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Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Caution, may contain results!
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Do you have cable? NBC launched a cable channel for 2 weeks only precisely just to show olympic soccer (they also did one for olympic basketball)
yeh well done Phelps! i was really hoping he could get 8 WRs as well but a fantastic performance none the less.
wahoooo it's gold for the 3 blondes in a boat..
Don't think there will be to many arguments over the star of the games. 8 Golds, 7 world records and 1 Olympic record. Not a bad week for Mr. Phelps.
Don't think there will be to many arguments over the star of the games. 8 Golds, 7 world records and 1 Olympic record. Not a bad week for Mr. Phelps.
Here's a crazy claim from New England Swim Report that Phelps lost to Serbian Cavic in the 100m butterfly the other day. I don't believe any of it but one has to wonder because the photo finish looked awfully close.
you are right it's a mega crazy claim. The photo finish is really close but Phelps is coming off a full stroke and Cavic is floating in. From what the BBC have reported, they touched at pretty much the same time but the timing pads are pressure sensitive and Phelps hit his just a little harder and stopped the clock first. Don't forget, they show timing down to 1/100th of a second but time down to 1/1000th of a second. There could have been just 1/1000th between them but that would be enough.
Although all the talk in the swimming has been about Phelps (and a little about Becky Adlington over in the UK) but for me the unsung star has to be Dara Torres. In a sport where early 20s is considered old, she has just won a silver in the 50m freestyle at the ripe old age of 41. Amazingly this is her 5th games (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000 and 2008) and now has 12 Olympic medals including 4 golds. To me this is what the Olympics is all about. If that wasn't enough, she's hot too
And if she had gone to Atlanta (1996) and Athens (2004) it would have been 7 times. Too bad her coach, who is ill, couldn't be there to celebrate her two silver medals with her.
That's one of the real mind blowing things. Her first were 24 years ago, before a lot of the people she beat were born
I hope not....there will be no way he will repeat this. 8/8...a perfect record...why possibly spoil that? Go down in history as being the best there ever was!
This just gets better and better. Another gold for teamGB in the mens lightweight double sculls. They smashed the rest of the field...
Perhaps we wants to set a higher level for the total golds won?
And we've moved to a current 4th in the medals. Most importantly ahead of the Australians
One more gold to overtake Germany into third too
And we've moved to a current 4th in the medals. Most importantly ahead of the Australians
The one more gold is already in the bag
Rebecca Romero and Wendy Houvenaghel just have to sort out who gets the gold and who gets the silver. Gerry sutcliffe will be please to see us going ahead of the Aussies. Sports ministers little betAnd Ben Ainslie is out on the water and looking good.
Without sounding to greedy, would be nice to win more golds today than we did yesterday.
Just hope after these Olympics we plough more money in to sports and have an even better 2012 games.
EDIT - Ben Ainslie has just won gold... now 3rd in the medals table.
I agree.
Sure he can do that.
I would say his chances would be very slim. He has a wonderful accomplishment.
I say quit while he's on top.