It is really sad that my TV set is malfunction before I can watch any of them. I have to go back to my parent's home to watch it or rely on online boardcast. The local online provider is really suck that it received many complaints. (Especially it doesn't support Firefox and Linux!!! What a so-called provider)
The games are really breath-taking and, I have to admit that, I enjoy watching the cute face and great bodies of athletics all the time. ;D
The opening and ending are really great...but,
It is sad that the chinese athletics does not do well in 10m diving. However, I have to admit that, Matthew Mictham has done a great job. It is great to see him put down his burden and win the diving game. He is sooooo cute, out and proud! He and his partner are absolutely admirable, too :)
Matthew, you are really rocks!
I wanted to see the closing ceremony, but unfortunately was on a 4 hour drive to visit my daughter. Was it any good?
Just as good as the opening. China didn't disappoint. Great games all around, I thought. That's why I love the Olympics. 2 weeks out of every 4 years, it seems all countries forget about their differences and compete in friendly sportsmanship.
Quote from: Tybae on August 26, 2008, 04:27:00 PM
Just as good as the opening. China didn't disappoint. Great games all around, I thought. That's why I love the Olympics. 2 weeks out of every 4 years, it seems all countries forget about their differences and compete in friendly sportsmanship.
Yes. You are right. It is really great to see so many countries put aside their issues, enjoy the games in a healthy competition. That's the spirit of sports :)
Another questions: which sport do you enjoy most?
It's easier to answer the other way around. I don't think much of the swimming or the straight sprint track events - too much drugs in there - nor much of the team/individual sports that already have big competitions, like football, tennis or basketball.
Like: Hockey, diving, gymnastics, sailing, archery, shooting, cycling, field events, hurdles, relays, rowing, equestrianism. The rest I might watch if they're on.
I like:
Diving, Gymnastics, Weight-lifting, Wrestling. (They looks fantastic. What? You think I like them because of their nice bodies? Surely not, I swear...although Matthew is really cute ;D)
Basketball, PingPong,
Volleyball (though I like women competition more as the men one just more dependent on the sheer force instead of techniques)
Swimming (Michael Phelps is amazing...it's a shame I can't watch the show, part of IE-only-so-called provider, part of Citadel :P )
I think many Chinese agree with me that we most hate the Chinese Soccer Team. They are a bunch of scum and shame on them! (If you don't know that, check for the match between Chinese and Belgium)
I'll watch most of them. The only ones I don't like are Women's Basketball, Ballroom Dancing, Rythmic Gymnastics, Air Pistol/Rifle and Sycronized Swimming. I'll watch the others. I'm a fan of the more obsure events, like Hammer Throw and Discus. I watch Swimming the most. Natalie Coughlin grew up less than 20 minutes from where I live and went to Cal Berkeley (college) which is only 30 minutes from my house. What Phelps did is amazing and probably won't ever be equalled. Usain Bolt was incredible, as was Coughlin. I was a little mad when the American's dropped the baton in the 4x100 Men's and Women's. It's kind of sad that Baseball has had it's last Olympics until it's voted back in. Oh well. The Olympics is probably the only time where I'll watch Men's Basketball. I'm not really a fan of it, but in the Olympics, I'll make an exception. I'll go to games, but watching it on TV doesn't really make any sense. Live it's much better. The crowd, the action, the pace of the game. It's definately something to watch.
The Chinese Football (soccer) team may be a bunch of crooks, but the most dipicable act was the Cuban Tae-Kwan-Do competitor who kicked the referee in the face after a disputed call. He was banned for life and rightly so. There is no call for that in sports.
Quote from: Tybae on August 26, 2008, 07:05:29 PM
The Chinese Football (soccer) team may be a bunch of crooks, but the most dipicable act was the Cuban Tae-Kwan-Do competitor who kicked the referee in the face after a disputed call. He was banned for life and rightly so. There is no call for that in sports.
*Sigh* The Chinese soccer has done something similar. After one of them (I don't bother to search for his name) has lost control of the ball, he kick the onto the genital of that poor Belgium athletic. There are many negative criticism about them before but the act is too foul that even Chinese resent them.
I like table-tennis, (ping pong) at the olympic level it's just amazing to see the reaction time of the players. It's almost hard to believe they are human.
After the cllose I should say that the spanish colectives were good.
Rafa Nadal won on tennis, we were subchampions on basket after fighting with all the NBA players (and the referees don't know the basket rules :P) but... i think we were the most country winning 4th and 5th places :P.
That Jamaican guy was really incredible on speed, those are my favourites because i usually get drown in the 1st kilometer. :D
Quote from: BenWH on August 27, 2008, 11:41:11 AM
Quote from: Tybae on August 26, 2008, 07:05:29 PM
Ballroom Dancing
When did that one get in then?!
That's exactly what I said. Sports like Baseball get canned, but Ballroom Dancing is still there?
Quote from: Tybae on August 27, 2008, 01:00:54 PM
That's exactly what I said. Sports like Baseball get canned, but Ballroom Dancing is still there?
Oh, really? There is dancing in Olympics? :o
Womens Softball can't make it, but SNOWBOARDING can? How is that an Olympic sport?
Sadly, I think it has more to do with what sport can provide the most sponsorship and not about the best competition.
Well - I think I'd go with the Snowboarding myself, but anyway, no softball at all from next Olympics if I recall correctly.
I reckon Rugby Sevens should be in there. Speed Archery too.