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Vince · #16 Post by **Vince** » Sat 09 Aug 2008, 8:08 pm

I'm hoping my country gets 1.

Pet Shop Girl · #17 Post by **Pet Shop Girl** » Mon 11 Aug 2008, 12:22 am

I don't get much impressed with the summer olympics, that flying torch bearer was rediculous. I know that the opening ceremony in London has to be way better than this one.

Vince · #18 Post by **Vince** » Mon 11 Aug 2008, 7:18 am

We got 1 gold!!! Our first individual gold medal!! Our first gold medal in 28 years!!!!

Shopper · #19 Post by **Shopper** » Mon 11 Aug 2008, 11:37 am

yeah indeed ! i was so thrilled

Fugitive1979 · #20 Post by **Fugitive1979** » Mon 11 Aug 2008, 9:31 pm

Pet Shop Girl wrote:I don't get much impressed with the summer olympics, that flying torch bearer was rediculous. I know that the opening ceremony in London has to be way better than this one.

The opening ceremony for the London Olympics will be a crock of shit. We are crap at organizing shows like that. Unless it is a military display, in which case no-one can touch us.

glennjridge · #21 Post by **glennjridge** » Mon 11 Aug 2008, 10:01 pm

Vince wrote:We got 1 gold!!! Our first individual gold medal!! Our first gold medal in 28 years!!!!

28 years. wow ...congrats! thats awesome

Undertaker · #22 Post by **Undertaker** » Tue 12 Aug 2008, 4:54 am

Fugitive1979 wrote:
Pet Shop Girl wrote:I don't get much impressed with the summer olympics, that flying torch bearer was rediculous. I know that the opening ceremony in London has to be way better than this one.
The opening ceremony for the London Olympics will be a crock of shit. We are crap at organizing shows like that. Unless it is a military display, in which case no-one can touch us.

Very true. I don't know what some people are watching at times. The Beijing opening ceremony was fantastic.

Pet Shop Girl · #23 Post by **Pet Shop Girl** » Tue 12 Aug 2008, 6:26 am

Fugitive1979 wrote:
Pet Shop Girl wrote:I don't get much impressed with the summer olympics, that flying torch bearer was rediculous. I know that the opening ceremony in London has to be way better than this one.
The opening ceremony for the London Olympics will be a crock of shit. We are crap at organizing shows like that. Unless it is a military display, in which case no-one can touch us.

Oh come on you should have more confidence in your own country. I personally think it would be fab, I mean there is four years to work on the show and get their act together.

BecciJ · #24 Post by **BecciJ** » Wed 13 Aug 2008, 12:26 am

Saw this article today... apparently the child who was singing was miming because the real little girl wasn't deemed attractive enough....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... teeth.html

Vince · #25 Post by **Vince** » Wed 13 Aug 2008, 7:14 am

^^ sad!!!!

Frequency · #26 Post by **Frequency** » Wed 13 Aug 2008, 11:33 am

The opening ceremony was breathtaking and I can't imagine what we're going to do to top that. Perhaps get Chas 'n' Dave to write the official song and light the torch.

So far been enjoying the swimming, just saw the USA destroy the competition in one of the relay events; they were so far ahead, it was ridiculous. I can't imagine Phelps not getting those 8 gold medals on this form.

The tennis has been great as well and I'm hoping for a Federer vs. Djokovic/Nadal final. Less said about Murray the better, in a way it'll probably help his US Open chances.

gregf · #27 Post by **gregf** » Wed 13 Aug 2008, 4:21 pm

Some one here in Oz has worked out,

that if India sent a team to the Olympics,

which was the same proportion of athletes to population,

that we send (450),

then India would be sending a team of 20,000 people.

Vince · #28 Post by **Vince** » Wed 13 Aug 2008, 5:52 pm

^^ India adds the population of Oz to itself every year

But i find it sad that sports is not encouraged much in India... and the stupid hype over cricket

redsock · #29 Post by **redsock** » Wed 13 Aug 2008, 6:18 pm

Alan Wills has knocked out the defending mens archery champion Marco Galiazzo from Italy this afternoon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympic ... 558461.stm

A real shame the BBC were showing the matches from stadium A instead of B on their live stream, as it was an absolute corker of a match by all accounts.

sneakythesnake · #30 Post by **sneakythesnake** » Wed 13 Aug 2008, 9:00 pm

BecciJ wrote:Saw this article today... apparently the child who was singing was miming because the real little girl wasn't deemed attractive enough....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... teeth.html

Yes, I heard about that! The poor girl! I wonder if they told her beforehand the real reason why she wasn't allowed to appear!?