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Old 09-03-2004, 08:46 PM   #1
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No coming into the Olympics I'm pretty sure she had the second best long jump in the world at the time, and the 4x100 could have gotton one. Even if it wasn't a gold, I think she was expected to get at least one medal.
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Old 09-03-2004, 09:01 PM   #2
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Second longest long jump in the world maybe but that's before she got off the drugs.
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Old 09-03-2004, 09:12 PM   #3
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At the time she was having good high jumps she wasn't having good 100's though
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best athlete? Ian Thorpe for me. The guy is just unreal.

Memorable moment? For me, Chris Hoy. Like 3 guys who raced before he did broke the Olympic record. All the pressure was on him and he broke it too. And he is British!

Hero - Kelly Holmes. We need some winners here.

Goat/Dissappointment - British male sprinters in individual events.

Moment - Kelly Holmes winning the 800m
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Moment - Kelly Holmes winning the 800m
Nah the 1500 was better because the pressure was really on for her to get the gold. And it looked like she was never going to get it.
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Old 09-03-2004, 09:45 PM   #6
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Two best athletes there Rob
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How did I manage that? Missed the memorable one completely.
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Looked like she would to me. With about 150m to go, she looked like she had it in the bag. In the 800, it looked like it could possibly be Matola's since Holmes has always struggled to beat her but she juust pulled away and it was awesome seeing her win the big one for once.
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What in the blue hell are you talking about? Are you angry that an Iranian weightlifter didn't make my "Memorable Moments"? Wow.
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Old 09-22-2004, 03:12 PM   #10
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You just happen to be a total and utter cheerleader.
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I'm not going to lie, everybody here knows that I get behind my teams pretty hardcore. I watched as much of the Olympics as I could, but the good events were generally on from 12:00am until 7:00am here, so the majority of what I saw was the American highlights, which is what I said in that post. I missed a lot of events that I wanted to see because of that, but even so you can make a case for every choice that I had. That being said, most of the English posters who answered your question listed an English person who did well, maybe because their coverage was based on the English athletes? Lets yell at them too.
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My point is that you get upset when people accuse Americans of being insular and ignorant and yet your choices were totally parochial. As if anything that wasn't American related went totally unregistered in terms of gaining respect or recognition from you.

The Iraqi football team was just quite amusing because the American media and Bush patronised them as a tool for Bush's re-election bid (I'm suprised you fell for that gambit), which was going well until someone actually spoke to the players and they turned around and said they would be killing Americans if they weren't playing and that Bush was a terrorist.
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Old 09-25-2004, 03:52 PM   #13
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I'm still not voting for Bush, I just thought it was cool that they were doing good coming out of their circumstances. I know what your saying though, and I guess I agree with it.

Also, I get upset when people accuse me of being ignorant I myself think a lot of Americans are totally ignorant, and going into the media myself I am in classes right now that teach us how to trick the audience and send hidden messages. My problem all along was that I thought you were putting me in the same position as for example Stima when he responded to the Lance Armstrong thing. I will acknowledge that I am not a god of international sports by any meanings, but I do pretty actively follow the Premiership, cycling, tri, and international competitions. I'm just saying that I know a little more than the average American, and I got into a bunch of other BS arguments with you because I was playing devils advocate and trying to prove stupid points Anyway, yeah I guess I was caught pretty low here, but I'll do a little better in four years
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