Summer Olympics 2008

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    El Muerto

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    10 500 athletes
    302 events
    28 sports

    From August 8 to August 24 in Beijing, China

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    Definitely the event of the year for me and I know I'll be watching it the whole day every day :lol:
    The opening ceremony is tomorrow but football tournaments started yesterday and today (women and men respectively).
    I'm expecting plenty of great games in team sports like basketball and volleyball and a lot of world records in individual sports like athletics and swimming.
    That's enough for the intro, anyone else a fan? :)

    And yeah, go Serbia! :D
     
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    Harlz

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    1st: USA
    2nd: China
    3rd: Russia?
    4th: Australia/other country that's actually good at sport and doesn't need a high population to do well :p
     
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    El Muerto

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    Yeah you probably nailed the first three :)

    Btw we're playing football against you at the moment. I hope we'll bust your asses :p
     
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    Harlz

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    Pffft we're moderately good at soccer.

    Sometimes :lol:
     
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    HELLAS!
     
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    Chris

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    I think that Holland will get some medals with swimming.
     
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    Messy Marj

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    Yup, we're good at swimming lol.
     
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    Will

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    If I'm being honest the only sports I care about are basketball and baseball. I'm rooting for Team USA in both sports.
     
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    Tim

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    They're dropping baseball from the Summer Olympics after this year, for whatever reason.
     
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    Will

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    That's stupid. It's just starting to become really, really popular in places that aren't the United States, Japan, Korea and the Caribbean islands (Puerto Rico, Cuba, etc).
     
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    Penny

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    I agree! ;)
    Hellas!
     
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    El Muerto

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    Yeah and softball's out too. I couldn't care less for both sports, it's always the same nations competing anyway.
     
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    I don't think I have ever watched the Olympics. No one in my family cares to watch them at all, so I really don't know what it's like to watch anyway. I'm not really big on sports, though, so odds are I won't be too interested in it, but since it's on for so many days I may try to give it a go for a while.

    Honestly, though.. Assuming that you just watch a bunch of people compete all day long with the Olympics, I'm much more interested in watching the Puppy Games. :lol:
     
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    Arlene

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    I personally love to watch the gymnastics. I think that's amazing.
     
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    GO TEAM CHINA.

    Ftw.
     
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    John

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    Basketball is the only thing i'll be watching.
     
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    JJ

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    the opening ceremony is epic!
     
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    Dean

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    Britain ought to enter a football team next time imo.
     
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    that team would kick some major ass!!
     
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    El Muerto

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    quoted for the fucking truth

    edit:
    haha the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron was beyond awesome :D
     
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