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Beijing Olympics 2008 topic!

Don't you guys get bored of watching the Olympics, AKA The Michael Phelps Show? I mean, whenever he gets in the water it's painfully obvious that he's gonna win gold and set a world record. Where's the suspense?
 
How about USA basketball?

I was watching this morning and US was pwning Germany. :lol:
 
SuperWooper said:
Don't you guys get bored of watching the Olympics, AKA The Michael Phelps Show? I mean, whenever he gets in the water it's painfully obvious that he's gonna win gold and set a world record. Where's the suspense?
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Yeah, many parts of the Olympics do get boring after a while... but you don't consider winning by litterally only one hundredth of a second suspenseful when to the naked eye it appears that he had gotten second? It was a really close call.
 
I get that Michael Phelps won that one race by like 1/100th of a second, and honestly that's pretty cool. But I'd rather watch something like gymnastics (really butch, right?) where you get the thrill of watching the competition and then the scores come up from a bunch of offscreen judges who, for all you know, could be coke addicts. It's just more fun that way.

P.S. Shawn Johnson was robbed.

P.P.S. What a masculine post this has been.
 
SuperWooper said:
I get that Michael Phelps won that one race by like 1/100th of a second, and honestly that's pretty cool. But I'd rather watch something like gymnastics (really butch, right?) where you get the thrill of watching the competition and then the scores come up from a bunch of offscreen judges who, for all you know, could be coke addicts. It's just more fun that way.

P.S. Shawn Johnson was robbed.

P.P.S. What a masculine post this has been.
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Well we all know Coke>Pepsie. :wink:
 
There's only one of them (maybe 2) that could even *pass* as 16 in street clothes.
 
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The whole event just shows how crazy (and backward) the Chinese are... or at least their government.

This, of course, was all obvious before the games even started. The first thing that pops into my mind is the pollution...

If you didn't know, Beijing has had horrible pollution problems because they aren't very efficient (or environmentally friendly) with how they burn their coal or with how they do... anything. Consequently, they've got the lovely "pea soup" fog that London had during the 1950's. It actually killed quite a few people. As I understand it, the problem is the same in other large Chinese cities, but this is the one that they're having the Olympics at.

So what do they do?

Like a housewife who had been stalling to clean up before a house party, the Chinese tried (in my opinion) in futility to improve their situation by limiting how often people can drive.

Oh yeah, they got armies of people to pull seaweed out of the water. Guess why there was so much seaweed? Pollution.

The Olympics finally come. They have an opening ceremony. There are fireworks, but the Chinese digitally animate it for television because they're afraid that they won't go off or something. A pretty girl lip syncs what a less attractive girl sings "for the good of the country," ironically singing the Chinese national anthem. The torch holder performs a crouching tiger/hidden dragon maneuver and flies to the Olympic flame to light it. Fun times.

And then a guy gets stabbed.

During the games there are two interesting developments: first, the Chinese can't fill up their stadium with spectators, so they hire people to sit and watch the games. Sometimes they're full, but at others they have to pay people to watch the games, because Confucius forbid that the world think that the Chinese don't care about Olympic Water Polo.

Second, it turns out that the Chinese gymnastics team is getting a bunch of two-year olds to do their gymnastics for them. Will the team lose those gold medals? I hope so. Kind of reminds me of the scene from "The Benchwarmers" where the Hispanic guy writes on a piece of paper that he's twelve.

But the thing that really, REALLY got me annoyed happened today.

Apparently, two Chinese seventy-somethings are going to be sent to a labor camp for a year without trial because they applied to use a Olympic protest site.

Seriously, is this what is to be expected of a country that hosts the Olympics and one day may become the most powerful country on Earth? It's pretty disturbing.
 
havent read this topic all the way but....

cant anything ever be played anymore without cheating?

Everytime something happens with competitor(s) its usually involved where the Chinese are up and coming or these athletes are facing Chinese opponents.

Chinese in this Olympics so far has stolen about 20 gold Medals, thats Right...... 20

Someone on yahoo did an actual medal count if Chinese didnt cheat (mostly the judges though) and the Chinese only came out ahead like 1-2 gold medals more then the U.S.

I got no problem being beat fair or winning fair for that matter, but whats going on in Beijing is ridiculous.

These gymnast from China...........ARE NOT UNDER 16, if they are 16 and over, then Dawn and May must be pushing 20.
 
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ixidor89 said:
The whole event just shows how crazy (and backward) the Chinese are... or at least their government.

This, of course, was all obvious before the games even started. The first thing that pops into my mind is the pollution...

If you didn't know, Beijing has had horrible pollution problems because they aren't very efficient (or environmentally friendly) with how they burn their coal or with how they do... anything. Consequently, they've got the lovely "pea soup" fog that London had during the 1950's. It actually killed quite a few people. As I understand it, the problem is the same in other large Chinese cities, but this is the one that they're having the Olympics at.

So what do they do?

Like a housewife who had been stalling to clean up before a house party, the Chinese tried (in my opinion) in futility to improve their situation by limiting how often people can drive.

Oh yeah, they got armies of people to pull seaweed out of the water. Guess why there was so much seaweed? Pollution.

The Olympics finally come. They have an opening ceremony. There are fireworks, but the Chinese digitally animate it for television because they're afraid that they won't go off or something. A pretty girl lip syncs what a less attractive girl sings "for the good of the country," ironically singing the Chinese national anthem. The torch holder performs a crouching tiger/hidden dragon maneuver and flies to the Olympic flame to light it. Fun times.

And then a guy gets stabbed.

During the games there are two interesting developments: first, the Chinese can't fill up their stadium with spectators, so they hire people to sit and watch the games. Sometimes they're full, but at others they have to pay people to watch the games, because Confucius forbid that the world think that the Chinese don't care about Olympic Water Polo.

Second, it turns out that the Chinese gymnastics team is getting a bunch of two-year olds to do their gymnastics for them. Will the team lose those gold medals? I hope so. Kind of reminds me of the scene from "The Benchwarmers" where the Hispanic guy writes on a piece of paper that he's twelve.

But the thing that really, REALLY got me annoyed happened today.

Apparently, two Chinese seventy-somethings are going to be sent to a labor camp for a year without trial because they applied to use a Olympic protest site.

Seriously, is this what is to be expected of a country that hosts the Olympics and one day may become the most powerful country on Earth? It's pretty disturbing.
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That one is hardly the governments fault. It was a tragic random attack that could've happened in any country. I agree with the rest though.
 
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