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| — Colin — Missing: One avatar. Will be restored at some point. Post 422/10052 Active 267 days ago |
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Yes, it's a sports thread stickied in General Discussion; but it's a sports event that only comes around every four years and EVERYONE ends up watching some of it. Even those of you who don't particularly like sports. You know who you are. ![]() Basically talk about anything regarding the Olympics; how the opening/closing ceremonies were, the inevitable doping failures and world records broken, good performances by your country, complaining about NBC's coverage in the States, etc. Only thing I'd avoid is any political discussion; you can definitely start another thread if you want to get into that, this is all about the Games. Right now I'm watching the Men's Cycling Road Race; but CBC has us well covered in Canada. Two English TV channels, two French TV channels and NINE online TV channels for us; I have the choice right now of watching volleyball, beach volleyball, weightlifting and fencing online. (Yeah, the selection will get better as the games go on) And if you want to know what the first highlight of the games will be, aside from the first medals today, it would likely be the swimming finals starting in primetime tomorrow night (or Sunday morning in Beijing). -------------------- Colin's Babble... er, blog.
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Well I definitely won't be watching it live (hah, 2am? I've got )), yay California!..-------------------- =================== [Posted by NightKev] |
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| — Colin — Missing: One avatar. Will be restored at some point. Post 424/10052 Active 267 days ago |
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Originally posted by NightKev ...Wha? You're actually in EXCELLENT shape; for example, the swimming finals tonight are at 10 PM Eastern/7 PM Pacific. Medals to be handed out on Day 2: Archery - Women's Team Cycling - Women's Road Race Diving - Women's Synchronized 3m Springboard Fencing - Men's Épée Judo - Men's 66kg, Women's 52kg Shooting - Men's Trap, Women's 10m Air Pistol Swimming - Men's 400m Freestyle, Men's 400m Individual Medley, Women's 400m Individual Medley, Women's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Weightlifting - Men's 56kg, Women's 53kg Also, Field Hockey, Tennis and Water Polo all kick off today; there's also men's soccer and basketball, and - most importantly as mentioned above - the swimming's in primetime. Watch it. ![]() -------------------- Colin's Babble... er, blog.
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I saw the Japanese on this bar, and they were like flipping around it and stuff and right before that this Chinese guy was doing this awesome thing on top of a rubber stand with two metal bars to hold onto. It was awesome.
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I haven't been watching recently.
I saw the opening ceremony and that's all. Which, by the way, was spectacular. It definitely took the cake as best ceremony they've seen. The sheer amount of performers and special effects were dazzling. The newscasters mentioned that the guy that created the ceremony had a $300 million dollar budget! ![]() --------------------
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| — Colin — Missing: One avatar. Will be restored at some point. Post 425/10052 Active 267 days ago |
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You know what sucks? Deciding to stay up to watch Women's 63kg Weightlifting. Seeing Canada's Christine Girard work her way into the bronze medal position. Seeing North Korea's Pak Hyon Suk fail at lifting 135kg once... and twice. ...seeing Suk get the third lift to win the gold medal. The knockdown effect sees Christine slip into 4th. ![]() Midway through Day 4, Canada still scoreless in the medal count. FSCK.(...bring on the doping tests, ESPECIALLY for the Kazakhstan woman who won silver.) (...wait a sec, they have CUTE cheerleaders doing some dance routine to Chinese dance music before the medal ceremony along with the mascots. This is perversely entertaining.) -------------------- Colin's Babble... er, blog.
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All I saw last night was swimming swimming swimming! And this Chinese guy earlier I saw flipping all over the place, that was cool.
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| — Colin — Missing: One avatar. Will be restored at some point. Post 426/10052 Active 267 days ago |
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Watch the swimming tonight; Canada could VERY well win a medal in the men's 4x200 relay. And on Friday in women's soccer... Quarter-Final: CANADA VS. USA There will be blood. ![]() -------------------- Colin's Babble... er, blog.
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Yesterday I watched the synchronized diving competitions, which were fun to watch... mainly because I didn't even know that synchronized diving existed until now, and it can be interesting to try new things. Furthermore, the idea of synchronized diving is interesting to begin with.
I really haven't been paying attention to the specific teams this time though. ![]() EDIT: WHY DID I SAY "YEAR", I MEANT "TIME" -------------------- |
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