I'm not Canadian, but I've lived 30 minutes from the border at Niagara Falls my entire life, so I feel I'm able to speak here.

I've seen the CBC coverage. I've seen the NBC coverage. I receive both and it's absolutely wonderful. I get to watch the sports from the perspectives of two countries. Hearing the Canadians cheer for their own is just as thrilling as rallying behind the athletes from my own country. You may not be seeing the most exciting events the Olympics have to offer but you are seeing the events in which your fellow countrymen and women are competing. Is that not enough for you? Do you forsake your own people just because something better might be on television?

Where the hell do you get off calling any of them half-baked anyhow? They've trained as best they can for this. It's all voluntary. They choose to represent Canada. They represent you. Your miserable, unappreciative ass, they're out there working themselves raw before dawn each day, training, studying and persevering for one of the last bastions of global community left in this world - and all you can do is mock them.

Fuck you.

It doesn't matter if their government is fully behind them. Do you think they lose sleep wondering if the prime minister of Canada respects their swim team? There are athletes from all over the planet whose governments cannot afford luxurious Olympic training programs. They get by and sometimes they even win. Those people are fucking heroes and should be carried on thrones for a year. I don't see you busting yourself to train as they do, for a chance - a chance mind you! It's not even a guarantee! - to compete. You just sit there and call your athletes half-assed wannabes, unable to appreciate the vast sacrifices each athlete has made just to experience the complete joy of having merely stood alongside the best athletes in the world.

You are a complete disgrace to your country.

Crash, we'll see what he says aboot Team Canada in 2 years.

This is a joke right? Canada will never pass 4th place at tops. We are the favorites @ hockey and we did pretty bad even with Wayne as our coach and Crosby as captain.

Why thank you for pointing the fact!

Well fuck you too. CBC just burns me up. During the qualification round for men's gymnastic, they were BASHING how Romania won't be moving to next round. "This high bar won't be enough for Romania to move on for next round." Right after the guy's routine is done, Romania took Canada's place and moved on to next round while Canada was eliminated.

For fuck's sake, NBC barely has any negative comments. CBC, you turn on the fucking tv, you hear them bashing. For instance,(Women's soccer) when China scored goal on Canada, the commentary peeps went berserk.

This is probably because I personally know one of men's gymnastic team. Can't stand those commentary peeps on CBC.

But than, maybe its just me since I always watched CBC and this is my first time watching NBC for Olympics.

Hockey's just one sport. Canada was 4th in 1998 and 2002.

NBC was making similarly disparaging remarks about the Romanian team, for what it's worth.

Phelps is NASTY. That's all.

3 down, 5 to go.

The rapist Micheal Phelps strikes again.

I was really surprised how Park Tae Hwan came in 2nd. Hwaiting mother fucker~ you just became national hero!.


Average ranking only using those 7 records: 6.875

Fuck. I guess I'll have to wait for my timezone's "prime time" to watch the swim match. I'll see it in about 3 hours. Damn you East coast people. And NBC.

WTF? What do you mean? You can't watch it? , this is blasphemy!



I really hope Phelps gets 8 medals this Olympic.

WEST coast. 3 hour difference. When it shows it at 10 PM EAST coast, NBC decided to show it at 10 PM WEST coast. So when NBC airs it here in the WEST coast at 10 PM, it's already 1 AM in the EAST coast.

What the fuck NBC.

But enough of my bitching.

NBC's tape delayed broadcasts (I'm on PST as well) are great, but only if you a) don't care much about being "spoilered" and/or b) manage to maintain total information blackout before you watch the broadcast.

I was on the road listening to the radio when the sports guy was like, "Phelps is 2 minutes from starting the 200m freestyle finals" and then a couple minutes later, "There's another gold for Phelps" and I was... "oh." Oh well.

What I really hate about tape delay is when local stations broadcast results before the events even air. I still have a bad taste in my mouth from the 2002 Winter Olympics when Inside Edition held an interview with Tara Lipinski going "HEY YOU WON GREAT" before her showdown with Michelle Kwan even aired.

But hey, internet streams etc.

And in other news, the footstep firework footage seen on TV was faked. :tpg:

I wanted the Chinese team to beat those smug NBA dudes in hoops, but I suppose I'm asking too much :(

kimchi that was just the semi-final race, not the final race. The medal race will be tomorrow night. only has 3 so far.

Don't ruin Kimchi's ideas with logic, BZ. He/She clearly knows more than the rest of us, and is miles out in front of the pack in the dipshit heat.

Yeah actually, I do. I don't disagree that the effort involved in becoming an Olympian is incredible and people who do that should be rightly applauded but I've never really bought into the whole Team GB crap. For me, the Olympics is an opportunity to watch the greatest athletes in the world compete against each other and the fact that some of them live in the same country as me largely washes over me. I'd rather watch a mentally skilled table tennis match featuring a couple of slopes than watch a British guy run the marathon because watching a marathon is essentially really boring whereas a high paced table tennis match is incredible and because English people apparently suck at it, it's never shown here. That's why I'm such a fan of the BBCi coverage because now I don't have to just watch the stuff with Brits in, I can watch better contests featuring only foreigners.

I guess the main reason is that national pride is a big thing in America, it's part of your national psyche and as far as I can tell, drummed in to you from an early age. Over here on the other hand we're a nation of cynics and love nothing better than to see successful people fail and love supporting losers. Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards, the ski-jumper who never managed more than about 20 yards was hugely popular here whereas Paula Radcliffe, an incredible athlete and hugely successful is most famous here for the time she was caught on camera having a piss in the street during a marathon once. Linford Christie, fastest man in the world for a bit and we only remember that he was accused of drug taking and all rather enjoyed that. Steve Backley, champion javelin thrower? Cheated on his wife. Colin Jackson, champion hurdler? Won the Dancing on Ice gameshow.

I'm not saying you're wrong to support your country's athletes, far from it. I'll cheer on our no-hopers as much as deep down I'll hope that Phelps fucks up and drowns because frankly, nobody likes a show-off. All I'm saying is that not everyone will share your own jingoistic sense of national pride and the Olympics, for many people are not all about your own country doing well, they're about watching some decent athletics so don't be so hard on the kid just because he's not solely bothered about how his own country is performing.

Phelps is a fucking asshole. Something about the guy just bugs me. The screaming when he wins, the bloody arrogance... I don't know. I hope someone hamstrings him.

Thank you for clearing it up :cool: , I was wondering "WTF" when the profile clearly screamed with bolded white letters "9 gold medalist".

Don't worry, your contempt isn't completely baseless. After all, he is a malevolent-rapist-octopus-demon that just happens to DEFY GRAVITY!!! :gonk:



watch as he reaches under the water to catch his next, unsuspecting victim...

For some reason that photo reminds me of Goatse.

Watching it online, they even said that.

Kosuke screamed when he won the Men's 100m Breaststroke.

What's wrong with getting excited about winning? Fuck you, Deni. Don't be a killjoy, especially for somebody that just won an olympic medal...or three.

Anyways, the whole Phelps coverage is kinda silly, to me. That's all they show, besides gymnastics and volleyball. Since I don't have the special cable thingy, I have to catch everything else online.
But there are a lot of events to enter in swimming. People competing in other sports, other than regular athletics, don't have any chance at winning that many medals, simply based on the fact that there aren't that many events for them to compete in.

And in other news, it seems the little girl who sang during the ceremony wasn't really singing at all. According to the chap in charge of the music, the real singer didn't live up their demands of "perfect looks, feeling and expression". He goes on to make the absurd claims that they wanted to "give the right image" (?) and that he was "thinking of what was best for the nation".

link (in Swedish, with pics of the girls).

What's next, the Chinese soldiers presenting the flags were really programmed robots?

OH DEAR THE OPENING CEREMONY IS COMPLETELY RUINED

Geez, the responses of some people I've seen elsewhere. Shit is faked all the time, get over it. You wouldn't have suspected otherwise in the first place anyhow.

Although I am starting to wonder about robot soldiers...

And it's not like there were no fireworks. It's just that rather than film it live, they showed a pre-recorded version on tv and to the corwd in the stadium on the screens. The fireworks did go up and they did look like feet, it's just that flying a helicopter through that kind of shit would be ridiculous. Shaped fireworks like that are pretty commonplace these days although they're not cheap.

Oh, the faking doesn't change how grand the opening ceremony was. The fireworks thing wasn't faked too - there WERE real footprint fireworks. Just that what you saw on TV was partially CG, complete with shaky-cam and smog lighting effects.

As for the lip syncing, well... Par for the course. Western bands do it too.

Still, this serves to highlight the lengths the organizers are going to so they can stage a picture 'perfect' Olympics. Too bad they are inadvertently showing off China's ability to fake a lot of things :3:

I wonder if those medals are genuine gold/jade...!