How much do you care about the Olympics?

[Scryllak]

Easy enough poll.

[Helios Panoptes]

I hope the US basketball team loses, but otherwise I don't care. I can't watch it. There are too many poignant background stories accompanied by dramatic music and grave commentary.

[Niccolo and Donkey]

I hope the US basketball team loses, but otherwise I don't care. I can't watch it. There are too many poignant background stories accompanied by dramatic music and grave commentary.

Hits the nail on the head.

Recall the '96 games in Atlanta? Every American athlete was portrayed in a black/white then colour montage with sad, sombre music giving us the backstory of how they overcame adversity on their way to a gold medal. Canadian coverage is much, much more balanced.

[Crowley]

I hope the US basketball team loses, but otherwise I don't care.

Ditto on that hope. I have never met a person that wasn't happy that the US basketball team got beat by a European team last time around.

[President Barbicane]

I can't watch it. There are too many poignant background stories accompanied by dramatic music and grave commentary.

I mute the TV for those parts and try not to pay attention. It works well enough.

[Jake Featherston]

I think skulling is kinda cool; I might watch that if I happen to be flipping the channels and see them doing it (plus, it just possible Ireland might be a contender, since its such a British Isles kinda deal; I'm not sure). Otherwise, I don't give a shit, other than agreeing that it would be great if the U.S. basketball team loses.

Actually, I hope Russia does very well at these games. What a great symbol that'd be.

[harjit]

My main lack of interest is due to my disappointment that more countries (particularly the U.S.) didn't boycott the games this year. The Chinese care excessively about "face", and few things are as pleasant as seeing them lose some.

Some Opening Ceremony fireworks were faked

By Chris Chase

If you watched the Opening Ceremony on Friday night, chances are you said something like, "no way that's possible" at least once. It turns out you were right.

London's Telegraph newspaper reports that some of the fireworks which appeared over Beijing during the television broadcast of the Olympic Opening Ceremony were actually computer generated. But -- hold on -- it's not necessarily as bad as you think.

The faked fireworks were actually set-off at the stadium, but because of potential dangers in filming the display live from a helicopter, viewers at home were shown a pre-recorded, computer-generated shot. It sounds dishonest, but I'm not sure it's such a terrible thing.

The Opening Ceremony is, at its core, just one big performance. And isn't it accepted that some things might not be legit at a performance? The final torch bearer wasn't actually running around the top of the stadium, does the fact that everyone could figure that out make it any less impressive? It might have been unnecessarily deceptive, but the firework-faking isn't really that big of a deal. But, if I found out that the lighted-drum thing wasn't on the up and up, then we'll have problems, China.

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Some-Opening-Ceremony-fireworks-were-faked?urn=oly,99745


Sounds like a very Chinese thing to do, artifice is a big part of their culture.

(In Japan, the common sense in business is to mentally apply a bullshit/exaggeration adjustment factor on anything Chinese people tell you).

[Odysseus]

I've got about zero interest in the olympics. And the heartfelt, inspirational bullshit that Helios pointed out just makes the event even more asinine.

[Jake Featherston]

My main lack of interest is due to my disappointment that more countries (particularly the U.S.) didn't boycott the games this year. The Chinese care excessively about "face", and few things are as pleasant as seeing them lose some.

The IOC should never have agreed to hold the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but once that very poor decision was made, I think it made sense to go along and participate in the Games, and hope the IOC makes wiser choices in the future.

[Bronze Age Pervert]

Actually, I hope Russia does very well at these games. What a great symbol that'd be.

A symbol of what? Why don't you move to Murmansk if you like Russia so much.

I forgot you're just another San Fransicko traitor.

[shanemac]

Is anyone keeping a tally of the medal winners by race this time? There was a guy who did that on SF last olympics... it was hilarious

.... G S B
Aryan...
Nigger...
Gook....
Dune Coon...
Curry Muncher...
Merciless Indian Savage...

[Crowley]

A symbol of what? Why don't you move to Murmansk if you like Russia so much.

I forgot you're just another San Fransicko traitor.

Imagine a Jew saying this. :rofl:

[Count Eustace II]

Professional athletes competing in the Olympics ruins the entire thing.

[Ace Rimmer]

It's a good entertainment.Better than all that junk they give on TV these days.

[Captain Sharkey]

It's a good entertainment.Better than all that junk they give on TV these days.

women's volleyball....

women's beach volleyball.....

:popcorn:

[1-800]

I assume all of the athletes are using banned substances. Who is honest? It makes it hard to enjoy the Games themselves. I like watching the athletes, an veritable anthropological treasure trove.

[Jake Featherston]

I forgot you're just another San Fransicko traitor.

Yes, I adhere to the doctrinaire positions of the San Francisco County Democratic Party. Thank you for noticing.

[Charlie Robespierre]

Minimal. It's on the TV all the time so it's hard to escape it. My interest does perk up whenever the flag of my nation appears below an athletes name when I flick the TV on but the heart rendering inside saga of our athletes I care not one whit. I don't even know any of "our" athletes names..

[cerberus]

A passing interest at best .
http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=YsiLsguqXBU&feature=related
http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=fcYZ3TTrOII&feature=related
http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=nqU43OR0RXs&feature=related
http://mx.youtube.com/watch?v=1vDsgtfjTtg

Must be an age thing with me .

[Captain Sharkey]

Interesting pic from the Beijing Olympics
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_a3CLgAuAq8k/SKAp7_UPDjI/AAAAAAAAFI0/XoYWgOXYhLU/s1600/one-world.jpg

[Starr]

About as much as I care about watching paint dry on the wall.

[Lionheart]

www.nbcolympics.com

You can watch just the athletes perform without any lame commentary.

[Dan Dare]

The US coverage is particularly dire. I swore after the last Olympics that I'd never tune into such jingoistic and mawkish pap again, and I haven't.

[Count Eustace II]

The worst part about watching the Olympics is the staggering arrogance of the blood-doped Americans whenever they're interviewed.
A twisted spectacle that I've ceased to even care "a little" bit about.

[Bronze Age Pervert]

The worst part about watching the Olympics is the staggering arrogance of the blood-doped Americans whenever they're interviewed.
A twisted spectacle that I've ceased to even care "a little" bit about.

So how does it make you feel watching Michael Phelps kicking everyone's ass and worshipped by billions of women across the world!?

[Kodos]

I don't care but the opening ceremony...

The Chinks didn't skimp on the theatrics that was a fucking show.

[O'Zebedee]

I wasn't even aware they were on until someone mentioned it last night. I mean, I knew they were happening soon, but I kinda forgot.

So, yes - I could give a fuck.

[Kamandi]

Interesting to see a Georgian take the Judo gold. I'll be fascinated to see the five minute tape of highlights the sport rates in the US.

[PseudoCop]

A plane filled with former gold medal winners could crash into the Olympic village and I wouldn't blink- that's how little I care about this shit.

[Jake Featherston]

So how does it make you feel watching Michael Phelps kicking everyone's ass and worshipped by billions of women across the world!?

Utterly indifferent, other than perhaps a tad contemptuous of so many stupid women.

[Helios Panoptes]

Utterly indifferent, other than perhaps a tad contemptuous of so many stupid women.

He has no idea what he's talking about. Yesterday, I was at a social event and the subject of the Olympics and MP came up. One woman said he has ears like Dumbo and another said his physical mannerisms remind her of a mental retard.

[Norrland]

Oh, come on now, someone here has to fess up to watching it? I don't believe a word of it.

[///M power]

what's more interesting to see on TV then the Olympics? those idiotic presidents talking?governments? media propaganda? news which are always same everyday? nothing changes,everday bad news all year long. it's a big waste of time and energy talking about news and "current events".

[Jake Featherston]

He has no idea what he's talking about. Yesterday, I was at a social event and the subject of the Olympics and MP came up. One woman said he has ears like Dumbo and another said his physical mannerisms remind her of a mental retard.

Well, that makes me feel a little better.

[Jake Featherston]

it's a big waste of time and energy talking about news and "current events".

Not being dead is a waste of energy. Never-the-less....

[Keystone]

I have zero interest in the Olympics and I'm tired of hearing about Corky Phelps. He swims really fast......:indifferent:

Any penguin could beat him badly.

[Mojo]

I hide the remote when Mr Mojo gets home. I can't stand the olympics. It's so boring.

[Keystone]

I prefer the winter olympics with the hockey and the pot smoking snowboarders (they should be allowed to train and compete while toking).

[Jake Featherston]

the pot smoking snowboarders (they should be allowed to train and compete while toking).

In former Belgian Congo, pot smokes you!

[ScottishStalinist1]

My country does not compete in the Olympics and even if it did, I would still not care about it. There is only one sport in the games I care about and I watch too much of it it already, that sport being Football.

I hope Great Britain loses in every discipline it enters. The only enjoyment I get from the Olympics is hearing some British hopeful fucks up, or American.

The US coverage is particularly dire. I swore after the last Olympics that I'd never tune into such jingoistic and mawkish pap again, and I haven't.

On a similar note, I can see myself finally saying goodbye to this cruel world come 2012 when the pathetic English host the games. Either that, or I will live as a hermit in the hills somewhere until it is all over.

Here is a funny old article on patrotards at the 1984 Olympics.

Patriotic Shlock: The Endless Summer

by Murray N. Rothbard


What in hell is happening in America? This has been an Endless Summer, an odious, repellent, horrifying orgy of Patriotic Shlock. In all my years I have never seen so many blankety-blank American flags being waved, mindlessly, over and over again.

It started on that rotten last night of the Democratic convention, when the massed delegates were all waving, instead of the usual banners for their nominees, American flags, duly issued to them by the smooth Mondale machine. The culmination was the acceptance speech of Geraldine Ferraro, in which La Ferraro droned on about her immigrant mother, immigrant daughters, and God knows what else, all to the tune of American flags being waved, and, yes, masses of delegates sobbing and hugging each other.

I put it all down to one night's aberration, little realizing what an orgy of mass sobbing and flag-waving we were all in for. The next step, of course, was the infernal Olympics, in which patriotic shlock reached a new all-time low. Again, what in hell is going on?

There was nothing at all like this in the last Olympics held in the U. S. – the winter Olympics of 1976. There was no sobbing, no flag-waving, in fact there was a healthy realism by the media focusing on the transportation foul-ups at Lake Placid. But here, in L.A., in the home of Hollywood shlock, all of a sudden everyone went nuts, the audience, the media, even the athletes. The pattern began with the Opening Ceremonies, a vast exercise in tedium, when the flag-waving, the sobbing, and all the rest began, and never let up. Come on: 84 pianists in blue tuxes, simultaneously faking the playing of Rhapsody in Blue!

And it wasn't only ABC that went bonkers; the press was almost as bad, San Francisco's famous voice of the Peepul, Truman Democrat Herb Caen, writing two lengthy columns on the wonders of the Opening Ceremonies, how it "made everyone proud to be an American again," "proud to wave flags again," etc. Yecchh! Also characteristically weighing in to do his muddled bit was philosopher Tibor Machan in Reason magazine, taking off on a few facts, all of them wrong, about the Olympics.

ABC was disgustingly chauvinist, much more than in past Olympics. Cameras pointed shamelessly to Americans to the exclusion of virtually anyone else; commentary was American-hype to the nth degree; behind every American athlete pictured was a huge American flag waving in the nonexistent breeze. ABC got so bad that Olympic authorities began to complain.

But it wasn't just ABC or the press. It was the American masses, the audience themselves, that succumbed to the most unsportsmanlike behavior. The mob, bellowing "USA," "USA," the cheers for every U.S. point, the booing when a U. S. gymnast got less than a perfect 10. Probably the low point of the entire Games was when Carl Lewis, upon winning the 100 meters – typically, about 20 meters ahead of everyone else – grabbed a huge American flag, and virtually wrapping himself in the thing, ran around the Stadium. It was the apex of a truly obscene spectacle.

And what ever happened to the old propaganda of the U. S. media that the Olympic Games are not a team, but an individual, sport, so that one shouldn't even count the medals gained by the various countries? That old hype apparently applied only when the Soviet Union and East Germany used to walk off with most of the medals. But now that the East European bloc was safely out of the way, Oh the crowing and oh the gloating about all the medals "we" of the U. S. were racking up!

Hey, fantastic, so we beat up on the British Antilles, and all the other one-horse countries that the U. S. paid to show up. As usual, the American mob was ungallant from start to finish, as in the invasion of tiny Grenada, gloating about the huge U.S. stomping on minuscule opposition!

An old friend of mine, a U. S. patriot from many years of being obliged to live in a hated foreign land, upon watching the opening ceremonies, lamented, "It made me ashamed to be an American!"

I tell you: Watching the Olympics made me nostalgic for the good old days of the New Left, and the ranting about "Amerika" or even "Amerikkka." One more day of this horror, one more binge of patriotic sobbing and flag-waving, and I will be ready for the Jeff Hummell Deviation (i.e. opposition to all nationalism, even national liberation against imperial States.)

And for the first time in decades I look with favor on old Herbert Hoover, President when the last Summer Olympics were held in the U.S. (Los Angeles in 1932), who didn't bother officiating at the opening ceremonies because "they weren't important." At this point, I am almost ready to forgive Hoover his origination of the New Deal.

Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995) was the author of Man, Economy, and State, Conceived in Liberty, What Has Government Done to Our Money, For a New Liberty, The Case Against the Fed, and many other books and articles. He was also the editor – with Lew Rockwell – of The Rothbard-Rockwell Report.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard88.html

[///M power]

I have zero interest in the Olympics and I'm tired of hearing about Corky Phelps. He swims really fast......:indifferent:

Any penguin could beat him badly.

you are right,more interesting and better use of time is coming in here to talk about "the Jews" theories.

[shanemac]

I hope Great Britain loses in every discipline it enters. The only enjoyment I get from the Olympics is hearing some British hopeful fucks up,

You and I share this hope. Luckily for us, it's coming true.

[delete]

You and I share this hope. Luckily for us, it's coming true.
How come there is no native word for schadenfreude in english, when you too also seem to be full of it?

We norwegians have classically shown this trait when the swedes do badly.

[Notabasher]

You and I share this hope. Luckily for us, it's coming true.

Great Britain totally kicking arse at cycling (a proud Scotchman on the final leg of the team pursuit, Stalinist).

Gosh I feel so proud to be Britiish ;)

[Keystone]

you are right,more interesting and better use of time is coming in here to talk about "the Jews" theories. Screw the Olympics. It's all about a dozen big companies trying to gain market share and "amateur" athletes doping, cheating and crying...
Here's a good one---"Swedish" wrestler Ara Abrahamian (lol) having a mini-jihad fit...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00790/Ara_Abrahamian_0808_790668c.jpg

....because he didn't win the gold, just the bronze, poor baby.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2557320/Swedish-wrestler-Ara-Abrahamian-throws-away-medal-in-Olympic-hissy-fit.html

[Bronze Age Pervert]

Screw the Olympics. It's all about a dozen big companies trying to gain market share and "amateur" athletes doping, cheating and crying...
Here's a good one---"Swedish" wrestler Ara Abrahamian (lol) having a mini-jihad fit...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00790/Ara_Abrahamian_0808_790668c.jpg

....because he didn't win the gold, just the bronze, poor baby.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/olympics/2557320/Swedish-wrestler-Ara-Abrahamian-throws-away-medal-in-Olympic-hissy-fit.html

Mini-jihad fit? Abrahamian is an Armenian name, so he's probably Christian. Maybe even a Jew (!)

Olympics is far more interesting than crap on TV now, this Georgia thing is boring.

Michael Phelps!!!!!!!!!!!!! :yay:

[Keystone]

Mini-jihad fit? Abrahamian is an Armenian name, so he's probably Christian. Maybe even a Jew (!) All the same to me, skip. Swedish he's not. And he doesn't like his medal...:whiner:
Olympics is far more interesting than crap on TV now, this Georgia thing is boring. Damning the Olympics with faint praise...atta boy. Hell I'm a baseball fan (a Pirates fan to boot) and the pastime makes the Olympics look like paint drying.
Michael Phelps!!!!!!!!!!!!! :yay: Blowing Michael Phelps?

[Rich58]

Boy, I really had to think about that for .02 seconds:rofl:

[///M power]

well it's pretty obvious that "wn's"(Americans) don't like the Olympics because most of the athletes that represent America are black. for the same reason they don't like the NBA or the NFL.

anyway, the American "dream team" actually plays very good unlike in the last 2 Olympic games. very entertaining plays,dunks etc. today is the game against Spain which is suppose to be one of the toughest games.

[Bronze Age Pervert]

well it's pretty obvious that "wn's"(Americans) don't like the Olympics because most of the athletes that represent America are black. for the same reason they don't like the NBA or the NFL.

anyway, the American "dream team" actually plays very good unlike in the last 2 Olympic games. very entertaining plays,dunks etc. today is the game against Spain which is suppose to be one of the toughest games.

I think it's even more than that. Otherwise they would get excited about Michael Phelps. As I pointed out in another thread most of the "white nationalists" here are from peripheral but tight-knit ethnic groups like Armenians, Greeks, Lithuanians, Poles, maybe a number of Iranians. Such people, especially in immigrant communities abroad, tend to be grandmother-dominated and have a negative attitude toward sports of any kind, as they have a bad opinion of achievement in general. Their life revolves around attending folk dances and stuffing themselves with varieties of sausage or cabbage. They hate Jews especially for being an ethnic group that cares about achievement and is not like them.

[Keystone]

well it's pretty obvious that "wn's"(Americans) don't like the Olympics because most of the athletes that represent America are black. for the same reason they don't like the NBA or the NFL.[quote]
I still watch the NFL. Haven't watched the NBA in 20 years.
[quote]anyway, the American "dream team" actually plays very good unlike in the last 2 Olympic games. very entertaining plays,dunks etc. today is the game against Spain which is suppose to be one of the toughest games.
This isn't basketball. It's ghetto ball.

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Notice at 1:35---how many steps does he take to lay it up? This kind of traveling violation is always overlooked, just as these guys palming the ball and charging to the basket and the bullshit, showboat dunking which was once considered offensive goalkeeping---a foul, are overlooked.

Enjoy your niggerball, MP.

[SlagMaster]

Nigger have defiled every sport they are in. The Jew owners and media thinks letting the NiggaBeast run wild adds action and money to their pockets, so they change the rules to accommodate, but in the end these Beasts will destroy all sports they are in.

[///M power]

Keystone]


This isn't basketball. It's ghetto ball.
ok,but it is still fun to watch. yes , It's a less strategic game then what we are used to in the European league here,but there is something about American basketball which you don't see so much in European basketball- the amazing athletic performance of the black guys which include amazing dunks and plays. they have outstanding athletic abilities these guys and if you were watching the Olympics you would have seen that this "one on one" type of game,fast plays,no strategy other then the individual qualities of each of the players- works very well by beating other countries by 20-40 point spread.

[leondegrance]

well it's pretty obvious that "wn's"(Americans) don't like the Olympics because most of the athletes that represent America are black.

The US has some black Olympians, but I believe the vast majority of of US Olympians are white.

[///M power]

The US has some black Olympians, but I believe the vast majority of of US Olympians are white.

100% of the basketball team which is the most American thing over the Olympics,the "dream team", is black. in the athletic type of games it's mostly black also. the athletic games are the biggest attraction of the Olympic games.

[Hakluyt]

My country does not compete in the Olympics and even if it did, I would still not care about it. There is only one sport in the games I care about and I watch too much of it it already, that sport being Football.

I hope Great Britain loses in every discipline it enters. The only enjoyment I get from the Olympics is hearing some British hopeful fucks up, or American.
Great Britain is having one of its best Olympics in quite a while, as it happens, with 25 medals, and currently in third behind only China and the USA.

Of course, the White Commonwealth collectively is ahead of the USA (and in front of China in total medals, but not in gold):

Great Britain: 11 gold, 25 overall
Australia: 8 gold, 29 overall
Canada: 2 gold, 7 overall
New Zealand: 2 gold, 5 overall
Zimbabwe (AKA Kirsty Coventry): 1 gold, 4 overall

Total: 24 gold, 70 overall

(China has 35 gold and 61 overall)

[Helios Panoptes]

100% of the basketball team which is the most American thing over the Olympics,the "dream team", is black. in the athletic type of games it's mostly black also. the athletic games are the biggest attraction of the Olympic games.

The press doesn't call it the Dream Team anymore now that it's lost multiple times in international competitions.

[leondegrance]

100% of the basketball team which is the most American thing over the Olympics,the "dream team", is black. in the athletic type of games it's mostly black also. the athletic games are the biggest attraction of the Olympic games.

This may be, but I watch the olympics to get away from the typical niggerball sports.

[///M power]

The press doesn't call it the Dream Team anymore now that it's lost multiple times in international competitions.

actually they did play terrible since the last 2 Olympic games but right now the current team is very good and wins every country by 20-40 points.

[Winston]

I wonder how long team GB can hold on to it's unexpected third position on the medals table.
The BBC really doesn't like how White our medal winners are.

[Jake Featherston]

I've never been a sports fan, but I became especially hostile to nigger ball in the early 90s, when the entire local news sportscast began to consist of nothing but some White guy basically repeating the names "Michael Jordan" and "Magic Johnson" over and over again. I think he may have been playing with himself under his desk. It would have been less offensive, and more honest, if they'd just shown a gay, inter-racial porn video, in lieu of the nightly sportscast.

[///M power]

the niggers from America just raped the "Aryan" Germans 106:56
this is beginning to look like the 92' dream team.

[fizzelopeguss]

I wonder how long team GB can hold on to it's unexpected third position on the medals table.
The BBC really doesn't like how White our medal winners are.


Yeah, it's awesome.

[ivory bill]

Update link for those who care but little:

http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/95A/GL0000000.shtml

[Helios Panoptes]

actually they did play terrible since the last 2 Olympic games but right now the current team is very good and wins every country by 20-40 points.

Okay. What is your point? All I said is that the US media doesn't call it the Dream Team any longer.

[Hakluyt]

The male/female ratio is interesting when looking at the medal count. Two countries are highly disproportionate: China only has 26 medals in men's competitions but 40 in women's, while France has 24 medals in men's competitions but only 3 in women's.

[Jake Featherston]

the niggers from America just raped the "Aryan" Germans 106:56

The Germans haven't really been characterizing themselves as "Aryan" since 1945. :rolleyes:

I'd rather be a German who can think, than a nigger who can bounce a ball, any day of the week, however.

[///M power]

I'd rather be a German who can think, than a nigger who can bounce a ball, any day of the week, however.

well who wouldn't? I wouldn't even want to be black for 100,000,000$ in my bank account.
I'm only comparing them as far as athletics/sports(since this is a thread about Olympic games). everyone knows Germans are superiors to niggers in almost everything,but they are not "perfect" like the Fuhrer portrayed them and it blew right on his face in the Berlin Olympic games 1936. each race has it advantages/disadvantages, and obviously blacks are superior in the athletic department.

[Notabasher]

I wonder how long team GB can hold on to it's unexpected third position on the medals table.
The BBC really doesn't like how White our medal winners are.

A half-caste won bronze in the gymnastics. I think that is the only efnic medal winner for team GB.

Let's hope the darkies follow the traditional British past-time of being gallant losers in the athletics.

[Winston]

A half-caste won bronze in the gymnastics. I think that is the only efnic medal winner for team GB.

I saw that the BBC website, yesterday, included three photos of athletes, including the high yellow who won a bronze in gymnastics. I found that strange in light of all the golds we won that day, even if it was Britain's first gymnastics win.

[Jake Featherston]

everyone knows Germans are superiors to niggers in almost everything,but they are not "perfect" like the Fuhrer portrayed them and it blew right on his face in the Berlin Olympic games 1936.

No one has ever claimed Germans were perfect.

each race has it advantages/disadvantages, and obviously blacks are superior in the athletic department.

In some sports. Not all of them.

[///M power]

Jake Featherston]No one has ever claimed Germans were perfect. I just said who,the fuhrer.




In some sports. Not all of them.
I didn't say in all sports, I said in athletics.

[Keystone]

I didn't say in all sports, I said in athletics.
Most sports do require you to be "athletic". Golf and curling, not so much.

Basketball has been niggerized. Enjoy this perversion of the old game if you like.

I only watch the Winter Games for the hockey, downhill skiing, snowboarding and the hot female figure skaters, if any.

[Kodos]

The IOC should never have agreed to hold the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but once that very poor decision was made, I think it made sense to go along and participate in the Games, and hope the IOC makes wiser choices in the future.

Why, I find the government of new labor in Britain is much more objectionable then China's, a good old right wing authoritarian regime (retaining the communist label to fool idiotic leftist in the West who might protest againsts its "human rights" record if they realized it wasn't communist).

Their opening ceremony was by far the most fantastic Ive ever seen.

[Hakluyt]

August 18th:

Former British Empire: 28 gold, 82 total
Former USSR: 16 gold, 77 total
China: 39 gold, 67 total

[Hakluyt]

The IOC should never have agreed to hold the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but once that very poor decision was made, I think it made sense to go along and participate in the Games, and hope the IOC makes wiser choices in the future.

Why, I find the government of new labor in Britain is much more objectionable then China's, a good old right wing authoritarian regime (retaining the communist label to fool idiotic leftist in the West who might protest againsts its "human rights" record if they realized it wasn't communist).

Their opening ceremony was by far the most fantastic Ive ever seen.
I thought it was ridiculous, gaudy, un-olympic. I laughed for 20 minutes at the guy suspended from wires running alongside the parchment. The whole thing was very Chinese.

[leondegrance]

I was watching a bit of the sprint competition. Jamaica has a freakish 6'5" sprinter. He was racing against all other blacks in competition and just smoked all of them with plenty to spare. In another race he was able to slow up quite a bit at the end and still win the qualifying. It didn't look like he even broke a sweat.

[Flint Steel]

Can't stand the overblown commentary. He didn't "Blow the world away!", he won a running race. Commentators spoil my enjoyment of sport at the best of times, it's like someone talking you through a film, but I just can't watch the Olympics without turning the sound down. It's a competition, that's all.

Once upon a time the media made it look like the best boxers had to be black, until the internet came out and whites found their self respect and now totally dominate boxing. Well, who says niggers are naturally better at 100m either or that the 100M is "their" event? Maybe that's all anti-white propaganda too. We'll see...

[Count Eustace II]

I loved seeing that arrogant American she-thing pole vaulter get OWNED by that Russian mama yesterday. Bravo!!

Also, can you believe those asses on the women's beach volleyball players!?!

Jeezuz!!! I'd love to bury my face in those Olympic Asses.

[Notabasher]

I saw that the BBC website, yesterday, included three photos of athletes, including the high yellow who won a bronze in gymnastics. I found that strange in light of all the golds we won that day, even if it was Britain's first gymnastics win.

A happier day for the BBC today. I suppose athletics is more important than cycling even if our man Hoy was winning his third gold. Must be BBC bias for 'English' success over Scotch ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/default.stm

I'm actually starting to enjoy these Olympics.

Ohuruogu aside, Britain has won golds in Cycling, Swimming, Rowing, Sailing. Valid sports that are pursued enthusiastically by amateurs simply for recreation, whose participants would have taken up the sport because they enjoyed it. They require combinations of strength, skill and endurance. The winners may have some financial support with their training but are unlikely to be able to dine out on their success for the rest of their life.

Good Olympian stuff, and well worth the (fairly small) sums of money we are "throwing" at elite sportsmen.

Recent British sporting success (Rugby, The 2005 ashes winning team in Cricket) has been by people who look like me. Meanwhile the multicoloured soccer team flops.

All cheering stuff.

[Mojo]

A happier day for the BBC today. I suppose athletics is more important than cycling even if our man Hoy was winning his third gold. Must be BBC bias for 'English' success over Scotch ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/default.stm

I'm actually starting to enjoy these Olympics.

Ohuruogu aside, Britain has won golds in Cycling, Swimming, Rowing, Sailing. Valid sports that are pursued enthusiastically by amateurs simply for recreation, whose participants would have taken up the sport because they enjoyed it. They require combinations of strength, skill and endurance. The winners may have some financial support with their training but are unlikely to be able to dine out on their success for the rest of their life.

Good Olympian stuff, and well worth the (fairly small) sums of money we are "throwing" at elite sportsmen.

Recent British sporting success (Rugby, The 2005 ashes winning team in Cricket) has been by people who look like me. Meanwhile the multicoloured soccer team flops.

All cheering stuff.

Yeah, I have only been watching because I have been at home, but huge ups to the Brits! :)

[Count Sudoku]

Can't stand the overblown commentary. He didn't "Blow the world away!", he won a running race. Commentators spoil my enjoyment of sport at the best of times, it's like someone talking you through a film, but I just can't watch the Olympics without turning the sound down. It's a competition, that's all.

Once upon a time the media made it look like the best boxers had to be black, until the internet came out and whites found their self respect and now totally dominate boxing. Well, who says niggers are naturally better at 100m either or that the 100M is "their" event? Maybe that's all anti-white propaganda too. We'll see...

The niggers have advantages in certain sports because their bodies are different than whites. Whites have advantages in other sports because their bodies are different than blacks.

We should promoting the idea that their are many racial differences, not the BS that we are all the same except for skin color.

And I watch boxing to see white fighters beat black ones. It's fun to see blacks lose at one of the few things they are good at.

[Mojo]

The niggers have advantages in certain sports because their bodies are different than whites. Whites have advantages in other sports because their bodies are different than blacks.

We should promoting the idea that their are many racial differences, not the BS that we are all the same except for skin color.

And I watch boxing to see white fighters beat black ones. It's fun to see blacks lose at one of the few things they are good at.

I disagree. You can take a natural born boxer who has been fed on a diet of sadza formost of his life, and then imported into the USA and trained for 6 years, and he will be a champion boxer. You can take the same man and leave him on African soil and he will be a nothing. It's about the money.

[Count Sudoku]

I disagree. You can take a natural born boxer who has been fed on a diet of sadza formost of his life, and then imported into the USA and trained for 6 years, and he will be a champion boxer. You can take the same man and leave him on African soil and he will be a nothing. It's about the money.

Boxing typically attracts poor people so you could say lack of money is why certain races pursue and succeed in boxing as opposed to others.

[Mojo]

Boxing typically attracts poor people so you could say lack of money is why certain races pursue and succeed in boxing as opposed to others.

Yes, I agree, but to get to the level of the Olympics is a different feat altogether. You need the training and the proper diet and the absolute passion.

[fizzelopeguss]

A happier day for the BBC today. I suppose athletics is more important than cycling even if our man Hoy was winning his third gold. Must be BBC bias for 'English' success over Scotch ;)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/default.stm

I'm actually starting to enjoy these Olympics.

Ohuruogu aside, Britain has won golds in Cycling, Swimming, Rowing, Sailing. Valid sports that are pursued enthusiastically by amateurs simply for recreation, whose participants would have taken up the sport because they enjoyed it. They require combinations of strength, skill and endurance. The winners may have some financial support with their training but are unlikely to be able to dine out on their success for the rest of their life.

Good Olympian stuff, and well worth the (fairly small) sums of money we are "throwing" at elite sportsmen.

Recent British sporting success (Rugby, The 2005 ashes winning team in Cricket) has been by people who look like me. Meanwhile the multicoloured soccer team flops.

All cheering stuff.

The doping Coon is all over the papers as well, The 19 year old double gold winning adlington and triple gold winning hoy sit below the negress apparently.

[KAISER]

I only watched the Gymnastic Competitions .

The Russian Girls are my favorites.