Sooooo much better than those leather-skinned 4/10's we keep fielding in women's beach volleyball. ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: usafpilot07
Date Posted: 05 August 2012 at 8:39pm
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Dibs on the one on the left. ------------- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo |
Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 06 August 2012 at 8:34am
That's fine, I really like freckles! ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |
Posted By: oldpbnoob
Date Posted: 09 August 2012 at 2:08pm
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^^^ Was that the Czech team? I saw them playing against the U.S. and was like... Wow!.
And I must salute the perv who was actually able to get the Olympic committee to approve a "sport" where hot Russian and Asian chicks roll around on a the floor in barely anything and play with balls like kittens while doing splits and dry humping the floor.  I might have to record that for later when the kids aren't home.... Rhythmic Gymnastics FTW! I serioulsy have not seen legs that incredible in a very long time. ------------- "When I grow up I want to marry a rich man and live in a condor next to the beach" -- My 7yr old daughter. |
Posted By: Ceesman762
Date Posted: 09 August 2012 at 2:33pm
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^^^^^You left out the grunting noises the women make when the serve the ball or jump to block and spike...^^^^^^^
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Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 09 August 2012 at 5:54pm
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Ceesman. Wrong sport. He's talking about the weird stuff that was on today. I agree with his sentiment though. I was actually just intrigued by the skill of it. ------------- Que pasa?
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 09 August 2012 at 8:33pm
Yup! If you get their last names and google them, you can see their topless calender shots (they cover everything important with arms and stuff, but still). ------------- <Removed overly wide sig. Tsk, you know better.> |