Olympics in China- 2008
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Topic: Olympics in China- 2008
Posted By: Drew
Subject: Olympics in China- 2008
Date Posted: July 09 2008 at 14:41
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I don't think I'll be following the Olympics this year. It just seems the great event is past the glory days. The anti-doping/drug testing mess, professional/amateur debates, The "How many gold will this swimmer win" stories, the China/Tibet issue, just make me want to avoid the games. How about you all?
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: July 09 2008 at 14:50
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No. I don't care about sports, and the whole issue this year is rank with hypocrisy and bullsh*t, why anyone could take it seriously outside of the atheletes themselves is beyond me.
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: July 09 2008 at 14:51
This is what sucks, I LOVE sports, but I just can't do this. ------------- |
stonebeard wrote:Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: July 09 2008 at 14:56
| Same as any other year - I'll watch a good amount of it if I can. |
Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: July 10 2008 at 09:14
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Can't be bothered.
Seems to be mainly of interest to the competing athletes whom I pity because it's deteriorated into a competition between pharmaceutical companies.
Seems a great shame for the few honest contestants left helplessly behind in a rigged contest.
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: July 10 2008 at 15:49
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No, but then I dont care much for athletics anyway.
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Posted By: Jozef
Date Posted: July 10 2008 at 16:37
| Nope, never watched it before, and don't care to. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: July 10 2008 at 23:19
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Give me soccer... give me some NFL... some f1.... and that's all the sports i need.... The olympics? A very expensive borefest for me.... ------------- 
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Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: July 11 2008 at 00:12
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I used to be an athlete almost made it to the Olympics (in fencing!) , so I do like to watch the agony of defeat and the extasy (no not the pill) of victory . Some sports are fascinating. At the same time its a drugfest, making Woodstock look like a koolaid contest! It is , on the other hand, the only way to get people together without falling into UN style corruption and hopefully intermingle. China will win lots of medals and proceed to rule the world ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: July 11 2008 at 08:32
Summer Olympics = women's beach volleyball on TV. 'nuff said. 
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Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: July 11 2008 at 10:29
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I don't like most of the sports aired but I do like seeing the US beat other countries so I will watch the whole thing. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: July 16 2008 at 16:48
Well, now that my cousin made the Olympic Baseball team, I may be watching
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Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 16 2008 at 16:49
Congratulations for him!  |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: July 16 2008 at 16:51
Who's your cousin? Has he signed with any team yet? |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: July 16 2008 at 16:53
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SS Jason Donald, he plays with the Reading Phillies
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: July 16 2008 at 17:01
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After the 2004 Olympics, wasn't baseball demoted from being a medal sport to being an exhibition sport? Either way, that is still great news.
A guy from my high school's baseball team was one of the players for the Greece team when the Olympics were in Greece. His parents or grandparents were of Greek descent so he was able to play on that team. Was that 2000 or 2004? I can't remember now. ------------- 
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: July 16 2008 at 17:02
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Well, this is the last time Baseball will be there....
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: July 19 2008 at 00:55
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Not watching it.I am sports nut but am personally boycotting the Olympics this year because of various issues I have with the country of China. -------------  |
Posted By: darkshade
Date Posted: July 19 2008 at 01:30
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no
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: July 19 2008 at 03:50
| Not a sports fan at all (save for perhaps the fact I used to skateboard, but that's not considered "sport" by snobbish sport elitists), have been a arts culture type person instead (well, music culture anyway), but the one that really ticked me off is the China/Tibet issue. |
Posted By: limeyrob
Date Posted: July 19 2008 at 16:32
| I'll probably watch a bit of the Olympics - mainly if there's nothing on the other channels. I feel sorry for the athletes having to take part in all that pollution. |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: July 20 2008 at 20:57
| Never cared much for the olympics. The US basketball team is pretty bad now too considering what we used to be. Not to mention the endless hours of commercials that you sit through to see a 30 second race. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 09:56
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IAlthough I remember being fascinated by the Munich games in 72 (Olga Korbut, Borzov and Mark Spitz) I haven't watched any OG from close since the 76 edition in Montreal.... ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: moreitsythanyou
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 11:26
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I wont because I find it boring. -------------  <font color=white>butts, lol[/COLOR] |
Posted By: Passionist
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 11:52
Totally! I might be watching some selective sports such as this, and the ones my fellow Finns take part in, but stuff like left hand chess or pig throwing are really not very interesting in the end. And in the end, it's all that is on on those two/three channels I get nowadays with my broken digireceiver.
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 13:21
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Yes, but only when time allows me. ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 22:54
And I would hope also for the general population in Beijing that breathe that air everyday of their life |
Posted By: topofsm
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 01:31
I just had an old friend over here and she was just at the Olympics. She was saying that there is so much propaganda there to make it look good on TV. The skies are so polluted that the Sun's a tiny dot, and they're able to edit it onscreen. There's also billboards of trees instead of real trees. I guess NBC and those news companies are getting paid off pretty well to go along with that crap. ------------- 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 16:00
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Well, at least here in Georgia they put up billboards to hide the trees and cut down the other trees so you can see the billboards.
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 16:24
Why are you worried about billboards? You have Russian tanks rolling in! |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 16:35
And don't even get started on the dead bigfoot...
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Posted By: inrainbows
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 17:24
That's the truth, about Olympics! No, I don't be bothered too ------------- 
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: August 19 2008 at 17:30
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yes, here and there....I have to say, I've never been a great 'athletics' fan, but the thing about the Olympics, is that there is so much variety in the different sports on offer, that it tends to keep my attention far more than an athletics Grand Prix at Gateshead would, for instance... ------------- Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: August 29 2008 at 08:43
| WE had an olympics?...wow that explains all those people i saw on tv, running and jumping!!..i thought they were commercials for laxatives,you know,........"now that im regular again im free to do whatever i want!!" |