Olympics '08: Official Thread

[Ryandel]

Mods feel free to move this. I'm not sure if this should go here, or the General Questions and Survey Category. Thanks in advance.

Did anyone watch the Olympic Opening Ceremony? If so then read along! If not then you seriously gotta watch it on youtube. It's incredible.

What did you think about the Ceremony?

What amazed you the most?

What did you least like about it?

If you could ask anything about how they did something, what would it be?

If you were there in person, do you think your reaction would be much different?

Are you looking forward to any events?



FROM BOBBY:
I decided to make this the official thread. So discuss all things about the 2008 Olympics here!

[Stricken]

I'll watch it on Youtube later if I'm bored. The Olympics never interested me =/

[Bobby]

Moving to Sports and making it the Official VT Olympics Thread.

[Kuervo]

What did you think about the Ceremony? i thought it was awesome. amazing and kool

What amazed you the most?how they got that sreen on the floor and how big it was.

What did you least like about it?hmmmm...

If you could ask anything about how they did something, what would it be?how they got so many ppl to do so much things

If you were there in person, do you think your reaction would be much different? oh yeah, i would be like i cant belive im here.

Are you looking forward to any events?nop

[Gumleaf]

congrats to australian stephanie rice who seriously kicked some united states arse to win gold in the 4x100 im in the swimming!!! :D

[Zephyr]

congrats to australian stephanie rice who seriously kicked some united states arse to win gold in the 4x100 im in the swimming!!! :D

We still have Michael Phelps :P

[Camazotz]

I would like to congratulate Team USA of Mens Basketball on their victory over China. Theyre going for the gold!

[serial-thrilla]

I would like to congratulate Team USA of Mens Basketball on their victory over China. Theyre going for the gold!
I would hope to god their going for gold. Look at their lineup. It would be a joke if they didnt win.

[Gumleaf]

congrats to my aussie girls libby trickett and jess schipper who won gold and bronze respectively in the swimming (100m butterfly). go you good thing!!! :D

[theOperaGhost]

Did anyone see that finish in the 4X100 mens swimming relay? That was pretty awesome. Quite a close finish.

[Gavin]

YaY!!

Team GB won a good medal last night in the swimming :)

[Gumleaf]

Did anyone see that finish in the 4X100 mens swimming relay? That was pretty awesome. Quite a close finish.


yes, and another bronze to our great aussie swimmers!

[Bryan B]

What did you think about the Ceremony? I liked more The Atenas 2004 Ceremony, I thought this ones were amazing but they were also boring

What amazed you the most? How the Olympic arrows where in the air.

What did you least like about it? That it was a little bit boring about their culture

If you could ask anything about how they did something, what would it be? anything

If you were there in person, do you think your reaction would be much different? I dont think so

Are you looking forward to any events? Yeah, almost all of them

[Antares]

What did you think about the Ceremony?
Fricking amazing! Best yet!
What amazed you the most?
The fireworks, the effects.
What did you least like about it?
The lighting of the torch. Very unsignifigant.
If you could ask anything about how they did something, what would it be?
That fricking scroll thing. The LCD screen thingy. THat was amazing.
If you were there in person, do you think your reaction would be much different?
Yes, I would be sooo far away to see everyhitng in detail than on TV :P
Are you looking forward to any events?
Diving. Yummy people :wub: (Tom Daley(google him people))

[Whisper]

mens synchronized diving is sweeeeet
a 14 yr old brit
omg
he's really good

[Gumleaf]

congrats to australian leisel jones who has won gold in the 100m breaststroke in swimming. standby for the national anthem of australia!!!

[Antares]

mens synchronized diving is sweeeeet
a 14 yr old brit
omg
he's really good

Yea hes like the 3rd best diver in the world.
And hes only been diving for like...7 years or something and hes better than people that have been diving for 27 years lol

[The Batman]

Congrats to the Us for taking gold in Swimming that was awesome.

[Antares]

Now, I know that some people have no idea how many sports are actually covered in the Olympics but some of these "sports" are stupid. My main one that I am like "WTF" in is Air Rifle Shooting. Number one, its not a real gone which means no kcik back. And second they wear suits that make them stiff to the point that they cant feel their heartbeat. It is rediculous and I think its not really sporty...

[The Batman]

http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/95A/GL0000000.shtml here is the official medal count

[Gumleaf]

congrats to our aussie golden girl stephanie rice who has won her second gold medal winning the 200m individual medley in swimming in world record time!!! :D:D:D
boy i love hearing our anthem being played there!!!

[Whisper]

Canadians
Are
HORRIBLE
at summer games

seriously
wow

[Zephyr]

Just ran across this:

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/medals

It's a report on how many medals each country has won so far.

Viva Americana!

[serial-thrilla]

Canadians
Are
HORRIBLE
at summer games

seriously
wow
Just wait till the winter games baby!

[Whisper]

you can get the reports on google under Olympics on the side

[NextToNormal]

Canadians
Are
HORRIBLE
at summer games

seriously
wow

so...does this mean that the US womens team is looking to go on to the semifinals in soccer after fridays quarterfinal game??

[Gumleaf]

well the gold medals just keep coming to the land down under. through the spirit of the boxing kangaroo, dickhead the platypus and fatso the fat ass wombat, our aussies have swum their lttle arses off and won gold again in a massive boilover. congrats to our female relay team in the 4x200m freestyle who were stephanie rice, bronte barrett, kylie palmer and linda mckenzie.

[Gumleaf]

its been a great night for the aussies!!! 2 golds and 1 silver in the rowing tonight. go you good thing!!!!! :D


and ladies and gentlemen, i can inform you that after 8 days the duck has been broken, the drought has ended, guess what, new zealand have finally won a medal, a bronze tonight in the rowing. why do i care might you ask? well as an australian its my duty to bag out new zealand and i have been all week and still am now :P *runs and hides and hopes lauren doesn't see this post*

[doktored]

Haha, if 3 medals was a good night for the Aussies then GB is in Heaven - 9 medals overall - four gold medals, a silver and four bronze medals. WOOP!!!

[Gumleaf]

well congrats to the youngest swimmer on the australian swimming team, cate campbell, who won bronze in the 50m freestyle. congrats to the australian swimming captain and veteran, grant hackett, on silver in the 1500m freestyle. too bad he couldn't win gold in his last olympics. and final congrats on our gold medal winning team of emily seebohm, leisel jones, jess schipper and libby trickett in the 4x100m medley relay. our female swimmers in particular have carved it up in the pool and has done our little country down under proud. when you think that we only have 20 million people in our country, to win as many medals as we have is a great achievement. :D

[Triple7]

How about that Michael Phelps? Swimming for the US, he went 8-for-8 in gold medals! He broke Mark Spitz' record of 7 gold medals for the most in a single Olympiad.

For the US, Venus and Serena Williams won the gold in women's tennis doubles.

And for Spain, Rafael Nadal keeps on rolling with a straight set winner for the gold medal in men's tennis singles. His place at #1 goes into effect tomorrow.

[doktored]

Today's medal table;

1 China 35 13 13 61
2 USA 19 21 25 65
3 Great Britain 11 6 8 25
4 Germany 9 6 6 21
5 Australia 8 10 11 29
6 South Korea 8 9 5 22
7 Japan 8 5 7 20
8 Russia 7 11 12 30
9 Italy 6 6 6 18
10 Ukraine 5 3 6 14

Way to go GB;

There were sailing golds for Yngling trio Sarah Ayton, Sarah Webb and Pippa Wilson, and Ben Ainslie in the Finn.

Zac Purchase and Mark Hunter took GB's first lightweight rowing gold, and Rebecca Romero won cycling's pursuit.

Fellow cyclist Wendy Houvenaghel and two rowing crews claimed silver medals, while gymnast Louis Smith won bronze.

Congratualations to all.

[Zephyr]

Kudos to Michael Phelps for setting an Olympic Record of winning 8 golden medals.

[The Batman]

Congrats to USA in Basketball is just insane.

[Gumleaf]

i would like to dwell on the new zealand effort here. being an australian, its my duty to insult new zealand as much as possible. but i do want to acknowledge that new zealand has won 2 gold medals in the rowing which i think is great. the gold medal drought is over. but one thing is very ironic about new zealand winning these gold medals in the rowing. it seems that new zealand performs at its best when they are sitting down going backwards. :P

[Bobby]

This is the current medal table from Yahoo Sports.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h158/bob91593/lymp.jpg

[Requin]

Go Team GB!!!!!!!!
We've won yet another gold! (Yes, we're pleased with ourselves, and you can't take it away from us!)
The Cycling team has won the Men's Team Pursuit thrashing Denmark by a huge 6 seconds!
Oh and they broke there own world record for the second time this games aswell.
*Applause*

[doktored]

Today's olympic tally;

http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/2576/olympicstodayau0.jpg

Congrats to team GB, it's their best olympics haul in a century

[Requin]

USA, Nigeria and Great Britain's men 4x100m relay are out. They all dropped/mucked up their pass over of the baton and have been disqualified.
Shame.
USA did the same thing in the womens race too.
Again Shame.
Congrats to Phillip Idowu who managed to just miss out on a gold in the triple jump. :-)

[NextToNormal]

congrats to the US womens soccer team on their 1-0 victory over brazil!!! that was a great game!!!

[doktored]

Sigh, it's alway's a shame to see the olympics end :( .

The final medal table of the 2008 Summer Games;

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1402/olympics120qd5.jpg

Congratulations and thanks to all who took part. From me specifically congrats to team GB who recorded their biggest medal haul in history coming 4th overall.

Also, good luck to my home nation Great Britain for London 2012, it's going to be tough topping the chinese in what i personally believe was the best olympiad ever.