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Beautiful gold, so-so silver and shameful bronze: The running Olympics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by deskslave, Aug 6, 2008.

  1. markvid

    markvid Guest

    And mostly off the bench, no less.
     
  2. dreunc1542

    dreunc1542 Active Member

    Seriously Starman, both teams got fucked by the refs in the game today. Also, Fernandez impressed me a lot, and Rubio played well for someone so young who got hurt early on a team with no real back-up.

    And the US team did look genuinely happy and excited after the victory, nothing rehearsed about it in my eyes.

    As for the games, that's all she wrote. The closing ceremony was not very good, so they will probably get cut down a lot for the show tonight.
     
  3. sportschick

    sportschick Active Member

    Yep. Sylvia Fowles is a great player.
     
  4. nafselon

    nafselon Well-Known Member

    Been watching Sylvia since she was a freshman in high school, talk about seeing greatness the minute someone steps on the floor. There wasn't anyone in the Lakeland Center who didn't believe she was going to be one of the next stars in women's basketball.
     
  5. Simon_Cowbell

    Simon_Cowbell Active Member

    She was unbelievable.
     
  6. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    That's what I thought when I saw our roster before the games, now I'm not so sure. We brought more big men in 02, 04, and 06 and did a helluva lot worse. If this is the result of going with smaller faster lineups I'm all for it.

    Collins sorta hit the nail when he was talking about how Coach K realized from watching our recent failures that two big one-dimensional bangers on the floor at the same time doesn't work very well in the international game, because you need more versatility and perimeter skills out of the 4 spot. They got that this year using Lebron and Melo as undersized 4s.

    I've got nothing to bitch about with this team, they did us proud this time.
     
  7. beefncheddar

    beefncheddar Guest

    Way too undersized most of the time? Were we even watching the same games?
     
  8. markvid

    markvid Guest

    Norman, I've got to go with mustard on this one.
     
  9. ServeItUp

    ServeItUp Active Member

    Memo to London: PLEASE don't try to top China's ceremonies. It's not the English way to be ostentatious or showy, notwithstanding Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd concerts. Just make the Games about the athletes, make sure your public transit runs on time, let the pubs stay open 24 hours and just be the solid, upbeat people we've come to know and love.

    And for the love of God, lock up your soccer hooligans for 16 days. See you in four years!
     
  10. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Well, that's one way they'd be like the Chinese then. Well, if you replace "soccer hooligans" with "protesters", and "16 days" with "10 years".
     
  11. Piotr Rasputin

    Piotr Rasputin New Member

    Not as bad as this one:

    http://www.hulu.com/watch/4090/saturday-night-live-weekend-update-all-drug-olympics
     
  12. dreunc1542

    dreunc1542 Active Member

    Best video to come out of this Olympics:
     
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