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London 2012 Summer Olympics |OT|

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Awww. Crowd is always really great at the weightlifting though.

That aside, I love the little cut out for the camera behind. Looks like such a half arsed job. :D
 
Everytime the Olympics are around, i get bugged with some of the sports included/not included and how they balance then.

I just read that China won 38 of their 51 golds in 2008 in Diving, Gymnastics, Shooting, Weightlifting and Table Tennis. I reckon that some of those are real big following sports, but that seems weird to me.

I look at Spain, and even tough they don´t win as many medals, if you consider that they have grat teams on the two biggest sports worldwide (football and basketball), and that they have had great success in two other huge sports (autoracing and tennis) they appear to me, a more succesfull country at sports than China.

Goldmining obscure events the way China does only happens because those sports have a different meaning in olympics then they do in real life.

I still can´t believe you can win a medal by making a horse walk sideways, gently, but you can´t by playing golf.

You can win eight golds on diving alone and you can´t win a single one in Rugby or Cricket combined.

If some events would be taken out of the olympics, the "sport" would even exist, so i think that´s sad. I think you would have to had people watching and playing a sport, so that this thing can be big enough to be in the olympics.

Anyways, regular Olympic rant.
 
seattle6418 said:
Everytime the Olympics are around, i get bugged with some of the sports included/not included and how they balance then.

I just read that China won 38 of their 51 golds in 2008 in Diving, Gymnastics, Shooting, Weightlifting and Table Tennis. I reckon that some of those are real big following sports, but that seems weird to me.

I look at Spain, and even tough they don´t win as many medals, if you consider that they have grat teams on the two biggest sports worldwide (football and basketball), and that they have had great success in two other huge sports (autoracing and tennis) they appear to me, a more succesfull country at sports than China.

Goldmining obscure events the way China does only happens because those sports have a different meaning in olympics then they do in real life.

I still can´t believe you can win a medal by making a horse walk sideways, gently, but you can´t by playing golf.

You can win eight golds on diving alone and you can´t win a single one in Rugby or Cricket combined.

If some events would be taken out of the olympics, the "sport" would even exist, so i think that´s sad. I think you would have to had people watching and playing a sport, so that this thing can be big enough to be in the olympics.

Anyways, regular Olympic rant.
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golf is in the 2016 olympics


YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSssss
 
seattle6418 said:
If some events would be taken out of the olympics, the "sport" would even exist, so i think that´s sad. I think you would have to had people watching and playing a sport, so that this thing can be big enough to be in the olympics.

Anyways, regular Olympic rant.
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I don't really understand what are you trying to say. You can't compare professional sports where people make millions and millions of money to Olympics athletes and their sports. If you're salty because some other country is gaining more medals than yours, then you're missing the point of the Olympics.
 
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