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Beijing Olympics 2008
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The opening ceremony is tomorrow Friday.........who's watching it?
Which sports will you be following on TV coverage?
Which sports will you be following on TV coverage?
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I like watching the female gymnasts. Won't make a point out of it, but if it is on when I'm surfing I'll stop.
Well, just finished the intro of all the countries now, and now they are marching with the Olympic flag. But the ceremonic opening with all the fancy stuff was okay. Like had some amazing things, but just dragged for too long IMO.
I look forward to the olympics! I like watching the diving and gymnastics (and do they do ice skating in this one? Or is that winter olympics/commonwealth?) the most.
Maybe I can sleep now. 4.30am zzzzzzzzzz
The drummers with the lights and the fireworks esp.
It was the crazy conditions road race.
Think it might be something to do with those new swimming costumes that make you swim faster.
I love how Britain gets all hysterical about the possibility of winning a bronze in badminton or archery or some sport like that that literally fuck all people like and would never be on T.V. if it wasn't the Olympics.
That's what the Olympics is about. No-one gives a shit about the football or tennis, because it's not the biggest tournament in those sports. The Olympics gives us a chance to cheer on some athletes that aren't a bunch of overpaid, spoilt little brats.
True story - I have raced against Anna Hemmings and the 2004 Olympic Racing Squad at Nottingham :yes: Only because Women's sprinting classes are so small that neither of our races were quorate and they got combined but that is SO not the point
Give them a chance. They need a day off. Men's team final is today, I think. Women's team final is tommorow. Either that or tomorrow and the day after, I forget. Then the individual events start.
Canoeing silver medal. :thumb:
I love showjumping!
That is a sport I don't understand.
I enjoy it all, and even though I love football, I couldn't even care about the Olympic football. And its nothing to do with there being a lack of GBR team.
glad the women's beach volleyball is in the Wan King district though!!
Overall - loving the games :thumb:
I don't mind showjumping, but dressage? What the fuck is that? I see it every Olympics, and I'm still none the wiser.
Anything involving specific positions, styles or moves always throws me though. I enjoy gymnastics and diving but when it becomes about "ah he's moved his left ankle towards his right knee making that a triple Romanov sequence forward belly split - 2.3 on the difficulty then" I just get lost. Dressage definately the worst of those events - do the riders score extra for looking like horses?
Love the archery, gymnastic finals, shooting, weight lifting, field events, anything where you've got a whole field trying to top each other over a whole day - just the kind of events you can relax into and lose hours watching
I also enjoy swimming, partly because I used to practice. I was watching earlier in the day and it reminds me of my days of competing. I do miss the atmosphere as you're preparing for your heat.
I've heard the reason so many records are being set are partly because of the superiority of the new Speedo outfits (sponsors allowing swimmers to compete in rival brand!) and I heard some theories that because the pool is a bit deeper it's making the pool faster.
Dressage is one thing I enjoy as a horse person because the work it takes is ridiculous, but on the other hand I have NO idea how the scoring works. Show Jumping is so much more entertaining to watch though, that's for sure
The Olympics are always on at work, which is quite nice I enjoy chilling on my breaks in front of random sports. It's always more entertaining in the company of others.
The footage screened was CGI'd in but the actual fireworks did happen. Didn't want visibility to possibly ruin things and also were worried about the practicalities of having the helicopter filming it as they were going off!
Olympic records get broken only on a 4 year basis .. world records can happen anytime.
This games has produced so many new world records
Let it continue (until saturday comes..... at least)
Ah come on, give him a break, he didn't really make Jet Li fly in Hero either...
Although as China had Yimou Zhang directing its opening ceremony it doesn't bode well for the UK.
I'm thinking 28 minutes of Guy Ritchie staged bare-fist boxing, 40 minutes of violent East End swearing between Ben Kingsley and Gary Oldman followed by Mike Leigh shouting at a naked Timothy Spall as he sets fire to an Olympic bonfire made of park benches and fag packets...
Just like the BBC phone ins screened as well?
They faked the footage, they misled people to believe it was real, and if they hadnt been found out, would they have said anything? No!