2008 Beijing Olympics

sir_drinks_alot · 07-07-2008, 15:46

just over a month until the start of the Beijing games

looks like it's going to be a good one

http://en.beijing2008.cn/

* i know there's alot going on around the games but please can we keep this to just the sports that take place i'm sure there are threds to talk about the other stuff

TheDaddy · 31-07-2008, 16:40

A week to go and they are already getting busted, seriously I am glad I won't be watching it otherwise everytime some one wins a medal I'd be wondering if they were drug assisted

Seven Russian athletes have been provisionally suspended for doping offences, the International Association of Athletics Federations has announced. Five of the seven, including Yelena Soboleva and Tatyana Tomashova, were bound for Beijing.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olym...cs/7535380.stm

Taf · 31-07-2008, 16:47

I have no interest in it at all... I just hope the TV schedules give us options apart from wall-to-wall sport... and the internet doesn't crash with all the live streaming going on worldwide!

Tezcatlipoca · 31-07-2008, 21:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by sir_drinks_alot

* i know there's alot going on around the games but please can we keep this to just the sports that take place i'm sure there are threds to talk about the other stuff

Here's one

Politics, Human Rights, and the Chinese Olympics

I won't be watching Beijing 2008...

31-07-2008, 22:20

It is a shame, but I have less interest in this Olympics than any that have been shown before, during my lifetime.

- sure, the politics & the money / cheating have affected that, but if I'm honest, with the greatest respect to the British sports men & women competing this time, we don't seem to have the depth of 'world class' athletes we used to have, especially in the track & field events ???

sir_drinks_alot · 08-08-2008, 18:27

very good opening ceremony just hope the rest of it's as good

Osem · 14-08-2008, 09:44

Apparently Andy Murray reckons he wasn't ready for the games....... Well if not, why not? Didn't he know when the games were due to start? Did he have to play in Cincinatti and arrive late?

Surely for anyone who takes part in the Olympics it should be an amazing, all too often once in a lifetime, opportunity. Sadly not apparently when it comes to professional sports like tennis and football which IMO should never have been admitted into the Olympics since for them an Olympic gold is far from the pinaccle of their sporting achievement.

Saaf_laandon_mo · 14-08-2008, 09:48

One of the things I have found amusing is how a couple of the teams have reacted to team mates when they have failed to win as a team. In the ladies archery team it seemed like one of the competitors was blaming her low scoring team mates by saying "I did ok, shame the others didn't" and theres all that flak with the 14 year old Brit diver.

I have never seen such negative comments made by footballers towards their team mates when they have lost in any interviews sooon after the match is over.

It did make me chuckle....

Osem · 14-08-2008, 09:57

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Originally Posted by Saaf_laandon_mo

One of the things I have found amusing is how a couple of the teams have reacted to team mates when they have failed to win as a team. In the ladies archery team it seemed like one of the competitors was blaming her low scoring team mates by saying "I did ok, shame the others didn't" and theres all that flak with the 14 year old Brit diver.

I have never seen such negative comments made by footballers towards their team mates when they have lost in any interviews sooon after the match is over.

It did make me chuckle....

Are you sure about that? I heard one of the ladies archery team on TV taking full personal responsibility for the team's performance against the French team for the Bronze medal - she said words to the effect that they'd all stepped up to the mark and she hadn't.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olym...ry/7552130.stm

I did think this was a bit unnecessary however:

http://inthenews.co.uk/sports/olympics/olympics-news-story/daley-comes-under-fire-from-teammate-$1236010.htm

Kymmy · 14-08-2008, 10:53

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/7559217.stm

Classic ploy by the chinese for weeding out those against the olympics!!!

Osem · 14-08-2008, 13:04

Yes - this isn't very much in keeping with the Olympic spirit either:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/7558234.stm

So much for all the promises.................

Scarlett · 15-08-2008, 10:22

Clearly the Belgiums have got into the Olympic Spirt!

But it is interesting that China seem to be having some problems remembering that they promised not to arrest people for covering stuff that they'd rather the world didn't see...

You can just see the Chinese police chief straining at his desk...

"Must keep smiling.. Must not arrest Foreign reporter... Must not.. Must... ..." Place him under arrest!