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Beijing Olympics

I watched some of it today. Makes me wish I watched it either, it's the only programme that makes me actually react. XD

I saw some twenty-year old Chinese guy doing athletics. He was so amazing.
And some English guy get silver for canoing (that word looks strange).
 
I heard that some of he fireworks during the opening ceremony were faked.
Obviously the people who were actually there saw it as it actually was, but the TV transmissions sent out some pre-recorded clips of fireworks going off there.

Cirrus said:
I watched some of it today. Makes me wish I watched it either, it's the only programme that makes me actually react. XD

I saw some twenty-year old Chinese guy doing athletics. He was so amazing.
And some English guy get silver for canoing (that word looks strange).
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I think he's Scottish, not English.
 
the scrollpainting during the opening ceremony was freaking awesomebadass.

[fan]
michael phelps gogogo
chinese men's gymnastics team gogogo
natalie whatserface gogogo
[/fan]

didn't that US volleyball coach's dad get stabbed to death or something?

well, better than killing the israelis, I guess.
 
Well, I, (along with all the citizens of my country (Malaysia) ) am closely watching the badminton tournament, because Malaysia currently has the world number 2 player, and we've never won an Olympic gold medal. Silver, yes, bronze, yes, but never the gold. Just wondering, does anyone else here live in a country starved of Olympic success?
 
I'm rooting for Michael Phelps in swimming and Jonathan Horton in gymnastics. As for the beginning of the Olympics, I only saw a little bit, like the part where they were like, "60, 50, 40, 30, etc.." But the bit I saw of it was still awesome. :3
 
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Also China are nuts.
 
Tailsy said:
He is indeed! He's from Aberdeen. :3
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I meant British. XD
(I can't believe I got the words mixed up. I feel so guilty D: SORRY SCOTLAND)

Also I am now IN LOVE with watching the gymnastics. I have no idea why. I don't even like gymnastics. And I found myself cheering on the Chinese by mistake. D: SORRY GREAT BRITAIN AS A WHOLE
 
Oh, the gymnastics was so cool. It's incredible how they do those twists in the air and I feel so bad for them when they fall off a piece of apparatus. >.< But I like how it's so full of suspense.

Me and my brother watched the women's weightlifting yesterday. There was this amazing Chinese woman... and a Russian woman who was also brilliant. Ooh, and the women's archery a few days ago was really exciting. The French team was so awesome. :D
 
Rhythmic gymnastics is just paedophilia for cowards!
/ Frankie Boyle

But yeah, the gymnasts were great. :3

And you don't need to cheer on Great Britain, Cirrus. :D I still don't see why the UK's countries have seperate teams for everything except the Olympics. Honestly.
 
Tailsy said:
And you don't need to cheer on Great Britain, Cirrus. :D I still don't see why the UK's countries have seperate teams for everything except the Olympics. Honestly.
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Well I guess the places making up the UK are all pretty small, so if a team from, say, Wales went up against a team from the USA, it'd be a team from a population of about three million against a team from a population of three hundred million, which seems a tad unfair. Of course it's still unfair, but slightly less so.
 
And you don't need to cheer on Great Britain, Cirrus. :D I still don't see why the UK's countries have seperate teams for everything except the Olympics. Honestly.
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because they aren't actually independent countries, they all have a degree of autonomy but the official nation is the UK
 
Alabaster said:
Well, I, (along with all the citizens of my country (Malaysia) ) am closely watching the badminton tournament, because Malaysia currently has the world number 2 player, and we've never won an Olympic gold medal. Silver, yes, bronze, yes, but never the gold.
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UPDATE!!!

Lee Chong Wei lost his match 12-21, 8-21. If you're a Naruto fan, you'll recognize this analogy - it was like Itachi vs Ino.
 
I watched loads today. I love how GB are great at boating in crap conditions; British weather is good for something X3

And the moral of the story is that Jamacian women are amazing at the 100 metre sprint. Fraser was so damn happy when she won X3

The floor gymnastics was so amazing. And the vaulting. Gymnastics is just so damn impressive to watch. It really annoys me when the commentators are critical of when someone messes up a bit; it's not like they could do any better.

The Slovenian hammer-throwing man looked creepily like someone I know O.o But it was awesome for Solvenia to get gold <3

The steeplechase is the most random event ever. "So let's make it like the hurdles, only not... and put a big puddle in the middle of the track :D"
The woman who won that (and set the record) was pretty amazing, though.

The badminton match looked so cute after the tennis X3 But everyone was pretty damn amazing. Poor Malaysia ;;

And that sailing event was absolutely hilarious. Denmark's mast broke, so they borrowed Crotaia's boat and the Austrians were winning then then they capsized and then the Australians were winning and then they capsized and then the Danes plus Croatian boat capsized but managed to cross the line and ended up getting gold overall. Crazy stuff.
 
The Slovenian hammer-throwing man looked creepily like someone I know O.o But it was awesome for Solvenia to get gold <3
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haha WHAT god I am such a terrible Slovenian I should have known about this five days before it happened

(my sister's former classmate was five hundredths of a second away from gold in 200m freestyle :( I was actually sad about that one. fuck country loyalty, school loyalty's where it's at)
 
This is Team GB's greatest Olympics since 1920 or something. And woo, we were third yesterday in the medals table :D

EDIT: Just loaded up BBC Sport, it turns out that we are still third! Even more :D
 
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