Olympic Games

I must say, congrats Greece. Great oppening show. Amazing place you got there, great quality of ideas and execution of them, also great fireworks planning. 5 stars thumbs up.

Today i have seen already that Japan is taking all golds on Judo . One of the huys just became olympic tri-champion Way to go. ^-^ Respect!

On the 400meters swiming, EUA took the gold and plate medals, breaking once again the WR while doing it. The guy broke it last time 2 months ago. And did so for the first time at the age of 15!!! (he's 19 now)

So i tough i would create a topic on this, so that we can talk about the games.

I decided to turn off my TV now, or else i wont do much work at home.

"TV Bad, Bad TV! Stay! PLay dead!"

 

Oooh, you beat me to it, Tiago! I was thinking of making a thread like this... but here it is! Cool!

As I said elsewhere, I really enjoyed the opening ceremony, great job Greece! And now the games have started FOR REAL... in fact, I'm gonna go watch some now...

 

Great opening ceremony! I loved the fireworks!

The best 'Lighting the Olympic Flame' sequence though, to me was still Barcelona's. I loved how they used a bow and arrow for that!

Anyway... Portugal won a medal already! Silver medal for some cycling event. I wonder if we'll be able to win any more medals?

 

Ooh, congrats!

As far as I know Sweden hasn't won any medals yet, but I think there's some swimming event tonight where we hope to get a medal... or something. I don't really know anything about the thing, I just turn on the tv and see what they're showing...

 

I was just watching the synchronized dives... the Chinese team was great!

 

I watched that too and I agree, the Chinese were outstanding! I like the synchronized dives, it's fun to watch.

 

I managed to watch some of the opening ceremony on Friday, and it did look really good
I also think the main stadium looks fantastic, the two arches are very striking viusally from a distance.

I watched a bit of the swimming this morning, the only problem is that it makes me really want to go out swimming
The water looks so nice and cool

 

Blah, I was going to watch the gymnastics this morning, but I overslept...

 

Opening ceremony means !!!

Games looks great, I'm sure there'll be the best in history if they keeps that level

 

Carolina Klüft just won the Hepthalon!
That makes for swedens first gold-medal in the Olympics.

Go Sweden and Klüft!

 

Yeah! Go Carolina!

 

And GO HOLM!!!

You earned the GOLD!

 

And Olsson! What a day!!

Two gold medals in such short time... it's amazing. Stefan Holm SO deserved that gold, I'm so happy for him! Weeee!

 

Yeah... Him too...

And lets not forget the two sailors who won a bronze on saturday. Those girls deserves a cheer too .

And tomorrow, GO J.O!!!

 

How about some medal updates. As of today here are the top 15 countries and their medal count:

USA +76
Russia +54
China +52
Australia +42
Japan +34
Germany +33
France +26
G. Britian +24
Italy +22
S. Korea +21
Netherlands+19
Ukraine +18
Romania +17
Spain +14
Greece +12

Keep up the good work world!

 

*comes in partying*
Anky van Grunsven won Gold on Individual Dressage (or whatever it's called, I dunno the english terms) It's so awesome. She had a new horse, she'd broke her leg a few months ago. And still, she managed.

 

That's nice! She's a great rider... unfortunately I couldn't watch the dressage, I've been very busy the last few days with work and stuff...

 

One more gold to the count!

 

Its a shame that Iraq couldn't win the Bronze medal in Football.
It would've been a great boost for the country

 

*goes mad, dancing around*

Denmark has done it yet again!!!

3th Olympic Gold medal in a row for women's handball!
It's unbelieveable!

 

Congrats!

I haven't been able to watch the Olympics since Wednesday... been much too busy.