Phelps is apparently a pretty big d-bag, from every account I've heard of him personally. Not that you'd really be surprised, I mean he is like 23 and has 14 Olympic gold medals.

Just goes to show

Kiwis do their best when they're sitting down and moving backwards :D

Yeah, but China is in the Northern Hemisphere, so we were going forwards.

We've just got the gold in womens sailing. this is an amazing olympics for us, took us till the 5th day to get a medal the last time!

Womens Volleyball is on right now, might as well watch

Well

swimming's over. See you in 4 years

Were gonna go above the aussies in the medal table. :D Could be joint third with germans or above them by the end of the day. Perfect!

And another GOLD, this time in the rowing.

China just nicked the gold from us at the last second in another rowing final. Silver this time for us.

Were now on our own in third! 2 golds 2silvers 2 bronze in the rowing,plus a couple of golds in the sailing i think today. To put this into further perspective, china/usa have over 640 athletes each, we have around half that!

Its all a work, like WWE & TPWW its scripted and we are all talent :rant:

What country you from, 4.0?(oh sorry,i mean Lux ;) )

America, feel free to call me 4.0 at anytime :)

Ah, we would be ahead of you if you didn't have phelps.:)

Thats right, history has been made... though he's a prick IRL which sucks, you want him?

How comes he's a prick?What do you base that on?

My friends parents friend know him personally, apparently he's an ass. I have no opinion of the man myself until i meet him (doubt our paths will cross) and can make an assessment.

We just set a new world record in the mens persuit in cycling.(we held the previous WR to) Were in the final tmrw v denmark.

TL even though our countrys are against eachother, i'd just like to let you know that no matter how many times we kick your ass ;) we are still friends

No worries, Lux, you guys have more athletes,so to be third is a BIG achievement for us,wait till 2012 when we have the same amount of athletes as you, ;)

Read a pretty vehement column in the Times yesterday lambasting the Olympics for the way the medals are still allocated heavily to 'elitist' events like equestrianism, sailing, indoor track cycling, rowing and so on. And to the highly disproportionate medal distribution amongst British athletes along socio-economic lines (ie a majority are awarded to people from public school backgrounds whilst only 7% of kids here go to public schools).

Kinda had to agree with what the guy was saying to some extent. I mean firstly we call Steve Redgrave everything but God in this country, but in a sport which is essentially confined to the Western and old Colonial elite can he truly be considered an Olympian on a par with someone like Carl Lewis or even Phelps who have both risen to the heights whilst competing against people from vastly bigger pools of talent?

And how can the Olympics really be above or beyond the normally constrictive bounds of economics when many of the events are essentially off-bounds for most of the worlds population (that even includes most in the West)? I mean sailing? Rowing? EQUESTRIANISM?

Come on


ps - to be fair I'm not taking a side completely here, its just its the first time I've read (or bothered to notice) a critique of the Olympics along these lines.

Can't be fucked with anyone being negative about this, sorry ct2k.Just enjoy it. There's nothing wrong with rowing/cycling, they're entertaining to. Why is it whenever we do well in sport we have to find negatives? God i hate newspapers.

If the aussies orsomeone dominated those events and we didn't,would the newspapers be complaining? NO. They would be complaining how shit our team is. So they can fuck right off imo.

Oh go eat a pie and lighten up you miserable Geordie minge:p

I'm not miserable,sounds to me the times/you are though. :)

Nah, I just want us to get our act back together in the Athletics, I miss the days of Colin, Roger, Linford and co:(

Just wait for 2012, when we have enough athletes to compete in those events. We are targetting having over 640 athletes in 2012.

Loving the Hammer final right now.

Today is probably the first time I've actually been able to watch any of this summer's games by the way, last day of work was friday so Im planning of watching plenty this week:D

Ooooh so that's why you're a miserable git about it. :D

I just watched Louis Smith get a bronze in the pommel horse. Had the same score as the silver medalist but less difficult routine. This guy is 19 and will definitely be competing in 2012. There's some upside there for you GBers.

Because of this let us both hope that our countries get first and second in almost every event so we can do better then everyone else ;)

The Aussies will always win...

That video is dead..

Here's the stills..

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We'll probably pick up our act next Olympics, when the stands are full of Aussies :o

Yay! 13 medals and counting!

<font color=goldenrod>Holy fuck, Bolt did it again</font>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7562840.stm

lol Phelps

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4664282a26500.html

This is gonna blow out.

Women's Beach Volleyball should always be played in the rain. And in white outfits.

I've seen He Kexin up close multiple times and there is no way she is 16.

Bloody hell, I love the Olympics. Just great entertainment.

Gold again for us. :) 18 golds, 3rd place, must be our best ever olympics.

It is, if you're a Brit.
Our 2nd best ever, pretty happy with that.

Looking forward to seeing how far Tony Jeferies can go in the boxing.

We kicked your ass in the rowing.:)

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A Future Opponent for Mirko Cro Cop?

lol @ the asian guy's teeth

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