The Official XXIX Summer Olympics Thread

#229
#229
i don't have any problem with no more baseball or softball. i especially couldn't care less about basketball.

to me, the Olympics are about the events you wouldn't otherwise watch. i already get 82 or 162 games of the best players in the world playing their game, every year. i only get once every 4 years of the Olympics, so i look forward to the games like badminton and handball or swimming and diving. once T&F starts, it will get all my attention like gymnastics and swimming are now.
 
#230
#230
doozer said:
Phelps (at this pace) will become the best athlete ever at his sport, twice. i think it's safe to assume he will at least medal in his remaining events and probably win gold in his individual events.

Heiden only raced in one Olympics. i don't discount what he did, but i think being the absolute best at what you do twice is far more impressive.
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Phelps will probably be back winning gold medals in 2012, too. He's only 23. Today's American Olympic athletes have a lot more money available to them, so Phelps can just pursue swimming as a career. Heiden had to quit skating and cycle professionally while going to medical school in order to make any money.
 
#231
#231
doozer said:
i don't have any problem with no more baseball or softball. i especially couldn't care less about basketball.

to me, the Olympics are about the events you wouldn't otherwise watch. i already get 82 or 162 games of the best players in the world playing their game, every year. i only get once every 4 years of the Olympics, so i look forward to the games like badminton and handball or swimming and diving. once T&F starts, it will get all my attention like gymnastics and swimming are now.
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I wish they'd show less swimming and gymnastics and more of the other stuff. I know they're showing it on CNBC and MSNBC, but not during prime time.
 
#232
#232
Kind of sucks no more baseball..That's ok, as long as we still have a baseball season im good. Life would suck without getting to watch the Yankees play some baseball. :)
 
#233
#233
Vercingetorix said:
I wish they'd show less swimming and gymnastics and more of the other stuff. I know they're showing it on CNBC and MSNBC, but not during prime time.
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i wish they would too, but unfortunately, they're not the headline grabbers. that's the problem with the 12 hour difference.

i guess when you think about it, it makes sense to hold the games with the most public appeal in the morning so the USA can watch in prime time.
 
#235
#235
doozer said:
i wish they would too, but unfortunately, they're not the headline grabbers. that's the problem with the 12 hour difference.

i guess when you think about it, it makes sense to hold the games with the most public appeal in the morning so the USA can watch in prime time.
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I just can't stand that they don't show any of the "lesser" sports on CNBC or MSNBC during the evening hours. I get that they don't want to cannibalize ratings from the mothership, but it's annoying.
 
#237
#237
Congrats Michael Phelps!

I'm pretty sure I'm just going to get pissed watching gymnastics because not a single girl on the Chinese team is over the age of 8.
 
#239
#239
I wish they would post the ages of the gymnastics chicks on their uniforms, so I can know whether or not I can say they are hot
 
#240
#240
I just bet a friend of mine $50 that if I ask 20 random people in a bar in two years the name of that guy who won all those medals in Beijing, less than half of them will give me "Michael Phelps." Easy money. Americans cheer like hell for the Olympics every four years, and then promptly forget everything about it.
 
#246
#246
Vercingetorix said:
I just bet a friend of mine $50 that if I ask 20 random people in a bar in two years the name of that guy who won all those medals in Beijing, less than half of them will give me "Michael Phelps." Easy money. Americans cheer like hell for the Olympics every four years, and then promptly forget everything about it.
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sadly I believe you are correct. I met a rather hot gymnast teacher, ok a really hot one and I scored brownie points just because I remembered Kerri Strug. She claimed that most people only remember "that girl that had the hurt leg". If only picking up all girls was this easy.
 
#247
#247
volfanbill said:
sadly I believe you are correct. I met a rather hot gymnast teacher, ok a really hot one and I scored brownie points just because I remembered Kerri Strug. She claimed that most people only remember "that girl that had the hurt leg". If only picking up all girls was this easy.
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Everyone will remember the guy I'm talking about; everyone will say, "Man, I can picture the guy!" But most people aren't going to remember his name. I expect to hear "Michael something?" a lot, but that's about it.
 
#248
#248
Kind of like how very few people still remember Greg Louganis. And I have no idea how you can forget him.
 
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