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Official 2004 Summer Olympics Thread

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impirius

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DOUBLE ACE!

I'm not a huge volleyball fan, but that was a great game... US forces a third against Australia! Woooooooooooooo

I'm digging out Beach Spikers after this.
 
Phoenix

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Great beach volleyball! Excellent play - go USA, but even if Australia would have won that would have been cool. Good game.
 
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Hehe. That Arroyo dude was awesome, to say he was the best player on the court for the 3/4 of the game I watched would be a drastic understatment.
 
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Incognito

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I'm utterly ashamed to be a fan of the NBA right now. I hope this is a SERIOUS wake up call to the NBA that a team full of marketable losers isn't going to just cakewalk through the tourney. I see major changes looming on the horizon...
 
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Die Squirrel Die

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Couldn't really care about the basketball, to me the Olympics are about sports that don't get that much exposure usually (so out go football and tennis as well).

I love the gymnastics. Just the stuff they do is amazing although I find the very muscley small people look of both the males and females slightly disturbing. I'm almost as impressed by the judges being able to pick up the tiniest details as they whiz by doing a triple somersault with a half twist in the space of a second and a half. And there was this one Brazilian girl she was attacking the tumbling so hard I thought she might acheive lift off, she was so blindingly fast.

Speaking of small muscley people, anyone see the 4'11 Turkish weightlifter. He only weighed about 55Kg but he was lifting 130Kg.
 
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Greekboy

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HalfPastNoon said:
I'm utterly ashamed to be a fan of the NBA right now. I hope this is a SERIOUS wake up call to the NBA that a team full of marketable losers isn't going to just cakewalk through the tourney. I see major changes looming on the horizon...
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Oh no. It can't be that the rest of the world has caught up. It can't be that these nations are gaining both international and NBA experience that helps their overall game and psyche.
 
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Lisa Lashes said:
Oh no. It can't be that the rest of the world has caught up. It can't be that these nations are gaining both international and NBA experience that helps their overall game and psyche.
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Sure, they're gaining experience. Good for them. But NONE of those teams would stand a chance against a team put together with real, capable players that have been practicing for more than two weeks. That's a fact. 2006/2008 will usher in the beginning of the new Goodwill/Olympic outright dominating teams.
 
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Greekboy

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HalfPastNoon said:
Erm, did you not read the comment that preceeded your selective quote?
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I did. The days of USA basketball domination are now a thing of the past. You people remind me of the stories I heard back in 1972 when Canada and their fans thought they'd beat the Russians by 10-0 in hockey and instead faced a rude awakening. Well, that rude awakening is now upon the USA basketball scene too and frankly I must admit that I enjoy it.

A lot.
 
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To be fair, I don't think Team Canada 72 were missing four of the top five players in the country...a case that can be made for Team USA. Still, Greek's on point here...the days of trotting out just any US team and having them still maul the field were dead a long time ago.
 
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Lisa Lashes said:
I did. The days of USA basketball domination are now a thing of the past. You people remind me of the stories I heard back in 1972 when Canada and their fans thought they'd beat the Russians by 10-0 in hockey and instead faced a rude awakening. Well, that rude awakening is now upon the USA basketball scene too and frankly I must admit that I enjoy it.

A lot.
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It's a well known fact that the Russians would have won that tournament had the Canadians not paid them off with levis. Back in the cold war days, jeans were very expensive to the Soviets and they looked for any way to get some of that western capitalism. Alan Eagleson, after seeing that Canada was up against it, made a deal with the Soviets to exchange a crapload of levis jeans to the Russian team if they threw the series. The rest is history.
 
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Tool said:
It's a well known fact that the Russians would have won that tournament had the Canadians not paid them off with levis. Back in the cold war days, jeans were very expensive to the Soviets and they looked for any way to get some of that western capitalism. Alan Eagleson, after seeing that Canada was up against it, made a deal with the Soviets to exchange a crapload of levis jeans to the Russian team if they threw the series. The rest is history.
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I thought this was always an urban legend?
 
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Truelize

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I'm all about the swimming in the olympics. I don't know why but it's my favorite event now.
But everything about the olmpics is cool.
The drugs are cool. They need more drugs there. lol
 
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Kuroyume

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US dominance in basketball isn't going to die soon. The Puerto Ricans beat a team that consisted mostly of a bunch of kids out of high school. Would the story be the same had Kobe, Shaq, Garnet, Carter, Davis, Kidd, McGrady etc been there? You know... a real dream team? No
 
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Greekboy

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The very fact that the USA can't roll over anybody with this team just proves that their dominance is over.

Wake up.

Accept it.

Move on.
 
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Kuroyume

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It proves it only to you

no

sorry to tell you that

congrats to Puerto Rico for beating a few rookies and a couple of third rate players
 
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There's like NOBODY in the stands. Even for the big events, there's huge amounts of empty seats on tv.

Poor Greece. It was pretty expensive to pull this off.
 
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StoOgE

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Yeah, its very bad looking.. the next summer games should do well, and if they put the 2012 games in the US they will do well as well.. Greece never should have gotten them in the first place, but whatever.
 
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Scoobert

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For Greece, August is consdered a holy month. And then today, Sunday, is a huge Greek holiday.

Their's only 1 or 2 events that are sold out as of now.
 
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Socreges

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AeroGod said:
You couldnt pay me to go to Greece, Olympics or not. It seems as if much of the world agrees with me.
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1) "Greece is an amazingly beautiful country filled with history and art."
2) The people are also fantastic
3) Greece is a VERY popular tourist destination
4) Poor attendance at the olympics does not say otherwise
5) You smell
 
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Goreomedy

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The 15th is a national holiday, the Greek Orthodox observance of the Feast of the Dormition also known as the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. 96% of the population celebrate this day, and are passing on all Olympic events.

Expect much better attendence from now on.
 
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yoshifumi

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usa men's gymnastics is on track for a medal, but china didn't even compete all of their athletes and performed simpler routines. and what the fuck happened to russia
 
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