2008 Summer Olympics

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 1:10 am

You're surprised by those commies cheating? Seriously? Remember Ivan Drago? I think it's more embarrassing that Shawn Mc Johnson and the Soviet Texan got their asses beat by 4 footer Chinese Flippy 14 year olds. I swear, the Olympics are just around now to Sell Cokes, Big Macs, and THE ALL NEW CHEVY MALIBU: AN AMERICAN REVOLUTION(made in Mexico >_>). INSURED BY GEICO. All Bought with a Visa Card, That Morgan Freeman Narrarated from the TV screen into your pocket. I wanna see Michael Phelps race against Flipper, The Chinese fake their 7 year old big moment on their grandest and superhyped stage. gg olympics. Not to mention, what lucky clothing manufacturer sleeps easy now that they unloaded their entire inventory of Teal sport coats?

Philly · Post by **Philly** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:45 am

I liked watching the British rowers.

KOH_Church · Post by **KOH_Church** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:50 pm

there is no lacrosse i dont care lol

Yodel · Post by **Yodel** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:55 am

Cuda wrote:You're surprised by those commies cheating? Seriously? Remember Ivan Drago? I think it's more embarrassing that Shawn Mc Johnson and the Soviet Texan got their asses beat by 4 footer Chinese Flippy 14 year olds. I swear, the Olympics are just around now to Sell Cokes, Big Macs, and THE ALL NEW CHEVY MALIBU: AN AMERICAN REVOLUTION(made in Mexico >_>). INSURED BY GEICO. All Bought with a Visa Card, That Morgan Freeman Narrarated from the TV screen into your pocket. I wanna see Michael Phelps race against Flipper, The Chinese fake their 7 year old big moment on their grandest and superhyped stage. gg olympics. Not to mention, what lucky clothing manufacturer sleeps easy now that they unloaded their entire inventory of Teal sport coats?

That sort of made sense, but the parts that I could decipher were funny.

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:26 am

Cuda wrote:I think it's more embarrassing that Shawn Mc Johnson and the Soviet Texan got their asses beat by 4 footer Chinese Flippy 14 year olds.

... you realize gymnastics is like.. the opposite of regular sports, right? The bigger you are, the harder it is.

SpecOp44 · Post by **SpecOp44** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:48 am

I think it'll be hilarious when they find out what Michael Phelps was injecting himself to win all those medals.

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:27 pm

THE OLYMPIC COMMITTEE MIGHT TAKE ALL THE MEDALS AWAY FROM THE 3 UNDERAGED CHINESE GIRLS!
That would leave them with only 2 bronze medals overall. I literally lol'd and woke up my parents. That's awesome.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:45 pm

Link?

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:46 pm

Know what I hate? Sporting heroes. I don't know if its like that in other parts of the world, but calling people who play sports courageous heroes just angers me.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:42 am

Jordan wrote:
Cuda wrote:I think it's more embarrassing that Shawn Mc Johnson and the Soviet Texan got their asses beat by 4 footer Chinese Flippy 14 year olds.
... you realize gymnastics is like.. the opposite of regular sports, right? The bigger you are, the harder it is.

But the fact that commentators and US Gymnastics consistently bitch and whine about it makes them look pathetic. I just want it to end already. It's not even like the best of the best. Maybe for the Swimming, Volleyball, and whatnot, but what about baseball, weightlifting, and boxing for example?

I haven't seen a single TRUE pro play for the Americans, mainly because they make more cash playing in the MLB, and the athletes are mainly people from farm league teams from Pro club pools, like some have been in these pools for years, (One I can recall from the comentary) the player was in the minors in the Angels pool for 4 years, and only played in the majors for two games, at bat 3 times, twice struck out, and once hit a single and was thrown out at second. Not really a good representation of the "Best" as the olympics claim.

In weightlifitng, You don't see people from the IFSA in any of the events, and even at the end of the competition they stated, "The Worlds Strongest man, in Olympic Terms." Meaning that in other "Terms" relevant to the sport he is not in fact the strongest. In Boxing, The Scoring system is all judge bias. They only score head shots to a certain degree, meaning that the hit has to be in certain parts of the head, with full arm extension, and the Commentators tend to constantly pick this apart how they never score or give credit to any of the technical aspects of it. The way it's socred, some ratty guy can get a few good shots in and run away the rest of the rounds and win it.

What the Fuck. Race Walking.

tl;dr, Fuck the Olympics. The decent events are over. Still wanna see what they did/do in the BMX competition, but apart from that, I want my Leno and Conan Back.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:52 am

Now now Cuda, these games are supposed to be about bringing nations together, all the other things are all secondary!

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:39 am

Kirk wrote:Now now Cuda, these games are supposed to be about selling as much Coca Cola, Chevrolets and Mc Donald's as humanly possible, all the other things are all secondary!

Fixed.

Also, Jimmy Page is gonna play at the closing Ceremony Rumored to play "Whole Lotta Love" with some Popstar named Leona Lewis. Hrm.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:15 am

I disagree. Although I'm beginning to think the advertising is done by region, rather than what you're saying. The ad breaks aren't very often and there are no banner or tv wall ads at the games themselves (I expected them to do it).

In fact, at least from Australia's coverage, I'd say there's a hell of a lot more advertising in our major televised sports than there is in these Olympics. Sure there are the "This Olympic coverage is brought to you by Toyota: paying big amounts of cash for this promo in hopes of selling a car which someone won't do because the'yre watching the Olympics for God's sake" But ass I said, that doesn't compare as much.

I probably don't know the half of it though... Marketing seems to always go crazy there (I got superbowl thingy in mind)

DeadHamster · Post by **DeadHamster** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:55 am

Olympic Comittee just said they wouldn't do anything about the cheaters on China's team.

They say there's no evidence, so they won't do anything. Despite various accounts of changed age, from 14 to 16, all over cached pages in China's Sports.

Stupid Commies.

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:07 am

DeadHamster wrote:Olympic Comittee just said they wouldn't do anything about the cheaters on China's team.

They say there's no evidence, so they won't do anything. Despite various accounts of changed age, from 14 to 16, all over cached pages in China's Sports.

Stupid Commies.

Again, See: Ivan Drago

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:31 am

Yeah, that was a pretty sweet movie.

newbymodder · Post by **newbymodder** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:18 pm

Not what i heard, they said that the papers given from the Chinese showed them to all be 16 ( it was there passports and everyone knows its easy to fake those ) but what spiked it all is A. you can fricken tell that there not 16 B. one of them competed in a competition 2 months ago and her age was registered as 14. And um okay yea the one girl for the US may be Russian, but um her dad defected from the USSR which means that they would have killed him on the spot back then (maybe even now Russia is pissing alot of nations of at the moment) so don't be judgmental especially since almost all Americans originated from other countries.

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:19 pm

What in the fuck does that have to do with the Chinese gymnasts being underaged?

Nastia was born in Moscow and moved to the US when she was 2. She's a US citizen. Therefore, she's on the team legally without breaking any rules.

newbymodder · Post by **newbymodder** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 3:54 pm

I was referring to what Cuda said -_-

Cuda · Post by **Cuda** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:33 pm

newbymodder wrote:Not what i heard, they said that the papers given from the Chinese showed them to all be 16 ( it was there passports and everyone knows its easy to fake those ) but what spiked it all is A. you can fricken tell that there not 16 B. one of them competed in a competition 2 months ago and her age was registered as 14. And um okay yea the one girl for the US may be Russian, but um her dad defected from the USSR which means that they would have killed him on the spot back then (maybe even now Russia is pissing alot of nations of at the moment) so don't be judgmental especially since almost all Americans originated from other countries.

Well, Valeri Liukin never defected. He competed with the USSR until it was dissolved and then when the USSR folded competed for Kazakhstan. Nastia Liukin was born in Moscow in 1989, and moved to the States in '92, and was Naturalized as a U.S. Citizen. So uh, there goes your big Commie runaway assassination theory.