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« Reply #90 on: August 25, 2004, 01:24:27 pm »
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WOOOOOOOOOOO! Brazil just beat Spain twice! lol In women's basketball and beach volleyball!


 :cry: Damn Brazillians!

A friend just phoned me and told me about the beach volley, she said they beat the crap out of us. I didn't know about the women's basketball though  :?  Are we really not going to get any other gold medal??? This is getting very worrying


ha aww Ne...

Hm ok so Brazil made it into the semi-finals in men's volleyball! yay!!

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« Reply #91 on: August 26, 2004, 06:19:00 am »
GREAT! I kinda just woke up and Brazil just won another gold medal!  8O
Hmm that's so cool! lol
In sailing once again... NIIIICE!  :D

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« Reply #92 on: August 26, 2004, 12:57:20 pm »
Woohoo, USA beat Brazil for soccer!!!!!

sorry Julez........

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« Reply #93 on: August 26, 2004, 03:51:59 pm »
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Woohoo, USA beat Brazil for soccer!!!!!

sorry Julez........


haha Emmy! yea I didn't really expect it to be the other way round...
But hey at least it was a great game!  :)
and I'm glad Brazil got silver hehe

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« Reply #94 on: August 26, 2004, 09:25:35 pm »
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WOOOOOOOOOOO! Brazil just beat Spain twice! lol In women's basketball and beach volleyball!


 :cry: Damn Brazillians!

A friend just phoned me and told me about the beach volley, she said they beat the crap out of us. I didn't know about the women's basketball though  :?  Are we really not going to get any other gold medal??? This is getting very worrying


May and Walsh freakin' rock!! I was crackin' up when Matt and Katie were interviewing them talking about how they high five after every point win or lose and how there is a lot of butt slappin' going on as well. May was all pointing at Walsh. She said she couldn't help it. Poor May had serious red marks on her hips all the time.

Can I just say that the US Women's Soccer Team totally made me proud when they got their medals. They sang it how I was talking about. After the ceremony Bob said they would be in studio but that they would not be singing.

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« Reply #95 on: August 27, 2004, 11:52:57 am »
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Can I just say that the US Women's Soccer Team totally made me proud when they got their medals. They sang it how I was talking about. After the ceremony Bob said they would be in studio but that they would not be singing.


Hehe, yes, I was quite proud of them as well... singing loud and proud... even if they weren't singing the greatest...  :lol:

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« Reply #96 on: August 27, 2004, 03:56:37 pm »
A gold medal for Spain in sailing! Both sailors are Basque, w00t! *proud* :)

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« Reply #97 on: August 27, 2004, 09:52:16 pm »
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That was the cutest description ever.  

ppffft shush :-P

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The music choices made by the NBC production staff are hilarious.  Whenever they go into and come out of commercials they have been playing music "relating" to the race walking!  I've already heard Walk This Way and that other song that goes "Ain't nothing gonna break my stride.  Ain't nothing gonna slow me down.  Oh no.  I got to keep on movin...'"

LOL OMG they do that here too!!! THey find stupid songs that relate to the incident or sport or situation :-) LOL
So far they keep playing "just push it" by salt and pepper ... for the mens sprint cycling ... they really have to push hard at the begginning ... it's too funny :-)
Then they show them winning and getting the gold :-)

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Oh my goodness, yay for Greece!

Tell me about it!
These games are the best for Australia ... 17 gold!!!
Rowing cycling diving swimming athletics so many sports!!
Australia has dropped to 4th in the medel tally, but shit, 20 million people ... so much potential ...
Mind you it's not like I contribute or antyhing ... the only thing I have in common with them is I live in the same country LOL :-)

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Alexei Nemov displayed exemplar behaviour last night as a gymnast. I was extremely impressed by his conduct in the whole competition- the way he told the crowd to quieten down was so good to see.

PLEASE EXPLAIN ... !!!!
damn this is the worst coverage of the olympics EVER! All they show are the events Australia is in! We never see anything else. Not a single other event. It's crap. We only saw the mens gymnastics up until the Aussie crashed out (literally crashed :-()
And Nemov is so CUTE!!! Sexi Alexi!!!
 
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that is so true Rosie. I was like awe, I am going to cry. Stupid Olympics get me so emo.

Tha'ts why the olympics are so brillant ... so many times I literally choke back tears ..
when Grant Hacket won the 1500 meters swiming, he was crying and I was crying, and it's not good to cry at 4am in the morning ... LOL ... I cried when the moroccan won ... he kissed his kids and couldn't stop crying .. nor could I :-) I <3 the olympics ... :-)


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That's the best part of the olympics so far for me. Did you see her face? A classic "omg! did I just win?" look  

aaaww :-) Damn australian broadcast ... *shakes fists*

You know something else? In the triathlon, the girl that won gold for I forget which Euro country Sweden Switzerland whatever, she's only been triathelon-ing for 8 years, and she WAS Australian, but the Australian team rejected her ... so she moved countries. And she won under THAT countries nationality ... she's now since showed them who's boss :-) good on her (BTW, Australia did win silver in the Triathelon, but could have been gold silver!)

We won another gold in men's hockey ... ha!
Let you would have proud ... EVERY MAN was singing the anthem ...

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« Reply #98 on: August 28, 2004, 03:24:20 am »
so what do you guys think about the whole hamm controversey?

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« Reply #99 on: August 28, 2004, 12:36:32 pm »
Woohoo!  Women's Basketball takes the Gold and Men's basketball takes the Bronze!

And I missed both because I was moving into my dorm at UConn... Boo :(

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« Reply #100 on: August 28, 2004, 12:45:26 pm »
GOLD IN 100M RELAY! YAAAAAAAAY! In your face America!!!

Oh and yaaaaaaay for Kelly Holmes too!
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« Reply #101 on: August 28, 2004, 02:52:36 pm »
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GOLD IN 100M RELAY! YAAAAAAAAY! In your face America!!!!

Yes! That was my new favourite moment of the olympics. The sprint relay is so the best event. I'm so glad we won it.

We'll also be getting gold in the boxing tomorrow :)

-Kev

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« Reply #102 on: August 28, 2004, 03:21:26 pm »
damn damn damn, i am missing all these things now!  stupid dorm cable not working *throws shoe*

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« Reply #103 on: August 29, 2004, 03:43:16 am »
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GOLD IN 100M RELAY! YAAAAAAAAY! In your face America!!!!

Yes! That was my new favourite moment of the olympics. The sprint relay is so the best event. I'm so glad we won it.

We'll also be getting gold in the boxing tomorrow :)

-Kev


such good sports you are ... :-P

I was so annoyed with the USA women beating the Aussie women ... damn it we were leading for all 3 and a half quarters ... damn it ...

Aussies silver in the 4 x 400 m relay! Those men can RUN!!!!!

It's so so sssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooo sad to see the games over. *sniff* ...
I always get so depressed when they finish. I don't know whether to watch the closing ceremony or not ... :-( It always makes me so sad ...
It has been a good games. I realy loved the fact that I had to stay up til the wee hours of the night to watch them live ... it made me feel like yeah I made an effort ... *sigh* I hate when things end.

HIGHLIGHT:
Grant Hackett winning gold and crying and pointing to his heart when he finished. He thought he was spent he said ... he said he gave everything in the heats and was doubting himself ... but he said that he wanted it so much, and the last 500 meters was just heart. ... aawww

The aussie bike lady winning the bike event ... the german looked over her right shoulder, because the whole way the aussie was sitting on the germans right ... and then the german looked over her right shoulder, and the aussie overtook her on the left ...

Diving... so many men, in so little clothes.

The Morroccan winning and not being able to believe it ... did you see him ... he was like TO OMG TWO and holding up his fingers ... TWO!!! He was eccstatic ... and then on he podium, he couldn't stop crying .. unashamedly, unabashed .. just tears of joy ...

Also the Greek lady winning the 400m hurdles ... (yeah yeah Jana Pittman ... Australian WHATEVER!!!) I was happy to see the Greek win because the WHOLE country just more or less exepected it ...  I was so happy she delivered on the day, and got the monkey off her back, and was able to function under all that pressure!!!

Iraq managing to get into the quarter finals only to be defeated by Italy then they swapped shirts ... aawww again ...

Still ... no humanity stories ... (or none that I know of ....)
It was all very sterile I think and "proper" ...

EDIT: damn spelling mistakes.

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« Reply #104 on: August 29, 2004, 04:46:51 am »
My most memorable moments of the 2004 Olympics would have to be when Jane Saville won bronze for walking and also when Jana Pittman came first in the first semi final of the hurdles.

Jane was close to winning gold at the Sydney Olympics  but was desqualified in the 20km walk and she only had 400m to go.
It devistated her so it was really good to see her take home the bronze and her being so proud of her achievement.


Jana Pittman injured her knee about 3 weeks ago and was told she wouldnt have any chance of running in the Olympics.
So she had an opperation and about maybe 5 days before she was going to run the Drs said that she had a 60% chance of running.
She rested and then started to work on everything, she made it to the 1st semi final- came 1st, second semi final- come 2nd (I think) and on the big race she came 5th but what an achievement.
She rocks so much, a great Australian.

The Australian woman's swimming team kicked series arse aswell.
And every one of our divers won a medal  8)