The Olympics

Discuss the upcoming events of the Athens 2004 Olympics here. What sports are you interested in watching? Going for anyone in particular?

Well, being a Canadian citizen, I'd love Canada to win alot of medals, but unfortunately our forté is the winter olympics (go hockey! ) and I don't see us cracking the top 10 in medals by the end of the tournament.

I'd probably be looking forward to womens tennis a little more if Maria Sharapova was on the Russian team, but she wasn't picked for the team because it was too late by the time she won Wimbledon. . Women's tennis is pretty fun to watch though. Men's too. Go Andy Roddick!

The teams for soccer are pretty weird; serbia, iraq, and ghana being three obscure countries. I'm going for Argentina. I think it'd be hilarious to see Iraq do well, though.

Table tennis is very fun to watch. It's so fast! I think that'd be interesting to see.

And I've never seen a field hockey game, so I'm curious about this.

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Final Medal Count - Day 16 (Total Medals)
01:: USA - 103 Medals (35G-39S-29B)
02:: Russia - 92 Medals (27G-27S-38B)
03:: China - 63 Medals (32G-17S-14B)
04:: Australia - 49 Medals (17G-16S-16B)
05:: Germany - 48 Medals (14G-16S-18B)
06:: Japan - 37 Medals (16G-10S-11B)
07:: France - 33 Medals (11G-9S-13B)
08:: Italy - 32 Medals (10G-11S-11B)
09:: South Korea - 30 Medals (9G-12S-9B)
09:: Great Britain - 30 Medals (9G-9S-12B)
10:: Cuba - 27 Medals (9G-7S-1B)
11:: Ukraine - 23 Medals (9G-5S-9B)
12:: Netherlands - 22 Medals (4G-9S-9B)
13:: Romania - 19 Medals (8G-5S-6B)
13:: Spain - 19 Medals (3G-11S-5B)
14:: Hungary - 17 Medals (8G-6S-3B)
15:: Greece - 15 Medals (6G-5S-4B)
16:: Belarus - 14 Medals (2G-4S-8B)
17:: Canada - 12 Medals (3G-6S-3B)
17:: Bulgaria - 12 Medals (2G-1S-9B)
18:: Brazil - 10 Medals (4G-3S-3B)
18:: Turkey - 10 Medals (3G-3S-4B)
18:: Poland - 10 Medals (3G-2S-5B)
19:: Thailand - 8 Medals (3G-1S-4B)
19:: Denmark - 8 Medals (2G-0S-6B)
19:: Kazahkstan - 8 Medals (1G-4S-3B)
19:: Czech Republic - 8 Medals (1G-3S-4B)
20:: Sweden - 7 Medals (4G-1S-2B)
20:: Austria - 7 Medals (2G-4S-1B)
20:: Ethiopia - 7 Medals (2G-3S-2B)
20:: Kenya - 7 Medals (1G-4S-2B)
21:: Norway - 6 Medals (5G-0S-1B)
21:: Iran, Slovakia - 6 Medals (2G-2S-2B)
21:: Argentina - 6 Medals (2G-0S-4B)
21:: South Africa - 6 Medals (1G-3S-2B)
22:: New Zealand - 5 Medals (3G-2S-0B)
22:: Taipei - 5 Medals (2G-2S-1B)
22:: Jamaica - 5 Medals (2G-1S-2B)
22:: Uzbekistan - 5 Medals (2G-1S-2B)
22:: Croatia - 5 Medals (1G-2S-2B)
22:: Switzerland - 5 Medals (1G-1S-3B)
22:: Azerbaijan - 5 Medals (1G-0S-4B)
22:: North Korea - 5 Medals (0G-4S-1B)
23:: Georgia - 4 Medals (2G-2S-0B)
23:: Indonesia - 4 Medals (1G-1S-2B)
23:: Latvia - 4 Medals (0G-4S-0B)
23: Mexico - 4 Medals (0G-3S-1B)
23:: Slovenia - 4 Medals (0G-1S-3B)
24:: Morocco - 3 Medals (2G-1S-0B)
24:: Chile - 3 Medals (2G-0S-1B)
24:: Lithuania - 3 Medals (1G-2S-0B)
24:: Zimbabwe - 3 Medals (1G-1S-1B)
24:: Belgium - 3 Medals (1G-0S-2B)
24:: Portugal - 3 Medals (0G-2S-1B)
24:: Estonia - 3 Medals (0G-1S-2B)
25:: Bahamas, Israel - 2 Medals (1G-0S-1B)
25:: Finland, Serbia & Montenegro - 2 Medals (0G-2S-0B)
25:: Nigeria, Venezuela - 2 Medals (0G-0S-2B)
26:: Cameroon, Dominican Republic, Ireland, United Arab Emirates - 1 Medal (1G-0S-0B)
26:: Hong Kong, India, Paraguay - 1 Medal (0G-1S-0B)
26:: Columbia, Eritrea, Mongolia, Syria, Trinidad & Tobago - 1 Medal (0G-0S-1B)
27:: 127 other countries - 0 Medals (0G-0S-0B)

Medal Count - Day 15 (Gold Medals)
01:: United States - 35
02:: China - 32
03:: Russia - 27
04:: Australia - 17
04:: Japan - 16
05:: Germany - 14
06:: France - 11
07:: Italy - 10
08:: Cuba, Great Britain, South Korea, Ukraine - 9
09:: Hungary, Romania - 8
10:: Greece - 6
11:: Norway - 5
12:: Brazil, Netherlands, Sweden - 4
13:: Canada/New Zealand/Poland/Spain/Thailand/Turkey - 3
14:: Argentina, Austria, Belarus, Bulgaria, Chile, Denmark, Ethiopia, Georgia, Iran, Jamaica, Morocco, Slovakia, Taipei, Uzbekistan - 2
15:: Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Cameroon, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Kazahkstan, Kenya, Lithuania, South Africa, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, Zimbabwe - 1

 

P.O.D. vs Sweden [/b][/quote]
. I'd like to see the Asian teams just start screaming "boom!" everytime they hit the ball.

 

I read somewhere that one of Saddam's son owned the team and everytime they lost he would beat them. Now that they're dead and the team can compete without getting beaten they won.

There's an important lesson there, take the pressure off, and you'll do better

Anyone know if an tennis player named Mary Pierce qualified? I didn't see anything there [/b][/quote]
Pierce didn't qualify. Here are the Olympic rankings for men and women.

Women:
01. Justine Henin-Hardenne (BEL)
02. Amelie Mauresmo (FRA)
03. Anastasia Myskina (RUS)
04. Elena Dementieva (RUS)
05. Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS)
06. Venus Williams (USA)
07. Paola Suarez (ARG)
08. Ai Sugiyama (JPN)
09. Nadia Petrova (RUS)
10. Patty Schnyder (SUI)
11. Francesca Schiavone (ITA)
12. Karolina Sprem (CRO)
13. Anna Smashnova-Pistolesi (ISR)
14. Silvia Farina Elia (ITA)
15. Magdalena Maleeva (BUL)
16. Chanda Rubin (USA)

Men:
01. Roger Federer (SUI)
02. Andy Roddick (USA)
03. Carlos Moya (ESP)
04. Tim Henman (GBR)
05. Juan Carlos Ferrero (ESP)
06. David Nalbandian (ARG)
07. Rainer Schuettler (GER)
08. Sebastien Grosjean (FRA)
09. Marat Safin (RUS)
10. Nicolas Massu (CHI)
11. Juan Ignacio Chela (ARG)
12. Paradorn Srichaphan (THA)
13. Andrei Pavel (ROM)
14. Nicolas Kiefer (GER)
15. Tommy Robredo (ESP)
16. Fernando Gonzalez (CHI)