Olympics 2008

[ADEE]

ok... it was on USA, Oxygen and NBC.... I have officially set my DVR to record all the equestrian events! Boy, I wouldve been mad if i missed all the equine events :X

 

[pinksalamander]

I've just been having the entire show on all day. Except now I'm watching the Mummy . Watched weights this morning (boring) then swimming, then dressage. Apparently the x country is on tonight at like 2am so I will set Sky+ to record that for me!

Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[BSAR]

I watched some of the opening ceremony, like the first ten or so minutes. It was pretty cool! But also a tad weird. All those drummers..............look alike! When they said they had 2008 drummers my sister and I immediatley got it, but my thirteen nephew took a while to get it. a few minutes later he said " Oh get it? 2008 drummers, year 2008?" we just could not stop laughing, we though he got it right away. Anyways I am going to try and watch it. I never ever have and I want to so yeah.

 

[Bunnys_rule63]

pinksalamander wrote:

Apparently the x country is on tonight at like 2am so I will set Sky+ to record that for me!

Equine cross country? What channel?

 

[Dublinperky]

I watched the whole thing. It was AMAZING!!! I am watching the swimming events right now actually!

 

[Michaela]

The Opening Ceremony was stunning!:shock: Amazing, I loved it!

I also love the BBC for how well they are covering this, practically every minute it shown on the red button.

But yeah, London is going to be embarrassingly bad - just look at the Logo. :?

I didn't see most of it, but gosh you had to feel for those cyclists today in that heat (the big road race) none of the 4 British athletes could finish! (They were not alone of course.)

I've been trying to watch the horsey thingies too, afraid the dressage is a bit dull for me. I'll like the Cross country and jumpy thingies though. Gymnastics is what I've mostly been watching, it was the men's team all around, a poor Korean boy fell of the bar twice in his performance, then his team mate fell off after him. :shock:

 

[seniorcats]

I can't wait for the men's diving. Hunky muscled guys in skimpy swim trunks. Also I would like to find some of those really cool Team Canada tee shirts with the maple leaf and shield.

 

[Pet_Bunny]

Lucky 8's

Canada finally won it's first medals on day eight of the Beijing Olympics. (sigh of relieve). They won 1 Gold, 1 Silver, and 1 Bronze on this day.

Is Michael Phelps destined to win 8 Gold medals at these games.

 

[Raspberry82]

I was watching the swimming competitions, what a show! That American that won Gold for all the swim competitions (record for highest # earned by 1 person at an olympics) AND he beat a time record, too. Pretty wowsers.

 

[Dublinperky]

Michael Phelps won all 8 olymic metals!!!! I can't believe he actually did it!

 

[Pet_Bunny]

7 World Records, 8 Gold Medals, 9 Days of swimming.

That gives Michael Phelps a total of 16 career Olympic medals just shy of the record 18 medals ownedSoviet gymnast Larisa Latynina. He will have to wait until the London 2012 Olympics to do that.

Does anyone remember Mark Spitz's seven-gold performance at the 1972 Munich Games? (I do.... :blushan

 

[pumpkinandwhiskersmom]

I sure do remember Mark Spitz's '72 performances....I was in love with that guy....and the funny thing is that I wouldn't have recognized him now....when they interviewed him, I wondered who the grey-haired guy was....OOPS!!! Then I looked in the mirror, and wondered who the grey-haired woman was!!:biggrin2:

 

[Bassetluv]

Afraid I haven't been following the Olympics at all, though if I was I'd definitely be watching the equestrian events. I did manage to catch a tiny bit of the cross-country, but didn't really know who was who (they seemed to keep darting back and forth from one rider to another and I got confused a few times...probably 'cuz I was computering at the same time ). Normally though, I love watching the jumping, the cross-country, and the dressage...as well as high-diving (men in Speedos only works on olympians ).

But I heard something about Michael Phelps' dining regimen which left me going :shock:!!! So thought I'd share it here - this was an article that appeared in 'The Australian' newspaper:

There is a shortage of food at Olympic venues in Beijing. Early suspicions centred on the Chinese organisers, who had taken one look at the hundreds of thousands of Western visitors and decided it was time to halt the developed world's obesity epidemic.

Truth is, Michael Phelps has been eating all of it. The 23-year-old American's march toward eight gold medals - he won his sixth yesterday with another world record in the 200m individual medley - has been fuelled by a remarkable 12,000-calorie a day diet.

Teammate Ryan Lochte, who won gold with a world record in the 200m backstroke yesterday, confessed he has eaten almost every meal in the Athlete's Village at McDonald's.

But Phelps has been powered by something far more substantial. Each day he consumes a kilo of pasta, a bowl of porridge, a whole pizza, a five-egg omelette, three fried egg sandwiches (with salad), three chocolate chip pancakes, three French toast, two ham and cheese sandwiches and a partridge in a pear tree.

No wonder noone can get near him. They don't want to.


LOL...and with all of the medals this guy has been taking, one of the dj's on morning radio today said that Canada is striving to keep up with just him...if Canada as a country can take home half as many medals as Michael Phelps, we'll be happy.

 

[LuvaBun]

pumpkinandwhiskersmom wrote:

I sure do remember Mark Spitz's '72 performances....I was in love with that guy....and the funny thing is that I wouldn't have recognized him now....when they interviewed him, I wondered who the grey-haired guy was....OOPS!!! Then I looked in the mirror, and wondered who the grey-haired woman was!!:biggrin2:

LOL!! Me too.

Jan

 

[Brandy456]

i watch them with my brother but I never know who's who and what team imsupposed to be cheering for...

so I just cheer and root for the team that wins

 

[Bassetluv]

Woohoo Canada (and Ian Millar!)!!

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/equestrian/story/2008/08/18/olympic-team-jumping.html

Apparently Ian Millar rode with a picture of his wife in his pocket. Always his strongest supporter, she passed away from cancer earlier this year. Ian said he had an angel riding with him. ink iris:

 

[Pet_Bunny]

The US team must hold the record for dropped batons in Track and Field sprintrelays. Did you see boththe mens and womens team struggle and drop the baton? :shock: Womens anchor leg Lauryn Williams said, "Somebody, somewhere's got a voodoo doll of the U.S."

Talking about jinx's, Canada's flag bearers seem to suffer a fate of failing to earn a medal, as Canadian Adam van Koeverden finishes eighth in his K1 1,000-metre canoe-kayakrace final. He was favored to win, thus chosen to be our flag bearer.

 

[Pet_Bunny]

Tim Berrett finishes38th place with a time of four hours, eight minutes and 18 seconds in themen's 50-km race walk. This is his fifthand probably his final Olympics. He is a local Edmontonian that I ran with when I use to train for the marathon.

This is a lapel pin I got from the Chinese consulate. It has my last name (Mah meaning horse) and the Chinese character of a horse on it.

 

[SOOOSKA]

Good God, I'm watching too much of the Olympics well into the middle of the night.

I cannot believe how good the Chinese team is. I think they have one in every sport or come darn close. Gosh those women divers especially the girl who one the gold was superb.

Susan

 

[Pet_Bunny]

SOOOSKA wrote:

Good God, I'm watching too much of the Olympics well into the middle of the night.

Me too. And I have to get up earlyand startworkby 6:00 am. :zzzzz

I was a volunteer driver in the Edmonton1983 Universiade where I drove the Womens Romanian Gymnastic Team to West Edmonton Mall and spent the day with them. :wiggle