2008 Olympics !!!SPOILERS!!!

**thesteve** · 08-11-2008, 09:35 PM

I was talking to a friend of mine at work who speaks French and saw the interview where Bernard said that and he told me that the US media is really blowing it out of proportion to make a bigger story out of it. According to him, the manner in which Bernard spoke was very tongue-in-cheek, not like a Nikita Khrushchev clone as the media has portrayed it.

Iceman-bass14 · 08-12-2008, 06:42 AM

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I was talking to a friend of mine at work who speaks French and saw the interview where Bernard said that and he told me that the US media is really blowing it out of proportion to make a bigger story out of it. According to him, the manner in which Bernard spoke was very tongue-in-cheek, not like a Nikita Khrushchev clone as the media has portrayed it.

But if thats still what he actually said...idk even if his manner was different if those were his exact words then thats still cocky.

Mens gymnastics was awesome!How about Jonathan Horton?Had an almost perfect night and it was something to watch.

steggz · 08-12-2008, 04:44 PM

Cocky? I give you the height of cocky, Mr Gary Hall Jr, 2000 Olympics in the 4x100 relay as well if I remember right, talking about the Australian team: "We will smash them like guitars".

Australia won the final, and aptly celebrated with a good bit of air guitar.

Mr Hall is one of the most arrogant athletes, and for him as well to have come out and cast doubt over the legitimacy of Eamon Sullivan's 100m record from the relay, it's just not needed or in the interests of the Games. No-one cares anymore Gary

Gwenny · 08-12-2008, 05:18 PM

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Cocky? I give you the height of cocky, Mr Gary Hall Jr, 2000 Olympics in the 4x100 relay as well if I remember right, talking about the Australian team: "We will smash them like guitars".

Australia won the final, and aptly celebrated with a good bit of air guitar.

Mr Hall is one of the most arrogant athletes, and for him as well to have come out and cast doubt over the legitimacy of Eamon Sullivan's 100m record from the relay, it's just not needed or in the interests of the Games. No-one cares anymore Gary

And no one besides Australians really care about Eamon Sullivan either.

steggz · 08-12-2008, 05:35 PM

The guy breaks the 100m freesyle record, and no-cares? I beg to differ.

I just get frustrated with unnecesary gamesmanship, if that's the idea here. I just think it's more that Hall knows he gets an audience every time he opens his trap. Shame he puts his foot in it every time...

But apart from that, the Games have been good so far. The equestrian was pretty exciting to watch, and that's not a fave of mine at all. And the synchronised diving, that's impressive.

normajean777 · 08-12-2008, 07:00 PM

So how about Canada? We got loads of medals. Let me just check . . . Oh wait we got 0.

Iceman-bass14 · 08-12-2008, 08:12 PM

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Cocky? I give you the height of cocky, Mr Gary Hall Jr, 2000 Olympics in the 4x100 relay as well if I remember right, talking about the Australian team: "We will smash them like guitars".

Australia won the final, and aptly celebrated with a good bit of air guitar.

Mr Hall is one of the most arrogant athletes, and for him as well to have come out and cast doubt over the legitimacy of Eamon Sullivan's 100m record from the relay, it's just not needed or in the interests of the Games. No-one cares anymore Gary

Yes what he said was cocky,but if we're gonna measure cockiness what the Frenchman said is just as cocky in my book.No,we dont need stuff like that in the games,but both comments were equally cocky.

Iceman-bass14 · 08-13-2008, 09:27 AM

It was good to see the sportsmanship in the beach volleyball match of Russia/Georgia.Thats what the olympics are all about.

***Art*** · 08-13-2008, 06:54 PM

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The guy breaks the 100m freesyle record, and no-cares? I beg to differ.

Not to take away his accomplishment, but he lost the record the next day, so in the grand scheme of things, he will really be just a footnote for most people. He was quite impressive in my opinion, though.

**thesteve** · 08-13-2008, 07:07 PM

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Not to take away his accomplishment, but he lost the record the next day, so in the grand scheme of things, he will really be just a footnote for most people. He was quite impressive in my opinion, though.

It'll be interesting to see who emerges from this Olympics with the record in the 100m. Sullivan set it on the 11th, lost it to France's Alain Bernard on the 13th and took it back just a few minutes later. Unless something has happened since then, it looks like Sullivan still has the record at 47.05 seconds.

Relientk101 · 08-13-2008, 10:04 PM

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It'll be interesting to see who emerges from this Olympics with the record in the 100m. Sullivan set it on the 11th, lost it to France's Alain Bernard on the 13th and took it back just a few minutes later. Unless something has happened since then, it looks like Sullivan still has the record at 47.05 seconds.

Bernard won the 100 freestyle final I don't think he took the world record

***Art*** · 08-14-2008, 01:07 AM

Right. But I'm sure he'll take the Gold over the world record. Really good race.

Also, the Aussie women were GREAT in the 4x200 free. Very impressive.

Relientk101 · 08-14-2008, 04:42 AM

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Right. But I'm sure he'll take the Gold over the world record. Really good race.

Also, the Aussie women were GREAT in the 4x200 free. Very impressive.

unfortuanatly I didn't get to see it but i wish i had It must have been amazing.

Iceman-bass14 · 08-14-2008, 11:04 AM

Ara Abrahamian(Sweden)Throws down bronze medal,protests judges decision.

Cam42 · 08-14-2008, 11:12 AM

US beat Federer!!!!!