Olympics 2012

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Get your Olympice match here:
N.

Matched me with
C.Sinclair : Canadian soccer player
Maurice Smith : Jamaican Athlete
Katie Dawkins : British synchronised swimmer.

Could have been worse. It could have compared me to four ladies. :lol:

Interesting though. If that were a Hertzsprung–Russell diagram I'd be sitting well on the main sequence. In other words, 'distinctly' average.

 

[DanM]

I'm most like Martikan, apparently. After watching slalom canoeing today, I am very much okay with this.

 

[N_Molson]

Top ten ranking after Mon. 31st of July :

Class|Country|Gold|Silver|Bronze|Total
1|China|13|6|4|23
2|USA|9|8|5|23
3|France|4|3|4|11
4|South Korea|3|2|3|8
5|North Korea|3|0|1|4
6|Kazakhstan|3|0|0|3
7|Italy|2|4|2|8
8|Germany|2|3|1|6
9|Russia|2|2|4|8
10|South Africa|2|0|0|2

 

[Unstung]

Michael Phelps won another medal, a gold in the 4 x 100m relay for the third consecutive time. He now has 21 Olympic medals in total, 17 being gold.
Source: http://www.usatoday.com/sports/olym...helps-usa-gold-medal-100-butterfly/56749986/1

 

[N_Molson]

...and USA take the lead. Great Britain makes an impressive comeback :

Top ten ranking after Fri. 3rd of August :

Class|Country|Gold|Silver|Bronze|Total
1|USA|21|10|12|43
2|China|20|13|9|42
3|South Korea|9|2|5|16
4|Great Britain|8|6|8|22
5|France|8|5|6|19
6|Germany|5|9|6|20
7|Italy|4|5|3|12
8|North Korea|4|0|1|5
9|Kazakhstan|4|0|0|4
10|Russia|3|12|8|23

 

[ionif]

Olympics 2012 gold medals hoax.Gold medals from olympics 2012 are not made ​​of gold, gold medals are made ​​of solid silver.:hmm:

 

[Cras]

you want the gold medals to be made of SOLID GOLD? that would make each one cost like 50,000 USD. As it is, it is gold plated, over the silver core, and that plating alone raising the cost of them by like 500 USD. But solid gold? yeah, spend the money elsewhere.

 

[marooder86]

Olympics 2012 gold medals hoax.Gold medals from olympics 2012 are not made ​​of gold, gold medals are made ​​of solid silver.:hmm:

It's ain't hoax gold medals are made of silver since 1912 AFAIK, but they include at least 6 g of gold. Real gold medals were given two times if I'm not mistaken in 1904 and 1908. Before that there were ony silver and bronze medals.

 

[Pipcard]

My favorite kinds of sports in the Olympics are the relatively short races (100 m dash, freestyle swimming, etc.)

 

[ionif]

Copy/Paste from another site sorry.:rofl:

 

[DanM]

Does anyone else have a hard time watching table tennis? The volleys are just too short for me to watch.

 

[Ghostrider]

Does anyone else have a hard time watching table tennis? The volleys are just too short for me to watch.

You need a bigger TV set...:lol:

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

Usain Bolt URAGHHHHHHHH!

9.63 ..... pretty good eh?

 

[ky]

Usain Bolt URAGHHHHHHHH!

9.63 ..... pretty good eh?

:woohoo: The media were saying he couldn't, but he did, congrats Bolt!

 

[N_Molson]

"The fastest man of the World"... What if we put him in a Soyuz ? :hmm:

:lol:

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

"The fastest man of the World"... What if we put him in a Soyuz ? :hmm:

:lol:

..... should be even better if you pull him up on an Onion, err sorry Orion in a few years time?

 

[N_Molson]

err sorry Orion in a few years time?

Not sure that he will still be able to repeat today's performance.

---------- Post added 08-06-12 at 09:18 PM ---------- Previous post was 08-05-12 at 09:58 PM ----------

Very nice USA victory (4-3 with extra time !) against Canada in the Women Soccer competition.

The final will be USA-Japan ; as they beat France 2-1 earlier today.

France will encounter Canada for the Bronze medal.

 

[fort]

Today’s Olympic controversy: the Yohan Blake's watch.

http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/20...ake-wore-500000-watch-during-100-meters-race/

 

[MattBaker]

Ridiculous, why are you not allowed to wear what you like? Reminds me of the times when Olympic Champions were disqualified because they got a few dollars for their sport...

 

[garyw]

Because the sponsors pay a good part of the fee for the Olympics. You can bet that he wasn't wearing that watch because he bought it the day before but was being paid to wear it and if that stuff happens then the official sponsors get upset and pull out of future events.