Olympic Greats 08—Post the World's Best Feats!

[OlympFan]

Share your support and excitement over the athletes, the events, the competition, and the results in the sports of the Beijing Olympics 2008...

Watch Live / Taped Events on the Net:

www.nbcolympics.com/index.html

[OlympFan]

The Torch Is Lit!

The man they chose to light the torch after "running" on air around the stadium was Li Ning, 1984 and '88 Olympic Gymnast from China...

Video of him in 1984:

[Mighty_Tigers89]

anything interesting happen today I didn't catch anything.

[OlympFan]

I only got to watch bits of the opening ceremonies...

Interesting how several of the flag bearers were basketball players -- announcers saying so the flags would be walked in waving high...

I thought it was great that Yao Ming (China--Basketball) was accompanied by Lin Hao (later carried by Ming to watch celebration), a 9 year old little boy who survived the recent earthquake in China, and helped save others...

I tried to find pics, but there are some at the nbcolympics site...

Here:
www.nbcolympics.com/photos/galleryid=184435.html

[Mighty_Tigers89]

cool. Is NBC going to broadcast the olympics all day long or just for a certain time

[OlympFan]

Aug 9, 2008 1:19:45 GMT -6 Mighty_Tigers89 said:

cool. Is NBC going to broadcast the olympics all day long or just for a certain time

All these will broadcast The Olympics (mostly in evenings, some in the middle of the night, some in the day too):

NBC 23
MSNBC
CNBC
USA
UNIVERSAL HD
OXYGEN
TELEMUNDO

Plus the Basketball Channel and the Soccer Channel...

Looks like the only ones I can't watch are the HD one and the last two here...

[Mighty_Tigers89]

cool thanks for the info

[OlympFan]

No problem...

Hopefully people can enjoy some of these events right into the start of the Football Season...

[OlympFan]

Google Icon for 08-08-08:

[xlobo]

USA 1st gold!!!

[OlympFan]

Aug 9, 2008 13:46:31 GMT -6 xlobo said:

USA 1st gold!!!

Yeah, they swept: gold, silver, bronze for the US!


Photo: John W. McDonough/SI
Fencer Mariel Zagunis of the U.S. (center) stands at the podium with compatriots Sada Jacobson (left) and Becca Ward after winning gold, silver and bronze respectively.

[eagleprophet]

I really hope the USA Olympic team wins the overall medal count. Don't like the way it looks when we're third in the medal counts even if it is early. Some say China is the favorite to win the overall count, but I don't think it is gonna happen.

[OlympFan]

Here's the pic I looked for last night of Lin Hao (earthquake survivor) carried by Yao Ming... Lin is 9...


Photo: Al Tielemans/SI

[OlympFan]

Aug 9, 2008 14:04:19 GMT -6 eagleprophet said:

I really hope the USA Olympic team wins the overall medal count. Don't like the way it looks when we're third in the medal counts even if it is early. Some say China is the favorite to win the overall count, but I don't think it is gonna happen.

Yeah, looks like China got athletes to enter events the US and others sometimes don't focus on (like team handball, I think) just to boost their medal counts... People are referring to this Olympics as China's Medal Games...

[xlobo]

Yea I hope US wins the medal count but by alot though.

[OlympFan]

Google Icon Art for 08-09-08:

[xlobo]

google comes out with some pretty cool icons!!!

[Ol' Buzzard]

Hey olympfan, when the olympics is over, does that mean we won't see you for another 4 years or do you do the winter as well?

[OlympFan]

Aug 9, 2008 14:28:22 GMT -6 Ol' Buzzard said:

Hey olympfan, when the olympics is over, does that mean we won't see you for another 4 years or do you do the winter as well?

I do prefer the Summer Games to the Winter, but I'll still be here...

[xlobo]

Did you see the men's volleyball match v. Venenzuela Good game!