The U.S. girl’s beach volleyball team’s been doing pretty good.
Edit: boo ya. Carly Patterson won gold in the girls all around thing.
… A 19-year old 165cm tall Chinese girl won the women’s weightlifting yesterday and set a new World record for the first part of it too O_o;
I don’t even want to start the topic on women’s wrestling, weight class 48 and under.
I’ll start watching the Olympics when they start showing stuff that doesn’t suck. Like Kendo. And lots of it.
Thank god for sports medicine!
Team USA Basketball is a sham. It’s horrible watching them play.
Do you know what’s the best? Watching Olympic speed walking on Telemundo. It’s such an awful sport! The stupid way the waddle back and forth. If my greatest athletic achievement were winning a gold medal in speed walking, I’d kill myself. But watching it in Spanish is just such a wild experience. Sports are just better on Telemundo.
I think she lifted 6 times and broke the world record 5 times.
Anyway, the Russian men volleyball team beat the American volleyball team. The Russian server was amazing.
Yeah, but weightlifting has had so many doping scandals, and with one weightlifter accused of dopiing being from Greece, the sport itself isn’t doing that great.
And for everyone talking about Paul Hamm’s win in male gymnastics, here’s a story for you: http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer04/gymnastics/news/story?id=1864339
Yeah, I’d already heard about it. I figured they’d protest it. I don’t find their claim of protesting right after the event too believable, though. People tend to go back and look for mistakes after it’s all said and done.
True. I guess it’s the old hubris-nemesis that has struck that team, because the players are way too arrogant to participate in the olympics. It thrilled me that Lithuania won the game, not because I am anti-American (I’m not, really), but I detest how those overpriviliged players act.
It’s been more interesting to watch 10000 meter run for men, where people from Ethiopia and Eritrea won medals - so cool.
Oh yeah, and Denmark won the first gold medal today in 4 man rowing! Woohoo!
I’ll start watching the Olympics when I can see stuff like this:
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Common now, kendo isn’t that exciting. Its about on par with fencing
I can see why the players aren’t interested in the olympics, though. A gold means nothing to them. They’re expected to be the best, and they already have tons of endorsements and high salaries. A silver and anything less is just putting a bulleyes on their backs for ridicule. Still, you’d think that they’d have the sense to practice for these games.
Well, if they aren’t interested, they shouldn’t compete. Some people train for 4 years or more in order to be good enough to compete in the olympics, and these tall black post-ghetto guys come to Athens, live on the world biggest cruiser, play miserably and act arrogantly towards not until the press, but also the crowd, the other athletes, and - I assume this - against all American fans hoping for these overpaid stars to beat all the others.
Oh yeah, and congratulations on the Men’s 100 m run… I’d bet for Maurice Greene, since he was the only one I knew 
Uh, Dal, I think Dai (Alice) was talking about people like Kobe or Shaq or whomever not going over to the Olympics, not the actual team that has only one or two (former?) NBA players.
Paul Hamm got owned by Kyle Shewfelt (Canadian) on the Men’s Floor Gymnastics. >>
About time Canada won a gold medal though.
Yay for Canada, too bad our rowing teams got owned. <3 Avril (in a purely non-musical related way), I hope Felecien wins the gold in the Hurdles.
Man, there’s such terrible sportsmanship this year. The Iranian Judo champ dropped out because his opponent was Israeli, Khorkina’s cockiness going into the Women’s All Around, and the Korean’s challenge of Hamm’s medal after the fact.
They’re saying Young should have gotten a lower score even if he got the points back from the lowered starting score. After reviewing the video, he had 4 holds, rather than the maximum of 3, which is an automatic .2 point deduction.
And the judges are making terrible calls tonight. Takano DEFINITELY should have won a higher score on parallel with his twisting double and smooth routine. The Ukrainian was good, but not gold good. And 4, 5 of the same score in a row? Give me a break, a lot of them weren’t even close.
As for high bar, the crowd was so rude. Hamm already felt bad enough over the controversy; booing him was just unneccessary. And what the hell was wrong the with judges? Giving Hamm a high score he didn’t deserve put him in a terrible position. I also felt that Nemov deserved a much higher score with his excellent quadruple release. Even after the judges changed his score, it was still low. I have to commend him for his EXCELLENT sportsmanship, though, taking his score gracefully and even telling the crowd to stop when they booed Hamm.
Yeah, I finally started following the Olympics now, and geez. So much for everyone playing nicely together. While there’s always expected to be controversy (Olympics without controversy? Blasphemy!), but this is more silly than anything really. It’s not even controversy though, it’s just people being dumb on a worldwide stage.
the olympics are the sports that got held back in kindergarten.