Olympic GDT - 3 August

[SilverGS]

Originally Posted by FLAMESRULE

Women just set a new Olympic record on track cycling. Nice work.

edit: and quickly beaten by the US team...but they are through to race for Gold + Silver!!

Looks like fighting for Silver or Bronze. The Brits killed everyone's time

[Senator Clay Davis]

Serena anihilates Victoria Azarenka, setting up the dream final between Sharapova and Serena.

[GirlySports]

Originally Posted by Muta

The Chinese dominance in these games is terrifying. Do they have athletic sweatshops back home or something? They seem to place well in every single event! I swear that government will do anything and fund anything to make sure the world feels their sporting dominance.... I'm sure it's all about image for them.

No different from CCCP 40 years ago. The communists feel they can dominate the world through sport.

[albertGQ]

When does the Murray/Novak match start?

[troutman]

Japan's womens' soccer team (World Cup Champions) had to fly coach to London, while the mens' team (haven't won anything) flew first class.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Murray-Djokovic has just started.

[carom]

I dont really want to get into it, but i feel i have to make my position known.

Screw the canadian team for womens track cycling team pursuit. I am hoping for 4 place. Politics are unavoidable in high level sport, but it always ruins it.

[SebC]

"And as the two sides line up for the photographers it's noticeable that the Japanese side has about three times as many photographers snapping their line-up that the Brazillians do." - soccer commentator

This will not surprise anyone who has ever been to Banff.

[Knut]

Originally Posted by carom

I dont really want to get into it, but i feel i have to make my position known.

Screw the canadian team for womens track cycling team pursuit. I am hoping for 4 place. Politics are unavoidable in high level sport, but it always ruins it.

Huh? What is this about ?

[carom]

It is personal and i dont want to get into specifics. I just needed to vent.

Sorry, i know not the smartest thing to do on a public forum.

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by Muta

The Chinese dominance in these games is terrifying. Do they have athletic sweatshops back home or something? They seem to place well in every single event! I swear that government will do anything and fund anything to make sure the world feels their sporting dominance.... I'm sure it's all about image for them.

Nationalist pride is an important political commodity, and manufacturing it through spending on athletics is probably a fantastic return on investment for communist countries. It's less about showing the rest of the world they're a dominant sporting power, more about giving their own country a tremendous source of pride, as well as evidence of the superiority of their hybrid communist/capitalist model.

I was reading an article about how China is trying to use its Olympics program as a way of re-asserting the importance of healthy lifestyles as part of Chinese culture; they've got one of the fastest-rising rates of obesity in the world, and they're aware of the serious hit to their health-care system that this may pose. (Not at the level of the US on a per-capita basis, but they have surpassed the US in total number of diabetics). The US has not been able to channel athletic success into really encouraging athletic participation; it's produced a culture of sports fans, as opposed to sporters. It'll be really interesting to see if China's able to reverse that trend in their own population, or whether they'll end up like the US.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by carom

It is personal and i dont want to get into specifics. I just needed to vent.

One of the girls was careless with your delicate heart?

[BEANZ]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

One of the girls was careless with your delicate heart?

If true, I hope they get Gold!

[Fire]

Dylan Armstrong eats 9000 calories a day and spends $150 a day on groceries. No wonder he's a big boy. His Shot Put final comes up in 25 minutes.

[Senator Clay Davis]

^Somewhat related, I remember reading in SI a few years ago that Michael Phelps eats 5,000 calories for breakfast. But I'd imagine he burns that off before lunch.

[Knut]

Sorry you were left off the Woman's cycling team Carom.

[Ruttiger]

Originally Posted by carom

I dont really want to get into it, but i feel i have to make my position known.

Screw the canadian team for womens track cycling team pursuit. I am hoping for 4 place. Politics are unavoidable in high level sport, but it always ruins it.

Originally Posted by carom

It is personal and i dont want to get into specifics. I just needed to vent.

Sorry, i know not the smartest thing to do on a public forum.

Then why bring it up on a public forum where you know people will ask?

[403ep3]

Originally Posted by Fire

Dylan Armstrong eats 9000 calories a day and spends $150 a day on groceries. No wonder he's a big boy. His Shot Put final comes up in 25 minutes.

is there a link for this? too many channels on the website

[Fire]

Originally Posted by 403ep3

is there a link for this? too many channels on the website

This should work for you:
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/videos/cha...ld-finals.html

[Senator Clay Davis]

Men's double semi-finals between France and Spain leads to another epically long match, 14-14 in the third. Djokovic and Murray on serve a 5-5 in the first.