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07-04-2008, 01:58 AM
|  | m00tini! | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Some Hotel Somewhere
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 : 78 th | | | The 2008 Summer Olympics
I thought we'd probably want a thread for this year's games in Beijing, China. There's always a few really good stories during the Olympics so I'm sure we're going to need a place to rap about them.
I'm looking forward to the US basketball team (hopefully!) bringing the gold back to the States where it belongs. Coach K feels this team is as good as any and that the guys on it know they have a big job ahead of them to return the US to the top ranks of global B-ball.
I almost think it was a good thing the US lost last time around. That kind of motivation cannot be bought, and I hope the players understand how important it is that the sports we invented are the ones we reign in on a global stage.
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07-04-2008, 02:04 AM
|  | oPg -> sR-SonicSpeed | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oregon
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: 70 th | | Field Hockey! Its like ice hockey + soccer. 
jk. Anyways I usually watch all alot of sports that I usually don't watch. Although I don't think USA's roster is set up to win an international tourney... although they would win the NBA title every year. 
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07-04-2008, 02:07 AM
|  | is at basic trainin! | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Fort Bragg, NC
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: 44 th | | | I like basketball. I would like track and field if I wasnt convinced they were all doping or on roids. swimmings cool because michael phelps kicks ass.
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07-04-2008, 02:11 AM
|  | Too Loud! Too Bright! | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence
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| | US Women's Softball: 
US Women's Volleyball: 
US Women's Soccer:  |
07-04-2008, 02:19 AM
| | is at basic trainin! | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Fort Bragg, NC
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: 44 th | | | womens softball is the only sport i can watch women play. I mean come on in volley ball you arent watching them PLAY lol
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07-04-2008, 02:26 AM
| | Too Loud! Too Bright! | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: a place of settlement, activity, or residence
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| | | I've already posted my reasoning for each sport, so I shouldn't have to defend myself further. |
07-04-2008, 02:53 AM
| | is at basic trainin! | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Fort Bragg, NC
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: 44 th | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CmdrTulkas  | only volleyball is showing up for me 
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07-04-2008, 05:28 AM
|  | WHARRGARBL! | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: WHARRGARBL!
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| | Swimming!!1!
Lets hope everything is cleaned up and all the players dont choke on the air over there
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07-04-2008, 06:01 AM
|  | Adventure!! | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: England/Barbados/Japan
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| | | I remember the spread the Brazilian Women's soccer team had in a certain gentleman's mag a while back... only the good looking ones, of course.
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07-04-2008, 09:40 AM
|  | Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The arctic North Coast
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| | | This'll be the first Summer olympics after getting HD, so I'll take a look here & there, but I probably won't watch a lot. And not to jinx it or anything, but I hope this won't be a repeat of the Munich games. There's a lot of pissed off Chinese people this time.. protesters following the torch around the world? WTF was that about.
Silly Games of Summer Olympics Past & Present:
Badminton
Tug of War
Roque
Croquet
And of course... Synchronized Swimming.
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