XXIX Olympic Thread

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by Venerable Bede:
  at least you get most of the stuff live. . .they are tape delaying the whole primetime coverage outside of the eastern and central time zones.  
 
 on the other hand, i have directv which has 7 extra olympic channels, although 2 of those are usa and cnbc.

yeah, that definitely sucks
 
 i love the 24-7 olympic basketball HD channel, been filling up my DVR with hoops

[walkonby]

i don't have tv, so i have not be able to watch any coverage . . . except for yesterday when i went out for lunch at a restauarant blaring the games on all sets.  yes the half naked guys were great and all, but i just LOVED the trampoline!  when did that become an event?

[sweetcell]

Originally posted by very sonick:
 Also, Canada has failed to win even ONE FREAKING MEDAL so far.  pitiful. Azerbaijan has 3!!!

well it was a good weekend for the canuckians, we're up to 7.  to think that with one more, we will have caught up to kazakhstan and north korea!!!

[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
   

Originally posted by very sonick:
 Also, Canada has failed to win even ONE FREAKING MEDAL so far.  pitiful. Azerbaijan has 3!!!

well it was a good weekend for the canuckians, we're up to 7.  to think that with one more, we will have caught up to kazakhstan and north korea!!! [/b]

Oh stop yer whinging..you lot sweep up most of the snowy medals...you can't have everything. Who do you think you are..USA?

[Frank Gallagher]

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[walkonby]

nice ball!

[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by walkonby:
  nice ball!

Ball? What ball?
 
 Here's one for you mate.
 
 
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[brennser]

hooray - we won our first medal! guaranteed at least a bronze in boxing, with 2 other boxers fighting today to get into the semis
 
 and in all my years I never thought I'd see an Irishman in the 200m semi finals of an Olympics but Paul Hession did it
 
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[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by brennser:
  hooray - we won our first medal! guaranteed at least a bronze in boxing, with 2 other boxers fighting today to get into the semis
 
 and in all my years I never thought I'd see an Irishman in the 200m semi finals of an Olympics but Paul Hession did it
 
    <img src="http://www.independent.ie/multimedia/archive/00198/hession_198731t.jpg" alt=" - " />

Yeah for Ireland!! we saw him WIN his heat last night and just looked at each other for a while before my wife blurted out..."he won, he fucking won...holy Mary mother of jayzus the fecker won". I didn't have the heart to tell her it didn't mean he got a medal.

[brennser]

He didn't make the final :-( Came 5th....poor guy....would have been a medal in itself to make the final
 
 But the "bronze rush" continued this morning as our light heavyweight boxer also made the semi's where I think he will fight one of your people
 
 

Originally posted by Ever Circling Skeletal Family:
   

Originally posted by brennser:
  hooray - we won our first medal! guaranteed at least a bronze in boxing, with 2 other boxers fighting today to get into the semis
 
 and in all my years I never thought I'd see an Irishman in the 200m semi finals of an Olympics but Paul Hession did it
 
     <img src="http://www.independent.ie/multimedia/archive/00198/hession_198731t.jpg" alt=" - " />

Yeah for Ireland!! we saw him WIN his heat last night and just looked at each other for a while before my wife blurted out..."he won, he fucking won...holy Mary mother of jayzus the fecker won". I didn't have the heart to tell her it didn't mean he got a medal. [/b]

[sweetcell]

Originally posted by brennser:
 But the "bronze rush" continued this morning as our light heavyweight boxer also made the semi's where I think he will fight one of your people

i'm intrigued by this: an englishman and an irishman fighting - while neither is drunk?!?  is this even possible?  any chance the fighters will down a few before the bout, in keeping with tradition?

[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by sweetcell:
   

Originally posted by brennser:
 But the "bronze rush" continued this morning as our light heavyweight boxer also made the semi's where I think he will fight one of your people

i'm intrigued by this: an englishman and an irishman fighting - while neither is drunk?!?  is this even possible?  any chance the fighters will down a few before the bout, in keeping with tradition? [/b]

Going by history I think we already know the outcome of this one!!
 
 The Irish lad will get the shit kicked out of him but refuse to admit defeat so keep 'fighting for Ireland' for the next 800 years, even though the British lad went home, forgot about the fight and moved on.
   

[vansmack]

I was shocked the NYT had a picture of the Argentina-Brazil Semi-final match with the result on it's front page this morning.  I was saving that for this evening.

[HoyaSaxa03]

Originally posted by brennser:
  where I think he will fight one of your people

huh! what do you mean, "your people"?
 
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[slappy]

Originally posted by Ever Circling Skeletal Family:
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NBC Sports should win many awards for this investigative photo journalism gallery on Cracking the code.
 I'm still having trouble understanding the hand signals, its way harder than the DaVinci Code. I might need to go back and look again.
 
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