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The official Olympic Summer Games 2004 thread (pg. 2)
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| dEsidEL |
give'em time.. our events are coming!
GO CANADA!
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| discojoe |
| i maintain canadians are the only ones not on dope(ben johnson aside).. thats why we never win. slash nobody has size 17 webbed feet in this country. |
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| discojoe |
| ahahahaah US blown away in basketball |
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| starsearcher |
| So Phelp's dream record for 8 gold medals in the pool is over as the South African's take gold in the 4x100 freestyle swim and US finished third behind Netherlands :( Now the best he can do is 7 golds but I doubt that will happen. :) |
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| Your Mother |
| quote: | Originally posted by St_Andrew
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 :p
don't know why you would be interested in knowing that but i thought i might share :p
btw, my mum was in the swedish national team in shooting some 300 years ago :toocool: so no about shooting, best sport ever :stongue: |
So true how a single person can influence so many young people into learning a sport... Look at Nadia Comaneci's influence on Romanian gymnastics... still being felt almost 30 years later.
-Your Mother |
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| bass drive |
I alwasy wondered how a country like Canada, so rich and Multicultural, fails to do well in the olympics.
maybe we need to starve the athletes alittle? |
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| loconet |
| quote: | Originally posted by starsearcher
So Phelp's dream record for 8 gold medals in the pool is over as the South African's take gold in the 4x100 freestyle swim and US finished third behind Netherlands :( Now the best he can do is 7 golds but I doubt that will happen. :) |
and thorpe is going to smoke him tomorrow :D |
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| starsearcher |
| quote: | Originally posted by loconet
and thorpe is going to smoke him tomorrow :D |
Yeah I'm not sure about that, but I kinda hope it'll happen...but then again I want to see the great POPOV win that one ;)
Actually my bad..tomorrow is the 200 freestyle finals and Popov isn't swimming at that one ;) so yeah GO THORPEDO! :D |
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| starsearcher |
| quote: | Originally posted by bass drive
I alwasy wondered how a country like Canada, so rich and Multicultural, fails to do well in the olympics.
maybe we need to starve the athletes alittle? |
Because as someone once said in the other thread we're all about the hockey, the beer, and the herb :rolleyes:
Although we have such great athletes, our government is absolutely PATHETIC when it comes to supporting sports, and especially amateur ahtletes such as Olympians. :whip: All nations that excel at sports have terrific programs...look at the US, Russia, Australia and etc...we have NOTHING...shame shame shame :whip: Not to mention our horrible broadcasting that IMO puts too much pressure and overconfidence in athletes and when they lose stupid questions like - "what went wrong" :whip: And where is the sports psychology that seems so successful with the other nations...UGH...i'm frustrated. Our government needs to wake up, it's not a secret that most our Olympic athletes are under the poverty line :( :whip: |
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| discojoe |
| quote: | Originally posted by starsearcher
Because as someone once said in the other thread we're all about the hockey, the beer, and the herb :rolleyes:
Although we have such great athletes, our government is absolutely PATHETIC when it comes to supporting sports, and especially amateur ahtletes such as Olympians. :whip: All nations that excel at sports have terrific programs...look at the US, Russia, Australia and etc...we have NOTHING...shame shame shame :whip: Not to mention our horrible broadcasting that IMO puts too much pressure and overconfidence in athletes and when they lose stupid questions like - "what went wrong" :whip: And where is the sports psychology that seems so successful with the other nations...UGH...i'm frustrated. Our government needs to wake up, it's not a secret that most our Olympic athletes are under the poverty line :( :whip: |
the guvernment is the obvious answer everyone would give. i think we should start looking in the mirror and take a good look at ourselves and our nature. we have always been a very passive people and i just dont get the feeling we really have the killer instincts by nature needed to win. With a couple of exceptions we really dont seem to be a competitive people. Its good and its bad. we are a nonviolent, non-agressive, tolerant and understanding people and i am very proud of that. but we do suck at sports |
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| bass drive |
| quote: | Originally posted by discojoe
we have always been a very passive people and i just dont get the feeling we really have the killer instincts by nature needed to win. With a couple of exceptions we really dont seem to be a competitive people. |
I totally agree with you |
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| Carney |
| man is Canada lacking.......so is the olympics this year |
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