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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1960 on: August 17, 2008, 12:17:26 pm »
Nadal 1 set up , 3-3 in the second with Gonzalez about to serve

Nadal 2 sets up now. Hope he destroys that dirty cheat.

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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1961 on: August 17, 2008, 12:53:16 pm »
And Rafa gets his gold medal!!!!

French, Wimbledon, Olympics....One more at the US and that would be the best season ever IMO.

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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1962 on: August 17, 2008, 12:54:26 pm »
Nadal Gold Medal

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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1963 on: August 17, 2008, 12:56:53 pm »
And Rafa gets his gold medal!!!!

French, Wimbledon, Olympics....One more at the US and that would be the best season ever IMO.

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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1964 on: August 17, 2008, 01:07:18 pm »
we've just been guaranteed a medal from the men's pommel horse
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1965 on: August 17, 2008, 01:10:49 pm »
She's not in Beijing.

I don't care. She's still the fittest there!

EDIT: by the way, whats her name?
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1966 on: August 17, 2008, 01:11:15 pm »
it's a bronze, the first medal for us ever in the mens Gymnastics, well in lad
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1967 on: August 17, 2008, 01:11:24 pm »
we've just been guaranteed a medal from the men's pommel horse

bronze although he scored the same as the lad in silver - shame but our first gymnastic medal
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1968 on: August 17, 2008, 01:12:44 pm »


The reigning champion in women's 400m hurdles Fania Halki won gold in Athens just failed drugs test and was disqualified from the heats


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/feedarticle/7731427

By Karolos Grohmann

BEIJING, Aug 17 (Reuters) - Olympic champion hurdler Fani Halkia has dragged Greece's reputation through the mud by failing a drugs test and being sent home, Greek Olympic Committee chief Minos Kyriakou said on Sunday.

Halkia tested positive for methyltrienolone, better known as M3, a banned steroid. She has denied any wrongdoing.

She was hailed as the new force in Greek athletics after winning gold in 2004 in Athens in the women's 400 metres hurdles, but has scarcely run since.

"It would be best if she had just stayed at home instead of dragging our country's name through the mud," an angry Kyriakou told Reuters in an interview.

"If you want to commit suicide it is up to you but you do not have the right to kill your country. It is so sad the Athens Games golden girl was caught doping."

Greece have lost a total of 18 athletes, including 11 weightlifters, sprinters, a rower and a swimmer due to positive drugs tests in the run-up to the Games, after Kyriakou beefed up pre-Games testing to four controls for every Olympic team member.

Greece was eager to avoid another embarrassment similar to the Athens Games doping scandal involving two top sprinters who withdrew after missing a drugs test.

"I will not back down, never. We caught 19 (including Halkia) and that is 19 fewer cheats," he said. "We don't want dirty medals and if we cannot have clean medals then we will just play sports for fun."
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1969 on: August 17, 2008, 01:14:06 pm »
bronze although he scored the same as the lad in silver - shame but our first gymnastic medal

brilliant performance !
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1970 on: August 17, 2008, 01:15:21 pm »
Anyone see the mens cycling pursuit?  Watched it when i was down the gym, was amazing!  Felt a tad sorry for the Russians when we overtook them though.
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1971 on: August 17, 2008, 01:16:51 pm »
I don't care. She's still the fittest there!

EDIT: by the way, whats her name?
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1972 on: August 17, 2008, 01:17:40 pm »
Anyone see the mens cycling pursuit?  Watched it when i was down the gym, was amazing!  Felt a tad sorry for the Russians when we overtook them though.

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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1973 on: August 17, 2008, 01:17:47 pm »
I don't care. She's still the fittest there!

EDIT: by the way, whats her name?

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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1974 on: August 17, 2008, 01:20:08 pm »
Alison Stokke
I think she's been mentioned some three times in this thread already. :D
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1975 on: August 17, 2008, 01:32:46 pm »
Just watched some of the highlights since I'm since now able to watch a bit of the OG again.

Gold and twice silver, not a bad day for the Dutchies ;D

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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1976 on: August 17, 2008, 01:34:55 pm »
I think she's been mentioned some three times in this thread already. :D

Ano, but someone asked what she was called
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1977 on: August 17, 2008, 01:36:54 pm »
She's not in Beijing.

but Elena Isinbaeva is :P
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1978 on: August 17, 2008, 01:48:09 pm »
GB just got their first ever medal in the gymnastics, so say the commentators.

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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1979 on: August 17, 2008, 01:50:33 pm »
equal on points....and in bronze position
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1980 on: August 17, 2008, 01:52:08 pm »
Haha Phelps looks like 8ft freak there.

coz he is  :P
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1981 on: August 17, 2008, 02:04:40 pm »
Well we all know Bolts secret... Nuggets ;)
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1982 on: August 17, 2008, 02:06:16 pm »
Well we all know Bolts secret... Nuggets ;)
Actually, it's yam.

http://africa.reuters.com/sport/news/usnBAN656276.html

Bolt's gold down to yam power, father says
Sat 16 Aug 2008, 14:38 GMT

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KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) - Usain Bolt streaked to 100 metres Olympic gold at the Beijing Olympics on Saturday thanks to yam power, his father said.

Wellesley Bolt said his son was partial to the vegetable grown in the north-western area of Jamaica where the sprinter was born.

"It is definitely the Trelawny yam," Bolt senior told Reuters seconds after his son smashed the world record on the way to landing the biggest gold medal in sport.

The yam grown in the parish Trelawny is one of the staples that has made the area famous. It is sold in huge volumes here and much of it is exported. Citizens of the area believe that it has medicinal properties.

"I was very nervous before the race, my heart was pumping. I spoke to him about two days ago and told him that I was getting nervous and he said 'don't worry Dad, I am going to win this one for you'," Wellesley told Reuters from his home, less than 30 minutes drive from the western tourist city of Montego Bay.

"My house has been taken over by more than 100 people from inside and outside the community.

"They are waving flags, beating drums and just making a lot of noise. But this is a special moment and to know that a Jamaican has done this and I am the father of that Jamaican makes me feel special.

"I never expected him to break the world record, but I am proud of my son."

Bolt senior said he sympathised with compatriot Asafa Powell who finished a disappointing fifth.

"That was surprising to me. I really feel it for Asafa because I felt that he should have performed better," he said.

Bolt's sister Sherine said she knew he would break the world record.

"I expected my brother to win the race and I told my daddy last night that he would do 9.68 seconds. He didn't quite do that, but I am happy still," Sherine said.
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1983 on: August 17, 2008, 03:04:38 pm »
Still haven't picked my jaw off the flaw since Bolt's win - simply stunning!

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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1984 on: August 17, 2008, 04:12:03 pm »
keep this to sport .

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« Reply #1985 on: August 17, 2008, 04:52:45 pm »

What an island is Jamaica, all three medals in the women's sprint to go with Superman.

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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1986 on: August 17, 2008, 05:11:47 pm »
What an island is Jamaica, all three medals in the women's sprint to go with Superman.


Speaking of the womens 100m, the US have appealed against the result on the basis that their two sprinters thought there was a false start. It seemed an odd start and admittedly my first reaction was false start.
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« Reply #1987 on: August 17, 2008, 05:24:17 pm »
Scrap what I just said, their appeal was rejected.
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1989 on: August 18, 2008, 04:53:20 am »
Liu Xiang out of the 110m hurdles, has an achilles tendon injury, tried to go out and run but it was no good, absolutely gutted for the lad.

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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1990 on: August 18, 2008, 04:55:49 am »
Poor Liu Xiang.
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1991 on: August 18, 2008, 04:57:54 am »
Liu Xiang :(
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1992 on: August 18, 2008, 05:22:59 am »
Bolt come 2nd in his 200m heat.

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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1993 on: August 18, 2008, 05:37:26 am »
in the distance you can hear 1.2bn people weep.

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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1994 on: August 18, 2008, 07:49:08 am »
Major boilover in the basketball, as the mighty Boomers give Lithuania a right thrashing.

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The reward? A game against the USA   :-X (I think)
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1995 on: August 18, 2008, 08:12:14 am »
Yep Australia will play USA next.


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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1996 on: August 18, 2008, 09:17:50 am »
Quite disappointed to wake up and not have a gold medal to read about ;D

at 11 20 GB might get the gold in cycling :P
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1997 on: August 18, 2008, 09:26:34 am »
What an island is Jamaica, all three medals in the women's sprint to go with Superman.

You'd think they'd do better in the shooting.
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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1998 on: August 18, 2008, 09:39:59 am »
True, but I'm awake now and I demand success.

Agreed.

Fucking Aussies ahead on goal difference now.

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Re: The XXIXth Summer Olympic Games (Beijing 2008)
« Reply #1999 on: August 18, 2008, 10:16:26 am »
Marianne Vos just won gold with cycling. I'm so happy for her! wow!
Finally some good news from the cycling.

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