Olympics Discussion Thread

[MarkG]

perhaps they did it 200 years ago. now it's just a saying

[Ted Striker]

So they are saying the nut that ran onto the track is the same guy that ran onto the track at the British Grand Prix last year and nearly caused many accidents.

Will someone lock this fruitcake up already???

In good news, the Brazilian runner is going to be awarded the Sportsmanship award!

[Pyrodrew]

Originally posted by Winston
That's one of the things that's great about the Olympics, definitely.

We've had some talk of medal rankings during the games and how to compare the countries. Tomorrow I'll try to set up a spreadsheet and calculate the medal wins for each country compared to population size. Should be interesting to see who comes after Australia...

Everyone except the Bahamas.

I wonder what the US States would look like if US medals were divided up by each individual state (states obviously bigger than the Bahamas and some other countries).

[Spiffor]

Good article Markos.

I wonder if the great many Apolytonian whiners, who believed these Olympics would never be ready and would be horribly unsafe, will apologize the same, and say "I was wrong".

For some reason, I strongly doubt it

[Drake Tungsten]

I'm sorry, Greece. You put on a great Games and should be proud. I'm sorry I let paiktis convince me that you are all offensive idiots. My apologies.

[Drake Tungsten]

Some of you are offensive idiots, though, as the treatment of the American 200 m runners and Rulon Gardner show. It's really too bad that these anti-American acts and your doping scandals had to detract from what otherwise would have been a perfect Olympics.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
I'm sorry, Greece. You put on a great Games and should be proud. [...]. My apologies.

[Drake Tungsten]

You cut out the best part!!!

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Some of you are offensive idiots, though, as the treatment of the American 200 m runners and Rulon Gardner show. It's really too bad that these anti-American acts and your doping scandals had to detract from what otherwise would have been a perfect Olympics.

Well, everyone will go back to not caring about Greece again next week.

[MarkG]

Some of you are offensive idiots

sigh. it only lasted 2 minutes...

It's really too bad that these anti-American acts

there was nothing related to anti-americanism in that case. stop seeing ghosts. it's paranoia like this that scared so many people from coming to watch the games

[Drake Tungsten]

The Greeks calling Colin Powell a killer and booing Rulon Gardner for having the audacity to have a picture taken with his country's flag weren't being anti-American?

[Ted Striker]

Maybe that whole Colin Powell "Go home killer" banner over the Acropolis was just a ghost.

[Ted Striker]

Drake got it first

[axi]

Colin Powell is the foreign minister of a country that has invaded another country ad is responsible for thousands of deaths and an unending misery. Why wouldn't we call such a man a "killer"?

As for the 200m crowd, I agree with you. Booing other athletes because your own champion is exposed is childish. They shouldn't have made a hero out of him in the first place.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by axi
Colin Powell is the foreign minister of a country that has invaded another country ad is responsible for thousands of deaths and an unending misery. Why wouldn't we call such a man a "killer"?

Because it's the Olympics! DUH!!!

The whole point is to put all that crap aside for a couple of weeks every year.

Everybody knows that.

Call him a killer some other time.