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15th August 2008, 09:43 PM
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Location: Wellington  | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? I hereby deem that picture, a 'Classic'.  I lol'd, BIGtime. For those who don't know why, will not understand. From someone who doesn't watch the olympics ...how are we going ? Any medals, injuries, or just straight up 'Fail' moments for NZ yet ? Only thing I've seen is the soccer that night where we got raped. 
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16th August 2008, 01:38 PM
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Location: Tokoroa | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? Michael Phelps, impressive. Mens 100m sprint, quarter finals wow. shot off the line, for the first 50, second 50m, just a "casual" jog to the finish @ 9.97sec.! haha.. ridiculous. |
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16th August 2008, 02:16 PM
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Location: Christchurch | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? Quote:
Left it right till the wall to win the 100m Butterfly though. I hope he breaks the record, they interviewed Mark Spitz the other day and he sounded like a knob.
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17th August 2008, 02:21 AM
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Location: Christchurch | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? Seriously, how quick is this guy???  Threw up the claim about 30m out from the finish line too! 100m final canter-finish FTW! Not so sure about the dude that finished 2nd jumping round like he'd won the damn thing though?
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17th August 2008, 09:48 AM
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Location: Auckland  | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? LOL yeh the trininad n tobago guy was to excited i think BOLT can probly go easy 9.63ish around there cause he startd dancing and running sideways near the end, cant wait to see bolt in the 200m which is his speical EDIT: Phelps gets his 8 Gold Medals epic 4x100 medly relay Last edited by EK9_RAC3R; 17th August 2008 at 02:23 PM. |
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17th August 2008, 02:33 PM
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Location: Auckland | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? bolt is so fast, noone came even close to him and they sprinted all the way! and its about time we got some medals!!! awesome effort
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17th August 2008, 03:01 PM
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Location: Carterton | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? stayed up last night to watch the shotput, vallerie adams (i think is her name?) smoked them all with her first throw, and none of them could come close. well deserved medal!
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17th August 2008, 03:45 PM
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Location: Tauranga | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? Phelps is such a big deal over here, I was wathing it in the bar a few hours ago and they didn't even show the results of the medley relay, so I didn't get to see where the kiwis came. Hopefully not last.....
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17th August 2008, 04:10 PM
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17th August 2008, 07:42 PM
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Location: Howick | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? anyone watch the womans marathon? The woman who won was a good 1 minute and a bit in front of the rest. Feel sorry for the previous champion, got cramps halfway through and had to stop
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18th August 2008, 12:56 PM
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Location: Christchurch | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? Anyone watch NZ vs China hockey late last night?? See me/our cheer squad on TV?? Disappointing tie... altho the boys did awesome to come back from being down 2-0! And we totally outcheered the Chinese. |
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20th August 2008, 12:35 PM
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Location: Wellington | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? Athletics 2:20 a.m. 2:30 a.m. Men's 200m Final It's on tonight, i watched the semi's and my god, Bolt won it and looked pretty relaxed again in the last 50m |
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20th August 2008, 12:42 PM
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20th August 2008, 12:47 PM
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Location: Auckland | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? BMX track looks good, there's a couple of big gaps with grass in the middle and one over a berm so you actually have to be able to get some air.
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20th August 2008, 01:34 PM
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Location: Tokoroa | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? Quote:
whats the point of this BMX race? looks like it belongs in X-games not olympics! | |
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20th August 2008, 01:53 PM
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Location: Tauranga | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? Quote:
Better than two teams of mutant freaks on a square of lino touching each others bums when they score [/haterer]  
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20th August 2008, 01:59 PM
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Location: Auckland | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? This is the qualifying/seeding runs, the top ?? (not sure how many go thru, the commentry through out the games has been useless IMO, unless you're an expert in the sport you're left guessing whats going on) times go thru to the next round, where they race in groups of 8 and you get to see all the crashes and shoulder barging. As Neil said it is purely a race, no points for style or judging, so IMO its way more suited to the olympics than synchronised swimming or rhythmic gymnastics!
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20th August 2008, 03:55 PM
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Location: Auckland | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? Yeah, the commentary in general has been lacking. Considering its a first time sport and 95% of the population haven't got a clue what its about the commentators could have done a bit more explaining. Mind you I suspect they're as ignorant/unfamiliar as anyone, one of the female french riders had a huge shit-your-pants moment bordering on becoming a faceplant into the asphalt berm when she topped a jump with her front wheel and the commentator didn't even flinch or say a word about it, I suspect he hasn't ridden a bike in 40 years and had no idea how close to disaster she was...
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20th August 2008, 04:39 PM
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Location: Auckland | Re: Olympics - What Are You Watching? Yeah I heard he was supposed to be alright, but no idea where he's ranked. AFAIK the girl is our best medal hope. I've never seen it raced as an individual time trial like that, and it could be that its a whole new thing for some riders to be dealing with. Sharing the track with 7 other riders adds a whole new level of dynamics to it.
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