Not sure why I love the Olympics so much. Usually, I'll watch the odd sport game, but I never follow any series. Then the olympics come around and I get obsessed. Perhaps it's cause this is a giant test of skill that people train years for, and it's against the whole world. Winter olympics garner more attention from me, but the summer games are pretty damn good too. Hell I even watched womans softball -barf-

so canada still has zero medals apparently. i actually don't care about national medal counts at all, but something like 65 countries have at least one medal. considering how many canadian athletes were sent, they are not doing a very good job at all.

Stephanie Rice is lovely

Yeah she is.

After being beyond terrible in our first few basketball matches we beat Iran by 30 or so and we're now leading Russia by 16. Our womens basketball team is pretty sweet as well so I'm happy at the moment!

Apparently that wrestler called the judges 'fatties' which is pretty awesome!

I don't like that neither Canada or NZ have won a medal yet ​.

yeah it's pretty pathetic. We had a HUGE turnout of athletes at the parade of nations and we still have nothing. It's hilarious always hearing on the radio how CLOSE Canada came...but still placed at a respectable...6th!

GUYS
WE SET PERSONAL BESTS AND CANADIAN RECORDS.
THATS ALL YOU CAN ASK FOR.

(Also we will win rowing medals for sure)

Yeah I noticed that the other day. I was looking up the medal tallys and Canada wasn't even on the map! A little disconcerting. Currently watching : USA vs CAN men's baseball (5-4 USA so far)

holy shit! did anyone see phelp's win last night by like .00001 seconds? oh my god. the other guy was literally about 5 inches from the end while phelps was about 2 feet but he tried to glide in and pehlps kept pushing and beat him at (literally) the last second. If you saw it you know what I am talking about! It was amazing!

phelps is obviously an amazing swimmer, but i think it is stupid that they make it possible for one man to win so many medals. they have way too many swimming events, or at least, should limit one person to X amount of events (this limit should not be EIGHT!). in general it seems like they have too many variations and phelps, spitz, and the other people who won a BUNCH OF MEDALS in swimming are proving how it is kind of pointless to have so many of them.

Yeah I don't like how sports like basketball have one gold and swimming has like ten. But I suppose there's a whole team in basketball rather than one person!

Still, even most track and field people only excel at one event (usually short distance or long distance or whatev).

Phelps really is something special though so if it takes seven medals for people to realise him as a legend then so be it.


EDIT: Shit, nice day for New Zealand! A gold in shotput, silver in cycling and bronze in rowing. Score!

also i don't know if you guys saw the 100m medal race but usain bolt beat the world record at 9.69. it is pretty incredible because he kind of celebrated at the end because he was so far ahead and could have done even better.

also i don't know if you guys saw the 100m medal race but usain bolt beat the world record at 9.69. it is pretty incredible because he kind of celebrated at the end because he was so far ahead and could have done even better.

Yeah, it was pretty incredible. He started celebrating at least 10m before the end of the race and he still beat the World Record. It was pretty amazing.

Yeah Usain Bolt is crazy fast.

Also Canada finally won medals!!! YES!

phelps is obviously an amazing swimmer, but i think it is stupid that they make it possible for one man to win so many medals. they have way too many swimming events, or at least, should limit one person to X amount of events (this limit should not be EIGHT!). in general it seems like they have too many variations and phelps, spitz, and the other people who won a BUNCH OF MEDALS in swimming are proving how it is kind of pointless to have so many of them.

What? Why? That's ridiculous.
Each swimmer is better at certain styles and worse at others.
I disagree with you completely.
Besides Phelps isn't doing it against other swimmers, he is doing it against his own stamina/fatigue.
He would have made a faster race in his last race if said competition was done by Day 1 rather than Day 7.


P.S: jesus christ I'm checking out Stephanie Rice pics, hot as hell man.

What? Why? That's ridiculous.
Each swimmer is better at certain styles and worse at others.
I disagree with you completely.
Besides Phelps isn't doing it against other swimmers, he is doing it against his own stamina/fatigue.
He would have made a faster race in his last race if said competition was done by Day 1 rather than Day 7.


P.S: jesus christ I'm checking out Stephanie Rice pics, hot as hell man.

this is because thorpe, spitz, and phelps all proved you can win an incredible amount of medals just by being generally good at swimming. no other field has had people win medals this much because they are doing it right. so it's not a coincidence, and is pointless to have 50 swimming events if ONE GUY will win all of them. if phelps was a TIME LORD and could stop time to recover he would win in even more events.

how would you feel if they had 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, and 50m air pistol? it is pretty obvious if you win 10m air pistol you have an extremely good shot at all the other events. this doesn't translate into any other fields other than swimming. the highet gold medal count any individual got before phelps was 9, and 4 people were tied for it i believe. most of them took 3 or 4 olympics to get that amount, yet phelps is on track to get 8 in ONE games. there is a problem when you allow this to happen, and i could care less if there are different styles because the last three games have suggested the styles are not so different given the domination by these people.

Does anyone else besides me love watching the marathon? It's a good over 2 hour event but I just find it so exciting for some reason. You'd think it'd be boring watching some people run for so long, but the strategy and tactics that play out are just so intriguing. The women just had their marathon and this one woman just broke away from the lead pack and ran solo in front of them for over half the race course. She ended up having over a minute lead on this chase group, and then never closed that gap to her so she was able to win the gold. The chase group itself in the end ended up with 2 Nigerians(?) and 2 Chinese women, and the sprint between them at the end was amazing. Here you have these women running for over 2 hours and 20 minutes and they still find enough energy in themselves to just madly dash at the end. I liked how the two Chinese teammates actually shared their drinks throughout the race and worked together. Of course they also had the crowd to feed off of and give them motivation, and they placed 3rd and 4th, which is great for them and China as a nation because I don't believe they've ever placed that high up.

I have to say one of the highlights of the race was one women stopping to relieve herself on the side of the course (she was actually the favourite going into this), and another women giving up multiple times, but then making it back to the chase group each time. This happened three times until she just had no more juice left in her and was forced to give up entirely.

Oh, and Canada just scored another Bronze medal in the 1500m swimming freestyle. This event is intense and filled with tension as you have these swimmers swimming for a good 15 minutes. I'd love to see how Phelps could handle this (because he's obviously not an endurance swimmer from the looks of things).

this is because thorpe, spitz, and phelps all proved you can win an incredible amount of medals just by being generally good at swimming. no other field has had people win medals this much because they are doing it right. so it's not a coincidence, and is pointless to have 50 swimming events if ONE GUY will win all of them. if phelps was a TIME LORD and could stop time to recover he would win in even more events.

how would you feel if they had 10m, 20m, 30m, 40m, and 50m air pistol? it is pretty obvious if you win 10m air pistol you have an extremely good shot at all the other events. this doesn't translate into any other fields other than swimming. the highet gold medal count any individual got before phelps was 9, and 4 people were tied for it i believe. most of them took 3 or 4 olympics to get that amount, yet phelps is on track to get 8 in ONE games. there is a problem when you allow this to happen, and i could care less if there are different styles because the last three games have suggested the styles are not so different given the domination by these people.

I understand your reasoning, however there is no substance behind that logic so as to make it really a worrying thing. I think it is great as a swimmer you can win up to 8 medals. Dope. In other sports you get one chance because there arent variations to the game. Deal with it.
I think your rant is just pointless and proves nothing.
Gold Medals don't have the same importance in some disciplines. Take Football and Basketball.
The Olympics is not so important for football. However, for Basketball it has the same importance as a World Cup.
A swimmer knows he is going to compete in several different games within the same discipline. That increases its odds to get something. So?
The analogy with air pistol is just ridiculous.
A comparison with the different running games is more fitting. However, swimming is more versatile than swimming as it has more different styles than running.

BTW, Phelps won his 8 golds
It is incredible how Phelps saves his team's ass