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4th Aug 2008, 12:55 AM #1
Beijing Olympic Games 2008 Thread
Planned to start this thread a fortnight ago.
Plenty of epic sporting action to look forward to this month. Including...
Australia trying to pump "Team GB" in the Velodrome.
Phelps going for EIGHT Golds in the pool.
Gail Emms and Nathan Robertson v China in the Badminton competition
The US basketball team v China (and Yao Ming).
Shanaze Reade on her BMX
Tom Daley Diving
The GB Rowing and Sailing teams
Yang Wei in Gymnastics
The Murrays in the Tennis Doubles
Watching the Beach Volleyball!
Is it worth even watching the athletics - following the Katerina Thanou/Dwain Chambers stuff and the US 4x400m relay team stripped of Sydney Gold.
Powell v Bolt should be worth a look and Dayron Robles could spoil the party for China's reigning Olympic 110m hurdles champion Liu Xiang. The Cuban has already beaten Xiang's world record and been under 13 seconds three times this season. Yelena Isinbayeva's pole vault, Jeremy Wariner in the 400m and Roman Sebrle's Decathlon efforts are always worth watching (shame Dean Macey didn't make it this time).
For GB... Phillips Idowu is tipped for triple jump Gold (following Christian Olssen's withdrawal) and there are also medal hopes for Paula Radcliffe, Kelly Sotherton (if she sorts out her javelin), Nicola Sanders, Christine Ohuruogu and the relay squads. Sadly, Jessica Ennis didn't make it.
It all kicks off on Friday 8th August...
or Wednesday 6th, if you include those early football matches.Last edited by Milky Tears; 4th Aug 2008 at 1:10 AM. Reason: to make the thread title more coolerer and awesomerererer
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4th Aug 2008, 12:48 PM #2Wayne Guest
I'll be watching anything but this.
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4th Aug 2008, 12:54 PM #3
Me posting in a sporting thread!!
I'm quite looking forward to seeing some of the Olympics. I'll be rooting for the Plymouth boy in the diving (he likes Pot Noodles you know) and I'll be interested in the track and field events.
I think it's going to be an interesting Olympics this year, they've had trouble following the flame around the world, I don't think that's over yet, let's wait and see.
Regarding the pollution problem, I see the air's a little clearer, let's hope it continues like that. But all kudos to the Chinese, they have done what they said they would do to clear it.
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4th Aug 2008, 1:09 PM #4
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8th Aug 2008, 1:17 PM #5
I'm just watching some of the opening ceremony now & I must say I'm quite impressed with some of it. The scroll painting/dancing is very well done.
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8th Aug 2008, 10:07 PM #6Captain Tancredi Guest
Only trouble is, they have to get him out of the water quickly or he doubles in size.
The Free Tibet people were out in force in Leeds today (can Buddhists be out in force? In number, then). I did wonder whether the whole trouble started when the Chinese saw a sign saying "Free Tibet" and thought "that looks like a good offer".
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10th Aug 2008, 9:25 AM #7
our women Archers, have just missed out on a guaranteed silver/gold medal losing in the semies to china..
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10th Aug 2008, 10:39 AM #8
Nicole Cooke, wins our first Gold medal, winning the womans, cycling road race..
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10th Aug 2008, 11:38 AM #9WhiteCrow Guest
Is it only the BBC which are covering the Olympics? Any other satellite channels?
I'm really disgusted they're doing no coverage of the Volleyball at the moment - yes they're covering Beach Volleyball, but not the actual Volleyball, and it was one of the best events at Athens!
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10th Aug 2008, 11:43 AM #10
It's just the BBC & Eurosport (+HD) that are showing the Olympics.
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10th Aug 2008, 2:59 PM #11
You can't beat the sodden women's hockey action (GB v Germany) on BBC2 right now! It's wet out there.
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10th Aug 2008, 3:24 PM #12
The badmington has been very good so far too.
Bazinga !
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10th Aug 2008, 4:46 PM #13
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11th Aug 2008, 1:13 PM #14
GOLD & Bronze for GBR in one swimming event.
First time for 20 odd years!
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11th Aug 2008, 5:19 PM #15
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11th Aug 2008, 11:24 PM #16
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Great entertainment so far at these games. I can't believe how much I was getting into the archery, especially as I keep saying that the swimming is too repetitive! As usual the first week highlights for me are the hockey and eventing. It was a brilliant win for GB men over Pakistan... it's not perhaps as strong a Pakistan side as we've seen over the last few years but we haven't beaten them in competition since 1952! GB women are a very young side and they've made some rather speculative selections, so I think they are building for the future, but the three players who made a mark against the Germans were the more experienced girls, so maybe this Olympics is a bit early for some of them. It's funny to see Charlotte Craddock attracting so much media attention... last time I saw her play a tournament she was 10 and I was umpiring the interform games at school! She's come on a bit since then...
Eventing... it's one of GBs best hopes but I think we may have to be content with a team bronze at best (gut instinct says we may be fourth). I'm desperate for Mary King to sneak onto the podium in the individual event though. Not only is the woman an absolute legend, but rather poignantly she's riding Call Again, Cavalier, whose previous rider Caroline Pratt was killed in an accident at Burghley in 2004. Pratt had just taken over the ride and believed he was the horse that would take her to Beijing, so if King could bring back a medal on him then that would be fantastic. At 15 years old it's likely to be his only Olympics, so I'm rooting for the pair of them.
Anyone read the comments from Tom Daley's partner blaming him for their poor showing in the synchro today?
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12th Aug 2008, 12:58 PM #17
I've not seen the comments, sounds like sour grapes though.
There's a right ding-dong battle going on in the Badmington match with Emms/Robertson!
They were 1 (21-16) -1 (16-21) & 12 - 17 down but they fought back to win 21 - 19!!
All for a place in the quarter final.
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12th Aug 2008, 2:50 PM #18
Yep, it was a good comeback. It'll be tough, but let's hope they can better their silver medal of four years ago.
Personally, I'm most interested in the athletics, but it's been pretty engaging stuff so far. Well done to our two gold medalists so far, and especially for our girls' showing in the swimming.
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12th Aug 2008, 4:10 PM #19
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12th Aug 2008, 5:52 PM #20Captain Tancredi Guest
I think there are two kinds of Olympic viewers- the kind who watches everything and pretends that they understand it all, and the kind who only watches the stuff they know about. Like my friend Derek, who'll watch the running because he doesn't need to know the rules.
To be honest I haven't seen anything yet.
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12th Aug 2008, 6:09 PM #21
I'll watch any of it & I understand it all so far...unless 'real tennis' is now in the Olympics, in which case I have no hope of understanding that.
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12th Aug 2008, 9:15 PM #22
I also thought they'd finish fourth, so it's great to see them finish third. Superb double bronze for Tina Cook.
Also a fantastic comeback from Gail Emms and Nathan Robertson. Managed to defeat the second seeds and silence the Chinese crowd!
Quote of the games from Emms:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olym...on/7556436.stm
"You have to be pumped," said a delighted Emms.
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13th Aug 2008, 1:36 PM #23
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The great Michael Whitaker is out of the showjumping after his horse came in lame out in Hong Kong, although she did travel sound. Fortunately Nick Skelton is out there as a reserve rider for the team event so we won't be forced out or lose anything in rider experience.
The eventing result was promising... I hope Miner's Frolic can stay fit for 2012 because he should be right at his peak then, at 10 he's young for an event horse at this level. We're likely to need him too, with Call Again Cavalier and Parkmore Ed both 15 years old, and Zara Phillips' Toytown 14, they are all likely to have retired by then, and Tanker's Town and Spring Along are likely to be past their best too. In all likelyhood Miner's Frolic will be the most experienced top level event horse to be heading for London, and he looks a great prospect.
Quote of the games from Emms
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13th Aug 2008, 3:58 PM #24
I will watch pretty much watch any sport (with the exception of sailing) if
we have some one in the final - but I certainly would never claim to know much about the sports im watching. When it comes to the Olympics I find my self watching sports I normaly have no interest in at all for example the cycling in the Veledrome, I thoroughly enjoyed watching in 2004.
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14th Aug 2008, 5:03 PM #25Captain Tancredi Guest
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