So in spirit of the Olympic Summer Games in Athens I've decided to start this thread that will be dedicated to the subject. Here we can discuss all things related to the wonderful event that is Olympics.

The first day of competition is now over and here is the current medal count : http://sports.yahoo.com/oly/medals

The American swimmer Michael Phelps already got a new world record and won his first gold medal. If anyone saw the race, the guy was in front of everyone by a mile, it was wild. And Iraq beat Portugal in soccer 4-2

Our Canadian athletes did pretty well, especially in rowing! It's a shame that a lot of the pairings of our athletes were against the top seeded competitors. I have to say that i'm pretty pissed off at some of the broadcasting...like when a top seeded swimmer did badly and failed to advance to the next round...was almost crying on TV...the guy asks him - "so what went wrong" like seriously...the guy didn't even know what to say...i feel so bad for him. But he'll have another chance

Anyway...discuss!

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Hehe had no idea that so many medals where given the first day

anyway, it sucks that neither canada or sweden got any

and four gold medals already for china, that's really good by them

Yeah...so many competitions are already over that's crazy

And yes so far no medals for Canada but they are doing not bad at all so far.

The Chinese are going wild indeed...so many medals just after one day but I think 2 of them were from shooting so it's not so special

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Originally posted by starsearcher shooting so it's not so special

hee hee.

i'd like to see you compete in the shooting.


anyways, the olympics are so addictive to watch.

today's action included syncro diving which was wikkid. and women's volleyball where the states got killed by china! yey!

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Originally posted by starsearcher but I think 2 of them were from shooting so it's not so special

Hehe, last olympics, sweden kinda sucked and everyone who were supposed to take gold missed it, and so suddenly a day some totally unknown guy took gold in some totally unknow shooting sport... and suddenly that guy was a national hero... lol... and the number of kids who started to shoot increased by like 5000% or something

don't know why you would be interested in knowing that but i thought i might share

btw, my mum was in the swedish national team in shooting some 300 years ago so no shit about shooting, best sport ever

Hehehehe....okay shooting is cool I appologize!

Canadian teams did pretty well in beach volleyball today...very cool! And the Ausie women relay team beat the Americans with a new world record!!!

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syncronised diving......is this new?? I don't recall seeing this before

Some of it was introduced in the last olympic games...i'm not sure if all of it is new. I've never seen women weightlifting...

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Originally posted by starsearcher I've never seen women weightlifting...

Wow!! Did you watch that??? There was a woman that was from Turkey and she set a new world record twice! She only weighed like 105 pounds, but she was lifting something like 92.2kg!! I was so impressed!

The syncronized diving was very cool to watch as well as the beach volleyball, and every other sport that I watched today....you're right stereoprincess, the Olympics are SO ADDICTTIVE!!

Last edited by Ashley on Aug-15-2004 at 02:27

Ya I think that there are a lot of new events this year......I heard something like they are also having womens wrestling for the first time this year too or something like that.

I don't usually watch the summer olympics, buy I found myself watching for the majority of the day.

Michale Phelps is in the pool today against the Australian Thorpedo...Can't wait to see how this ends, these guys are both intense. I heard that Thorp has size 17 feet

And the Canadian team is playing baseball now...kinda boring but GO BOYS!

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uhhh Mongolia has a medal.. and Canada still has none?

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