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2008 Beijing Olympics! (pg. 23)
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| exstasie |
Well we just won a Silver in Women's Trampoline!
Karen Cockburn just won another trampoline medal! It was close, she was winning up until the last competitor, who was obviously Chinese :rolleyes: , but still ended up with a Silver!
Edit: We're guaranteed another medal in Equestrian - Team Show Jumping!!
It's time for the Jump off... lol
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| exstasie |
ah well...we got Silver in the Horse Jumping...
Still though, not to bad...its our first medal in team horse jumping in 40 years...
So we got 9 medals now...now bad considering about 72 hours ago we had 0.
We are not in sole place in 15th and are only 3 medals away from tying our 2004 medal count! Not bad at all considering how bad we were during our first week..
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| ChemEnhanced |
| quote: | Originally posted by exstasie
We are not in sole place in 15th and are only 3 medals away from tying our 2004 medal count! Not bad at all considering how bad we were during our first week..
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There has been some surprises so far.....I would say 3 medals have been somewhat surprising (1500m freestyle, Horse Jumping, and the silver in wrestling). The rest of the medals were ones that we were expected to medal in.
Our track athletes have been less then impressive so far...but we never have been overly strong in track.
I think we can expect at least two more medals in the rowing/kayaking, one in men's triathalon and one in diving. |
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| exstasie |
| quote: | Originally posted by ChemEnhanced
There has been some surprises so far.....I would say 3 medals have been somewhat surprising (1500m freestyle, Horse Jumping, and the silver in wrestling). The rest of the medals were ones that we were expected to medal in.
Our track athletes have been less then impressive so far...but we never have been overly strong in track.
I think we can expect at least two more medals in the rowing/kayaking, one in men's triathalon and one in diving. |
+1!
We got one chick in the Hurdles final, but it isn't likely that she will medal in that one.
But hopefully we can at least get 2-3 more in the rowing/kayaking with the help of van Koeverden and things can be looking good for Despatie to get another medal for us in the Men's Diving, and of course Whitfield there's always Whitfield to help us out for another hopefully!
But who knows.. There could be one or two more suprised that could be coming around and overall is looking to be a decent olymipcs for us...
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| Invasionmix |
So what ever happened to all the hype around Alexander Despatie winning a medal?
And did Perdita Felicien race? |
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| exstasie |
| quote: | Originally posted by Invasionmix
So what ever happened to all the hype around Alexander Despatie winning a medal?
And did Perdita Felicien race? |
Despatie is diving tomorrow, and hopefully will win a medal in the 3M Spring Board.
He came in 5th in the Men's Synchronized Diving...
And Perdita isn't racing in this Olympics. I think she has some injury, but Priscilla Lopes-Schliep qualified for the 100M Women's Hurdles Finals...
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| MKpacha |
| quote: | Originally posted by exstasie
Edit: We're guaranteed another medal in Equestrian - Team Show Jumping!!
It's time for the Jump off... lol
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We couldn't have asked for a better equestrian team, Ian and Eric are flawless in their abilities, and Jill is such an excellent veteran. All of them have well seasoned horses who were ready for this.
Too bad for Jill's rail down, we still ended up with silver! Great Jump off to watch! |
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| Orko |
| Equestrian events should not be in the olympics. |
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| Cosmic Fur |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
Equestrian events should not be in the olympics. |
Unless they gave medals to the horses. |
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| exstasie |
When is Lawn Bowling going to become an Olympic sport?
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| Orko |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cosmic Fur
Unless they gave medals to the horses. |
Well they are already treated better than the atheletes, so I'm not concerned.
Other people who do not deserve medals: rowing coxman. They sit and chant. They could easily be replaced by a boom box and allow them to save 100+ pounds. |
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| StereoPrincess |
| quote: | Originally posted by jon jon
lol @ american coverage, if they don't win the gold they spend 10 mins talking about how many other golds they have won in the past for said event |
lol. i bitch about this every 30 minutes while watching.
they will cut to a useless sport too when the primetime sport doesn't involve American's.
Or the gymantics was brutal too. They literally went to commercial when the chinese were preforming. |
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