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RE: Women in the Olympics - 8/22/2008 8:32:51 PM
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Miss Giggles
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Well it's the first time bmx is in the Olympics. Next Olympics they'll have their rivalries established. I don't know if I like it, seems like its based a lot on chance. They have some guts flying off those hills though.
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RE: Women in the Olympics - 8/22/2008 8:36:34 PM
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I did not get to see the BMX. I did watch the road race, and some of the indoor bike track events.
Another thing is so many people compete for countries they don't live in, but maybe have dual citizenship due to birth. Perhaps they have a better chance of making the Slovakian team than the US team, even though they have lived their lives in the US.
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RE: Women in the Olympics - 8/22/2008 8:58:12 PM
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Australian as well as New Zealand have certainly done well this summer. ROFL! Nicole and I probably wouldn't agree on that!
The Aussies (her lot) always top the Brits (my lot) on the medals table. That hasn't happened this year and there's more than the odd sour grape around on their side. Just teasing Nicole (and any other Aussie!) ~ my opportunity to do so may not happen for another 4 years or so!
I think whatever country (or countries) we support, we should be incredibly proud of our competitors.
As one said today (apologies for bringing what a guy said into the discussion) 'We're all Olympians!' That means something. They are amongst the best in the world and we seem to find it very easy to criticise when they don't bring home the gold medal (or any). They guy, by the way, he was a Brit and he didn't win a medal, but he's still an Olympian.
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Well it's the first time bmx is in the Olympics. Next Olympics they'll have their rivalries established. To an extent, they are already there because of events like the World Championships etc.
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I don't know if I like it, seems like its based a lot on chance. They have some guts flying off those hills though. Not too sure that I'd wanna be doing it! There were some pretty horrible-looking crashes when I watched.
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RE: Women in the Olympics - 8/22/2008 9:10:09 PM
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Aga I honestly didn't know that the Aussies always topped the Brits, to me you guys are our sister country anyway so I would want you to do well, same with Canada, any of the Commonwealth countries... Not to offend any other country, I love ya all, but we all share the Queen and stuff 
I am not sour about it, I say "Well done to everyone". There are probably some, but I think any country would be like that... anyway moving on now.
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RE: Women in the Olympics - 8/23/2008 11:13:29 AM
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Canada Emilie Heymans did amazingly in the 10m platform diving. She held her cool while the crowds went wild for the Chinese women. I've never seen her dive so well!!! Amazing!
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RE: Women in the Olympics - 8/23/2008 1:03:08 PM
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USA took the gold in women's basketball.
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RE: Women in the Olympics - 8/23/2008 1:17:51 PM
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I haven't watch a whole lot of the Olympics, I am not a "oooohhh we have to outdo some other country" type of person, I just get excited when anyone does well! 
That would be me I love watching everyone, and the winners (countries) in the end aren't nearly as important as examples of tenacity, beauty, and sportsmanship with the entire world watching. I like seeing 'winners' hug 'losers' (anyone who can complete a marathon, or jump that high, or dive that well, or... is a winner in my book LOL), someone help someone else up, the graceful diving and incredible body movements, etc. Probably the coolest thing is to see a medalist on the stand in tears as their national anthem plays... they worked hard and it paid off...
I love to watch gymnastics (have since I was little), and this year I enjoyed the womens diving a lot- some of those ladies are incredible! I didn't see the rythmic gymnastics, but based on the link Sarah provided, Matt and Al make them seem all the more incredible 
I also find it REALLY neat to see how many countries there are on the medals list- it may be only one or two medals, but to see a 'less strong' country right up there with the others is really cool to me. Some countries have economic, educational, and historical advantages, but those who don't still succeed, through good old fashioned hard work.
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RE: Women in the Olympics - 8/23/2008 6:59:19 PM
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Sarah Stevenson. She took bronze in the +67kg taekwondo today.
She landed a 2 point kick on her Chinese opponant but it wasn't seen by judges in the quarter-finals and she lost on the opportunity to go further. She was upset immediately afterwards, but stood her ground that the kick had been good and the match should have been hers.
An appeal was asked for ~ and won it ~ something that is unprescidented in the sport. Fifteen or so minutes later she was back, fighting the next round, which sadly she didn't win ~ she was upset, who can blame her and the crowd (mostly Chinese) were not happy with her for knocking their champion out. An hour later, she took the bronze.
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RE: Women in the Olympics - 8/23/2008 9:09:07 PM
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agapetos
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thanks for that replay aga...I missed that. I have been reading all the stuff on the nbc web site pretty often Later on, catching a bit of the men's, I was just pleased she didn't react the way one of the men did when he lost... he kicked the poor ref in the head!
I suspect Sarah may have felt like kicking one or two heads, I'm glad she didn't!
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RE: Women in the Olympics - 8/24/2008 2:15:38 AM
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When I was growing up I very badly wanted to go to the Olympics in the Equestrian events. Sadly, this year I didn't get to see any of them. In fact, haven't been seeing much of them at all. :(
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