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Finally two medals for sweden 
One gold in heptathlon!! karolina kluft, unbeliveble girl 
tomorrow we have chance for another 2 golds, and also J-O Valdner will play semi final in table tennis
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| Originally posted by St_Andrew Finally two medals for sweden One gold in heptathlon!! karolina kluft, unbeliveble girl tomorrow we have chance for another 2 golds, and also J-O Valdner will play semi final in table tennis |
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| Originally posted by dEsidEL does the media in Sweden feel that their country is underachieving .. ? |
Yeah I was just gonna say to St_Andrew congrads on the Gold medal win by the heptathlon girl...she's really cute actually 
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| Originally posted by starsearcher Yeah I was just gonna say to St_Andrew congrads on the Gold medal win by the heptathlon girl...she's really cute actually |
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| Originally posted by St_Andrew btw, she has a boyfriend |
WOHOOOO...YES YES YES WE HAVE A FIRST GOLD MEDAL....YIPPY...
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| Originally posted by starsearcher WOHOOOO...YES YES YES WE HAVE A FIRST GOLD MEDAL....YIPPY... |
All I have to say about the Olympics is dayum those women's beach volleyball players! If I wasn't so lazy, I bet I could have an ass like theirs!
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| Originally posted by jennypie All I have to say about the Olympics is dayum those women's beach volleyball players! If I wasn't so lazy, I bet I could have an ass like theirs! |
I wanna see a nice ass!
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| Originally posted by starsearcher Work it girl I wanna see a nice ass! |
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| Originally posted by jennypie Bahahaha!! Well it's nice enough...just nothing compared to an Olympic athlete's, which is good enough for me. My workout happens on the dancefloor only! |
wohoooooooo
another swedish gold
stefan holm, high jumping 
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| Originally posted by St_Andrew wohoooooooo another swedish gold stefan holm, high jumping |
That's gotta hurt
Looks like another gold medal for Sweden in men's tripple jump eh St_Andrew...looks like Sweden really knows how to jump well
I guess white men can jump after all
100M sprint final is about to get underway...so tense...wild!!! 
WHOOOOOOOOOO CRAZY....but no world record
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| Originally posted by starsearcher Looks like another gold medal for Sweden in men's tripple jump eh St_Andrew...looks like Sweden really knows how to jump well I guess white men can jump after all |
three gold medals now cmon show me what you can
the dissapointment of the olympics for me is christine nordhagens loss.
I used to train w/ her(wrestling) and I know just how good and how hard she trains. shes well past her prime, still a canadian champ, and a good part of the reason womens wrestling is in Athens.
shell have to settle for 5-8th.
She wont be happy with it, but Im so happy for her that she got to experience the olympics.
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Aug. 23, 2004. 06:38 AM
Gymnast saves Canada's bacon
But Canadian Olympic Committee still in the pan
DAVE PERKINS
SPORTS COLUMNIST
Kyle Shewfelt came along and saved a little Canadian bacon last night. Yet the Canadian Olympic Committee remains right there in the frying pan.
The gymnastics gold medal won by Shewfelt, plus the one at the track in the wheelchair 800 by Chantal Petitclerc, mark the first times Canada's anthem has been played into the steamy Greek air.
The official medal count stands at merely four and despite the promise of more � and the COC is hammering that theme here � it's clear there's huge trouble looming in the future.
A Canadian Olympics is set for 2010 in Vancouver and guess what the COC, barely acknowledging weak numbers here, is asking for. Right. More funding for the athletes.
It's up to Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer to cough up again � although how increased funding would have kept the rowing men's eight from doing the same yesterday is never explained. Rowing Canada has plenty of money and that didn't stop the crew from producing its worst race of the year in its biggest race of the year.
Not to pick on the rowers, who are, as a group, the leading underachievers here, in terms of what was expected. Lots of Canadian kids are trying hard and coming away empty. The specifics matter less than somebody stepping up and providing some leadership very soon.
It's already too late for Australian kinds of numbers in Beijing in 2008. It might even be too late for team greatness in Vancouver, given the lead time it takes to turn this ship around and the fruits of past (mid-1990s) government cutbacks.
"If we don't make the necessary investments now at all levels for 2010, we will face significant disappointment compared to all the objectives we have set for ourselves. You can take that to the bank," Chris Rudge, the CEO of the COC, said yesterday.
The COC held its usual mid-Games status report yesterday. Granted, that sounds like three minutes, given the underwhelming medal count, but there were a few good non-medal performances to crow about.
There were brief allusions to the occasional disappointment, at least until question period from the press, after which the real racing began. Three medals eight days into the Games (pre-Shewfelt) left Canada down there in the table, slightly ahead of countries without electricity and about even with countries that don't have their own money.
This was not widely predicted, although one member of the International Olympic Committee, Toronto's own Paul (The Plumber) Henderson, stated several months ago, in writing, to the Prime Minister, among others, that athletically Athens would be "Canada's Dieppe.'' Things could change in the next few days, but Henderson looks prescient. More on him another day. But he did suggest it came down to needing more money for athletes and much better use of the money already at hand � read, less for our bureaucratic brigade.
It will be difficult to deny him the floor next time he has a suggestion. The COC's two high sheriffs, Rudge and president Michael Chambers, naturally refused to indicate their personal overall satisfaction or lack thereof. Not in one word.
They unwrapped the usual fromage and handed out blame: The federal government, Canadians' outlook on sports in general, voters, the lack of physical education in schools, negative media, media that overrate the athletes, bad luck, the 10-year plan, more politicians and those nasty professional athletes that people like to watch on TV. There may be more.
It was the same old yabba-dabba doo, with extra emphasis on that old devil, funding.
The COC somehow failed to mention athletes themselves � some have simply folded when faced with opportunity � and it certainly neglected to mention the COC itself, which, in reality, is a business organization whose chief responsibility is to market the five-ring brand.
People confuse it with an athletic organization. The COC exists to make sure there are athletes to wear the Roots costumes and appear in the commercials with the Little Blue Cow. The COC's first requirements for employment is the ability to speak French and ask for money in two languages.
Chambers said the current non-harvest was the result of government cutbacks in the 1990s, which rings true and has for a while. He said (again) that "Canada needs to decide whether it wishes to be a sporting nation'' and that voters need to make politicians pay at election time for not loosening the purse strings for amateur athletes. You've heard this all before, too. Probably always will.
There are a lot of things to do in Canada if we care about medals counts � and not everyone does, surely. The presence of the 2010 Games makes the matter more pressing � and isn't everyone so happy that this multi-billion-dollar-security-guard festival won't end up in Toronto in 2008? Yes, money matters in all of this. But it isn't only about money. It's also about leadership and the COC provides none.
source:
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...ol=968793972154
I kept saying more money and more funding is needed...but then when I realized that the Canadian delegation has twice as many support staff than athletes I realized that we are just being ripped off. Lately it's becomming kind of a theme...money goes down the drain...no?
We need to seriously straighten ourselves out and make some serious changes. And I don't think excuses such as "we are peaceful people and not very competetive" 
just won't cut it anymore.
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| Originally posted by starsearcher I kept saying more money and more funding is needed...but then when I realized that the Canadian delegation has twice as many support staff than athletes I realized that we are just being ripped off. Lately it's becomming kind of a theme...money goes down the drain...no? We need to seriously straighten ourselves out and make some serious changes. And I don't think excuses such as "we are peaceful people and not very competetive" just won't cut it anymore. |
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| Originally posted by dEsidEL well u remember about those swimmers and judokas complaining about the poor leadership that their own organizations and the COC provides remember .. ? |
. And Mark Tweaksbury said that swimming is a huge mess as well.
Oh yeah another thing I remembered is watching that interview with the Canadian rowing coach of men's 8 after they suffered a huge defeat. I think he was probabbly one of the only people who really knew what he was talking about (coaches wise) he was honest, direct, and precise and I think we need more of that!
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