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08-09-2008, 03:10 PM
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| Der Crewchief   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| 2008 Olympics Well besides the fact that I think that China does not deserve the Olympics, here is a thread to talk about the Olympics...  Here is the medal count, highlighted are the nations of the acitve members of this forum (I will update it every day). Gold-Silver-Bronze - Total. 1. United States - 2-2-4 - 8 2. China - 5-2-0 - 7 3. South Korea - 3-2-0 - 5 4. Russia - 0-3-1 - 4 5. Japan - 1-0-2 - 3 6. Italy - 0-2-1 - 3 7. North Korea - 0-1-2 - 3 8. Czech Republic - 2-0-0 - 2 9. Australia - 1-0-1 - 2 10. Netherlands - 1-0-1 - 2 11. Cuba - 0-1-1 - 2 12. France - 0-1-1 - 2 13. England - 1-0-0 - 1 14. Romania - 1-0-0 - 1 15. Spain - 1-0-0 - 1 16. Thailand - 1-0-0 - 1 17. Austria - 0-1-0 - 1 18. Hungary - 0-1-0 - 1 19. Sweden - 0-1-0 - 1 20. Turkey - 0-1-0 - 1 21. Zimbabwe - 0-1-0 - 1 22. Algeria - 0-0-1 - 1 23. Argentina - 0-0-1 - 1 24. Belarus - 0-0-1 - 1 25. Croatia - 0-0-1 - 1 26. Georgia - 0-0-1 - 1 27. Germany - 0-0-1 -1 28. Switzerland - 0-0-1 - 1 29. Taiwan - 0-0-1 - 1 30. Uzbekistan - 0-0-1 - 1
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08-09-2008, 03:45 PM
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| Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| And results from each event so far: August 6 Womens Soccer First Round China 2-1 Sweden North Korea 1-0 Nigeria Norway 2-0 USA Canada 2-1 Argentina Germany 0-0 Brazil New Zealand 2-2 Japan Aug 7 Mens Soccer Round 1 Argentina 2-1 Ivory Coast Netherlands 0-0 Nigeria China 1-1 New Zealand Cameroon 1-1 South Korea Australia 1-1 Serbia USA 1-0 Japan Brazil 1-0 Belgium Italy 3-0 Honduras Aug 9 Mens Beach Volleyball Preliminary Round German 2-1 Norway Switzerland 2-0 Argentina Latvia 2-0 USA Womens Basketball Preliminary Round Russia 62-57 Latvia Women's Volleyball Preliminary Round USA 3-1 Japan Boxing - Light Heavyweight (75-81 kg) Yerkebulan Shynaliyev (Kazakistan) 11-3 Daugirdas Semiotas (Lithuania) Carlos Negron Colon (Puerto Rico) 13-4 Mehdi Ghorbani (Iran) Dzhakhon Kurbanov (Tajikistan) 11-3 Abbos Atoev (Uzbekistan) Marijo Sivolija-Jelica (Croatia) wins by TKO over Farani Tavui (Samoa) Abdelhafid Benchabla (Algeria) wins by TKO over Dinesh Kumar (India) Ramadan Yasser (Egypt) 10+-10 Ramazan Magamedau (Belarus) Womens Handball Game 3 Germany 24-22 Brazil Swimming - Men's 100-Meter Breaststroke Heat 8 (Top 5) 1. Kosuke Kitajima (Japan) - 59.52 2. Igor Borysik (Ukraine) - 1:00.31 3. Mihail Alexandrov (Bolivia) - 1:00.69 4. Christopher Cook (England) - 1:00.70 5. Mark Gangloff (USA) - 1:00.71 Swimming - Men's 100-Meter Breaststroke Heat 7 (Top 5) 1 Alexander Dale Oen (Norway) - 59.41 2 Brenton Rickard (Australia) - 59.89 3 Cameron van der Burgh (South Africa) - 59.96 4 Christian Sprenger (Australia) - 1:00.36 5 Oleg Lisogor (Ukraine) - 1:00.65 Swimming - Men's 100-Meter Breaststroke Heat 5 (Top 5) 1 Mike Andrew Brown (Canada) - 1:00.98 2 Andrew Bree (Ireland) - 1:01.76 3 Jonas Andersson (Sweden) - 1:01.77 4 Valentin Preda (Romania) - 1:01.77 5 Yevgeniy Ryzhkov (Kazahkistan) - 1:01.83 Swimming - Men's 100-Meter Breaststroke Heat 4 (Top 5) 1 Istvan Hunor Mate (Austria) - 1:00.93 2 Demir Atasoy (Turkey) - 1:02.25 3 Caba Siladji (Serbia) - 1:02.31 4 Tom Beeri (Israel) - 1:02.42 5 Martti Aljand (Estonia) - 1:02.46 Swimming - Men's 100-Meter Breaststroke Heat 3 (Top 5) 1 Daniel Velez (Puerto Rico) - 1:01.80 2 Sandeep Sejwal (India) - 1:02.19 3 Genaro Prono (Paruaguay) - 1:02.32 4 Malick Fall (Senegal) - 1:02.51 5 Alwin de Prins (Luxembourg) - 1:03.64 Swimming - Men's 100-Meter Breaststroke Heat 2 (Top 5) 1 Edgar Roberto Crespo Echeverria (Panama) - 1:03.72 2 Sergiu Postica (Moldova) - 1:03.83 3 Wael Koubrousli (Lebanon) - 1:06.22 4 Huu Viet Nguyen (Vietnam) - 1:06.36 5 Erik Rajohnson (Madacascar) - 1:08.42 Swimming - Men's 100-Meter Breaststroke Heat 1 1 Osama Mohammed Y E Alarag (Quatar) - 1:10.83 2 Mohammed Al-Habsi (Oman) - 1:12.28 3 Petero Okotai (Cook Islands) - 1:20.20 Swimming - Women's 400-Meter Individual Medley Heat 5 (Top 5) 1 Katie Hoff (USA) - 4:34.63 2 Hannah Miley (England) - 4:36.56 3 Katinka Hosszu (Hungary) - 4:37.55 4 Zsuzsanna Jakabos (Hungary) - 4:37.86 5 Mireia Belmonte (Spain) - 4:37.91
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08-09-2008, 06:53 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Campospinoso (PV), Italy
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| Normally the rank at the olympics is based on the 'metal' of the medals, so China is leading with 2 golds and US is second with one gold, one silver and one bronze. No matter how many medals you have in total, the ranking is driven by the number of the highest ranking medals.
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08-09-2008, 06:56 PM
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| aka Dickcheese  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| You forgot about Women's Individual fencing. US swept the category with a 1-1-1.
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08-09-2008, 06:57 PM
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| Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Yes but the official site lists them in both ways. The yahoo site listed them that way as well and that is how I copied it. But Parm you are correct, on how it is ranked...
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08-09-2008, 07:00 PM
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| Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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08-09-2008, 10:12 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Oh really? Ouch. And Latvia kicked the $hit out of the US in men's volleyball. Go Latvia!!!
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08-10-2008, 02:14 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Campinas - SP
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| brazil hopes for gold are: soccer, volley, beach volley, judo, sail, tae kwon do, gimnatics, horse riding, jumps in distance and with pole.... well thats not too much for the size of brazil, but for the investiments made, would be a miracle if we can win 5 golds at least...  cuba still been the only olimpic power in latin america !
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08-10-2008, 06:24 AM
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| Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| I will update this again, later tonight after all the games for today have been played.
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08-10-2008, 06:44 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Campinas - SP
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| how do you guys see the organization of the games until now ? does china doing a good job ?
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08-10-2008, 06:53 AM
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| Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| I think the organization is not bad, but I do not feel that China deserved the Olympics.
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08-10-2008, 08:58 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Queensland- Australia
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 | Every country does things to make it look more appealing to the outside world and make it look all calm and welcoming. In 2000 when we had the games every homeless person in sydney was moved so it looked like we were perfect. Same would have happend in Athens and i suspect China would have cleaned up Bejing a lot as well. This is China's big chance to prove to the world that it does not still have a Mao legacie and it has moved on and now is a major player in the world it is also a fantastic oppotunity to try and get Tourists.
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08-10-2008, 09:04 AM
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| Der Crewchief Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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A perfect example is not allowing the Press to report freely on the event or surrounding news stories. Everything has to be pre approved. When the US tourist was killed, everyone in the area (shop owners, residents, etc.) were forbidden by the state to talk to reporters. The fact that atheletes are not allowed to comment on China's political policies, or the fact that when westerners try to protest something such as Tibet at the Olympics they are being escorted out.
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08-10-2008, 09:23 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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| I support the Olympics but not China. Journo's cant even get the BBC website from the Beijing media centre, plus the internet is extraordinarily slow. Anyway, go Australia!
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08-11-2008, 02:43 AM
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unfortunelly(or not) politics and sports walk together. i think chine deserves the olympics ny its people. chinese are a very hard working people and they also are very funny people. china is also a country that born before the first classical olympic games in grece, i gess. the starting ceremony was totally awsome. really amazing. ---------------------------------------------------- lets see if you folks knows the hitory of the games: wich Olympic games started the tradition of taking a torch from olympia - greece to the host city of games?
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