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The Italian women defeat Spain in Beach Volleyball. Now that makes the morning coffee even better!

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Where do I go to see the replay of THAT finish... A dead heat after nearly 2:00? How cool that must have been to watch. I just saw dude from Great Britain* beat his training partner from USA for 10k. How cool to win in front of the home crowd and the celebrate with your buddy! Guy from USA was only 3rd in 100 years to medal in the event. Forget who come in third.

Hate that I had to work today. USA Men's Volleyball on now. Woo Hoo!

Go world! USA!

Peace,
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So much really wonderful TV coverage of London

Besides the great sports, that is also a reason for me to watch as many of it as I can.

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Huge props to Michael Phelps for being the first swimmer to win earn gold in the same event in 3 Olympic games in a row by winning earning gold in the men's 200-meter individual medley in 1:54:27. It was proven how hard that feat is by it being attempted and failed 3 times before in these games.... and finally he did it last night... WOW!!! I know people have talked plenty about Michael Phelps, but he deserves it... this being his 4th Olympics and him earning more Medals than any other human in history... just amazing!!! As good as he is.. I do NOT consider Phelps to be the greatest Olympian/athlete ever... IMUHO I think that honor was earned by Mr Jim Thorpe, and still stands to this day. [en.wikipedia.org]

And it the city of London is doing an awesome job with these Olympics...
no news is good news regarding this.. no stories about... anything except the games.

GOOD TIMES!!

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And finally a BIG SHOUT OUT to the USA Golden girls!!
They have never lost an Olympic match yet WOW!!! Talented AND HOT!!!

I usually root for the underdog rather than the "superstar" athletes, but Phelps is a once-in-a-lifetime phenom, and sometimes greatness is hard to ignore. It was thrilling to watching him in 2008 and then last night - even when he's not at his 'peak'....he can just pull it out from somewhere. He has that hunger that all greats have. And its wonderful to watch. There is a reason Lochte couldn't do it....he's not Phelps, simple as that/
As for being the 'greatest Olympian' - that's subjective in many ways. But what he did was truly phenomenal. Athletes in every sport have their strengths in certain competitions....A few folks on ESPN pointed to Jesse Owens, some point to Carl Lewis, or a decathlon gold medalist....
but they would have had to dominate every single competition in their sport to do what Phelps did: Its not just the fact that swimming has more opportunities to medal, its that all those opportunities represent a different facet of the sport>
Lewis, Owens would have had to compete in virtually every race in track - and they didn't....that's like a baseball player being the best short stopper, pitcher, hitter, catcher etc....
I think people who downplay his achievements see swimming as just swimming back and forth....but there is so much more involved in each discipline.

[sportsillustrated.cnn.com]

Amazing.

this is funny...and typical American...you probably didnt realise.
you mention every person from the US in your Olympics summary about the greatest ever, and a "decathlon gold medalist" who happens to be the great Daley Thompson perhaps ??? haha...funny.

for everyone's information, DALEY THOMPSON won the Decathlon (the greatest sporting event in the world) twice in 2 Olympics, and in the meantime won numerous world records in that event...truly amazing.
He is from ENGLAND...not the US. There are other countries other than yourselves.

I mentioned an American because Lewis and Owens are the ones mentioned in this argument.
Typical English.
Of course its one of your athletes....
The decathlon is a bit overrated IMO.
These athletes are good at several different events, but not the greatest in one.
Others break records in each of these events...
In track, someone would have to run the 100,200,400,800, 1,500, 5,000, 10,0000 and the Marathon and dominate in every one to accomplish what Phelps did. Every stroke and discipline in swimming takes a different level, and preparation training....most athletes excel in one area of their sport.
Phelps dominated every one.
This whole argument is subjective, but brining nationalism into it asinine.

haha it's not subjective
swimming...who cares...50m swim, 100m swim, 200m swim...400m swim f*ck me...how many races ??????
decathletes....true champion.....

get off you Phelps-loving chair and have a think about the great olympians!

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So much really wonderful TV coverage of London

Besides the great sports, that is also a reason for me to watch as many of it as I can.

In that case, you need to watch the marathons.
The course was designed to showcase London landmarks.

Women's marathon tomorrow at 11:00 London time.
Men's next Sunday, same time.

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What happened today in rowing, is a shame , agreed.

what did happen ? I couldn´t follow the event..

I missed it too... maybe it had something to with the rumored combining of the rowing with those guys riding bikes next to them and javelin throwing and archery... where opposite teams ride bikes and throws javalins and shoot arrows at the opposite teams boats... but it might not be that.... I missed it... maybe they will explain later.

I think this must be the incident where the British rowers started the race but stopped almost immediately because some small but vital screw had come loose on one of the sliding seats. The race was stopped and restarted after a man with a screwdriver had been summoned to sort out the problem. Apparently the rules of rowing allow for this to happen if something breaks within 100 metres of the start (seems odd to me, but that's the rules...).

The UK crew went on to lose the gold medal to Denmark in a very close finish. The French crew, who were fourth, understandably argued that they had been done out of a bronze medal because the British should have been left to suffer the consequences of their problem - and also, I think, argued that it wasn't really a technical problem but an error by the British crew, which should have caused them to lose the race.

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So much really wonderful TV coverage of London

Besides the great sports, that is also a reason for me to watch as many of it as I can.

In that case, you need to watch the marathons.
The course was designed to showcase London landmarks.

Women's marathon tomorrow at 11:00 London time.
Men's next Sunday, same time.

Love the marathon but did I hear somewhere that it's not ending in the stadium? That's one tradition I always liked. Isn't the whole reason the marathon is the length it is due to the need to finish it in the stadium one particular year? Oh well...

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Mr DJA

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What happened today in rowing, is a shame , agreed.

what did happen ? I couldn´t follow the event..

I missed it too... maybe it had something to with the rumored combining of the rowing with those guys riding bikes next to them and javelin throwing and archery... where opposite teams ride bikes and throws javalins and shoot arrows at the opposite teams boats... but it might not be that.... I missed it... maybe they will explain later.

I think this must be the incident where the British rowers started the race but stopped almost immediately because some small but vital screw had come loose on one of the sliding seats. The race was stopped and restarted after a man with a screwdriver had been summoned to sort out the problem. Apparently the rules of rowing allow for this to happen if something breaks within 100 metres of the start (seems odd to me, but that's the rules...).

The UK crew went on to lose the gold medal to Denmark in a very close finish. The French crew, who were fourth, understandably argued that they had been done out of a bronze medal because the British should have been left to suffer the consequences of their problem - and also, I think, argued that it wasn't really a technical problem but an error by the British crew, which should have caused them to lose the race.

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What happened today in rowing, is a shame , agreed.

what did happen ? I couldn´t follow the event..

I missed it too... maybe it had something to with the rumored combining of the rowing with those guys riding bikes next to them and javelin throwing and archery... where opposite teams ride bikes and throws javalins and shoot arrows at the opposite teams boats... but it might not be that.... I missed it... maybe they will explain later.

I think this must be the incident where the British rowers started the race but stopped almost immediately because some small but vital screw had come loose on one of the sliding seats. The race was stopped and restarted after a man with a screwdriver had been summoned to sort out the problem. Apparently the rules of rowing allow for this to happen if something breaks within 100 metres of the start (seems odd to me, but that's the rules...).

The UK crew went on to lose the gold medal to Denmark in a very close finish. The French crew, who were fourth, understandably argued that they had been done out of a bronze medal because the British should have been left to suffer the consequences of their problem - and also, I think, argued that it wasn't really a technical problem but an error by the British crew, which should have caused them to lose the race.

...That's one hell of a bullshit rule...

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In that case, you need to watch the marathons.
The course was designed to showcase London landmarks.

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...That's one hell of a bullshit rule...

Agreed Edith total BS rule, at least they could have wait a bit before starting again right after...

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The Italian women defeat Spain in Beach Volleyball. Now that makes the morning coffee even better!

I didn't get to watch much of that one but thought the Italian's were cuter!

Peace,
Mr DJA

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The Italian women defeat Spain in Beach Volleyball. Now that makes the morning coffee even better!

I didn't get to watch much of that one but thought the Italian's were cuter!

Peace,
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...TV and commentators here were so busy raving about Jessica Ennis that I missed the story about Lilli Schwarzkopf. Well, at least the mess seems to have got sorted out eventually. By the way, I'm not sure whether the much-criticised "British referees" actually are British or international - can somebody enlighten me?

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I can understand why the other crews (especially the French) would be annoyed at falling foul of this obscure rule, but I can't see why on earth anyone would break something on purpose in this case. But sport is like that - after years of hard work and practice, you're at the mercy of the rules and the officials, and they can break your heart.

I felt sorry for the Chinese pair who thought they had won a gold medal in the cycling relay and then got stopped on their way to the medal ceremony and told they were disqualified for some technical infringement almost too marginal to detect. The UK pair got disqualified for a similar but more clear-cut mistake. There's a difference between this kind of thing (like committing an accidental foul on the long-jump take-off) and deliberate cheating. It's just unusual to find a rule like the rowing one that is actually on the side of the competitor instead of taking the usual merciless line of sporting rules. But winning or losing on a technicality always leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

TV and commentators here were so busy raving about Jessica Ennis that I missed the story about Lilli Schwarzkopf. Well, at least the mess seems to have got sorted out eventually. By the way, I'm not sure whether the much-criticised "British referees" actually are British or international - can somebody enlighten me?

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"British referees" actually are British or international

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Freekin Phelps in freekin amazing!!!!

Just saw this analogy-
If Michael Phelps was a country, and had his own spot on the Olympic medals
chart, he would be ahead of a lot of countries this Olympics games.... WOW!!