anyone know her name or what country shes from she pretty cute.



darknnesss

me too! so cute.

Ahhh, men's platform diving final!!
Yum yum yummy.

YES! men's volleyball is awesomeeeeee!

^ I was just watching that! Great game.

I prefer Women's Volleyball over Men's, though. The men seriously creep me out, and I haven't the slightest idea why...and the rallies in Women's are longer and a lot more interesting.

All Kobe in the 4th quarter to seal the deal on Men's Basketball GOLDDDDDDDDDDDDDDddd

Whoo!!
Congrats to the U.S. Men's Basketball Team.
Pretty easy win.

The Spanish did good in the first quarter.
But they lost steam.

Easy win? That was one of the best games I seen in a while. USA had to play HARD to win that game. That was no easy task. That game was close throughout the entire time. Juan Carlos Navarro was owning up USA. And Rudy posterized Dwight Howard with a facial.

>.<
D'oh.
You're right.

I was watching and writing an essay at the same time.

Horrible officiated game, I didn't know if I was watching basketball or football.

Kobe in the clutch >>>>>>>>>>>> Jordan in the clutch

Yeah I said it.

lol I can't stand Women's team volleyball, they always have to go into a group hug after every point, win or lose

The refs were letting them play. I like it like that.



f**k all you kobe haters out there.

is that when he made the four point play? =)

i can't believe the olympics are over already!

^ yeah! Kobe was part of 15 consecutive USA points. He either Assisted or scored. Crazy. And his defense was intense!

Don't worry Teesa! After Olympics, There's still the USA Open tennis!!! And then after that football, and Basketball season starts! yay :]

Ah, that's true. A waste of time. But you have to admit, wouldn't you rather watch a bunch of women slap each other's asses as opoosed to some hairy men?

Who watched the Closing Ceremony?

You know what I'm tired of? Seeing Phelps EVERYWHERE on NBC. Yeah, what he's doing is historic, but let other sports and people shine too. They are over hyping him imo. That's no disrespect to him. Look at USA Women's Basketball. They were going for their 4th GOLD medal in a row! How Amazing is that? Same with Women's Softball. They didn't even get a lick of coverage about it. Phelps this, phelps that. Even after USA Men's Basketball just won the Gold, they still had to discuss Phelps. Jeez.

Haha, that's what the girls in my school's senior volleyball team do.

f**k volleyball

i love volleyball,womens that is.

I'm ecstatic that someone else finnaly brought this up.

I agree with everything except for the Softball thing. I mean, if the cancellation of Softball/Baseball for London 2012 is any indication, no one really gives a crap. Phelps is a f**king legend, but I do agree that it's a bit excessive. There are a ton of other amazing wins that get overshadowed.

Although, I find NBC still does a better job than the Canadian coverage of the Olympics (apart from NBC's obvious bias towards China). I woke up this morning at 5 am to watch the Closing Ceremony, and CBC constantly went to commercial when there were performances going on. Or, they'd start interviewing people that they had interviewed already when they won their freakin' medals. They interviewed this girl who won a Bronze medal in hurdles and it was a complete and utter fluke, making her out to be a national hero, same with van Koeverden who won Silver.

I sometimes wonder what the CBC would do if they had won Gold medals - shit their pants? Create temples in their honour and pray to them? The funny thing is that I've never once seen them interview the Vietnamese woman who represented Canada and won in Wrestling. It could be because I missed out on them, but apart from that I hardly hear them so much as a mention of her. It's disappointing that the coverage is so bad in a multicultural country like Canada.

Did any of you see Phelps's SI cover? The 8 gold medals around his neck make it look like he's wearing a halter top, and that's weirding me out a bit.


And holy shit, could there BE any uglier outifts for Canada to wear to the Closing Ceremony?!

WTF IS WITH THOSE PANTS? f**k the Bay.

^ the first thought that came to mind as I scrolled down this page was: IS THAT A DRESS MICHAEL PHELPS IS WEARING!?!?1/1/

and wow, those are some hawt pants.

NBC's coverage has been horrible. I always have to look online to find out when certain events are going to be covered. Sometimes I would get on the internet and be like wtf they already ran the 100 meters. And I'm also tired of hering Phelps, how about doing more coverage on the USA basketball game, which was one of the best games of the ages.

This is for you NBC



Kobe is that dude.

lol I love how NBC always has "LIVE" on the top right corner of the screen. All of the events I watched on NBC were recorded already so I'd just check the results online

yeah i was pissed off, i missed the first 3 quarters of the game.

Yeah that game was intense. Im upset because my recorder screwed up while recording the game.

Spain reminds me of the Detroit Pistons when they had Dennis Rodman, they were dirty as f**k. This game wouldn't have been that close had the officiating been on point.

The CBC sucks more. I know because I get both channels. Their choice of coverage is such a major joke, they can spend hours showing you Rowing prelims and interview mediocre Canadian athletes, and forgo all the gold-medal matches or events that have a lot of fans, like Basketball.

There needs to be more more Olympic channels...it's ridiculous how I only have up to 3 channels to choose from, and often they're playing the SAME THING. When I was in Hong Kong, we bought a relatively cheap HD box that included 10+ channels that played the Olympics, some of them running 24 hours. I pretty much never missed anything in HK.


INORITE? All events were "LIVE" at one time or another, but this is just a joke. And, us west-coasters watch events a few hours behind so we're deceived into actually thinking it's "LIVE" as well.

"NOW BACK TO OUR LIVE COVERAGE AT THE WATER CUBE!"

Our family only got one channel that covered the olympics; we were deceived into thinking that if we ordered CCTV we'd get more olympic coverage. WE WERE WRONG :(


my family pretty much spent most of their time cursing and yelling at the USA commentators lol

When I scrolled down and only saw the top of that picture, I thought exactly the same thing. How misleading...


Seriously, what the f**k. I want Roots back!!!


I think the reason why CBC doesn't cover basketball or any of those more popular sports is because they know NBC will be covering them anyway. Pretty much everyone in Canada has both CBC and NBC (whether it maybe the channel 16 or channel 83 one), so having two channels covering the exact same things all the time is kind of pointless. =\


Yeah, I remember when I was in China for the 2004 Olympics, there were SO MANY CHANNELS TO CHOOSE FROM! I really really miss that...

*begin Michael Phelps rant*

You know what...? I'm tired of them hyping up his Olympic record too. I mean, it's awesome that he won 8 gold medals, but there are only two sports that allow for that kind of medal count: track and field and swimming. For example, you can only get six maximum in women's gymnastics (one team, one all-around, and then the four event finals). There just aren't enough events in the other sports at the Olympics that allow for that type of recognized excellence. He's a great swimmer, and what he did will be remembered for a long time, but I don't think he's the greatest Olympian ever, by any means.

*end Michael Phelps rant*

Edit: And those outfits are atrocious.

Did London's mayor look wack or did London's mayor look wack?

I know; they went by too fast. :(

I read this New York Daily News (I think) article saying how we'd all be sick of hearing and seeing Michael Phelps's name by the end of the Olympics. The writer was right.

We can still look forward to the Paralympics? =]

I CAN'T WAIT! =D I hope they do show it on TV, I don't know what station would show it (in the States) other than ESPN. Does Canada show them all mainstream like that?

^ I actually have NO idea! I guess I should go check it out...

paraolympics..?

I'm enjoying the closing ceremony more than the opening ceremony.

I actually missed the opening ceremony, which I regret XD I've never missed one. But I'm watching the closing now. I'm not really sure about my thoughts about it. It's alright, I kind of expected something more.

I can't understand the singing, it's all echo-y and ish.

I like the Echo-y effect alot, actually.

Yeaaaah but I was never able to understand what they're saying.

It wouldn't have made any difference to me:
1.I don't understand Chinese (when it was was sung)
2.I just liked how their voices sounded
3.Leona was very nice to look at

Ha ha I meant during the speeches and ish too, my bad.

The echo thing did sound pretty cool, like something real big production.

yeahh, with the whole "live" coverage thing..what a JOKE. everything was super delayed and when i checked the internet for specific games, all i got was a range-like they would tell me that a volleyball game would be seen somewhere from 12am-10am. uhmmm, thanks!

i still think michael phelps is super awesome.

Watching the closing right now, I wasn't in town for the opening!! And I couldn't watch cause I was up in the mountains ): ):

Oh yea...they just HAD to replay Usain Bolt again during the break. And as if Michael Phelps commercials weren't enough, they have all his family members doing commercials as well too.

YES! He looked like he got off work and was just leaving the pub after happy hour. BUTTON YOUR SUIT, YOU SLOPPY PIG, YOUR GUT IS HANGING OUT. He looked like a hot mess. And he kept on waving like a goofy idiot, and looked so awkward.


Does this help?
"A TV broadcast of the 2008 Paralympics will begin Oct. 8 and will include seven days of three-hour broadcasts. Live and delayed highlights of the Games also will be available in the U.S. online at universalsports.com from Sept. 6-17."

It's not as good as the opening ceremony.
I felt that it wasn't as streamlined-looking as the opening.

But overall, still pretty amazing.
I love the memory tower.

The British presentation was pretty clever.
I thought it reflected what urban London is supposed to be about.

What was Leona Lewis singing?

^ Maybe a Led Zeppelin song?

I was actually thinking she was gonna sing Bleeding Love.
But very glad she didn't.

Jackie Chan!!

Haha I see Jackie Chan too. Uh, this is boring...everyone is just dancing around in a circle.