agreed. the commentators were even pissed, and there's videos on nbcolympics.com that debate it with experts. the system is ridiculous, in short, and they should have used it somewhere else as a trial run before using it in the freaking OLYMPICS. poor nastia (but i still think the greater disgrace was with alicia sacramone and the vault).

 

it doesn't sound like there was any controversy with the beam, thank god. i'm excited to watch that tonight, though now that i know the outcome, it makes it a little less fun.

That's why I think Olympics should be held in a country that will never be a conquerer in sports.

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:lol: at first I thought he was wearing a shirt

those arms :rolleyes:

__________________

The sky could fall, could fall on me

The parting of the sea

But you mean more, mean more to me

Than any colour I can see

 

We live in a beautiful world, Chris Martin.

Ok, to put it bluntly, I would not kick him out of bed:rolleyes:, his abs are better than mine, yummy in the tummy and i only say that for Chris Martin

:dance:

yaaay for shawn johnson :nice:

 

i haven't really been following track and field so much, but i really did feel terrible for lolo jones in the hurdle tonight. that was really heartbreaking, if anyone else saw :cry:

 

it's interesting that this year i tend to root for the americans WAY more than i have in the past. before i always went for the underdog and the most interesting nations, but now that i'm older and tend to listen to the commentators more, i just tend to get wrapped up in the americans's stories more because i'm watching the american broadcast, and they only talk about the american athletes, don't they? :rolleyes: it's all very "USA! USA!" and i've never been like that, but it's kind of hard to not get sucked up in the personal stories or whatever that they're always blasting on NBC.

did anyone see the high jumping? i felt so sad for Stefan Holm. 4th place again. i think it's time for him to let go... :(

and i don't think Kajsa Bergqvist will have a chance too...

yaaay for shawn johnson :nice:

 

i haven't really been following track and field so much, but i really did feel terrible for lolo jones in the hurdle tonight. that was really heartbreaking, if anyone else saw :cry:

 

it's interesting that this year i tend to root for the americans WAY more than i have in the past. before i always went for the underdog and the most interesting nations, but now that i'm older and tend to listen to the commentators more, i just tend to get wrapped up in the americans's stories more because i'm watching the american broadcast, and they only talk about the american athletes, don't they? :rolleyes: it's all very "USA! USA!" and i've never been like that, but it's kind of hard to not get sucked up in the personal stories or whatever that they're always blasting on NBC.

 

 

i did the same thing when i was younger!!

 

you get more patriotic when you're older, don't you? i was surprised when i was cheering "USA!" :D

 

and yay for shawn johnson!! i was so happy for her!!! :D

Wow I'm happy for weightlifter Steiner that he just won gold. In the award ceremony he showed a picture of his wife who sadly passed away. :(

 

 

I was watching that, and I had a tear in my eye when they mentioned why he was holding the photo :(

 

On the good side, a bronze in track and field for GB!

Usain Bolt = another amazing guy...

he's like a superhero!

Usain Bolt = another amazing guy...

 

Usain Bolt = another doping offender :dozey:

Usain Bolt = another doping offender :dozey:

 

I didn't want to say this.....

^^^^ i didn't want to either... :anxious:...but come on, this guy was jogging around the track and beating these guys by a mile. :confused:

^So was Michael Johnson back in 1996........

 

 

:dozey:

Was he a doping offender? no.

Usain Bolt = another doping offender :dozey:

 

well it really doesn't make sense why he is SO much better than all the others but ah well. I sincerely hope that he's not doped.

Did any of you guys saw the synchronised swimming final (duo)? I liked more the Spanish but they got silver... the Russians won gold. Japanese girls got bronze.

 

I like to watch these sports just because they're really beautiful to see!

 

well it really doesn't make sense why he is SO much better than all the others but ah well. I sincerely hope that he's not doped.

 

I sincerely doubt he is, just tall and perfectly built. However he does come off as really really, arrogant and cocky.

^^^ oh i know. :dozey:.

 

he knows he's good a little too much.

Did any of you guys saw the synchronised swimming final (duo)? I liked more the Spanish but they got silver... the Russians won gold. Japanese girls got bronze.

 

I like to watch these sports just because they're really beautiful to see!

 

Yeah Spain did very well, but no one can beat Russians because they're the world champions. And if China won again, I'm not surprised. :thinking:

well it really doesn't make sense why he is SO much better than all the others but ah well. I sincerely hope that he's not doped.

 

i wonder that myself. seeing him make that new world record made him seem almost inhuman, if he's THAT far ahead of fellow olympians :stunned:

 

i don't think he's doped, though. i don't really have that much evidence to back that up, but i don't think he is. i also get the feeling that he's really cocky etc, which automatically turns me off of really liking him. i'm just astonished that anyone can be THAT far ahead of fellow olympians. even when michael phelps is ahead of everyone else in the pool, its not by THAT much! sure he's ahead, but not so he's the only one in the camera's frame!

Four horses banned from jumping Olympic final for doping!

 

HONG KONG, Aug 21, 2008 (AFP) - Four horses have been banned from competing in Thursday's Olympic Games jumping competition for doping, the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) announced here Thursday.

 

The horses - representing Brazil, Germany, Ireland and Norway - had been suspended after testing positive for a prohibited substance, the FEI, which controls the sport, said in a statement.

 

The FEI had no comment on the non-appearance on the list of riders set to compete in the final of US rider Will Simpson.

 

The announcement throws into doubt the medal order of the team jumping competition earlier in the week, in which Norway won a bronze medal, its first ever placing in an Olympics equestrian event.

 

The United States won the gold and Canada the silver.

 

In its statement, the FEI said the four horses had been "provisionally suspended by the FEI further to doping/medication control tests that indicated the present of capsaicin in each horse".

 

"Capsaicin is classified as a 'doping' prohibited substance given its hypersensitising properties, and as a 'medication class A' prohibited substance for its pain relieving properties," the statement said.

 

The stunning development casts yet another shadow over equestrian events generally as it follows a medal re-allocation in Athens, also for doping.

 

It also casts doubt on the future of equestrianism as part of the Olympics.

 

The doping scandal, which broke just hours before the final of the individual jumping contest, also puts show jumping under the microscope once more.

 

A doping scandal cost Germany the team jumping gold in Athens after the horse ridden by Ludger Beerbaum, who is a lynchpin of his country's team here, was disqualified after testing positive for doping.

 

World number one, Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, was left off the German team for Athens after her horse tested positive, though she was later cleared.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080821/sp_wl_afp/oly2008hkgequestriandoping

(ps - do you think it was aneighbolic steroids or testhorsesterone :P)

^they're so stupid....:dozey:

i don't see what the point is in going to the olympics, the greatest respected games of all time, if you're gonna cheat. :dozey:.

you think the horses did it on purpose? :confused: